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.

Low-wage workers organizing in Newfoundland

Submitted by scott.neigh on Tue, 09/06/2022 - 09:56
Talking Radical Radio

Mark Nichols 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. Scott Neigh interviews him about what low-wage work looks like in Newfoundland and about the network.

Canadian Police-Involved Deaths in August 2022

Submitted by JShantz on Fri, 09/02/2022 - 03:24
Police killings in August 2022.
VPD anti-riot squad with weapons.

Two-thirds of the way through 2022, Canadian police are on pace for an even deadlier year than they had in 2021, when there were at least 104 police-involved deaths. As of the end of August, at least 76 people have been killed by police or died through police actions. This comes after a month in which at least a dozen lives were taken. That matched June and April as the deadliest months of Canadian policing this year.

Call for Hospital Crisis Solidarity - Labour Day and Beyond!

Submitted by waawaaskesh on Tue, 08/30/2022 - 22:25
Let hospital workers know they're not alone
What can people who don't work in health care, do in response to the crisis?
The entrance to Emergency at the KW Health Centre of the Grand River Hospital in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

This call is a response to the unprecedented crisis of working conditions and service provision in hospitals.

UPDATE:

The original post is maintained below. But see this link for the updated, maintained crowdsourced database on the healthcare crisis,created in late November 2022 as a one-stop spot for information and actions.

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Original post from early September 2022:

 

Practical climate action in Atlantic Canada

Submitted by scott.neigh on Tue, 08/30/2022 - 09:41
Talking Radical Radio

Emma Norton is a climate activist based in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, in Mi’qmaki. She is the operations director at the ReCover Initiative and the Atlantic director with the Climate Emergency Unit. Scott Neigh interviews her about her work on climate issues, and about the crucial interconnection between practical measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and grassroots political work aimed at policy change.

The struggle continues after Phillips' and Pereira's murders in the Amazon, but will people keep coming?

Submitted by David Gray-Donald on Thu, 08/25/2022 - 12:55

The disappearance and the slaughtering of British journalist Dom Phillips, age 57, and Brazilian expert in Indigenous affairs Bruno Araújo Pereira, 41, at the Javari Valley (Vale do Javari) in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest shocked the world and brought eyes to Brazil regarding Indigenous and environmental rights.

Anti-ableism and disability justice education

Submitted by scott.neigh on Tue, 08/16/2022 - 10:01
Talking Radical Radio

Kate Welsh and Dev Ramsawakh 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.

A broad coalition pushing for climate action in Ontario

Submitted by scott.neigh on Tue, 08/09/2022 - 09:30
Talking Radical Radio

Mili Roy and Angela Bischoff are involved, in different capacities, in the Ontario Climate Emergency Campaign (OCEC), a broad, loose, non-partisan coalition of individuals and groups working hard to get Ontario to improve its response to the climate crisis.

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