Rama Fayaz, recently re-elected Downtown Toronto ACORN Chair, shares the history of ACORN Canada’s Internet for All campaign with ACORN Radio, from its initial successes to the current demands moving forward to close the digital divide in Canada
Cristiano Da Silva talks tenant organizing and building power in Toronto and Hamilton
Cristiano Da Silva, recently elected Downtown ACORN Co-Chair, speaks to ACORN Canada Radio about his work organizing with ACORN Tenant Union for tenant rights, healthy homes, and ultimately, social and economic justice for all, in both Hamilton, where he held to found the Stoney Creek chapter, and in Toronto, where he now resides
Monique Dino on joining ACORN and kicking off the Food for All campaign
Monique Dino, recently elected Downtown ACORN Secretary and new ACORN union member, talks about what a whirlwind the past few months have been — you may remember her from ACORN Canada Radio’s two-part episode about Toronto’s citywide forum, where she first discovered us! — and about next steps in organizing a new campaign in Toronto about food justice and grocery price gouging
Maritimes and Beyond – Green Party MLA Megan Mitton on politics in New Brunswick
ACORN Canada Radio introduces a new weekly show with NB ACORN Chair Nichola Taylor. This week Nichola talks with the housing critic for the New Brunswick Green Party about rent control, working with NB ACORN, and everything else to do with the NB politics
Hamilton ACORN’s fight against rent increases
ACORN Canada Radio talks to Stoney Creek ACORN Chair Liz Scott and Chris Erie about how Hamilton ACORN is fighting to stop landlords from getting around Ontario’s rent control laws