Tag Archives: grassroots media

Radio: The future of grassroots media in Canada

Posted on February 28, 2023 by Scott

Saima Desai, Dave Gray-Donald, and Sharmeen Khan have all been active in grassroots media for a long time – mostly in projects towards the more activist and movement-grounded end of the sector. Scott Neigh interviews them about their work, about … Continue reading →

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Radio: Story and film as tools for decolonization

Posted on August 2, 2022 by Scott

Gladys Rowe, Teddy Zegeye-Gebrehiwot, and Liz Carlson-Manathara are part of Stories of Decolonization, a film project that is working to give people in Canada a chance to reflect on how colonization shapes our lives, on what decolonization might mean, and … Continue reading →

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Radio — A rare space for social movements to reflect and theorize

Posted on May 11, 2021 by Scott

Kieran Hart, Sharmeen Khan, and Temóc Thania Vega are activists and organizers in Toronto. They are also on the editorial collective of Upping the Anti, a print publication that describes itself as “a journal of theory and action.” Scott Neigh … Continue reading →

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Radio — Defending campus radio in Ontario

Posted on May 21, 2019 by Scott

Jacky Tuinstra Harrison is the general manager of CJRU 1280 AM, also called The Scope, a relatively new campus radio station affiliated with Ryerson University in Toronto. Barry Rooke is the executive director of the National Campus and Community Radio … Continue reading →

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Radio — Celebrating grassroots LGBTQ media

Posted on August 8, 2017 by Scott

On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh speaks with Dorian Jesse Fraser. Fraser is part of the Queer Between the Covers collective, which maintains a distro of hard-to-find queer and trans print media and organizes an annual … Continue reading →

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Radio — Cockroach Zine: DIY feminist publishing

Posted on February 1, 2017 by Scott

[audio:http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/310148402-scott-neigh-talking-radical-trr-ep-201-feb-12017-cockroach-zine-diy-feminist-publishing.mp3] On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh speaks with Meg Crane. She is a freelance writer based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and she publishes a grassroots ecofeminist publication called Cockroach Zine. When Crane was younger, she was … Continue reading →

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Radio — Red Rising: A new magazine by and for Indigenous youth

Posted on December 2, 2015 by Scott

[audio:http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/309848200-scott-neigh-talking-radical-trr-ep-142-dec-22015-red-rising-a-new-magazine-by-and-for-indigenous-youth.mp3] On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Lenard Monkman. He is part of a collective of Indigenous youth in Winnipeg who recently started publishing a new magazine called Red Rising. As writer and activist Arundhati … Continue reading →

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