It’s Going Down – October 29, 2021
Featuring interviews with participants in social movements, struggles, rebellions, projects, thinkers, and organizers.
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Featuring interviews with participants in social movements, struggles, rebellions, projects, thinkers, and organizers.
On this episode of It’s Going Down, we speak with Brad Thomson, an attorney in Chicago, about the case of Daniel Baker, an anarchist, antifascist, veteran, and former volunteer in the YPG, or the People’s Protection Units, which fought against ISIS in autonomous areas of Kurdistan in Syria. Baker has been sentenced to several years … Continued
On today’s show, It’s Going Down presents a presentation from the Civil Liberties Defense Center (CLDC) based out of Eugene, Oregon, about state and corporate surveillance, your cell phone, and how to lock it down to keep unwanted eyes from getting inside of it. photo: Jonas Lee via Unsplash
Longtime antifascist organizer Daryle Lamont Jenkins joins us to speak on the the far-Right post-J6 and someone from Philadelphia Anarchist Black Cross speaks on the history of the group and their annual ‘Running Down the Walls’ event. photo: It’s Going Down
This week on It’s Going Down, we get squatted by Partisan Gardens, who gives us a deep dive on the Earthbound Farmer’s Almanac, which we have explored on a previous show. On today’s episode: Today’s crisis has roots in the earliest moments of land theft against native peoples, a process that has continued alongside hundreds … Continued
On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we speak with three residents of the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch, a trans anarchist homestead, and talk about the release of the upcoming documentary film, Tenacious, and how people living on the ranch mobilized over the past year against threats from the far-Right. We also discuss homesteading in … Continued
On today’s episode, we speak with two members of Oakland Abolition and Solidarity, an abolitionist organization based in the bay area of California that is involved in supporting prisoner led organizing in jails and prisons. We discuss the recent call from Jailhouse Lawyers Speak for national ‘Shut’Em Down’ demonstrations, the impact and role of the … Continued
On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we speak with author, podcaster, and organizer, adrienne maree brown, known for such works as Pleasure Activism, Emergent Strategy, and We Will Not Cancel Us. During our conversation, we speak about Brown’s past and current written work and it can be viewed looking back on both … Continued
On today’s episode of It’s Going Down, we speak with long-time anarchist, musician, author, and activist Margaret Killjoy, the host of the podcast, ‘How to Live Like the World is Dying.’ We discuss the concept of ‘prepping,’ or preparing for disasters, and how it intersects with mutual aid and community building in an age of … Continued
Eric Laursen, author of The Operating System An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State, joins It’s Going Down to argue that everything we think we know about the creation and function of the political State is fundamentally wrong. States did not arise out of a collective need, nor were they created organically; they instead were … Continued