Oct 20, 2020
Standing up for students and public education in Alberta
Medeana Moussa and Wing Li talk about the work of Support Our Students Alberta defending the public education system.
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Oct 13, 2020  Grassroots abortion support in Atlantic CanadaShannon Hardy and Bridget Graham talk about the work of Abortion Support Services Atlantic. |
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Oct 6, 2020  Social justice in the wake of the pandemicSusan Campbell and Angie Lynch talk about Just Recovery Ontario, a campaign pushing for a strengthened post-pandemic social safety net. |
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Sep 29, 2020  Direct action in defence of old-growth forestCarole Tootill and Joshua Wright talk about the Fairy Creek blockades, which are defending some of the last big-tree, old-growth forest on Vancouver Island from clear-cut logging. |
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Sep 22, 2020  Stopping Canada from spending $19 billion on new fighter jetsTamara Lorincz and Brent Patterson talk about the campaign to stop the Trudeau Liberals from spending $19 billion on new fighter jets. |
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Sep 15, 2020  Pushing Canada's arts system in anti-racist and decolonial directionsFrance Trépanier and Chris Creighton-Kelly talk about the work of Primary Colours/Couleurs primaires to make anti-racist and decolonial change in Canada's arts system. |
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Sep 8, 2020  Unionizing during the pandemicChristine Bro and Quentin Rowe-Codner talk about the Unions Are Essential campaign and about a recent successful organizing drive. |
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Sep 1, 2020  Campaigning for affordable child-care spaces in B.C.Sharon Gregson talks about the $10aDay campaign for affordable child care in British Columbia. |
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Aug 25, 2020  Literature, art and the remembrance of state violenceShahrzad Mojab talks about "Lives Lost: In Search of a New Tomorrow," a translation of a poem by Saeed Yousef that remembers the massacre of political prisoners in Iran in the 1980s. |
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Aug 11, 2020  The growing movement for free public transitLabour and community organizer Cole Rockarts talks about the work of Free Transit Edmonton. |
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Aug 4, 2020  Opposing Islamophobia in all of its intersectionsSidrah Ahmad-Chan and Niya Abdullahi talk about Rivers of Hope, a project that aims to use education to dismantle Islamophobia, racism and all related forms of oppression. |
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Jul 28, 2020  'Bricks and Glitter' -- radical queer music, arts and politicsMusician Max ZB talks about Bricks and Glitter, a community arts festival in Toronto that "celebrates Two-Spirit, trans, and queer talent, ingenuity, caring, anger and abundance." |
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Jul 21, 2020  Anti-racism in Canada's TV and film industryGillian Müller and Tony Tran talk about the work of BIPOC TV and Film to increase the representation of Black, Indigenous and people of colour in Canada's TV and film industry. |
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Jul 14, 2020  Farmers fighting climate changeOrganic vegetable farmer Brent Preston talks about the work of a new national coalition called Farmers for Climate Solutions. |
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Jul 7, 2020  Radical publishers take on the worldFazeela Jiwa of Fernwood Publishing and David Bush of Between the Lines talk about the new Radical Publishers Alliance. |
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Jun 30, 2020  'Jail never saved me. And jail never saves anyone'Souheil Benslimane talks about the work of the Criminalization and Punishment Education Project to support prisoners and to work against the injustices of policing and prisons. |
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Jun 23, 2020  Women-led adult education for radical social changeAdriana Salazar and Miigam'agan talk about Righting Relations, a pan-Canadian, women-led network of adult educators working for radical social change. |
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Jun 16, 2020  Disability justice, pandemic mutual aid, and fighting to defund the policeSarah Jama talks about disability justice, large-scale mutual aid during the pandemic, and the struggle against anti-Black racism and police brutality. |
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Jun 9, 2020  Fighting austerity in Manitoba in the middle of a pandemicBrendan Devlin and Shaden Abusaleh talk about Communities Not Cuts Manitoba and the work of figuring out how to oppose austerity under the limitations imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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Jun 2, 2020  Unions and online technology from the 1980s to COVID-19Long-time trade unionist Derek Blackadder talks about the labour movement's use of new technologies over the decades and how that relates to today's pandemic-inspired push to move everything online. |
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May 26, 2020  Protecting ecologically sensitive wetlands on Vancouver IslandEzra Morse and Ray Woroniak talk about the Qualicum Nature Preservation Society and its work to oppose development of an ecologically sensitive wetland on Vancouver Island. |
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May 19, 2020  Sharing grassroots histories and radical ideas through comicsIllustrator nicole marie burton talks about political comics and about her latest project, "Enemy Alien: A True Story of Life Behind Barbed Wire." |
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May 12, 2020  Taking action to improve disability benefits in OntarioKyle Vose and Andrea Hatala talk about the work of the ODSP Action Coalition organizing recipients of disability benefits in Ontario. |
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May 5, 2020  Grassroots Indigenous resistance to the Trans Mountain tar sands pipelineWill George, a member of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, talks about his involvement in grassroots opposition to the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline expansion project. |