Talking Radical Radio
Talking Radical Radio
Scott Neigh
Talking Radical Radio brings you grassroots voices from across Canada. It features in-depth interview with people involved in a wide range of activism, organizing, and other social change work, and gives them a chance to take a longer view as they talk about what they're doing, how they're doing it, and why they're doing it.
Settlers building decolonial solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en
In episode #494 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Kate Turner and Chantal Pelletier. They are part of the Decolonial Solidarity Campaign, a network of affinity groups across so-called Canada acting in solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en people's struggle against the Coastal Gas Link pipeline by targeting the Royal Bank of Canada, one of the pipeline's main financers. They talk about what it really means to act in solidarity in principled, accountable ways, and about the campaign. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/11/01/radio-settlers-building-decolonial-solidarity-with-the-wetsuweten/
Nov 1, 2022
28 min
Ongoing Wet'suwet'en resistance to the CGL pipeline
In episode #493 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Jennifer Wickham. She is a Cas Yikh (Grizzly Bear House) member in the Gidimt’en Clan of the Wet’suwet’en people, and the media co-ordinator for the Gidimt'en Checkpoint. She talks about her people's ongoing fight against the Coastal Gas Link (CGL) pipeline. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/10/25/radio-ongoing-wetsuweten-resistance-to-the-cgl-pipeline/
Oct 25, 2022
28 min
Anti-racism in smaller cities and towns
In episode #492 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Saleh Waziruddin, an anti-racist activist in St. Catharines, Ontario and an executive committee member of the Niagara Region Anti-Racism Association. They talk about doing locally-focused grassroots anti-racism work in a place like Niagara -- comprised of smaller cities, towns, and rural areas -- and how it differs from anti-racism in larger cities. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/10/18/radio-anti-racism-in-smaller-cities-and-towns/
Oct 18, 2022
28 min
Migrant worker organizing in Nova Scotia
In episode #491 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Stacey Gomez, a migrant justice organizer with No One Is Illegal - Halifax/Kjipuktuk. They talk about the group's work as the first grassroots effort in Atlantic Canada to organize with migrant agricultural workers. (Observant listeners may have noticed that the number of this week's episode is quite a bit higher than last week's -- over the weekend, I discovered two errors in numbering from back in 2019 that meant there had been 17 more episodes than I was counting. I have now gone through all of the SoundCloud posts since that time and fixed them!) For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/10/11/radio-migrant-worker-organizing-in-nova-scotia/
Oct 11, 2022
28 min
Bringing sustainability and justice together in a small community
In episode #490 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews long-time climate campaigner Jason Mogus. They speak not about his climate work but about his involvement in Salt Spring Solutions, a community group on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia that is working to tackle the island's housing crisis, in the face of opposition that is largely framed in environmental terms. They also talk about what relevance the struggle on Salt Spring Island has for the broader environmental and climate movements, and about how crucial it is that those movements bring questions of justice into the core of their work. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/10/04/radio-bringing-sustainability-and-justice-together-in-a-small-community/
Oct 4, 2022
28 min
Feminism in the arts
In episode #489 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Shawna Dempsey. She is a performance and video artist, and also the co-executive director of Mentoring Artists for Women's Art (MAWA), a feminist artist-run centre in Winnipeg. She talks about feminism in the arts and about MAWA's decades of work. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/09/27/radio-feminism-in-the-arts/
Sep 27, 2022
28 min
Older adults and the fight for climate action
In episode #488 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Betty Plewes and Emma Bider. Plewes is a co-founder and steering committee member of Climate Legacy, a group of retired people working together to engage and mobilize other older adults in action to address the climate crisis. Bider is the group's communications coordinator. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/09/20/radio-older-adults-and-the-fight-for-climate-action/
Sep 20, 2022
28 min
British Columbia's general strike that almost was
In episode #487 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews long-time Vancouver writer David Spaner. He recently published a new book, *Solidarity: Canada's Unknown Revolution of 1983* (Ronsdale Press, 2021). The resistance that it documents -- to a right-wing provincial government in British Columbia -- was one of the largest grassroots uprisings in Canadian history and came within a hairsbreadth of becoming a general strike, but it is little remembered today. For a more detailed description, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/09/13/radio-british-columbias-general-strike-that-almost-was/
Sep 13, 2022
28 min
Low-wage workers organizing in Newfoundland
In episode #486 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Mark Nichols. He is an organizer with the Workers' Action Network of Newfoundland and Labrador, which brings together workers in low-wage, precarious jobs to support each other and to fight collectively for decent work for all. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/09/06/radio-low-wage-workers-organizing-in-newfoundland/
Sep 6, 2022
28 min
Practical climate action in Atlantic Canada
In episode #485 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Emma Norton, a climate activist based in Nova Scotia. They talk about her work as the operations director at the ReCover Initaitive and the Atlantic director with the Climate Emergency Unit, and about the crucial interconnection between practical measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and grassroots political work aimed at policy change. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/08/30/radio-practical-climate-action-in-atlantic-canada/
Aug 30, 2022
28 min
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