From Embers From Embers

Escaping Tomorrow's Cages is a six-part essay being published throughout the month of May that lays out the coming wave of provincial jail expansions in Ontario and propose a strategy for how they might be opposed. We spoke with 3 anarchists involved with the project.

In this episode I chat with two members of Divest McGill, a student-led organization at McGill University in so-called Montreal. They are fighting to force McGill to divest from the fossil fuel industry and transform the university into something liberatory and accountable to the people whose lives it affects. This spring, they led a more than two-week-long open, social occupation of a university building. All music in this episode is from the 2012 anti-folk opera "What The F*ck Am I Doing Here?" about anarchist participation in the 2012 Quebec student strike. Check it out on Soundcloud here: https://soundcloud.com/whatthefuckamidoinghere/sets/what-the-fuck-am-i-doing-here


Learn more about Divest McGill here: https://www.divestmcgill.ca/

Conversation with the author of Addressing Russian Propaganda, available online at praleski.org. We discuss some of the political and historic context for Russia’s current invasion of Ukraine including Russian state mythology of anti-fascism, the importance of solidarity with people in Ukraine facing Russian imperial agression, and more.
 
Music in this episode is from a benefit compilation released by eastbloc sound titled We Stand With Ukraine. Also check out Albums Against the Invasion from Anarchist Black Cross Musical Solidarity Group
 
Links:
 
Operation Solidarity
 
Support Roma in Ukraine
 
The Solidarity Apothecary
 
Anarchist Black Cross Dresden
 
Autonomous Action – anarchists, libertarian communists, antifa
 
Commons (leftist journal from Ukraine)
 
Letters from Ukraine series published by Endnotes:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
 
Everyday Anarchism – Bonus episode: A Report from Ukranian Anarchists

carla bergman is an artist, writer, unschooler and fellow podcaster. 
We discuss carla’s backstory, being radicalized by parenting, unschooling, the Purple Thistle, pandemic school closures, learning to trust kids, and striving to bring more joy into our projects and lives.
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Music by Time
Artwork from Grounded Futures

A conversation with two members of Friends of the Attawapiskat River (Website/Facebook) about the Ring of Fire mining project and what's at stake.
Mining Injustice Solidarity Network: (Website/Facebook)
Song excerpt from Sounding Rock drum group, Webequie First Nation
 

We spoke with a transportation worker about the so-called Freedom Convoy currently occupying capital cities and border crossings across Canada. Links:
Naujawan Support Network
Canadian Anti-Hate Network
Punch Up Collective (Ottawa)
Ottawa Trip Report
Three Way Fight