IT'S GOING DOWN

Mar 14 2025 40 ep. 100 mins 8.7k
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In search of new forms of life amidst a civilization in collapse. Hard-hitting analysis, discussion, and interviews on grassroots revolt and autonomous social movements across so-called North America from an anarchist perspective. Looking to come on the show? Contact us here.

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Trump, the Tech-Right, and the Post-Neoliberal Order

Mar 14 2025 103 mins  
In this episode of The Beautiful Idea, we present an interview with author Jamie Merchant, author of Engame: Economic Nationalism and Global Decline and numerous articles at The Brooklyn Rail. Merchant argues that we have entered a post-neoliberal age, with both Trump and Biden abandoning many of the touch-stones of corporate globalization that defined the past several decades. Bu

The Long Emergency: A Discussion With Adam Greenfield

Feb 27 2025 64 mins  
Welcome back to The Beautiful Idea, a new project from a collective of several anarchist and autonomous media producers scattered around the world. We’re bringing you interviews and stories from the front-lines of autonomous social movements and struggles, as well as original commentary and analysis. In this episode we sit down with Adam Greenfield, author of the book Lifeho

Resistance Forms as Trump Takes Power; Report on Festivals of Resistance

Feb 14 2025 101 mins  
In our following episode, we speak with folks around the country about this unfolding reality. First, we catch up with Mia Wong, a journalist at It Could Happen Here, a daily podcast on Cool Zone Media about everyday resistance and the current crisis, then we speak with a participant in the publishing collective CrimethInc, about the emerging cracks in the current crisis and what

Rattling The Cage Of Repression With Eric King And Josh Davidson

Feb 12 2025 57 mins  
On this episode of The Beautiful Idea, we speak with former political prisoner Eric King and Josh Davidson from the Certain Days political prisoner calendar project. Eric and Josh discuss their recent round of discussions with Firestorm Books around their recent collection, Rattling the Cages, featuring former political prisoners and abolitionist organizers. These discus

Permanent Ecological Conflict: A Conversation With Xander Dunlap

Jan 22 2025 86 mins  
Welcome back to The Beautiful Idea, a new project from a collective of several anarchist and autonomous media producers scattered around the world. We’re bringing you interviews and stories from the front-lines of autonomous social movements and struggles, as well as original commentary and analysis. On today’s show we have a conversation with Xander Dunlap, author of

The Beautiful Idea: Mass Deportations Loom as Trump Moves to Amass Power; LA Mutual Aid Groups Organize as Fires Burn

Jan 15 2025 82 mins  
Welcome back to The Beautiful Idea, a new project from a collective of several anarchist and autonomous media producers scattered around the world. We’re bringing you interviews and stories from the front-lines of autonomous social movements and struggles, as well as original commentary and analysis. On today’s show we feature our Behind the Barricades roundup of movem

Prince Shakur and Peter Gelderloos on the Changing Terrain of Struggle and Repression

Dec 30 2024 78 mins  
On this episode of The Beautiful Idea, with the second Trump administration only weeks away, we sit down to speak with two anarchist authors and thinkers, Peter Gelderloos and Prince Shakur. Peter is the author of such classics as How Non-Violence Protects the State and Worshiping Power, and has recently published two new books, They Will Beat the Memory Out of Us and Organization

Announcing The Beautiful Idea: A New Anarchist Podcast on Front-line Struggles

Dec 15 2024 60 mins  
Announcing a new anarchist podcast, The Beautiful Idea. Follow them on Mastodon here. We are happy to announce the first episode of The Beautiful Idea, a new project from a collective of several anarchist and autonomous media producers scattered around the world. We’re bringing you interviews and stories from the front-lines of autonomous social movements and struggles, as w

This Is America #202: Report from North Carolina on Mutual Aid Efforts, Interview with ‘The Dugout’

Oct 28 2024 142 mins  
Welcome, to This Is America, September 27th, 2024. On this episode, we feature an interview with an organizer with Rural Organizing and Resilience (ROAR) and two collective members at Firestorm Books, both located in Western North Carolina, who speak about organizing autonomous mutual aid relief efforts in the wake of recent hurricanes. We then speak with two hosts of the new anar

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