Category Archives: Radio

Radio — Histories of struggle by workers in Alberta

Posted on September 17, 2019 by Scott

Alvin Finkel is a history professor at Athabasca University and the author of thirteen books, most recently Compassion: A Global History of Social Policy (Red Globe Press, 2019). He is also the president of the Alberta Labour History Institute (ALHI), … Continue reading →

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Radio — Challenging the harms of hydroelectricity projects

Posted on September 10, 2019 by Scott

Ramona Neckoway is a professor at the University College of the North in Thompson Manitoba. She is also a member of Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation, a hydro-impacted community. Stephane McLachlan is a professor at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. Both … Continue reading →

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Radio — Revitalizing Indigenous languages and cultures

Posted on September 3, 2019 by Scott

Tiffany Joseph‘s ancestry is of the Saanich people on her mother’s side and the Squamish people on her father’s side, and she currently lives in Tsartlip First Nation, a bit north of Victoria on Vancouver Island. Scott Neigh interviews her … Continue reading →

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Radio — The radical legal collective supporting protestors in Toronto

Posted on August 27, 2019 by Scott

Macdonald Scott is a legal worker at the firm Carranza LLP, where he speicalizes in immigration law. He is also an active member of the Toronto-based Movement Defence Committee, a collective of lawyers and legal workers affiliated with the Law … Continue reading →

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Rebroadcast — Cindy Blackstock’s long fight for the rights of First Nations children

Posted on August 20, 2019 by Scott

The following is a rebroadcast of an episode of Talking Radical Radio that was originally broadcast in January 2019. Cindy Blackstock is a member of the Gitksan First Nation, a social worker, a professor at McGill University in Montreal, and … Continue reading →

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Towards an anti-racist and decolonial left in Quebec

Posted on August 13, 2019 by Scott

May Chiu is a lawyer based in Montreal who spends much of her time engaged in grassroots political work. Part of a network of activists and organizers dissatisfied with the ways in which Quebec’s left establishment handles issues of racism … Continue reading →

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Radio — Canadian Catholics mobilizing in response to the climate crisis

Posted on August 6, 2019 by Scott

Marisa Vertrees is the organizing director for the Global Catholic Climate Movement (GCCM), a network of almost 900 Catholic religious orders, dioceses, universities, lay organizations, and other insitutions in more than 90 countries. Agnes Richard is the co-ordinator of the … Continue reading →

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