Welcome, to This Is America, March 29th, 2019. On today’s show we look at the recent push by the DHS to give itself more powers, more money, and to build more infrastructure to house and deport migrant workers, as scenes from the makeshift outdoor detention center in El Paso, Texas go viral. Central American migrants, […]

On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we caught up with historian and author Keri Leigh Merritt out of Atlanta, Georgia. Merritt is the author of both the 2017 book, Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South as well as the new essay, War Happens in Dark Places, Too. Merritt’s […]

Welcome, to This Is America, March 22nd, 2019. We have a great show for you this week. We start off with news and headlines, and then get into an interview with members of the Little Big Union, which is the name of an IWW affiliated campaign to organize and unionize workers at Little Big Burger, […]

In this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we sat down with participants of the Abolish ICE movement from across the US, including people in Tacoma, WA, Portland, OR, Chicago, IL, and San Francisco, CA. While each of the experiences of those involved in #AbolishICE were different, they show the complexity of a period […]

Welcome, to This Is America, March 15th, 2018. In this episode, we speak to a network of families who have come together to fight ongoing staged “gladiator” fights being facilitated by prison staff in Central California prisons. "The last thing CDCR wants is inmates collectively organizing and challenging their conditions, like the Pelican Bay hunger […]

In this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we again talked with professor, labor historian, and author Peter Cole, who has just put out the new book, Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area. The book details the struggle of port workers to build cross-racial solidarity in two […]

Welcome, to This Is America, March 9th, 2019. We have an amazing show for you this week. First, we talk with someone from PopMob about a recent event in Portland that brought together close to 600 people in response to a series of anti-queer and anti-trans attacks. My Remarks at “Our Streets: A Community Safety […]

This is the first episode of the It’s Going Down podcast looking back on 2018 and anarchist and autonomous activity on a large scale. In this specific episode, we talk with several people involved in both the organization, Mutual Aid Disaster Relief (MADR), as well as those who have been involved in key autonomous relief […]

Welcome, to This Is America, March 2nd, 2019. In this episode, first we talk to one of the four valve turners who in Minnesota in mid-February, took direct action against an Enbridge pipeline, shutting it down. As one report wrote: Four Catholic Workers were charged with property damage after they attempted earlier this week to shut […]

In this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we caught up three members of the metal influenced hardcore punk band, Racetraitor. The band originally formed in Chicago in the mid-1990s, influenced by everything from Earth Crisis to Riot Grrl and local bands like Los Crudos. Taking both the communal and confrontational aspect of bands […]