It’s Going Down – October 9, 2020
Featuring interviews with participants in social movements, struggles, rebellions, projects, thinkers, and organizers.
It’s Going Down – October 2, 2020
Featuring interviews with participants in social movements, struggles, rebellions, projects, thinkers, and organizers.
It’s Going Down – September 25, 2020
Featuring interviews with participants in social movements, struggles, rebellions, projects, thinkers, and organizers.
On this episode of It’s Going Down, KPFA listeners are treated to a conversation with two participants in the Woodbine community center located in the Ridgewood neighborhood of Queens, New York. They discuss how the group formed out of Occupy Wall Street, autonomous mutual aid organizing in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, and the Black … Continued
It’s Going Down speaks with three representatives of the Autonomous Tenants Union Network, which includes representatives of Tenant and Neighborhood Councils (TANC) in Oakland, California, the Los Angeles Tenants Union, and the Richmond Tenants Union in Richmond, Virginia. We speak on the growing autonomous tenants movement, organizing and resisting eviction during COVID-19, the failures and … Continued
How Conspiracy Theories Mobilized the Militia in Kenosha
On this episode, IGD speaks first with journalist Kim Kelly about the growing strike across various professional sports in response to the police killing of Jacob Blake. Then, a resident of Kenosha speaks about the situation on the ground following Blake’s murder by police. They discuss how far-Right conspiracy theories about “rioters” attacking wealthy neighborhoods … Continued
The Fascist Push from Within the RNC, Kenosha, and What Comes Next
On today’s show, It’s Going Down holds an in-house discussion about the RNC and its open embrace of full on fascism and cult-of personality around Trump. We then turn towards the rebellion in Kenosha and the horrific murder of two demonstrators by a member of a far-Right militia, We ask, what does it say when … Continued
Finding the Intersections Between Anti-Capitalism and the Fight Against Ableism
On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we speak with Adam F. Naughton, a libertarian socialist and the creator of the website, Not Your Inspiration. With Adam we discuss the current disability justice movement and how it has evolved since the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990. Adam discusses … Continued
“Disruption Towards Freedom”: Marquis Bey on Anarcho-Blackness
On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we speak with educator and author Marquis Bey, author of the new book, Anarcho-Blackness: Notes Towards a Black Anarchism, out this month from AK Press. During our discussion we talk about what anarchism and Blackness bring to each other, autonomous and stateless forms of life that resist … Continued
It’s Going Down – August 7, 2020
Featuring interviews with participants in social movements, struggles, rebellions, projects, thinkers, and organizers.