In episode #510 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interview Saima Desai, Dave Gray-Donald, and Sharmeen Khan. They are all long-time grassroots media-makers – mostly in projects towards the more activist and movement-grounded end of the sector. They talk about their work, about the current state of grassroots media in so-called Canada, and about their vision for what we need to be doing to strengthen both media and movements oriented towards justice and collective liberation. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2023/02/28/radio-the-future-of-grassroots-media-in-canada/

In episode #509 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Eugene Lefrancois, Steve Mantis, and Janet Paterson. They are are injured workers living in Thunder Bay, Ontario, on the north shore of Lake Superior. Lefrancois is the president of the Thunder Bay and District Injured Workers Support Group, while Mantis is that group's treasurer. And Paterson is the president of the Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups. They talk about the issues faced by injured workers in Ontario, and about their involvement in peer support, public education, and advocacy. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2023/02/21/radio-injured-workers-fighting-for-compensation-and-care/

In episode #508 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Emily Eaton and Bronwen Tucker. They are two of the six co-authors of *The End of This World: Climate Justice in So-Called Canada* (Between the Lines, 2023), which outlines a framework for working towards not only a just transition away from fossil fuels but an explicitly *decolonial* just transition. They talk about the intertwined character of the climate crisis and colonization, about the book, and about the struggle for a decolonial just transition. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2023/02/14/radio-a-framework-for-a-decolonial-just-transition/

In episode #507 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Victoria Romero, Emily Tang, and Matthew Johnson. Romero and Tang are university students and members of the National Youth Advisory Council for Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights. Johnson is the director of education for MediaSmarts. They talk about issues of mis- and disinformation when it comes to sexual health and rights, and about this year’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Awareness Week (or SRH Week) campaign. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2023/02/07/radio-challenging-mis-and-disinformation-about-sexual-health-and-rights/

In episode #506 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Hailey Yasmeen Dash and Mae Mason of the Asilu Collective, which Dash described as "a grassroots abolitionist collective fighting and organizing for police-free schools, but also policing-free schools, and to eliminate policing culture, infrastructure, and practices in schools across Ottawa." They talk about the group's origins, its successful campaign to end the School Resource Officer program in Ottawa schools, and its shift to a broader focus on the problem of not just police but *policing* in schools. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2023/01/31/radio-from-police-free-schools-to-policing-free-schools/

In episode #505 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Jacqueline Lee-Tam and Sara Adams of the Climate Justice Organizing Hub. They talk about the origins of the Hub and about its work supporting grassroots organizers across so-called Canada. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2023/01/24/radio-infrastructure-and-support-for-climate-justice-organizing-across-canada/

In episode #504 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Camila Fisher and Peter Zimmer of the Halifax Cycling Coalition. They talk about the challenges that cyclists face in Halifax and about the advocacy that the coalition is doing to make things better. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2023/01/17/radio-advocacy-for-halifax-cyclists/

In episode #503 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Anishinaabe cartographer Steve DeRoy, a co-founder of the Indigenous Mapping Collective. They talk about the importance of mapping and about the collective's work to build Indigenous peoples' capacity to, as their website puts it, "map their lands, share their stories, and decolonize place and space." For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2023/01/10/radio-decolonizing-and-indigenizing-the-map/ To learn about major changes coming to Talking Radical Radio in the next couple of months, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2023/01/01/big-changes-for-talking-radical/

In episode #502 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Shawn Tse, an artist, filmmaker, and organizer based in Edmonton, Alberta. They talk about the CanAsian Arts Network, a digitally-facilitated network of Asian Canadian artists, cultural workers, and organizations that aims to catalyze collaboration and build visibility, equity, impact, and representation. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2023/01/03/radio-building-visibility-equity-and-impact-for-asian-canadian-artists/ To learn about major changes coming to Talking Radical Radio in the next couple of months, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2023/01/01/big-changes-for-talking-radical/

The following is a rebroadcast of episode #481 of Talking Radical Radio, originally broadcast in July 2022. In it, Scott Neigh interviews Simran Kaur Dhunna and Bikram Singh. They are members of the Naujawan Support Network, a group of international students and immigrant workers who are challenging the exploitation and mistreatment that their members face using protest, mutual support, and collective direct action. They talk about how they directly confront the employers, landlords, immigration consultants, and other people who exploit them, and why that is such an important part of workers building power and winning victories. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/12/27/rebroadcast-immigrant-workers-confronting-the-people-who-exploit-them/

In episode #501 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sandee Lovas and Silke Force. They are members of the Alliance Against Poverty, a grassroots anti-poverty group based in Kitchener-Waterloo, a city about an hour southwest of Toronto in southern Ontario. They speak about the impact of poverty on their lives and their community, and about the group's campaigns around public transit, housing and homelessness, and other issues. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/12/20/radio-the-hard-slow-work-of-opposing-poverty-in-an-era-of-growing-crisis/

In episode #500 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Aaron Devor, the Chair in Transgender Studies at the University of Victoria. They talk about the Transgender Archives at UVic, the largest archive in the world of material related to trans people, to research on trans issues, and to struggles by trans communities. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/12/13/radio-preserving-trans-histories/

In episode #499 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Emily Dwyer and Aidan Gilchrist-Blackwood. Dwyer is the policy director at the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability (CNCA), and Gilchirst-Blackwood is its network coordinator. The CNCA is a broad network of Canadian civil society organizations – including labour, human rights, faith-based, and environmental organizations of a wide range of kinds and sizes from across the country – that are working to ensure that Canadian companies respect human rights and the environment when working abroad. They talk about the network's origins and about its past and present campaigns, including current efforts to get the federal government to pass human rights and environmental due diligence legislation. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/12/06/radio-forcing-canadian-companies-to-respect-human-rights/

In episode #498 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Heather Hanwell, Kate Laing, and "Hannah". They are members of Ontario School Safety, a group of Ontario residents, mostly parents, who are committed to ensuring that the province's schools are safe enough for students, teachers, and other education workers, in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. They talk about Ontario's response to COVID in schools so far, about the many things the province should be doing but isn't, and about the legal challenge that they plan to launch to get the provincial government to make schools safer. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/11/29/radio-a-legal-challenge-to-keep-ontario-students-safe-from-covid-19/

In episode #497 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Kerri Claire Neil. She is an activist in St. John's, Newfoundland, and the co-chair of the Social Justice Co-operative NL, an activist organization whose members work on a wide range of social, political, and environmental issues. They talk about why the group is a co-operative, the many struggles its members are involved in, and their “Revolution of Care Manifesto.” For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/11/22/radio-working-for-a-multi-issue-revolution-of-care-in-newfoundland/

In episode #496 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Stefan Christoff, a musician and long-time activist based in Tiohti:áke, or Montreal. Christoff is the co-ordinator of Musicians for Palestine, a network of musicians from around the world committed to speaking up in support of Palestinian human rights. He talks about the work involved in building a global initiative of this sort, and about the network's most recent statement, which was released in September 2022. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/11/15/radio-mobilizing-musicians-around-the-world-in-support-of-palestine/

In episode #495 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Debbie Owusu-Akyeeah and Gaëlle Muderi. They are involved in the Ottawa People's Commission on the Convoy Occupation, Owusu-Akyeeah as a commissioner and Muderi as project coordinator. The commission is a grassroots, nonpartisan initiative to listen to the voices of Ottawa residents in order to chronicle what happened in the city during and after February's convoy protest, and to document its impacts on the people who live there. The goal is to contribute to community healing and justice, and to produce a report that, unlike the other inquiries and commissions related to the convoy, will prioritize the experiences of residents. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/11/08/radio-seeking-healing-justice-and-change-in-the-wake-of-the-convoy-occupation/

In episode #494 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Kate Turner and Chantal Pelletier. They are part of the Decolonial Solidarity Campaign, a network of affinity groups across so-called Canada acting in solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en people's struggle against the Coastal Gas Link pipeline by targeting the Royal Bank of Canada, one of the pipeline's main financers. They talk about what it really means to act in solidarity in principled, accountable ways, and about the campaign. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/11/01/radio-settlers-building-decolonial-solidarity-with-the-wetsuweten/

In episode #493 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Jennifer Wickham. She is a Cas Yikh (Grizzly Bear House) member in the Gidimt’en Clan of the Wet’suwet’en people, and the media co-ordinator for the Gidimt'en Checkpoint. She talks about her people's ongoing fight against the Coastal Gas Link (CGL) pipeline. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/10/25/radio-ongoing-wetsuweten-resistance-to-the-cgl-pipeline/

In episode #492 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Saleh Waziruddin, an anti-racist activist in St. Catharines, Ontario and an executive committee member of the Niagara Region Anti-Racism Association. They talk about doing locally-focused grassroots anti-racism work in a place like Niagara -- comprised of smaller cities, towns, and rural areas -- and how it differs from anti-racism in larger cities. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/10/18/radio-anti-racism-in-smaller-cities-and-towns/

In episode #491 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Stacey Gomez, a migrant justice organizer with No One Is Illegal - Halifax/Kjipuktuk. They talk about the group's work as the first grassroots effort in Atlantic Canada to organize with migrant agricultural workers. (Observant listeners may have noticed that the number of this week's episode is quite a bit higher than last week's -- over the weekend, I discovered two errors in numbering from back in 2019 that meant there had been 17 more episodes than I was counting. I have now gone through all of the SoundCloud posts since that time and fixed them!) For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/10/11/radio-migrant-worker-organizing-in-nova-scotia/

In episode #490 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews long-time climate campaigner Jason Mogus. They speak not about his climate work but about his involvement in Salt Spring Solutions, a community group on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia that is working to tackle the island's housing crisis, in the face of opposition that is largely framed in environmental terms. They also talk about what relevance the struggle on Salt Spring Island has for the broader environmental and climate movements, and about how crucial it is that those movements bring questions of justice into the core of their work. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/10/04/radio-bringing-sustainability-and-justice-together-in-a-small-community/

In episode #489 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Shawna Dempsey. She is a performance and video artist, and also the co-executive director of Mentoring Artists for Women's Art (MAWA), a feminist artist-run centre in Winnipeg. She talks about feminism in the arts and about MAWA's decades of work. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/09/27/radio-feminism-in-the-arts/

In episode #488 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Betty Plewes and Emma Bider. Plewes is a co-founder and steering committee member of Climate Legacy, a group of retired people working together to engage and mobilize other older adults in action to address the climate crisis. Bider is the group's communications coordinator. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/09/20/radio-older-adults-and-the-fight-for-climate-action/

In episode #487 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews long-time Vancouver writer David Spaner. He recently published a new book, *Solidarity: Canada's Unknown Revolution of 1983* (Ronsdale Press, 2021). The resistance that it documents -- to a right-wing provincial government in British Columbia -- was one of the largest grassroots uprisings in Canadian history and came within a hairsbreadth of becoming a general strike, but it is little remembered today. For a more detailed description, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/09/13/radio-british-columbias-general-strike-that-almost-was/

In episode #486 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Mark Nichols. He is an organizer with the Workers' Action Network of Newfoundland and Labrador, which brings together workers in low-wage, precarious jobs to support each other and to fight collectively for decent work for all. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/09/06/radio-low-wage-workers-organizing-in-newfoundland/

In episode #485 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Emma Norton, a climate activist based in Nova Scotia. They talk about her work as the operations director at the ReCover Initaitive and the Atlantic director with the Climate Emergency Unit, and about the crucial interconnection between practical measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and grassroots political work aimed at policy change. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/08/30/radio-practical-climate-action-in-atlantic-canada/

The following is a rebroadcast of episode #434 of Talking Radical Radio, originally broadcast in December 2021. In it, Scott Neigh interviews Breanne Lavallee-Heckert, Chantale Garand, and Kianna Durston. They are Métis people based in Winnipeg and members of Red River Echoes, a collective of Métis people that is focused on grassroots organizing, land back, and the active reclamation of Métis sovereignty in Winnipeg. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/08/23/rebroadcast-grassroots-organizing-by-metis-people-in-winnipeg/

In episode #484 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Dev Ramsawakh and Kate Welsh. They are co-creators of the CRIP Collective, a small group of Toronto-based disabled educators and artists who do anti-ableism, anti-oppression, and disability justice-related workshops, and various other kinds of community building with disabled people, using an intersectional approach. They talk about disability, ableism, and the collective's use of education as a tool for change. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/08/16/radio-anti-ableism-and-disability-justice-education/

In episode #483 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Mili Roy and Angela Bischoff. They are involved, in different capacities, in the Ontario Climate Emergency Campaign, a broad, loose, non-partisan coalition of individuals and groups working hard to get Ontario to improve its response to the climate crisis. They talk about the crisis, about the campaign's 12-point Climate Action Plan to address it, and about the strengths and weaknesses of working in a broad coalition. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/08/09/radio-a-broad-coalition-pushing-for-climate-action-in-ontario/

In episode #482 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Gladys Rowe, Teddy Zegeye-Gebrehiwot, and Liz Carlson-Manathara about the Stories of Decolonization film project. They talk about the role that story and film can play in larger processes of decolonization and about their many years of work on the project. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/08/02/radio-story-and-film-as-tools-for-decolonization/

In episode #481 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Simran Kaur Dhunna and Bikram Singh. They are members of the Naujawan Support Network, a group of international students and immigrant workers who are challenging the exploitation and mistreatment that their members face using protest, mutual support, and collective direct action. They talk about how they directly confront the employers, landlords, immigration consultants, and other people who exploit them, and why that is such an important part of workers building power and winning victories. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/07/26/radio-immigrant-workers-confronting-the-people-who-exploit-them/

In episode #480 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sean Holman, a journalism professor at the University of Victoria and a principle investigator for the Climate Disaster Project. They talk about the shifts in journalism's social role in our current political moment, about the news media's response to the climate crisis so far, and about the new model for covering it that is being developed as part of the Climate Disaster Project. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/07/19/radio-climate-disaster-stories-as-a-catalyst-for-change/

In episode #479 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Beatriz Oliver and Aabir Dey of SeedChange, an organization based in Canada that supports farmers here and around the world in working for a more just, sustainable, and environmentally sound future. They talk about the food system as it exists today, the vision embedded in the work of SeedChange, and what they are doing to realize it. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/07/12/radio-advancing-a-vision-of-ecological-farming-and-farmers-rights/

In episode #478 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews James Barbeiro and Jen of Rent Strike Bargain, a province-wide campaign in British Columbia that is fighting for the right of tenants to collectively bargain with landlords, and that is also active in supporting the recent upsurge in local organizing by tenants. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/07/05/radio-fighting-for-collective-bargaining-rights-for-tenants/

In episode #477 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Steve September. Born into the struggle against South African apartheid -- his family fled the country when he was a child to avoid arrest as part of a government crackdown on African National Congress activists, and soon they were busily organizing a base for anti-apartheid activity in Canada -- September today is the chair of a group called the Anti-Racism Coalition (ARC) Vancouver. He talks about the work of ARC Vancouver and about the perspective he brings to that work based on his earlier involvement in opposing apartheid. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/06/28/radio-a-veteran-of-the-anti-apartheid-struggle-talks-about-anti-racism-today/

In episode #476 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Riley Nielson-Baker and Felix Vandergrift of Gender Affirming Care Nova Scotia, a grassroots, community-based policy process to address issues of gender-affirming care and access to health care for trans, intersex, and gender-diverse people in Nova Scotia. They talk about the process, the policy, and the work they have been doing to make it all happen. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here:

In episode #475 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Jordan Westfall. He is co-founder and president of the Canadian Association for Safe Supply, an organization that aims to reduce the immense harms of the overdose crisis by pushing for an increase in people's access to a drug supply that is legal, regulated, and safe. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/06/14/radio-confronting-the-overdose-crisis-demanding-a-safe-supply/

In episode #474 of Talking Radical Radio, I interview Lisa Hari and Rosemary Brown. They are active with We're Together Ending Poverty, a grassroots anti-poverty group in Calgary. We talk about what poverty looks like in their city, about the group's evolution over the years, and about their work to bring people together to build shared understandings and collective action. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/06/07/radio-against-poverty-in-calgary/

In episode #473 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Craig Heron, Holly Kirkconnell, and David Kidd. They are active with the Toronto Workers' History Project, an initiative devoted to preserving and promoting the history of working people in Toronto. They talk about the enthusiasm they have found in the community for working-class history, the many facets of the project's work, and the importance of history for social movements today. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/05/31/radio-preserving-and-popularizing-the-history-of-working-class-toronto/

In episode #472 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Krista Wylie. She is a parent in Toronto and a co-founder of the Fix Our Schools campaign. They talk about the $16.8 billion repair backlog in Ontario schools and about Wylie's years of campaigning to get the provincial government to take seriously the impact that has on students, teachers, and other education workers, and to invest adequately in school repair and renewal. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/05/24/radio-pushing-ontario-to-fix-its-massive-school-repair-backlog/

In episode #471 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sally Lane and Matthew Behrens. Lane is the mother of Jack Letts, a Canadian citizen who has been detained for more than five years in northeastern Syria in conditions akin to torture. Behrens is a long-time activist and a member of Stop Canadian Involvement in Torture. They talk about Jack's case and about the campaign to push the Canadian government to finally take action to bring him, and the 40+ other Canadian Muslims detained in northeastern Syria, back to Canada. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/05/17/radio-challenging-government-abandonment-of-citizens-detained-abroad/

In episode #470 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Darlene Okemaysim-Sicotte. She is part of Iskwewuk E-wichiwitochik, a grassroots group in Saskatoon that has been working for many years on the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/05/10/radio-long-years-of-grassroots-work-for-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women/

In episode #469 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Nina Newington. She is a long-time activist and an organizer of the Last Hope Camp, a forest defence action whose participants have been living in tents on the land since December to prevent the logging of an ecologically important forest in southwest Nova Scotia. They talk about the practicalities of taking this kind of direct action, about the broader struggle to defend forests in Nova Scotia, and about the Last Hope Camp. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/05/03/radio-defending-the-forest-in-southwest-nova-scotia/

In episode #468 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Jillian Maguire and Kim Benson. They are teachers in British Columbia and members of the BC Teachers Federation, and they have been organizing to get their pension plan to divest from fossil fuel industries. They talk about the BCTF Divest Now campaign and about their recent success in getting their union to pass a motion in favour of divestment. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/04/26/radio-union-members-pushing-their-pension-plan-to-divest-from-fossil-fuels/

In episode #467 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Angella MacEwen and Alex Silas. They are union and community activists in Ottawa, and members of Community Solidarity Ottawa, a coalition of unions, community organizations, and residents that came together during the recent convoy occupation of their city's downtown to give voice to grassroots opposition to the convoy, its far-right organizers, and its harmful tactics, while also demanding that governments do more to support working-class communities and frontline workers during the pandemic. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/04/19/radio-ottawa-residents-against-the-convoy-and-for-solidarity-and-social-justice/

In episode #466 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interview Manuel Salamanca Cardona. He is an activist with the Immigrant Workers Centre (IWC) and the Temporary Agency Workers Association (TAWA) in Montreal. They talk about the struggles faced by workers employed by temp agencies, and about the work of TAWA. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/04/12/radio-temp-agency-workers-getting-organized/

In episode #465 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interview Abby Stadnyk and Ellie Ade Kur. They speak about their own abolitionist politics and organizing, and about *Disarm, Defund, Dismantle: Police Abolition in Canada* (Between the Lines, 2022), a new book collection bringing together pieces by organizers and scholars writing in the context of the constellation of efforts to defund and abolish the police in Canada over the last two years. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/04/05/radio-dispatches-from-the-movement-for-police-abolition-in-canada/

In episode #464 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sakura Saunders and Rachel Small. They are, respectively, a board member and the Canada organizer for World Beyond War, a decentralized global network with the goal not just of opposing the war of the day but of abolishing the institution of war. They talk about the organization's work globally and in Canada, about their war abolitionist politics, and about what their members and supporters have been doing to demand peace in Ukraine. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/03/29/radio-demanding-a-just-peace-in-ukraine-and-the-abolition-of-all-war/

In episode #463 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sarah Switzer, Andrea Vela Alarcón, Rubén Gaztambide-Fernandez, and Casey Burkholder. They all have long histories of involvement in a range of community-based work, and they are also researchers in academic and professional settings. They speak today about Beyond the Toolkit, a research project in which they worked with people involved in community facilitation, community arts, community-based participatory research, and related work to understand how they were adapting to the drastic changes imposed by the pandemic and to develop tools to support them. For a more detailed description, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/03/22/how-grassroots-community-based-initiatives-changed-due-to-covid-19/

In episode #462 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Jesse Cardinal. She is a Métis woman who lives in Treaty 6 territory and the executive director of Keepers of the Water, an Indigenous-led organization with a mission of protecting the water in the Arctic drainage basin. She talks about the threat to the water posed by the Alberta tar sands and other resource extraction, and about the organization's work. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/03/15/radio-indigenous-led-water-protection-in-the-north/

In episode #461 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Emma Clark and Hayley Bryant. They are grade 12 students at Western Canada High School in Calgary, Alberta. They talk about doing feminist organizing at their school as part of a group called the Committee on the Status of Women and Girls (CSWAG). For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/03/08/radio-feminist-organizing-by-high-school-students/

In episode #460 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews April Thomas. She is a land defender and member of the Secwépemc Nation, from the Canim Lake Band in the central interior of what is colonially known as British Columbia. She talks about the trajectory of her work defending the land, about grassroots opposition to the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline expansion project, and about the ongoing court battle in the wake of the arrest of land defenders at the Secwépemc Unity Camp. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/03/01/radio-grassroots-secwepemc-resistance-to-the-trans-mountain-pipeline/

In episode #459 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Hanen Nanaa. She is, among other things, the director of the BAM Collective. The acronym “BAM” stands for “Books Art Music,” and the group is a youth-led collective based in Ontario that seeks to empower equity-seeking groups through community engagement and the arts. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/02/22/radio-talking-politics-arts-and-social-justice-with-bipoc-youth/

In episode #458 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Brie Villeneuve and Piper Lockhart, both of whom are high school students in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They are also core organizers of Manitoba Students for COVID Safety, a student-led group advocating for safer schools in light of inadequate action from the Manitoba provincial government to keep educators, staff, and students safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. They talk about the pandemic, about the problems with the Manitoba government's response, about the student walkout their group organized in January, and about what needs to happen to make schools safe. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/02/15/radio-high-school-students-organizing-for-greater-covid-safety-in-schools/

In episode #457 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Martha Paynter and Frédérique Chabot. Paynter is a registered nurse, a researcher, an activist, and the founder of an organization called Wellness Within, which works for reproductive justice, health equity, and prison abolition. Chabot is the director of health promotion at Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights, an organization that does public education, health promotion, and advocacy in Canada and globally. In the context of Action Canada's annual Sexual and Reproductive Health Awareness Week campaign, they speak about why advocacy in these areas is important, and about why in Canada today it is vital that it centre prison abolition, migrant justice, and other struggles led by people who are regularly "discarded" and dehumanized by dominant systems. For a more complete description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/02/08/radio-next-steps-for-sexual-and-reproductive-rights-activism-in-canada/

In episode #456 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews David Alton and William Turman, who are members of a multi-issue group in southern Ontario called GroundUp Waterloo Region. They talk about their commitment to what they call "messy activism" and about the group's work supporting other grassroots groups, filling community gaps, building grassroots infrastructure, and holding politicians to account. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here:

In episode #455 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Anna Badillo and David Heap. They are members of People for Peace, a local grassroots peace group in the city of London in southwestern Ontario. They talk about the group's two decades of action on a wide range of issues, and in particular about their work opposing the manufacture in a London plant of the light-armoured vehicles (LAVs) being sold to Saudi Arabia in the largest arms deal in Canadian history. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/01/25/radio-opposing-the-arms-industry-in-one-canadian-community/

In episode #454 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Joe Curnow, a professor in the faculty of education at the University of Manitoba, a long-time community organizer, and a member of the organizing and communications team for the University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA). They talk about UMFA's recent strike, in which an organizing orientation allowed the union to accomplish quite a lot despite very challenging circumstances, and about the lessons it holds for other public sector unions. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/01/18/public-sector-workers-building-power-in-tough-times/

In episode #453 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews a member of Canadians for Peace and Justice in Kashmir, a group of Canadians -- some of whom have ties to the region, some of whom do not -- committed to working in this country towards a just peace in Kashmir. They talk about the history of the conflict and about the work of the CPJK. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/01/11/radio-working-in-canada-for-a-just-peace-in-kashmir/

In episode #452 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews A.J. Withers. For 20 years, Withers was active with one of Ontario's best known grassroots groups, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty. Recently, Withers released a new book telling stories of and drawing lessons from four of OCAP's key campaigns over the years related to homelessness. They talk about OCAP and about *Fight to Win: Inside Poor People's Organizing* (Fernwood Publishing, 2021). For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/01/04/radio-a-new-look-at-one-of-ontarios-most-notorious-grassroots-groups/

The following is a rebroadcast of an episode of Talking Radical Radio originally broadcast in July 2021. In episode #412 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Vanessa Hartley. She is 21 years old, a resident of Shelburne, Nova Scotia, and an eighth generation Black Loyalist descendent. She is also the chair of the South End Environmental Injustice Society (SEED). She talks about the town, about environmental racism, and about the work of SEED. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/12/28/radio-rebroadcast-fighting-environmental-racism-in-small-town-nova-scotia/

In episode #451 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Breanne Lavallee-Heckert, Chantale Garand, and Kianna Durston. They are Métis people based in Winnipeg and members of Red River Echoes, a collective of Métis people that is focused on grassroots organizing, land back, and the active reclamation of Métis sovereignty in Winnipeg. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/12/21/radio-grassroots-organizing-by-metis-people-in-winnipeg/

In episode #450 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Natalie Jackett, a student in Legal Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa and the trans event coordinator for Rainbow Ottawa Student Experience (until recently known as Rainbow Carleton). They talk about transphobia in Canada, about a successful recent collective action that shut down an instance of anti-trans politics, and about what it looks like to be in solidarity with trans people. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/12/14/radio-mobilizing-against-anti-trans-politics/

In episode #449 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Jen Gobby and Molly Murphy. Gobby is a postdoctoral researcher at Concordia University in Montreal and the founder of Research for the Front Lines, a new organization that fosters collaboration between climate and environmental justice movements in Canada and people in universities with the time and skills to do the research that movements need. Murphy is active in front line Indigenous-led land defence struggles, most recently the forest-protection blockades at Fairy Creek in Pacheedaht territory on Vancouver Island, and has been part of a collaboration with Research for the Front Lines that unearthed important new information about how the RCMP represses land defence struggles in the unceded territories on the west coast. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/12/07/radio-research-in-the-service-of-struggle/

In episode #448 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Robert Janes. With more than 45 years of experience working in and around museums, including as a chief curator and museum director, Janes is also the founder of the Coalition of Museums for Climate Justice. He talks about the climate crisis, about the role he envisions museums playing in responding to it, and about the work of the coalition. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/11/30/radio-pushing-museums-to-take-action-on-the-climate-crisis/

In episode #447 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Tonye Aganaba and Chantelle Spicer. They are members of the Defund 604 Network, and they talk about the network's organizing around police and prison abolition in Vancouver. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/11/23/radio-police-and-prison-abolitionist-organizing-in-vancouver/

In episode #446 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Laurel Thompson. She is a retired teacher who lives in Montreal and a member of the group Trainsparence. She talks about the REM, a major new addition to Montreal's transit system, and why some residents, grassroots activists, and environmentalists fought tooth and nail against it -- and why opposition to the new phase of the REM in east Montreal may be much more successful. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/11/16/radio-a-struggle-over-the-future-of-montreals-transit-system/

In episode #445 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Brandon Doucet, a dentist in Nova Scotia and a founding member of the Coalition for Dental Care. The coalition brings together dentists, hygienists, dental students, other health care professionals, and members of the public to advocate for universal dental care in Canada. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/11/09/radio-the-fight-for-universal-dental-care-in-canada/

In episode #444 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Vicky Levack. She is a human rights advocate based in Halifax whose work focuses on disability and on gender, with a particular interest in housing issues. These days, she is active with the PADS Community Network, a new grassroots formation in Halifax fighting – as their acronym summarizes – for permanent, accessible, dignified, and safer housing for all. She talks about housing and homelessness in Halifax in the context of COVID-19, and about the role of the PADS Community Network in supporting encampments of unhoused people in the city. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/11/02/radio-supporting-homeless-encampments-in-halifax/

In episode #443 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Luisa Da Silva and Stephen Buhler. Da Silva is a geoscientist with experience in the fossil fuel and mining industries and the executive director of Iron and Earth, "a worker-led not-for-profit with a mission to empower fossil fuel industry and Indigenous workers to build and implement climate solutions." Buhler is a journeyman machinist who works in the fossil fuel industry in Alberta, and the community engagement officer for Iron and Earth. They talk about the climate crisis and about the organization's work to push for a just and prosperous transition. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/10/26/radio-fossil-fuel-workers-pushing-for-a-shift-to-renewables/

On episode #442 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Serena Mah, a media relations consultant and a former television journalist who lives in Edmonton, Alberta. They talk about anti-Asian racism, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Act2EndRacism coalition. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/10/19/radio-challenging-anti-asian-racism-during-the-pandemic/

In episode #441 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Ardath Whynacht, an activist, writer, and scholar who lives in Mi'kmaq territory and teaches sociology at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick. She is also the author of Insurgent Love: Abolition and Domestic Homicide (Fernwood Publishing, Nov 2021), which she describes as "a book about how we can think through abolition and defunding police while also being attentive to high risk intimate partner violence that leads to domestic homicide." For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/10/12/radio-prison-abolition-and-how-we-respond-to-the-worst-forms-of-gendered-violence/

In episode #440 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Don McLean, Sue Carson, and Nancy Hurst. They are active with Hamilton 350, a group that engages in a wide range of kinds of climate activism in the city of Hamilton on the west end of Lake Ontario. In this interview, they talk about the group's new Conservation Watch project -- an initiative that at first glance might seem to be pointing in a bit of a different direction than the group's usual work, but that they argue is a crucial form of "real, practical climate action." For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/10/05/radio-fighting-doug-fords-pro-developer-agenda-as-a-form-of-climate-activism/

In episode #439 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Vivan Ly, Iris Parker, and Allie. They are organizing collective members of Autistics United Canada, a grassroots organization of autistic youth and adults with thousands of members across the country. They talk about autism and about the organization's advocacy, mutual aid and peer support, and education work. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/09/28/radio-autistic-people-organizing-under-the-banner-of-disability-justice/

In episode #438 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Christopher Trider, who is a landscape architect in Nova Scotia and a former provincial civil servant with experience in planning provincial parks. He is also a member of a grassroots group called Save Owls Head Provincial Park, which is doing its best to intervene in the fate of a small piece of land on Nova Scotia's eastern shore, next to the town of Little Harbour. They talk about the land, the secretive moves by the provincial government that have put it at risk, and the campaign to preserve it. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/09/21/radio-defending-a-threatened-coastal-ecosystem/

In episode #437 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews James Ruston. He is a member of the Toronto Prisoners' Rights Project, a prisoner justice group with a long-term vision of prison abolition. Ruston is currently living on day parole, as part of serving a life sentence. They talk about Ruston's experiences of the prison system and about the work of the TPRP. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/09/14/radio-supporting-prisoners-working-towards-abolition/

In episode #436 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Peter Gilmer, a minister and anti-poverty advocate. Gilmer works for the Regina Anti-Poverty Ministry, a social justice ministry of the United Church of Canada in Saskatchewan. He talks about the ministry's work for social justice and against poverty, and about its fifty-year history. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/09/07/radio-fifty-years-of-faith-based-anti-poverty-work-in-saskatchewan/

In episode #435 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Leela Acharya and Laura McCoy. They are teachers in Toronto and members of Ontario Education Workers United, a grassroots group of education workers from across Ontario committed to fighting for a strong, equitable, public, safe K-to-12 education system. They talk about the impacts of the pandemic on education in Ontario, about the group, and about the upcoming return to school. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/08/31/radio-grassroots-education-workers-organizing-for-a-safereturn-and-a-justrecovery/

In episode #434 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews John Sylliboy. Sylliboy is Mi'kmaq and he grew up as part of Esaksoni and Millbrook First Nations in Nova Scotia. He is also the acting executive director of the Wabanaki Two Spirit Alliance, an organization that brings together Two-Spirit people in Wabanaki territory through a framework based on the Peace and Friendship Treaty to engage in knowledge sharing, research, capacity building, and advocacy. Fore a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/08/24/radio-a-voice-for-two-spirit-people-in-atlantic-canada/

In this rebroadcast of episode #393 of Talking Radical Radio (which was originally broadcast in the first week of March 2021), Scott Neigh interviews Samir Shaheen-Hussain. He is a pediatric emergency physician in Montreal and an assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. He was also a central organizer in the #aHand2Hold campaign, which in 2018 won a victory against a specific aspect of medical colonialism in Quebec. In this episode, he talks about the campaign, about his new book, *Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada*, and about the broader history and present reality of medical colonialism in this country. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/08/17/rebroadcast-the-past-and-present-of-medical-colonialism-in-canada/

In episode #433 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Kevin Skerrett and Nancy Parker. They are active with the Make Revera Public campaign, which is pushing the federal government to transform Revera -- a major provider of long-term care in Canada -- from a for-profit corporation into a public sector entity and a fully integrated element of our public health care system. This campaign is happening in the wake of the terrible impact of COVID-19 on long-term care residents, particularly residents of for-profit, private sector homes, and is focusing on Revera because it is 100% owned by a public sector pension fund. They talk about long-term care, COVID-19, pensions, and the Make Revera Public campaign. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/08/10/radio-a-campaign-to-bring-long-term-care-into-the-public-health-care-system/

In episode #432 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Areej Riaz, Faith Edem, and LJ Prabaharan. All three are very involved in taking action of various kinds related to the climate crisis. As well, Riaz is one of the key people behind *Our Climate, Our Stories*, a new book that collects essays, stories, and poems about the climate crisis written by Black, Indigenous, and racialized youth from across Canada. Edem and Prabaharan are contributors to the volume. They talk about the climate crisis, about the importance of creating spaces for BIPOC youth voices in that context, and about the book. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/08/03/bipoc-youth-stories-about-the-climate-crisis/

In episode #431 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Stephanie Fung and Rajani Tadaka. Fung is the communications organizer for UNITE HERE Local 40, which represents workers in the hospitality industry in British Columbia. Tadaka is a hotel worker and member of Local 40. In the wake of mass layoffs due to the pandemic, many hotels in BC have chosen to fire many of their laid off workers rather than recall them as needed, as a cost-saving measure. Fung and Tadaka talk about the BC's Unequal Women campaign, which is demanding the mostly-women who have been fired be allowed to return to their jobs. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/07/27/radio-standing-up-against-mass-firings-in-bcs-hotel-industry/

In episode #430 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Matias de Dovitiis. He is a long time activist and one of the co-founders of the Canadian Latin America Alliance. They talk about Canada's orientation towards Latin America and about the work of the alliance to, according to their website, support "the development of a relationship between Canada and Latin America that is based on principles of democracy, self-determination and the defense of human rights." For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/07/20/radio-challenging-canadas-predatory-role-in-latin-america/

In episode #429 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Vanessa Hartley. She is 21 years old, a resident of Shelburne, Nova Scotia, and an eighth generation Black Loyalist descendent. She is also the chair of the South End Environmental Injustice Society (SEED). She talks about the town, about environmental racism, and about the work of SEED. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/07/13/radio-fighting-environmental-racism-in-small-town-nova-scotia/

In episode #428 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Cihan Erdal and Ömer Ongun. 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 Erdal support campaign. After nine long months in prison, Erdal was released in mid-June, though he may not yet leave Turkey and is still at risk of re-arrest. This is the couple’s first interview together since his release. They talk about their lives, about Erdal’s detention, and about the campaign to free him. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/07/06/radio-the-campaign-to-free-an-ottawa-academic-detained-in-turkey/

In episode #427 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Russell Lavis and Michael Bueckert. Lavis is an ultramarathon runner who most recently used his skills to raise funds for Help Gaza Breathe, a campaign to ensure hospitals in Gaza have necessary equipment in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Bueckert is a scholar and grassroots activist who does Palestinian solidarity work in other ways, and he is vice-president of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East. They talk about the broad context and recent events in Palestine, and about the range of forms that solidarity with the Palestinian people can take. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/06/29/radio-the-many-forms-of-solidarity-with-the-palestinian-people/

In episode #426 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Colleen Lynas and Victor Lachance. They are residents of Kemptville, Ontario, and members of the Coalition Against the Proposed Prison (CAPP) Kemptville. They talk about their town, about the Ontario government's unilateral decision to build a provincial jail there, and about what residents are doing in response. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/06/22/radio-fighting-a-proposed-provincial-jail-in-eastern-ontario/

In episode #425 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Barbara Byers, Lori Johb, and Donna Smith. They are long-time feminists and trade unionists in Saskatchewan, and they are organizers of the Prairie School for Union Women. They talk about the 25-year history of the school, and about its current incarnation in the context of COVID-19 as an online event happening from June 22 to 25, 2021. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/06/15/radio-twenty-five-years-of-feminist-labour-education/

In episode #424 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Jon McPhedran Waitzer and Andy Wei. They 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 of wealth, land, and power. They talk about the politics of organizing wealthy people in support of social justice, and about the work of Resource Movement. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/06/08/radio-mobilizing-class-privileged-youth-to-work-for-social-justice/

In episode #423 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Andrew Winchur. He is the director of the Parkdale Free School, a grassroots educational initiative for residents of the Parkdale neighbourhood in Toronto to share their knowledge and lived experience in a safe, inclusive, and anti-oppressive setting. They talk about popular education, radical pedagogy, and the Parkdale Free School. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/06/01/radio-grassroots-popular-education-in-a-toronto-neighbourhood/

In episode #422 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Tara Ehrcke. She is a teacher in Victoria, BC, and throughout her career has been active in her union, the British Columbia Teachers Federation. Since 2018, her energies have been largely focused on the climate crisis. She talks about the climate crisis, the role that the labour movement can play in addressing it, and the Labour Climate Forum, a recent event that brought together more than 100 trade unionists concerned about climate issues from more than 15 labour organizations in BC. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/05/25/radio-climate-justice-organizing-within-the-labour-movement/

In episode #421 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Catherine Frazee and Quin Lawrence. They were part of the upswell of opposition by disability activists to Bill C-7, which expanded the eligibility for medical assistance in dying in Canada. Frazee, Lawrence, and many other disabled people characterized Bill C-7 as not just ableist but also as a form of eugenics. In the week before the legislation passed, that opposition culminated in an action called the Disability Filibuster. They talk about the ableism of the bill, their opposition to it, and their vision for continuing the struggle now. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/05/18/radio-a-new-wave-of-anti-ableist-and-anti-eugenics-organizing-in-canada/

In episode #420 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Kieran Hart, Sharmeen Khan, and Temóc Thania Vega. They are activists and organizers based in Toronto, as well as members of the editorial collective of Upping the Anti, a print publication that describes itself as "a journal of theory and action." They talk about the importance of ideas and radical theory to struggles for justice and liberation, about the challenges of grassroots media-making, and about Upping the Anti. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/05/11/radio-a-rare-space-for-social-movements-to-reflect-and-theorize/

In episode #419 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Pierre Cloutier de Repentigny and Tai Jacob. Cloutier de Repentigny is a lawyer and will soon be an assistant professor of law and legal studies at Carleton University. He is also the co-chair of the board of JusticeTrans, an organization dedicated to ensuring access to justice for trans, non-binary, gender non-conforming, and Two Spirit people in the Canadian context. Tai Jacob is a scholar, a community organizer, and a public educator, as well as the project manager and head of research at JusticeTrans. They talk about trans people's experiences of the legal system, about access to justice, and about the work of JusticeTrans. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/05/04/radio-building-access-to-justice-for-trans-people-in-canada/

In episode #418 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Susie Goulding. She is a founder of the COVID Long Haulers Support Group Canada, a group for people with long COVID to support each other, advocate for themselves, and collaborate with researchers. She talks about long COVID and about the group's work, particularly its advocacy for recognition, research, and rehabilitation. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/04/27/radio-long-covid-growing-advocacy-for-recognition-research-and-rehab/

In episode #417 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Irina Ceric. Along with being an instructor in criminology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Surrey, BC, Ceric has for decades been a social movement lawyer and has devoted much of her energy to radical legal support organizing. In recent years, her attention has also turned to research about such organizing. She talks about her own movement lawyering, about radical legal support organizing, and about what her research has found that is useful to movements today. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/04/20/radio-social-movements-and-radical-legal-support-organizing/

In episode #416 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Emma Cunningham of Environmental Action Now Ajax-Pickering. They recently won an important victory against an attempt to build a warehouse on Duffins Creek wetland, a protected wetland in the middle of Pickering. Groups in communities across Ontario are currently facing similar struggles, as pro-development municipal councils and the provincial government are making increasing use of Minister's Zoning Orders (MZOs) to push forward development regardless of environmental and community consequences. Cunningham talks about how they won the fight in Pickering, and about what other communities can learn from it. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/04/13/radio-a-local-victory-against-ontarios-development-at-any-cost-offensive/

In episode #415 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interview Kearie Daniel. She is a communications professional, a writer and podcaster, and an equity consultant. She is also a parent advocate and co-founder of the group Parents of Black Children. She talks about anti-Black racism in the school system and how Parents of Black Children is supporting parents and advocating for change. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/04/06/radio-challenging-anti-black-racism-in-the-school-system/

In episode #414 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Reuben Roth, Katlyn Kotila, and Darius Garneau. Roth is a labour studies and sociology professor at Laurentian University, an instiution facing unprecedented crisis after recently filing for creditor protection. Kotila and Garneau are undergraduate students at Laurentian and members of Save Our Sudbury. Neigh interviews all three about the crisis, how it is being used to impose cuts and other forms of austerity, its implications for other universities and the broader public sector, and what the community is doing in response. For a more detailed description, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/03/30/radio-resisting-an-unprecedented-austerity-attack-on-the-university-sector/

In episode #413 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interview Jonny Sopotiuk and Zandi Dandizette. They are founding members of both the Vancouver Artists Labour Union Co-operative (VALU CO-OP), a workplace owned and run democratically by its workers, and of the Arts and Cultural Workers Union (ACWU). They talk about how this new model for artists and other cultural workers to organize themselves -- a worker co-op *and* a union -- may be the key to challenging precarious work and poverty in the sector. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/03/23/interview-artists-as-workers-a-new-model-for-organizing/

In episode #412 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Mary Kelly and Alex Bestos. Kelly is an undergraduate student at the University of British Columbia and a national board member of Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy (CSSDP). Bestos works at a health research centre focused on substance use and is the international liaison for CSSDP. They talk about the current state of drug-related public policy in Canada and what the students and youth of CSSDP are doing to make it better. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/03/16/radio-students-mobilizing-for-the-decriminalization-of-drugs/

In episode #411 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews William Carroll, James Rowe, and Emily Lowan of the University of Victoria. Carroll is a professor of sociology and Rowe an associate professor of environmental studies, and they are both involved in the Corporate Mapping Project, which brings together academic and community-based researchers to investigate the corporate power of fossil fuel industries in Canada. Rowe and Lowan, who is an undergraduate student in environmental studies and economics, are involved in Divest UVic, a campaign that is pushing the University of Victoria to divest from fossil fuel industries. They talk about the power of fossil fuel industries; about the work of researching, analyzing, and understanding that power; and about how that research can be applied in struggles on the ground, like campaigns for divestment. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/03/09/radio-mapping-and-opposing-the-power-of-fossil-fuel-industries-in-canada/

In episode #410 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Samir Shaheen-Hussain. He is a pediatric emergency physician in Montreal and an assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. He was also a central organizer in the #aHand2Hold campaign, which in 2018 won a victory against a specific aspect of medical colonialism in Quebec. In this episode, he talks about the campaign, about his new book, *Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada*, and about the broader history and present reality of medical colonialism in this country. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/03/02/radio-the-past-and-present-of-medical-colonialism-in-canada/

In episode #409 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Ra'anaa Brown and Shana Calixte of Black Lives Matter - Sudbury. They talk about about what the struggle for Black lives looks like in northern Ontario and about their conference coming up on February 27 and 28, "Here to Stay Baby": A Northern Intersectional Caucus. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/02/23/radio-the-struggle-for-black-lives-in-northern-ontario/

In episode #408 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Daniel Sarah Karasik and Darrah Teitel of the Suppress the Virus Now Coalition, an Ontario-based coalition of community groups, labour organizations, and individuals. They talk about their concerns with how the Canadian federal government and the Ontario provincial government have responded to the pandemic so far, about what needs to be done differently, and about their coalition's plans to push for a #COVIDZero approach that would eliminate community spread. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/02/16/radio-demanding-a-covid-strategy-that-would-suppress-the-virus/

In episode #407 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Michelle Stein and Bill Noll. They are residents of the municipality of South Bruce, Ontario, near Lake Huron. And they are members of Protect Our Waterways - No Nuclear Waste, a group of residents who have come together in opposition to the proposal to put a high-level radioactive waste storage facility in their community. They talk about their concerns with the proposal and their campaign to stop it. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/02/09/radio-a-communitys-fight-to-stop-a-high-level-radioactive-waste-storage-facility/

In episode #406 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sarah Edo of Nuance and pihêsiw of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network. They talk about the theme of this year's Sexual and Reproductive Health Awareness Week campaign, "Youth Friendly Care: It's Your Right!", and about what it means to centre Black, Indigenous, racialized, and migrant youth in questions of sexual health and rights. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/02/02/radio-centring-bipoc-youth-in-questions-of-sexual-health-and-rights/

In episode #405 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Nick Driedger, a long-time labour organizer from northern Alberta. Driedger has been part of a number of different unions, including the Canadian Union of Postal Workers and the Industrial Workers of the World, and he currently works for the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees. He is also a contributor at *Organizing Work*, a website with a grassroots focus committed to honest, strategic discussions about the nuts and bolts of organizing. Neigh interviews him about his vision of organizing and about his recent article, "Common Organizing Mistakes." For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/01/26/radio-organizing-workers-and-how-to-do-it-better/

In episode #404 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Claire Bodkin and Sara Alavian. They are both physicians in Hamilton, Ontario, as well as members of an ad hoc group of health workers from different parts of Canada with an interest in prison abolitionist politics. They talk about what it means to think about prison abolition in the context of health care, and about the zine that the group will be releasing on February 1, *Caring for People Who Are Detained: A Handbook for Healthcare Workers + Trainees*. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/01/19/radio-practical-prison-abolition-politics-in-health-care-contexts/

In episode #403 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Maya Adachi and Kota Kimura. They are members of Japanese Canadians for Social Justice, and they talk about the group's origins, its expansive vision of solidarity, and its involvement in struggles on the ground. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/01/12/radio-japanese-canadians-mobilizing-across-a-broad-range-of-social-justice-issues/

In episode #402 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Samantha Smith, Leslie Scott, and Robert Crooks. They are renters and current or former residents of the West Broadway neighbourhood in Winnipeg, and active members of the West Broadway Tenants Committee, a grassroots group of renters. They talk about the committee’s work organizing for tenant justice and building tenant power to oppose evictions, excessive rent increases, and abuse from landlords. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/01/05/radio-tenant-organizing-in-a-winnipeg-neighbourhood/

In this rebroadcast of an episode of Talking Radical Radio that originally aired in June 2020, Scott Neigh interviews Souheil Benslimane. He describes himself as a father, a partner, and an illegalized and criminalized migrant living in Ottawa. Since his release from prison in 2018, Benslimane has been involved in the Criminalization and Punishment Education Project (CPEP). He talks about his experiences of criminalization, about the anti-carceral work of CPEP, and about what he thinks needs to be happening in this critical moment to advance an abolitionist agenda. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/12/29/rebroadcast-jail-never-saved-me-and-jail-never-saves-anyone/

In episode #401 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Taylor Maton. She is the conservation outreach coordinator with CPAWS Northern Alberta, a regional chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society. In recent months, the main focus of her work has been the Defend Alberta Parks campaign, which is working to oppose a major provincial government initiative to close and delist provincial parks. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/12/22/radio-defending-the-provincial-parks-system-in-alberta/

In episode #400 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interview Bianca Mugyenyi and Yves Engler. Mugyenyi is a long-time activist across multiple movements and the director of the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute. Engler is also a long-time activist and a writer, and he is a fellow at the CFPI. They talk about the CFPI's work to present a critical challenge to Canadian foreign policy across a broad spectrum of issues. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/12/15/radio-pushing-for-a-fundamental-reassessment-of-canadas-foreign-policy/

In episode #399 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Terry McDowell. He is a graphic designer in Winnipeg and a member of Strike Poster, a collective of designers and artists of all sorts committed to radical politics and to working in support of grassroots movements. They talk about the intersection of politics and design, and about the work of Strike Poster. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/12/08/radio-a-radical-design-collective-in-winnipeg/

In episode #398 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Laura Hamilton, a climate activist from Waterloo, Ontario. They talk about the journey that Hamilton and Divest Waterloo, the group that she co-founded, have taken from an initial approach to climate action focused on promoting divestment from fossil fuel industries to their current radical commitment to climate justice. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/12/01/radio-bringing-questions-of-justice-to-the-heart-of-struggles-for-climate-action/

In episode #397 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Cam Scott, Irene Bindi, and Daniel Friesen. They are community organizers and members of Police-Free Schools Winnipeg, and they talk about the struggle to get police out of Winnipeg schools. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/11/24/radio-fighting-to-get-police-out-of-winnipeg-schools/

In episode #396 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Angela Marie MacDougall, Jennifer Johnstone, and Rhiannon Bennett. MacDougall is a Vancouver feminist who traces her ancestry to northern Sweden and to Western Africa, and the executive director of Battered Women's Support Services. Johnstone is a white settler feminist and the CEO of the Central City Foundation. They are co-founders and co-chairs of Feminists Deliver. Bennett is a Musqueam woman and the decolonization and accountability consultant for Feminists Deliver. They talk about their vision for grassroots, decolonial, intersectional feminism and about what they have been doing to turn it into reality. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/11/17/radio-building-grassroots-decolonial-intersectional-feminism/

In episode #395 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Rachel Zellars and Wendie Wilson. Zellars is an African-American academic, lawyer, and community organizer who has lived in Canada for more than a decade and a half, and in Halifax for the last couple of years. Wilson is an African Nova Scotian teacher, artist, writer, and community advocate whose family has been in the province for at least eight generations. They talk about the African Nova Scotian Freedom School that they were part of organizing this past summer. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/11/10/radio-a-grassroots-freedom-school-for-african-nova-scotian-youth/

In episode #394 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Renae Watchman, Michael Truscello, and Leah Hamilton. They are faculty at Mount Royal University, a small undergraduate institution in Calgary, and members of the Mount Royal Anti-Racism Coalition. They talk about what racism looks like in the academy, and about what it means to oppose it. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/11/03/radio-fighting-racism-at-an-alberta-university/

In episode #393 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Michael Kwag, the director of knowledge exchange and policy development at the Community-Based Research Centre. They talk about the CBRC's use of research, community-level interventions, and advocacy to promote the health of gay, bi, trans, Two-Spirit, and queer men. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/10/27/radio-community-based-research-and-advocacy-supporting-gay-and-bi-mens-health/

In episode #392 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Medeana Moussa and Wing Li. They are the executive director and director of communications for Support Our Students Alberta, a grassroots, nonpartisan network focused on standing up for the rights of students to an accessible and equitable public education system. They talk about the importance of public education, the dangers of charter schools and privatization, how the school system in Alberta has been responding to COVID-19, and what SOS Alberta is doing in response. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/10/20/radio-standing-up-for-students-and-public-education-in-alberta/

In episode #391 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Shannon Hardy and Bridget Graham. They are the coordinator and director of volunteers, respectively, of Abortion Support Services Atlantic, a grassroots mutual aid group that supports people in Atlantic Canada in the face of barriers to accessing abortion services. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/10/13/radio-grassroots-abortion-support-in-atlantic-canada/

In episode #390 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Susan Campbell and Angie Lynch. They are social workers and community organizers who work for community legal clinics in Ontario, and they talk about Just Recovery Ontario, a campaign that is pushing for a recovery from the pandemic that would fix the many injustices and shortfalls in our social safety net that COVID-19 has made so evident. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/10/06/radio-social-justice-in-the-wake-of-the-pandemic/

In episode #389 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Carole Tootill and Joshua Wright, residents of British Columbia who are heavily involved in forest protection activism. They speak about the Fairy Creek blockades, a direct action that is protecting some of the last big-tree, old-growth forest on Vancouver Island from clear-cut logging. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/09/29/radio-direct-action-in-defence-of-old-growth-forest/

In episode #388 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Tamara Lorincz and Brent Patterson. Lorincz is a long-time peace and justice activist and a member of Canadian Voice of Women for Peace. Patterson has also been involved in peace and social justice issues for many years, and is the executive director of Peace Brigades International - Canada. They talk about the campaign to oppose the federal government's plan to spend $19 billion on a new fleet of fighter jets. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/09/22/radio-stopping-canada-from-spending-19-billion-on-new-fighter-jets/

In episode #387 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews France Trépanier and Chris Creighton-Kelly. Trépanier is an artist and curator of Kanien’kehá:ka and French ancestry. Creighton-Kelly is also an artist, and is of Anglo-Indian descent. They are the directors of Primary Colours/Couleurs primaires, a project that has been working to shift Canada's arts system in decolonial and anti-racist directions. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/09/15/radio-pushing-canadas-arts-system-in-anti-racist-and-decolonial-directions/

In episode #386 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Christine Bro and Quentin Rowe-Codner. Bro is the lead organizer for Service Employees International Union Local 2, and is based in Vancouver. Rowe-Codner is a sales associated at a private liquor store in Maple Ridge, BC. They talk about SEIU Local 2's Unions Are Essential campaign, launched to support the unionization of essential and frontline workers during the pandemic, and about the recent successful organizing drive at Rowe-Codner's workplace. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/09/08/radio-unionizing-during-the-pandemic/

In episode #385 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sharon Gregson. She works with the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC and is the provincial spokesperson for British Columbia's $10aDay child care campaign. They talk about the importance of high-quality, affordable, accessible, public child care, and about both the gains the campaign in BC has made so far and what it has left to win. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/09/01/radio-campaigning-for-10-a-day-public-child-care/

In episode #384 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews activist and academic Shahrzad Mojab. She was involved in the recent publication of *Lives Lost: In Search of a New Tomorrow*, a translation of a powerful poem by Iranian poet Saeed Yousef that remembers the massacre of political prisoners in Iran in the 1980s. They talk about the book, the history it remembers, and the importance of grassroots remembrance of state violence, particularly through literature, art, and poetry. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/08/25/radio-literature-art-and-the-remembrance-of-state-violence/

In this rebroadcast of episode #346 of Talking Radical Radio (originally broadcast in March 2020), Scott Neigh interviews Sharon Fortney. She is the Curator of Indigenous Collections and Engagement at the Museum of Vancouver. She talks about the complicated colonial history of museums and about the Acts of Resistance exhibit, which features the massive banners designed by Indigenous artists and used in an aerial blockade of tanker traffic in the Burrard Inlet to oppose the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline expansion project. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/08/18/radio-rebroadcast-museums-indigenous-protest-art-and-the-trans-mountain-pipeline/

In epsiode #383 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Cole Rockarts of Free Transit Edmonton. They talk about the importance of public transit and about the growing effort to make it public, accessible, high quality, and free. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/08/11/radio-the-growing-movement-for-free-public-transit/

In episode #382 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sidrah Ahmad-Chan and Niya Abdullahi about Rivers of Hope, an organization based in Toronto whose "mission is to dismantle Islamophobia, racism, and all related forms of oppression" in order "to create a safer and more equitable world for us all." For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/08/04/radio-opposing-islamophobia-in-all-of-its-intersections/

In episode #381 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Max ZB about Bricks and Glitter, a Toronto-based "community arts festival, celebrating Two-Spirit, trans and queer talent, ingenuity, caring, anger, and abundance." For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/07/28/radio-bricks-and-glitter-radical-queer-music-arts-politics/

In episode #380 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Gillian Müller and Tony Tran. Both work in Canada's TV and film industry, and both are involved in BIPOC TV & Film, a grassroots organization of Black, Indigenous, and people of colour from all sectors of the industry that is dedicated to increasing BIPOC representation both behind and in front of the camera. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/07/21/radio-anti-racism-in-canadas-tv-and-film-industry/

In episode #379 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews organic vegetable farmer Brent Preston. He is the president of the Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario, one of the member organizations of a new Canada-wide coalition called Farmers for Climate Solutions, which is pushing for changes in policy that will make the country's agricultural sector part of the solution to climate change. They talk about the relationship between agriculture and the climate crisis, and about the work of Farmers for Climate Solutions. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/07/14/radio-farmers-fighting-climate-change/

In episode #378 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Fazeela Jiwa of Fernwood Publishing and David Bush of Between the Lines. Both organizations are independent Canadian publishers that specialize in social justice-focused, critical, and radical titles. They talk about their own work, about the impacts of COVID-19 on the publishing industry, and about the Radical Publishers Alliance, a new organization of around 30 publishers from around the world with left-leaning politics who have come together to support each other and act in solidarity. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/07/07/radio-radical-publishers-take-on-the-world/

In episode #377 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Souheil Benslimane, who describes himself as a father, a partner, and an illegalized and criminalized migrant living in Ottawa. Since his release from prison in 2018, he has been involved in the Criminalization and Punishment Education Project (CPEP). Benslimane talks about his experiences of criminalization, about the anti-carceral work of CPEP, and about what he thinks needs to be happening in this critical moment to advance an abolitionist agenda. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/06/30/radio-radical-organizing-in-support-of-prisoners-and-against-policing-and-prisons/

In episode #376 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Adriana Salazar and Miigam'agan. They are members of the national steering committee of Righting Relations, a pan-Canadian, women-led network of adult educators who work with marginalized communities towards radical social change. They talk about their respective grassroots work in their own communities and about the role of Righting Relations in supporting and enhancing that work. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/06/23/women-led-adult-education-for-radical-social-change/

In episode #375 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sarah Jama, a young organizer based in Hamilton, Ontario. She has been involved in a wide range of different kinds of grassroots work – prominently including struggles against anti-Black racism, working for disability justice, and a whole range of other things. They talk about the trajectory of her organizing, particularly her work co-founding the Disability Justice Network of Ontario, and her involvement right now in both a large-scale mutual aid project responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and in the current uprising against anti-Black racism and police brutality. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/06/16/radio-disability-justice-pandemic-mutual-aid-and-fighting-to-defund-the-police/

In episode #374 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Shaden Abusaleh and Brendan Devlin, who are university students and organizers with Communities Not Cuts Manitoba. They talk about the political situation in their province and about what it looks like to fight austerity during the limitations imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic – something that everyone across the country may well have to deal with soon. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/06/09/radio-fighting-austerity-in-manitoba-in-the-middle-of-a-pandemic/

In episode #373 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Derek Blackadder. He is a long-time trade unionist who has been centrally involved in shaping how unions have taken up new digital tools over the decades, a veteran digital campaigner for workers' rights, and the "web work" columnist for independent labour magazine Our Times. They talk about that history of experimentation, debate, and action with online tools, and about what social movements can learn from it today, as they scramble to figure out how to organize, mobilize, and act in the face of the wide ranging restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/06/02/radio-unions-and-online-technology-from-the-1980s-to-covid-19/

In episode #372 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Ezra Morse and Ray Woroniak. They are residents of Qualicum Beach, a town of about 9000 people on the east coast of Vancouver Island, and they are the president and vice-president, respectively, of the Qualicum Nature Preservation Society. They talk about their work to oppose the development of an ecologically sensitive wetland. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/05/26/radio-protecting-ecologically-sensitive-wetlands-on-vancouver-island/

In episode #371 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews nicole marie burton. She is a comics illustrator and the founder of Ottawa-based independent publisher Ad Astra Comix. They talk about political comics, about Ad Astra, and about burton's latest project, *Enemy Alien: A True Story of Life behind Barbed Wire* (written by Kassandra Luciuk and published by Between the Lines). For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/05/19/radio-sharing-grassroots-histories-and-radical-ideas-through-comics/

In episode #370 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Kyle Vose and Andrea Hatala. They are the co-chairs of the ODSP Action Coalition, a group that brings together social services agencies and recipients of disability benefits in Ontario. They talk about ODSP, the challenges faced by recipients, and the actions taken by the coalition over the years to fight for improvements in the system aimed at enabling disabled people in Ontario to live with greater dignity. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/05/12/radio-taking-action-to-improve-disability-benefits-in-ontario/

In episode #369 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Will George. He is a grassroots member of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, located in and around what is now called "Vancouver", that will be impacted by the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline expansion project. They talk about the pipeline and about George's ongoing grassroots work to oppose it. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/05/05/radio-grassroots-indigenous-resistance-to-the-trans-mountain-tar-sands-pipeline/

In episode #368 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Hector Balderos Campos and Natalia Sudeyko of the Dignidad Migrante Society, a Vancouver-based non-profit organization of migrant agricultural workers that is devoted to workers helping workers stand up for their rights. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2020/04/28/trr-dignidad_migrante/

In episode #367 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Robyn Beckett of the Decent Work and Health Network, a group of health care workers, public health workers, and community members advocating for better employment standards in Ontario using a health lens. They talk about the relationship between work and health, about the network, and about the impacts of COVID-19. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2020/04/21/trr-decent_work_health/

In episode #366 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Joan Kuyek. She has been involved for decades in struggles related to mining, including serving as the first national co-ordinator of MiningWatch Canada from 1999 to 2008. They talk about her lifetime of activism and organizing, and about her new book, *Unearthing Justice: How to Protect Your Community from the Mining Industry*. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2020/04/14/trr-joan_kuyek/

In episode #365 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Ryan Andersen. He is the lead organizer of the Calgary Alliance for the Common Good, a coalition that brings together around 30 faith groups, union locals, and community organizations representing about 35,000 people to organize, advocate, and mobilize for a more just and compassionate vision for their city. They talk about the organization, about its slow and steady approach to community organizing, and about the victories it has won so far. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2020/04/07/trr-calgary_alliance/

In episode #364 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Justin Kong of the Chinese Canadian National Council Toronto Chapter. They talk about organizing workers and building worker power in Chinese grocery stores and beyond, and about what that looks like now in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2020/03/31/trr-chinese_grocery_workers/

In episode #363 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sharon Fortney. She is the Curator of Indigenous Collections and Engagement at the Museum of Vancouver. She talks about the complicated colonial history of museums and about the Acts of Resistance exhibit, which features the massive banners designed by Indigenous artists and used in an aerial blockade of tanker traffic in the Burrard Inlet to oppose the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline expansion project. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2020/03/24/trr-acts_of_resistance/

In episode #362 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Mayson Fulk. He works in manufacturing in London, Ontario, and is the trans liaison for District 6 of the United Steelworkers. He talks about what unions can do to stand up for transgender workers. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2020/03/17/trr-steel_trans_liaison/

In episode #361 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Vishan Charamis and Maud Nevoret. They are part of a collective that organizes a series of social justice-focused hip-hop workshops and shows in Montreal. They talk about their experiences with hip-hop and with struggles for social change, and about the Rap Battles for Social Justice. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2020/03/10/trr-rap_battles_social_justice/

In episode #360 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Simon Black, an assistant professor of Labour Studies at Brock University in St. Catherines, Ontario, who been active in the anti-poverty and labour movements since he was a teenager. He is also a founder of Labour Agains the Arms Trade. They talk about Canada's involvement in arms production and about Labour Against the Arms Trade's work within the labour movement to oppose the sale of Light Armoured Vehicles to Saudi Arabia. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2020/03/03/trr-labour_against_arms_trade/

In episode #359 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Kari Glynes Elliott, a board member of the Ottawa Transit Riders. They talk about the city's transit system, including its troubled light rail project, and about the group's advocacy to make public transit in Ottawa more affordable, accessible, and reliable. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2020/02/25/trr-ottawa_transit_riders/

In episode #358 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sheena Wilson, a professor of media, communications, and cultural studies at the University of Alberta. They talk about the political implications of energy systems, about Just Powers (an initiative focused on studying questions of climate justice), and about what movements can learn from her work. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2020/02/18/trr-just_powers/

In episode #357 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Dave Bleakney of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. They talk about how CUPW is responding to the climate crisis, and about what the union has previously described as the "dismal failure" of the UN process in Madrid. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2020/02/11/trr-cupw_at_cop/

In episode #356 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Frédérique Chabot and Natalya Mason. They talk about this year's Sexual and Reproductive Health Awareness Week campaign, about comprehensive sexuality education as both a health intervention and a justice intervention, and about the importance of pushing to have comprehensive sex-ed implemented broadly in our schools. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2020/02/04/trr-srhweek_2020/

In episode #355 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Scott Beaver and Chris Hunter. Beaver is the president of the St. Mary's River Association and Hunter is with the Atlantic Salmon Federation, and they talk about the NOPE Campaign -- that stands for No Open Pit Excavation -- against the proposed Cochrane Hill gold mine that would sit right next to the St. Mary's. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2020/01/28/trr-nope_campaign/

In episode #354 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Baj Mukhopadhyay, Mehak Sawhney, and Aadita Chaudhury. They talk about the wave of protests in India against the National Register of Citizens, the Citizenship Amendment Act, and the BJP government, and about the organizing happening in the Indian diaspora in Canada in solidarity with those protests. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2020/01/21/trr-diasporic_organizing/

In episode #353 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Ladna Mohamed, Kaku Kenyi, and Andre Harriott about *Black in Post-Sec*, a new documentary film made by current students and recent graduates that examines the ways that Canadian universities are hostile places for Black students, and the strategies that they use to survive, to thrive, to resist, and to excel. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2020/01/14/trr-black_in_post-sec/ ‎

In episode #352 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Imtiaz Popat. He is a therapeutic counsellor in Vancouver, as well as the co-ordinator of the local chapter of Salaam: Queer Muslim Community and a central participant in the Two-Spirit and LGBT People of Colour Alliance and the Coalition Against Bigotry - Pacific. They talk about Popat's extensive work against oppression and bigotry, and the threads that link it all together. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2020/01/07/trr-anti_bigotry_vancouver/

This is a rebroadcast of episode #335 of Talking Radical Radio, which was originally broadcast in September 2019. In it, Scott Neigh interviews Tiffany Joseph. Her ancestry is of the W̱SÁNEĆ people on her mother's side and the Sḵx̱wu7mesh people on her father's side, and she currently lives in Tsartlip First Nation, a bit north of Victoria on Vancouver Island. She talks about her peoples' history and about her work revitalizing her language and culture, and restoring the land. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/12/31/trr-rebroadcast_tiffany_joseph/

In episode #351 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Doug Hewitt-White, Murray Lumley, and Scott Albrecht. They are board members at the organization Conscience Canada, and they talk about their work to extend the longstanding right to conscientious objection to military service to establish a right to conscientious objection to military taxation. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/12/23/trr-conscience_canada/

In episode #350 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sandra Azocar. She is the executive director of Friends of Medicare, an advocacy organization that for the last four decades has been working to defend, improve, and expand the public health care system in Alberta. They talk about the importance of public health care, about some of that history, and about what Friends of Medicare faces today in an Alberta governed by the United Conservative Party under Jason Kenney. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/12/17/trr-friends_of_medicare/

In episode #349 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Lora McElhinney and Wendy Bariteau of Joint Effort, a four decade-old prison abolitionist group based in the lower mainland of British Columbia that is focused on solidarity work with women in prison. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/12/10/trr-joint_effort/

In episode #348 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Bryce Koch, a registered nurse in Winnipeg and a member of the board of directors of the Harm Reduction Nurses Association. They talk about the many ways that nurses are taking up harm reduction practices in their work, and about the association's advocacy for governmental and institutional policies that support harm reduction and the rights and dignity of people who use drugs. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/12/03/trr-harm_reduction_nurses/ ‎

In episode #347 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Rachel Huot. She is a mom of three kids in the west end of Toronto and a parent organizer with West End Parents for Public Education and the Ontario Parent Action Netowork. They talk about the cuts that the Conservative government under Doug Ford is making to public education in Ontario, about fighting those cuts, and about the importance of solidarity among parents, students, teachers, and other education workers. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/11/26/trr-west_end_parents/

In episode #346 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Burcu Emeç. She is a performance artist and also the outreach and communications coordinator at articule, an artist-run centre in the Mile End neighbourhood of Montreal. They talk about articule's efforts to challenge oppressive systemic disparities through organizational change work within the centre and interventions into the larger arts scene. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/11/19/trr-articule/

In episode #345 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sheila Sampath. She is the editorial and art director of Shameless Magazine, a feminist magazine for teen girls and trans youth. They talk about feminist media, about Shameless, and about the Talking Back Feminist Media Conference. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/11/12/trr-talking_back/

In episode #344 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sakura Saunders and Lisa Cameron. Saunders is on the board of the Halifax Workers Action Centre and Lisa Cameron is on its organizing committee. They talk about the struggles faced by low-wage and precarious workers in the city, and about the work of the Halifax Workers Action Centre and the city's Fight for $15 and Fairness campaign. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/11/05/trr-halifax_workers_centre/

In episode #343 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Jessi Taylor, a spokesperson for the campaign to Save Clinic 554. The clinic is a family medicine practice in New Brunswick that is one of the few places in the province where people can receive abortion services, trans care, and a range of specialized care for other marginalized populations. In early October, clinic staff announced that they would have to close the clinic. Taylor talks about barriers to certain kinds of care in New Brunswick, the crucial role played by Clinic 554, and the campaign to save it. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/10/29/trr-save_clinic_554/

In episode #342 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Joe Curnow and Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land of the group Millennium For All. They talk about the new airport-like security checkpoints at the entrance of the Millennium Library in downtown Winnipeg, about how that relates to what public libraries are supposed to be, and about the community struggle against them. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/10/22/trr-millennium_for_all/

In episode #341 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Alicia-Marie and Faduma of the Ottawa Black Diaspora Coalition. They talk about the coalition's work to bring Ottawa's diverse Black communities together and to oppose anti-Black racism in the city. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/10/15/trr-obdc/ ‎

In episode #340 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Rebecca Keetch and Tiffany Balducci. Keetch has been an autoworker in the General Motors assembly plant in Oshawa, Ontario, since 2006 -- a plant that GM has said they will close by the end of 2019. Balducci is the president of the Durham Region Labour Council. Both are involved in Green Jobs Oshawa, a joint labour-community campaign. They talk about their work to push for the government to take the plant into public hands and re-tool it for environmentally sustainable, socially conscious production. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/10/08/trr-green_jobs_oshawa/

In episode #339 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Karen Cocq of the Migrant Rights Network, a cross-Canada alliance of migrant worker, refugee, and immigrant organizations devoted to fighting against racism and for migrant justice. They talk about racism and xenophobia in Canada, both in general and in the context of the federal election, and about what the network is doing to counter them. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/10/01/trr-migrant_rights_network/

In episode #338 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Maia Wikler. She works for Raven Trust, an organization whose mission is to fundraise to support First Nations in legal battles. They talk about the Pull Together campaign, a collaboration between Raven and the Sierra Club BC to raise money for the litigation by First Nations against the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline expansion project. For a more detailed description, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/09/24/trr-pull_together/

In episode #337 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Alvin Finkel. He is a history professor from Athabasca University and the author of 13 books, most recently Compassion: A Global History of Social Policy. He is also the president of the Alberta Labour History Institute (ALHI), a grassroots organization devoted to preserving and sharing the stories of Alberta's working people and their struggles. They talk about those histories and struggles, and about the work of the ALHI. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/09/17/trr_alberta_labour_history/

In episode #336 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Ramona Neckoway and Stephane McLachlan. Both are academics who do research on the impacts of hydroelectricity projects on the environment and on Indigenous communities, and Neckoway is also a member of Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation, a hydro-impacted community. They talk about Wa Ni Ska Tan, an alliance that brings together people from communities in Manitoba that have been impacted by hydroelectricity projects, as well as their supporters, for both action and research. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/09/10/trr-wa_ni_ska_tan_alliance/

In episode #335 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interview Tiffany Joseph. Her ancestry is of the W̱SÁNEĆ people on her mother's side and the Sḵx̱wu7mesh people on her father's side, and she currently lives in Tsartlip First Nation, a bit north of Victoria on Vancouver Island. She talks about her peoples' history and about her work revitalizing her language and culture, and restoring the land. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/09/03/trr-tiffany_joseph/

In episode #334 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Macdonald Scott, a legal worker specializing in immigration law and an active member of the Movement Defence Committee. The Committee is a collective of lawyers and legal workers that focuses on providing legal support for protesters who face arrest or other unwanted police attention in the course of political action in and around Toronto. Neigh and Scott talk about the relationship between social movements and the legal system and about the work of the Movement Defence Committee. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/08/27/trr-movement_defence_committee/

In this rebroadcast of episode #304 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Cindy Blackstock -- a member of the Gitksan First Nation, a social worker, a professor at McGill University in Montreal, and the executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada. She is also the most visible face of the long-term effort to get the Canadian government to end the ongoing injustice in its treatment of First Nations children. They talk about the pervasive underfunding of public services on reserves today, its connection to the legacy of residential schools, and the many years of work by the Caring Society for the rights of First Nations children. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/08/20/trr-rebroadcast_cindy_blackstock/

In episode #333 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews May Chiu. She is a lawyer and grassroots activist based in Montreal, and one of the founding members of a group called Pour une dignité politique. They talk about the group's work to build an anti-racist and decolonial left in Quebec, as well as Chiu's personal involvement in opposition to the recent racist legislation in the province passed as Bill 21. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/08/13/trr-pour_une_dignite_politique/

In episode #332 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Marissa Vertrees of the Global Catholic Climate Movement (GCCM) and Agnes Richard of the GCCM's Canadian chapter. The movement's mission is to engage Catholics in addressing the climate crisis through spiritual, liturgical, lifestyle, and institutional change, and through engagement in advocacy for broader social and policy change. They talk about faith and climate action, and about what their movement is doing both globally and in Canada. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/08/06/trr-catholic_climate_movement/ ‎

In episode #331 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Kate Curtis. She is a high school teacher and a co-founder of the End Dress Codes Collective. They talk about how dress codes result in barriers and discrimination for some students, and about the recent policy victory at the Toronto District School Board that happened thanks to the work of the collective and many others. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/07/30/trr-end_dress_codes/

In episode #330 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Laura Cuthbert. She is an organizer with a keen interest in history, and she runs Populous Map, a grassroots project that aims to preserve and share marginalized histories from communities large and small across British Columbia, in ways that respect autonomy, privacy, and reciprocity. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/07/23/trr-populous_map/

In episode #329 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Marty Wexler and Claire McNeil of the Disability Rights Coalition of Nova Scotia. They talk about the ongoing institutionalization of people with disabilities in Nova Scotia and about the coalition's two decades of work to end the practice and to push the provincial government to provide the supports that people with disabilities need to live as full members of their communities. For a longer description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/07/16/trr-disability_rights_ns/

In episode #328 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews long-time activist and musician Rama DelaRosa. She is the director of the Resistance Rising Choir in Victoria BC. They talk about music, about movements, and about what Resistance Rising brings to struggles for social and environmental justice. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/07/09/trr-resistance_rising_choir/

In episode #327 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Emma Lim and Rebecca Hamilton. Lim, 18, is a high school student in London, Ontario. Hamilton, 17, is also a high school student, and she's based in Vancouver, BC. They are both organizers with Climate Strike Canada, and they talk about what they are doing to build the Canadian wing of the international movement of young people periodically striking from school to demand meaningful action on the climate crisis. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/07/02/trr-climate_strike/

In episode #326 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Kaeden Seburn and Jay Burns. Seburn is a Bachelor of Social Work student at Carleton University and a community organizer and advocate. Burns is a high school student currently finishing Grade 12. Both are active members of SAEFTY Ottawa, a group run by and for trans and gender-diverse youth in Ottawa. They talk about the group and about its use of research and advocacy to challenge barriers that youth face in accessing gender-affirming health care. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/06/25/trr-saefty_ottawa/

In episode #325, Scott Neigh interviews Baj Mukhopadhyay, Bilal Mamdani, Alas Mata. Mukhopadhyay is a physician, Mamdani is a medical student, and Mata is an emergency medical technician, and all three ground their politics in struggles for collective liberation. They talk about the Liberation Health Convergence, a five day gathering of radical health workers that took place recently in Toronto. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/06/18/trr-liberation_health_convergence/

In episode #324 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Garth Mullins, an activist and organizer who has been part of many different movements, a freelance journalist, and an award-winning broadcaster. Mullins has also been a drug user for most of his adult life – primarily heroin in his younger years and methadone today – and he is currently a drug user activist. They talk about the drug war in Canada, about drug user organizing, and about Mullins' new podcast on these issues, Crackdown. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/06/11/trr-crackdown/

In episode #323 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Lynn Gehl, an Algonquin Anishinaabe-kwe, an advocate, and a writer based in Peterborough, Ontario. They talk about the long history of struggle by Indigenous women against sex discrimination in the federal Indian Act, and the current "6(1)(a) All The Way" campaign putting pressure on the Trudeau government to remove the last elements of sex discrimination from the act. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/06/04/trr-61a_all_the_way/ ‎

In episode #322 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Hana Shafi, also known as Frizz Kid. She is an artist, a poet, a freelance writer, and a feminist. Her first book is *It Begins With The Body* (Book*Hug Press, 2018), which features her poetry and illustrations. Neigh and Shafi talk about her work and about her politics. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/05/28/trr-frizz_kid/

In episode #321 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Jacky Tuinstra Harrison and Barry Rooke. Tuinstra Harrison is the general manager of CJRU 1280 AM, also called The Scope, a relatively new campus radio station affiliated with Ryerson University in Toronto. Rooke is the executive director of the National Campus and Community Radio Association. They talk about the Ontario government's attack on campus radio, which is one facet of its broader attack on student organizations, and about the #DefendCampusRadio campaign being mounted by broadcasters and activists in response. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/05/21/trr-defend_campus_radio/

In episode #320 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Hirut Melaku and Rachel Zellers of the Third Eye Collective, a group of Black women based in Montreal focused on developing transformative justice approaches for responding to sexual and gendered violence. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/05/14/trr-third_eye_collective/

In episode #319 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Jill Graham-Scanlan. She is the president of the Friends of the Northumberland Strait, and she talks about their work to oppose a plan that would see effluent from the Northern Pulp mill piped into the strait, putting ecosystems, fisheries, and communities at risk. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/05/07/trr-northumberland_strait/

In episode #318 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Rowan Moyes of Bar None Winnipeg. They talk about Bar None's prison rideshare project, about prison abolitionist politics more generally, and about the other ways that Bar None and its members are working towards a world without prisons. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/04/30/trr-bar_none_winnipeg/

In episode #317 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Carol Martin (Nisga'a) and Sophie Merasty (Denesuline and Woodland Cree). Both have been part of the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood in Vancouver for almost 30 years, and both were involved in producing *Red Women Rising*, a new publication in which Indigenous women in what has been called the "ground zero for violence against Indigenous women" come together to talk about injustice, survival, leadership, and the changes that must happen to end violence against Indigenous women and girls. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/04/23/trr-red_women_rising/

In episode #316 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Frances Ravensbergen. She is a resident of a small Quebec town close to Roxham Road, the most frequently used point for refugees wanting to cross the border irregularly from the US into Canada. She is also a member of Bridges Not Borders, a migrant justice group that residents of that town founded to support the increased number of refugees making the crossing since the election of Donald Trump. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/04/16/trr-bridges_not_borders/

In episode #315 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Peter Gibbs, a co-director of Organize BC. They talk about Organize BC's use of training, coaching, and community-building to build the skills of organizers working for social and environmental justice in western Canada. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/04/09/trr-organize_bc/ ‎

In episode #314 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Alyse Stuart and Keith Dunne. They are active with the Fight for $15 and Fairness – Newfoundland and Labrador, and they speak about how that campaign is fighting to increase one of the lowest minimum wages in Canada to $15/hour. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/04/02/trr-newfoundland_minimum_wage/

In episode #313 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Estelle Davis. She is one of the co-founders of Taking What We Need, a solidarity fund created by and for trans women in Montreal. They talk about the limits of the politics of visibility, about the barriers that trans women face, and about the solidarity fund. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/03/26/trr-taking_what_we_need/

In episode #312 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Vancouver-based musician and artist David Lester. He is musically best known as half of rock duo Mecca Normal, while graphically he has for decades created everything from leaflets to posters to graphic novels. They talk about the power of combining radical politics with art and music and about Lester's latest book, 1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike (Between the Lines, 2019), created in collaboration with the Graphic History Collective. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/03/19/trr-david_lester/

In episode #311 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interview Tammy Mast and Kenneth Aliu of the Herongate Tenant Coalition. They talk about the coalition's fight against mass evictions, chronic disrepair, rent increases, and gentrification in an Ottawa neighbourhood containing one of the largest clusters in the country of rental housing owned by a single private sector landlord. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/03/12/trr-herongate_tenants/

In episode #310 of Talking Radical Radio (March 5, 2019), Scott Neigh interviews Kathy Dawson, who is a board member of the Alberta Pro-Choice Coalition. She talks about the major threats to sexual and reproductive rights in Alberta today and about the work of the Coalition to defend them. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/03/05/trr-alberta_pro-choice/

In episode #309 of Talking Radical Radio (February 26, 2019), Scott Neigh interviews former firefighter Liane Tessier and retired business professor Judy Haiven. They talk about the landmark human rights case related to workplace harassment and gender discrimination that Tessier fought, and about the work of Equity Watch -- a grassroots group based in Halifax that the two co-founded that aims to fight bullying, harassment, and discrimination in workplaces by supporting individuals and pushing for systemic change. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/02/26/trr-equity_watch/ ‎

In episode #308 of Talking Radical Radio (February 19, 2019), Scott Neigh interviews John Clarke, an organizer with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) from its founding in 1990 until his retirement in late January. They talk about Clarke's long involvement in radical grassroots politics, particularly in OCAP, and about the challenges that social movements face today. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/02/19/trr-john_clarke/

In episode #307 of Talking Radical Radio (February 12, 2019), Scott Neigh interviews Mike Reynolds of Everyday Girl Dad and Frédérique Chabot of Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights about this year's Sexual and Reproductive Health Awareness Week. The campaign's theme is "sexual health at all ages," and they talk about sex-positive parenting and its connection to gender, sexual, and social justice. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/02/12/trr-sex_positive_parenting/

In episode #306 of Talking Radical Radio (February 5, 2019), Scott Neigh interviews pediatric emergency physician and long-time grassroots activist Samir Shaheen-Hussain. They talk about the #aHand2Hold campaign, which won a victory against medical colonialism in Quebec in 2018. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/02/05/trr-hand_to_hold/

In episode #305 of Talking Radical Radio (January 29, 2019), Scott Neigh interviews community activist LaMeia Reddick and scholar Ted Rutland. They talk about the long histories of anti-Black racism in the policies and practices that have built the greater Halifax area and the equally long histories of survival and resistance by Black communities there, and about what those histories mean for today and for the future. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/01/29/trr-building_halifax/

In episode #304 of Talking Radical Radio (January 22, 2019), Scott Neigh interviews Cindy Blackstock -- a member of the Gitksan First Nation, a social worker, a professor at McGill University in Montreal, and the executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada. She is also the most visible face of the long-term effort to get the Canadian government to end the ongoing injustice in its treatment of First Nations children. They talk about the pervasive underfunding of public services on reserves today, its connection to the legacy of residential schools, and the many years of work by the Caring Society for the rights of First Nations children. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/01/22/trr-fn_caring_society/

In episode #303 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Natalie Drolet. She is the executive director of the Migrant Workers' Centre BC (MWC), a non-profit organization that provides free legal assistance to migrant workers in British Columbia, and engages in public legal education and policy advocacy. They talk about the work of the MWC to challenge the injustices that migrant workers in Canada face under current immigration and labour policies. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/01/15/trr-migrant_workers_centre_bc/

In episode #302 of Talking Radical Radio (January 8, 2019), Scott Neigh interviews Geraldine McManus. She is a Two-Spirit Dakota woman of the Bear Clan who is the driving force behind the Spirit of the Buffalo Camp, a prayer camp in rural Manitoba in opposition to Enbridge's Line 3 tar sands pipeline. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/01/08/trr-spirit_of_the_buffalo/

In episode #301 of Talking Radical Radio (January 1, 2019), Scott Neigh interviews Alison Clancey and Jessi Taylor of SWAN Vancouver, a sex worker support organization based among migrant and immigrant women who do indoor sex work. They talk about the organization, its advocacy work, and its efforts to create spaces for migrant and immigrant sex workers to tell their own stories about their lives. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/01/02/trr-swan_vancouver/

This is a rebroadcast of episode #279 of Talking Radical Radio (originally broadcast on July 17, 2018). In it, Scott Neigh interviews El Jones, a poet, educator, and organizer based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and that city's former poet laureate. She is deeply involved in working for justice for prisoners through a combined prisoner-led radio show and community organization called Black Power Hour. They talk about the fight against the injustices of policing and prisons, and about the importance of not just speaking out on issues but of getting involved in collective efforts to make radical change on the ground. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/12/25/trr-rebroadcast_jones_pj/ ‎

In episode #300 of Talking Radical Radio (December 18, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Marilyn Keddy and Peter Puxley. They are long-time activists who are currently involved in the Campaign to Protect Offshore Nova Scotia. They talk about CPONS' work to defend the province's fisheries and communities from the dangers of offshore oil and gas development, and about the importance of holding a full public inquiry into the potential impacts of such development. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/12/18/trr_campaign_to_protect_offshore_ns/

In episode #299 of Talking Radical Radio (December 11, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Tim McSorley, a former co-ordinator of the Voices-Voix coalition and a current member of its strategy group. They talk about the work of Voices to monitor and document the ways in which space for democratic dissent, debate, advocacy, meaningful participation, and protest has been systematically eroded, initially under the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, but more recently under Justin Trudeau's Liberals as well. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/12/11/trr-voices-voix/ ‎

In episode #298 of Talking Radical Radio (December 4, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Terri Monture, a Mohawk woman from Six Nations of the Grand River who lives in Toronto. They talk about Indigenous Land Defence Across Borders, a project that is working from an Indigenous feminist perspective to engage in solidarity exchanges in which Indigenous people from North America and Palestinians visit each other's territories, learn about each other's struggles, and build relationships. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/12/04/trr-ildab/

In episode #297 of Talking Radical Radio (November 27, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Alana Cattapan. She is an assistant professor of public policy at the University of Saskatchewan, and she is part of the organizing committee of Rise Up!, a digital archive of feminist activism in Canada between the 1970s and the 1990s. They talk about the importance of preserving social movement histories, about remembering Canadian feminist struggles, and about the work of Rise Up! For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/11/27/trr-rise_up_feminist_archive/

In episode #296 of Talking Radical Radio (November 20, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Julius Arscott -- a public sector worker and an active member of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, currently serving as a member for the Toronto region on its executive board. Arscott is also a co-founder of the Workers Action Movement (WAM), which brings rank and file militants from different unions together to push for changes in direction in the movement. Neigh and Arscott speak about grassroots left politics in the labour movement and about the activities of WAM. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/11/20/trr-workers_action_movement/ ‎

In episode #295 of Talking Radical Radio (November 13, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Isabelle Leblanc. She is a family physician in Montreal and the president of Médecins québécois pour le régime public (MQRP), which translates to Quebec Doctors for Medicare. They talk about the importance of the public health care system and about the work of MQRP to defend and improve it. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/11/13/trr-mqrp/

In episode #294 of Talking Radical Radio (November 6, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Shira Taylor and Lauren Chang. Taylor is a graduate student in public health at University of Toronto, and the creator and director of Sex Education by Theatre (SExT). Lauren Chang is a cast member of SExT, and she sometimes raps under the name "Ms. G." They talk about their approach to sex ed, about theatre for social change, and about the ongoing work of SExT. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/11/06/trr-theatrical_sex_ed/

In episode #293 of Talking Radical Radio (October 30, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews long-time community organizer, independent journalist, and hockey fan Aaron Lakoff. They talk about Lakoff's new podcast, Changing On The Fly, which explores the intersections of hockey and social justice. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/10/30/trr-hockey_and_social_justice/

In episode #292 of Talking Radical Radio (October 23, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Luke Stewart. Back in 2010, Stewart was one of the many grassroots activists and organizers who took to the streets of Toronto in opposition to the G8 and G20 meetings being hosted that year by Canada. He was also one of the many people who directly experienced the now infamously bad behaviour on the part of the police during the protests. Neigh and Stewart talk about the summit protests and about Stewart's ongoing lawsuit against the police, which he says is one measure among the many we must take to hold them accountable. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/10/23/trr-g20_lawsuit/

In episode #291 of Talking Radical Radio (October 16, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Dan Scratch and Renee Vaugeois. Scratch is a high school teacher in Edmonton with over a decade of experience of incorporating concern for social justice and human rights into his teaching practice. Vaugeois is the executive director of the John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights. They talk about the RAD Educator Network, a new Alberta-based network of classroom teachers and other educators who are committed to social justice. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/10/16/trr-rad_network_alberta/ ‎

In episode #290 of Talking Radical Radio (October 9, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Patty Krawec and Karl Dockstader. Krawec is an Anishinaabe woman with roots in Lac Seul First Nation in northern Ontario. Dockstader is an Oneida man of the Bear Clan, and his family is from the Oneida Nation of the Thames. Both grew up and live in the Niagara Region of southern Ontario. They talk about the many shapes that grassroots work can take in urban Indigenous contexts, and particularly about the many ways that they themselves have been involved in Niagara. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/10/09/trr-niagara_indigenous/

In episode #289 of Talking Radical Radio (October 2, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Robyn Maynard. She 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 Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present* (Fernwood Publishing, 2017), she has been doing launch events and speaking engagements in communities across the country. Maynard talks about the book, and about what she has learned via conversation with activists and organizers in the course of her touring about the book's uptake in movement contexts and about the state of Black struggles in Canada today. For a more detailed description of this episode, see here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/10/02/trr-policing_black_lives/

In episode #288 of Talking Radical Radio (September 25, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews long-time organizers Amanda Wilson and Dan Sawyer of the Punch Up Collective. In recent years, Wilson and Sawyer have found that many people they talk to want ways to get together with others to work for social change, but in our disconnected, fragmented, neoliberal age have few options to do so. They believe that one possibility that could work for almost anyone is to get together with a handful of other people with whom you share political values and priorities, and form a *collective*. They talk about collectives in general, about Punch Up in particular, and about their work to support other people in forming collectives of their own. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/09/25/trr-cultivating_collectives/

In episode #287 of Talking Radical Radio (September 18, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Indygo Arscott. Arscott is a grade eleven student attending an arts-focused high school in Toronto. They are gender nonbinary. They are Ojibwe, of the Marten Clan. And they are one of the instigators of the We The Students Do Not Consent day of action, happening on September 21st (or, for those for whom that is a PA day, on September 20th). On that day, students from schools across the province are invited to walk out of class or to take some other action, as they are able, to show their opposition to the new Ontario Conservative government's attacks on Indigenous-focused curriculum, on health curriculum that deals with sexual education, and on classrooms more generally. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/09/18/trr-ontario_school_walkout/ ‎

In episode #286 of Talking Radical Radio (September 11, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Farrah Khan and Shannon Giannitsopoulou. They are Toronto-based feminists and co-founders of the grassroots organization Femifesto. They talk about Femifesto's work to transform rape culture to consent culture, particularly Use the Right Words: Media Reporting on Sexual Violence in Canada, a free guide for journalists that provides language and frameworks to report on sexual violence in ways that do not normalize it and that do not shame and blame survivors. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/09/11/trr-femifesto/

In episode #285 of Talking Radical Radio (September 4, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Annelies Cooper, Gita Madan, Craig Fortier, and Robyn Letson. All of them are involved, in one way or another, in grassroots activism and organizing, and they all also play softball in a league that seeks to bring the values of movements fighting for justice and liberation to the world of recreational sports. They talk about the barriers and problems faced by many people in mainstream recreational sports cultures, about why grassroots movements should pay more attention to sports, and about the radical vision of the Field of Dreamers Cooperative Softball Association. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/09/04/trr-field_of_dreamers/

In episode #284 of Talking Radical Radio (August 28, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Evan Balgord, the executive director of a new organization called the Canadian Anti-Hate Network. They engage in investigative journalism focused on white supremacist, white nationalist, far right, violently misogynist, anti-Muslim, or otherwise overtly hateful groups. They aim to supply information in a strategic way to anti-racist community groups, media, and law enforcement as part of multi-pronged campaigns to shut hate groups down. Neigh and Balgord speak about the current landscape of far-right hate groups in Canada and about the work of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/08/28/trr-canadian_anti_hate_network/

In episode #283 of Talking Radical Radio (August 21, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Amara Possian and Jodie Tonita. Both of them 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 in contributing to movements in ways that are a step or two back from the frontlines and instead focus more on strategic thinking, long-term work, and the infrastructure necessary to build the collective power it will take to win. They talk about their movement building work, about leadership in movement contexts, and – despite the important differences between the two countries – about what movements in Canada can learn from what's happening in the United States. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/08/21/trr-learning_from_us/

This week's episode of Talking Radical Radio is a re-broadcast of episode #257, which was originally broadcast in February 2018. In it, Scott Neigh speaks with Joyce Fossella and Val Joseph. Fossella is from the Lillooet Nation. 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 in Indigenous cultures and in the context of the ongoing reality of colonial violence and trauma from the broader society that impacts Indigenous people. They talk about their experiences, about the connections between interpersonal gendered violence and legacies of colonial violence, and about the work of the Warriors Against Violence Society. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/08/14/trr-rebroadcast_warrrios_a_v/

In episode #282 of Talking Radical Radio (August 7, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Ralph Jean-Paul of Winnipeg and Travis Ross of Montreal about the Canada-Haiti Information Project, founded almost a decade and a half ago as the Canada-Haiti Action Network. They talk about events in Haiti, about Canada's complicity in injustice there, and about the past and present of action in Canada in solidarity with popular struggles in Haiti. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/08/07/trr-canada_haiti_info_project/

In episode #281 of Talking Radical Radio (July 31, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews filmmaker and community activist Kai Reimer-Watts. Reimer-Watts' first feature-length documentary is *Beyond Crisis*, "a meditative call to action that explores what it means to be living in this new era of climate change, as told by over fifty diverse voices from across Canada, the U.S. and beyond." They talk about climate change, about the film, and about building the kinds of collective responses to climate change that the world needs. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/07/31/trr-beyond_crisis/

In episode #280 of Talking Radical Radio (July 24, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Dave Gehl and Ed Lehman, members of the Regina Peace Council. Over their decades of involvement in issues of war and peace, they have seen the peace movement grow and shrink multiple times. They believe that the world needs a large and vigorous peace movement now more than ever, and they are doing what they can in Saskatchewan to try and revive it. Scott Neigh interviews them about the Regina Peace Council and about its ongoing work for peace. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/07/24/trr-regina_peace_billboard/

In episode #279 of Talking Radical Radio (July 17, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews El Jones. She is a poet, educator, and organizer based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and is that city's former poet laureate. She is deeply involved in working for justice for prisoners through a combined prisoner-led radio show and community organization called Black Power Hour. They talk about the fight against the injustices of policing and prisons, and about the importance of not just speaking out on issues but of getting involved in collective efforts to make radical change on the ground. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/07/17/trr-jones_prisoner_justice/

In episode #278 of Talking Radical Radio (July 10, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Kym Hines, Hugh Lampkin, and Cynthia Travers. They are all social justice activists with lived experience of homelessness, who live in Victoria, Vancouver, and Kamloops, British Columbia, respectively. They talk about the Poor Persons Walk, an action taking place in a number of British Columbia communities later in July. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/07/10/trr-poor_persons_walk/

In episode #277 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Bonnie Brayton. She is the executive of the DisAbled Women's Network Canada, the country's only national advocacy organization focused on the needs and rights of women with disabilities. She talks about the issues that disabled women and girls face and about DAWN Canada's work. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/07/03/trr-disabled_womens_network/

In episode #276 of Talking Radical Radio (June 26, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Cathy Crowe, who was worked for decades as a street nurse in Toronto. Not only has she delivered community-based primary health care to homeless and poor people over that time, but has also been involved in a wide range of activism, organizing, and advocacy around homelessness, poverty, and housing. They talk about that long history of involvement, about what she describes as the "post-apocalyptic scene" that resulted the last time Ontario elected a hard-right government, and about her initial thoughts on what it means for the province and for those of us concerned about social justice to be facing a new era with Doug Ford and the Conservatives in power. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/06/26/trr-cathy_crowe/

In episode #275 of Talking Radical Radio (June 19, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Behc Jax-Lynx and Cara Tierney. They work with a small organization called Building through Education and Community Knowledge, which uses educational approaches to push organizations in rural and suburban Ontario to do better when it comes to equity for transgender and gender-diverse people. They speak about the barriers that trans and gender-diverse people face, about their work, and about their broader vision for the kinds of social change that they are working towards. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/06/19/trr-trans_education/

In episode #274 of Talking Radical Radio (June 12, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Sadie Epstein-Fine and Makeda Zook, the editors of a new anthology called Spawning Generations: Rants and Reflections on Growing Up with LGBTQ+ Parents. They talk about the importance of queerspawn (i.e. people with LGBTQ+ parents) having the space to tell their own stories, about the book, and about its launch on June 18 at Glad Day Books in Toronto. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/06/12/trr-queerspawn_anthology/

In episode #273 of Talking Radical Radio (June 5, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews David McDonald, an academic whose work has focused on issues related to public services and privatization. They talk about his role as a co-organizer of The Future is Public, a conference happening in Montreal on June 15 and 16 that will bring together more than 150 activists, trade unionists, and researchers from across North America to discuss struggles and successes from around the world and to begin figuring out what it might mean to articulate a vision for public services that is not just anti-privatization but one that is resolutely pro-public when it comes to things like water, health care, education, energy, transportation, and all the rest. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/06/05/trr-future_is_public/

In episode #272 of Talking Radical Radio (May 29, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Taylor MacLean and Darius Mirshahi. MacLean is a cleaning worker in Halifax. Mirshahi is an organizer with SEIU Local 2 in the same city, in particular with their Justice for Janitors campaign. They talk about anti-Black racism in the workplace, about precarious work, about an injustice faced by MacLean and a number of other Black cleaning workers, and about the human rights complaint and community campaign that the workers and their supporters have mounted in response. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/05/29/trr-halifax_janitors/

In episode #271 of Talking Radical Radio (May 22, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Wendy Goldsmith and Ron Rosseau. Goldsmith is a social worker who lives in London, Ontario. Rousseau is a postal worker in the Yukon, as well as the president of his local of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers and the Vice President for Indigenous peoples of the Canadian Labour Congress. They speak about their involvement in this year's efforts by the Canada Boat to Gaza and its international counterpart, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, to break the Israeli siege of Gaza. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/05/22/trr-canada_boat_to_gaza_2018/

In episode #270 of Talking Radical Radio (May 15, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Mohammad Ali, the Socialist Vocalist. Ali is a hip hop artist based in Toronto known for his sharp political lyrics and for his deep commitment to struggles for social justice. They speak about Ali's music, about his involvement in activism and organizing, and about the ways that social movements in Canada need to do a better job at engaging with and supporting the arts. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/05/15/trr-socialist_hiphop/

In episode #269 of Talking Radical Radio (May 8, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Erinn Atwater and Dan Ballard. They are two of the three founders 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 an approach that centres the needs of people who are marginalized in a variety of ways. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/05/08/trr-open_privacy/

In episode #268 of Talking Radical Radio (May 1, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Shazma Abdulla and Vijay Kolinjivadi. They are members of a Montreal-based collective called Garam Masala -- an acronym short for Groupe d'action révolutionnaire sud-Asiatique de Montréal and Montreal Alliance of South Asian Leftists and Allies. They speak about the group and about its grassroots political work in Montreal, particularly in the context of the city's South Asian communities. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/05/01/trr-garam_masala/

In episode #267 of Talking Radical Radio (April 24, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Sandi Mowat, the president of the Manitoba Union of Nurses. The current government in the province is committed to transforming the delivery of healthcare, but the experiences of MNU members show that the changes to the system so far have not been good for patients, have not been good for nurses, and have not been good for the quality of patient care. In response, nurses in Manitoba are taking a number of approaches to stand up for patient care and to oppose the cuts. Scott and Sandi talk about the MNU, about the current political moment and what it means for healthcare in Manitoba, and about what nurses are doing in response – including the rally they will be holding outside the provincial legislature in Winnipeg on May 2. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/04/24/trr-manitoba_nurses/

In episode #266 of Talking Radical Radio (April 17, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Prescott Demas, a Dakota man, originally from Chanupa Wakpa and currently living in Regina. He was one of a number of Indigenous people and allies who, in the wake of the acquittals of Gerald Stanley and Raymond Cormier in February, set up the Justice for Our Stolen Children Camp in a park across from the Saskatchewan legislature. They talk about the verdicts, about the camp, and about what needs to happen for us to truly begin moving towards justice. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/04/17/trr-justice_for_stolen_children/ ‎

In episode #265 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Lucas LaRochelle, an online project that is attempting to explore what queer space means and what queering space can look like. Scott Neigh interviews them about the site, about the recent instance of it being hacked by a Trump supporter, and about the radical queer vision that underlies the project. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/04/10/trr-queering_the_map/

In episode #264 of Talking Radical Radio (April 3, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Sheila Murray, Beatrice Ekoko, Lidia Ferreira, and Michelle Sullivan. They work with the Lighthouse Project, a pilot that aims to develop new approaches for building resilience in a number of Ontario communities in the face of the growing spectrum of threats presented by climate change. They talk about those threats, about what exactly resilience might look like, and about the different approaches they are using to get there. For a more detailed description of this episode go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/04/03/trr-lighthouse_project/

In episode #263 of Talking Radical Radio (March 27, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Julie Lalonde, a long-time women's rights advocate and public educator whose work focuses on sexual and gendered violence. Two years ago, when a man she had been in a relationship with for a couple of years more than a decade before unexpectedly passed away, she was finally able to reveal that he had been stalking her that entire time. She talks about her work since then to bring stalking into broader conversations about gendered violence, in part through incorporating it more fully into her public education work, and in part through founding a new project specifically focused on stalking called Outside of the Shadows. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/03/27/trr-outside_of_the_shadows/

In episode #262 of Talking Radical Radio (March 20, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Dorene Bernard and Rebecca Moore. Dorene is a Mi'kmaq woman of the Otter Clan from Sipekne'katik First Nation and a residential school survivor, and she describes herself as a grassroots grandmother, a water walker, and a water protector. Rebecca Moore is a Mi'kmaq woman from Pictou Landing First Nation and a water protector. They talk about the treaty camp and other grassroots Mi'kmaq resistance that is blocking the Alton Natural Gas Storage project, a key piece of fossil fuel infrastructure in Nova Scotia that would help pave the way for the re-introduction of fracking in the province. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/03/20/trr-alton_gas_resistance/

Episode #261 of Talking Radical Radio (March 13, 2018) features an interview with Trudy Govier, who has been a peace activist in Calgary, Alberta, since the early 1980s. She was one of the founders in 1982 of the group known now as the Ploughshares Calgary Society, and today she is still involved. She talks with Scott Neigh about how the world and peace activism have changed in the last three and a half decades, and about the ways in which the Ploughshares Calgary Society is still patiently and persistently working towards a more just and peaceful world. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/03/13/trr-ploughshares_calgary/

In episode #260 of Talking Radical Radio (March 6, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Alison Fisher and Melanie Carrington. Alison is a teacher in the Toronto District School Board. Melanie is a social worker and the mother of a son who is currently in elementary school in Toronto. Both are also graduate students and members of Education Not Incarceration. They speak about the successful campaign waged by ENI and other groups to end the School Resource Officer (SRO) Program and get armed, uniformed police officers out of Toronto's public schools. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/03/06/trr-education_not_incarceration/

In episode #259 of Talking Radical Radio (February 27, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Gretchen Fitzgerald and John Davis. Gretchen is the national program director for the Sierra Club Canada Foundation. John is the director of the Clean Ocean Action Committee, a consortium of organizations based in the east coast fishing industry. Both are part of the Offshore Alliance, a coalition working to oppose regulatory changes that they argue would put the marine environment and the fishery at risk and would give too much power to fossil fuel industries in shaping when, where, and how offshore oil and gas projects proceed. For a more detailed description of this episode, see here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/02/27/trr-offshore_alliance/

In episode #258 of Talking Radical Radio (February 20, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Nathalie Chalifour and Angela Lee. They are scholars in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa whose work focuses on exploring how the law can be used to advance the cause of environmental justice in the Canadian context. They talk about that work, including some of its specific relevance to climate change and to the food system, and about some of the ways that legal work and scholarly work can be mobilized in support of frontline communities impacted by environmental injustice. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/02/20/trr-environmental_justice_and_law/

In episode #257 of Talking Radical Radio (February 13, 2018), Scott Neigh speaks with Joyce Fossella and Val Joseph. Fossella is from the Lillooet Nation. 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 in Indigenous cultures and in the context of the ongoing reality of colonial violence and trauma from the broader society that impacts Indigenous people. They talk about their experiences, about the connections between interpersonal gendered violence and legacies of colonial violence, and about the work of the Warriors Against Violence Society. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/02/13/trr-warriors_against_violence/

In episode #256 of Talking Radical Radio (February 6, 2018), Scott Neigh speaks with Ashling Ligate and Frédérique Chabot. Ligate is a registered nurse in an acute care unit of a psychiatric hospital and Chabot is the director of health promotion for Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights. They speak about the intersections of sexual health and mental health, about the "Mind Your 'Business'" Sexual and Reproductive Health Week campaign, and about the ways in which working with frontline health care providers can help to reduce some of the systemic barriers that stand between a range of marignalized people and just health outcomes. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/02/06/trr-sexual_and_mental_health/

In episode #255 of Talking Radical Radio (January 30, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Pam Frache. She is the Ontario coordinator of the Fight for $15 and Fairness campaign. They won major victories around minimum wage increases and reforms to labour law in 2017. And this year, with a provincial election looming, they are facing a major backlash from big business. Frache talks about the overall trajectory of the campaign, about the backlash, and about fighting to defend what they won last year. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/01/30/trr-defending_minimum_wage/

In episode #254 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 their work on its Ecojustice Committee, which aims to bring anti-capitalists and environmentalists together, and to create a space for people to engage in analysis and action that works towards building an anti-capitalist, anti-colonial environmentalism. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/01/23/trr-solhal_ecojustice/

In episode #253 of Talking Radical Radio (January 16, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews James Fauvelle and Mohammad Ali Aumeer. They are both students at community colleges in Ontario. During the five-week strike by college faculty in late 2017, they got involved in organizing student solidarity with the strikers. And from that work they and other students have founded a new grassroots organization that aims to mobilize students for equitable, accessible education and more demoratic and accountable campuses: Ontario Students United. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/01/16/trr-ontario_students_united/

In episode #252 of Talking Radical Radio (January 9, 2017), Scott Neigh interviews Kell Gerlings and Neil Vokey about the work of the Vancouver Tenants Union. Kell is an organizer with an anti-poverty group called Raise the Rates and is a member of the steering committee of the Vancouver Tenants Union, while Neil is an independent filmmaker and one of the founding members of the group. They talk about the harsh realities facing tenants in Vancouver and about what the tenants union is doing to fight back. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/01/09/trr-vancouver_tenants_union/

In episode #251 of Talking Radical Radio (January 2, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Clayton Windatt. He is, in his own words, a "Metis non-status Indian," and he lives in Sturgeon Falls in northern Ontario. He is the executive director of an organization called the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective (ACC). Their members are Indigenous curators and artists – generally those whose focus is contemporary art – from across Canada, and to an extent in the United States, and their mandate is both to support Indigenous curators and artists and to advocate for decolonial change within institutions and in the broader policy environment in the arts sector. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/01/02/trr-acc/

This week's episode of Talking Radical Radio ends the year with a rebroadcast of an episode originally broadcast in July 2017. It offers a behind-the-scenes look at the bold Reoccupation that went to the very heart of the Canadian settler colonial project -- Parliament Hill itself -- and used ceremony to challenge and unsettle Canada's 150th anniversary celebrations. Freddy Stoneypoint, Summer-Harmony Twenish, Trycia Bazinet, Hamda Deria, and Elsa Hoover were among the organizers of and participants in the Reoccupation ceremony, and they talk about their experiences on the Hill and their understanding of the ongoing work of unsettling Canada. For a more detailed description of this episode, see here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/12/26/trr-rebroadcast_canada_150/

In episode #250 of Talking Radical Radio (December 19, 2017), Scott Neigh interviews Karen Ahmed and Zamir Khan. Each of them has a child whose name is identical to a name that appears on Canada's no-fly list, and who therefore face hassles and stigmatizing scrutiny every time they fly. Karen and Zamir are also core members of the group No Fly List Kids, which is pushing the government to make the changes necessary to stop the no-fly list system from unjustly interfering in so many lives. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/12/19/trr-no_fly_list_kids/

In episode #249 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Samantha from the organization Courage. In recent years, the combining of movement and party politics have had a profound impact on the electoral landscapes in the US and the UK, and Courage is working to similarly push mainstream party politics to the left in Canada. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/12/12/trr-courage/

In episode #248 of Talking Radical Radio (December 5, 2017), Scott Neigh interviews Jade Cooligan Pang. She is an undergraduate student taking Political Science and Human Rights at Carleton University in Ottawa, and she is one of the central organizers of Our Turn, a new national student-based initiative to work against sexual violence on college and university campuses. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/12/05/trr-our_turn/

In episode #247 of Talking Radical Radio (November 28, 2017), Scott Neigh interviews Jasmine Thomas. She was a core participant in the Rooster Town Blockade at the Parker Wetlands in Winnipeg this past summer, which for two months successfully defended an ecologically sensitive site in the south end of the city from development. Though the occupation ended in September, the group continues to pursue both legal and political means to stop the development, while also fundraising to cover the costs of defending themselves against a lawsuit for more than half a million dollars in damages launched by the developer. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/11/28/trr-rooster_town_blockade/

In episode #246 of Talking Radical Radio (November 21, 2017), Scott Neigh interviews Helen and Bill. Helen is a long-time anti-authoritarian organizer and a member of the collective that produces the Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar. Bill is a migrant justice organizer with the group Solidarity Across Borders. Both are based in Montreal. They talk about the 2018 Certain Days calendar's theme of "Awakening Resistance" and about what a range of movements in Canada can learn about doing so in the era of Donald Trump from movements in the US, from movement elders, and from political prisoners. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/11/21/trr-certain_days_2018/

In episode #245 of Talking Radical Radio (November 14, 2017), Scott Neigh interviews Navjeet Sidhu and Scott MacDonald. They are board members of the Canadian Labour International Film Festival, an event that brings films about work, workers, and working-class struggle to cities and towns across the country every November. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/11/14/trr-labour_filmfest/

In episode #244 of Talking Radical Radio (November 7, 2017), 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 protectors in Labrador who oppose the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric dam project. For a more detailed description of the episode, see here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/11/07/trr-ontario_muskrat_solidarity/ ‎

In epoisode #243 of Talking Radical Radio (October 31, 2017), Scott Neigh interviews Sang-Hun Mun and Hannah Alexander. They are members of Injured Workers Action for Justice, a group of injured workers who are pushing to change the workers' compensation system in Ontario so that it starts to actually meet the needs of injured workers, particularly when it comes to healthcare. For a more detailed description of the episode, see here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/10/31/trr-injured_workers_action/

In episode #242 of Talking Radical Radio (October 24, 2017), Scott Neigh interviews Lynne Gouliquer, Carmen Poulin, and Gary Kinsman. They are all members of the We Demand An Apology Network, which since 2015 has been putting pressure on the federal government to formally apologize and provide redress for the purge campaigns that targeted LGBTQ people in the public service and military in Canada over several decades, ruining thousands of careers and lives. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/10/24/trr-we_demand_an_apology/ ‎

In episode #241 of Talking Radical Radio (October 17, 2017), you will hear about Omar Ben Ali's fight for immigration status in Canada, about a new campaign from the group Tadamon in support of that fight, and about how Omar's struggle relates to the broader Palestinian struggle. For a more detailed description of the episode, see here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/10/17/trr-omar_and_tadamon/

In episode #240 of Talking Radical Radio (October 10, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Brennain Lloyd. She is part of the Know Nuclear Waste project, which works to support individuals, groups, and communities as they respond to the dangers posed by the nuclear industry’s efforts to put high-level radioactive waste near where they live. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/10/10/trr-know_nuclear_waste/

In episode #239 of Talking Radical Radio (October 3, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Alexa Potashnik. She is the founder of Black Space Winnipeg, a group that works to create spaces that are unapologetically pro-Black and Afrocentric, while also acting in solidarity with other oppressed groups, and challenging anti-Black racism and building inclusivity across all sectors within Winnipeg. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/10/03/trr-black_space_winnipeg/

In episode #238 of Talking Radical Radio (September 26, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Paul Gilbert and Margo Bok. They are involved in the BC Disability Caucus, a group whose work has spanned the range from online education and discussion to mobilizing people into the streets to get disability issues on the public agenda in British Columbia. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/09/26/trr-bc_disability_caucus/

In episode #237 of Talking Radical Radio (September 19, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Emily Spanton, Taylor Telford, and Rose McCormick. They are involved in Save Thundering Waters Forest, a campaign that has done everything from lobbying politicians to a week-long land occupation this past August in its efforts to save a wetland in Niagara Falls from being turned into luxury housing. For a more detailed description of this episode: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/09/19/trr-save_thundering_waters/

In episode #236 of Talking Radical Radio (September 12, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Mirtha Rivera and Emily Eaton. Both were active with the Regina Access Without Fear campaign, which demanded that the city of Regina adopt a policy enabling all residents to access city services without fear of repercussions related to their immigration status – an initiative that required rather a different approach than similar campaigns have often taken in larger cities. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/09/12/trr-regina_access_wo_fear/

In episode #235 of Talking Radical Radio (September 5, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Michele Decottignie and Olivia Marie Golosky. Both are involved in the performing arts in Calgary, Alberta. Discrimination and inequities pushed them both from their involvement in mainstream contexts in the arts sector. Both have taken up the radical theatre practice of “theatre of the oppressed.” And both are now, through Stage Left Productions and through the Calgary Congress for Equity and Diversity in the Arts (or CCEDA), turning their energies towards pushing for greater equity and for decolonization in the arts at the local, provincial, and national levels. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/09/05/trr-stage_left/

In episode #234 of Talking Radical Radio (August 29, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Lynne Courchene-Allard and Jean-Paul Allard. They are parents in Ottawa, Ontario, who have taken up the fight against racist logos, mascots, and team names, most recently by filing a human rights complaint against the Ontario Ministry of Education seeking a ban on such logos in the province’s schools. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/08/29/trr-racist_logos/

In episode #233 of Talking Radical Radio (August 22, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Jean Swanson and Aiden Sisler. Swanson, who has been a participant in struggles for social justice in Vancouver for decades, is running for a seat on city council. She’s doing so at the urging of a network of mostly young activists and organizers, including Sisler. Their goal is to mobilize grassroots movement energies to pry open space in the municipal political landscape to start addressing fundamental social injustices like homelessness and poverty. For a more detailed description of this episode, see here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/08/22/trr-swanson_campaign/

In episode #232 of Talking Radical Radio (August 15, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Lama El-Hanan, Rachele Gottardi, and Maverick Smith. They are involved in the Toronto Research Action and Community Exchange (TRACX), an initiative to connect students interested in doing grassroots social justice-focused research with community organizations who need research done. They also organize an annual symposium, which this year will focus on the research needed to support efforts to counter the rise of the alt-right. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/08/15/trr-tracx/ ‎

In episode #231 of Talking Radical Radio (August 8, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Dorian Jesse Fraser. Fraser is part of the Queer Between the Covers collective, which maintains a distro of hard-to-find queer and trans print media and organizes an annual book and zine fair in Montreal – one of the largest queer book fairs in North America. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/08/08/trr-qbtc/

In episode #230 of Talking Radical Radio (August 1, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Julia Smith and Sean Carleton of the Graphic History Collective. They talk about the group's decade of work with comics as a means to tell histories of marginalized people and of struggles for justice, and about their current Remember Resist Redraw poster project. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/08/01/trr-remember_resist_redraw/ ‎

In episode #229 of Talking Radical Radio (July 25, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Cory Weir and Mike Mutimer. They are rank-and-file auto workers in Oshawa, Ontario, and they are among the founding members of the Unifor Solidarity Network, a new network of rank-and-file workers within Canada's largest private sector union. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/07/25/radio-a-new-rank…ate-sector-union/ ‎

Episode #228 of Talking Radical Radio (July 18, 2017) offers a behind-the-scenes look at the bold Reoccupation that went to the very heart of the Canadian settler colonial project -- Parliament Hill itself -- and used ceremony to challenge and unsettle Canada's 150th anniversary celebrations. Freddy Stoneypoint, Summer-Harmony Twenish, Trycia Bazinet, Hamda Deria, and Elsa Hoover were among the organizers of and participants in the Reoccupation ceremony, and they talk about their experiences on the Hill and their understanding of the ongoing work of unsettling Canada. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/07/18/trr-canada_day_reoccupation/

In episode #227 of Talking Radical Radio (July 11, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Teghan Barton of the Hillside Music Festival, happening from July 14 to 16 in Guelph, Ontario. They talk about the relationship between music and struggles for social justice and about this year's decision by the festival to highlite music of protest and resistance at a moment that calls for as much of both of those things as we can muster. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/07/11/trr-hillside/ ‎

In episode #226 of Talking Radical Radio (July 4, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Holly Andersen and Rudy Reimer. They live on Burnaby Mountain in British Columbia and are part of a growing group of residents opposing the expansion of the nearby storage facility, or "tank farm," that marks the BC terminus of the widely opposed Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/07/04/trr-burnaby_mountain_residents/

In episode #225 of Talking Radical Radio (June 27, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Sandeep Prasad and Frédérique Chabot. They work for Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights, an organization that is active on a wide range of issues connected to sexuality, gender, and reproduction, both in Canada and globally. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/06/27/trr-action_canada/

In episode #224 of Talking Radical Radio (June 20, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Jennifer Hefler-Elson. She is a member of the Labrador Land Protectors, a grassroots group opposed to the hydroelectric dam megaproject being built at Muskrat Falls. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/06/20/trr-labrador_land_protectors/

In episode #223 of Talking Radical Radio (June 13, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Rabea Murtaza. She is a member of East Enders Against Racism, a neighbourhood-based anti-racism group in Toronto that came together in the wake of a blatant white supremacist incident after last November's presidential election in the US. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/06/14/trr-east_enders_against_racism/

In episode #222 of Talking Radical Radio (June 6, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with JoAnn Jaffe and Peter Garden. They are fighting back against the massive wave of cuts to social programs and privatization initiated earlier this year by the provincial government in Saskwatchewan. They belong to Stop the Cuts, a group working to support the many individual fightbacks against individual cuts and to help them come together into a broader movement. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/06/06/trr-stop_the_cuts/

In episode #221 of Talking Radical Radio (May 30, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Heather Jarvis, Alice, and Layla about the Safe Harbour Outreach Project (SHOP), an initiative supporting sex workers in Newfoundland and Labrador in their efforts to win full human and labour rights. For a more detailed description of the episode, see here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/05/30/trr-safe_harbour/

In episode #220 of Talking Radical Radio (May 23, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Skylee-Storm Hogan and Krista McCracken. Both work in the archives that are part of the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre, and they talk about both that work and the broader role that archives can play in struggles for social change. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/05/23/trr-archives_as_activism/

In episode #219 of Talking Radical Radio (May 16, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Monika Dutt and Jared Knoll. They talk about Upstream, an organization that is working to get ordinary people, health professionals, and governments thinking about how inequality, injustice, and other social factors shape our health, and to promote social policy that gets to the root causes of ill-health by addressing those factors. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/05/16/trr-upstream/

In episode #218 of Talking Radical Radio (May 9, 2017), 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 is a community organizer in struggles against displacement. They talk about defensive architecture, about the increasingly aggressive displacement faced by poor and homeless people in downtown Victoria, and about some of what is being done to push back against both of those things. For a more detailed description of the episode, see here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/05/09/trr-needs_more_spikes/

In episode #217 of Talking Radical Radio (May 2, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Areum Kim and Amber Berson. They have been active in organizing participation in Canadian cities in the global Art and Feminism campaign. Art and Feminism is working, with particular reference to feminism and the arts, to challenge the huge gender gap among the people who contribute to Wikipedia and the skewed content that results from women being so significantly underrepresented. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/05/02/trr-art_and_feminism/ ‎

This is a review of *Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism* by L.A. Kauffman. It was broadcast as part of the episode of the bookish show GET LIT on April 27, 2017, on 93.3 FM CFMU. For a written version of this review, go here: https://scottneigh.blogspot.com/2017/04/review-direct-action.html

In episode #216 of Talking Radical Radio (April 25, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Beth Alexander and Michelle Munk. They are teachers who are committed to raising questions of social justice, equity, and activism in their classrooms, and they speak about doing that hard work and about the Teaching for Justice Conference that they organized earlier in April. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/04/25/trr-teaching_for_justice/

In episode #215 of Talking Radical Radio (April 18, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Tammy and Alex about the work of the Hamilton Tenants Solidarity Network. Over the last year and a half, they have been bringing tenants together to fight for better living conditions in their buildings, and their goal is to build a movement of tenants that spans the entire city of Hamilton, Ontario -- including through the conference and tenants assembly they are holding later in April. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/04/18/trr-hamilton_tenants/

In episode #214 of Talking Radical Radio (April 11, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Jamie Kneen. He is the communications coordinator with MiningWatch Canada, an organization that supports communities in struggles, does research, and works to change policies and laws, all with the aim of challenging, reducing, and preventing the many harms caused around the world by the Canadian mining industry. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/04/11/trr-mining_watch/ ‎

In episode #213 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh speaks with Tings Chak. She is a migrant justice organizer, an artist, and a writer with training in architectural design. She talks about the graphic novel-style book *Undocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention*, which she wrote and illustrated. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/04/05/trr-undocumented/

In episode #212 of Talking Radical Radio (March 29, 2017), 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 and engagement by both teachers and parents over the last couple of years in the face of an austerity-minded provincial government and in defence of a strong public education system. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/03/29/radio-building-s…hers-and-parents/

In episode #211 of Talking Radical Radio (March 22, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Jessica Chen and Jermaul Newell. They are students at York University in Toronto and are active with the campus chapter of the Fight for $15 and Fairness, which is working to raise the minimum wage, improve basic employment standards, and build solidarity between students and workers. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/03/22/trr-fight_for_15_york/

In episode #210 of Talking Radical Radio (March 15, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Bobbi Rose Koe and Chris Rider about the long collaboration between Indigenous nations and conservation groups to protect the Yukon's Peel watershed from industrial development. Along with a lengthy public information and advocacy campaign, in recent years Protect the Peel has also involved a court battle that will reach the Supreme Court of Canada on March 22. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/03/15/trr-protect_the_peel/

In episode #209 of Talking Radical Radio (March 8, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Julie Crooks. She is an independent curator, an instructor at the University of Toronto, and a co-founder of Black Artists' Networks Dialogue (BAND). She speaks about the recent photography exhibition No Justice, No Peace: From Ferguson to Toronto, and about photography as a tool for social change. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/03/08/trr-no_justice_no_peace/ ‎

In episode #208 of Talking Radical Radio (March 1, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Delores Stevenson. Her niece, Nadine Machiskinic, died on January 10, 2015. Since that day, Stevenson and other members of the family have been pushing for a proper investigation and for some kind of justice -- in the last year, with the formal support of a coalition of groups and individuals called Justice for Nadine. Stevenson talks with me about Nadine, about the case, about the broader issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women, and about the hard work of trying to find some justice for Nadine. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/?p=1791&preview=true

In episode #207 of Talking Radical Radio (February 22, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Walter Tull, a long-time militant anti-fascist who is currently based in Toronto. Tull speaks about the wave of anti-fascist activity that peaked in the 1980s and 1990s, about his current involvement in Antifa International and the International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund, and about the need in our current moment for reinvigorated militant anti-fascism on the streets. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/02/23/trr-antifa_international/

In episode #206 of Talking Radical Radio (February 15, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Kyturea Jones, Payton Ashe, and Donntayia Jones. They talk about the work of the North End Community Action Committee, a Black youth-led community group in Halifax's North End that came together around concerns about the gentrification of their neighbourhood and that has become involved in a wide range of issues focused on empowering both Black youth and the communities they live in. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/02/15/radio-black-youth-opposing-gentrification-and-empowering-community/

In episode #205 of Talking Radical Radio (February 8, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Dmitri Vitaliev. He is a co-founder and director of eQualit.ie, a non-profit based in Montreal that helps human rights organizations and social movements -- including some of the world's most prominent -- deal with increasingly crucial questions of online security and digital privacy. He talks about his own history of contributions to human rights work as an IT professional, about the work of eQualit.ie, about the relatively low level of interest and knowledge on these questions among many activist and organizers in North America, and about what we can do to start changing that. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/02/08/trr-equalitie/

In episode #204 of Talking Radical Radio (February 1, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Meg Crane. She is a freelance writer based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and she publishes a grassroots ecofeminist publication called Cockroach Zine. Crane talks about the trajectory of the zine, the work of publishing it, and the politics informing it. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/02/01/radio-cockroach-zine-diy-feminist-publishing/

In episode #203 of Talking Radical Radio (January 25, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Lynn Gehl and Lindsay Lambert. Gehl is an Algonquin woman who holds a PhD in Indigenous Studies, and is a writer and activist. Lindsay Lambert is a white settler man, a historian, and also a writer. Both have been involved in the fight against the ongoing colonial development of the Chaudiere Falls and the three associated islands -- a sacred site to the Algonquin Anishinaabe people that is, in the year of Canada 150, slated to be turned into condominiums. They talk about the significance and sacredness of the site for Indigenous peoples, the history of colonial development there, the recent fight to realize the vision for the site of the late elder William Commanda, and the significance of the ongoing violation of this sacredness in the context of Canada 150. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/01/25/trr-chaudiere_history_sacred/

In episode #202 of Talking Radical Radio (January 18, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Susan Brigham and Cassandra McDonald. They are involved in organizing the Girls 2017 Conference, which will be happening in early March at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. They speak with me about the challenges faced by girls and young women today, about the history and organizing of the annual Girls Conference, and about the exciting things that will be happening at Girls 2017. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/01/18/trr-girls2017/

In episode #201 of Talking Radical Radio (January 11, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Mairi Anderson and Cam McMillan. They are members of Bus Riders of Saskatoon, an advocacy group made up of people who use public transit. They aim to make the transit system in their city "a viable transportation choice for all and a basic right of residency" and they talk about the group, the city, the transit system, and the work that they're doing to make it better. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/01/11/trr-bus_riders_saskatoon/

In episode #200 of Talking Radical Radio (January 4, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Danielle Aubry and Joe McGuire. Aubry is the CEO of Calgary Communities Against Sexual Abuse and McGuire is a sexual assault educator with that organization. They talk about their work to engage men in the long, multi-faceted struggle to end sexual violence. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/01/04/trr-man_enough/

In episode #199 of Talking Radical Radio (December 21, 2016), 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 communities in the province, with the aim of helping them become stronger, less isolated, more able to support each other, and more firmly grounded politically. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/12/21/trr-alliance_against_displacement/

In episode #198 of Talking Radical Radio (December 14, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Mark Brown about the work of the Canadian chapter of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU). The CBTU brings together Black workers from across the labour movement and across the country to fight against racism and all of the other forms of oppression with which it intersects, both within the labour movement and in the broader society. They talk about some of the history of organizing within the labour movement by Black workers, about the role and work of the CBTU, and about the important political challenges facing Black trade unionists today. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/12/21/trr-cbtu/

In episode #197 of Talking Radical Radio (December 7, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Jade Nasogaluak Carpenter and Liam O'Neill Gordon. They are involved in the Calgary School of Informal Education (CSIE), a new initiative that is creating opportunities for people to share skills and knowledge of all sorts in an inclusive, accessible, and affordable grassroots community setting with an orientation towards justice. Jade and Liam speak about the philosophy, the goals, and the nuts-and-bolts work of the CSIE. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/12/07/trr_calgary_school_informal_ed/

In episode #196 of Talking Radical Radio (November 30, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Alexis Shotwell and Gary Kinsman. They are involved in the AIDS Activist History Project, an initiative that is recovering the stories of the radical organizing that happened in Canada in the 1980s and 1990s in response to the AIDS crisis. They speak with me about the project, about the important work done by the AIDS movement in the Canadian context, and about what we can learn from this important piece of history to inform the many struggles that we face today. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/11/30/trr-aids_activist_history/

In episode #195 of Talking Radical Radio (November 23, 2016), 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 more. He speaks about the community, about the group, and about the many issues in which the group and its members are involved. For more detailed information about the episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/11/30/trr-jfaap/

In episode #194 of Talking Radical Radio (November 16, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with producer and director David Lavallee about his new documentary film, *To the Ends of the Earth*, which explores the impacts of unconventional fossil fuels. Lavallee talks about his filmmaking process, about the challenges and opportunities offered by filmmaking as a medium for addressing complex social issues, and about the threat posed by extreme energy sources like the tar sands and fracking. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/11/16/radio-using-film-to-challenge-the-dubious-economics-of-tar-sands-and-fracking/

In episode #193 of Talking Radical Radio (November 9, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Helen Hudson and Sara Falconer. They are members of the collective that produces the Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar. The interview also includes supplmental audio material from Herman Bell, a former member of the Black Panther Party, a currently incarcerated political prisoner, and also a member of the Certain Days collective. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/11/16/radio-certain-days-freedom-for-political-prisoners-calendar/

In episode #192 of Talking Radical Radio (November 2, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Ardath Whynacht and Dee Morse. Both are on the board of the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project (NSRAP), the only province-wide group fighting for queer and trans rights in Nova Scotia. They talk with me about NSRAP's work, about pinkwashing and the fight against it in Halifax, and about how NSRAP hopes to move forward from here with its commitment to political work centred on practical wins for the most marginal queer, trans, and two-spirit people in Nova Scotia. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/11/02/trr-nsrap_anti_pinkwashing/

In episode #191 of Talking Radical Radio (October 26, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Dyna Tuytel and Barry Robinson. The two are staff lawyers in the Calgary office of Ecojustice, a Canada-wide environmental law charity that is committed to improving the environment through law. The organization as a whole has represented environmental organizations in many key struggles in the last two and a half decades, and Tuytel and Robinson in particular have mostly worked on cases seeking to challenge the many harms caused by the oil and gas industry, tar sands and pipelines. They speak with me about the work of Ecojustice as a whole, about some of their own work, and about the broad outlines of what the law can and cannot be expected to accomplish when it comes to defending the earth.

In episode #190 of Talking Radical Radio (October 19, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Basia Sokal and Arlyn Doran. They are letter carriers and activists in the Winnipeg local of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), and they talk about how they mobilized with other rank-and-file workers over the last year to act up and speak out at the depot where they work, as their union engaged in a very tough round of negotiations with Canada Post at the national level. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/10/19/trr-cupw_shopfloor/

In episode #189 of Talking Radical Radio (October 12, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Helen Knott. She is a member of Prophet River First Nation, a mother, a writer, and a social worker, and she has been deeply involved at the grassroots level in the opposition to the Site C hydroelectric dam project. She speaks with me about the dam project, the land and people that it will harm, and the resistance that has taken place so far. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/10/12/trr-site_c/

In episode #188 of Talking Radical Radio (October 5, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Sarah Hipworth and Luke Stewart about *Let Them Stay*, a new book that brings together the voices of U.S. soldiers who have sought sanctuary in Canada in opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -- with a look at the history of the struggle to let them remain here. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/10/05/trr-let_them_stay/

In episode #187 of Talking Radical Radio (September 28, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Gabriel Allahdua, a migrant farmworker and one of the organizers of the month-long Harvesting Freedom caravan. As the caravan approaches Ottawa, where it will present its demands for justice for migrant farmworkers to the federal government, we look back at the journey, the issues, and the struggle. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/09/28/trr-harvesting_freedom/

In episode #186 of Talking Radical Radio (September 21, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Rebecca Thomas. She is a Mi'kmaq woman, an activist, and a poet, and she is also the first Indigenous person to be the poet laureate of the Halifax Regional Municipality. Thomas speaks about poetry, activism, and the relationship between them, and performs her poems "Pennies" and "Redface." For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/09/21/trr-rebecca_thomas/

In episode #185 of Talking Radical Radio (September 14, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Steve Stewart. He is the technical secretary for the Initiative for Democratic Education in the Americas, also known as the IDEA Network, which brings together organizations from across the hemisphere that are committed to defending and enhancing public education. He talks about the ongoing, hemisphere-wide threats to public education, and about the work of the IDEA Network to support struggles to defend it. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/09/14/ttr-idea_network/

In episode #184 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh speaks with Stefan Kipfer and Herman Rosenfeld. They are active with Free Transit Toronto, an activist network focused on a long-term vision of high quality and completely free public transit, as well as on supporting short-term organizing that seeks winnable immediate reforms that move in that direction. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/09/07/trr-free_transit_toronto/

In episode #183 of Talking Radical Radio (August 31, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Florence Stratton and Ed Lehman. They are both long-time peace and social justice activists, and they speak about the work of PeaceQuest Regina to build a culture of peace in high schools and in the community at large. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/08/31/trr-peacequest_regina/

In episode #182 of Talking Radical Radio (August 24, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Mary Shortall, Jim Dinn, and Sara Langer. They are all members of Common Front NL, a broad coalition that has formed to oppose the drastic austerity measures being implemented by the provincial government in Newfoundland and Labrador. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/08/24/trr-common_front_nl/

In episode #181 of Talking Radical Radio (August 17, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Rachel and Eric. They are members of End the Prison Industrial Complex (EPIC), a group organizing in Kingston, Ontario -- the city with the highest density of federal correctional facilities of any community in Canada -- for the abolition of prisons. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/08/17/trr-kingston_epic/

In episode #180 of Talking Radical Radio (August 10, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Laith Marouf and Kristiana Clemens. They are involved with the Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC), a new organization focused on advocacy in and for the community radio and television sectors, particularly with respect to access and equity for marginalized communities. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/08/10/trr-cmac/

In episode #179 of Talking Radical Radio (August 3, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with William Felepchuk and Brian McDougall. They are members of Stop Windmill: Student and Labour Allies for Akikodjiwan, a group that aims to bring predominantly non-Indigenous people together in support of Algonquin demands that a sacred site in the Ottawa river be protected from a proposed condominium development and returned to Algonquin ownership and stewardship. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/08/03/radio-settler-solidarity-against-colonial-urban-development/

In episode #178 of Talking Radical Radio (July 27, 2016), I speak with Adam Cormier and Lliam Hildebrand. They are co-founders of Iron and Earth, an organization of and for workers in the Alberta oilsands who are pushing for greater support for the development of renewable energy resources and for a sustainable energy future for Canada. They talk with me about working in the oil and gas sector, about climate change, about the work of Iron and Earth, and about why they and many other oilsands workers are beginning to push for a just transition to a sustainable energy economy. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/07/27/trr-oil_and_earth/

In episode #177 of Talking Radical Radio (July 20, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Tameera Mohamed. Last year, she and some of her friends became frustrated with the narrow and limited scope of mainstream (including mainstream feminist) politics focused on the body. In response, they founded the collective Our Resilient Bodies to bring a radical, intersectional, feminist lens to bear and to expand the range of conversations and actions happening related to body positivity (broadly understood) in the Halifax community. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/07/20/trr-our_resilient_bodies/

In episode #176 of Talking Radical Radio (July 13, 2016), I speak with Kimbra Yohannes and Daniel Tseghay. They are members of We Welcome African Refugees, a new organization working to challenge the marginalization of refugees from African countries in public conversation and public policy in Canada, and to implement a new model of community organizing. They speak with me about the experiences of refugees from Eritrea and other African countries, about the marginalization of African refugees within popular discourse and government policy in Canada, and about the new grassroots model that We Welcome African Refugees is using to challenge this marginalization. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/07/13/trr-we_welcome_african_refugees/

In episode #175 of Talking Radical Radio (July 6, 2016), I speak with York University labour historian Craig Heron about his multiple award-winning book *Lunch-Bucket Lives: Remaking the Workers' City* (Between the Lines, 2015), and about what movements today can gain from paying attention to the past. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/07/06/trr-lunchbucket_lives/

In episode #174 of Talking Radical Radio (June 29, 2016), I speak with Jessica Barry and Nicole Collins. They are members of Smash Patriarchy: An Action Team (or SPAAT), a feminist group that has been part of a broader resurgence in feminist action over the last year in St. John's, Newfoundland. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/06/29/radio-smashing-the-patriarchy-in-newfoundland/

In episode #173 of Talking Radical Radio (June 22, 2016), I speak with Edith Machattie and Jen Kuhl of the BC Health Coalition. They talk with me about the coalition's work to defend and improve public healthcare, including their intervention in opposition to the legal challenge that could be the single gravest threat that the system currently faces. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/06/22/trr-bc_health_coalition/

In episode #172 of Talking Radical Radio (June 15, 2016), I speak with Sofia Soriano and David Camfield. They are members of a new group called Solidarity Winnipeg, which aims to build grassroots momentum in the face of the newly intensified austerity agenda in the province of Manitoba. They speak with me about the peculiar political context of their province, about the work of Solidarity Winnipeg so far, and about the ongoing experiment of becoming a new kind of grassroots, multi-issue, non-sectarian radical formation. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/06/15/trr-solidarity_winnipeg/

In episode #171 of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Wendy Pederson about her work with the Downtown Eastside SRO Collaborative, a group that is organizing tenants in single-room occupancy (or SRO) hotels in Vancouver. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/06/08/trr-dtes_sro_collaborative/

In episode #170 of Talking Radical Radio (June 1, 2016), I speak with Bianca Mugyenyi and Martin Lukacs about being part of the team of people who has been working hard to turn the inspiring words of the Leap Manifesto into grassroots political power on the ground. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/06/01/trr-leap_manifesto/

In episode #169 of Talking Radical Radio (May 25, 2016), I speak with Su Deranger and Robyn Pitawanakwat about the Colonialism No More camp taking place outside of the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) building in Regina, Saskatchewan. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/05/25/radio-colonialism-no-more/

In episode #168 of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Andrew Cash. He was a member of Parliament from 2011 to 2015, and he is a co-founder of the Urban Worker Project. He talks with me about his own experiences of precarious work in the arts and culture sector, about the importance of doing more to protect and support workers in a radically changed world of work, and about the Urban Worker Project. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/05/18/trr-urban_worker_project/

In episode #167 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 in solidarity with the peoples of Latin and Central America. She alks with me about ARSN, about Canadian complicity in global injustice (particularly when it comes to extractive industries), and about the challenges of international solidarity. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/05/11/trr-atlantic_regional_solidarity_network/

In episode #166 of Talking Radical Radio (May 4, 2016), I speak with Erin Crickett, the public education coordinator at the Sexual Assault Centre Hamilton and Area (SACHA). She devised the #IBelieveSurvivors and #WeBelieveSurvivors hashtag campaign that took off across Canada on the day of the verdict from the first trial of Jian Ghomeshi, and she talks with me about supporting survivors and challenging rape culture. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/05/04/trr_webelievesurvivors/

In episode #165 of Talking Radical Radio (April 27, 2016), I speak with Evelyn Encalada of Justice for Migrant Workers and multiple award-winning filmmaker Min Sook Lee. They talk about the experiences and struggles of migrant agricultural workers in Canada, and about the new feature-length documentary *Migrant Dreams*. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/04/27/trr-migrant_dreams/

In episode #164 of Talking Radical Radio (April 20, 2016), I speak with Ann Divine and Pastor Lennett Anderson about the racial profiling that Black people and other racialized people often experience in stores -- both in general, and about the specific case of Andrella David -- and what one community is doing to try to make things different. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/04/20/trr-consumer_racial_profiling/

In episode #163 of Talking Radical Radio (April 13, 2016), I speak with Sarah Sultani and Katia Stuart-Gagnon. They are members of the organizing collective that is bringing the World Social Forum – the largest gathering of civil society and social movements on the planet – to Montreal from August 9 to 14, 2016. They speak with me about the WSF and about the process of bringing it to Montreal. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/04/13/trr-wsf_2016_montreal/

In episode #162 of Talking Radical Radio (April 6, 2016), I speak with Candida Hadley, Susanne Marshall, and Andrea Smith about the Halifax Motherhood Collective. They are working to develop grassroots feminist understandings of motherhood and to provide opportunities for mothers to come together, share their experiences, and imagine new ways for mothering (and for other aspects of the work of caring and social reproduction) to happen in our society. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/04/06/radio-towards-a-feminist-re-iminagining-of-motherhood/

In episode #161 of Talking Radical Radio (March 30, 2016), I speak with Myeengun Henry, a band councillor for Chippewas of the Thames First Nation in southern Ontario. He talks about his nation's legal challenge to the Line 9 tar sands pipeline. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/03/30/trr-line_9_court_challenge/

In episode #160 of Talking Radical Radio (March 23, 2016), I speak with Deb Cameron Fawkes and Deborah Littman about their involvement in the Metro Vancouver Alliance, a coalition of more than 50 community-based, faith-based, labour, and academic organizations in Vancouver that has been enacting campaigns around public transit, affordable housing, poverty, and social inclusion. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/03/23/trr-metro_vancouver_alliance/

In episode #159 of Talking Radical Radio (March 16, 2016), I speak with Reid Lodge and Mable Wheeler. They are members of Fredericton Gender Minorities, which aims to support trans people, to create spaces for mutual aid and support, and to engage in educational community outreach; and of TransAction NB, a smaller group with a more explicitly activist orientation that engages directly and politically with questions of government policy, barriers to health care and services, and more. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/03/23/trr-trans_new_brunswick/

In episode #158 of Talking Radical Radio (March 9, 2016), I speak with Zohar Chamberlain Regev, Shabnam Mayet, and Wendy Goldsmith about the Women's Boat to Gaza, an initiative under the auspices of the international Freedom Flotilla Coalition that seeks to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip and highlight the contributions of women to all facets of struggle. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/03/23/trr-womens_boat_to_gaza/

In episode #157 of Talking Radical Radio (March 2, 2016), I speak with Marietta Wildt and Nicole Holland. They are involved in Trade School Halifax, an initiative devoted to creating opportunities for free grassroots learning, skill-building, and knowledge-sharing. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/03/02/radio-grassroots-skill-building-and-knowledge-sharing-in-halifax/

In episode #156 of Talking Radical Radio (February 24, 2016), I speak with Jamie Swift and Judi Wyatt. They are members of the Kingston, Ontario, group PeaceQuest, which first came together in 2012 to work against militarism and for a more peaceful and just society. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/02/24/trr-peacequest/

In episode #155 of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with James Favel, Jesse Leigh, and Larry Morrissette about the Bear Clan, an Indigenous approach to community safety and wellbeing in the north end of Winnipeg. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/02/17/trr-bear_clan/

In episode #154 of Talking Radical Radio (February 10, 2016), I speak with Akua Benjamin and Rinaldo Walcott. They are prominent activists and scholars, and founders of the Anti-Black Racism Network in Toronto. They talk with me about anti-Black racism, about the struggle against carding and other aspects of the Anti-Black Racism Network's work, about histories of resistance in Toronto, and about an upcoming conference. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/02/10/trr-anti-black_racism_network/

In episode #153 of Talking Radical Radio (February 3, 2016), I speak with Helen Lenskyj and Liisa Schofield. They are members of Queer Trans Community Defence, a group of queer and trans people in Toronto's Downtown East neighbourhood organizing against a new LGBTQ-focused sports and recreation centre that they say contributes to the broader urgent threat that gentrification poses to their community. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/02/03/trr-queer_trans_com_def/

In episode #152 of Talking Radical Radio (January 27, 2016), I speak with Deena Ladd and Winnie Mah. They are both active in the Fight for $15 and Fairness, an Ontario-wide initiative that is mobilizing low-wage workers to win an increase in the minimum wage while at the same time pushing the provincial government to address the complex web of other indignities facing low-wage, part-time, temporary, and precarious workers that a wage increase alone would not fix. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/01/27/trr-fifteen_and_fairness/

In episode #151 of Talking Radical Radio (January 20, 2016), I speak with Aziz Choudry, a long-time activist, a scholar of social movements, and the author of the new book *Learning Activism: The Intellectual Life of Contemporary Social Movements*. He talks with me about his own involvement in activism and organizing, about his new book, and about the ways in which teaching, learning, research, and the production of new ideas are woven tightly through the everyday activities of social movements. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/01/20/trr-learning_activism/

In episode #150 of Talking Radical Radio (January 13, 2016), I speak with Letizia Waddington and Scott Neufeld. They are members of Streams of Justice, a small, highly active, multi-issue social justice group in Vancouver with roots in the Christian faith. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/01/13/radio-seeds-of-a-radical-christian-left/

In episode #149 of Talking Radical Radio (January 6, 2016), I speak with Andrew Nellis. He is involved in the Street Labourers of Windsor (SLOW), a union for panhandlers, buskers, scrappers, security guards, and anyone else who makes all or part of their income by working on the street. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/01/06/trr-street_labourers_of_windsor/

In episode #148 of Talking Radical Radio (December 30, 2015), I speak with Kaely Cormack and Hayley Muir. They have been involved in Calgary's music scene in one way or another for quite some time, in the last few years as members of a punk band, and they are also co-founders of Femme Wave: A Feminist Arts Festival. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/12/30/trr-femme_wave/

In episode #147 of Talking Radical Radio (December 23, 2015), I speak with Cicely-Belle Blain. She is a fourth year student at the University of British Columbia, and she was one of the organizers behind a recent event on that campus that was part of the current wave of activity by Black students and their allies at universities across North America. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/12/23/radio-organizing-against-racism-and-anti-blackness-on-a-very-white-campus/

In episode #146 of Talking Radical Radio (December 16, 2015), I speak with Sean Howard and Sandra Barr. They are members of Friends of Green Cove, a group that formed to protect land in a national park on Cape Breton Island from the threat posed by "Mother Canada" -- a proposed war memorial that many critics see as unnecessary, tacky, and very poorly located. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/12/16/trr-friends_of_green_cove/

In episode #145 of Talking Radical Radio (December 9, 2015), I speak with Tzazná Miranda Leal. She is a long-time organizer with migrant workers, and she has been centrally involved in the recent founding of this country's first-ever national coalition of migrant worker organizations: the Coalition for Migrant Worker Rights Canada. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/12/09/trr-migrant_worker_coalition/

In episode #144 of Talking Radical Radio (December 2, 2015), I speak with Lenard Monkman. He is part of a collective of Indigenous youth in Winnipeg who recently started publishing a new magazine called Red Rising. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/12/02/trr-red_rising_magazine/

In episode #143 of Talking Radical Radio (November 25, 2015), I speak with Sarah St. John and Omar Chu. They are organizers with the Vancouver-based migrant justice group Sanctuary Health, which began as an effort to respond to cuts to health care for refugees but quickly extended its mandate to include challenging all manner of barriers that migrants face in accessing services and resources. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/11/25/radio-dismantling-barriers-faced-by-migrants-to-canada/

In episode #142 of Talking Radical Radio (November 18, 2015), I speak with Émilie Joly. She is a community orgnizer with FRAPRU, or Le Front d’action populaire en réaménagement urbain, and she talks with me about their long history of research, writing, and street-level mobilization around issues of concern to low-income tenants. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/11/18/radio-the-long-fight-in-quebec-for-adequate-affordable-housing-for-all/

In episode #141 of Talking Radical Radio (November 11, 2015), I speak with Stefan Christoff. He is both a long-time organizer in a range of grassroots movements in Montreal as well as a musician, mostly a pianist. He sees strong connections between the movements in which he is active and music, including music that does not carry its politics in words, and today he explains those connections. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/11/11/trr-christoff_music/

In episode #140 of Talking Radical Radio (November 4, 2015), I speak with Datejie Green and Chris Webb. They are members of the Ali Mustafa Memorial Collective, which works to commemorate the life of Toronto grassroots journalist and radical organizer Ali Mustafa while supporting young people in carrying forward similar work today. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/11/04/trr-remembering_ali_mustafa/

In episode #139 of Talking Radical Radio (October 28, 2015), I speak with Clayton Thomas-Muller. He is the campaign director of the Global Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign, a member of the Puktawagan Cree First Nation, and the "stop it at the source" campaigner for 350.org. He is also one of the organizers putting together an action that will use civil disobedience to bring a strong message to incoming Prime Minister Justin Trudeau -- yes, the one elected by a campaign whose co-chair had to quit because of ties to the fossil fuel industry -- that Canada must act on questions of climate justice. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/11/04/trr-climate_welcome/

In episode #138 of Talking Radical Radio (October 21, 2015), I speak with Candyce Paul. She is a member of the Committee for Future Generations, a group that formed in northern Saskatchewan to oppose efforts to locate a radioactive waste storage facility in the region. Earlier this year, they won that battle, and they have moved their focus to the impacts of existing uranium mines and of the many mining exploration claims blanketing (and disrupting) the area. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/10/21/trr-ctte_for_future_generations/

In episode #137 of Talking Radical Radio (October 14, 2015), I speak with Wendy Goldsmith and Dru Oja Jay. They work at Friends of Public Services, a very new organization that is mobilizing people during the election campaign to fight against cuts, the threat of privatization, and attacks on home delivery at Canada Post, and is developing a longer-term vision to defend and enhance public services more generally. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/10/21/trr-friends_of_public_services/

In episode #136 of Talking Radical Radio (October 7, 2015), I speak with Alicia Owen and Sheryl Jarvis. They are moms with lived experience and a critical analysis of the child welfare system. They are also members of Community Action for Families, a group focused on providing direct support to moms navigating the system and on challenging the harm that it does to families. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/10/21/trr-community_action_for_families/

In episode #135 of Talking Radical Radio (September 30, 2015), I speak with Dr. Baj Mukhopadhyay. He is a physician and a core activist in the Canadian chapter of the People's Health Movement. They mobilize around a health justice perspective, and work to bring that sort of analysis to bear in a range of social movement struggles, including fights against extractive industries and organizing that responds to the harms caused by colonialism. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/09/30/trr-peoples_health_movement/

In episode #134 of Talking Radical Radio (September 23, 2015), I speak with Steve Baird. He is a member of the Education Across Borders collective, which has been fighting for the last several years in Montreal to win unimpeded access to basic education in Quebec for children without immigration status in Canada. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/09/23/radio-fighting-for-access-to-education-for-undocumented-migrants-in-montreal/

In episode #133 of Talking Radical Radio (September 16, 2015), I speak with Mia Sopapilla and Jordan House. They are education workers, members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and organizers of the Working For Each Other, Working For Ourselves summit, a gathering for radical worker-organizers in Toronto. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/09/16/trr-working_for_each_other/

In episode #132 of Talking Radical Radio (September 9, 2015), I speak with Christi Belcourt. She is a Metis artist and a member of the Onaman Collective, a small group of artists who work to catalyze the learning of Indigenous languages and traditional knowledge. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/09/16/trr_onaman_collective/

In episode #131 of Talking Radical Radio (September 2, 2015), I speak with Cikiah Thomas. He is a longtime activist and the current chair of the Global African Congress, and he speaks with me about efforts to win reparations for the transatlantic slave trade and slavery itself -- particularly efforts taking place in the Canadian context. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/09/02/trr-reparations_for_slavery/

In episode #130 of Talking Radical Radio (August 26, 2015), I speak with Andy Villanueva and Kerin Bethel-John. They are members of Project Slut, a collective of young women who set out to abolish the dress code in their high school and won, and who now have their sights set on transforming school dress codes across the entire Toronto District School Board. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/08/26/radio-project-slut-young-women-challenging-rape-culture-slut-shaming-and-high-school-dress-codes/

In episode #129 of Talking Radical Radio (August 19, 2015), I speak with Hillary Lindsay and Omri Haiven. They speak with me about a project called the Tatamagouche Summer Free School, which brings together activists at the end of August each year to learn from each other and to recharge for a new season of involvement in struggles for social change. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/08/19/trr-tatamagouche_free_school/

In episode #128 of Talking Radical Radio (August 12, 2015), I speak with Monique Woroniak and Liz Carlson. They are two participants in a small group of women from Winnipeg who have taken seriously the admonition that white settler folks must work with other white settler folks in pushing anti-racist and decolonizing politics. To that end they have, in tight consultation with diversely located Indigenous people in Winnipeg, produced a website to allow settlers who are questioning the received wisdom about Canada to educate ourselves with respect to the country's colonial present and past. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/08/19/radio-a-new-grassroots-resource-for-settlers-to-learn-about-canadas-colonial-present-and-past/

In episode #127 of Talking Radical Radio (August 5, 2015), I speak with Irene Lanzinger. She is the president of the British Columbia Federation of Labour, which is spearheading the BC version of the Fight for $15 campaign to raise the minimum wage that is sweeping across North America. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/08/05/radio-fighting-for-a-15hr-minimum-wage-in-british-columbia/

In episode #126 of Talking Radical Radio (July 29, 2015), I speak with Bonnie Heilman and Peter Garden. They are members of the Treaty 6 Justice Collective, a group that is attempting to address the urgent need in our communities for infrastructure to support organizing and activism. They began from a decade-old independent bookstore in Saksatoon, Saskatchewan, called Turning the Tide, and from that beginning they have launched an exciting new experiment called The Stand Community Organizing Centre. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/07/29/radio-from-bookstore-to-community-organizing-space-activist-infrastructure/

In episode #125 of Talking Radical Radio (July 22, 2015), I speak with Kyle Buott. He is the president of the Halifax-Dartmouth and District Labour Council and a member of Solidarity Halifax. He talks with me about a recent gathering: 14 anti-austerity and anti-capitalist groups from across the country were hosted by Solidarity Halifax at a Congress of the Radical Left, to discuss building relationships and possibilities for pluralist, non-sectarian collaboration in the struggle for transformative social change. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/07/29/radio-not-yet-canadas-syriza-but-a-small-step-in-that-direction/

In episode #124 of Talking Radical Radio (July 15, 2015), I speak with Aimee Louw and Charli Lessard. They are involved with the ACSEXE+ project, an initiative based in Montreal that works to create opportunities for disabled people to talk, share, and learn about sexuality and the wide spectrum of issues with which it intersects. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/07/15/radio-acsexe-talking-disability-and-sexuality-in-montreal/

In episode #123 of Talking Radical Radio (July 8, 2015), I speak with Robyn Pitawanakwat and Andrew Loewen. They are members of Voices for Justice and Police Accountability, a group that formed this past January after a number of high-profile incidents involving police mistreatment of Indigenous people in Regina, Saskatchewan. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/07/08/trr-regina_policing/

In episode #122 of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Dr. Hasan Sheikh. He is a member of Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care, a group of physicians that has been mobilizing in response to the Conservative government's cruel 2012 cuts to health care for refugees. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/07/01/radio-physicians-mobilizing-in-defense-of-health-care-for-refugees/

In episode #121 of Talking Radical Radio (June 24, 2015), I speak with Kim Holmes-Younger and Pam Rocker about the Human RITES Conference, a recent event in Calgary which brought together people from a variety of denominations and faiths to discuss the histories of LGBTQ people being excluded from and marginalized within organized religions, and also the important work happening in many faith contexts to move towards a diffent, more inclusive future. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/06/24/trr-human_rites_conference/

In episode #120 of Talking Radical Radio (June 17, 2015), I speak with Kevin Skerrett. He is a trade unionist and a member of the local Ottawa-based anti-austerity formation Solidarity Against Austerity. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/06/17/trr-solidarity_against_austerity/

In episode #119 of Talking Radical Radio (June 10, 2015), I speak with Eddie Gardner of the Stó:lõ Nation and Dawn Morrison of the Secwepemc Nation about the recent Wild Salmon Caravan. In mid-May, it travelled from Prince George to Vancouver, building unity, relationships and strength among the peoples whose territories it passed through, in defence of wild salmon, water and Indigenous sovereignty. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/06/10/trr-wild_salmon_caravan/

In episode #118 of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Chris Dixon. He is an author and a long-time activist. He speaks with me about his new book, *Another Politics: Talking Across Today's Transformative Movements* (UC Press, 2014), and about a new strand of radical politics emerging today in the midst of social movements and communities-in-struggle across North America. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/06/03/trr-another_politics/

In episode of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Sandra Banfield and Mark Currie of the Save Bedford's Waterfront Society. They are committed to saving the natural shoreline in their community of Bedford, Nova Scotia, in the face of the powerful pressures of for-profit development.

In episode #116 of Talking Radical Radio (May 20, 2015), I speak with Ria Heynen, Jo Wood and Matthew Behrens. They are long-time peace and social justice activists in eastern Ontario, and they talk with me about an action taking place on May 27 in Ottawa to protest CANSEC, Canada's largest trade show for weapons systems and technologies of repression. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/05/20/trr-anti-cansec/

In episode #115 of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Joey Hartman, the president of the Vancouver and District Labour Council. She talks about the history of women in the labour movement and about the importance of people who are active in movements and communities learning, talking about, and doing grassroots historical work. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/05/13/trr-women_labour_history/

In episode #114 of Talking Radical Radio (May 6, 2015), I speak with Folami Jones, Matthew Byard, and Ben Sichel about the Working While Black in Nova Scotia project. It is a response to anti-Black racism in workplaces in the province, and it is organized around a website where people may anonymously share their experiences. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/05/06/radio-working-while-black-in-nova-scotia/

In episode #113 of Talking Radical Radio (April 29, 2015), I speak with Rebecca Rose and Susan Wolfe of Friends of the Khyber about their efforts to preserve an important community and grassroots space in downtown Halifax, the historic Khyber Building. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/04/29/trr-friends_of_the_khyber/

In episode #112 of Talking Radical Radio (April 22, 2015), I speak with Bhaskar Sunkara and Eden Haythornthwaite about one set of practices through which ideas for transformative social change get circulated – radical publishing (as with Sunkara's *Jacobin* magazine) done in relation with radical reading groups (as with Haythornthwaite's group in small-town British Columbia). For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/04/22/radio-ideas-on-the-move-radical-publishing-reading-groups/

In episode #111 of Talking Radical Radio (April 15, 2015), I speak with Anna Liu and Patricia Chong. They are both long-time labour activists and members of the Asian Canadian Labour Alliance (ACLA), a network of Asian-Canadian labour and community activists with chapters in Ontario and British Columbia. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/04/15/radio-pro-worker-anti-racist-the-asian-canadian-labour-alliance/

In episode #110 of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with La Tanya Grant. She is the chair of Justice for Jermaine Carby, a committee that came together in the aftermath of the killing of her cousin by police in Brampton, Ontario, in September of 2014. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/04/08/trr-justice_for_jermaine_carby/

In episode #109 of Talking Radical Radio (April 1, 2015), I speak with Wendy Goldsmith and David Heap of Londoners for Door to Door -- a group of residents of London, Ontario, who have been mounting an impressive grassroots, community-based campaign against the proposal by Canada Post to cut home delivery in their city and across the country. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/04/01/radio-grassroots-community-mobilization-against-the-canada-post-cuts/

In episode #108 of Talking Radical Radio (March 25, 2015), I speak with Don Montgrand and Candyce Paul. They are grassroots Dene people living in northern Saskatchewan, and they talk with me about the Northern Dene Trappers Alliance and its efforts to defend the land and to defend the Dene people in the face of companies and governments pushing predatory resource extraction. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/03/25/trr-northern_dene_trappers/

On episode of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Daniel Tseghay and Daniel Wexel about the Transportation not Deportation campaign. It aims, in the wake of a particularly tragic case, to make public transit in the Vancouver area a place of safety and sanctuary for people regardless of their immigration status. And recently, they won a significant victory on the road to that goal. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/03/18/trr-transportation_not_deportation/

On episode #106 of Talking Radical Radio (March 11, 2015), I speak with Lorraine Hewlett, Shannon Moore, and Courtney Howard about their work with Fracking Action North, a coalition that is pushing for a moratorium on the extraction of oil and natural gas by horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," in the Northwest Territories.

In episode #105 of Talking Radical Radio (March 4, 2015), I speak with Kaitlyn Gibson and Ian McDonald. Both are undergraduate students at the University of Manitoba, as well as organizers in the campus' new Student Action Network, an organization that is at the centre of the fightback against administration attempts to make major cuts. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/03/04/trr-uofm_san/

In episode #104 of Talking Radical Radio (February 25, 2015), I speak with Craig Langston and Tim Louis about the HandyDART Riders' Alliance, a two year-old organization that is mobilizing the riders of Vancouver's paratransit service in the face of declining service levels that are leaving more and more people stuck in their homes. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/02/25/trr-handydart_riders_alliance/

In episode #103 of Talking Radical Radio (February 18, 2015), I speak with Étienne Lepage about UPop Montreal, a "popular university" that aims to create community-based spaces for ordinary people to engage in critical learning and dialogue about the world. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/02/18/trr-upop_montreal/

In episode #102 of Talking Radical Radio (February 11, 2015), I speak with Helen Luu and Ann Fitzpatrick about the Right to Housing Coalition and its combined legal and community strategy to win a positive right to housing in the Canadian context. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/02/11/trr-right_to_housing/

In episode #101 of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Jen Sung, Andy Holmes, and David Ng about Love Intersections. It is a community and online project based in Vancouver that emerged out of the complex dynamics of identity and oppression during last year's updating of a local school board's LGBTQ anti-discrimination policy, and that aims to go beyond that beginning and use storytelling to explore complex intersections of identity, power, solidarity, and love. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/02/04/trr-love_intersections/

In episode #100 of Talking Radical Radio (January 28, 2015), I speak with Gurpreet Singh. He puts out a magazine called Radical Desi, a monthly alternative print publication based in Vancouver. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/01/28/trr-radical_desi/

In episode #99 of Talking Radical Radio (January 21, 2015), I speak with Lynn Gehl. She is an Algonquin Anishnabe woman who has, over the years, been involved in a range of struggles for survival and for social change. One way of thinking about what brings together those diverse elements for her is that they flow from the act of centring Indigenous ways of knowing, and acting accordingly. She talks about this with me. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/01/21/trr-lynn_gehl/

In episode #98 of Talking Radical Radio (January 14, 2015), I speak with Donald Pratt and Peter Gose. They are members of Justice for Hassan Diab, the support committee that has been working to defend a wrongfully accused Ottawa academic who has been struggling against a Kafkaesque legal nightmare since 2008. Diab was extradited to France in November, but he and his support committee continue to fight. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/01/14/radio-unjustly-extradited-still-fighting-justice-for-hassan-diab/

In episode #97 of Talking Radical Radio (January 7, 2015), I speak with Zoë Dodd and Peter Leslie, who are harm reduction workers and active members of the world's first union specifically for such workers: the Toronto Harm Reduction Workers Union. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/01/07/trr-harm_reduction_workers/

In episode #96 of Talking Radical Radio (December 31, 2014), I talk with David Diamond and David Ng of Theatre for Living about using theatre as a tool for change. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/12/31/trr-theatre_for_living/

In episode #95 of Talking Radical Radio (December 24, 2014), I talk with organizer Yolen Bollo-Kamara about her experience in Toronto with the wave of organizing that has been sweeping North America in opposition to police violence and anti-Black racism. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/12/24/trr-black_lives_matter_toronto/

In episode #94 of Talking Radical Radio (December 17, 2014), I talk with Chris Ramsaroop and Melisa LaRue about a collaboration between Justicia for Migrant Workers and the Windsor Workers Education Centre. They are in the early stages of bringing migrant workers and Canadian workers together to talk about their commonalities and their differences, and to build solidarity in the face of shared experiences of predatory employers and precarious work. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/12/17/trr-migrant_non_migrant/

In episode #93 of Talking Radical Radio, I talk with Joël Pedneault of the Red Hand Coalition, one of the main province-wide formations opposing austerity measures in Quebec, about the trajectory of resistance to those measures in recent years -- from before and through the student strike that brought down a government, to the lull in the year that followed, and into the resurgence that has just begun as a new Liberal government seeks once again to impose austerity on the province. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/12/10/radio-the-red-hand-coalition-and-the-fight-against-austerity-in-quebec/

In episode #92 of Talking Radical Radio (December 3, 2014), I talk with community organizer Kanahus Manuel of the Secwepemc Nation, on whose territory the massive Mount Polley mining disaster took place this past August. She talks about the grassroots struggle in response to the tailings pond spill, and the larger multi-front struggle to defend the land and to assert, defend, and strengthen the many Indigenous nations on the west coast. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/12/03/radio-defending-land-and-nationhood-after-the-mount-polley-disaster/

In episode #91 of Talking Radical Radio (November 26, 2014), I talk with Glen Michalchuk, the chair of Peace Alliance Winnipeg, a broad-based anti-war and peace organization, about the long-term challenge of opposing war and militarism in Canada. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/11/26/trr-peace_alliance_winnipeg/

In episode #90 of Talking Radical Radio, I talk with Robert Massoud about Beit Zatoun, a cultural centre and grassroots space in Toronto. It emerged from a project focused on supporting Palestine to become a multi-issue space, hub, and infrastructural node used by many grassroots initiatives focued on many different issues -- while still constantly returning to the importance of Palestinian struggle. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/11/19/trr-beit_zatoun/

In episode #89 of Talking Radical Radio (November 12, 2014), I talk with Martha Roberts. She is a midwife, an educator, and a community organizer, and was one of the founders of the Alliance for People's Health, a collective of health workers, grassroots organizers, and community members committed to understanding the links between health and social justice, and to building the struggle for health for all. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/11/12/trr-alliance_for_peoples_health/

In episode #88 of Talking Radical Radio (November 5, 2014), I talk with Rosalind Hampton of Community-University Talks about their work to centre the the many different experiences, needs, and strengths of Black communities in creating dialogue and collaboration among Black students, scholars, and communities in Montreal. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here:http://talkingradical.ca/2014/11/05/trr-c_uni_t/

In episode of Talking Radical Radio, TJ Travis talks about The Bloomfield House, an unfunded, grassroots, and highly successful revitalization and community empowerment project inspired by the Occupy movement that is making a major impact in the marginalized Sandwich Town neighbourhood of Windsor, Ontario. For a more detailed description of this episode, look here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/10/29/trr-bloomfield_house/

In episode #86 of Talking Radical Radio (October 22, 2014), Beth Dollaga talks about the work of the Mining Justice Alliance, a Vancouver-based coalition with a global analysis that works to oppose the harms caused by Canadian extractive industries. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/10/22/trr-mining_justice_alliance/

In episode #85 of Talking Radical Radio (October 15, 2014), Ingrid Waldron and Lorne Julien talk about the Environmental Noxiousness, Racial Inequities and Community Health -- or ENRICH -- Project, which aims to understand the health impacts of environemtnal racism on African Nova Scotian and Mi'qmak communities, and to support their struggles against it. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/10/22/trr-enrich_project/

In episode #84 of Talking Radical Radio (October 8, 2014), Teresa Maillie and Kevin Allen talk about their efforts to unearth the histories of queer lives and struggles in Calgary, and why that history matters for the future. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/10/22/trr-calgary_gay_history_project/

In episode #83 of Talking Radical Radio (October 1, 2014), Kathleen Pye talks about the rapid formation and growth of the group Reproductive Justice New Brunswick, and their success in putting access to abortion on the agenda in the province's recent provincial election in a way that has not happened in many years, if ever. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/10/22/trr-repro_justice_nb/

In episode #82 of Talking Radical Radio (September 24, 2014), anti-poverty organizer and sociologist Lesley Wood talks about her new book, *Crisis and Control: The Militarization of Protest Policing* from Between The Lines Books. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/09/24/trr-protest_policing/

In episode #81 of Talking Radical Radio (September 17, 2014), Cathy Edwards, the executive director of Canadian Association of Community Television Users and Stations (CACTUS), talks about the work her organization is doing to bring about a new era for community media in Canada. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/09/24/trr-cactus/

In episode #80 of Talking Radical Radio (September 10, 2014), Hugh Lampkin talks about efforts in Vancouver among users of illicit drugs to mobilize in the service of social justice and harm reduction. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/09/24/trr-vandu/

In episode #79 of Talking Radical Radio (September 3, 2014), Alex Khasnabish and Max Haiven talk about their work in Halifax to understand the role of radical imagination in struggles for social justice, and to use that understanding to support movements in the city. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/09/24/radio-exploring-the-radical-imagination-in-halifax/

In episode #78 of Talking Radical Radio (August 27, 2014), organizers Tiffany Balducci and Jim Freeman talk about We Are Oshawa, a new organization working on multiple social justice issues in a small Ontario city. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/08/27/trr-we_are_oshawa/

In episode #77 of Talking Radical Radio (August 20, 2014), climate justice organizers Aurore Fauret and Lily Schwarzbaum talk about "La marche des Peuples pour la Terre Mère," a month-long walk across Quebec that connected urban radicals with activists in communities under threat from proposed tar sands pipelines. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/08/20/trr-marche_terre_mere/

In episode #76 of Talking Radical Radio (August 13, 2014), organizers Sakura Saunders and Greg Macdougall talk about the Peoples' Social Forum. It will be the first pan-Canadian/Quebec/Indigenous convergence of movements and communities-in-struggle to draw people from across the northern half of Turtle Island, and it is happening in Ottawa from August 21 to 24, 2014. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/08/13/radio-the-peoples-social-forum-a-pan-canadianquebecindigenous-movement-convergence/

In episode #75 of Talking Radical Radio (August 6, 2014), Samira Kanji and Azeezah Kanji talk about the work of the Noor Cultural Centre in support of a vision of social justice grounded in Islamic teachings. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/08/06/trr-noor_cultural_centre/

In episode #74 of Talking Radical Radio (July 30, 2014), Jana-Rae Yerxa and Damien Lee talk about the work of the Biskaabiiyang Collective in the face of both longstanding and recently intensified racism and settler colonialism in Thunder Bay. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/07/30/trr-tbay_racism_settler_colonialism/

In episode #73 of Talking Radical Radio (July 23, 2014), Carol Wodak and Noel Somerville talk about the Seniors Action and Liason Team, or SALT, a grassroots group of older adults in Edmonton that organizes around seniors' issues and around social justice issues more broadly. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/07/30/trr-salt_edmonton/

In episode #72 of Talking Radical Radio (July 16, 2014), Arabella Colombier and another member of Demilitarize McGill talk about the past and present of student organizing to get military research off the campus of McGill University in Montreal. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/07/30/trr-demilitarize_mcgill/

In episode #71 of Talking Radical Radio (July 9, 2014), organizers Christine Bro and Doug Nesbitt talk about the "Justice for Janitors" campaign in Ottawa. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/07/09/trr-j4j_ottawa/

In episode #70 of Talking Radical Radio (July 2, 2014), Tanya Andrusieczko talks about her process of dreaming up the first feminist summer camp in Saskatoon, and then working to make it a reality this year. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/07/09/trr-feminist_summer_camp/

In episode #69 of Talking Radical Radio (June 25, 2014), organizer and author Dru Oja Jay talks about how the pressures to address important issues via funded non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can be a barrier to the kinds of organizing and collective empowerment that will be necessary to truly address those issues. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/07/09/trr-ngoization/

In episode #68 of Talking Radical Radio, Vanessa Gray talks about taking action against toxic colonialism. She is a 21 year-old university student from Aamjiwnaang First Nation in southwestern Ontario, located near the city of Sarnia and what is colloquially referred to as Chemical Valley. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/06/18/trr-aamjiwnaang/

In episode #66 of Talking Radical Radio (June 4, 2014), Ken Crush, Cathy Holtslander and Lyle Orchard talk about how residents have mobilized to oppose the plans by Fortune Minerals to build an ore processing plant on agricultural land between Langham and Dalmeny, Saskatchewan.

In episode #67 of Talking Radical Radio (June 11, 2014), Stefan Christoff talks about the work with multiple cultural and artistic forms by the Howl! Arts Collective in Montreal as part of broader movements for radical social change. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/06/18/trr-howl_arts/

In episode #65 of Talking Radical Radio (May 28, 2014), Jean Swanson and Phoenix talk about their work against the gentrification of the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood in Vancouver. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/06/03/trr-vancouver_gentrification/

In episode #64 of Talking Radical Radio (May 21, 2014), organizer Jude Ashburn talks about several aspects of recent radical queer and trans organizing in Halifax, Nova Scotia. For a more detailed description of this show, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/05/21/trr-halifax_queer_trans/

In episode #63 of Talking Radical Radio (May 14, 2014), climate scientist Paul Beckwith talks about his research as well as about his efforts to push beyond the usual role expected of scientists and engage directly with the public on scientific questions related to cliamte change. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/05/21/trr-paul_beckwith/

In episode #62 of Talking Radical Radio (May 7, 2014), we look at migrant justice organizing in Canada as an inspiring example of how struggles against injustices in the lives of individuals can be integrated into -- and, indeed, can be the basic building blocks for -- broader struggles for systemic change. Deepan Budlakoti talks about his own struggle against an injustice imposed by the Canadian state, and Syed Hussan talks about a number of other examples and about the question more broadly based on his experience as an organizer with No One Is Illegal - Toronto. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/05/21/trr-migrant_justice_collective/

In episode #61 of Talking Radical Radio (April 30, 2014), Sonia Singh of the Toronto Workers Action Centre and Anthony Tambureno of the Peel Regional Labour Council talk about the province-wide campaign by community groups, workers centres, unions, faith organizations, and more that has worked for the last year to get the Ontario government to boost the minimum wage to a living wage of $14/hr. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/04/30/radio-the-fight-to-raise-the-minimum-wage-in-ontario/

In episode #60 of Talking Radical Radio (April 23, 2014), co-directors Valerie Smith and Jarem Sawatsky talk about the work of the Canadian School of Peacebuilding to support students, professional peace workers, and ordinary people in developing skills and knowledge for the work of making the world more peaceful and just. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/04/23/trr-school_of_peacebuilding/

In episode #59 of Talking Radical Radio (April 16, 2014), Zoe Blunt talks about the multifaceted organizing work by the Vancouver Island Community Forest Action Network (VIC FAN) against colonial, profit-driven development. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/04/23/trr-vic_fan/

In episode #58 of Talking Radical Radio (April 9, 2014), Parker Mah talks about *Being Chinese in Quebec*, a documentary film by Malcolm Guy and William Dere that explores "the younger generation of Sino-Quebecois and their struggles of identity, integration and building a life for themselves in this province," and how the long history of people of Chinese origin navigating exclusion and racism in Canada and Quebec plays out in the lives of young Chinese Quebeckers today. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/04/23/trr-being-chinese-in-quebec/

In episode #57 of Talking Radical Radio (April 2, 2014), Donald Altman talks about the work that he and other members of the grassroots Alliance for Affordable Co-operative Housing (AACH) have done to defend the ability of non-profit housing co-operatives (and other forms of not-for-profit housing) to offer rent-geared-to-income units and to try to prevent a significant erosion of Canada's already vastly inadequate social housing stock. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/04/23/trr-affordable_co-op_housing/

In episode #56 of Talking Radical Radio (Marc 26, 2014), Anna Willats and Sean Lee-Popham talk about the Groundswell Community Justice Trust Fund, which is an attempt to address the lack of grassroots funding infrastructure for movement-related groups, projects, and organizations in Ontario. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/03/26/trr-groundswell_fund/

In episode #55 of Talking Radical Radio (March 19, 2014), Roger Annis talks about the Vancouver Ecosocialist Group and their commitment to the idea that thinking deeply about how capitalism works must be central to challenging the harm it does to workers and the harm it does to the planet. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/03/26/trr-vancouver_ecosocialist/

In episode #54 of Talking Radical Radio (March 12, 2014), Saira Chhibber talks about Local 1281 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), and about a long but recently ended lockout experienced by some of their members. For a more detailed but description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/03/26/trr-cupe_1281/

In episode #53 of Talking Radical Radio, Caitlin Craven and Josee Oliphant talk about the organizing that went into winning a unanimous city council vote in Hamilton, Ontario, that declared it the second 'sanctuary city' in Canada. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/03/26/trr-hamilton_sanctuary_city/

In episode #52 of Talking Radical Radio, Lyn Adamson, Dewan Afzal, and Rita Bijons talk about Climatefast, a group that uses fasting as a form of witness to call people to action on climate change, with the vision of contributing to a broader movement. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/02/26/trr-climatefast/

Episode #51 of Talking Radical Radio (February 12, 2014) is the second of two based on an interview with Miles Howe. Howe is an editor and a journalist with the Halifax local of The Media Co-op, a co-operatively organized grassroots media network with locals and working groups in cities across the country. Over the last year, Howe has provided truly excellent coverage of the struggle against hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and against colonization in New Brunswick, which has been lead by people from the Elsipogtog First Nation and quite broadly supported in the area. This week's episode features the portion of our conversation in which Howe stepped back a bit from that immediate struggle, which has occupied so much of his atteniton in the last year, and used that experience as a basis for reflecting on what it means to engage in grassroots journalism, how it differs from mainstream journalism, and what he hopes that such work can accomplish. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/02/14/trr-miles_howe_part_/

In both this episode of Talking Radical Radio -- episode #50, from February 5, 2013 -- and the following one, I will be speaking with Miles Howe. Howe is an editor and a journalist with the Halifax local of The Media Co-op, a co-operatively organized grassroots media network with locals and working groups in cities across the country. Over the last year, Howe has provided truly excellent coverage of the struggle against hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and against colonization in New Brunswick, which has been lead by people from the Elsipogtog First Nation and quite broadly supported in the area. In this episode, Howe talks about some of the historical background, about the lead-up and events that initiated the current phase of struggle in New Brunswick, and about some of the key moments of conflict and crisis that he observed and participated in, as community members and allies attempted to prevent a surveying company from engaging in seismic testing as a prelude to fracking. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/02/09/trr-miles_howe_part_1/

In episode #49 of Talking Radical Radio (January 29, 2014), Paul Tsuma and Aimee Louw talk about Accessibilize Montreal, a new grassroots group working to challenge and change the many ways their city is currently inaccessible and ableist. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/02/09/trr-accessibilize_montreal/

In episode #47 of Talking Radical Radio (January 15, 2014), Jennifer West and Catherine Abreu talk about their work with a provincial coalition that opposes hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in Nova Scotia. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/01/22/trr-nofra/

In episode #48 of Talking Radical Radio (January 22, 2014), Syvlia McFadden and Carla Bergman talk about their work with The Purple Thistle Centre, a youth-run community centre for arts and activism in Vancouver. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/01/22/trr-purple_thistle/

In episode #46 of Talking Radical Radio (January 8, 2014), Scott Price talks about his work with the Oral History Centre at the University of Winnipeg and with Local 832 of the United Food and Commercial Workers unearthing histories of working-class (including working-class feminist) struggles. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/01/08/trr-oh_labour_feminism_manitob/

In episode #45 of Talking Radical Radio (January 1, 2014), Audrey Huntley of the No More Silence network and Krysta Williams of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network speak about organizing against the violence experienced by indigenous women and about a new project in which they are partnered that will contribute to building that movement. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/01/08/trr-huntley_and_williams/

In episode #44 Talking Radical Radio (December 25, 2013), lead organizer Scott Jackson of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) District 78, talks about how his union, historically based in large manufacturing workplaces, has responded to changing times by refocusing its organizing energies on smaller and non-traditional workplaces. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/01/08/trr-iamaw_district_78/

In episode #43 of Talking Radical Radio (December 18, 2013), environmental activist Kevin O'Reilly talks about his work on mining and resource extraction issues in the Northwest Territories. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2013/12/18/trr-alternatives_north_mining/

In episode #42 of Talking Radical Radio (December 11, 2013), organizer Julie Michaud talks about the "A Safer Concordia" campaign's efforts to oppose sexual assault at Concordia University in Montreal, including the campaign's success in pushing the administration to open a sexual assault centre on campus earlier this academic year. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2013/12/11/trr-a_safer_concordia/

On this week's episode of Talking Radical Radio, Jacqueline Fayant talks about her recent work bringing together indigenous women from Edmonton, Alberta, and the surrounding territory who identify as Two-Spirit. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2013/12/11/trr-two_spirit_edmonton/

In episode #40 of Talking Radical Radio, Rev. Frances Deverell -- president of the Canadian Unitarians for Social Justice -- talks about the faith tradition from which she comes and the network of activists that she leads. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2013/12/11/trr-cusj/

In episode #39 of Talking Radical Radio (November 20, 2013), publisher Jonathan Garlow talks about a new newspaper and website inspired by a new moment of Indigenous resurgence in Canada and around the globe. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2013/12/11/trr-two_row_times/

In episode #38 of Talking Radical Radio (November 13, 2013), organizer Melannie Gayle talks about the work of the Toronto chapter of the Prisoner Correspondence Project to support queer and trans prisoners from a prison abolitionist perspective. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2013/11/13/trr-prisoner_correspondence/

In episode #37 of Talking Radical Radio (November 6, 2013), provincial co-ordinator Jean-Claude Basque of the New Brunswick Common Front for Social Justice talks about their efforts to raise the minimum wage, increase social assistance, restore Employment Insurance, and support struggles for pay equity. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2013/11/06/trr-nb_common_front/

In episode #36 of Talking Radical Radio (October 30, 2013), executive director Roger Emsley of the community group Against Port Expansion talks about their past and present work to protect ecosystems and their community in the face of efforts by Port Metro Vancouver to significantly expand cargo facilities in Delta, British Columbia. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2013/10/30/trr-against_port_expansion/

In episode #35 of Talking Radical Radio (October 23, 2013), migrant justice organizers Mina Ramos and Macdonald Scott talk about working in support of the non-cooperation and hunger strikes being waged since mid-September by migrants detained in a maximum security facility in Lindsay, Ontario. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2013/10/23/trr-migrant_strik/

In episode #34 of Talking Radical Radio (October 16, 2013), Ian Ford talks about working with other men against the violence faced by women and to transform masculinity. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2013/10/23/radio-men-working-with-men-against-violence-against-women/

In episode #33 of Talking Radical Radio (October 9, 2013), spoken word activist El Jones speaks about poetry and social change. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2013/10/09/trr-el_jones/

In episode #32 of Talking Radical Radio (October 2, 2013), Deepan Budlakoti and Stan Kupferschmidt talk about the work of the group Justice for Deepan. The former was born in Canada and is being threatened with deportation to a country where he has never lived; the latter is a member of his support committee. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2013/10/02/trr-justice_for_deepan/

In episode #31 of Talking Radical Radio (September 25, 2013), organizers Khatija and Madeleine talk about their work as part of the AKA Autonomous Social Centre in Kingston, Ontario. For a more complete description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2013/09/25/trr-aka_social_centre/

In episode #30 of Talking Radical Radio (September 18, 2013), coffeeshop workers Charlie Huntley and Shelby Kennedy talk about being worker-organizers with the Baristas Rise Up campaign. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2013/09/18/trr-baristas_rise_u/

In episode #29 of Talking Radical Radio (September 11, 2013), activist Jeremy Campbell talks about his work with Regina Water Watch. They've forced the City of Regina into a referendum to keep a new wastewater facility public, and they intend to win it. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2013/09/11/trr-regina_water_watch/

In episode #28 of Talking Radical Radio (September 4, 2013), activist Jackie Hooper and historian Megan Davies talk about the radical early years of the Vancouver Mental Patients Association in the 1970s. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2013/09/04/trr-vancouver_mpa/

In episode #27 of Talking Radical Radio (August 28, 2013), artist and activist Alvis Choi talks about two of their recent projects and about the relationship between art and social change. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2013/08/28/trr-alvis_cho/

In episode #26 of Talking Radical Radio (August 21, 2013), organizer Noah Eidelman talks about the work of the Montreal Childcare Collective to make care for children an integral part of Montreal's vibrant radical activist scene. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2013/08/21/trr-montreal_childcare/

In episode #25 of Talking Radical Radio (August 14, 2013), feminist Julie Lalonde talks about street harassment and the oranizing being done to oppose it by the group Hollaback! Ottawa. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2013/08/14/trr-hollaback/

In episode #24 of Talking Radical Radio (August 7, 2013), Rosalee Longmoore talks about her 15 years as the president of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2013/08/14/trr-saskatchewan_nurses/

In episode #23 of Talking Radical Radio (July 31, 2013), Darlene Necan talks about Biimadasahwin, a project through which she and other grassroots, off-reserve Ojibway people in northwestern Ontario are reclaiming land, building homes, and building power. For a more complete description of the episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2013/08/14/trr-biimadasahwin/