Cover photo: Italian anarchist partisan fighters celebrate the defeat of fascism. In this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we talk with long time indigenous author, artist, and organizer, Gord Hill, who for decades has written under the pen name, Zig Zag. While Gord is perhaps best known for documenting indigenous struggles across the […]

Welcome, to This Is America, September 20th, 2018. In today’s episode we’re going to talk specifically about Hurricane Florence, and anarchist and autonomous disaster relief responses to it. Included in this episode will be two interviews, one with someone recorded a few days ago that gives a good overview of the situation both in terms […]

Mapache has lived through a nightmare many people can’t even imagine. In late July, Mapache spoke with It’s Going Down on This Is America, reporting on an ongoing encampment protesting ICE deportations, forced child separations, an mass roundups. About a week after our interview, Mapache was picked up by ICE officials, as they knew his […]

Welcome to our second podcast episode exploring the topic of electoralism, reformism, and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). While our last conversation broadly tackled the topic of an electoral strategy vs one of building the power of social movements and autonomous organizations, in this episode, we talk with a group of people actually inside […]

Welcome, to This Is America, September 13th, 2018. We have a special show today, as we will present an interview with Blue Ridge Autonomous Defense, a group of people that are gathering supplies as we speak and are heading out to the east coast to provide autonomous disaster relief in whatever chaos is brought by […]

Welcome, to This Is America, September 13th, 2018. We have a special show today, as we will present an interview with Blue Ridge Autonomous Defense, a group of people that are gathering supplies as we speak and are heading out to the east coast to provide autonomous disaster relief in whatever chaos is brought by […]

Welcome, to This Is America, September 11th, 2018. A lot happened over the weekend, from antifascist clashes, noises demonstrations in solidarity with the prison strike, the disclosure of a network of “non-profit” kid prisons in Chicago holding children separated from their parents at the border, clashes with police in Dallas after an off duty police […]

Along with obsession over “ANTIFA,” the growth of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in the wake of Bernie Sanders’ failed Presidential run has garnished mass attention in the press, been demonized by the Right, and also embraced by some sections of the liberal class as the new shepherds of the Democratic Party. Meanwhile, the […]

Welcome, to This Is America, September 5th, 2018. There’s a lot of news to cover since our last update. In this episode, we caught up with someone from Gainesville IWOC who reported on the ground from outside a prison work camp in Florida, as an encampment in solidarity with the #PrisonStrike had just kicked off. […]

Cover photo from @gracejjgarcia Welcome, to This Is America, August 31th, 2018. There’s a lot to cover this week, with a lot happening across the country both in terms of the police, the State, and the economy, as well as actions coming from autonomous social movements. We’re not going to spend too much time here […]