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 15, 2014  Exposing and challenging environmental racism in Nova ScotiaIngrid Waldron and Lorne Julien talk about a project that seeks to understand and to build capacity to challenge environmetnal racism in African Nova Scotian and Mi'qmak communities. |
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Oct 8, 2014  Uncovering Calgary's queer historyTeresa Maillie and Kevin Allen talk about the work of the community-based Calgary Gay History Project. |
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Oct 1, 2014  Meet the group that put abortion access back on the New Brunswick agendaKathleen Pye talks about Reproductive Justice New Brunswick's success at making access to abortion a key issue in the recent provincial election. |
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Sep 24, 2014  The policing of protest: From bad to worseOrganizer and scholar Lesley Wood talks about her new book examining the disturbing shifts in how police in Canada and the U.S. respond to protest. |
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Sep 17, 2014  A vision of community-controlled, multi-media centres across the countryCathy Edwards talks about the work of Canadian Association of Community Television Users and Stations to radically change the community broadcast media landscape in Canada. |
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Sep 10, 2014  Drug users mobilizing for social justice and harm reduction in VancouverHugh Lampkin talks about the work of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users in struggles for social justice and harm reduction. |
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Sep 3, 2014  Exploring the radical imagination in HalifaxAlex Khasnabish and Max Haiven talk about their work to understand and support the role of imagination in struggles for social justice. |
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Aug 27, 2014  A new model of multi-issue social justice organizing in OshawaTiffany Balducci and Jim Freeman talk about We Are Oshawa, a new multi-issue, membership-based social justice organization in a small Ontario city. |
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Aug 20, 2014  Laying groundwork for resisting tar sands pipelines in QuebecAurore Fauret and Lily Schwarzbaum talk about a month-long climate justice walk in Quebec that lay important groundwork for ongoing anti-pipeline mobilizations. |
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Aug 13, 2014  The Peoples' Social Forum: A pan-Canadian/Quebec/Indigenous movement convergenceSakura Saunders and Greg Macdougall talk about the Peoples' Social Forum, a historic gathering of movements happening in Ottawa from August 21 to 24. |
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Aug 6, 2014  Islam and social justice at Toronto's Noor Cultural CentreSamira Kanji and Azeezah Kanji talk about the work for social justice at the Noor Cultural Centre in Toronto. |
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Jul 30, 2014  Fighting racism and settler colonialism in Thunder BayAnishinaabeg activists Jana-Rae Yerxa and Damien Lee talk about the struggle against racism and settler colonialism in Thunder Bay. |
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Jul 23, 2014  Activist seniors raising a ruckus in EdmontonCarol Wodak and Noel Somerville talk about a grassroots group of older adults in Edmonton who work for social justice. |
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Jul 16, 2014  Kicking war off campus: Demilitarize McGillKevin Paul and Arabella Colombier talk about student organizing to get military research off the campus of McGill University in Montreal. |
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Jul 9, 2014  Seeking justice for Ottawa's janitorsOn this week's episode of Talking Radical Radio, organizers Christine Bro and Doug Nesbitt talk about the "Justice for Janitors" campaign in Ottawa. |
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Jul 2, 2014  Feminist summer camp in SaskatoonTanya Andrusieczko talks about what it took to make Saskatoon's first-ever feminist summer camp a reality. |
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Jun 25, 2014  The perils of NGOization for Canadian social movementsOrganizer and author Dru Oja Jay talks about how NGOs have undermined, prevented, and co-opted grassroots social movement organizing in Canada. |
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Jun 19, 2014  Fighting a pipeline and toxic colonialismVanessa Gray of Aamjiwnaang First Nation talks about the struggles against Chemical Valley, the Line 9 pipeline, and toxic colonialism more broadly. |
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Jun 11, 2014  Radical arts, radical memoryStefan Christoff talks about the work with multiple cultural and artistic forms by the Howl! Arts Collective in Montreal as part of broader movements for radical social change. |
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Jun 4, 2014  Small-town Saskatchewan fights back against the mining industryKen Crush, Cathy Holtslander and Lyle Orchard talk about the fight against Fortune Minerals' plans to build an ore processing plant between two small Saskatchewan towns. |
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May 28, 2014  Against gentrification in VancouverOn this week's episode of Talking Radical Radio, Jean Swanson and Phoenix talk about their work against the gentrification of the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood in Vancouver. |
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May 21, 2014  A rad queer and trans resurgence in HalifaxOn this week's episode of Talking Radical Radio, organizer Jude Ashburn talks about a recent upsurge in radical queer and trans organizing in Halifax. |
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May 14, 2014  A climate scientist taking it to the peopleClimate scientist Paul Beckwith talks about his research and his work to raise public consciousness about climate change. |
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May 7, 2014  Individual injustice, collective struggle: Examples from migrant justice organizingDeepan Budlakoti and Syed Hussan talk about building individual struggles against injustice into collective migrant justice movements. |