Radio/Podcast – It's Going Down

Dec 07 2024 16 ep. 109 mins 5
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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 #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

“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

This is America #199: Antifascist Report from the UK, Vicky Osterweil on Election Cycle Amidst Ongoing Genocide

Aug 22 2024 167 mins  
Welcome, to This Is America, August 21st, 2024. In today’s episode, first we speak with the host of 12 Rules for What?, an antifascist podcast on the Channel Zero Network, about the wave of antifascist mobilizations against the far-Right following a series of anti-immigrant riots in the so-called United Kingdom, after the spread of viral misinformation on social media. We th

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

This Is America #198: Boeing 5, Heath Autonomy Convergence, Deep-Dive on Project 2025

Jul 29 2024 172 mins  
Welcome, to This Is America, July 29th, 2024. In this episode first we present an interview on the case of the Boeing 5 in Ohio, anti-war activists who are facing charges for an action which shut down a Boeing facility for its role in the ongoing genocide of Palestinians. We then speak with organizers about the upcoming Health Autonomy Convergence happening in Vermont in October.

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

This Is America #197: Resistance Roundup, Josh Fernandez on Antifascist History, Peter Gelderloos on Supreme Court & Beyond

Jul 09 2024 94 mins  
Welcome, to This Is America, July 8th, 2024. On today’s episode, we speak first with Josh Fernandez, author of the new book, The Hands That Crafted the Bomb: The Making of a Lifelong Antifascist, out now on PM Press. We then speak with anarchist author and organizer Peter Gelderloos, about the recent debacle and fallout following the so-called Presidential debate, and the dr

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