The Spring Podcast
1) Canada’s exploitation of migrant student workers - Migrant Students United
Labour migration plays a crucial role in upholding global capitalism. Immigration systems, including the one in Canada, are exploitative and discriminatory by design. Canada’s international student pr...Show More
Canada’s exploitation of migrant student workers - Migrant Students United
42:07 | Sep 12th, 2022
2) Episode 11 - Katerina Nikas and Free Palestine Halifax
Katerina provides a thorough historical context on the current struggle in Palestine.
3) Episode 10 - Lisa Cameron and the Halifax Workers Action Centre
On today's episode, we hear from Lisa who is an organizer with the Halifax Workers Action Centre. She talks about the most common issues workers face in Nova Scotia, and the barriers workers face when...Show More
4) Episode 9 - Rajean Hoillett on Abolition in Canada
Abolition with Rajean Hoilett The prison system is entrenched in capitalism’s need to divide the working class and suppress resistance. In Canada, prisons function as an extension of the settler-col...Show More
5) S1E8 - Setting a workers first agenda in Ontario with Elise Lee Lai
The Spring Podcast spoke with labour activist Elise Lee Lai about how labour is approaching the upcoming election in Ontario. Lee Lai outlines the most pressing issues facing the labour movement in th...Show More
6) S1E7 - Fighting climate capitalism with Fridays For Future
The climate crisis is the biggest existential threat on the planet and it is driven by a capitalist system that exploits people and nature for profits. A youth-led global climate strike movement, Frid...Show More
7) S1E6 - Paid sick days with Dr. Jesse McLare
Jesse McLaren speaks about how the labour movement and health care are related, and shares direct experience with patients without paid sick days as an emergency room physician. We learn about the bro...Show More
8) S1E5 - Tara El-Alami with Free Palestine
The struggle for a Free Palestine has been waging since the zionist project displaced millions of Palestinians from their homeland in 1948 to create the settler-colonial state of Israel. In recent tim...Show More
9) S1E4 - Canada‘s 44th Federal Election with Dave Bush
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called for an early federal election as we entered into the fourth wave of the pandemic. The question on everyone’s mind: why? What does an early election mean? What issu...Show More
10) S1E3 - Garry Sran on the Indian Farmer Protest
In today's episode, we talk to Garry Sran on the ongoing Indian Farmer Protest. Garry gives us a background to the current struggle being faced in India, and shares his personal connection to the stru...Show More