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Asheville’s Southside Community Farm
An interview with Chloe Moore of the BIPOC food sovereignty project, Southside Community Garden in so-called Asheville NC which is facing displacement by the Housing Authority of the City of Asheville
“Clean For Who? Safe For Who?”: Asheville Business Improvement District
An interview with Madison, Elliot and Grace about the proposed Business Improvement District in Asheville and people organizing to block its passage
Don Bosco Park Defense in Bologna + Bernard Jemison on Conditions & Resistance in AL Prisons
This week, an interview with a radical in Bologna, Italy, about the defense of the Don Bosco park from cementization (redevelopment) by the leftist municipal administration of the city. This is followed by an interview with Bernard Jemison, incarcerated whistleblower at Holman Correctional Institution in Atmore, AL, about conditions in the Alabama prison system and recent calls to organize a strike by prisoners affiliated with the Free Alabama Movement
Crime, Corruption, and Community Based Liberation in the U.S./Mexico Neoliberal Military Political Economy
Simón Sedillo, author of Weapons, Drugs & Money talks a little about his early days in media with El Enemigo Común, his book with a focus on intervention and integration from capitalist and military powers in the US, multinational banking and big pharma and the violence against and resilience of indigenous communities under that nation-state
Feather River Action! on Forest Fires and Clearcuts
An interview with Josh Hart of Feather River Action! About the US forest services plans to defoliate and sell for salvage large swaths of forest in the north east of so-called California. More info at FeatherRiverAction.org
Jeremy White on the “San Diego Antifa” Case
Our mid-March 2024 conversation with filmmaker and activist Jeremy White, facing years in prison for conspiracy in the “San Diego Antifa” case for being a street medic at a counter demo during a Stop The Steal rally in San Diego on January 9th, 2021
Bulldoze SCI Rockview: Abolition, Prisoner Support, and Resistance to Genocide in PA-DOC
Interview with a supporter of prisoners demanding justice for racist displays by guards at SCI Rockview prison in Pennsylvania
Mac Marquis on “Books Through Bars: Stories from the Prison Books Movement”
An interview with David “Mac” Marquis, co-editor of the recently published “Books Through Bars: Stories From The Prison Books Movement” (University of Georgia Press, 2024) on prison books projects, what they say about conditions inside, some of the value of this inside-outside organizing and what you can expect to find in the book.
Hani Almadhoun on Conditions and Mutual Aid in North Gaza + James Ward on his Struggle for Release from Ohio Prison
An interview with Palestinian-American journalist Hani Almadhoun about conditions in north Gaza where his family lives and the soup kitchen his brother opened there. Then, James Ward talks about his activism behind bars in the Ohio prison system since his incarceration at the age of 15 and his attempt to gain freedom.
Corvallis Bookfair, Tyumen Case, and Counter-Surveillance
A conversation with Aster, a European anarchist involved involved in the counter-surveillance and anti-repression project known as the No Trace Project which works to share information about known methods and cases of state surveillance in order to better and expand our collective knowledge, tools and abilities at evading state crackdowns as we organize and act.
Imprisoned Anarchist Toby Shone + Updates from Argentinian Antifascist
An interview with Toby Shone, anarchist imprisoned in the UK, about his confinement as well as an interview with Nichola, an antifascist in Argentina, about the street demonstrations against neoliberal president Javier Milei, the state of the left and the far right in the country as well as the #redgym and social center in Buenos Aires, La Cultura Del Barrio
Extremism, Fascist Voids and Antifascist Hope with Joan Braune
An interview with Joan Braune about her recent book “Understanding and Countering Fascist Movements: From Void to Hope” out from Routledge.
Harm Reduction and Eco-defense in Appalachia
February 18th, 2024 by bogoodness
An interview with Tasha of the West Virginia Harm Reduction crew, Project Mayday. Then a chat with Toby of Appalachians Against Pipelines and Madeline Ffitch, a resistor of the Mountain Valley Pipeline from Appalachian Ohio
Andrew Lee on Defying Displacement
February 11th, 2024 by bogoodness
An interview with author and activist Andrew Lee on his recent book, “Defying Displacement: Urban Recomposition and Social War” (AK Press, 2024) on gentrification, financialization of housing and community defense.
Free Alex Stokes + Russian Anti-War Saboteur Ruslan Siddiqui
This week on the show, we’re starting out with an…