Talking Radical Radio

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.

Paul Tsuma and Aimee Louw talk about a new group that is challenging both physical barriers and the broader barriers of ableism in Montreal.

Sylvia McFadden and Carla Bergman talk about The Purple Thistle Centre, a youth-run arts and activism space in Vancouver.

Jennifer West and Catherine Abreu talk about their work with NOFRAC, the Nova Scotia Fracking Resource and Action Coalition.

Scott Price talks about the history of the labour movement and feminist struggle within the labour movement in Manitoba, and about the importance of oral history for social movements.

Audrey Huntley and Krysta Williams talk about a new community-based database project that is part of working against the violence experienced by indigenous women and towards decolonization.

Lead organizer Scott Jackson talks about how IAMAW District 78 -- historically a manufacturing union -- has refocused its organizing on smaller, non-traditional workplaces.

Kevin O'Reilly talks about his work on mining and resource issues with multi-issue, Yellowknife-based coalition Alternatives North.

Julie Michaud talks about a student campaign against sexual and gender violence at Concordia University and the important victory it recently won.