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 23, 2013  End immigration detention: Supporting unjustly detained migrantsMina Ramos and Macdonald Scott talk about organizing on the outside in support of the largest collective resistance by detained migrants in Canadian history, going on right now. |
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Oct 16, 2013  Men working with men against violence against womenIan Ford talks about the work of the I Can MANifest Change project with men and boys to end violence against women, and towards rethinking masculinity. |
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Oct 9, 2013  Radical poetry: An interview with Halifax's El JonesEl Jones, Halifax's poet laureate, talks about her poetry, about her activism, and about how it doesn't really make much sense to treat them as two separate things. |
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Oct 2, 2013  Fighting an unjust deportation: Justice for DeepanCanadian-born Deepan Budlakoti is fighting the threat of an unjust deportation with the support of the Justice for Deepan committee. He and organizer Stan Kupferschmidt talk about their work. |
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Sep 25, 2013  Building lasting radical institutions: The AKA Autonomous Social Centre in Kingston, OntarioKhatija and Madeleine of the AKA Autonomous Social Centre in Kingston, Ontario, talk about the slow, long-term work of building radical institutions and infrastructure. |
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Sep 18, 2013  Coffee shop workers in Halifax get organized: Baristas Rise UpCharlie Huntley and Shelby Kennedy, baristas and worker-organizers in Halifax, talk about an exciting new campaign that aims to organize coffee shop workers across the city. |
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Sep 11, 2013  The fight to keep water public: Regina Water WatchJeremy Campbell talks about the efforts by Regina Water Watch to keep a new wastewater facility public -- they have forced a referendum, and they intend to win it. |
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Sep 4, 2013  Remembering a radical experiment: The Vancouver Mental Patients Association of the 1970sJackie Hooper and Megan Davies talk about the radical early years of the Vancouver Mental Patients Association (or MPA) in the 1970s, and about a recent film project to recover some of that history. |
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Aug 28, 2013  Arts-based activism in downtown Toronto's ChinatownArtist Alvis Choi talks about work on two recent change-focused projects in downtown Toronto's Chinatown, and about the role of art in social change. |
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Aug 21, 2013  Making childcare integral to our movements: The Montreal Childcare CollectiveNoah Eidelman talks about the Montreal Childcare Collective's efforts to make care work integral to how radical organizing happens in Montreal. |
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Aug 14, 2013  Hollaback: Fighting street harassment in OttawaJulie Lalonde of Hollaback! Ottawa talks about street harassment and the struggle against it in the nation's capital, including the group's ongoing campaign against harassment on public transit. |
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Aug 7, 2013  Nursing labour: The Saskatchewan Union of NursesRosalee Longmoore recently retired after 15 years as president of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses. She talks about changes in the health system and struggles by nurses over the course of her career. |
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Jul 31, 2013  Biimadasahwin: Reclaiming land, building homes, building powerDarlene Necan, elected leader of a group of grassroots, off-reserve Ojibway people in northwestern Ontario, talks about her people's struggles and about the Biimadasahwin cabin-building project. |
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Jul 24, 2013  Building worker co-ops in CanadaHazel Corcoran talks about her work with the Canadian Worker Co-op Federation to get the resources in place to support worker co-ops, enterprises owned and democratically run by workers. |
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Jul 17, 2013  Women organizing against poverty and violence in a poor Toronto neighbourhoodOn this week's episode of Talking Radical Radio, organizer Liisa Schofield talks about her work with the ad hoc Downtown East Women group. |
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Jul 10, 2013  TESA: Fighting for trans equality in AlbertaJan Buterman talks about his work as a founding member of the Trans Equality Society of Alberta, or TESA, and his own fight against being fired for transitioning. |
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Jul 3, 2013  Kwentong Bayan: Community comics with, about and for migrant domestic workersAlthea Balmes and Jo SiMalaya Alcampo talk about their work on a community comic book made in collaboration with Filipina migrant workers in Canada's Live-in Caregiver Program. |
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Jun 26, 2013  Women Transforming Cities, in Vancouver and beyondEllen Woodsworth talks about her organization's work to make Vancouver, and cities across Canada and around the world, more responsive to the needs and participation of women and girls. |
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Jun 18, 2013  Environmental organizing across distance: Lessons from NorthwatchOrganizer Brennain Lloyd talks about her organization's work to build capacity, connections and coalition across the quarter-million square kilometres of northeastern Ontario. |
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Jun 12, 2013  Towards a new model for worker organizing: The Immigrant Workers Centre in MontrealOrganizer Mostafa Henaway reflects on how workers' centres can help the labour movement adapt to a world of increasingly precarious work and the erosion of mainstream union power. |
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Jun 5, 2013  Stalwart against war: The Saskatoon Peace CoalitionCo-chairs Trudi Gunia and Michael Murphy reflect on their relentless pro-peace organizing on countless local, national and international issues. |
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May 29, 2013  Solidarity Halifax: Experiments in solidarityBrian Crouse talks about Solidarity Halifax -- an experiment in building an organization that is multi-issue, democratic, membership-based, and radical. |
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May 22, 2013  Watching the cops in WinnipegTeddy Zegeye-Gebrehiwot talks about Winnipeg Copwatch's work to deter police violence, support survivors of police misconduct, and address what he calls "the systemic problem of police." |
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May 15, 2013  Mad Pride in TorontoFour organizers with Mad Pride Toronto talk about what it means to celebrate the struggles, arts, culture and heritage of people who have experienced the mental health system. |