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REBROADCAST: Immigrant workers confronting the people who exploit them

The following is a rebroadcast of an episode of Talking Radical Radio originally broadcast in July 2022. Simran Kaur Dhunna and Bikram Singh are members of the Naujawan Support Network, a group of international students and immigrant workers primarily based … Continue reading

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Radio: Immigrant workers confronting the people who exploit them

Simran Kaur Dhunna and Bikram Singh are members of the Naujawan Support Network, a group of international students and immigrant workers primarily based in Brampton, Ontario, who are challenging the exploitation and mistreatment that their members face using protest, mutual … Continue reading

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Radio — Direct action in defence of old-growth forest

Carole Tootill and Joshua Wright are residents of British Columbia who are heavily involved in forest protection activism. Scott Neigh interviews them about the Fairy Creek blockades, which are protecting some of the last big-tree, old-growth forest on Vancouver Island from clear-cut logging. … Continue reading

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Radio — Direct action against development in Winnipeg

On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Jasmine Thomas. She was a core participant in the Rooster Town Blockade at the Parker Wetlands in Winnipeg this past summer, which for two months successfully defended an ecologically … Continue reading

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Radio — A summit for radical worker-organizers in Toronto

[audio:http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/309830522-scott-neigh-talking-radical-trr-ep-131-sep-162015-a-summit-for-radical-worker-organizers-in-toronto.mp3] On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Mia Sopapilla and Jordan House. They are education workers, members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and organizers of the Working For Each Other, Working For Ourselves … Continue reading

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Talking Radical Radio: Challenging wage theft with direct action

On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, Alex Diceanu, a trade unionist and a community organizer in Hamilton, Ontario, talks about his work with Steel City Solidarity. Rather than depending on bureaucratic mechanisms or government action, SCS mobilizes people … Continue reading

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