Decolonizing and Indigenizing the map

Submitted by scott.neigh on Tue, 01/10/2023 - 10:24
Talking Radical Radio

Steve DeRoy is a cartographer and a co-founder of the Indigenous Mapping Collective. Scott Neigh interviews him 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.”

Canadian Police-Involved Deaths in December 2022

Submitted by JShantz on Tue, 01/03/2023 - 21:50
Police killings in December 2022.
RCMP officers

Canadian policing increased its deadly toll in 2022 as at least 117 people had their lives taken through police actions. This includes people who police actively killed, as in police shootings for example, or who died through various police actions. The 117 police-involved deaths represent more than have been reported publicly in recent years. In 2021, at least 104 people were killed in police actions.

Building visibility, equity, and impact for Asian-Canadian artists

Submitted by scott.neigh on Tue, 01/03/2023 - 10:27
Talking Radical Radio

Shawn Tse is an artist, filmmaker, and community organizer based in amiskwacîwâskahikan, also known as Edmonton, Alberta, in Treaty Six territory and the Métis homeland. Scott Neigh interviews him about the development and work of 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.

Hate Symbol Hoisted On Parliament Hill

Submitted by rushmew on Thu, 12/22/2022 - 22:57
Seventeen Canada-based South Asian Diaspora and Civil Society Organizations Demand Immediate Action From Prime Minister Trudeau
Saffron flag hoisting at Parliament Hill, Ottawa.

The government of Canada needs to immediately disassociate itself from the flag and take action against MP Chandra Arya, the architect of this vile act. This flag represents death and genocide for minorities in India.

Merch Money, Merch Problems

Submitted by David Gray-Donald on Thu, 12/22/2022 - 21:42
Musicians' survival has become increasingly dependent on merch sales on tour. But venues have started taking a cut. Now musicians are pushing back through the #MyMerch campaign
Rollie Pemberton, aka Cadence Weapon. Photo: Mat Dunlap.

For all but the top few percent of artists, streaming music royalties are not nearly enough to live on. Touring, and the merch sold at each tour stop, is becoming more and more important for survival.

Margins can be extremely slim for working musicians. Even if you’ve crammed five band members into a single hotel room or eaten nothing but gas station food for days – if you forget your box of records or sweatshirts, you might find yourself in the red. Every bit of money matters. Artists often joke that they’re not musicians so much as traveling t-shirt salespeople.

Secwépemc land defenders convicted for protecting ancestral lands

Submitted by David Gray-Donald on Thu, 12/22/2022 - 20:52
BC's courts continue enforcing injunctions to suppress resistance to the Trans Mountain Pipeline, advocates say
Secwépemc Matriarch Miranda Dick and her sister in a hair cutting ceremony at the TMX drill site, in October 2020. Photo: We, the Secwepemc (Facebook)

At 46-years-old, April Thomas isn't worried about facing jail time simply for defending her right to hold ceremony on her unceded ancestral lands.

"I could probably get all the reading done that I wanted to get done," said the Secwépemc matriarch and grandmother who – along with three others – was convicted on December 7, 2022, of criminal contempt for breaching a Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion (TMX) injunction in Kamloops' Supreme Court, in British Columbia. Four others – including non-Indigenous allies – faced trial from December 12 to 16.

The hard, slow work of opposing poverty in an era of growing crisis

Submitted by scott.neigh on Tue, 12/20/2022 - 10:01
Talking Radical Radio

Sandee Lovas and Silke Force are members of the Alliance Against Poverty, a grassroots anti-poverty group in Kitchener-Waterloo, which is an hour southwest of Toronto in southern Ontario. Scott Neigh interviews them 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.

Preserving trans histories

Submitted by scott.neigh on Tue, 12/13/2022 - 10:13
Talking Radical Radio

Aaron Devor is the Chair in Transgender Studies at the University of Victoria (UVic), in the territories of the Lkwungen-speaking peoples on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. Scott Neigh interviews him about the Transgender Archives at UVic, the largest archive in the world of material related to trans people, research on trans issues, and struggles by trans communities.

Forcing Canadian companies to respect human rights

Submitted by scott.neigh on Tue, 12/06/2022 - 10:14
Talking Radical Radio

Emily Dwyer is the policy director at the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability (CNCA), and Aidan Gilchirst-Blackwood is its network coordinator. The CNCA is a broad network of Canadian civil society organizations that are working to ensure that Canadian companies respect human rights and the environment when working abroad.

Canadian Police-Involved Deaths in November 2022

Submitted by JShantz on Thu, 12/01/2022 - 02:08
Police killings in November 2022.
RCMP vehicle.

Through the end of November, at least 107 people have been killed by police or died through police actions in Canada in 2022. This means that with a month left in the year, more people have been killed through police actions in 2022 than in all of 2021, when the total was 104. In November alone, police actions left at least six people dead. This is after an October in which at least a dozen people had their lives taken through police actions.

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