Talking Radical Radio

Kyle Buott talks about a recent gathering in Halifax of anti-austerity and anti-capitalist organizations from across Canada.

Aimee Louw and Charli Lessard talk about a new project in Montreal that deals with questions of disability and sexuality.

Robyn Pitawanakwat and Andrew Loewen talk about the latest wave of (mostly Indigenous) community mobilization in Regina over longstanding concerns about policing.

Dr. Hasan Sheikh talks about the work by Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care attempting to reverse the cruel 2012 cuts to health care for refugees.

Kim Holmes-Younger and Pam Rocker talk about a Calgary conference that brought people from multiple faiths together to discuss LGBTQ experiences of religion.

Kevin Skerrett talks about the Ottawa-based anti-austerity group Solidarity Against Austerity.

Eddie 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.

Chris Dixon talks about his new book, which explores an emerging radical political current in North American social movements.

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.

Ria Heynen, Jo Wood and Matthew Behrens talk about organizing against CANSEC, Canada's largest weapons fair.

Joey Hartman, a labour activist and a proponent of movement-based grassroots history, talks about the history of women in the labour movement.

Folami Jones, Matthew Byard and Ben Sichel talk about a new project responding to anti-Black racism experienced in Nova Scotia workplaces.

Rebecca Rose and Susan Wolf talk about a Halifax campaign to save the Khyber Building, which for decades has housed community initiatives in downtown Halifax.

Bhaskar Sunkara and Eden Haythornthwaite talk about Jacobin magazine, reading groups, and the circulation of radical ideas.

Anna 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.

La 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.

Wendy 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.

Don Montgrand and Candyce Paul talk about the Northern Dene Trappers Alliance, highway blockades, defending the land, and cultural resurgence.

Daniel 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.

Lorraine Hewlett, Shannon Moore, and Courtney Howard talk about Fracking Action North and the fight against hydraulic fracturing in the Northwest Territories.

Kaitlyn Gibson and Ian McDonald talk about the new Student Action Network at the University of Manitoba, and its fight to stop major budget cuts.

Craig Langston and Tim Louis talk with me about the harsh impacts of declining paratransit service levels, and about organizing riders in response.