Settlers building decolonial solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en

Submitted by scott.neigh on Tue, 11/01/2022 - 10:35
Talking Radical Radio

Kate Turner is a climate justice organizer living on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory in Tiohti:áke, or Montreal. Chantal Pelletier is a retired speech and language pathologist living on unceded Anishnaabe land in Gatineau, Quebec. Both are active with 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 (CGL) pipeline by targeting the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), one of CGL’s main financers.

Ongoing Wet'suwet'en resistance to the CGL pipeline

Submitted by scott.neigh on Tue, 10/25/2022 - 10:06
Talking Radical Radio

Jennifer Wickham 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. Scott Neigh interviews her about her people’s ongoing fight against the Coastal Gas Link (CGL) pipeline.

Anti-racism in smaller cities and towns

Submitted by scott.neigh on Tue, 10/18/2022 - 10:13
Talking Radical Radio

Saleh Waziruddin is an anti-racist activist in St. Catharines, Ontario, and an executive committee member of the Niagara Region Anti-Racism Association (NRARA). Scott Neigh interviews him 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.

ANALYSIS: Cop City

Submitted by JShantz on Wed, 10/12/2022 - 18:07
Cop candidates and cop connections in the Surrey election
Policing connections in Surrey election
Defund Cop$ Fund Community

The municipal election period in British Columbia this year has seen a bright light shone on the domination of police in city politics, particularly in Vancouver. The decision of the Vancouver police association to endorse the rightwing ABC party led by mayoral candidate Ken Sim has been widely condemned as a dangerous interference of police in politics, raising the prospect of a city run by cops.

Migrant worker organizing in Nova Scotia

Submitted by scott.neigh on Tue, 10/11/2022 - 10:08
Talking Radical Radio

Stacey Gomez lives in Halifax (aka Kjipuktuk) in Nova Scotia, within Mi’kmaqi, and she is a migrant justice organizer with No One Is Illegal – Halifax/Kjipuktuk. Scott Neigh interviews her about the group’s origins and about its work as the first grassroots effort in Atlantic Canada focused on organizing with migrant agricultural workers.

Bringing sustainability and justice together in a small community

Submitted by scott.neigh on Tue, 10/04/2022 - 10:29
Talking Radical Radio

Jason Mogus is a long-time climate campaigner and a co-founder of Salt Spring Solutions, a local group on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia that is seeking to address their community’s housing crisis in sustainable ways, in the face of opposition that is framed in environmental terms.

Canadian Police-Involved Deaths in September 2022

Submitted by JShantz on Mon, 10/03/2022 - 20:54
Police killings in September 2022.
RCMP vehicles lined up.

As of the end of September 2022, at least 89 people have been killed by police or died through police actions in Canada. September was the deadliest month of Canadian policing so far this year. At least 13 people were killed by police or died through police actions that month. This comes after an August in which at least a dozen lives were taken. That matched June and April as the deadliest months of Canadian policing this year prior to September.

Older adults and the fight for climate action

Submitted by scott.neigh on Tue, 09/20/2022 - 09:45
Talking Radical Radio

Betty 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 climate action. Emma Bider is the organization’s communications coordinator. Scott Neigh interviews them about the roles that seniors are playing in addressing the climate crisis.

British Columbia's general strike that almost was

Submitted by scott.neigh on Tue, 09/13/2022 - 09:44
Talking Radical Radio

David Spaner is a long-time Vancouver-based writer and the author of Solidarity: Canada’s Unknown Revolution of 1983 (Ronsdale Press, 2021). Scott Neigh interviews him about the book and about the uprising against a right-wing government in British Columbia that it documents.

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