On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we speak with Benjamin Case, organizer and author of the new book, Street Rebellions: Beyond Violence and Non-Violence. During our discussion, Case speaks on conversations with participants from a variety of contemporary movements about how many are leaving behind rigid ideologies such as pacifism, and imagining... Read Full Article

Welcome, to This Is America, January 20th, 2023. On today’s episode, first we speak with autonomous organizers in the rural Pacific Northwest town of Aberdeen, WA. We then talk to a supporter of antifascist political prisoner Alex Stokes, who has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for standing up to protect his friends from... Read Full Article

Over the last few months, residents of the Wood Street Commons, a self-organized community located in Oakland, CA have organized protests and filed lawsuits, in an attempt to stop their eviction and push the city to grant them access to public land. After a series of massive sweeps throughout 2022, remaining residents face another round... Read Full Article

On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we present a special on the ground conversation with a group of folks on the border of the so-called United States and Mexico in southern Arizona. In the last few weeks, a motley crew of local residents, anarchists, progressives, and environmentalists have converged and set up a protest camp,... Read Full Article

Welcome, to This Is America, December 20th, 2022. On this episode, first we speak with someone from the Atlanta Community Press Collective, about the recent arrests of forest defenders in Atlanta, Georgia, the trumped up charges they face, and how the community is responding. We then speak with Dell Cameron, a journalist who published a... Read Full Article

Last month, antifascists and members of the LGBTQ+ community, mobilized against a group of TERFs (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists), holding events across the US, under the banner of “Let Women Speak.” While these rallies were small, drawing only a few dozen and opposed by much larger crowds, they also brought out far-Right anti-trans activists and members... Read Full Article

Welcome, to This Is America, November 25th, 2022. On today’s episode, first we speak with two members of the Black Rose Anarchist Federation about the ongoing mass United Auto Workers (UAW) strike across the University of California system. We talk about how the strike grew out of a wave of wildcat strikes in early 2020... Read Full Article

On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we speak with someone from Mutual Aid Disaster Relief about autonomous responses in the wake of Hurricane Ian, which rampaged through the Caribbean and slammed into the coast of Florida in late September of 2022. During our discussion, we talk about both the response from the... Read Full Article

Welcome, to This Is America, November 13th, 2022. First, we speak with someone behind the Fediverse zine about the growth of Mastodon, the dumpster fire currently surrounding Twitter in the wake of billionaire Elon Musk taking over, and how anarchists are building up an alternative to the corporate platforms. We then switch to our discussion,... Read Full Article

photo: @pinkknightpress On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we again speak with antifascist author and researcher Shane Burley, editor of the new book from AK Press, “No Pasarán! Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis,” which features interviews and essays from a wide variety of antifascist thinkers and organizers. During our discussion... Read Full Article