Author Archives: Scott

Radio: Long years of grassroots work for missing and murdered Indigenous women

Posted on May 10, 2022 by Scott

Darlene Okemaysim-Sicotte is part of a grassroots group called Iskwewuk E-wichiwitochik, or Women Walking Together, that has been working for many years in Saskatoon on the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Scott Neigh interviews her about … Continue reading →

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Radio: Defending the forest in southwest Nova Scotia

Posted on May 3, 2022 by Scott

Nina Newington is a long-time activist and an organizer of the Last Hope Camp, whose participants have been living in tents on the land since December to block the logging of an ecologically important forest in southwest Nova Scotia. Scott … Continue reading →

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Radio: Union members pushing their pension plan to divest from fossil fuels

Posted on April 26, 2022 by Scott

Jillian Maguire and Kim Benson are teachers in British Columbia. As such, they are both members of the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation (BCTF), and they have recently been organizing to get their pension plan to divest from fossil fuel industries. … Continue reading →

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Radio: Ottawa residents against the convoy, and for solidarity and social justice

Posted on April 19, 2022 by Scott

Alex Silas and Angella MacEwen live in Ottawa and are active in their unions and their communities. This includes as members of Community Solidarity Ottawa (CSO), a coalition of unions, community organizations, and residents that came together during the recent … Continue reading →

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Radio: Temp agency workers getting organized

Posted on April 12, 2022 by Scott

Manuel Salamanca Cardona is an activist with the Immigrant Workers Centre (IWC), which organizes with immigrant and migrant workers in a wide range of contexts in Montreal. Scott Neigh interviews him specifically about the struggles of workers employed by temp … Continue reading →

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Radio: Dispatches from the movement for police abolition in Canada

Posted on April 5, 2022 by Scott

Ellie Ade Kur and Abby Stadnyk are grassroots organizers with abolitionist politics. They are also both involved in Disarm, Defund, Dismantle: Police Abolition in Canada (Between the Lines, 2022), a new book collection bringing together pieces by organizers and scholars … Continue reading →

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Radio: Demanding a just peace in Ukraine and the abolition of all war

Posted on March 29, 2022 by Scott

Sakura Saunders and Rachel Small are long-time organizers with experience in a range of movements. Both are active with World Beyond War, a decentralized global network with the goal not just of opposing the war of the day but of … Continue reading →

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