The Beautiful Idea

Apr 05 2025 10 ep. 78 mins 82
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The Beautiful Idea is a media project bringing you interviews, ideas, and stories from the frontlines of social movements and struggles, from a distinctly anarchist perspective.

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The Murder of Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi and the Future of International Solidarity

Apr 05 2025 81 mins  
On September 6th of last year, 26 year old University of Washington graduate Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi was shot and killed by IDF soldiers while doing accompaniment in the West Bank of Palestine with International Solidarity Movement (ISM). In this episode, we speak with a friend of Ayşenur's who had travelled to the West Bank to do accompaniment with ISM alongside her, and was present d

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

Mar 12 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 [https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/endgame] and numerous articles at The Brooklyn Rail [https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Jamie-Merchant/]. Merchant argues that we have entered a post-neoliberal age, with both Trump and Biden abandon

Abolish Rent: A Discussion With The LA Tenants' Union

Mar 06 2025 65 mins  
In this episode of The Beautiful Idea, we speak with Tracy Rosenthal [https://www.haymarketbooks.org/authors/1596-tracy-rosenthal] and Leonardo Vilchis [https://www.haymarketbooks.org/authors/1597-leonardo-vilchis], two tenant organizers in Los Angeles, CA, involved in the Los Angeles Tenant Union (LATU) [https://latenantsunion.org/en/], and co-authors of the new book, Abolish Rent

The Long Emergency: A Discussion With Adam Greenfield

Feb 26 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 Lifehouse, o

Resistance Forms as Trump Takes Power

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 [https://bsky.app/profile/miawong.bsky.social], a journalist at It Could Happen Here [https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/], a daily podcast on Cool Zone Media about everyday resistance and the current crisis, then we speak wit

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 [https://burningbooks.com/products/certain-days-the-2025-freedom-for-political-prisoners-calendar] political prisoner calendar project. Eric and Josh discuss their recent round of discussions with Firestorm Books [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCZfcB6hP

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 recent b

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 movement news, ev

Episode 2: Peter Gelderloos and Prince Shakur

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 [https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-how-nonviolence-protects-the-state]and Worshiping Power [h

Episode 1

Dec 16 2024 60 mins  
On today's show we feature our Behind the Barricades roundup of movement news, events, and updates, along with a look at the recent media explosion following the shooting of a United Healthcare CEO in New York. We then speak with someone involved in a new campaign to support Stop Cop City defendants facing both RICO and domestic terrorism charges. Finally, we speak with a long-ti