Tell No Lies … Claim No Easy Victories
Welcome to the first 1919Radio episode of 2025!
While we have been busy this year strengthening our regular offerings of community and youth programs, we also have been quietly rebuilding our radio team in preparation for this return. While you may recognize todays host, stay tuned to our future episodes to hear from all the new members of 1919s Radio team!
Today, our guest host Caleb is joined by Robyn Maynard, author of Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present. First published in 2017, this book stands as a seminal text on the struggle for Black life in Canada. We'll be discussing the revised and expanded edition, due out in October 2025 in context with the political and social regressions and evolutions we have witnessed in the 8 years since the books original release.
The revised and expanded text builds on the legacy of this work by carefully documenting the widely misunderstood history of police reform in Canada, illustrating how half a century of police reforms have served to undermine Black freedom struggles while expanding the scope and scale of policing in Canadian society. Additionally, Maynard uses the newly added writing to posit a vision for change that could successfully challenge the unrelenting status quo of institutional harm and imperial blundering that is impacting communities not just in Canada but across the globe today.
Title sequence credits:
Introduction clip: Angela Davis on Democracy Now!
Second clip: Sister Souljah response to Bill Clinton
Third clip: Kwame Ture on Organization and mobilization Song: The Pharcyde - Runnin'