Category Archives: Radio

Radio: Autistic people organizing under the banner of disability justice

Posted on September 28, 2021 by Scott

Vivan Ly, Iris Parker, and Allie are organizing collective members of Autistic United Canada, a grassroots organization of autistic youth and adults with thousands of members across the country. Scott Neigh interviews them about autism and about the organization’s advocacy, … Continue reading →

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Radio — Defending a threatened coastal ecosystem

Posted on September 21, 2021 by Scott

Christopher Trider is a landscape architect in Nova Scotia and a former provincial civil servant with experiencing in planning provincial parks. He is also a member of a grassroots group called Save Owls Head Provincial Park, which is doing its … Continue reading →

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Radio — Supporting prisoners, working towards abolition

Posted on September 14, 2021 by Scott

James Ruston is a member of the Toronto Prisoners’ Rights Project (TPRP), a prisoner justice group with a long-term vision of prison abolition. He is currently living on day parole, as part of serving a life sentence. Scott Neigh interviews … Continue reading →

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Radio: Fifty years of faith-based anti-poverty work in Saskatchewan

Posted on September 7, 2021 by Scott

Peter Gilmer is a minister and an anti-poverty advocate. He is one of two staff at the Regina Anti-Poverty Ministry, a social justice ministry of the United Church of Canada in Saskatchewan. Scott Neigh interviews Gilmer about the ministry’s work … Continue reading →

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Radio: Grassroots education workers organizing for a #SafeReturn and a #JustRecovery

Posted on August 31, 2021 by Scott

Laura McCoy and Leela Acharya are teachers in Toronto and members of Ontario Education Workers United, a grassroots group of education workers from across Ontario committed to fighting for a strong, equitable, public, safe K-to-12 education system. Scott Neigh interviews … Continue reading →

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Radio: A voice for Two-Spirit people in Atlantic Canada

Posted on August 24, 2021 by Scott

John Sylliboy is Mi’kmaq and he grew up as part of Esaksoni and Millbrook First Nations in Nova Scotia. He is also the acting executive director of the Wabanaki Two Spirit Alliance, an organization of Two-Spirit people on the east … Continue reading →

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REBROADCAST: The past and present of medical colonialism in Canada

Posted on August 17, 2021 by Scott

The following is a rebroadcast of an episode of Talking Radical Radio that was originally broadcast in the first week of March 2021. Samir Shaheen-Hussain is a pediatric emergency physician who practices in Montreal and an assistant professor in the … Continue reading →

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