Originally introduced in the summer of 2020, this podcast was produced as an alternative to the annual Anarchist Bookfair, which was not able to be held as a consequence of COVID-19's widespread curtailing of activities and gatherings. In this podcast, members of the Collective would interview speakers in various fields such emancipatory and anarchist politics including gender and intersectionality, indigenous resurgence and activism, anti-racism, environment, anarchist history, etc.
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Ann Hansen on Prisoner Organizing and Working With Allies
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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 loc…
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Jennifer Wickham on Wet’suwet’en Anti-Pipeline Resistance during COVID-19
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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 developme…
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Five Reports From Ada’itx (Fairy Creek)
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Five conversations with blockaders presented together. The Fairy Creek blockades and other blockades on unceded Pacheedaht and Ditidaht territories continue under the invitation of Pacheedaht Elder, Bill Jones. Links: Defence of Indigenous Land BIPOC gofundmesadpkas: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-indigenous-land-defenders-fairy-creek)Fundr…
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Art and Activism With Musician and Community Activist Stefan Christoff
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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 activ…
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Jineoloji: Learning from the Revolutionary Women’s Movement in Rojava with Sarah Marcha
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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 …
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Kahala Johnson on Hawai’i, Anarchism, and the Politics of Indigeneity
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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 volcanoes in Hawaiian culture. Link: From Embers P…
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Gord Hill on 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance (Expanded)
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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 disobe…
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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 Promi…
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N.O. Bonzo on Anarchy, Art, and Mutual Aid
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N.O. Bonzo is an anarchist street artist and illustrator whose work is much admired in the activist community. In this interview, Bonzo discusses their beautifully illustrated edition of Peter Kropotkin’s most famous book, Mutual Aid, and the politics of anarchy and art. Check out Bonzo’s edition of Mutual Aid Links: The From Embers Podcast Feed: h…
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Blockader Suzanne on the No Roads into Fairy Creek Series of Action
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Suzanne is a Metis activist from Blackfoot territory in Southern Alberta that has been a visitor on L’kwungen/ WSANEC/ Esquimalt territories for four years. She is in the second year of Camosun College’s Indigenous Studies program. On august 9th, Grassroots activists from across so-called Vancouver Island meet at Lizard Lake and decided to mount an…
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Anarchists Ann Hansen and trans activist Naphtali discuss prison (in)justice
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Ann Hansen is former member of the anarchist organization Direct Action and served over 7 years in prison for her involvement with that collective. She is now living on a self-sufficient farm and works on prison-related issues as a member of the Prison for Women (P4W) Memorial Collective. Naphtali is a white non-binary trans Jew who is into prison …
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Nuu-chah-nulth & Coast Salish activist Queen Sacheen (Ancestral Pride) reflects on her life and Indigenous Sovereignty
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Queen Sacheen is co-founder of Ancestral Pride, with whom she has produced many zines. She has spent a great deal of time advising Settler-anarchists on how to be in solidarity with Indigenous resistance movements. She is a warrior who has taken part in many actions, including Standing Rock. Finally, Sacheen is a proud mother, Matriarch, dula and m…
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UK theorist Ruth Kinna (editor, Anarchist Studies) on capitalism, anarchism, and the commons
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Ruth Kinna is a world-renowned political theorist and historian of ideas who has authored numerous books on anarchism, nineteenth and early twentieth-century socialist thought, utopianism and contemporary radicalism. She is a professor of political philosophy at Loughborough University and editor of the UK-based journal, Anarchist Studies.…
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Anarchist feminist Kathy Ferguson discusses Emma Goldman’s women and anarchism as ‘a movement of the book’
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Kathy Ferguson is an US-American author, political philosopher, feminist, historian, anarchist, and professor of political science and women's studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She has authored of one of the best critical biographies of renowned anarchist Emma Goldman: Emma Goldman: Political Thinking in the Streets. Visit http://www2.…
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John Zerzan on his life as an anarchist and the state of affairs in the USA
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John Zerzan is author of numerous publications exploring the pre-modern dimensions of our being. His weekly radio program, AnarchyRadio can be found here: https://www.johnzerzan.net/radio/.By Victoria Anarchist Bookfair Collective//CFUV
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Kurdish Sociologist Ozlem Goner on the current struggle for autonomy in Rojava
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Ozlem Goner is steering committee member of the Emergency Committee for Rojava, New York, and associate professor at the City University of New York. Her research interests focus on political sociology, ethnographies of the state and nationalism, comparative and historical sociology, race and ethnicity, social movements, qualitative methods, and cl…
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Homeless in a pandemic - Interview with a front-line supporter from LEOHN
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As in other places, unhoused people in Victoria face severe challenges in their daily lives ranging from a lack of food, sanitation and medical services to harassment by police and security. One particularly disturbing development are growing resentments and assaults by community members who are unwilling to share green spaces with those who need t…
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Ma’amtagila (Kwakwaka’wakw) Matriarch Tsastilqualus of House Umbas on Indigenous sovereignty and rematriation
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Tsastilqualus is an elder of the House Umbas from Ma’amtagila (Kwakwaka’wakw) territory. In this podcast, Tsastilqualus speaks about her life and views on how Indigenous resistance can be combined with cultural renewal to realize ecological sustainability and Indigenous sovereignty. For years she has been involved in fighting fish farms and clear c…
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Gidimt'en Clan spokesperson Molly Wickham on Wet’suwet’en anti-pipeline resistance
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Molly Wickham (Sleydo) is a member of the Gidimt'en Clan of the Wet'suwet'en Nation. She has been tirelessly active in the Wet’suwet’en’ Nation’s assertion of sovereignty over their unceded territories. This interview discusses the current state of affairs regarding the Coastal GasLink pipeline’s pending extension under a pristine river and the RCM…
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Find out what you can expect in the Victoria Anarchist Bookfair's 2020 podcast!By Victoria Anarchist Bookfair Collective//CFUV
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