Blueprints of Disruption

Oct 28 2024 160 ep. 61 mins 93
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Blueprints of Disruption is dedicated to amplifying the work of activists, organizers and rabble rousers. This weekly podcast, hosted by Jessa McLean and Santiago Helou Quintero, features in-depth discussions that explore different ways to challenge capitalism, decolonize spaces and create movements on the ground. Together we will disrupt the status quo one episode at a time.

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Defending Against Demovictions w/Bank Block Tenants

Oct 28 2024 46 mins  
The wealthy bought up the neighbourhood like their own personal game of Monopoly. Now they want to tear down some of the only affordable units in Ottawa - places where some of called home for 40 years.Demovictions, like renovictions are eating away at the bottom of the housing market, targeting low cost rentals and turning them into places most people can not afford. Even with new

Support Systems Amid State Suppression

Oct 22 2024 72 mins  
Support Systems Amid State Suppression with Dalia Awwad and Rachelle Friesen, both members of the Toronto Legal Support Committee.Toronto Police have escalated their harassment and surveillance of Palestinian solidarity activists across the City, with arrests nearing 100. Our guests provide firsthand accounts of the oppressive tactics being used and the impact they are having on in

The Right to Resist

Oct 07 2024 62 mins  
Journalist and human rights lawyer, Dimitri Lascaris on Lebanon, the resistance and bringing down an apartheid state. After returning from his fourth trip to Beirut in the past year, Lascaris describes the changes he's seen in Lebanon, laments on the depravity of our politicians and the need to reassert the right to armed resistance for the Palestinian people.All of our content is

Unverified: The Grind Exposes New Lows in Canadian Media

Oct 01 2024 51 mins  
Unverified: The Grind Uncovers New Lows in Canadian MediaJournalist Dave Gray-Donald from the GrindTO spent months analyzing Canadian media reports and attempting to hold his follow journalists accountable for repeatedly printing unverified claims about October 7th, 2023. His piece, Global News and Postmedia Refuse to Correct Oct. 7 Falsehoods exposes some of the most horrific fail

Shifting Gears: Climate Justice Toronto

Sep 24 2024 53 mins  
Decades of climate organizing hasn't really produced many victories to feed off of. Why? Climate Justice Toronto took a hard look at the environmentalist movement, studied Labour organizing models and decided to undertake a major shift in their work. One that focused on actually challenging points of power while building their own. Hear how they went from a class-based climate orga

Harm Reduction and Safe Consumption

Sep 16 2024 51 mins  
Harm reduction advocates have their work cut out for them in this current political climate that has Provincial governments targeting their services using dehumanization language and legislation. Ola Skudlarska, of the Leslieville Harm Reduction Coalition helps myth bust some of the commonly used narratives to criminalize and displace people who use drugs. Safe consumption faciliti

Reclaiming Social Housing with 230 Fightback

Sep 10 2024 62 mins  
230 Fightback has been battling over a crucial piece of real estate in downtown Toronto for a very long time. A real estate investment company, Kingsett Capital is who owns the building, but their fight has been just as hampered by Toronto City Hall.Hear how the campaign persisted through organizational changes, set backs and discouragement from their own City Councilor. All of our

On ADHD

Sep 05 2024 60 mins  
Our hosts get personal with their lived experiences with ADHD.Its a very candid discussion on how ADHD impacts their lives, the accommodations that help them thrive and the politics behind preventing us from realizing more inclusive spaces for neurodivergent folks.The episode was largely left uncut to better demonstrate some of the very characteristics people associate with ADHD, b

Blueprints of a Rent Strike Victory

Aug 29 2024 41 mins  
Hear a story of tenants forming a union to fight back against a slumlord, going on Rent Strike and winning! Bruno, an organizer with York-South Weston Tenants Union is back to share a victory from an unlikely place, the Ontario Landlord Tenant Board. We previously heard from Bruno on one of our favourite episodes, Blueprints of a Rent Strike. We don't just get the story - we get th

Haiti's Multinational Security Problem

Aug 26 2024 77 mins  
Canada's has deep ties to Haiti's current political dilemma, and deep pockets when it comes to meddling in their democracy. Since 2022, that is $300 million and counting. Teacher and writer Travis Ross, of the Canada-Haiti Information Project gets us up to speed on what is happening on the ground in Haiti right now and how we got there. It includes a foreign policy discussion, but