Tag Archives: Hamilton

Radio: Fighting Doug Ford’s pro-developer agenda as a form of climate activism

Posted on October 5, 2021 by Scott

Don McLean, Sue Carson, and Nancy Hurst are members of Hamilton 350, a group that engages in climate activism in the city of Hamilton on the west end of Lake Ontario, in loose affiliation with the North America-wide 350.org. Scott … Continue reading →

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Radio — Disability justice, pandemic mutual aid, and fighting to defund the police

Posted on June 16, 2020 by Scott

Sarah Jama is a young organizer in Hamilton, Ontario who has been involved in a wide range of different kinds of grassroots work – prominently including struggles against anti-Black racism, working for disability justice, and a whole range of other things. Scott … Continue reading →

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Radio — Building community resilience in the face of climate change

Posted on April 3, 2018 by Scott

Sheila Murray, Beatrice Ekoko, Lidia Ferreira, and Michelle Sullivan all work in some capacity with an initiative called the Lighthouse Project, a pilot that aims to develop new approaches for building resilience in a number of Ontario communities in the … Continue reading →

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Radio — Organizing tenants, building solidarity

Posted on April 18, 2017 by Scott

On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh speaks with Tammy and Alex about the work of the Hamilton Tenants Solidarity Network. Over the last year and a half, they have been bringing tenants together to fight for … Continue reading →

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Radio: Learning for today from working-class history

Posted on July 6, 2016 by Scott

[audio:http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/309981362-scott-neigh-talking-radical-trr-ep-172-jul-62016-learning-for-today-from-working-class-history.mp3] On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with York University labour historian Craig Heron about his multiple award-winning book Lunch-Bucket Lives: Remaking the Workers’ City (Between the Lines, 2015), and about what movements today can gain … Continue reading →

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Radio — #WeBelieveSurvivors: Challenging rape culture after the Ghomeshi case

Posted on May 4, 2016 by Scott

[audio:http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/309972250-scott-neigh-talking-radical-trr-ep-163-may-42016-webelievesurvivors-challenging-rape-culture-after-the-ghomeshi-case.mp3] On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Erin Crickett, the public education coordinator at the Sexual Assault Centre Hamilton and Area (SACHA). She devised the #IBelieveSurvivors and #WeBelieveSurvivors hashtag campaign that took off across Canada … Continue reading →

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Radio — A victory for migrant justice: Hamilton as ‘sanctuary city’

Posted on March 26, 2014 by Scott

[audio:http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/309580128-scott-neigh-talking-radical-trr-ep-53-mar-52013-a-victory-for-migrant-justice-hamilton-as-sanctuary-city.mp3] On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, Caitlin Craven and Josee Oliphant talk about the organizing that went into winning a unanimous city council vote in Hamilton, Ontario, that declared it the second ‘sanctuary city’ in Canada. Borders … Continue reading →

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