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Radio: From police-free schools to policing-free schools

Hailey Yasmeen Dash and Mae Mason are members of the Asilu Collective, which Dash described as “a grassroots abolitionist collective fighting and organizing for police-free schools, but also policing-free schools, and to eliminate policing culture, infrastructure, and practices in schools … Continue reading

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Radio — Fighting to get police out of Winnipeg schools

Cam Scott, Daniel Friesen, and Irene Bindi are community organizers and members of Police-Free Schools Winnipeg. Scott Neigh speaks with them about the struggle to get police out of Winnipeg schools. In general, middle-class white people tend to experience police as a source … Continue reading

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Radio — Fighting anti-Black racism in Canada: Past, present, future

On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Akua Benjamin and Rinaldo Walcott. They are prominent activists and scholars, and founders of the Anti-Black Racism Network in Toronto. Today’s guests point to a consistent pattern over the … Continue reading

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Radio — The policing of protest: From bad to worse

[audio:http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/309690396-scott-neigh-talking-radical-trr-ep-81-sep-242014-the-policing-of-protest-from-bad-to-worse.mp3] On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, anti-poverty organizer and sociologist Lesley Wood talks about her new book, Crisis and Control: The Militarization of Protest Policing from Between The Lines Books. Wood has been involved in struggles against … Continue reading

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Talking Radical Radio: Watching the cops in Winnipeg

On this week’s episode of Talking Raical Radio, organizer Teddy Zegeye-Gebrehiwot talks about Winnipeg Cop Watch and their work against the more oppressive aspects of policing as it currently exists. Copwatch is an international network of local organizations focused on … Continue reading

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