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The Coming Climate Catastrophe
Jan 14, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min
Two anarchists from southern Ontario talk about 25 year climate projections in that region and what it might mean to take them seriously. Related Links Workshop Recap: The Coming Climate Catastrophe Climate Atlas of Canada Desert by Anonymous Aric McBay Interview on Climate Crisis It's Revolution or Death The Long Emergency: A Discussion with Adam Greenfield
Fighting the PRGT Pipeline
Sep 15, 2025 · 1 hr 7 min
An interview with two settler anarchists in northern British Columbia who are active in a growing struggle against the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission Project or PRGT. Resistance to the project has been heating up all summer as government approvals have been issued and construction work is expected to begin in the fall of 2025. Discussions includes history and overview of the project, the changing context of the Canada-US trade war, anarchist-indigenous solidarity, and taking some lessons from Sh…
Black Oak Anarchist Social Space
Jun 18, 2025 · 41 min
An interview with one of the collective members behind Black Oak Anarchist Social Space, which launched in Hamilton in Spring 2025. LINKS Black Oak Anarchist Social Space Hamilton Anarchist Bookfair North Shore Counter-Info RELATED EPISODES The Locke Street Affair (Part 1) Queers Fight Back Cedar on #FreeCedar Five Years After The Brawl At Hamilton Pride MUSIC Ant.Survila - Nostalgic Reflections
Report from Montreal's NYE Noise Demo
Jan 18, 2025 · 43 min
A discussion with two organizers of this year's New Year's Eve noise demo in Laval. We discuss how things went, prisoner solidarity organizing in Montreal, the value of noise demos as an anarchist tactic and tradition, and where we might go from here. Thanks to CKUT Prison Radio for the live footage. Links: Video from Clash MTL Report from 2025 Hamilton Noise Demo Seven Years Against Prison: On the practice of noise demos outside of prisons in Southern Ontario (pdf link) It's Going Down Roundup…
Building Our Own Power: Five Years After The Brawl At Hamilton Pride
Aug 12, 2024 · 1 hr 7 min
Five summers ago on June 15th 2019, a group of homophobic "street preachers" and their white nationalist allies attempted to enter and disrupt the annual Hamilton Pride celebrations at Gage Park. Based on experience the previous year at Hamilton Pride and elsewhere in southern Ontario, anarchists and radical queers were expecting this and had organized to counter them. Wearing pink t-shirts over their faces and carrying a 30' wide 9' tall black banner nicknamed the Black Hole, the Pride Defender…
Ben Morea
Apr 26, 2024 · 1 hr 11 min
An interview with Ben Morea, recorded after an art show and talk he gave in Kingston, Ontario entitled "Revolutionary Animism – The Unified Field: Art, Politics and Spirituality." Ben Morea is best known as a key figure in the Black Mask group, The Family (popularly known as Up Against The Wall Motherf**ker), and the Armed Love commune movement. In this interview Ben recounts stories from his life, reflects on some of the challenges facing anarchists and revolutionaries of yesterday and today, a…
Event Audio: The No State Solution
Mar 4, 2024 · 1 hr 31 min
The No State Solution: A Dialogue with Palestinian sociologist Mohammed Bamyeh and Israeli political scientist Uri Gordon How can anarchist perspectives contribute to Palestinian liberation? Professor Mohammed Bamyeh, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, is author of Anarchy as Order: The History and Future of Civic Humanity (2009) Dr. Uri Gordon, author of Anarchy Alive!: Anti-Authoritarian Politics from Practice to Theory (2007), is an Independent scholar now based in the UK. Thi…
Unionizing Prison Labour
Nov 18, 2023 · 1 hr 8 min
An interview with Jordan House and Asaf Rashid, authors of the book Solidarity Beyond Bars: Unionizing Prison Labour. We discuss the background of the book, some historical and legal precedents, the pros and cons of right-based approaches, the core strategic arguments for a prisoners union, and an exciting new initiative by prisoners in Laval, QC to form a union. If you're around Montreal, check out their upcoming book launch at Concordia University on Friday, November 24th. With music from Davi…
AudioZine: Under New Management
Oct 5, 2023 · 50 min
On this special edition of From Embers, we're sharing a reading of Under New Management: Resistance to Prisons in Ontario & Quebec. Originally published in 2018 on It's Going Down under the title Our Neighbors to the North, this article discusses the establishment of the Canadian prison system and highlights some examples of prisoner resistance in Ontario and Quebec over the decades, with an emphasis on the widespread unrest throughout the 1970s. This AudioZine was first broadcast by CFRC Prison…
Dispatches from the Fediverse
Aug 13, 2023 · 40 min
Our fediverse correspondent Lenny returns to discuss the FBI seizure of the servers of Kolektiva.social, the largest anarchist instance on Mastodon. We also talk about the continuing discrediting of big tech companies such as Twitter, Meta and Reddit, and what that might mean for people working to build an open-source, decentralized alternative to corporate social media platforms. LINKS Kolektiva.social Security Alert (Statement on seizure) From Embers - Social Networks, Online Life and The Fedi…
Drag Defence in Quebec
Jul 19, 2023 · 43 min
Talking with Louve Rose from P!nk Bloc Montreal about Quebec's transphobic far right, drag defence, and building a revolutionary anti-capitalist queer organization for both community self-defence and to intervene against gay assimilationism. Links P!nk Bloc MTL – Instagram, Facebook, Linktree August 12 Rad Pride (Facebook Event) Montreal Antifasciste MAF reportback from April 12 drag defence From Embers - Anti-Fascism in Quebec Revolutionary Trans Politics and the Three Way Fight Submedia: Pride…
The Public Order Emergency Commission
Jan 13, 2023 · 1 hr 4 min
Interview with an anti-fascist observer about insights gained from the Public Order Emergency Commission hearings, a public inquiry into the federal government's use of the Emergencies Act to repress the so-called Freedom Convoy in February 2022. We discuss why governments invoke emergencies, OPP's Project Hendon, how the Convoy was funded, the relationship between convoy organizers and police, comparisons with #ShutDownCanada, liberal conspiracy theories, the scale of economic disruption during…
New Communication Infrastructure For Anarchists
Nov 3, 2022 · 1 hr 5 min
Interview with the author of the PET Guide, a zine discussing secure digital communication tools from an anarchist perspective. We discuss Signal and its critics, and some new tools being released that incorporate peer-to-peer communication, end-to-end encryption and the Tor network. Further reading: How the U.S. Military buys location data from ordinary apps The challenge of cracking Iran's internet blockade Catholic bishop / Grindr / App data scandal Signal Interview with new Signal president…
Quebec Nationalism and Settler Futurity - Refusing Innocence
Oct 27, 2022 · 1 hr 11 min
A conversation with two anarchists following a workshop they gave at the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair entitled 10 years since the strike: the place of nationalism within militant struggle. We discuss the history of Quebec nationalism and its influence in anarchist and radical milieus, responsibilities of settlers in anti-colonial struggle and in relating to land, possibilities and uncertain futures opened up by anarchism as a guiding practice, and more. Further reading: « Sauvage », « esclave » e…
Escaping Tomorrow's Cages
May 19, 2022 · 1 hr 12 min
Escaping Tomorrow's Cages is a six-part essay being published throughout the month of May that lays out the coming wave of provincial jail expansions in Ontario and propose a strategy for how they might be opposed. We spoke with 3 anarchists involved with the project.
Student Organizing with Divest McGill
Apr 27, 2022 · 1 hr 10 min
In this episode I chat with two members of Divest McGill, a student-led organization at McGill University in so-called Montreal. They are fighting to force McGill to divest from the fossil fuel industry and transform the university into something liberatory and accountable to the people whose lives it affects. This spring, they led a more than two-week-long open, social occupation of a university building. All music in this episode is from the 2012 anti-folk opera "What The F*ck Am I Doing Here?…
Solidarity with the people of Ukraine - Against the Russian State
Apr 13, 2022 · 58 min
Conversation with the author of Addressing Russian Propaganda, available online at praleski.org. We discuss some of the political and historic context for Russia's current invasion of Ukraine including Russian state mythology of anti-fascism, the importance of solidarity with people in Ukraine facing Russian imperial agression, and more. Music in this episode is from a benefit compilation released by eastbloc sound titled We Stand With Ukraine. Also check out Albums Against the Invasion from Ana…
Carla Bergman on School Resistance, Joyful Projects and Trusting Kids
Mar 24, 2022 · 1 hr 4 min
carla bergman is an artist, writer, unschooler and fellow podcaster. We discuss carla's backstory, being radicalized by parenting, unschooling, the Purple Thistle, pandemic school closures, learning to trust kids, and striving to bring more joy into our projects and lives. Find carla on twitter, instagram and linktree Music by Time Artwork from Grounded Futures
Northern Ontario's Ring of Fire
Feb 17, 2022 · 59 min
A conversation with two members of Friends of the Attawapiskat River (Website/Facebook) about the Ring of Fire mining project and what's at stake. Mining Injustice Solidarity Network: (Website/Facebook) Song excerpt from Sounding Rock drum group, Webequie First Nation
Patriots and Big Trucks
Feb 8, 2022 · 58 min
We spoke with a transportation worker about the so-called Freedom Convoy currently occupying capital cities and border crossings across Canada. Links: Naujawan Support Network Canadian Anti-Hate Network Punch Up Collective (Ottawa) Ottawa Trip Report Three Way Fight
Social Networks, Online Life and The Fediverse
Feb 3, 2022 · 58 min
This week's discussion features an anarchist who is really into Mastodon. We talk about what's wrong with corporate social media platforms, what we like and don't like about spending time catching up online, and how Mastodon/the Fediverse feels different from hanging out on Instagram. We also get some tips for getting started on this alternative social media platform. Links: https://kolektiva.social https://joinmastodon.org Forthcoming sub.media documentary about Facebook that our guest mentions…
A Stripper's Memoir
Jan 12, 2022 · 1 hr 1 min
This episode features an interview with Cid V. Brunet about their recent memoir "This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir. We talk about stripping, sex work, anarchist community, sex, gender and much more. Buy the book at Arsenal Pulp Press.
VABF Day 7: Ann Hansen on Prisoner Organizing and Working With Allies
Oct 29, 2021 · 51 min
In this interview, Ann Hansen, author of Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerilla and Taking the Rap: Women Doing Time For Society's Crimes, discusses her work with the Prison for Women Memorial Collective (P4WMC). The group is dedicated to having a permanent Memorial Garden and Gallery for all of the women who died in federal prisons, to be located inside the now-closed P4W Prison. It is their goal to exhibit art, writing and films about the women in prison, so they will be remembered as the…
VABF Day 6: Five Reports From Ada'itx (Fairy Creek)
Oct 28, 2021 · 1 hr 3 min
The Fairy Creek blockades and other blockades on unceded Pacheedaht and Ditidaht territories continue under the invitation of Pacheedaht Elder, Bill Jones. Please consider supporting the Defence of Indigenous Land BIPOC gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-indigenous-land-defenders-fairy-creek) and the fundrazr for legal defense and front line support: https://fundrazr.com/last_stand_for_forests?ref=ab_4psL41hKcg54psL41hKcg5
VABF Day 6: Jennifer Wickham on Wet'suwet'en Anti-Pipeline Resistance during COVID-19
Oct 28, 2021 · 40 min
Jennifer Wickham, a member of Cas Yikh, the grizzly house, in the Gidimt'en Clan of the Wet'suwet'en people and media manager for the Gidimt'en yintah access point who is living on the yintah and working on a feature-length documentary film about Wet'suwet'en sovereignty as a creative producer. In this interview, Jennifer discusses recent developments in the Wet'suwet'en resistance against the Coastal GasLink pipeline construction, the effect of COVID-19 on her community, the legacy of the Resid…
VABF Day 5: Art and Activism With Musician and Community Activist Stefan Christoff
Oct 27, 2021 · 33 min
An interview on multiple intersections of art and activism with Stefan Christoff, a longtime community organizer and musician living in Montréal / Tiohtià:ke. This interview will highlight various forms of expression of the arts within social movements against systemic oppression, injustice and for collective liberation. Stefan will highlight active collaborations and efforts to build support within networks of artists and cultural workers for efforts to defend the rights of precarious workers w…
VABF Day 5: Jineoloji: Learning from the Revolutionary Women's Movement in Rojava with Sarah Marcha
Oct 27, 2021 · 36 min
Sarah Marcha speaks to the revolutionary science of women's equality called Jineoloji that was developed in the autonomous region of Rojava. Jineoloji is an international movement spanning Europe and the Middle East. In this interview, Sarah discusses the leadership roles of women in the system of Democratic Confederalism, and provides examples of the transformative nature of womans' struggles against patriarchy in Rojava. Of particular importance in Sarah's discussion is her account of the all-…
VABF Day 4: Kahala Johnson on Hawai'i, Anarchism, and the Politics of Indigeneity
Oct 26, 2021 · 1 hr 2 min
Hawaiian activist and land defender Kahala Johnson discusses anarchism through the lens of Indigeneity and shares insights regarding resistance struggles, including land reclamations and direct action blockades that halted the construction of a massive telescope on Mauna Kea, one of the most sacred volcanos in Hawaiian culture.
VABF Day 3: Gord Hill on 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance
Oct 25, 2021 · 48 min
In this interview, Gord Hill discusses the making of his new edition of The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book and tactics and strategies the history of Indigenous resistance teaches us. He provides an analysis of present day resistance against the right wing, as well as an account of the difference between the ideology of pacifism and civil disobedience tactics. For an archive of Indigenous resistance visit: https://warriorpublications.wordpress.com
VABF Day 2: Uri Gordon on Prefigurative Politics
Oct 24, 2021 · 29 min
Welcome to Day Two of the Victoria Anarchist Bookfair! In this episode, Uri Gordon discusses some issues surrounding the use of the terms 'prefiguration' and 'prefigurative politics.' He is the author of several books and articles on contemporary anarchism, including Anarchy Alive!: Anti-Authoritarian Politics from Practice to Theory, and Prefigurative Politics between Ethical Practice and Absent Promise. He is co-editor of Anarchists Against the Wall: Direct Action and Solidarity with the Pales…
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