Month: November 2018

Episode 41 – You gotta fight for your right (to strike)

November 27, 2018 Sandy and Nora civil disobedience, Justin Trudeau, Liberals, organizing, unions 00:42:50

Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government legislated striking postal workers back to work this week. Despite the fact that 1. mail has continued to be delivered and 2. that the right to strike is protected by the Charter, everyone’s favourite fauxminist has put the boots to CUPW members’ necks and forced an end to their rotating strikes.

Sandy and Nora decode what all this means, and why our right to strike is a right that needs to be vigourously defended.

Photo courtesy of the Canadian Association of Labour Media

Episode 40 – Doug Ford dougs forward

November 20, 2018 Sandy and Nora Doug Ford, misogyny, organizing 00:46:05
It’s scary times in Ontario and Doug Ford has his foot on the gas. In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about his party’s attack on government watchdogs and Trans and gender non-conforming Ontarians, and ways in which we can fight back.
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Episode 39 – Sandy and Nora live in Toronto Q&A part 2

November 15, 2018 Sandy and Nora organizing 00:38:30

In part 3 of 3 of Sandy and Nora’s Nov. 2 live show in Toronto, the audience exchange continues. It starts with a critical question: how can activists navigate spaces like a university, when the university claims to want to fight oppression while at the same time, reinforcing it? There is also a discussion about the necessity of using moments of success to fight for more and mobilize others, and how that even when a campaign seems like an impossible victory, the long-game tells us that nothing is impossible.

Listen to the first half of the Q&A here: https://sandyandnora.com/episode-38-toronto-live-show-qa/

Episode 38 – Toronto live show Q&A

November 13, 2018 Sandy and Nora free speech, media, NDP, organizing 00:44:56
Should progressives engage with the mainstream media? How do we make space for families in our movements? How do we gauge success? In Part 2 of 3 of our live event in Toronto, Sandy and Nora cover a wide range of topics that are mostly unrelated to the Munk Debates. You don’t need to listen to Episode 37 to enjoy this, but we recommend you do anyway! Stay tuned for Episode 39 – the second half of the Q&A.  
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Episode 37 – Sandy and Nora vs. The Munk “Debate”

November 7, 2018 Sandy and Nora free speech, media, racism, Uncategorized, white supremacy 00:48:33

Live from Toronto on Nov. 2, Sandy and Nora take on The Munk Debate. From Frum and Bannon to Bay Street’s continued colonial exploitation of locations across the globe for mining, they tie together extremely obvious links that everyone in the mainstream media somehow forgot the week prior to this debate.

Special thanks to the Black Liberation Collective at Ryerson, volunteers at CJRU and Noah for capturing this sound, staff at the Ryerson Student Centre and the folks who arrived early enough to help us set up and take down the chairs. It was greatly appreciated.

This is part one of two parts. The second part, the Q&A, is Episode 38.