In episode #414 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Reuben Roth, Katlyn Kotila, and Darius Garneau. Roth is a labour studies and sociology professor at Laurentian University, an instiution facing unprecedented crisis after recently filing for creditor protection. Kotila and Garneau are undergraduate students at Laurentian and members of Save Our Sudbury. Neigh interviews all three about the crisis, how it is being used to impose cuts and other forms of austerity, its implications for other universities and the broader public sector, and what the community is doing in response.

For a more detailed description, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/03/30/radio-resisting-an-unprecedented-austerity-attack-on-the-university-sector/

In episode #413 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interview Jonny Sopotiuk and Zandi Dandizette. They are founding members of both the Vancouver Artists Labour Union Co-operative (VALU CO-OP), a workplace owned and run democratically by its workers, and of the Arts and Cultural Workers Union (ACWU). They talk about how this new model for artists and other cultural workers to organize themselves -- a worker co-op *and* a union -- may be the key to challenging precarious work and poverty in the sector.

For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/03/23/interview-artists-as-workers-a-new-model-for-organizing/

In episode #412 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Mary Kelly and Alex Bestos. Kelly is an undergraduate student at the University of British Columbia and a national board member of Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy (CSSDP). Bestos works at a health research centre focused on substance use and is the international liaison for CSSDP. They talk about the current state of drug-related public policy in Canada and what the students and youth of CSSDP are doing to make it better.

For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/03/16/radio-students-mobilizing-for-the-decriminalization-of-drugs/

In episode #411 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews William Carroll, James Rowe, and Emily Lowan of the University of Victoria. Carroll is a professor of sociology and Rowe an associate professor of environmental studies, and they are both involved in the Corporate Mapping Project, which brings together academic and community-based researchers to investigate the corporate power of fossil fuel industries in Canada. Rowe and Lowan, who is an undergraduate student in environmental studies and economics, are involved in Divest UVic, a campaign that is pushing the University of Victoria to divest from fossil fuel industries. They talk about the power of fossil fuel industries; about the work of researching, analyzing, and understanding that power; and about how that research can be applied in struggles on the ground, like campaigns for divestment.

For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/03/09/radio-mapping-and-opposing-the-power-of-fossil-fuel-industries-in-canada/

In episode #410 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Samir Shaheen-Hussain. He is a pediatric emergency physician in Montreal and an assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. He was also a central organizer in the #aHand2Hold campaign, which in 2018 won a victory against a specific aspect of medical colonialism in Quebec. In this episode, he talks about the campaign, about his new book, *Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada*, and about the broader history and present reality of medical colonialism in this country.

For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/03/02/radio-the-past-and-present-of-medical-colonialism-in-canada/

In episode #409 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Ra'anaa Brown and Shana Calixte of Black Lives Matter - Sudbury. They talk about about what the struggle for Black lives looks like in northern Ontario and about their conference coming up on February 27 and 28, "Here to Stay Baby": A Northern Intersectional Caucus.

For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/02/23/radio-the-struggle-for-black-lives-in-northern-ontario/

In episode #408 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Daniel Sarah Karasik and Darrah Teitel of the Suppress the Virus Now Coalition, an Ontario-based coalition of community groups, labour organizations, and individuals. They talk about their concerns with how the Canadian federal government and the Ontario provincial government have responded to the pandemic so far, about what needs to be done differently, and about their coalition's plans to push for a #COVIDZero approach that would eliminate community spread.

For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/02/16/radio-demanding-a-covid-strategy-that-would-suppress-the-virus/

In episode #407 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Michelle Stein and Bill Noll. They are residents of the municipality of South Bruce, Ontario, near Lake Huron. And they are members of Protect Our Waterways - No Nuclear Waste, a group of residents who have come together in opposition to the proposal to put a high-level radioactive waste storage facility in their community. They talk about their concerns with the proposal and their campaign to stop it.

For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/02/09/radio-a-communitys-fight-to-stop-a-high-level-radioactive-waste-storage-facility/

In episode #406 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sarah Edo of Nuance and pihêsiw of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network. They talk about the theme of this year's Sexual and Reproductive Health Awareness Week campaign, "Youth Friendly Care: It's Your Right!", and about what it means to centre Black, Indigenous, racialized, and migrant youth in questions of sexual health and rights.

For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/02/02/radio-centring-bipoc-youth-in-questions-of-sexual-health-and-rights/

In episode #405 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Nick Driedger, a long-time labour organizer from northern Alberta. Driedger has been part of a number of different unions, including the Canadian Union of Postal Workers and the Industrial Workers of the World, and he currently works for the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees. He is also a contributor at *Organizing Work*, a website with a grassroots focus committed to honest, strategic discussions about the nuts and bolts of organizing. Neigh interviews him about his vision of organizing and about his recent article, "Common Organizing Mistakes."

For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/01/26/radio-organizing-workers-and-how-to-do-it-better/