Aug 21, 2013
Making childcare integral to our movements: The Montreal Childcare Collective
Noah 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. |
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May 8, 2013  Building warships in Halifax, and the campaign against itTamara Lorincz on her campaign against the federal expenditure of $25 billion to build warships in Halifax rather than to meet pressing environmental and social justice needs. |
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May 1, 2013  How can we organize like Quebec students? Lessons from Concordia -- Part 2Part 2 of Rushdia Mehreen on how general assemblies successfully mobilized a previously minimally mobilized school during last year's student strike. |
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Apr 24, 2013  How can we organize like Quebec students? Lessons from Concordia -- Part 1Part 1 of Rushdia Mehreen on how general assemblies successfully mobilized a previously minimally mobilized school during last year's student strike. |
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Apr 17, 2013  Decolonizing music: The R3 CollectiveRosina Kazi and Amai Kuda talk about the R3 Collective, a group of Toronto-based musicians and performers dedicated to social justice and to decolonization. |
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Apr 10, 2013  Climate-justice organizing with an anti-colonial focusTeresa Diewart of Rising Tide Vancouver/Coast Salish Territories talks about her group's emphasis on movement-building, direct action, and support of indigenous struggles as it opposes climate change. |
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Apr 3, 2013  Shop-floor organizing in the non-profit sector: Radical lessons from Northern AlbertaWorker/organizer David Stannton reflects on the challenges of building power on the shop-floor in the not-for-profit agency sector, based on some recent successes in his workplace. |
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Mar 27, 2013  Getting Women's Studies into Ontario high schools: A grassroots feminist victorySheetal Rawal and Dilani Mohan talk about their involvement in eight years of struggle by the Miss G Project to bring provincial curriculum in women's and gender studies to Ontario high schools. |
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Mar 20, 2013  Echoes of Africville: The struggle to preserve St. Pat's-Alexandra School in HalifaxRev. Rhonda Britton of Cornwallis Street Baptist Church talks about the struggle by the Black community in north-end Halifax to save the St. Patrick's-Alexandra school building as a community space. |
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Mar 13, 2013  Infrastructure for Change: Gerald Wheatley and Calgary's Arusha CentreThis Calgary organization offers supports and infrastructure to a broad range of social change initiatives in the city, spawns new projects, and holds to a non-hierarchical organizational form. |