On this episode of the It’s Going Down, IGD contributor Scott Campbell speaks with Clay Colmon, who teaches in the Cultural Studies Department at Claremont Graduate University and is the Associate Director of Instructional Design at UPenn’s School of Arts and Sciences. The two discuss the potential and meaning of change, the growing capaciousness of … Continued
In this episode of the It’s Going Down show, we speak with Kieran, a long-time community, labor, and anti-racist organizer in the Twin Cities and the current president of CWA Local 7250, about how rank-n-file union members pushed out the National Guard from their local Labor Center. In recent weeks, over 3,000 National Guard troops … Continued
Today on It’s Going Down, IGD hosts discuss the first three months of the new Biden administration. We touch on: The continued militarization of the border, the Democrats push for a “smart” wall of surveillance, how Biden is working with other governments to further militarize their borders, ad the continuing horrific conditions within detention camps. … Continued
Victoria Law joins It’s Going Down to discuss their new book, “Prisons Make Us Safer: And 20 Other Myths of Mass Incarceration.” We discuss the myths brought up in Law’s new book, prisoner resistance in an age of COVID-19, how the struggles of women and trans prisoners are often overlooked and under-reported, and how the … Continued
It’s Going Down presents the second installment of their discussion with autonomous organizers across Texas who talk about mutual aid responses in the wake of the so-called “deep freeze” brought on by recent storms. We talk about mutual aid projects, rent strikes and tenant organizing, and key lessons learned by organizers on the ground. photo: … Continued
On this episode of the It’s Going Down show, we discuss with the author of Madness, Disability and Abolition, the creation of an abolitionist approach to addressing mental health and disability. Drawing on the racist and patriarchal history of how the State has responded to what it deems mental illness, as well as looking at … Continued
It’s Going Down hosts speak with Travis View, a co-host of the Qanon Anonymous Podcast, about the rise of Qanon and far-Right conspiracy theories. We discuss how these theories are coming off the internet and into the real world and how they are mainstreaming far-Right, fascist politics in the lives of millions of people. photo: … Continued
On this episode of the It’s Going Down show, we speak with participants in autonomous groups across Texas, including Cooperation Denton, Stop the Sweeps in Austin, Mutual Aid Houston, Houston Tenants Union, and North Texas Rural Resilience. The first in a two part series, this episode discusses the devastating storms which rocked Texas and the … Continued
On this episode, It’s Going Down speaks with two hosts and producers of Rebel Steps, an anarchist podcast show based out of New York. We discuss key lessons from 2020, and look back on the pandemic, mutual aid and tenant organizing, the George Floyd rebellion, building infrastructure, and much more. photo: Aleksandr Rogozin via Unsplash
It’s Going Down speaks with organizers with the Lobelia Commons in New Orleans, an autonomous gardening project is working to build community survival programs around food and farming infrastructure. They are also working to create an anti-capitalist version of The Farmers Almanac for distribution to the wider public. We discuss these projects and also overcoming … Continued