Crisis is the flavor of the week for politicians and the news media: opioids, borders, student loans, Venezuelan elections - to name just a few recent ones. Calling something a crisis does a lot of things - it mobilizes people towards a goal, opens up funding streams, allows policies to be implemented in the name of health, defense and democracy, and gets people to click on links. It’s a way to get people talking, and more importantly, to get some of them moving.
From Gods and Radicals
What's the relationship between anarchism and art? How do we create the kind of world we want to see? And how we learn to believe that we are “good enough?"
In this episode, Alley and Rhyd talk with guest Margaret Killjoy and share stories of how they became who they are.
From Anarchist Communist Group
In our latest podcast, an ACG member interviews James, from the Anarchist Research Group at Loughborough University, about various anarchists’ ideas around abolishing work as we know it.
From ANEWS Podcast
Welcome to the anews podcast. This is episode 103. This podcast covers anarchist activity, ideas, and conversations from the previous week on anarchistnews.org.
Editorial: study groupers i have known, by chisel
TOTW: Criticism, trying again, with Aragorn! and Ariel
no Redacted this week
Vermont interview with American YPG volunteer concerning the revolution in Rojava
Listen to Mike Alexander, who volunteered as an international fighter with the YPG, discuss the revolution in Rojava on WDEV’s Equal Time Radio by clicking on the below link:
http://www.equaltimeradio.com/2019/fighting-isis-in-syria-for-real-democ...
https://armchair.noblogs.org/post/2019/02/14/immolation/
Our points of departure are our imagined walls.
From Sprout Distro
First off, sorry for not publishing one of these round-ups for the past two months.
Second, we’d like to encourage people to get into the habit of producing zines. While the trend towards using the Internet as a primary means of communication (particularly as “outreach”) for the anarchist space has been happening consistently over the past decades, it seems that noticeably fewer zines and publications are being produced. There could be any number of different reasons for it, but we find it to be disappointing. We would hope that the lack of publishing is due to anarchists living in face-to-face communities on their own terms, experimenting in autonomy or perhaps in active conflict with the state. Unfortunately, our hunch is that anarchy is ever more absorbing the both the patterns of communication informed by social media and its underlying logic (performance, a quest for likes, an accelerated pace of tweet/retweets/etc).
From The Transmetropolitan Review
The following text was composed by anarchists and anti-fascists from the US, Greece, and Italy. It’s an attempt to situate the past decade of struggle in the proper historical context.
On February 15, we call for a movement from below. It is time to act courageously—together. We need a bold, positive vision of the future in contrast to Trump’s white supremacist fantasy. We need to create a world in which people can move freely, where families can find refuge from danger, and communities are brave enough to welcome newcomers and create a shared sense of belonging.
From Anarchy Bang
Anarchy Bang is a weekly call in talk show where we sit around the digital campfire and talk about our favorite topics. This week we will try to have an conversation about Occupy, The Occupy Movement, and what anarchists learned by participating in it.
