From Embers

Talking with Louve Rose from P!nk Bloc Montreal about Quebec's transphobic far right, drag defence, and building a revolutionary anti-capitalist queer organization for both community self-defence and to intervene against gay assimilationism.

Links

P!nk Bloc MTL – Instagram, Facebook, Linktree

August 12 Rad Pride (Facebook Event)

Montreal Antifasciste

MAF reportback from April 12 drag defence

From Embers - Anti-Fascism in Quebec

Revolutionary Trans Politics and the Three Way Fight

Submedia: Pride and Prejudice

Music

The Muslims - Fuck the Cistem

Interview with an anti-fascist observer about insights gained from the Public Order Emergency Commission hearings, a public inquiry into the federal government's use of the Emergencies Act to repress the so-called Freedom Convoy in February 2022.

We discuss why governments invoke emergencies, OPP's Project Hendon, how the Convoy was funded, the relationship between convoy organizers and police, comparisons with #ShutDownCanada, liberal conspiracy theories, the scale of economic disruption during the Convoy, and more.

Links

Public Order Emergency Commission

Our previous episodes on Yellow Vests Canada and the Freedom Convoy

Ill Winds From Ottawa - Crimethinc report on the Freedom Convoy

Anarchist report from Ottawa during the Convoy

Music: Lee Reed

Note: Due to a technical glitch, this episode was removed, edited and re-published after it's initial release on January 11, 2023.

Interview with the author of the PET Guide, a zine discussing secure digital communication tools from an anarchist perspective. We discuss Signal and its critics, and some new tools being released that incorporate peer-to-peer communication, end-to-end encryption and the Tor network.

Further reading:

How the U.S. Military buys location data from ordinary apps

The challenge of cracking Iran's internet blockade

Catholic bishop / Grindr / App data scandal

Signal

Interview with new Signal president Meredith Whittaker

Signal Warning? Why Moxie's Departure Is Not The End Of Signal

Signal Fails

PET apps

Briar Project

Cwtch

A conversation with two anarchists following a workshop they gave at the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair entitled 10 years since the strike: the place of nationalism within militant struggle. We discuss the history of Quebec nationalism and its influence in anarchist and radical milieus, responsibilities of settlers in anti-colonial struggle and in relating to land, possibilities and uncertain futures opened up by anarchism as a guiding practice, and more.

Further reading:

« Sauvage », « esclave » et « Nègres blancs d'Amérique » : hypothèses sur le complexe onto-politique québécois

Keshena Robinson - Québec Redux: Settler Coloniality and Reactionary "Decolonialism"

Robin Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - Rehearsals for Living

William C. Anderson - The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition

Tuck and Yang - Decolonization is Not a Metaphor

Sever - Land and Freedom

Music in this episode:

Cris Derksen - Our Home on Native Land, Fires

Kae Tempest - Tunnel Vision

Escaping Tomorrow's Cages is a six-part essay being published throughout the month of May that lays out the coming wave of provincial jail expansions in Ontario and propose a strategy for how they might be opposed. We spoke with 3 anarchists involved with the project.

All music in this episode is from the 2012 anti-folk opera "What The F*ck Am I Doing Here?" about anarchist participation in the 2012 Quebec student strike. Check it out on Soundcloud here: https://soundcloud.com/whatthefuckamidoinghere/sets/what-the-fuck-am-i-doing-here Learn more about Divest McGill here: https://www.divestmcgill.ca/

Conversation with the author of Addressing Russian Propaganda, available online at praleski.org. We discuss some of the political and historic context for Russia's current invasion of Ukraine including Russian state mythology of anti-fascism, the importance of solidarity with people in Ukraine facing Russian imperial agression, and more.

Music in this episode is from a benefit compilation released by eastbloc sound titled We Stand With Ukraine. Also check out Albums Against the Invasion from Anarchist Black Cross Musical Solidarity Group

Links:

Operation Solidarity

Support Roma in Ukraine

The Solidarity Apothecary

Anarchist Black Cross Dresden

Autonomous Action – anarchists, libertarian communists, antifa

Commons (leftist journal from Ukraine)

Letters from Ukraine series published by Endnotes:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Everyday Anarchism – Bonus episode: A Report from Ukranian Anarchists

carla bergman is an artist, writer, unschooler and fellow podcaster.

We discuss carla's backstory, being radicalized by parenting, unschooling, the Purple Thistle, pandemic school closures, learning to trust kids, and striving to bring more joy into our projects and lives.

Find carla on twitter, instagram and linktree

Music by TimeArtwork from Grounded Futures

A conversation with two members of Friends of the Attawapiskat River (Website/Facebook) about the Ring of Fire mining project and what's at stake.

Mining Injustice Solidarity Network: (Website/Facebook)

Song excerpt from Sounding Rock drum group, Webequie First Nation

We spoke with a transportation worker about the so-called Freedom Convoy currently occupying capital cities and border crossings across Canada. Links:

Naujawan Support Network

Canadian Anti-Hate Network

Punch Up Collective (Ottawa)

Ottawa Trip Report

Three Way Fight