Friendly Anarchism

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Spoke with performance artist Plaedo about living in a climate change era, art as solace/art as weapon, CDs, societal collapse, denial, joyous rebellion, anarchist disaster relief, how art helps us remember the good things, symbolism, street theater, zipper songs, dance, leftist elitism, planting seed of change, small liberations, and listening to our inner voice.

Notes:

- The fires were really bad around Eugene at that time, and it was incredibly smoky for days. We were right in the worst of it when this was recorded. Multnomah falls did end up being saved though, although many other areas of the Columbia Gorge were totally devastated

-I want to be clear that Ready To Die by Notorious BIG is one of the best albums of all time, like, not-get-my-CD-changer-fixed good

-I believe Naomi Klein's prediction about a 50% chance of societal collapse if we didn't stop taking fossil fuels out of the ground by 2017 is from her book "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate" from 2014, but I can't verify

-The saying "If you can talk you can sing, if you can walk you can dance" can be seen as ableist, we can all dance and sing!

Referenced:

Plaedo's website:

https://plaedo.com/

An article about antifa disaster relief:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/hurricane-harvey-antifa-texas-flooding-antifacist-storm-relief-efforts-a7921846.html

Emma Goldman quote: "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution."

1000 Gestalten: Hamburg G20 Protest "zombie walk"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV99jp897Cw

Poem "Our Deepest Fear" by Marianne Williamson:

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

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CW: Suicide & police brutality

Spoke with Aneka from the SoJust Collective about centering POC, the founding fathers, police brutality, educating allies, being tired, passing the mic, no plaforming/active platforming, confronting your racist family, the allyship industrial complex, rewarding white mediocrity, the Red Cross, Rechts Gegen Rechts, difficulties with fundraising, and seriously, ruin Christmas.

You can donate to Aneka for their time by sending money to their venmo @pettymcbetty . If you counted more instances of bad allyship than I did, use your number, and if you counted fewer, use mine (14).

Notes:

- The controversy was in fact about Deady Hall at the University of Oregon, named after Judge Matthew Deady, co-author of the Oregon State Constitution and one of the most influential supporters of Oregon’s Exclusion Laws. A good guest viewpoint written on the subject here: http://uwire.com/2016/02/14/guest-viewpoint-deady-hall-must-change/

-For the uninitiated, "FTP" stands for Fuck The Police

- There was concern expressed for me, but I'm not in that relationship anymore and that story is very old

- Instead of donating to the Red Cross, you can go here to find how to get money directly to those who need it for Hurricane Harvey relief: https://www.colorlines.com/articles/how-donate-money-and-other-aid-communities-color-houston

Referenced:

CAHOOTS mobile crisis intervention: http://whitebirdclinic.org/cahoots/

Rechts Gegen Rechts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvjIYl_Nlao

Update 11/7/20: When this episode aired it was used to deny me a platform with Channel Zero Network. The reason given was because we should be talking about being "accomplices, not allies" and I was given a copy of the zine of the same name to read. However, we do talk about the Ally Industrial Complex in the episode and I disagree with their response that this episode contributes to that mindset. However, you can read a copy of the zine here and decide for yourself: https://archive.org/details/AccomplicesNotAlliesAbolishingTheAllyIndustrialComplex

Also, although I proclaimed that "people do listen to me", that is unfortunately largely more wishful than true. To some extent for sure, but it is very dependent on my ability to "mask" and act neurotypical, which is highly variable and an ongoing issue in my life. NT folks need to step up to help us.

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CW: Bodyshame, violence

Notes 11/20:

-I usually interview activists, but this week I spoke to my co-worker who was not politically active. Listening to it now a few years later, there's definitely some problematic things in here, but I decided it still has value to sort of show us struggling to learn. This is an example of an off-the-cuff conversation and if you have conversations like this I hope you do a better job!

- Don't use the term "war paint" to describe makeup, it's racist.

https://intercontinentalcry.org/what-is-decolonization-and-why-does-it-matter/

-Also, internalized beauty standards are racist and ableist. A couple articles about that:

https://theconversation.com/discrimination-against-fat-people-is-so-endemic-most-of-us-dont-even-realise-its-happening-94862

https://everydayfeminism.com/2017/01/how-to-shift-racist-fat-stigma/

Spoke this week about makeup shaming, tear gas, Power Brows, the YPJ, WWII female Russian snipers, Lady Death, dealing with bangs, male dominated spaces, sexism, being bubbly, taking space, inopportune periods, shopping, fighting dirty, boys, gold hoop earrings, work out routines, gym memberships, glitter bombing, silly string, and how All Cats Are Beautiful.

Notes:

-If anyone has the video of Richard Spencer getting glitter bombed, please send it my way

-I can't find a reference on the origins of ACAB, but it looks like it goes back much further than the 80's

Referenced:

The New Yorker: An Intimate History of Antifa

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/an-intimate-history-of-antifa

International News Safety Institute: Protecting Yourself From Tear Gas

https://newssafety.org/safety/advisories/protecting-yourself-from-tear-gas/

The Kurdish Project: YPJ

https://thekurdishproject.org/history-and-culture/kurdish-women/ypj/

I see the fun videos of the YPJ on their facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/Kurdish-Female-Fighters-YPJ-1814267612131127/

Colorized photos of WWII female russian snipers:

https://designyoutrust.com/2017/06/stunning-colorized-photos-of-legendary-soviet-female-snipers-from-wwii-including-one-dubbed-lady-death-who-killed-309-nazis/

The Base BK

https://thebasebk.org/

Submedia Burning Cop Car workout mixes

https://sub.media/?s=burning+cop+car

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Spoke to a couple DemSocs (Democratic Socialists) about libertarian socialism, libertarian municipalism, multi-tendency/big tent organizing, "transformative reforms", anti-statism, mutual aid, digital community, the awkwardness of radicalization, democratic confederalism, the 1996 Telecommunications Act & pirate radio, how radicalizing motherhood is, homogenization of culture, activate+educate+organize, capitalist dehumanization, fascists, wage theft, and organizing as self-care.

You can follow me on twitter at @FriendlyAPod :)

Notes:

-The origination of the word "libertarian" actually came from philosopher Joseph Déjacque, not Proudhon

-It's usually referred to as "agitate, educate, organize", not "activate, educate, organize"

-Bernie Sanders announced his campaign in April 2015, not June

Referenced:

ROAR Magazine: The New Municipal Movements

https://roarmag.org/magazine/new-municipal-movements/

The Politics of Social Ecology & Libertarian Municipalism by Janet Biehl with Murray Bookchin

http://www.social-ecology.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/The_Politics_of_Social_Ecology2.pdf

The Portland Assembly

https://portlandassembly.com/

https://www.facebook.com/pdxorassembly/

Democratic Confederalism By Abdullah Ocalan

http://freeocalan.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Ocalan-Democratic-Confederalism.pdf

Come Hell Or High Water - A handbook on collective process gone awry

https://www.akpress.org/comehellorhighwater.html

Portland Assembly guide on starting a Neighborhood Action Council

https://portlandassembly.com/wp-content/uploads/NAC-GUIDE.pdf

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Holding in the light the family of hero Heather Heyer as well as all of the brave people who went out in Charlottesville to oppose fascism knowing how dangerous those people are. Please donate to their medical funds, more info here: https://fundly.com/defendcville

Anarchist media starter pack: It's Going Down, Submedia, Idavox

"All social activism, all organizing, is science fiction."

Spoke to Imaginactivism scholar Joan Haran about sci-fi, writers including Octavia Butler, Starhawk, Marge Piercy, and Ursula K LeGuin, Octavia's Brood, independent publishing & the power of crowdfunding, the G20 in Hamburg, authoritarian sci-fi, the power of stories, the enlightenment, utopias & dystopias, imagining new forms of governance & social technologies, indigenous & afro futurism, the Handmaid's Tale, the war on drugs, and media repression.

Referenced:

Ava Duvernay adapting Octavia Butler for the screen: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ava-duvernay-octavia-butler-dawn_us_598b5f2ee4b0449ed5078015?section=us_arts

It's Going Down article on the G20 in Hamburg: https://itsgoingdown.org/g20-battle-hamburg-full-account-analysis/

The Center for Applied Non Violent Action and Strategies (CANVAS): http://canvasopedia.org/

"But anarchism is not compelled to outline a complete organisation of a free society. To do so with any assumption of authority would be to place another barrier in the way of coming generations. The best thought of today may become the useless vagary of tomorrow, and to crystallise it into a creed is to make it unwieldy." - Lucy Parsons (from http://www.blackrosefed.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Black-Anarchism-A-Reader-4.pdf)

The Rise of Antifa by Peter Beinart of the Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/the-rise-of-the-violent-left/534192/

Also a rebuttal: http://idavox.com/index.php/2017/08/09/newly-re-vamped-atlantic-magazine-calls-for-the-violent-suppression-of-anti-fascist-activists-in-major-editorial/

And here's a reading list given to me by Joan:

-Octavia’s Brood – ed. Walidah Imarisha and Adrienne Maree Brown

-The Fifth Sacred Thing – Starhawk

-Donna Haraway – “A Manifesto for Cyborgs” (collected in Manifestly Haraway)

-"Emergent Strategy" - Adrienne Maree Brown

-"Half-life" - Shelley Jackson

-The Highest Frontier. College out in space—Invaded by undocumented aliens. Tor/Macmillan, September, 2011.

-Brain Plague. Intelligent microbes invade human brains, offering limitless powers--at a price. Tor Books, August, 2000; Science Fiction Book of the Month Club, Alternate Selection.

-The Children Star. A planet with biochemistry so alien that only children can be genetically engineered to survive there. And what unique alien intelligence is watching in secret? Analog serial, April, 1998; Tor Books, September, 1998.

-Daughter of Elysium. In the far future, biologists engineer humans to live for thousands of years, then face a revolt by the machines that made it possible. Avon, 1993; Easton Press signed first edition, 1993; Avon pbk, 1994.

-The Wall around Eden. Quaker teen-agers face the environmental consequences of nuclear war. William Morrow, 1989; Avon pbk, 1990; Italian translation, Editrice Nord, 1991.

-A Door into Ocean. Women biologists genetically engineer fantastic creatures on a planet covered entirely by ocean. Science Fiction Book of the Month Club Main Selection, 1986; Arbor House, 1986; Avon pbk, 1987; Italian translation, Editrice Nord, 1988.

-Still Forms on Foxfield. Quakers colonize a planet with bizarre alien inhabitants. Del Rey Books, 1980.

-Anything by Nnedi Okorafor (start with the Binti novellas)

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CW: Abuse

Spoke to Warren Light from the Wesley Center about sexual violence, concentrating on the risk of perpetration instead of the risk of victimization, white fragility, Micah 6:8, allyship, walking humbly with your God, the discipline of humility & revolutionary values, Bruce Lee, anarchist cooperative praxis, false scarcity of pain, and how boring a white ethnostate would be.

Update: The Rose City Antifa fundraiser counted 47 instances of fascist creep, which amounted to $678 donated to the NNAF. Thanks for your support! Full report here: http://rosecityantifa.org/articles/fundraiser-tally-august-6/

Referenced:

The UO Wesley Center: https://uowesleycenter.wordpress.com/about/

Micah 6:8 (NRSV):

"He has told you, O mortal, what is good;

and what does the Lord require of you

but to do justice, and to love kindness,

and to walk humbly with your God?"

"The Trauma Toolkit" by Susan Pease Banitt

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Notes Nov. 2020:

-I apologize for the use of some ableist constructs and language around brain damage.

-I steered us away from it, but I wanted to mention here explicitly that narratives equating humanity to parasites etc is ecofascist, the problem isn't with population but with resource distribution and capitalism

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CW: Racist violence

Spoke with a wonderful woman, Jhansie Turner, about working as a care provider, exploitation of workers, power imbalances, racism, anger, managing men's egos, 1st world problems, the zombie apocalypse, American non-culture, trauma, media representation, being an immigrant, being adopted, different bodies, anarchist optimism, and faith energies.

Referenced:

Power Causes Brain Damage - The Atlanic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/power-causes-brain-damage/528711/

Rich people less empathetic than the poor: http://www.rawstory.com/2011/12/rich-people-less-empathetic-than-the-poor-study/

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"That's the best thing about anarchists & antifa is that we show up when you least expect it...so expect it."

Very excited to have spoken this week with Daryle Lamont Jenkins from One People's Project! We spoke about antifa, propaganda, media relations, doxing/citizen journalism, Trump and the rise of white nationalism, separatist movements, community outreach, Occupy, the difficulty with liberals, the NRA, and more!

*Note: DLJ misidentified the anti-abortion activist, he was Neil Horsley, not the 80s actor Lee Horsley. Also, Steve Scalise is a Congressman, not a Senator.

Referenced:

One People's Project: http://onepeoplesproject.com/roguesgallery/

Idavox: http://idavox.com/

Tucker Carlson interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp7977UcCqM

Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin article: http://blackrosefed.org/komboa-why-i-am-an-anarchist/

Steve Scalise is a bastard: http://www.salon.com/2015/09/29/i_exposed_steve_scalises_white_nationalist_past_and_yet_he_may_soon_become_even_more_powerful/

"Against Fascist Creep" by Alexander Reid Ross

Mother Jones article on recent anarchist history in America: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/04/anti-racist-antifa-tinley-park-five/

Rolling Stone article on PissPigGrandad: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/american-anarchists-ypg-kurdish-militia-syria-isis-islamic-state-w466069

Jake Gyllenhaal to play an anarchist fighting ISIS:

https://news.avclub.com/jake-gyllenhaal-to-play-one-of-the-anarchists-vs-isis-1798259561

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Greg Williams is a Christian anarchist organizer and author I was very pleased to be able to speak with! We spoke about above ground community antifascist mass mobilization, how hate speech shuts down free speech, cops, solidarity, loving your neighbor, and more :)

Referenced:

"Free Speech and Love of Enemies: Anti-Fascism Theologically Understood" by Greg Williams http://www.jesusradicals.com/blog/free-speech-and-love-of-enemies-anti-fascism-theologically-understood

So, I actually confused two articles.

This one from Crimethinc: https://crimethinc.com/2017/07/10/dear-citizens-this-is-your-police-in-praise-of-the-police-free-zone-in-hamburg

and this one from It's Going Down: https://itsgoingdown.org/made-large-scale-resistance-possible-g20-hamburg/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

"Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology" by David Graeber

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"Being anarchist means to love yourself for yourself."

Note: This was outside and I don't know how to edit, so unless you are a big fan of wind and trains I would be mindful about using headphones.

We talked about nihilism, being non-binary, TERFs, toxic masculinity, the Women's March, transmisogyny, bisexuality, semantics, charity v. solidarity, false spiritual scarcity, liberatory art, and morality.

Referenced:

Gender nihilism: an anti-manifesto

https://libcom.org/library/gender-nihilism-anti-manifesto

"Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.'" -Angela Davis

This Saxophone Kills Fascists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFQ4TB1bMxQ