After a hiatus, the anarchist podcast From Embers re-launched this month. The first new episode is a discussion with an anarchist participant in the Fairy Creek blockades on so-called Vancouver Island. Listen here: Further reading: Five Months of Direct Action… (No More City) The Return of the War in the Woods? (BC Blackout) Desert (The Anarchist Library)
The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair is the largest anarchist gathering in North America and 2019 is it’s 20th year. In this episode, I interviewed two members of this year’s bookfair collective. Topics include: - what, if anything, does the bookfair have to do with books? -is the bookfair for “us,” for “recruitment,” or both? -how much should event planners try to shape a space like this? what kinds of policies are appropriate and how, if at all, should they be enforced? ...
This week’s episode features two interviews with people involved in the struggle to stop a new migrant prison from being built in Laval, Quebec. Topics discussed include: -the project and how the government is trying to frame it as a “nice” cage. -senses of strategy and what might work to actually stop a project like this. -actions that have taken place against the prison, how they’ve gone, and what actions might be on the horizon. ...
An interview with Craig Fortier , who is an organizer and academic based in Toronto. Among other things, Craig is involved with No One Is Illegal and helps coordinate the Field of Dreamers Cooperative Softball Association , which was featured on a recent episode of Talking Radical Radio . Craig is the author of the short book Unsettling The Commons: Social Movements Within, Against and Beyond Settler Colonialism which was published in 2017 by Arbeiter Ring. In it, Craig draws on more than 50 interviews with organizers within what he calls the “anti-authoritarian current” across Canada and the United States, and discusses what it means to “struggle for the commons” in the context of settler colonialism. ...