Oct 21, 2015
Opposing the uranium industry and 'nuclear colonization' in Saskatchewan
Candyce Paul talks about the work of the Committee for Future Generations to oppose the uranium industry in northern Saskatchewan.
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Oct 14, 2015  Defending public services during the election and beyondWendy Goldsmith and Dru Oja Jay talk about the work of the new national organization Friends of Public Services. |
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Oct 7, 2015  Grassroots feminist moms challenging the child welfare systemAlicia Owen and Sheryl Jarvis talk about Community Action for Families, and its work to support moms and their kids and to challenge the child welfare system. |
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Sep 30, 2015  Extractivism, colonialism, and building a health justice movement in CanadaDr. Baj Mukhopadhyay talks about the Canadian chapter of the global People's Health Movement. |
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Sep 23, 2015  Fighting for access to education for undocumented migrants in MontrealSteve Baird talks about the Education Across Borders collective and the fight to win unimpeded access to school for undocumented migrant children. |
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Sep 16, 2015  A summit for radical worker-organizers in TorontoMia Sopapilla and Jordan House talk about the Working For Each Other, Working For Ourselves summit for radical worker-organizers in service-related jobs. |
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Sep 9, 2015  Grassroots revitalization of Indigenous languages and traditional knowledgeChristi Belcourt talks about the Onaman Collective's work to bring youth together with Elders, traditional knowledge, and language. |
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Sep 2, 2015  Demanding reparations for slavery: Canadian organizing within a global struggleCikiah Thomas, chair of the Global African Congress, talks about Canadian participation in the worldwide struggle for reparations for slavery. |
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Aug 26, 2015  Project Slut: Young women challenging rape culture, slut shaming, and high school dress codesAndy Villanueva and Kerin Bethel-John talk about student organizing against dress codes in Toronto high schools. |
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Aug 19, 2015  Activists meeting, learning, and recharging in rural Nova ScotiaHillary Lindsay and Omri Haiven talk about the Tatamagouche Summer Free School that happens each August on Nova Scotia's north shore. |
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Aug 12, 2015  A new grassroots resource for settlers to learn about Canada's colonial present and pastMonique Woroniak and Liz Carlson talk about a new website that supports settlers who are educating ourselves about Canada's deeply colonial reality. |
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Aug 5, 2015  Fighting for a $15 minimum wage in British ColumbiaIrene 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. |