Tag Archives: repression

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week we return to the Pittsburgh Anti-Repression Convergence. From this unprecedented cop city RICO indictment to the nation-wide retaliation against students and others protesting the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the repression of social movements has become a shared experience for activists across North America. In this …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 37:45 — 51.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFrom this unprecedented cop city RICO indictment to the nation-wide retaliation against students and others protesting the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the repression of social movements has become a shared experience for activists across North America. In this context, the Pittsburgh Anti-Repression Convergence (or, PARC) was organized …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this episode we air a recording from the final talk of the Pittsburgh Anti-Repression Convergence, which served as a space for activists, political prisoner supporters, and former political prisoners to strategize against repression in the context of social movements, with an eye towards total liberation for …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (39.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we spoke with an NYU professor about the Gaza encampment movement there. Through this conversation, the global stakes of place-based struggles come to the foreground, as we wrestle with balancing local demands for divestment versus the way the camps themselves are resonating in Gaza; Palestinians seem most excited …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:08 — 40.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreSince 2021, a diverse movement in has challenged the construction of Cop City, which is slated to destroy Atlanta’s South River Forest.  The forest is also known by its Muscogee name, Weelaunee.  The movement has created new intersections between abolitionist and environmental politics, since it is defending a …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOn the morning of May 31st, Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Atlanta Police Department raided a house and arrested three staff members of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund. The Atlanta Solidarity Fund is a non profit organization that supports those arrested for protesting or otherwise prosecuted for involvement …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this week’s episode, we air the first part of a conversation between Jok Huerta from Focus Initiatives and Rodney Jones, known as Big R. Both men share stories of their own incarceration, and describe life in a Maximum Restraint Unit. As Big R puts it, when …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 33.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we brought together three segments that focus on ways the system attempts to repress participants in collective struggles and those who fight for a better world. In a segment that originally aired on KPFA, we hear about the punitive measures Malik Washington is facing after …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 33.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFor this week’s episode, we share a conversation between Melanie D. Newport and Anne Gray Fisher. They talk about the history of Cook County Jail- the largest facility in the country. Melanie D. Newport is an Assistant Professor of US History at the University of Connecticut-Hartford. Her …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:11 — 41.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWhile citizens are encouraged to fear and blame so called outside agitators the real menace lies within…A business community committed to the rancor of class and racial divisions with the intent to keeping labor powerless and in the chains of wage slavery. In our two previous programs …