Talking Radical Radio brings you grassroots voices from across Canada. Each week, we hear from an active participant in one of this country's many grassroots groups, organizations, movements, and communities-in-struggle to learn about what they do, how they do it, and why they do it. Learn more at http://TalkingRadical.ca/radio/!
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Jul 16, 2019  Fighting the institutionalization of disabled Nova ScotiansMarty Wexler and Claire McNeil talk about the Disability Rights Coalition of Nova Scotia and its work to challenge the institutionalization of people with disabilities in their province. |
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Jul 9, 2019  Choral music as social and environmental justice activismRama DelaRosa talks about the Resistance Rising Choir -- using music to uplift, educate and inspire people to action. |
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Jul 2, 2019  The youth climate strike movement in CanadaEmma Lim and Rebecca Hamilton talk about Climate Strike Canada and the local and national organizing that is building the youth climate strike movement. |
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Jun 25, 2019  Trans youth challenging barriers to gender-affirming health careKaeden Seburn and Jay Burns talk about SAEFTY Ottawa, a group of trans and gender-diverse youth using research and advocacy to reduce barriers youth face in accessing gender-affirming health care. |
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Jun 18, 2019  A gathering of radical health workersAlas Mata, Baj Mukhopadhyay, and Bilal Mamdani talk about the Liberation Health Convergence, which brought radical health workers together in Toronto for five days in May. |
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Jun 11, 2019  Speaking out against Canada's drug warActivist, journalist and drug user Garth Mullins talks about the drug war in Canada, drug user organizing and the new Crackdown podcast. |
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Jun 4, 2019  The long fight against sex discrimination in the Indian ActLynn Gehl talks about the long battle by Indigenous women against sex discrimination in the Indian Act, her own decades in court and the current campaign to get Trudeau to finish the job. |
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May 28, 2019  Feminist art in a digital ageHana Shafi, aka Frizz Kid, talks about her art, her poetry, and her feminist politics. |
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May 21, 2019  Defending campus radio in OntarioJacky Tuinstra Harrison and Barry Rooke talk about #DefendCampusRadio, a campaign responding to changes by Ontario's Conservative government that put the funding of campus radio stations at risk. |
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May 14, 2019  Transformative justice as response to sexual and gendered violenceHirut Melaku and Rachel Zellers talk about the work of the Third Eye Collective, a group of Black women in Montreal developing transformative justice responses to sexual and gendered violence. |
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May 7, 2019  Defending the Northumberland Strait and the communities that depend on itJill Graham-Scanlan talks about the Friends of the Northumberland Strait and its work to protect that body of water from pulp mill effluent. |
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Apr 30, 2019  Reducing the harms that prisons do while working to abolish themRowan Moyes talks about Bar None Winnipeg, their prison rideshare project, and their broader prison abolitionist politics. |
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Apr 23, 2019  Indigenous women rising in the face of violence and injusticeCarol Martin and Sophie Merasty talk about Red Women Rising, a new publication in which Indigenous women of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside talk about injustice, survival, leadership, and making change. |
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Apr 15, 2019  Supporting refugees in a small Quebec border townFrances Ravensbergen talks about the migrant justice group Bridges Not Borders, based in a small Quebec town near an irregular border crossing commonly used by refugees entering Canada from the U.S. |
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Apr 9, 2019  Building the skills of social movement organizersPeter Gibbs talks about Organize BC, an group devoted to building the capacities of people fighting for social and environmental justice in western Canada. |
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Apr 2, 2019  A campaign to raise the minimum wage in Newfoundland and LabradorAlyse Stuart and Keith Dunne talk about the Fight for $15 and Fairness -- Newfoundland and Labrador. |
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Mar 26, 2019  A solidarity fund by and for trans women in MontrealEstelle Davis talks about Taking What We Need, a solidarity fund created by and for trans women living in Montreal. |
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Mar 19, 2019  Radical music, graphic history, and the Winnipeg General StrikeDavid Lester talks about his decades of combining radical politics with music -- including as half of a rock duo -- and art, and about 1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike. |
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Mar 12, 2019  Building tenant power in Ottawa's Herongate neighbourhoodTammy Mast and Kenneth Aliu talk about the Herongate Tenant Coalition's fight against mass evictions, chronic disrepair, rent increases, and gentrification. |
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Mar 5, 2019  Defending reproductive rights in AlbertaThe 1988 Supreme Court Decision legalizing abortion in Canada made history, but Alberta Pro-Choice Coalition board member Kathy Dawson says there is still a long way to go 31 years later. |
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Feb 26, 2019  Fighting harassment and discrimination in the workplaceLiane Tessier and Judy Haiven talk about Equity Watch, a Halifax-based grassroots organization devoted to fight bullying, harassment, and discrimination in workplaces. |
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Feb 19, 2019  John Clarke's decades of militant anti-poverty organizing in OntarioJohn Clarke recently retired after almost three decades as an organizer with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty. In this episode, he looks back on that long involvement. |
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Feb 12, 2019  Sex-positive parenting and social justiceMike Reynolds of Everyday Girl Dad and Frédérique Chabot of Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights talk about sex-positive parenting. |
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Feb 5, 2019  A successful campaign against medical colonialismPediatric emergency physician Samir Shaheen-Hussain talks about a recent successful campaign against an aspect of medical colonialism and racism in Quebec. |