Episode 187: “Gamifying History” ft. Alex Knight

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This episode of the program features my conversation with Alex Knight, designer and developer of the board game Land and Freedom, inspired by the Spanish Revolution and Civil War.

Episode 186: “Bite Back” ft. Shannon Clay

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We are back with another episode of Coffee with Comrades featuring Shannon Clay, one of the folks behind the new book We Go Where They Go: The Story of Antiracist Action available today via PM Press.

Episode 185: “The Cartography of Struggle” ft. Working Class History

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This episode of Coffee with Comrades is dedicated to Tortuguita. Rest in Power, Tort. May we carry on the defense of Earth in your memory. 

Here are some ways to support the defense of the forest in Atlanta:

  • Donate to the Atlanta Solidarity Fund to support legal costs for arrested protestors and ongoing legal action.
  • Call on investors in the project to divest from Cop City (list of APF investors). Call on builders of the project to drop their construction contracts.
  • Organize political solidarity bail funds, forest defense funds, and forest defense committees where you live.
  • Participate in or organize local solidarity actions.
  • Endorse and circulate this statement of solidarity. Email defendweelaunee@riseup.net.

Show-Notes:

Matt and John of Working Class History join me to discuss their new interactive map and smartphone app that helps users connect with working class history on the streets worldwide. 

Episode 184: “Little Turtle” RIP, Manny

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This episode of Coffee with Comrades is dedicated to Tortuguita. Rest in Power, Tort. May we carry on the defense of Earth in your memory.

Eros, a dear friend and comrade of Manny “Tortuguita” Teran, joins me to memorialize the dearly departed.

Donate to the GoFundMe for Manny’s family. 

Here are some ways to support the defense of the forest in Atlanta:

  • Donate to the Atlanta Solidarity Fund to support legal costs for arrested protestors and ongoing legal action.
  • Call on investors in the project to divest from Cop City (list of APF investors). Call on builders of the project to drop their construction contracts.
  • Organize political solidarity bail funds, forest defense funds, and forest defense committees where you live.
  • Participate in or organize local solidarity actions.
  • Endorse and circulate this statement of solidarity. Email defendweelaunee@riseup.net.

Show-Notes:

Episode 183: “Just Past the Next Horizon” ft. Caleb Wexler

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We are back with our first episode of 2023!
 
This edition of Coffee with Comrades features a dialogue with my dear friend and comrade, Caleb Wexler. Our conversation is pretty wide-ranging. We spend the first half of the episode talking about Caleb’s housing cooperative—how it runs, how they make decisions, and what it looks like to exist in the liminal space between our contemporary housing hellscape and the better tomorrow we’re all dreaming of and fighting for. In the second half of the episode, we speak at length about two of the best works of media that came out in 2022: Citizen Sleeper and Andor. Fair warning, we spend a good chunk of time delving into spoilers in those latter sections, so be sure to check out the time-stamps below!
 
Technologies of Hope, Caleb’s M.A. Thesis on Solarpunk:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K0KkJroaKyCNHv8NT48y_Zyh_ur7cJKU/view
 
Spoiler Talk:
  • Citizen Sleeper: 1:09:00
  • Andor: 1:20:23
Show Notes:

Episode 182: “The Lapdogs of Capital” ft. Chad Pearson

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This week, we are sharing a recent conversation I had with Chad Pearson about his book Capital’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century. Chad and I chat about vigilante violence, the coercive nature of the law, the capaciousness of the term “terrorism,” and a whole lot more.

Episode 181: “Anarcha Islām” ft. Mohamed Abdou

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Recently, I hung out with scholar and organizer Mohamed Abdou. We spoke at length about his book Islam and Anarchism: Relationships and Resonances.

Episode 180: “Solidarity Begins at Home” ft. carla bergman

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Recently, I hung out with my very dear friend, carla bergman. carla and I spent a good chunk of time talking about their new edited anthology, Trust Kids! Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy. 

Episode 179: “No Pasarán!” ft. Shane Burley

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I recently sat down with the one and only Shane Burley to talk about his new edited anthology, No Pasarán: Dispatches from a World in Crisis. The book is a collection of essays by and interviews with antifascists: community-organizers, researchers, journalists, artists, and more. Shane and I have a pretty wide-ranging dialogue, touching on violence, prefiguration, the so-called “meme alibi,” the history of antifascism, and a whole helluva lot more.

 

 

Episode 178: “Tierra y Libertad” ft. Jim Yeoman

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James Yeoman, author of Print Culture and the Formation of the Anarchist Movement in Spain, 1890-1915 joins me to talk about propaganda by the deed, violence, terror, education, and the anarchist printing press in Spain at the turn of the twentieth century.