In episode #507 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Victoria Romero, Emily Tang, and Matthew Johnson. Romero and Tang are university students and members of the National Youth Advisory Council for Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights. Johnson is the director of education for MediaSmarts. They talk about issues of mis- and disinformation when it comes to sexual health and rights, and about this year’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Awareness Week (or SRH Week) campaign. 

For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2023/02/07/radio-challenging-mis-and-disinformation-about-sexual-health-and-rights/

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Challenging mis- and disinformation about sexual health and rights

This episode of No Borders Media, recorded on the eve of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, features an interview with anti-fascist writer and researcher Matthew Lyons. Matthew, who lives and works in Philadelphia, is the author of Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right's Challenge to State and Empire and co-editor of the book Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism.

In this interview, Matthew provides insights on the far-right Trump/MAGA movement and the normalization of previously disqualifying racist, quasi-fascist, and fascist ideologies within it. We explore different elements of the MAGA coalition, including Christian nationalism; the origins of modern-day Trumpism in various historical currents in American history; and anti-fascist strategies and tactics for long-term resistance to the far right. Lyons describes and explains why a return of Trump to the U.S. presidency would be catastrophic, but he also argues that the Harris Democrats are abysmal.

Background:
- Three Way Fight: Against Fascism, Against the State, For a Free Humanity: https://threewayfight.org/
- Notes on Trump/MAGA 2024: https://threewayfight.org/notes-on-trump-maga-2024/
- Listen to this previous No Borders Media podcast: an interview with It’s Going Down in January 2024 on resisting the far right and fascism in the U.S.A. over the coming year: https://soundcloud.com/nobordersmedia/whats-going-down-a-look-at-the-upcoming-year-of-resisting-the-far-right-fascism-in-the-usa

Show Notes:
- Interview with Matthew Lyons recorded on November 1, 2024.
- Show uploaded to SoundCloud on November 5, 2024.
- An edited version of this show aired on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal on November 7, 2024.
- Producer: Jaggi Singh, for No Borders Media.

No Borders Media shares and creates content in support of the struggles of the working class and oppressed peoples and in opposition to capitalism and colonialism. You can hear us on the first Thursday of every month from 5–6 PM, as part of Off The Hour on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal (ckut.ca). Check out No Borders Media on SoundCloud and our active social media, including Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky, Threads, Twitter, and Mastodon, for links to upcoming and previous shows.

Resisting Trump and the MAGA Movement: Interview with anti-fascist Matthew Lyons of Three Way Fight

On this episode of No Borders Media, we continue our interviews and analysis in the aftermath of the 2024 US Presidential Election. On today’s show, we speak with New York City-based investigative journalist Arun Gupta. Arun has contributed to various mainstream and progressive publications, including The Nation and Jacobin.
 
Arun has written several analytical articles prior and after the election. He was inside Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally in New York City in the final weeks of the election, and covered the pro-Palestine protests outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago back in August. He’s provided a scathing analysis of the Democratic campaign. In his words: “Harris was so committed to American Empire she was willing to lose the election.”

In this interview, Arun provides analysis of Gas, Groceries and Gaza, and the other factors at play in the recent election, especially the direct and indirect impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Biden/Harris response. He gives an insider view of the Trump MSG rally, the post-truth, post-fact, conspiratorial world of Trump’s multicultural MAGA supporters. 

Arun explains the concept of “discounting racism” from Obama to Trump, and looks at the possibility of social movements to organize under both Democrat and Republican presidencies in the past three decades. Importantly, he grounds his insights in the inescapable centrality of the ongoing genocide in Gaza perpetrated by Israel. As he puts in, genocide is the end goal of fascism, and that is exactly was has happened in the past year, with the active complicity and involvement of the Biden/Harris administration.

Background:
- Arun Gupta on Substack: https://substack.com/@arunnews
Triumph of the Swill (November 1, 2024): https://arunnews.substack.com/p/triumph-of-the-swill
- Gas, Groceries, and Gaza is the reason Harris Lost, But Not for the Reasons You Think (November 5, 2024: https://arunindypendent.substack.com/p/gas-groceries-and-gaza-is-the-reason
- No Borders Media (From August 2018): A Discussion on Anti-Trump Resistance, with Arun Gupta (New York City Investigative Journalist): https://soundcloud.com/nobordersmedia/arungupta

Show Notes:
Interview recorded on November 12, 2024
Interview uploaded to SoundCloud on November 14, 2024
Produced by Jaggi Singh, for No Borders Media.a

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No Borders Media shares and creates content in support of the struggles of the working class and oppressed peoples and in opposition to capitalism and colonialism. You can hear us on the first Thursday of every month from 5–6 PM, as part of Off The Hour on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal (ckut.ca). Check out No Borders Media on SoundCloud and our active social media, including Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky, Threads, Twitter, and Mastodon, for links to upcoming and previous shows. You can also get in touch with us at nobordersmedianetwork@gmail.com

Gas, Groceries & Gaza, and the Triumph of the Swill: A post-election interview with Arun Gupta

On this edition of No Borders Media, we feature an interview with a long-time advocate and organizer for Indigenous sovereignty and environmental justice, Judy DaSilva, a member of the Grassy Narrows First Nation in northwestern Ontario. Judy was in Montreal in January (2024) to receive the Radio-Canada prize for scientist of the year, an award she shared with three researchers and scientists based in Montreal. The award was for research into the effects of mercury poisoning on the community of Grassy Narrows, research that was crucially facilitated by Judy as a community organizer and activist.

More generally, the Grassy Narrows Ojibwe community is an epicenter of struggle and survival against corporate and state violence, perpetuated by logging companies, mining companies and now the nuclear industry, with the active complicity of the Ontario and Canadian governments.

This show is uploaded on the 22nd anniversary of the Grassy Narrows blockade which was undertaken in response to industrial development threats to the Anishinaabek homeland. Members of the Grassy Narrows community blocked a logging road to protect hunting grounds, berry patches, medicines, and plant and animal habitats. The blockade became a site for ceremonies, feasts, drumming, praying, and storytelling.

We explored all these topics in detail with Judy Da Silva, who spoke to us by phone from her community in Grassy Narrows in northwestern Ontario, near the Manitoba border.
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Background:
- Free Grassy Narrows: https://freegrassy.net/
- Environmental racism underlies Grassy Narrows’ mercury and suicide crises: https://davidsuzuki.org/story/environmental-racism-underlies-grassy-narrows-mercury-and-suicide-crises/
- Le 37e prix du Scientifique de l’année de Radio-Canada: 
https://presse.radio-canada.ca/corporatif/13020/le-37e-prix-du-scientifique-de-l-annee-de-radio-canada/
- Contamination au mercure : quatre femmes partagent le titre de Scientifique de l’année: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2044929/contamination-mercure-scientifique-annee-grassy-narrows
- Video: Defenders of the Land Interview with Judy Da Silva (by No One Is Illegal 2008): https://www.isuma.tv/hai/defenders-land/judy-dasilva
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Show Notes: 
- Interview recorded on February 1, 2024.
- This show aired on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal on February 1, 2024.
- Show uploaded to SoundCloud on December 2, 2024.
- Closing Music: “Home to Me” by N'we Jinan Artists (Grassy Narrows First Nation).
- Musical Interlude: “I Pity The Country” by Willie Dunn.
- Intro/Extro Instrumental Loop from “I Pity The Country” by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.
- Produced by Jaggi Singh, for No Borders Media.
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No Borders Media shares and creates content in support of the struggles of the working class and oppressed peoples and in opposition to capitalism and colonialism. You can hear us on the first Thursday of every month from 5–6 PM, as part of Off The Hour on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal (ckut.ca). Check out No Borders Media on SoundCloud and our active social media, including Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky, Threads, Twitter, and Mastodon, for links to upcoming and previous shows. You can also get in touch with us at nobordersmedianetwork@gmail.com

Justice for Grassy Narrows: Interview with Judy Da Silva, organizer for Indigenous sovereignty

On this episode of No Borders Media (December 2024), we are continuing our ongoing series about resistance to Trump and MAGA, and launching an overlapping new series looking at resisting the mass deportations that Trump and his officials have promised, and have already begun organizing, in advance of the inauguration on January 20, 2025.

This episode is a feature-length interview with Silky Shah, the executive director of the Detention Watch Network, and the author of the recently published book, Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition. She has worked as an organizer on issues related to immigration detention, the prison-industrial complex, and racial and migrant justice for over 20 years. Silky was born and raised in Houston, Texas, and speaks to No Borders Media via Washington state.

This interview looks at how we’ve arrived at the current surreal and nightmarish moment, on the cusp of mass deportations on a scale never seen before, yet a moment crucially built up by both Democratic and Republican administrations in the past 30 years. While analyzing what has brought us here, this interview also emphasizes potential paths of resistance, rooted in inspiring migrant justice moments and movements of the past few decades.

Background:
- Preparing for the Worst (October 17, 2024): https://inquest.org/preparing-for-the-worst/
- Trump 2.0 Poses an Even Bigger Threat to Migrants. Here’s How We Fight Back (November 10, 2024):  https://truthout.org/articles/trump-2-0-poses-an-even-bigger-threat-to-migrants-heres-how-we-fight-back/

Show Notes:
- Interview recorded on December 2, 2024.
- An edited version of this show aired on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal on December 4, 2024.
- Show uploaded onto SoundCloud on December 5, 2024.
- Music: “Deportees” by Outernational (featuring Tom Morello); cover of “Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)” by Woody Guthrie & Martin Hoffman.
- Accompanying image by Kevin Caplicki (JustSeeds).
- Produced by Jaggi Singh for No Borders Media.
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No Borders Media is part of the CKUT Community News Collective’s Off The Hour. We’re on air on the first Thursday of every month from 5-6pm. CKUT is at 90.3fm in Montreal, on the far-left of the radio dial, and everywhere in the world via ckut.ca on the web.

No Borders Media shares and creates content in support of the struggles of the working class and oppressed peoples, and in opposition to capitalism and colonialism. Check out No Borders Media on SoundCloud and our active social media, including Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky, Threads, Twitter, and Mastodon, for links to upcoming and previous shows. You can also get in touch with us at nobordersmedianetwork@gmail.com

Resisting the Upcoming Trump/MAGA Mass Deportations: Interview with Silky Shah

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