Comics, Collage and Anti-Copaganda with Johnny Damm

This week, a new contributor, Ian, talks to cartoonist and educator Johnny Damm about his recent releases I’m a cop, featuring dialogue from Police Union speeches and Riot Comics: Tompkins Square Park, which explores the 1988 Tompkins Square Riot in which Police evicted an unhoused encampment in the park on New York’s Lower East Side. They discuss the collage technique by which Damm assembles his comics, how his work dovetails with the larger work of abolition, and the role of propaganda in movement-making. Listeners can follow Johnny Damm on twitter @dammjohnny (with two m’s) and on IG @johnny.damm. His website is JohnnyDamm.com. You can hear the full podcast here.

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Also notable, are Damm’s influence by Jack Halberstam‘s ideas that became the book The Queer Art of Failure ala the Failure Biographies book, and Damm’s representations of the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, a similar but smaller trans and queer uprising in San Francisco  in 1966, preceding the more famous Stone Wall Riots of 1969 in New York City.

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Featured Track:

• More Light by J Mascis and The Fog from More Light

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We’ve got a lot of wild & weird new kids’ music on Radio Active Kids this week, including an interview with A Horse A Spoon A Bucket, who have a great new album out called Adventures in Hill City! Also, new songs by Kath Bee, Jelly of the Month Club, Will’s Jams & Seeka Sings, Mommy’s lil Monsterz, Michael and the Rockness Monsters, #NEWTS, Mr. Ben’s Music, Tim Hoh’s Music For Kids, Em and Me, Stuart Stotts, #UncleBensRhetoricallyIntrospectiveChildrensEnsemble & more!!! 8-10am ET Saturday at ashevillefm.org/show/radio-active-kids or tun.in/pjiei & podcasting at https://anchor.fm/radio-active-kids!

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Join The UnCola tomorrow night at 8 PM est for our personally curated fifth volume of Forgotten pop from the 1990s.

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Trans Resilience in Texas

Our interview with journalist and community organizer, Kit O’Connell (of the Texas Observer), and anarchist and activist lorén (of QTPIE or Queer and Trans People Illuminate Everything). Both folks are trans folks in Austin, Texas, and we speak for the hour about the increasing legal and social oppression of trans and gender non-conforming folks in that state as well as across the so-called USA, some of its impacts on trans children and children of trans parents, organizing, allyship and community defense. The full podcast can be heard here.

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Other links:

• Kit O’Connell on mastodon (other socials linked on their website)
• QT PIE Trans Bail Fund: https://account.venmo.com/u/qtpiebailfund
• Vanguard Drag Crew: https://instagram.com/vanguard_atx
• Brigitte Bandit (Drag artist): https://instagram.com/brigittebandit
• It’s also worth nothing that Ms. Bandit is being harassed with doctored photos by conservative groups playing up the fearmongering concerning children, as you can see in this tweet here: https://twitter.com/BrigitteBandit/status/1654503599345377280
• House of LePore (Balroom house): https://instagram.com/houseoflepore
• DDOS Secrets leak of American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds), an homophobic, anti-abortion and transphobic group run by Christian fundamentalists behind the lawsuit attempting to illegalize mifepristone as an abortion pill and that is confusingly named something like the American Academy of Pediatrics (a legit medical organization). The leak was the feature of a recent article in Wired.
• Murder of Garrett Foster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Garrett_Foster

Announcements

Bad News #67!

Find the following text & past episodes here & the audio here:

Welcome to 67th edition of BAD NEWS, Angry Voices from Around the World, which is a monthly news program produced by international network of anarchist and anti-authoritarian radios.

This month we have contributions from three radio projects. A-Radio Berlin spoke to a comrade from the anarchist feminist anti-prison alliance, who organizes the annual protest rally in front of the women’s prison in Chemnitz, a small town in Eastern Germany. The focus of the conversation were: hardships of unionizing inside German prisons and the importance of building connections and creating empowering moments together.

The second piece is from Kilavo Seme, a show on Radio Študent Ljubljana, which spoke with an activist from Quelili collective about their interesting and a bit crazy idea to buy a ship which would connect europe and latin america to fight, among other things, for climate justice and against colonization.

Finally The Final Straw Radio is sharing a portion of a new interview with supporters of 4 people facing up to 12 years in US federal prison for alleged after-hours graffiti at a fake abortion clinic near to Miami in the state of Florida in the wake of the Supreme Court removal of the protection of legal right to choose abortion, laws limiting access for trans people to health care and public participation, and other regressive steps across the so-called USA.

This Bad News has been put together by Črna luknja in Ljubljana.

Call in for anarchist prisoner, Noah Coffin #1795167

Noah Coffin, a Texas prisoner was granted parole six months ago (November 2022), but has not been released from Texas Correctional and has not been given a reason why.

Call/Email the Texas parole board and voice concern as to why Noah has yet to be released, you can reach them at: (512) 936-6351 or [email protected] (call script and email script to follow).

Call Script:

Hello, I am calling to voice my concern about a prisoner at the Ellis Unit Detention Center, Noah Coffin 01795167. He was granted parole six months ago and has yet to be released from prison, I am just wondering why that is? I am urging you to release him.

Email Script:

Dear Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles,

I am contacting you on behalf on Noah Coffin 01795167, a prisoner who is incarcerated at Ellis Unit in Texas. Noah was granted parole six months ago, but has yet to be released from prison, I am emailing you to inqure why that is? I am urging you to release him immediately as he has been granted parole.

Upcoming

We are planning a number of other chats in coming weeks that will take a while to find their way into our main podcast stream including: an interview with one of the authors of We Go Where They Go, a history of Anti-Racist Action around the millenium; an interview with comic artist and collagist Johnny Damm; an interview with transfem anti-fascists in the UK about the recent violence in Liverpool as fascists attempted to attack refugees held up in a hotel; Devi Machete of Contra Viento y Marea Comedor mutual aid space run by refugees and anarchists in Tijuana, Mexico; and more.

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Featured Track:

• If You Go Down (I’m Going Down, Too) by Kelsae Ballerini from Subject To Change

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There MAY be new music this week on Radio Active Kids (yes I know I’ve made that pun before but I only get to do it once a year haha)! New songs by the likes of Imagination Movers & Mustard Plug, Itty Bitty Beats & Claudia Robin Gunn, Josh & The Jamtones, Dub Town Rockers, Keith Munslow, Little Miss Ann (ft. Kymberly Stewart!), BENNY TIME & BVT, fleaBITE & Levity Beet, Rolie Polie Guacamole & Katie Ha Ha Ha, Marla Lewis, Charity and the JAMband, Marsha and the Positrons, Angie Who, My Friend Christopher, The Bongo Brothers, Blue Tac, Mama Birds, and a compilation by DARIA featuring Joanie Calem & more! 8-10am ET Saturday at ashevillefm.org/show/radio-active-kids or tun.in/pjiei & podcasting at https://anchor.fm/radio-active-kids!

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May flowers are blooming and so are the blues! Enjoy the blues bloom when you tune in the Blueshound on Soul of the Blues this Thursday from 12-2pm at AshevilleFM! Listen live in Asheville at 103.3fm or stream it live globally and anytime 24/7 for 2 weeks after the show airs at ashevillefm.org! Enjoy new releases from Nashville’s Nalani Rothrock, Missouri quartet Sister Lucille, Big Harp George and some rare live tracks by the legendary Freddie King! Also will play songs from Iron Man Michael Burks, Little Jimmy King and Ruth Brown! The Notcho’ Blues Artist this week is Leon Russell playing country music using his pseudo name, Hank Wilson! Join the Blueshound this week on Soul of the Blues for 2 hours of mind knocking, butt rocking blues, baby!

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