This nine-minute audio clip features Isabel Showler (who was interviewed with her husband Frank, though he does not appear in this clip) talking about her choice to take up left-wing pacifist politics in the late 1930s. She also discusses some of her experience with the left-leaning Student Christian Movement at that time, and some of the ways that her pacifism played out for her during the early period of the Second World War, particularly when national registration was ordered in August 1940 and she declined to take on the task in her workplace of getting all of the employees registered.
Stay connected with Talking Radical!
Recent Updates
Learning from Movements – Chris Ramsaroop
May 14th, 2025
(Originally published at The Media Co-op.) Chris Ramsaroop is based in Toronto and has organ[...]Learning from Movements – Florence Stratton
March 3rd, 2025
(Originally published at The Media Co-op.) Florence Stratton has been involved in social jus[...]Learning from Organizers -- Emma Jackson
December 10th, 2024
(Originally published at The Media Co-op.) Emma Jackson is an organizer, trainer, and occasi[...]Learning from Organizers – Tara Ehrcke
September 24th, 2024
Tara Ehrcke of Victoria, BC, was initially politicized as part of the global justice movement i[...]Learning from Organizers -- Lorraine Lam
July 26th, 2024
As part of Toronto’s Shelter and Housing Justice Network (SHJN), Lorraine Lam is active in stru[...]
Pingback: Isabel and Frank Showler | talkingradical.ca