Tag Archives: poverty

Learning from Organizers — Lorraine Lam

Posted on July 26, 2024 by Scott

As part of Toronto’s Shelter and Housing Justice Network (SHJN), Lorraine Lam is active in struggles related to housing, homelessness, and poverty. She connects her commitment to social justice to growing up in a church setting, saying, “It was there … Continue reading →

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Radio: The hard, slow work of opposing poverty in an era of growing crisis

Posted on December 20, 2022 by Scott

Sandee Lovas and Silke Force are members of the Alliance Against Poverty, a grassroots anti-poverty group in Kitchener-Waterloo, which is an hour southwest of Toronto in southern Ontario. Scott Neigh interviews them about the impact of poverty on their lives … Continue reading →

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Radio — People with lived experience of homelessness walking for justice

Posted on July 10, 2018 by Scott

Kym Hines, Hugh Lampkin, and Cynthia Travers are social justice activists who have lived experience of homelessness. Hines is an anti-poverty activist involved in a number of groups in Victoria, British Columbia. Lampkin is the vice-president of the Vancouver Area … Continue reading →

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Radio — When your city hates poor and homeless people

Posted on May 9, 2017 by Scott

On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh speaks with Stephen Harrison and Ashley Mollison of Victoria, British Columbia. Harrison has been documenting the increasing use of physical measures meant to displace poor and homeless people and Mollison … Continue reading →

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Radio — Connecting and radicalizing struggles across low-income communities

Posted on December 21, 2016 by Scott

[audio:http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/310136596-scott-neigh-talking-radical-trr-ep-196-dec-212016-connecting-and-radicalizing-struggles-across-low-income-communities.mp3] On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh speaks with Herb Varley and Ivan Drury. They are organizers with the Alliance Against Displacement, a British Columbia group that is bringing together struggles across multiple low-income and Indigenous … Continue reading →

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Radio — Fighting poverty and more in northwest Toronto

Posted on November 30, 2016 by Scott

[audio:http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/310064471-scott-neigh-talking-radical-trr-ep-192-nov-232016-fighting-poverty-and-more-in-northwest-toronto.mp3] On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh speaks with Dwight Gordon. He is a member of Jane Finch Action Against Poverty, a group based in northwest Toronto that is active on anti-poverty issues and much more. … Continue reading →

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Radio — Organizing very low-income tenants in the Downtown Eastside

Posted on June 8, 2016 by Scott

[audio:http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/309979051-scott-neigh-talking-radical-trr-ep-168-jun-82016-organizing-very-low-income-tenants-in-the-downtown-eastside.mp3] On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Wendy Pederson. She is an organizer with the Downtown Eastside SRO Collaborative, a group that is organizing tenants in single-room occupancy (or SRO) hotels in Vancouver. The Downtown … Continue reading →

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