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Interchange – The Martyrdom of Francisco Ferrer: A Conversation with Mark Bray

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:15 — 44.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFrancisco Ferrer, whom the New York Times called a “philosophical anarchist,” was executed in Spain in 1909 for suspicion of insurrection against the Spanish King and he quickly became an international martyr to the cause of free thought in opposition to religious dogma and compulsory education at …

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Interchange – Anarchy And Education

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:01 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe public school exists to make automatons and to reproduce class hierarchies and authoritarian power dynamics. How different is 2019 from 1906 when Emma Goldman was writing in “The Child and Its Enemies” that schools drive children to become foreign to themselves and to each other, arranged …

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Interchange – Dynamite Has No Politics: The Anarchism of Lucy Parsons

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:30 — 40.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn 1884 Parsons wrote in her well-known essay, “To Tramps”: …can you not see that the “good boss” or the “bad boss” cuts no figure whatever? that you are the common prey of both, and that their mission is simply robbery? Can you not see that it …

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