Aug 5, 2015
Fighting for a $15 minimum wage in British Columbia
Irene Lanzinger, president of the B.C. Federation of Labour, talks about the campaign in her province to raise the minimum wage.
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Jul 29, 2015  From bookstore to community organizing space and activist infrastructureBonnie Heilman and Peter Garden talk about the growth of a new community organizing centre from a grassroots independent bookstore in Saskatoon. |
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Jul 22, 2015  Not yet Canada's Syriza, but a small step in that directionKyle Buott talks about a recent gathering in Halifax of anti-austerity and anti-capitalist organizations from across Canada. |
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Jul 15, 2015  ACSEXE+: Talking disability and sexuality in MontrealAimee Louw and Charli Lessard talk about a new project in Montreal that deals with questions of disability and sexuality. |
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Jul 8, 2015  Saskatchewan: Racist policing, community mobilizationRobyn Pitawanakwat and Andrew Loewen talk about the latest wave of (mostly Indigenous) community mobilization in Regina over longstanding concerns about policing. |
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Jul 1, 2015  Physicians mobilizing in defense of health care for refugeesDr. Hasan Sheikh talks about the work by Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care attempting to reverse the cruel 2012 cuts to health care for refugees. |
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Jun 24, 2015  Reconciling queerness and faith at the Human RITES ConferenceKim Holmes-Younger and Pam Rocker talk about a Calgary conference that brought people from multiple faiths together to discuss LGBTQ experiences of religion. |
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Jun 17, 2015  To defeat austerity, we need solidarityKevin Skerrett talks about the Ottawa-based anti-austerity group Solidarity Against Austerity. |
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Jun 10, 2015  Building Indigenous unity through the Wild Salmon CaravanEddie Gardner and Dawn Morrison talk about the Wild Salmon Caravan, a journey from B.C.'s headwaters to the sea in defence of wild salmon, water and Indigenous sovereignty. |
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Jun 3, 2015  Another politics: Movement-building in the 21st centuryChris Dixon talks about his new book, which explores an emerging radical political current in North American social movements. |
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May 27, 2015  Community and the environment vs. development in Bedford, N.S.Sandra Banfield and Mark Currie talk about the struggle by residents of Bedford, Nova Scotia, to save their community's natural waterfront from infilling and development. |
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May 20, 2015  Opposing militarism outside Canada's largest arms fairRia Heynen, Jo Wood and Matthew Behrens talk about organizing against CANSEC, Canada's largest weapons fair. |
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May 13, 2015  Histories of women in the labour movementJoey Hartman, a labour activist and a proponent of movement-based grassroots history, talks about the history of women in the labour movement. |
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May 6, 2015  Working While Black in Nova ScotiaFolami Jones, Matthew Byard and Ben Sichel talk about a new project responding to anti-Black racism experienced in Nova Scotia workplaces. |
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Apr 29, 2015  More than just a building: Friends of the Khyber defend a community resourceRebecca Rose and Susan Wolf talk about a Halifax campaign to save the Khyber Building, which for decades has housed community initiatives in downtown Halifax. |
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Apr 22, 2015  Ideas on the move: Radical publishing and reading groupsBhaskar Sunkara and Eden Haythornthwaite talk about Jacobin magazine, reading groups, and the circulation of radical ideas. |
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Apr 15, 2015  Pro-worker, anti-racist: The Asian Canadian Labour AllianceAnna Liu and Patricia Chong talk about fighting racism in the labour movement, building labour presence in Asian communities, and working for social justice for all. |
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Apr 8, 2015  Seeking justice for Jermaine Carby, a Black man killed by Ontario policeLa Tanya Grant talks about the Justice for Jermaine Carby committee's work to get justice for her cousin, a Black man killed by police in Ontario last September. |
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Apr 1, 2015  Grassroots community mobilization against the Canada Post cutsWendy Goldsmith and David Heap talk about Londoners for Door to Door and the growing grassroots community momentum in London, Ont., against the cuts to Canada Post. |
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Mar 25, 2015  Grassroots Dene people defending the land in northern SaskatchewanDon Montgrand and Candyce Paul talk about the Northern Dene Trappers Alliance, highway blockades, defending the land, and cultural resurgence. |
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Mar 18, 2015  Transportation not Deportation: A migrant justice victory in VancouverDaniel Tseghay and Daniel Wexel talk about a recent victory in a campaign to make public transit a space of safety rather than fear for undocumented migrants in Vancouver. |
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Mar 11, 2015  The fight against fracking in the Far NorthLorraine Hewlett, Shannon Moore, and Courtney Howard talk about Fracking Action North and the fight against hydraulic fracturing in the Northwest Territories. |
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Mar 4, 2015  Austerity sparks student mobilization on a quiet Manitoba campusKaitlyn Gibson and Ian McDonald talk about the new Student Action Network at the University of Manitoba, and its fight to stop major budget cuts. |
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Feb 25, 2015  HandyDART Riders' Alliance: Vancouver's paratransit riders get organizedCraig Langston and Tim Louis talk with me about the harsh impacts of declining paratransit service levels, and about organizing riders in response. |