Below the Radar

Nick Montgomery joins Below the Radar to talk solutions to what he calls ‘structural precarity’ in housing. He is in conversation with host Melissa Roach about a newly launched project he has co-founded, Solidarity Housing, a new model that supports homeowners in transitioning their homes to become permanently affordable housing.

A writer, theorist, and permaculturist, Nick is deeply interested in housing alternatives, collective living, and finding more sustainable ways to live a thriving life in community with others. He and Melissa speak about the legal framework and model that Solidarity Housing seeks to provide, and how to encourage solidarity across the homeowner-tenant divide through engagement in mutual aid.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/142-nick-montgomery.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/142-nick-montgomery.html

Resources:

— Solidarity Housing: https://www.solidarityhousing.com/

— Solidarity Housing survey: https://www.solidarityhousing.com/survey

— Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance In Toxic Times: https://joyfulmilitancy.com/

— Nick Montgomery on the Grounded Futures show: https://groundedfutures.com/shows/grounded-futures-show/grounded-futures-show-episode-10-nick-montgomery/

Bio:

Nick Montgomery is passionate about creating alternatives to the dominant order of things, with a focus on housing and food. For the last fifteen years, he has been exploring non-profit and collective ways of living and working, including community land trusts, cooperatives, intentional communities, affinity groups, permaculture, and collective housing. He holds a PhD in Cultural Studies and has designed and taught courses for a number of universities and colleges across Canada. Nick is a writer, theory nerd, and gardener living with his partner on Sla-dai-aich (Denman Island, BC).

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Roach, Melissa. “Solidarity as One Antidote to the Housing Crisis — with Nick Montgomery” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, November 10, 2021. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/142-nick-montgomery.html

Women, Work, More kicks off with an investigation into the experiences of young women in the workplace. Host Alyha Bardi speaks with Kaitlyn Matulewicz, a labour organizer with a background in labour law, who is also the Executive Director of the Worker Solidarity Network. They speak about the unique barriers and harassment experienced by young women working front-of-house positions in the food service and hospitality industry.

Kaitlyn speaks to gendered power dynamics in restaurants, issues around shift scheduling and tip-out practices, and how women workers are pushing back and finding ways to resist the culture of harassment. She also points to examples that set legal precedent for harassment in the workplace, and shouts out the organizing movements working to protect workers and shift power dynamics within the industry.

Woven throughout this episode, we hear stories from anonymized young women currently working in front-of-house positions, as they share their experiences sexual harassment and resistance.

About the Women, Work, More series: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/women-work-more.html

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/women-work-more/141-kaitlyn-matulewicz.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/141-kaitlyn-matulewicz.html

Resources:

Worker Solidarity Network: https://workersolidarity.ca/

May I?: https://workersolidarity.ca/addressing-sexualized-violence-in-the-service-industry/

May I?, zine: https://www.antiviolenceproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/May-I-Zine-June-2021-online.pdf

F.E.D. U.P.: https://fedupyeg.wordpress.com/

Law, Sexual Harassment, and Restaurants: https://dspace.library.uvic.ca/handle/1828/8081

Law’s Gendered Subtext: https://link-springer-com.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/article/10.1007/s10691-016-9322-z

Law and the Construction of Institutionalized Sexual Harassment in Restaurants: https://muse-jhu-edu.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/article/603009

Kaitlyn’s articles for the Tyee: https://thetyee.ca/Bios/Kaitlyn_Matulewicz/

Bio:

Kaitlyn Matulewicz has a PhD in Law and Society from the University of Victoria. Her dissertation examined how women restaurant workers' unwanted or uncomfortable sexual interactions with managers, co-workers, and customers are still happening more than three decades after sexual harassment was first named sex discrimination in Canada. She argues that restaurant work in BC is organized in such a way that uncomfortable or unwanted sexual experiences at work are made normal. Her dissertation tells the story of how law is implicated in the construction of such restaurant workplaces within which sexual harassment and unwanted sexual experiences are normalized.

Kaitlyn has seven years of experience working in restaurants. She is the executive director of the Worker Solidarity Network and co-chair of the BC Employment Standards Coalition.

“Words” by Jason Shaw is licensed under CC BY 3.0: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jason_Shaw/Audionautix_Acoustic/WORDS______________________________2-35

“Drive” by Scanglobe is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scanglobe/industrial-sunrise/drive-2

“Industrial Sunrise” by Scanglobe is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scanglobe/industrial-sunrise/industrial-sunrise

“Transit” by Scanglobe is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scanglobe/electrolyte/transit

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Bardi, Alyha. “Women, Work, More: Young Women Navigating Food Service — with Kaitlyn Matulewicz” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, Nobember 4, 2021. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/women-work-more/141-kaitlyn-matulewicz.html

“What I see that's hopeful coming out of this pandemic is that I think we've revitalized our ability to work in solidarity.”

Lama Mugabo joins Below the Radar to speak to building community and solidarity, from Rwanda to Hogan’s Alley. Lama is a Rwandan-born community organizer and planner with deep roots in the Downtown Eastside and the Black community in Vancouver.

In this episode, Lama joins host Am Johal to speak to his work around reconstruction and community building Rwanda, following the genocide of 1994. A co-founder of Building Bridges with Rwanda, Lama talks about fostering awareness and international solidarity with Rwandans, Canadians, and the diaspora community.

Having worked for decades in the Downtown Eastside community, Lama draws connections between his work internationally and locally. He shares his experiences of engaging community with Hogan’s Alley Society around housing, discriminatory street checks, and rebuilding the once-thriving Black community that was displaced for the construction of the viaducts. Lama also speaks to how the COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the importance of the human right to housing, a need for increased welfare rates, and how growing food in community promotes health and connection.

Full Episode Details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/140-lama-mugabo.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/140-lama-mugabo.html

Resources:

— Hogan’s Alley Society: https://www.hogansalleysociety.org/

— Building Bridges with Rwanda: https://www.bbrwanda.org/

— Carnegie Community Action Project: http://www.carnegieaction.org/

— Raise the Rates: https://www.facebook.com/RaiseTheRatesBc/

— SFU Institute of Diaspora Research & Engagement: https://www.sfu.ca/diaspora-institute.html

— Remember Rwanda 25 Legacy Project: https://give.sfu.ca/ways-to-give/fund/rr25-legacy-project

Bio:

​​Lama  Mugabo is a Community Planner with twenty years of progressive leadership experience. In 2005, Mugabo co-founded BBR – Building Bridges with Rwanda, a non-profit organization designed to create a platform for collaboration between international volunteers and Rwandan people who are working to rebuild their society.

At Hogan’s Alley Society, Lama coordinates community engagement activities that offer opportunities for members of Diaspora, to build community locally and globally.

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Johal, Am. “Community Building & Racial Justice — with Lama Mugabo” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, November 2, 2021. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/140-lama-mugabo.html

An artist, community organizer, and a former staff member and longtime friend of SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Andrea Creamer joins Below the Radar to catch up with your host, Am Johal. They talk grassroots arts organizing, her experiences as a fine arts student in SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts and at the University of Toronto, and taking a community-centred approach to healthcare and wellness.

Andrea has a long history of working in community and bringing arts programming to the public. They chat about her involvement in the artist-run Toast Collective in East Van, as well as Super Cool Tuesdays, a community arts program Andrea facilitated for many years out of the Interurban Gallery in the Downtown Eastside.

Bringing a lens of centring community care and access to arts and culture, Andrea is deeply interested in how community connection and social prescribing can promote community health and wellbeing. She and Am talk about her work with the Burnaby Primary Care Networks, which brings together the City, the health authority, and the community to support access to primary care and allied health services, as well as vital social supports and services.

Full Episode Details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/139-andrea-creamer.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/139-andrea-creamer.html

Resources:

— The Toast Collective: http://thetoast.org/

— The Arts and Cultural Workers Union: https://www.valucoop.ca/acwu

— Anti-Fascist Karaoke Lounge Party (Access Gallery, 2018): https://accessgallery.ca/event/anti-fascist-karaoke-lounge-party-film-screenings

— Burnaby Primary Care Networks: https://burnabypcn.ca/

— Burnaby Community Fridge (now at SFU Burnaby!): https://burnabypcn.ca/allied-health/fridge/

Photo use in cover graphic is by Charles Stankievech.

Bio:

Andrea Creamer is a renter, worker, community organizer, and interdisciplinary artist. She is interested about the intersection of politics, urbanization, community-based art practices, and is invested in creating equitable opportunities for systemic and social change through the arts.

Andrea holds a Master’s of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto and a BFA from Simon Fraser University. Her art practice reflects on forms of protest, the mechanisms that produce social spaces, and the ephemeral and always shifting character of socially-based practices.

She currently lives in Tkaranto/Toronto with her elderly cat, Goldie.

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Johal, Am. “Toast, Jams & Anti-Fascist Karaoke — with Andrea Creamer” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, October 26, 2021, https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/139-andrea-creamer.html

Philosopher, cultural theorist, and author of The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence, Dr. Isabel Millar joins Am Johal to speak about the psychoanalytical questions of AI and subjectivity. They talk about how Isabel’s work draws from Jacques Lacan, the importance of considering sexuality and the body in conversations about AI, and acknowledging how intelligence is a dynamic concept that changes throughout history.

Isabel draws from the film Ex Machina to consider the positioning of sexuality; and Blade Runner 2049 to pose deeply psychoanalytic questions revolving around the query ‘can AI be human?’ She also criticizes the development of AI for its disclusion of the Humanities disciplines, and speaks about her concept of patipolitics and how it relates to sexbots and the ethics of enjoyment and suffering.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/138-isabel-millar.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/138-isabel-millar.html

Resources:

— The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030679804

— The Palgrave Lacan Series: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/15116

— Isabel’s website: https://www.isabelmillar.com/

— Isabel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/IsabelVMillar

— AI and the Patipolitical Body, to be released in 2022

Bio:

Dr. Isabel Millar is a philosopher and cultural theorist from London. She received her PhD from Kingston University, School of Art in 2021. She holds an MA in Psychosocial Studies from Birkbeck College, University of London and a BA in Philosophy from The University of Sussex. She writes and talks about AI, sex, the body, space, culture, film and the future. Isabel is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Critical Thought, University of Kent and Research Fellow and faculty at the Global Centre for Advanced Studies, where she teaches with GCAS’ newly formed Institute of Psychoanalysis.

She has also done extensive international academic speaking and publishing, and script consulting for BBC Drama. Isabel has made numerous media, TV and podcast appearances. Recently on BBC2 (Frankie Boyle's New World Order), Russia Today, Morbid Anatomy Museum, The Freud Museum, Repeater Books (Mark Fisher, the Final Lectures), and many more.

Her first book, The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence was published in 2021 in The Palgrave Lacan Series. She is currently working on her next book Patipolitics: On the Government of the Undead.

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Johal, Am. “Artificial Intelligence, Sexbots and Patipolitics — with Isabel Millar” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, October 20, 2021, https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/138-isabel-millar.html

Host Am Johal is joined by Julietta Singh, an author and Associate Professor of English and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Richmond. In this episode, they talk about the feminist, queer, ecological, and decolonial lens Julietta brings to her work, as well as her newly-released book, The Breaks, which “takes the form of a letter to her young daughter about race, inheritance, and mothering at the end of the world.”

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/sfuwoodwards/community-engagement/Below-the-Radar/episodes/episodes1/ep137-julietta-singh.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/137-julietta-singh.html

Resources:

— Julietta’s website: https://www.juliettasingh.com/

— Unthinking Mastery: https://www.dukeupress.edu/unthinking-mastery

— No Archive Will Restore You: https://punctumbooks.com/titles/no-archive-will-restore-you/

— The Breaks: https://chbooks.com/Books/T/The-Breaks

Bio:

Julietta is the author of three books: No Archive Will Restore You (Punctum Books, 2018), Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements (Duke UP, 2018), and her forthcoming work of epistolary nonfiction, The Breaks (Coffee House Press and Daunt Books Originals, 2021).

She is Associate Professor of English and Gender Studies at the University of Richmond, where she teaches courses on decolonial literature, the ecological humanities, and queer studies. Her academic work has been published in South Atlantic Quarterly, Women & Performance, Social Text, Cultural Critique, and Studies in Gender and Sexuality, among others. She is the recent recipient of a 2019-2020 ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship, which she held at Columbia University’s Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality.

Her first work of creative nonfiction, No Archive Will Restore You, was featured in venues such as The Los Angeles Review of Books Radio Hour, Lambda Literary, and The Advocate, and was selected as a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and a CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction. Her new book, The Breaks, takes the form of a letter to her young daughter about race, inheritance, and mothering at the end of the world. It will be released in September, 2021.

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Johal, Am. “The Breaks — with Julietta Singh” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, October 13, 2021. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/137-julietta-singh.html

Award-winning artist, filmmaker, and activist Andrea Luka Zimmerman joins Below the Radar from the UK to speak to us about her approach to making art and films — in deep collaboration, over long periods of time, and always cultivating community. Host Am Johal speaks to Andrea about how her work explores counter-memories to structural violence and how we dream together to build new worlds.

They discuss Andrea’s past and recent works, including Estate, A Reverie, Here for Life, and others, delving into the aesthetics and experimental nature of her work, as well as the political orientation around themes of displacement, gentrification, human rights, and social connection that run through her practice.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/136-andrea-luka-zimmerman.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/136-andrea-luka-zimmerman.html

Register for the free screening of ‘Here for Life’ on October 15 at 5pm: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/here-for-life-film-screening-tickets-170500399284

Resources:

— Fugitive Images https://fugitiveimages.org.uk/about/

— Taskafa, Stories of the Street https://lux.org.uk/work/taskafa-stories-of-the-street

— Estate, a Reverie https://lux.org.uk/work/013429-estate-a-reverie

— Here For Life https://www.artangel.org.uk/project/here-for-life/

— Shelter in Place https://www.estuaryfestival.com/event/detail/shelter-in-place.html

Bio:

Andrea Luka Zimmerman is a Jarman Award winning artist, filmmaker and cultural activist whose multi-layered practice calls for a profound re-imagining of the relationship between people, place and ecology. Focusing on marginalised individuals, communities and experience, the engaged practice employs imaginative hybridity and narrative re-framing, alongside reverie and a creative waywardness. Informed by suppressed histories, and alert to sources of radical hope, the work prioritises an enduring and equitable co-existence. Andrea grew up on a large council estate and left school at 16.

Films include the Artangel-produced 'Here for Life' (2019), which received its world premiere in the Cineasti Del Presente international competition of the Locarno Film Festival (winning a Special Mention), 'Erase and Forget' (2017), premiering at the Berlin Film Festival (nominated for the Original Documentary Award), 'Estate, a Reverie' (2015) (nominated for Best Newcomer at the Grierson awards) and 'Taskafa, Stories of the Street' (2013), written and voiced by the late John Berger.

Selected exhibitions include 'Civil Rites', the London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, 'Common Ground' at Spike Island, Bristol and 'Real Estates' at Peer Gallery. Andrea co-founded the cultural collectives Fugitive Images and Vision Machine (collaborators on Academy Award® nominated feature documentary 'The Look of Silence').

Andrea co-edited the books 'Estate: Art, Politics and Social Housing in Britain' (Myrdle Court Press) and 'Doorways: Women, Homelessness Trauma and Resistance' (House Sparrow Press) and has published extended essays in 'Open Democracy', 'La Furia Umana', ‘Another Gaze’ and 'Homecultures', among others.

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Johal, Am. “Experimental Documentary Practices — with Andrea Luka Zimmerman” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, October 5, 2021. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/136-andrea-luka-zimmerman.html

Wrapping up our series on Climate Justice and Inequality, Grand Chief Stewart Phillip joins Below the Radar to talk about his history of activism as a lifelong advocate for Indigenous Peoples’ Title and Rights. He and Am speak about his role in historical battles for Indigenous land rights over the decades, and the future of land defense.

In the midst of overlapping crises of the global pandemic and the contamination of the drug supply, Grand Chief Stewart Phillip addresses the need for a stronger response from the government that focuses on the people rather than corporations. He digs into government shortcomings when it comes to respecting Indigenous jurisdiction over Indigenous lands, landmark victories, and the ongoing fight to protect Indigenous territories.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/climate-justice-inequality/135-grand-chief-stewart-phillip.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/135-grand-chief-stewart-phillip.html

Resources:

— Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs (UBCIC): https://www.ubcic.bc.ca/

— Okanagan Nation Alliance: https://www.syilx.org/

— Grand Chief Stewart Phillip’s testimonial with the Unist’ot’en Camp: https://unistoten.camp/grand-chief-stewart-phillip/

Bio:

Grand Chief Stewart Phillip is President of the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs. Over a 14-year period (1994-2008) he served four consecutive terms as Chief of the Penticton Indian Band (PIB) with an additional 10-years as an elected Band Councillor, and served as the Chair of the Okanagan Nation Alliance for 15 years.

In October 2006, the Okanagan Nation, led by the Elders of the Penticton Indian Band, acknowledged his lifetime commitment to the defense of Indigenous Peoples' Title and Rights by bestowing on him and his family the rare honour of the title of Grand Chief

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Johal, Am. “Climate Justice & Inequality: Land Defense and the Climate Emergency — with Grand Chief Stewart Phillip” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, September 28, 2021. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/climate-justice-inequality/135-grand-chief-stewart-phillip.html

Environmental lawyer Eugene Kung joins Below the Radar’s Climate Justice & Inequality series to discuss pipeline politics in BC and the role of law in fighting the climate crisis. Eugene shares about how law has been wielded as a mechanism for enacting colonialism, and the various ways it can instead be a tool for effecting major change and upholding human rights.

Eugene discusses different legal strategies to mitigate climate change — from legislation and law reform, to legal challenges against extractive energy projects that drive pollution. He speaks to a positive shift that has seen more Indigenous nations asserting their own laws and sovereignty in decision-making, as caretakers of their lands.

He and Am also discuss how to decentre whiteness and Western perspectives in the climate justice movement and the importance of connecting environmentalism with other social movements and systemic issues.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/sfuwoodwards/community-engagement/Below-the-Radar/episodes/episodes1/ep134-eugene-kung.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/134-eugene-kung.html

Resources:

— “The Time of the Lone Wolf is Over” by Eugene Kung: https://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/National%20Office/2016/07/OS124_Kung.pdf

— Eugene’s writings for Policy Options: https://policyoptions.irpp.org/authors/eugene-kung/

— West Coast Environmental Law: https://wcel.org/

— BC Public Interest Advocacy Centre: http://bcpiac.com/

— Climate Justice Webinar Series: “Just Is”≠ Justice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr5-J6H0rl0

— 2018 Tsleil-Waututh v. Canada case brief: https://www.dgwlaw.ca/case-brief-tsleil-waututh-v-canada-attorney-general-2018-fca-153/

— “Tim Hortons Workers File Double-Double BC Rights Complaint”: https://www.huffpost.com/archive/ca/entry/tim-hortons-complaint-bc-human-rights-dawson-creek_n_2104706

— “BC Refuses Calls to Compensate African Tree-planters”: https://thetyee.ca/News/2014/06/05/BC-Treeplanter-Compensation/

— Read the Trans Mountain Assessment Report by the Tsleil-Waututh Nation: https://twnsacredtrust.ca/assessment-report-download/

Bio:

Eugene Kung (he/him/his) is a staff lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law (WCEL), working on Tar Sands, Pipelines and Tankers, as well as with RELAW.

He is committed to human rights, social justice and environmental justice and has been working to stop the Kinder Morgan TransMountain expansion project.

Eugene was born and raised in Burnaby BC, holds a BA from UBC (2001) and JD from Dalhousie (2006) and was called to the BC Bar in 2008. Prior to joining WCEL, Eugene was a staff lawyer with the BC Public Interest Advocacy Centre (BCPIAC) where he had a social justice law practice in the areas of Constitutional, Human Rights, Administrative, Anti-Poverty and Regulatory law. He has represented low and fixed-income ratepayers before the BC Utilities Commission (BCUC); low-income tenants of slumlords; Treeplanters and Temporary Foreign Workers before the BC Human Rights Tribunal; and families of deceased farmworkers at a coroner’s inquest.

In 2010, Eugene worked with the Legal Resources Centre in Durban, South Africa on Constitutional law cases involving access to housing, water, education and a healthy environment.

Cite this episode:

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Johal, Am. “Climate Justice & Inequality: Environmental Law and the Politics of Extraction — with Eugene Kung” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, September 21, 2021. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/climate-justice-inequality/134-eugene-kung.html

Co-Director of the Climate Justice Project at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and senior economist, Marc Lee, joins Am Johal to discuss the successes and failures of Canadian climate policies across the political spectrum. Marc speaks about the origins of the Climate Justice Project, and conceptualizes how reaching a net-zero carbon economy can be achieved — through a fundamental restructuring of Canadian and BC systems, and the implementation of decolonizing practices.

Am and Marc also discuss how approaches like carbon pricing and carbon capture systems do little to counteract climate change, and instead offer “escape hatches” for the fossil fuel industry. They explore how other government-based responses like subsidizing pipelines, or setting climate goals for the distant future, do not adequately address the imminent threat of climate change. Marc ends by discussing how we need to deal with this climate emergency with the same level of urgency that was enacted in BC’s COVID-19 response.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/climate-justice-inequality/133-marc-lee.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/133-marc-lee.html

Resources:

Climate Justice Project: https://www.policyalternatives.ca/projects/climate-justice-project

Marc Lee’s Posts on Policy Note: https://www.policynote.ca/author/marclee/

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: https://www.policyalternatives.ca/

Marc’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarcLeeCCPA

International Panel on Climate Change, 2021 report: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/

Bio:

Marc Lee is a Senior Economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ BC Office. In addition to tracking federal and provincial budgets and economic trends, Marc has published on a range of topics from poverty and inequality to globalization and international trade to public services and regulation. Marc is the Co-Director of the Climate Justice Project, a research partnership with UBC's School of Community and Regional Planning that examines the links between climate change policies and social justice.

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Johal, Am. “Climate Justice & Inequality: The Future of Canadian Climate Policy — with Marc Lee” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, September 14, 2021. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/climate-justice-inequality/133-marc-lee.html