Friendly Anarchism

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CW: Graphic depictions of violence against nazis and cops.

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Notes from Nov 2020:

I was weirdly defensive about there being POC antifascists in Portland, which is true but also the scene is very white, and it causes a lot of problems. It is important to acknowledge hearing from someone who came from outside of town and noticed right away how much whiter the antifa groups now are than they were in Europe in the 70's, and how the people the he saw doing fighting nazis during the street warfare against boneheads in the 80's and early 90's in Portland were Black.

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"Why were there no nazis in your town?" "Because they get smash."

Nazi hunting, baseball bats, Doc Martins, ska, fighting cops, and fucking up racists all over Europe, to fighting nazis in late 1980's/early 1990's Portland. All in a very thick French accent.

Notes:

- It's "Mulugeta" Seraw, I mispronounced his name.

Referenced:

Skrewdriver- Neo-Nazi band

About defense in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina: J. Clark, "Three-Way Fight: Revolutionary Anti-Fascism and Armed Self-Defense"

Cecesesola Venezuela: http://www.geo.coop/story/solidarity-economics-transformative-politics

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This is a very contemplative episode on a number of sensitive, emotional topics. We spoke about what it is like to be a Quaker, self-care, mysticism, death, silence, and of course, anarchy.

"We all do the best we can, now don't we dearie?"

Referenced in the podcast: https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2017/feb/24/our-bail-system-leaving-innocent-people-die-jail-because-theyre-poor/

Brian Morris, "Anthropology, Ecology, and Anarchism: A Brian Morris Reader" pg 63, PM Press (2014)

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Wonderful talk with my friend Candice, super smart lady who studies economics and has done a million amazing things. We spoke about communism, the problems with exclusivity in communes, the rural Black experience, being a revolutionary mother, economic theory, living in Oregon, class consciousness, neighborhood organizing, radical grandmas, Troy Davis, buying property, the racist Cascadia movements, mansplaining, and a lot more!

Notes:

There are in fact Black farmers in Oregon: https://www.pdxmonthly.com/eat-and-drink/2020/07/a-new-bipoc-led-farmers-market-takes-root-in-portland

Listen, Marxist! By Murray Bookchin: https://www.marxists.org/archive/bookchin/1969/listen-marxist.htm

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Today we had Lonnie Douglas, the Chair for the Eugene Springfield Solidarity Network (ESSN), ex-military, gun-totin' progressive white guy union organizer. We talk about fake Christians, abortion, guns, Redneck Revolt, Marxism, racism, anti-capitalism, union organizing, anti-globalization, the timber industry, Earth First!, Bernie, Revolution, true Anarchy, and buttless chaps.

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We spoke with Friend Sharon Smith, expert on racism within the Quaker community and author of this article: https://www.friendsjournal.org/witness-quaker-racism/

It ended up being such an amazing conversation that it went an hour and a half overtime!

Apologies for the sound quality.

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TW: Graphic depiction of violence

We jumped into the debate surrounding violent vs. nonviolent protest tactics, and it led to discussions about the importance of intersectional feminism, sustaining good anti-authoritarian process, the Portland May Day "riots", and more!

Here is a bibliography and reference guide for this episode:

Mothers Day as an anti-war holiday

http://annapolisvalley.quaker.ca/posts/the-radical-peace-roots-of-mothers-day/

Gene Sharp - From Dictatorship to Democracy... Gene Sharp has also written voluminously on non-violence including a strategies book with 198 nonviolent tactics which can be taken.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Dictatorship_to_Democracy

Mark & Paul Engler - This is an Uprising

http://thisisanuprising.org/

Peter Gelderloos - How Nonviolence Protects The State

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/381842.How_Nonviolence_Protects_the_State

Shon Meckfessel - Nonviolence Ain't What it Used to be

https://www.akpress.org/nonviolence-ain-t-what-it-used-to-be.html

Jonathan Matthew Smucker - Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals

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

Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the age of Colorblindness

http://newjimcrow.com/about

Audre Lorde - The Uses of Rage

http://www.blackpast.org/1981-audre-lorde-uses-anger-women-responding-racism

'Texas Slim' - Hot Lead is Medicine: Thoughts on Whiteness, Privilege, & Violence:

https://akuk.com/index.php?_a=product&product_id=5878

Milo Yiannopoulos - bridge to the far right: http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/how-alt-right-fellow-traveller-milo-yiannopoulos-cracked-up-the-right

Seattle Antifascist shot by supporter of Milo Yiannopoulos: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/25/shooting-milo-yiannopoulos-speech-seattle-charges

Portland Protest May Day - in the news: http://www.kgw.com/news/politics/may-day-protests-expected-monday-in-portland-across-us/435436532

It's Going Down communique on Portland May Day Protests: https://itsgoingdown.org/portland-make-may-day-anarchist/

Daniel McGowan - served prison time for actions with the Earth

Liberation Front (ELF): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_G._McGowan

Documentary: If a Tree Falls - A Story of the Earth Liberation Front: http://www.ifatreefallsfilm.com/

Riots in Greece - Alexandros Grigoropoulos was killed by police and riots ensued: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Greek_riots

Valarie Kaur - Not the Darkness of the Tomb, but the Darkness of the Womb:

http://www.today.com/video/what-if-this-is-not-the-darkness-of-the-tomb-but-the-darkness-of-the-womb-watch-valarie-kaur-s-speech-917892675740

Vocabulary:

Intersectionality

Socialist Vanguardism

Diversity of Tactics

Tankies: http://sjwiki.org/wiki/Tankie#.WRnxzMllBnZ

Insurrectionary Anarchism

Greeks have many words for love: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_words_for_love

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Quaker Anarchists talk about how Christ was an anarchist and Christian tradition has deep radical roots.

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Quaker Anarchist Katherine from "Friendly Anarchism" is interviewed about Christianity and radical politics on KEPW 97.3 Eugene, and she explains what it is to be a Quaker, what anarchism is, and how they intersect.

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There were nazis on University of Oregon campus today, and since we are in Eugene, we're reporting back and doing some analysis. The conversation developed into a larger discussion about cultural context, media interactions, tactics, and the nature of anarchism. Berkeley and Pepsi both get shout-outs, too.

*This was really off the cuff, we wanted to get this out on the day of. There's a lot to talk about concerning methods of social change, martyrdom, etc that deserve more attention.

Referenced:

Report on white nationalists at UO (The rabbi's name is Jack Melul):

https://www.dailyemerald.com/news/white-nationalists-visit-uo-don-t-find-any-support/article_5f7b073b-b151-57bc-b21f-0c6e09db4c7f.html

LA Times "How Berkeley became epicenter of violent Trump clashes" : https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-berkeley-trump-20170416-story.html

Louise Rosealma, mentions her gofundme: "Berkeley brawl protester punched by white supremacist shares her story" https://www.mic.com/articles/174404/berkeley-brawl-protester-punched-by-white-supremacist-shares-her-story

Nazi Portland cop Mark Kruger (as of this recording still on the force): https://www.wweek.com/portland/article-2933-the-cop-who-liked-nazis.html

Notes Nov 2020:

-I'm actually Scottish and I love bagpipes. Seeing Jimmy Marr play bagpipes to try and recruit people to fascism made me personally really angry, and it's interesting to hear my kneejerk reaction about how to express that was to just reject my own heritage

-The accidental narrative here was separating "antifa" from the POC/Jewish folks, denoting "antifa" are non-Jewish white people, which is not true, but there was some truth at that time in Eugene that "antifa" largely denoted white anarchists

-Horseshoe theory is bunk, the piece I was struggling with was realizing just how much anti-Blackness there is in the anti-fascist movement

-Hearing me struggle with my own liberalism is real cringe, please listen to other episodes to see my political development

-My apologies to Cims for cutting him off so much :/ I was just so excited to talk about this stuff. Info-dump!