IGDcast – It's Going Down

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The IGDCAST is a weekly podcast of It's Going Down which features interviews with participants in social movements, struggles, rebellions, projects, and organizations.

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This Is America #201: Report on Mutual Aid Efforts in North Carolina; War Expands to Lebanon

Oct 04 2024 103 mins

Welcome, to This Is America, October 4th, 2024. On this episode, first we have an interview with someone on the frontline of autonomous disaster relief efforts in so-called North Carolina with Triangle Mutual Aid. For support their efforts and read dispatches from TMA, go here. Margaret Killjoy also has a report out, an interview on It Could Happen Here, and Firestorm, the anarchi

“Shake in Your Boots Bureaucrats!”: Resistance, Recuperation, and the Legacy of the Situationists

Sep 11 2024 75 mins

In this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, with speak with Bill Brown, author of the publication Not Bored, about the history and enduring legacy of the Situationist International (SI). The SI was a small group of autonomous anti-capitalists, based largely in France, who in the 1950s and 1960s, developed a sweeping critique of contemporary consumer society, which t

Three Way Fight on the Changing Terrain of the Far-Right, the State, and Resistance from Below

Sep 03 2024 115 mins

On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we speak with antifascist authors Matthew Lyons and Xtn Alexander of Three Way Fight, who speak about their new book, Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism, published by PM Press. During our interview we cover a lot of ground, from the election cycle, the changing terrain of US empire and hegemony, the limits

Building Support for Anarchist Political Prisoner Jorge “Yorch” Esquivel and Okupa Che

Jul 30 2024 62 mins

On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, IGD contributor Scott Campbell speaks with Flor, a compa in so-called Mexico actively involved in supporting anarchist political prisoner Jorge “Yorch” Esquivel. They speak about Okupa Che, an autonomous, self-managed space on the campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), a project where Yorch h

Steve Ongerth on the Bombing of Judi Bari and Redwood Summer

Jul 22 2024 73 mins

On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we speak with Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) organizer and historian Steve Ongerth, author of Redwood Uprising: From One Big Union to Earth First! and the Bombing of Judi Bari, about the Earth First! and IWW organizer Judi Bari, who in May of 1990, was almost assassinated in Oakland, CA. Many believe that Bari and anothe

Shane Burley and Ben Lorber on “Safety Through Solidarity” and Community Mobilization in the Current Terrain

Jul 04 2024 77 mins

In this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we again speak with antifascist researchers Shane Burley and Ben Lorber, authors of the new book, Safety Through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Anti-Semitism. We discuss how the established order has attacked both the the current anti-war movement in solidarity with Palestine, which includes many anti-Zionist Jews, as

More Voices From the Growing Anti-War Movement in Solidarity with Palestine

Jun 13 2024 156 mins

On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we speak with folks across the so-called United States about the ongoing movement in solidarity with Palestine continuing to expand across college campuses. First, we speak with someone in Austin, Texas, who discusses the explosive protests at UT Austin which were repressed by a phalanx of police. We talk about how anti-authori

Andrew Lee on Displacement, Rising Rents, and Social War

On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we speak with Andrew Lee, an organizer and author of the new book out from AK Press, Defying Displacement: Urban Recomposition and Social War. During our discussion, we speak with Lee about how elites, capitalists, and city bureaucrats are banking on gentrification and how people are pushing back against displacement. We also

“They’ll Never Forget It”: Report from the Battle to Defend the Palestine Solidarity Encampment at UCLA

May 05 2024 54 mins

Photo by Shay Horse On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we are joined with a guest who discusses the mass mobilization to defend the Palestine Solidarity Encampment at UCLA in Los Angeles, CA, which was attacked by far-Right Zionists on April 30th and then by hundreds of riot police on May 1st, who made over 200 violent arrests. During our discussion, our guest

“We Are Not Afraid of You”: Voices from Inside the Growing Anti-War Movement Sweeping US Campuses

Apr 26 2024 88 mins

On this special episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we speak with folks across the country that are taking part in the exploding movement of anti-war encampments and occupations sweeping across US campuses in solidarity with Palestine. First, we speak with someone at Columbia University in New York. We discuss how the Right and the campus administration is attempting to