Radio interview with Ryan Young
Shawn was invited onto CKUT, McGill University’s campus and community radio station, to discuss his book with Ryan Young, host of Ecolibrium. Have a listen.
About shawn
This author has yet to write their bio.Meanwhile lets just say that we are proud shawn contributed a whooping 38 entries.
Entries by shawn
Radio interview with Dan Delmar
Shawn speaks with Dan Delmar about the reasons for the rising youth anger in the streets and what it might mean for the months and years to come. Have a listen.
Radio interview with Dave Fisher
“Health care, education, the environment: these are values that are not measured in the ledger sheets of the governing accountants.” This morning Shawn discussed the anti-austerity movement. Have a listen.
Book launch Generation Rising: The Time of the Québec Student Spring
Join us for an engaging evening in the company of the author to mark the launch of the first English-language book on the Printemps érable of 2012.
The movement is global
The current student occupations in Amsterdam and London are the latest chapter in the global youth movement to reverse the tide of commercialization that is dismantling our education systems across the West.
On the legality of student strikes
The student movement helped build modern Québec, and for decades students were respected as key partners in our collective development. That understanding held until 2012, when the Liberal government replaced respect with contempt and invoked the word “boycott” for the very first time to refer to a student mobilization.
In now denying students’ historic right to strike, both the Liberals and the carrés verts are perpetrating a violence against our collective memory.
Radio interview with Todd van der Heyden
Shawn was invited back onto CJAD over the holidays to discuss his upcoming book Generation Rising with host Todd van der Heyden. Have a listen.
Radio interview with Anne Lagacé Dowson
Shawn sat down with radio host Anne Lagacé Dowson just before the holidays to chat about his book, Generation Rising: The Time of the Québec Student Spring.
About Shawn Katz
Shawn Katz is a writer and educator from Montreal, Canada. He is the author of Generation Rising: The Time of the Quebec Student Spring (Fernwood Publishing, 2015) and a contributor to The Rise of Cities (Black Rose Books, 2017)