Welcome, to This Is America, October 31st, 2019. On this episode, we speak with an organizer from the bay area, about the history of PG&E, a private utility company linked to decades and decades of fires, pipeline explosions, and more – all caused by the corporations drive to put profits before the public. We also... Read Full Article

Welcome, to This Is America, October 28th, 2019. In this episode, we feature two interviews, the first with two people involved in the ongoing defense of the ancient Mattole forest in Northern California. We speak about how people have been fighting corporate logging of the forest for over 20 years and how this multi-generational struggle... Read Full Article

In this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we speak with radical journalist, writer, and teacher, Natasha Lennard, author of the new book from Verso Press, Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life. The book contains essays on both the personal and the political, while also covering social movements and struggles from Black Lives Matter,... Read Full Article

Welcome, to This Is America, October 16th, 2019. In this episode, we are lucky enough to be able to speak to an Assyrian anarchist living in Rojava, the autonomous region of Northern Syria. We speak about the unfolding crisis, the withdrawal of US troops, the ongoing Turkish invasion, the impact the bombings have had to... Read Full Article

Welcome, to This Is America, October 11th, 2019. In this episode, first we speak with a member of the Seattle Solidarity Network, and discuss their ongoing fight against the Purple Store over unpaid wages and an attempt to silence them in court. We then launch into a discussion about the ongoing impeachment crisis and Trump... Read Full Article

In this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we speak with Noel Ignatiev, long time organizer, author, and theorist. Ignatiev spent 20 years working in a steel factory while also being involved in the influential group, the Sojourner Truth Organization (STO). Building off the ideas of W.E.B. Du Bois and CLR James, STO built... Read Full Article

In this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast (originally recorded for Pacifica Radio), we present a discussion and analysis on the evolving impeachment crisis. Fundamentally we ask if we have a dog in this fight, as the Democrats, who have spent years advancing and helping to fund Trump’s drive toward war, his growing attacks... Read Full Article

Welcome, to This Is America, October 2nd, 2019. In this episode we speak with members of the Youth Liberation Front (YLF) out of the Pacific Northwest. We talk about the recent #ClimateStrike, how Portland and the surrounding areas have been changed by years of anarchist and antifascist mass mobilization, and what the YLF is doing... Read Full Article

Welcome, to This Is America, September 24th, 2019. In this episode we catch up with a rank-n-file member of the UAW who is on strike against General Motors in New York. We talk about the strike, how the company has created a system of different tiers of workers who get different pay, and the need... Read Full Article

On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we spoke with Bill Budington, a long-time anarchist and senior staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) based out of the San Francisco Bay area about government and corporate surveillance and how to build up electronic self-defense on your phone, on your computer. and to... Read Full Article