This week, we share an interview with a Stop Cop City RICO defendant and a supporter of the Imaginary Crimes Tour to give updates on the case and talk antirepression. Then, we share audio from Amplifier Films with Hamza M. Salha about conditions in North Gaza since the resumption of Israel’s genocidal siege and bombardment
An anonymized chat with a longtime anarchist on lessons learned trying to be free while being targeted by state repression
An interview with Phil Wilayto of the Virginia Defenders about prisoner self-immolations at Red Onion State Prison, and Jo about the repression and conspiracy cases in Germany known as Antifa-Ost and the Budapest Structure
An interview with Alex of Szpila Collective on the repression of activists supporting people on the move in eastern Poland known as the #H5Poland case and an interview with a local anarchist about migrant solidarity organizing amidst growing nationalism on the Belarus border
An interview with Walter of the Antifa International social media project about the July 25th International Day of Solidarity with Antifascist Prisoners, the associated Antifascist Defense fund, international lines of solidarity around antifascism, recent cases of repression and continuing to support cultures of resistance while comrades are behind bars
Jewish opposition to Israel, so visible recently through the spectacular actions of groups like Jewish Voice for Peace, is not a recent phenomenon. Historian Marjorie Feld argues that what may seem like unprecedented criticism of Israel by U.S. Jews is part of a long tradition of dissent, which has been repressed by establishment Jewish organizations … Continued
U.S. higher education is in the grips of a new McCarthyism over criticisms of Israel. Sociologist William Robinson, himself the target of an unsuccessful campaign by the Anti-Defamation League, considers reports that the Israeli state is directly intervening to stoke repression on U.S. campuses and in U.S. society. He also discusses the political economic conjuncture … Continued
Radio is a medium with extraordinary propagandistic power — seductively transmitting ideas into the quotidian intimacy of one’s home and life. That power and potential was recognized early on by the state following the First World World. It was also appreciated by opponents of war, including the anarchist pacifists who founded KPFA Radio and the … Continued
Xinachtli, an anarcho-communist Chicano political prisoner held in the Texas prison system speaks settler-colonial white supremacy, jailhouse lawyering and his upcoming parole board visit.
Oakland’s Police Department has been a poster child for abusive and violent law enforcement. But award-winning journalist Darwin BondGraham argues that the OPD is exceptional only because of the scrutiny it’s received. He discusses the department’s history from the Red Scare of the 1920s to the Black Panthers in the 1960s to Occupy Oakland in … Continued
