Tag Archives: movement building

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 — Building the skills of social movement organizers

Posted on April 9, 2019 by Scott

Peter Gibbs is a co-director of the social movement capacity-building organization Organize BC. Scott Neigh talks with him about Organize BC’s use of training, coaching, and community-building to build the skills of organizers working for social and environmental justice in … Continue reading →

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John Clarke’s decades of militant anti-poverty organizing in Ontario

Posted on February 19, 2019 by Scott

John Clarke was an organizer with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) from its founding in 1990 until his retirement in late January 2019. Though he intends to remain a very active member of the group, this still marks a … Continue reading →

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Radio — Talking “movement building” with people who do it in both Canada and the US

Posted on August 21, 2018 by Scott

Amara Possian and Jodie Tonita both have connections, of various sorts, with social change work oriented towards building movements in both Canada and the United States. Both have experience with grassroots organizing on the ground, and both are now involved … Continue reading →

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Radio — Left organizing in South Asian communities in Montreal

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Scott

Shazma Abdulla and Vijay Kolinjivadi are members of Garam Masala Montreal, a collective of South Asian people in Montreal committed to a progressive political vision. Scott Neigh interviews them about the group and about the grassroots political work that they … Continue reading →

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Radio — Towards an anti-capitalist and anti-colonial environmentalism

Posted on January 23, 2018 by Scott

On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Chelsea Fougere and Sam Krawec. They are members of Solidarity Halifax, a membership-based, nonsectarian, pluralist, democratic, and anti-capitalist organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. And today they talk about … Continue reading →

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