Coffee with Comrades

Holy shit, y'all, we fucking did it! 150 episodes of this silly, radical, wholesome podcast. 150 conversations, discussions, dialogues, interviews, chit-chats, back-and-forths. Wow wow wow wow wow wow. To celebrate, we do a bit of house-keeping and have a Q&A to mark the occasion. If you'd like, you can read the transcript for this episode. We also have a poll going for t-shirt designs. Let us know which you like the best! Be sure to stick around 'til the very end for some wild-ass bloopers.

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• Coffee with Comrades is an affiliate of the Firestorm Books & Café. Check out our reading recommendations!
• Our logo was designed by Nathanael Whale.

"The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make and could just as easily make differently."

• David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules

Dedicated to the memory of David Graeber. Rest in power.

Recently, I sat down with Nate and Tom, two of the co-hosts of Works in Theory podcast, to commemorate the passing of David Graeber. Together, we read through my favorite Graeber essay, "What's the Point if We Can't Have Fun?" and discussed everything from anthropocentrism to economics to joy and the jubilee of play.

• Read "What's the point if we can't have fun?" by David Graeber.
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I recently sat down with the folks behind the forthcoming documentary East of Town to talk about immigration, justice, and borders in the Deep South town of Lumpkin, GA. Our sprawling conversation touched on a whole lot--from the depressing constancy of immigration policy in the so-called U.S. to fortress Europe and the global regime of border violence enforced across the planet.

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This week, Justine and Hal join us to discuss the brand new Solarpunk magazine! In this wide-ranging conversation, the three of us define "solarpunk" as both a literary/aesthetic genre, but also as a way-of-life. We pick apart the anti-authoritarian impulse implicit in the name "solarpunk," but also problematize the limitations of aesthetic revolt. Our dialogue touches on the tensions between (post-)humanism and biocentrism, abolishing anthropocentrism, anti-capitalism in solarpunk, queer and liberatory story-telling, and so much more!

Production Note: I mention at the top of the episode that this is Ep. 146, but it's actually Ep. 147.

• Visit Solarpunk magazine's website and sign-up to be notified of their Kickstarter, which launches October 1, 2021! You can also follow Solarpunk magazine on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, if that's your jam.
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• Coffee with Comrades is a proud member of the Channel Zero Network.
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• Our logo was designed by Sydney Landis. Support her work, buy some art.

On today's edition of Coffee with Comrades, we spoke with Lee—better known as Your Friendly Butch Anarchist—about community accountability.

• YFBA's thread on community accountability.
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Ep. 145 of Coffee with Comrades features a conversation with Geo Maher, author of the new book A World Without Police: How Communities Make Cops Obsolete. Geo and I discuss abolition as presence, connect the history of reconstruction to the present, examine the obstacles presented by the Fraternal Order of Police in order to explore strategies to "break the spinal column of police power," chat about community self-defense, and close with a dialogue about abolition as a central facet of revolutionary social transformation.

• Pick up a copy of A World Without Police: How Communities Make Cops Obsolete.
• Follow Geo on Instagram and visit his website!
• Attend the special book release event on Sept. 1, 2021.
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• Coffee with Comradesis a proud member of the Channel Zero Network.
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• Our logo was designed by Sydney Landis. Support her work, buy some art.

I recently sat down with Jay Dragon, lead designer behind Possum Creek Games and developer of the new tabletop roleplaying game, Wanderhome. The two of us proceeded to have quite a lovely conversation that I'm so excited to share with you today.

Jay is wonderful and the insight, passion, and heart Jay brought to this dialogue was beautiful to behold. Jay and I talk a lot about the mechanics behind Wanderhome, discuss the "GM agnostic" systems of Wanderhome, get into the weeds of the different philosophies behind game design, discuss the pastoral, gentle adventures of player-characters in the world of Hæth, and speak at length about queerness in the tabletop gaming space. I cannot recommend Wanderhome enough, regardless of whether you're a veteran TRPG player or a total novice!

• Visit Possum Creek Games' website and pick up a copy of Wanderhome today!
• Follow Jay on Twitter. Follow Grub on Twitter. Check out Kazumi's Twitter, as well.
• I Hope We Choose Love by Kai Cheng Thorn
• A Dozen Fragments on Playground Theory by Jay Dragon
• What's the Point if We Can't Have Fun? by David Graeber
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• Coffee with Comrades is a proud member of the Channel Zero Network.
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• Our logo was designed by Sydney Landis. Support her work, buy some art.

I recently sat down with Robert Ovetz to chat about his book Workers Inquiry and Global Class Struggle! The conversation jumped around a bunch. We chatted about the strike as a tactic, the unique types of struggle that are occurring in places like China and Argentina, and the necessity of international solidarity as we fight to abolish capitalism.

• Follow Robert on Twitter! You can check out his essays and journal articles, as well.
• Pick up a copy of Workers' Inquiry & Global Class Struggle!
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I recently caught up with my comrade Cory, who hosts the show The Mind of a Skeptical Leftist. The two of us chatted over a coffee about why SWERFs suck, how awful Joe Biden is, and some other fun stuff. The discussion was engrossing and we had a blast. I hope you'll enjoy the chat, too.

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• Coffee with Comradesis a proud member of the Channel Zero Network.
• Coffee with Comradesis an affiliate of the Firestorm Books & Café. Check out our reading recommendations!
• Our logo was designed by Sydney Landis. Support her work, buy some art.

On this week's edition of Coffee with Comrades, we're doing something a little special. In the first part of Ep. 141, I sat down with Scott Branson to talk about the new English language version of a book they translated for AK Press, The Abolition of Prison, by French revolutionary and prison abolitionist Jacques de la Haye. Scott and I talked about their work translating the new edition, the capaciousness of anarchism and abolition, as well as the cancerous forms of carceral logic that plague the left even to this day. In the second part, I include an English language rendition of a conversation with Jacques de la Haye himself! Then, finally, we close with a French version of that same dialogue.

Below are the time stamps for each of the three parts:

• 6:05 – Interview with Scott Branson
• 53:32 – English Language Interview with Jacques de la Haye
• 1:02:21 – French Language Interview with Jacques de la Haye

I also want to give a big shout-out to Scott, who translated Jacques' answers and my comrade, Travis, who leant his voice-acting skills to read out Jacques' replies for our English-speaking audience.

• Pick up a copy of The Abolition of Prison!
• You can follow Scott Branson on Twitter.
• You can also find a digital transcript for our interview with Jacques
• Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitterand Instagram, and visit our website.
• Coffee with Comradesis a proud member of the Channel Zero Network.
• Coffee with Comradesis an affiliate of the Firestorm Books & Café. Check out our reading recommendations!
• Our logo was designed by Sydney Landis. Support her work, buy some art.