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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Oct 8, 2019  Oshawa stands up for workers, communities and the climateRebecca Keetch and Tiffany Balducci talk about Green Jobs Oshawa and the fight to get their city's soon-closing automobile assembly plant taken into public hands and re-tooled for green production. |
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Oct 1, 2019  Fighting racism and xenophobia during the federal electionKaren Cocq talks about the work of the Migrant Rights Network to fight racism and xenophobia during the federal election campaign and beyond. |
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Sep 24, 2019  Raising money for First Nations' legal challenges to the Trans Mountain pipelineMaia Wikler talks about the Pull Together campaign, which is raising money to support First Nations' legal challenges to the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline expansion project. |
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Sep 17, 2019  Histories of struggle by workers in AlbertaAlvin Finkel talks about the grassroots historical work of the Alberta Labour History Institute and about his new book, "Compassion: A Global History of Social Policy." |
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Sep 10, 2019  Challenging the harms of hydroelectricity projectsHydro isn't as sustainable an energy source as it might look. Ramona Neckoway and Stephane McLachlan talk about the work of Wa Ni Ska Tan: An alliance of hydro-impacted Indigenous communities. |
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Sep 3, 2019  Revitalizing Indigenous languages and culturesW̱SÁNEĆ and Sḵx̱wu7mesh woman Tiffany Joseph talks to Scott Neigh about her peoples' history, her work revitalizing her language and culture, and restoring the land. |
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Aug 27, 2019  Movement Defence Committee -- the radical legal collective supporting protesters in TorontoSometimes, in the course of political action, people get arrested. Legal worker Macdonald Scott talks about the work of the Movement Defence Committee. |
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Aug 13, 2019  Towards an anti-racist and decolonial left in QuebecLawyer and activist May Chiu talks about Pour une dignité politique, a new formation looking to build an anti-racist and decolonial left in Quebec. |
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Aug 6, 2019  Canadian Catholics mobilizing in response to the climate crisisMarissa Vertrees and Agnes Richard talk about the Global Catholic Climate Movement and about its Canadian chapter. |
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Jul 30, 2019  A big win against discriminatory school dress codesHigh school teacher Kate Curtis of the End Dress Codes Collective talks about this spring's big victory at the Toronto District School Board. |
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Jul 23, 2019  The Populous Map Project -- grassroots history and archiving in British ColumbiaLaura Cuthbert talks about the Populous Map project and its work to preserve and share marginalized histories in British Columbia. |
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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. |