Talking Radical Radio

Kevin Paul and Arabella Colombier talk about student organizing to get military research off the campus of McGill University in Montreal.

On this week's episode of Talking Radical Radio, organizers Christine Bro and Doug Nesbitt talk about the "Justice for Janitors" campaign in Ottawa.

Tanya Andrusieczko talks about what it took to make Saskatoon's first-ever feminist summer camp a reality.

Vanessa Gray of Aamjiwnaang First Nation talks about the struggles against Chemical Valley, the Line 9 pipeline, and toxic colonialism more broadly.

Stefan 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.

Ken 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.

On 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.

On this week's episode of Talking Radical Radio, organizer Jude Ashburn talks about a recent upsurge in radical queer and trans organizing in Halifax.

Climate scientist Paul Beckwith talks about his research and his work to raise public consciousness about climate change.

Deepan Budlakoti and Syed Hussan talk about building individual struggles against injustice into collective migrant justice movements.

Sonia Singh and Anthony Tambureno talk about the province-wide struggle to increase the minimum wage in Ontario to a living wage of $14/hour.

Valerie Smith and Jarem Sawatsky talk about their Winnipeg-based summer school for peacebuilders from Canada and around the world.

Zoe Blunt talks about the radical environmentalism and indigenous solidarity work of the Vancouver Island Community Forest Action Network.

Parker Mah talks about "Being Chinese in Quebec," a documentary film about how young Chinese Quebeckers experience identity, community, race and the place they call home.

Donald Altman talks about the work of the Alliance for Affordable Co-operative Housing in the face of a looming threat to social housing in Canada.

Anna Willats and Sean Lee-Popham talk about The Groundswell Community Justice Trust Fund, a new experiment in funding grassroots organizing in Ontario.

Roger Annis talks about a Vancouver group that is experimenting with new ways to bring together thought and action that are both pro-worker and pro-environment.

Saira Chhibber talks about her local, CUPE 1281, and about a recently ended lockout of some of its members.

Caitlin Craven and Josee Oliphant talk about organizing to make Hamilton, Ontario, into Canada's second 'sanctuary city.'

Lyn Adamson, Dewan Afzal and Rita Bijons talk about Climatefast and its strategic use of fasting as a way to contribute to the broader process of building a mass movement against climate change.

Miles Howe reflects on the role and meaning of grassroots journalism, based on his experience in covering Indigenous-led resistance to fracking and to colonization in New Brunswick in the last year.