Category Archives: Radio

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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Radio: How grassroots community-based initiatives changed due to COVID-19

Posted on March 22, 2022 by Scott

Sarah Switzer, Andrea Vela Alarcón, Rubén Gaztambide-Fernandez, and Casey Burkholder all have long histories of involvement in a range of grassroots, community-based work, and they are also researchers in academic and professional settings. Scott Neigh interviews them about Beyond the … Continue reading →

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Radio: Indigenous-led water protection in the North

Posted on March 15, 2022 by Scott

Jesse Cardinal is a Métis woman who lives in Treaty 6 territory and is the executive director of Keepers of the Water, an Indigenous-led organization with a mission of protecting the water in the Arctic drainage basin. Scott Neigh interviews … Continue reading →

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Radio: Feminist organizing by high school students

Posted on March 8, 2022 by Scott

Emma Clark and Hayley Bryant are grade 12 students at Western Canada High School in Calgary, Alberta. Scott Neigh interviews them about the feminist organizing they do as members of a group at their school called the Committee on the … Continue reading →

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Radio: Grassroots Secwépemc resistance to the Trans Mountain pipeline

Posted on March 1, 2022 by Scott

April Thomas is a land defender and member of the Secwépemc Nation, from the Canim Lake Band in the central interior of what is colonially known as British Columbia. Scott Neigh interviews her about the trajectory of her work defending … Continue reading →

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