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The Citizens' Committee of One Thousand and the Breaking of the Winnipeg General Strike

Radio Free Winnipeg - July 18, 2016 01:15 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 1 rating
Continuing on with the topic of the Winnipeg General Strike, we interview Tom Mitchell, a retired archivist at Brandon University and co-author of When The State Trembled: How A. J. Andrews and The Citizens’ Committee Broke The Winnipeg General Strike.  Our conversation focuses on how a group...

Talking Radical with Scott Neigh

Radio Free Winnipeg - December 19, 2016 01:30 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 1 rating
Scott Neigh (@canadianlefty) is an writer, activist and radio host based in Hamilton, Ontario. Neigh hosts Talking Radical Radio, which delivers in-depth interviews with grassroots activists engaged in a broad range of social change work in communities across the country. In this episode we bo...

Sports and Political Dissent

Radio Free Winnipeg - February 01, 2017 06:43 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 1 rating
In this episode Scott talks to the Nation magazine's Sports Editor and host of The Edge of Sports podcast, Dave Zirin about the significance politics played in professional sports over the past year. Zirin speaks about the history of dissent in the NFL and the significance it plays in shifting s...

Fascism & Antifa Episode 2: Capitalism & Fascism with Willam Robinson

Radio Free Winnipeg - February 24, 2018 22:51 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 1 rating
Episode 2 of Radio Free Winnipeg's series on Fascism & Anti-Fascism Scott and Greg interview William Robinson on the links between Fascism and Capitalism and how the features of 21st Century Fascism differ from 20th Century Fascism. William Robinson is a professor of sociology at the Universit...

Why Canada Sucks part 6- Winnipeg has given up

Radio Free Winnipeg - September 22, 2018 05:26 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 1 rating
We continue to talk about why Canada sucks with a focus on Winnipeg politics. We are in the midst of a civic election and well it is fairly depressing. Ohh and the NDP sat on info about lead contamination in one of the poorest parts of Winnipeg. We talk with Kent Davies about how 2018 is the y...

Public transit, urban planning and climate change with James Wilt

Radio Free Winnipeg - July 28, 2019 04:06 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 1 rating
We're back! Thanks for sticking with us during our hiatus. Does Canada still suck? You better believe it does. But for our first episode in months we talk to freelance journalist and noted twitter poster James Wilt about public transit, urban planning, pedestrian deaths in Winnipeg, Uber and ...