Talking Radical Radio

In episode #510 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interview Saima Desai, Dave Gray-Donald, and Sharmeen Khan. They are all long-time grassroots media-makers – mostly in projects towards the more activist and movement-grounded end of the sector. They talk about their work, about the current state of grassroots media in so-called Canada, and about their vision for what we need to be doing to strengthen both media and movements oriented towards justice and collective liberation. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2023/02/28/radio-the-future-of-grassroots-media-in-canada/

In episode #509 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Eugene Lefrancois, Steve Mantis, and Janet Paterson. They are are injured workers living in Thunder Bay, Ontario, on the north shore of Lake Superior. Lefrancois is the president of the Thunder Bay and District Injured Workers Support Group, while Mantis is that group's treasurer. And Paterson is the president of the Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups. They talk about the issues faced by injured workers in Ontario, and about their involvement in peer support, public education, and advocacy. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2023/02/21/radio-injured-workers-fighting-for-compensation-and-care/

In episode #508 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Emily Eaton and Bronwen Tucker. They are two of the six co-authors of *The End of This World: Climate Justice in So-Called Canada* (Between the Lines, 2023), which outlines a framework for working towards not only a just transition away from fossil fuels but an explicitly *decolonial* just transition. They talk about the intertwined character of the climate crisis and colonization, about the book, and about the struggle for a decolonial just transition. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2023/02/14/radio-a-framework-for-a-decolonial-just-transition/

In episode #507 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Victoria Romero, Emily Tang, and Matthew Johnson. Romero and Tang are university students and members of the National Youth Advisory Council for Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights. Johnson is the director of education for MediaSmarts. They talk about issues of mis- and disinformation when it comes to sexual health and rights, and about this year's Sexual and Reproductive Health Awareness Week (or SRH Week) campaign. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2023/02/07/radio-challenging-mis-and-disinformation-about-sexual-health-and-rights/

In episode #506 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Hailey Yasmeen Dash and Mae Mason of the Asilu Collective, which Dash described as "a grassroots abolitionist collective fighting and organizing for police-free schools, but also policing-free schools, and to eliminate policing culture, infrastructure, and practices in schools across Ottawa." They talk about the group's origins, its successful campaign to end the School Resource Officer program in Ottawa schools, and its shift to a broader focus on the problem of not just police but *policing* in schools. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2023/01/31/radio-from-police-free-schools-to-policing-free-schools/

In episode #505 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Jacqueline Lee-Tam and Sara Adams of the Climate Justice Organizing Hub. They talk about the origins of the Hub and about its work supporting grassroots organizers across so-called Canada. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2023/01/24/radio-infrastructure-and-support-for-climate-justice-organizing-across-canada/

In episode #504 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Camila Fisher and Peter Zimmer of the Halifax Cycling Coalition. They talk about the challenges that cyclists face in Halifax and about the advocacy that the coalition is doing to make things better. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2023/01/17/radio-advocacy-for-halifax-cyclists/

In episode #503 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Anishinaabe cartographer Steve DeRoy, a co-founder of the Indigenous Mapping Collective. They talk about the importance of mapping and about the collective's work to build Indigenous peoples' capacity to, as their website puts it, "map their lands, share their stories, and decolonize place and space." For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2023/01/10/radio-decolonizing-and-indigenizing-the-map/ To learn about major changes coming to Talking Radical Radio in the next couple of months, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2023/01/01/big-changes-for-talking-radical/

In episode #502 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Shawn Tse, an artist, filmmaker, and organizer based in Edmonton, Alberta. They talk about the CanAsian Arts Network, a digitally-facilitated network of Asian Canadian artists, cultural workers, and organizations that aims to catalyze collaboration and build visibility, equity, impact, and representation. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2023/01/03/radio-building-visibility-equity-and-impact-for-asian-canadian-artists/ To learn about major changes coming to Talking Radical Radio in the next couple of months, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2023/01/01/big-changes-for-talking-radical/

The following is a rebroadcast of episode #481 of Talking Radical Radio, originally broadcast in July 2022. In it, Scott Neigh interviews Simran Kaur Dhunna and Bikram Singh. They are members of the Naujawan Support Network, a group of international students and immigrant workers who are challenging the exploitation and mistreatment that their members face using protest, mutual support, and collective direct action. They talk about how they directly confront the employers, landlords, immigration consultants, and other people who exploit them, and why that is such an important part of workers building power and winning victories. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/12/27/rebroadcast-immigrant-workers-confronting-the-people-who-exploit-them/

In episode #501 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sandee Lovas and Silke Force. They are members of the Alliance Against Poverty, a grassroots anti-poverty group based in Kitchener-Waterloo, a city about an hour southwest of Toronto in southern Ontario. They speak about the impact of poverty on their lives and their community, and about the group's campaigns around public transit, housing and homelessness, and other issues. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/12/20/radio-the-hard-slow-work-of-opposing-poverty-in-an-era-of-growing-crisis/

In episode #500 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Aaron Devor, the Chair in Transgender Studies at the University of Victoria. They talk about the Transgender Archives at UVic, the largest archive in the world of material related to trans people, to research on trans issues, and to struggles by trans communities. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/12/13/radio-preserving-trans-histories/

In episode #499 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Emily Dwyer and Aidan Gilchrist-Blackwood. Dwyer is the policy director at the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability (CNCA), and Gilchirst-Blackwood is its network coordinator. The CNCA is a broad network of Canadian civil society organizations – including labour, human rights, faith-based, and environmental organizations of a wide range of kinds and sizes from across the country – that are working to ensure that Canadian companies respect human rights and the environment when working abroad. They talk about the network's origins and about its past and present campaigns, including current efforts to get the federal government to pass human rights and environmental due diligence legislation. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/12/06/radio-forcing-canadian-companies-to-respect-human-rights/

In episode #498 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Heather Hanwell, Kate Laing, and "Hannah". They are members of Ontario School Safety, a group of Ontario residents, mostly parents, who are committed to ensuring that the province's schools are safe enough for students, teachers, and other education workers, in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. They talk about Ontario's response to COVID in schools so far, about the many things the province should be doing but isn't, and about the legal challenge that they plan to launch to get the provincial government to make schools safer. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/11/29/radio-a-legal-challenge-to-keep-ontario-students-safe-from-covid-19/

In episode #497 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Kerri Claire Neil. She is an activist in St. John's, Newfoundland, and the co-chair of the Social Justice Co-operative NL, an activist organization whose members work on a wide range of social, political, and environmental issues. They talk about why the group is a co-operative, the many struggles its members are involved in, and their “Revolution of Care Manifesto.” For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/11/22/radio-working-for-a-multi-issue-revolution-of-care-in-newfoundland/

In episode #496 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Stefan Christoff, a musician and long-time activist based in Tiohti:áke, or Montreal. Christoff is the co-ordinator of Musicians for Palestine, a network of musicians from around the world committed to speaking up in support of Palestinian human rights. He talks about the work involved in building a global initiative of this sort, and about the network's most recent statement, which was released in September 2022. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/11/15/radio-mobilizing-musicians-around-the-world-in-support-of-palestine/

In episode #495 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Debbie Owusu-Akyeeah and Gaëlle Muderi. They are involved in the Ottawa People's Commission on the Convoy Occupation, Owusu-Akyeeah as a commissioner and Muderi as project coordinator. The commission is a grassroots, nonpartisan initiative to listen to the voices of Ottawa residents in order to chronicle what happened in the city during and after February's convoy protest, and to document its impacts on the people who live there. The goal is to contribute to community healing and justice, and to produce a report that, unlike the other inquiries and commissions related to the convoy, will prioritize the experiences of residents. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/11/08/radio-seeking-healing-justice-and-change-in-the-wake-of-the-convoy-occupation/

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/

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/

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/

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/

In episode #473 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/

In episode #472 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/

In episode #471 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/

In episode #470 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/

In episode #469 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/

In episode #468 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/

The following is a rebroadcast of episode #434 of Talking Radical Radio, originally broadcast in December 2021. In it, Scott Neigh interviews Breanne Lavallee-Heckert, Chantale Garand, and Kianna Durston. They are Métis people based in Winnipeg and members of Red River Echoes, a collective of Métis people that is focused on grassroots organizing, land back, and the active reclamation of Métis sovereignty in Winnipeg. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/08/23/rebroadcast-grassroots-organizing-by-metis-people-in-winnipeg/

In episode #467 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Dev Ramsawakh and Kate Welsh. They are co-creators of the CRIP Collective, a small group of Toronto-based disabled educators and artists who do anti-ableism, anti-oppression, and disability justice-related workshops, and various other kinds of community building with disabled people, using an intersectional approach. They talk about disability, ableism, and the collective's use of education as a tool for change. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/08/16/radio-anti-ableism-and-disability-justice-education/

In episode #466 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Mili Roy and Angela Bischoff. They are involved, in different capacities, in the Ontario Climate Emergency Campaign, a broad, loose, non-partisan coalition of individuals and groups working hard to get Ontario to improve its response to the climate crisis. They talk about the crisis, about the campaign's 12-point Climate Action Plan to address it, and about the strengths and weaknesses of working in a broad coalition. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/08/09/radio-a-broad-coalition-pushing-for-climate-action-in-ontario/

In episode #465 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Gladys Rowe, Teddy Zegeye-Gebrehiwot, and Liz Carlson-Manathara about the Stories of Decolonization film project. They talk about the role that story and film can play in larger processes of decolonization and about their many years of work on the project. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/08/02/radio-story-and-film-as-tools-for-decolonization/

In episode #464 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Simran Kaur Dhunna and Bikram Singh. They are members of the Naujawan Support Network, a group of international students and immigrant workers who are challenging the exploitation and mistreatment that their members face using protest, mutual support, and collective direct action. They talk about how they directly confront the employers, landlords, immigration consultants, and other people who exploit them, and why that is such an important part of workers building power and winning victories. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/07/26/radio-immigrant-workers-confronting-the-people-who-exploit-them/

In episode #463 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sean Holman, a journalism professor at the University of Victoria and a principle investigator for the Climate Disaster Project. They talk about the shifts in journalism's social role in our current political moment, about the news media's response to the climate crisis so far, and about the new model for covering it that is being developed as part of the Climate Disaster Project. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/07/19/radio-climate-disaster-stories-as-a-catalyst-for-change/

In episode #462 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Beatriz Oliver and Aabir Dey of SeedChange, an organization based in Canada that supports farmers here and around the world in working for a more just, sustainable, and environmentally sound future. They talk about the food system as it exists today, the vision embedded in the work of SeedChange, and what they are doing to realize it. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/07/12/radio-advancing-a-vision-of-ecological-farming-and-farmers-rights/

In episode #461 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews James Barbeiro and Jen of Rent Strike Bargain, a province-wide campaign in British Columbia that is fighting for the right of tenants to collectively bargain with landlords, and that is also active in supporting the recent upsurge in local organizing by tenants. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/07/05/radio-fighting-for-collective-bargaining-rights-for-tenants/

In episode #460 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Steve September. Born into the struggle against South African apartheid -- his family fled the country when he was a child to avoid arrest as part of a government crackdown on African National Congress activists, and soon they were busily organizing a base for anti-apartheid activity in Canada -- September today is the chair of a group called the Anti-Racism Coalition (ARC) Vancouver. He talks about the work of ARC Vancouver and about the perspective he brings to that work based on his earlier involvement in opposing apartheid. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/06/28/radio-a-veteran-of-the-anti-apartheid-struggle-talks-about-anti-racism-today/

In episode #459 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Riley Nielson-Baker and Felix Vandergrift of Gender Affirming Care Nova Scotia, a grassroots, community-based policy process to address issues of gender-affirming care and access to health care for trans, intersex, and gender-diverse people in Nova Scotia. They talk about the process, the policy, and the work they have been doing to make it all happen. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here:

In episode #458 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Jordan Westfall. He is co-founder and president of the Canadian Association for Safe Supply, an organization that aims to reduce the immense harms of the overdose crisis by pushing for an increase in people's access to a drug supply that is legal, regulated, and safe. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/06/14/radio-confronting-the-overdose-crisis-demanding-a-safe-supply/

In episode #457 of Talking Radical Radio, I interview Lisa Hari and Rosemary Brown. They are active with We're Together Ending Poverty, a grassroots anti-poverty group in Calgary. We talk about what poverty looks like in their city, about the group's evolution over the years, and about their work to bring people together to build shared understandings and collective action. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/06/07/radio-against-poverty-in-calgary/

In episode #456 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Craig Heron, Holly Kirkconnell, and David Kidd. They are active with the Toronto Workers' History Project, an initiative devoted to preserving and promoting the history of working people in Toronto. They talk about the enthusiasm they have found in the community for working-class history, the many facets of the project's work, and the importance of history for social movements today. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/05/31/radio-preserving-and-popularizing-the-history-of-working-class-toronto/

In episode #455 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Krista Wylie. She is a parent in Toronto and a co-founder of the Fix Our Schools campaign. They talk about the $16.8 billion repair backlog in Ontario schools and about Wylie's years of campaigning to get the provincial government to take seriously the impact that has on students, teachers, and other education workers, and to invest adequately in school repair and renewal. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/05/24/radio-pushing-ontario-to-fix-its-massive-school-repair-backlog/

In episode #454 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sally Lane and Matthew Behrens. Lane is the mother of Jack Letts, a Canadian citizen who has been detained for more than five years in northeastern Syria in conditions akin to torture. Behrens is a long-time activist and a member of Stop Canadian Involvement in Torture. They talk about Jack's case and about the campaign to push the Canadian government to finally take action to bring him, and the 40+ other Canadian Muslims detained in northeastern Syria, back to Canada. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/05/17/radio-challenging-government-abandonment-of-citizens-detained-abroad/

In episode #453 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Darlene Okemaysim-Sicotte. She is part of Iskwewuk E-wichiwitochik, a grassroots group in Saskatoon that has been working for many years on the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/05/10/radio-long-years-of-grassroots-work-for-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women/

In episode #452 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Nina Newington. She is a long-time activist and an organizer of the Last Hope Camp, a forest defence action whose participants have been living in tents on the land since December to prevent the logging of an ecologically important forest in southwest Nova Scotia. They talk about the practicalities of taking this kind of direct action, about the broader struggle to defend forests in Nova Scotia, and about the Last Hope Camp. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/05/03/radio-defending-the-forest-in-southwest-nova-scotia/

In episode #451 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Jillian Maguire and Kim Benson. They are teachers in British Columbia and members of the BC Teachers Federation, and they have been organizing to get their pension plan to divest from fossil fuel industries. They talk about the BCTF Divest Now campaign and about their recent success in getting their union to pass a motion in favour of divestment. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/04/26/radio-union-members-pushing-their-pension-plan-to-divest-from-fossil-fuels/

In episode #450 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Angella MacEwen and Alex Silas. They are union and community activists in Ottawa, and members of Community Solidarity Ottawa, a coalition of unions, community organizations, and residents that came together during the recent convoy occupation of their city's downtown to give voice to grassroots opposition to the convoy, its far-right organizers, and its harmful tactics, while also demanding that governments do more to support working-class communities and frontline workers during the pandemic. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/04/19/radio-ottawa-residents-against-the-convoy-and-for-solidarity-and-social-justice/

In episode #449 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interview Manuel Salamanca Cardona. He is an activist with the Immigrant Workers Centre (IWC) and the Temporary Agency Workers Association (TAWA) in Montreal. They talk about the struggles faced by workers employed by temp agencies, and about the work of TAWA. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/04/12/radio-temp-agency-workers-getting-organized/

In episode #448 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interview Abby Stadnyk and Ellie Ade Kur. They speak about their own abolitionist politics and organizing, and about *Disarm, Defund, Dismantle: Police Abolition in Canada* (Between the Lines, 2022), a new book collection bringing together pieces by organizers and scholars writing in the context of the constellation of efforts to defund and abolish the police in Canada over the last two years. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/04/05/radio-dispatches-from-the-movement-for-police-abolition-in-canada/

In episode #447 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sakura Saunders and Rachel Small. They are, respectively, a board member and the Canada organizer for World Beyond War, a decentralized global network with the goal not just of opposing the war of the day but of abolishing the institution of war. They talk about the organization's work globally and in Canada, about their war abolitionist politics, and about what their members and supporters have been doing to demand peace in Ukraine. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/03/29/radio-demanding-a-just-peace-in-ukraine-and-the-abolition-of-all-war/

In episode #446 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sarah Switzer, Andrea Vela Alarcón, Rubén Gaztambide-Fernandez, and Casey Burkholder. They all have long histories of involvement in a range of community-based work, and they are also researchers in academic and professional settings. They speak today about Beyond the Toolkit, a research project in which they worked with people involved in community facilitation, community arts, community-based participatory research, and related work to understand how they were adapting to the drastic changes imposed by the pandemic and to develop tools to support them. For a more detailed description, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/03/22/how-grassroots-community-based-initiatives-changed-due-to-covid-19/

In episode #445 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Jesse Cardinal. She is a Métis woman who lives in Treaty 6 territory and the executive director of Keepers of the Water, an Indigenous-led organization with a mission of protecting the water in the Arctic drainage basin. She talks about the threat to the water posed by the Alberta tar sands and other resource extraction, and about the organization's work. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/03/15/radio-indigenous-led-water-protection-in-the-north/