Thirtywood

By Nora Loreto

Celebrate Fernwood Publishing's Thirtieth anniversary with this special podcast that features Fernwood authors, their ideas and why Canada needs radical publishing.

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May 18, 2023 Nora Loreto
Nora Loreto is the author of three books, Spin Doctors (2021), Take Back the Fight (2020) and From Demonized to Organized, Building the New Union Movement (2013). She is the editor of the Canadian Association of Labour Media and a freelance journalist.
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48min
May 03, 2023 Wayne Antony
Wayne Antony (he/him) is a publisher at Fernwood Publishing. He is a founding member of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives–Manitoba (CCPA-MB) and a board member since its inception in 1997. He has worked with other Winnipeg political activist organizations, the Socialist Education Centre and Thin Ice. Wayne also taught sociology at the University of Winnipeg for eighteen years. He is co-author of three reports on the state of public services in Manitoba (for CCAP-MB) and is co-editor of six editions of Power and Resistance: Critical Thinking About Canadian Social Issues, co-editor of Citizens or Consumers? Social Policy in a Market Society and Capitalism Rebooted? Work and Welfare in the New Economy (both with Dave Broad), and co-editor (with Julie Guard) of Bankruptcies and Bailouts.
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28min
April 12, 2023 Jim Silver
Jim Silver is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Winnipeg who has written extensively on poverty and related issues, including public housing and low-income rental housing, community development and education, adult education, and Indigenous street gangs. He is a founding member of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives–Manitoba and played a key role in the establishment of Merchants Corner, a University of Winnipeg off-campus site in Winnipeg’s low-income and racialized North End.
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33min
March 29, 2023 Elizabeth Comack
Elizabeth Comack is a distinguished professor emerita in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Manitoba. Comack’s work in the sociology of law and feminist criminology has been instrumental in setting the course for Canadian scholarship. She is a member of the Manitoba Research Alliance, a consortium of academics and community partners engaged in research addressing poverty in Indigenous and inner-city communities. Comack is the author or editor of 13 books, including Coming Back to Jail: Women, Trauma, and Criminalization; “Indians Wear Red”: Colonialism, Resistance, and Aboriginal Street Gangs (co-authored with Laurie Deane, Larry Morrissette, and Jim Silver); and Racialized Policing: Aboriginal People’s Encounters with Police.
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31min
March 15, 2023 Colleen Cardinal
This episode features a conversation with Colleen Cardinal.

Colleen Cardinal is Nehiyaw Iskwew from Onihcikiskowapowin Saddle Lake First Nation Alberta, daughter of a residential school survivor, 60s scoop adoptee and MMIWG family member and social justice activist organizer. She is co-founder of the National Indigenous Survivors of Child Welfare Network and has successfully organized two national Indigenous Adoptee Gatherings in 2014 and 2015. Colleen is the proud mother of four grown children and enjoys spending all her free time with her grandchildren.
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42min
March 01, 2023 Pam Palmater
Episode featuring Pam Palmater. Pam is a Mi’kmaw lawyer, professor and Chair in Indigenous Governance at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is the author of Indigenous Nationhood and Beyond Blood.
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41min
February 15, 2023 Ardath Whynacht
Episode featuring the author of Insurgent Love, Ardath Whynacht
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39min
February 01, 2023 A.J. Withers
In this episode, A.J. talks about writing about social change and the duty that activists have to collectively tell our own stories.

A. J. Withers organized with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty for over 20 years, including as a paid organizer. They are the author of A Violent History of Benevolence: Interlocking Oppression in the Moral Economies of Social Working (with Chris Chapman) and Disability Politics and Theory and numerous other articles and book chapters. A. J. recently completed a PhD in social work at York University.

They are the Ruth Wynn Woodward (RWW) Junior Chair at Simon Fraser University.
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43min
January 18, 2023 Danny Paul
In this episode, Nora talks with Danny Paul, author of two Fernwood books: Chief Lightening Bolt and We Were Not the Savages. Danny talks about his life, activism and how his book We Were Not The Savages changed the way that Mi’kmaq communities were understood by settlers both in history and today.
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35min
January 04, 2023 Anne Bishop
This episode features Anne Bishop. We talk about allyship, activism, fiction and non-fiction writing, and how to write about concepts that are always changing.

Anne Bishop has been an activist for four decades in organizations dedicated to local, international, environmental, food, fibre and LGBT justice. She is the co author of five books and author of two: Becoming an Ally: Breaking the Cycle of Oppression in People and Beyond Token Change: Breaking the Cycle of Oppression in Institutions.
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39min

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