Category Archives: Radio

Radio — Hollaback: Fighting street harassment in Ottawa

Posted on August 14, 2013 by Scott

[audio:http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/309550732-scott-neigh-talking-radical-trr-ep-25-aug-142013-hollaback-fighting-street-harassment-in-ottawa.mp3] On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, organizer Julie Lalonde talks about street harassment and the oranizing being done to oppose it by the group Hollaback! Ottawa. Street harassment is a new name for an old problem — … Continue reading →

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Radio — Nursing labour: The Saskatchewan Union of Nurses

Posted on August 14, 2013 by Scott

[audio:http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/309550239-scott-neigh-talking-radical-trr-ep-24-aug-72013-nursing-labour-the-saskatchewan-union-of-nurses.mp3] On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, Rosalee Longmoore talks about her 15 years as the president of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN). The work of nurses is an absolutely essential yet often underappreciated backbone to the … Continue reading →

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Radio — Biimadasahwin: Reclaiming land, building homes, building power

Posted on August 14, 2013 by Scott

[audio:http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/309549463-scott-neigh-talking-radical-trr-ep-23-jul-312013-biimadasahwin-reclaiming-land-building-homes-building-power.mp3] On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, Darlene Necan talks about Biimadasahwin, a project through which she and other grassroots, off-reserve Ojibway people in northwestern Ontario are reclaiming land, building homes, and building power. Necan is the elected … Continue reading →

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Radio: Building Worker Co-ops in Canada

Posted on July 24, 2013 by Scott

  On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, executive director Hazel Corcoran talks about her two decades of work with the Canadian Worker Co-op Federation.   Co-operatives are voluntary, democratic enterprises organized around meeting the needs of their members … Continue reading →

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Radio — Women organizing against poverty in Toronto

Posted on July 17, 2013 by Scott

On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, organizer Liisa Schofield talks about her work with the ad hoc Downtown East Women group, which is based in a poor neighbourhood in urban Toronto. Schofield is also an organizer with the … Continue reading →

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Radio — TESA: Fighting for trans equality in Alberta

Posted on July 10, 2013 by Scott

  On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, activist Jan Buterman talks about the struggles of trans people in Canada’s most conservative province.   Though the struggles of trans people have been increasingly visible in recent years, the marginalization … Continue reading →

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Radio — Community comics with, about and for migrant domestic workers

Posted on July 3, 2013 by Scott

On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, Althea Balmes and Jo SiMalaya Alcampo — artists, writers, community organizers — talk about their work on Kwentong Bayan: Labour of Love, a community comic book made in collaboration with Filipina migrant … Continue reading →

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