First, an interview with Maru Mora-Villalpando of La Resistencia about organizing agains the privately owned immigration prison the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, WA. Then, Pittsburgh Fash Watch talks about documenting and challenging local fascists in western Pennsylvania
An interview with Ben Lorber and Shane Burley on their recent book, "Safety Through Solidarity", as well as topics of antisemitism, white supremacy, zionism and social justice
A panel featuring Josh Davidson, co-editor of "Rattling The Cages", and former political prisoners Eric King and Jake Conroy speak on prisons and prisoner support
This week: Tenant organizing as #Buncombe evictions courts resume; conditions during & after #HurricaneHelene in the county jail; + experiences of recovery work in #Asheville & WNC
This week we have an interview with Freeway of the Oakland Homeless Union on Newsoms camp sweeps & Janet of Rural Organizing and Resilience on preparedness + recover in rural WNC after Hurricane Helene
Last week's episode talking about disaster preparedness with Margaret Kiljoy and experience during #HurricaneHelene with Chris, a professional medic local to Asheville
An interview with Mutt of Seditionist Distro, Muntjac & Organise! about the Black Autonomy Reader (incomplete), Black anarchism, copyrights, the UK racist riots and more
Our interview with International Solidarity Movement about their activism in the Occupied West Bank and the assassination of Ayşenur Eygi
Ian's interview on violence and resistance in independent arthouse & grindhouse cinema from the '60s through '90s, in her new book "Revolution in 35MM" (PM Press)
Updates on political repression and perspectives on militarization and nationalization from the Polish border with Belarus
A presentation of Ashanti Omowali Alston's keynote address to the 2024 Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair in so-called Asheville, entitled "Solidarity, Spirituality and Liberatory Promise on a Turtle’s Back"
Our chat with members of No More Deaths / No Más Muertes about solidarity on the deadly US / Mexico border
A conversation with a recently returned emergency room nurse about to go out for another tour doing medical care amidst the genocide in Gaza about conditions there
A 2023 presentation from @ACABookfaire@kolektiva.social by a boatpunk from the US about solidarity with migrants in the Mediterranean
Dr Mohammed Bamyeh's presentation of "The No-State Solution" at the 2024 ACABookfair in so-called Asheville
A chat in the Grupa Granica movement speak about realities at the border of Poland / Belarus, militarization, people on the move, repression and human rights activism
A recording from @acabookfaire@kolektiva.social 2023 about Direct Action Abortion Services in Central America, recorded at @firestormbooks@kolektiva.social
A chat with Walter of the International Antifascist Defense Fund about what they do, the upcoming #J25Antifa and antifascists facing repression
Federal Grand Jury resistance in South Carolina + the MACC anarchist film fest in NYC
Our chat with Xtn Alexander and Matthew Lyons about their new book on revolutionary antifascist theory, Three Way Fight
Get ready for the Shut 'Em Down inside/outside demonstrations in December! This week we talk abolitionism, transitional housing and solitary confinement with reps from IWOC, Jailhouse Lawyers Speak + Monsour Owolabi
Hear from the tree sit in southern Oregon from the top of a 100 foot tall Douglas fir!
Our chat with Rey of TENE pod about the 3rd issue of Antipolitika: Anarchist Journal From The Balkans about the journal, nationalism, socialism, anarchism, fascism and history!
This year's June 11th statement plus reflections on memory, history and prisoner support by anarchist historians and archivists
Updates on Palestinian prisoner issues with Addameer + A-Radio Berlin's segment with Johan Eriksson on his ttrpg "Oceania 2084"
Our convo with Yaffa As, trans Palestinian poet, author & publisher on community aid and world building
Chloe of Southside Community Farm in Asheville talks about the history of redlining in the neighborhood, food autonomy in this historical Black neighborhood and how folks can support this thriving community project
An early release of this Sunday's show: a conversation with organizers against the proposed Business Improvement District in Asheville, NC, which threatens to further privatize public space
Introduction to the park defense at Don Bosco in Bologna, Italy, and perspectives from Bernard Jemison at Holman Correctional in Atmore, AL, on conditions in the in Alabama prison system and rumors of strikes
Simón Sedillo, author of Weapons, Drugs & Money talks a little about his early days in media with El Enemigo Común, his book with a focus on intervention and integration from capitalist and military powers in the US, multinational banking and big pharma and the violence against and resilience of indigenous communities under that nation-state
Josh Hart talks about fire mitigation, clearcuts, greenwashing of biofuel salvage and more!
Our chat with Jeremy White, facing politically biased prosecution for showing up to medic at a counter to a far right demonstration just after J6 in San Diego, CA.
Inside / Outside organizing for justice within the Pennsylvania prison system
Our chat on the book about prison books with Mac Marquis!
Jay Ward, incarcerated activist in the ODRC since he was 15 years old, talks about his time inside and his hopes of release
An interview with incarcerated Chicano anarcho-communist political prisoner in Texas, Xinachtli (aka Alvaro Luna Hernandez). Transcript coming soon.
Our chat with Palestinian-American journalist, Hani Almadhoun, talks about conditions in north Gaza where his family is and where his brother opened a soup kitchen.
A conversation with Aster, a European anarchist involved involved in the counter-surveillance and anti-repression project known as the No Trace Project which works to share information about known methods and cases of state surveillance in order to better and expand our collective knowledge, tools and abilities at evading state crackdowns as we organize and act.
An interview with Toby Shone, anarchist imprisoned in the UK, about his confinement as well as an interview with Nichola, an antifascist in Argentina, about the street demonstrations against neoliberal president Javier Milei, the state of the left and the far right in the country as well as the #redgym and social center in Buenos Aires, La Cultura Del Barrio
A chat with Joan Braune about fascism, how we talk about fascists, how the counter-insurgency state talks about extremism and about antifascist organizing
An interview with Tasha of the West Virginia Harm Reduction crew, Project Mayday. Then a chat with Toby of Appalachians Against Pipelines and Madeline Ffitch, a resistor of the Mountain Valley Pipeline from Appalachian Ohio
Andrew Lee speaks on resisting gentrification and defending community
A chat with supporters of Alex Stokes, antifascist journalist serving a 20 year sentence for community defense in Albany on j6 2021. Then, FrequenzA talks to Solidarity Zone about Russian anarchist and anti-war saboteur Ruslan Siddiqui and Sean Swain reads the names of people killed by cops in the USA in April 2023.
Our interview with Palestinian activist Muhammad Hureini resisting displacement with Youth of Sumud
Double header: Hunger strikes in Virginia prison + Israeli refusal of war on Palestine
Sean talks about the last 10 years of his life since he's been participating in this show
Kazi Toure joins us again to speak about political prisoner support and post-release needs for former prisoners
Joey Ayoub speaks about the expanding war in the middle east, how US & European states are engaging Israel's genocide of Palestinians and other topics
Eric King and Josh Davidson speak about Eric's incarceration, solitary confinement, the prisoner support movement and their book "Rattling The Cages".
Ian spoke with Adam Shapiro, a founder of International Solidarity Movement, about Cypher Zine project, bringing stories of human rights defenders and artists from the regions they work in to the printed page
As Ayla King's speedy trial on RICO charges stemming from the Stop Cop City movement finish jury selection, Bursts speaks to an NLG lawyer in NC about speedy trials and Silver speaks with Matt of ACPC about media coverage and jury selection
Lala of Feminist Peace Collective speaks about militarism, the recent war on Armenians by the Azerbaijani state and the anti-feminist and anti-queer backlash in the wake of "No War" critique
Updates from the resistance to the Mountain Valley Pipeline + a special announcement from Sean Swain
Here you'll find an interview with 2 members of the Certain Days Calendar collective on political prisoner solidarity, plus Sean Swain and a presentation by Dr. Modibo Kadalie from the 2023 @acabookfaire on "direct democracy throughout human history"
Full house: A chat with an anti-Zionist Jewish anarchist in Pastine; Antifascists Repressed in Budapest; Sean Swain segment
Our interview with former anarchist prisoner, Thomas Meyer-Falk about his incarceration, resistance and plans for the future!
Ian's chat with the recent PM Press book on the historic wobbly comics, Mr Block, and his creator Ernest Riebe!
A panel discussion with Palestinian Arab and diasporic Jewish perspectives on solidarity in the ongoing genocidal war by Israel, recorded at @firestorm@kolektiva.social on October 22nd, 2023
A recent interview with an anarcha-feminist from Armenia about the genocide in Nagorno-Karabakh
Here's the latest ep on our re-launched castopod!
Ayyyyy! We're relaunching this castopod instance. No lost episodes, they're still available at the RSS link listed on tfsr.wtf