Tag Archives: solidarity

Radio — The campaign to free an Ottawa academic detained in Turkey

Posted on July 6, 2021 by Scott

Cihan Erdal is a scholar at Carleton University in Ottawa. In September 2020, while on a visit to Turkey, he was arrested and jailed. His husband, Ömer Ongun, was immediately plunged into a whirlwind of activities organizing the Free Cihan … Continue reading →

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Radio — Mobilizing class-privileged youth to work for social justice

Posted on June 8, 2021 by Scott

Jon McPhedran Waitzer and Andy Wei are members of an organization called Resource Movement. With chapters in Montreal and Toronto, Resource Movement brings together young people from across Canada who have wealth and/or class privilege to work towards the redistribution … Continue reading →

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Radio — Japanese Canadians mobilizing across a broad range of social justice issues

Posted on January 12, 2021 by Scott

Maya Adachi and Kota Kimura are members of the Toronto-based Japanese Canadians for Social Justice. Scott Neigh interviews them about the group’s origins, its expansive vision of solidarity, and its involvement in struggles on the ground. In 2018, famous Japanese-Canadian … Continue reading →

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Radio — Parents fighting the cuts to public education in Ontario

Posted on November 26, 2019 by Scott

Rachel Huot is a mom of three kids and a parent organizer in the west end of Toronto. She is part of a group called West End Parents for Public Education, which has been central to the emergence of the … Continue reading →

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Radio — Growing cross-country solidarity with Muskrat Falls land protectors in Labrador

Posted on November 7, 2017 by Scott

On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Kelly Morrissey and Emily Philpott about the work of the Ontario Muskrat Solidarity Committee. They are building support in Ontario and elsewhere in the country for the mostly-Indigenous land … Continue reading →

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Radio — Building solidarity between teachers and parents

Posted on March 29, 2017 by Scott

[audio: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/315037072-scott-neigh-talking-radical-trr-ep-212-mar-292017-building-solidarity-between-teachers-and-parents.mp3] On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh speaks with Drew Moore and Tina Roberts-Jeffers. Moore is a teacher in Nova Scotia. Roberts-Jeffers is a mother of three small children. They talk about the unprecedent activity … Continue reading →

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Radio — Solidarity from Atlantic Canada to Latin and Central America

Posted on May 11, 2016 by Scott

[audio:http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/309976040-scott-neigh-talking-radical-trr-ep-164-may-112016-solidarity-from-atlantic-canada-to-latin-and-central-america.mp3] On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Jackie McVicar. She is a member of the Atlantic Regional Solidarity Network (ARSN), which brings together groups and individuals from across the Maritimes who are interested in working … Continue reading →

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