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This six-minute audio clip features Sadeqa Siddiqui talking about the role that she and other women involved in the South Asian Women’s Community Centre in Montreal played in a number of major women’s marches — the “Bread and Roses March” … Continue reading →

In this seven-minute audio clip, Cree elder Doreen Spence shares some of her memories of being the president of the board of the Plains Indian Cultural Survival School in Calgary — the first school run by and for indigenous people … Continue reading →

I have just uploaded PDF files of the promotional flyers for the books produced by the publisher. One version has a form that you can fill-in and send via snailmail to the publisher to order the book (as well as … Continue reading →

In this seven minute audio clip, long-time indigenous anti-racist activist Donna MacPhee talks about her memories of being an urban ally supporting the struggles of the Lubicon Cree Nation in northern Alberta as they worked to defend their land from … Continue reading →

In this seven-minute audio clip, long-time Toronto-based anti-psychiatry activist Don Weitz (whose stories are featured in Chapter 5 of Resisting the State: Canadian History Through the Stories of Activists) talks about the founding in 1977 of the first enduring group … Continue reading →

In this six-minute audio clip, feminist and long-time United Church minister and theological educator Shelley Finson talks about the Friends of Hagar, a feminist consciousness raising group that began among women workers in Canadian churches in the mid 1970s and … Continue reading →

I interviewed Lakeman at her home in Vancouver. She grew up in a white, working-class family in Hamilton, Ontario, and was first drawn into the women’s liberation movement during her time living in the small central Ontario city of Woodstock … Continue reading →