Tag Archives: policing

Radio: Anti-racism in smaller cities and towns

Posted on October 18, 2022 by Scott

Saleh Waziruddin is an anti-racist activist in St. Catharines, Ontario, and an executive committee member of the Niagara Region Anti-Racism Association (NRARA). Scott Neigh interviews him about doing locally-focused grassroots anti-racism work in a place like Niagara – comprised of … Continue reading →

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Radio — Research in the service of struggle

Posted on December 7, 2021 by Scott

Jen Gobby lives in Abenaki territory in rural Quebec and works as a postdoctoral researcher at Concordia University in Montreal. She is the founder of Research for the Front Lines, a new organization that fosters collaboration between climate and environmental … Continue reading →

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Radio — Practical prison abolition politics in health care contexts

Posted on January 19, 2021 by Scott

Claire Bodkin and Sara Alavian are both physicians in Hamilton, Ontario. They are also part of an ad hoc group of health workers from different parts of Canada with an interest in prison abolitionist politics. Scott Neigh interviews them about … Continue reading →

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Radio — Fighting to get police out of Winnipeg schools

Posted on November 24, 2020 by Scott

Cam Scott, Daniel Friesen, and Irene Bindi are community organizers and members of Police-Free Schools Winnipeg. Scott Neigh speaks with them about the struggle to get police out of Winnipeg schools. In general, middle-class white people tend to experience police as a source … Continue reading →

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Radio — Challenging oppressive security measures at Winnipeg’s downtown library

Posted on October 22, 2019 by Scott

Joe Curnow is an assistant professor of education at University of Manitoba. Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land is an assistant professor of criminal justice at University of Winnipeg. Both are actively involved in Millennium For All, a group organizing against the forced bag … Continue reading →

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Radio — The radical legal collective supporting protestors in Toronto

Posted on August 27, 2019 by Scott

Macdonald Scott is a legal worker at the firm Carranza LLP, where he speicalizes in immigration law. He is also an active member of the Toronto-based Movement Defence Committee, a collective of lawyers and legal workers affiliated with the Law … Continue reading →

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Radio — Histories of anti-Blackness in Canada and today’s social movements

Posted on October 2, 2018 by Scott

Robyn Maynard is a Black feminist writer and long-time anti-authoritarian organizer who has been active in movements around racial profiling, police violence, migrant justice, sex worker rights, and harm reduction, mostly in Montreal. Since the publication of her book Policing … Continue reading →

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