The following is a complete list of people interviewed for the oral history component of the Talking Radical project that resulted in the books. The links from their names lead to pages with a brief bio and whatever audio or textual material from their interview has been posted to the site. If you are looking for material related to a particular kind of struggle, location, or era, please use the search box in the sidebar.
Those participants indicated with a “*” have been made the centre of a chapter in one of the books. Those indicated with a “#” are known to have passed away since the interviews were done.
Name | Location | Movement |
Lynn Brooks | Yellowknife | women, anti-violence, disability |
Rosemary Brown | Calgary | anti-racism, peace |
# Roy Carless | Hamilton | labour, media |
# Elsie Dean | Vancouver | peace, general |
Audi Dharmalingam | Toronto | anti-racism, community |
# Muriel Duckworth | Halifax | peace, women, community |
*# Rev. Shelley Davis Finson | Halifax, Toronto | feminism in Christian contexts |
John Friesen | Winnipeg | labour, anti-poverty, community |
Carolina Gajardo | Toronto | immigrant and refugee rights, anti-dictatorship (Chile) |
Jojo Geronimo | Toronto | anti-racism, labour, anti-neocolonial |
* Josephine Grey | Toronto | human rights, anti-poverty |
# Dorothy Groves | Calgary | women |
Ariel Harper | Montreal, Halifax | community economic development |
Richard Hudler | London | gay liberation |
* Lynn Jones | Halifax | anti-racism, labour, community |
Rita Kohli | Toronto | women’s anti-violence, anti-racism |
* Lee Lakeman | Vancouver | women’s anti-violence |
Mel Lehan | Vancouver | community, labour |
* Donna MacPhee | Calgary | Aboriginal, environment, anti-poverty |
* Kathy Mallett | Winnipeg | Aboriginal, women, community |
Cindy McCallum | Winnipeg | labour, women |
Theresa Meuse-Dallien | Lantz, Nova Scotia | Aboriginal education, Aboriginal spirituality and cultural awareness |
Christine Morrissey and Bridget Coll | Vancouver | LGBT rights, international solidarity |
* Shree Mulay | Montreal | South Asian, women |
Greta Hofmann Nemiroff | Montreal | women’s liberation, education |
Rev. David Nobu-tsune Murata | Winnipeg | community, anti-racism |
Fo Niemi | Montreal | anti-racism |
* Roger Obonsawin | Toronto | Aboriginal rights |
Brian O’Neill | St. John’s, Halifax | anti-poverty, international solidarity, labour |
*# Madeleine Parent | Montreal | labour, women |
William Patterson | Calgary | labour |
Daniel Paul | Halifax | Aboriginal |
Betty Peterson | Halifax | peace, community development, Aboriginal solidarity |
# Ron Poynter | Hamilton | labour, anti-fascist |
*# Charles Roach | Toronto | civil rights law, anti-racism |
# Wey Robinson | Hamilton and Toronto | tenant organizing, anti-poverty |
*# Frank and *#Isabel Showler | Toronto | peace, international solidarity, labour |
Eric Shragge | Montreal | community, peace |
* Sadeqa Siddiqui | Montreal | immigrant rights, South Asian, women, women’s anti-violence |
Shahina Siddiqui | Winnipeg | anti-Islamophobia, community |
# Robert Silverman | Montreal | environment, international solidarity |
* Doreen Spence | Calgary | Aboriginal |
Leslie Spillett | Winnipeg | Aboriginal, women |
Yvonne Stanford | Calgary | peace, women |
Joan Thomson | Calgary | labour, women, education |
* Chris Vogel and * Richard North | Winnipeg | gay and lesbian liberation |
*# Don Weitz | Toronto | anti-psychiatry |