Learning from Organizers -- Emma Jackson
December 10th, 2024
Carol Martin is a Nisga’a woman who has been part the Downtown Eastside (DTES) neighbourhood of Vancouver for almost 30 years and she works at the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre. Sophie Merasty is a Denesuline and Woodland Cree woman who … Continue reading
David Lester is a Vancouver-based musician and graphic artist whose work has been woven through with radical politics since he started out in the 1970s. Musically, he is best known as half of the rock duo Mecca Normal, while graphically … Continue reading
Last week, Talking Radical Radio host and producer Scott Neigh moved. This meant that when the editing labour would have been required to produce an episode of the show for this week, he was busy packing, unpacking, and otherwise engaging … Continue reading
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
Erinn Atwater and Dan Ballard are two of the three founding members of the Open Privacy Research Society, an innovative new not-for-profit organization based in Vancouver that is devoted to developing new tools for online security, privacy, and anonymity using … Continue reading
Joyce Fossella is from the Lillooet Nation. Val Joseph is from the Kwakwaka’wakw Nation. Both work as part of the Warriors Against Violence Society, an organization in Vancouver that responds to gender-based violence using a holistic approach that is grounded … Continue reading
[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