Antifascist Dad Podcast

Matthew Remski

Your waypoint for antifascist lore, strategy, and wisdom from the generations, and now.

  1. 5d ago

    UNLOCK 39.1 Epistemic Injustice

    Years ago, I failed to understand my autistic son's needs. Instead of fully taking in his distress at school, I projected my own story, values, and experience on him. He'll manage. He'll get used to it. He'll toughen up. What does this have to do with a British judge sentencing Palestine Action activists as terrorists? More than I expected. In this coda to my interview with Lisa Matthews (stepmother of Finn Collins, facing trial in February as one of the Filton 25), I trace a fault line that runs from parenting failures, to failures to support young people during the encampments of Spring, 2024, through to the courtroom where Justice Johnson ruled that six young people could not tell a jury why they acted, then sentenced them as terrorists under a provision he'd concealed. Edward Said, Frantz Fanon, Miranda Fricker, and Marsha Linehan all describe this injustice: through postcolonial, philosophical, and psychological lenses: how the authority or parent erases a subject's self-account and replaces it with lies. SOURCES Free the Filton 25 — campaign site Support Finn — GoFundMe (Michael Collins) Re: Rajiv Menon KC — contempt ruling, full text Edward Said — Culture and Imperialism (1993) Miranda Fricker — Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (2007) Frantz Fanon — The Wretched of the Earth (1961) Aimé Césaire — Discourse on Colonialism (1950) Stuart Hall et al. — Policing the Crisis (1978) Eqbal Ahmad — Terrorism: Theirs and Ours (2001) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak — Can the Subaltern Speak? (1988) Marsha Linehan — Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder (1993) SOCIALS Bluesky: matthewremski.bsky.social Instagram: @matthew_remski YouTube: @antifascistdad TikTok: @antifascistdad Patreon: antifascistdadpodcast Order Antifascist Dad

  2. Jul 8

    39: Supporting the Filton 25 w/ Lisa Matthews

    In August 2024, six Palestine Action activists breached Elbit Systems UK's newly built facility in Filton, Bristol, and used sledgehammers to sabotage drones, computers, and manufacturing equipment. Elbit is Israel's largest private defence contractor, and supplies armaments to the IDF used in their genocidal attack on Gaza. Twenty-five activists were charged under a "joint enterprise" provision in relation to the direct action. Four have been convicted and sentenced as terrorists, under a provision the judge concealed from the jury. My guest this week is Lisa Matthews, step mother of Finn Collins, one of 19 defendants still awaiting trial. Finn faces criminal damage and violent disorder charges, with his trial scheduled for February 2027. Lisa walks me through the retroactive use of counter-terror powers against activists who acted before Palestine Action was proscribed, the judicial rulings that stripped the defendants' right to explain themselves, and what it's like to hold an antifascist family together when one's vision is clear but one's future is uncertain.  SOURCES Free the Filton 25 — campaign site and legal timeline Support Finn — GoFundMe (Michael Collins) Geoffrey Robertson KC on the Filton Four — Free the Filton 25 Re: Rajiv Menon KC — contempt ruling, full text Menon KC closing speech, Trial 1 — Real Media Inside the Palestine Action trial that could redefine protest as terrorism — openDemocracy Palestine Action activists sentenced as terrorists — Novara Media Amnesty International and lawyers condemn terrorism sentencing — Peace Brigades International Canada Gaza toll could exceed 186,000 — Lancet letter, Al Jazeera Prairieland defendant sentenced to 30 years for moving a box of antifascist zines — The Intercept SOCIALS Bluesky: matthewremski.bsky.social Instagram: @matthew_remski YouTube: @antifascistdad TikTok: @antifascistdad Patreon: antifascistdadpodcast Order Antifascist Dad

  3. Jun 28

    UNLOCK 36.1 Asking Liberals: “Do You Condemn Imperialism?”

    Following up on my conversation with Toronto comedian Nour Hadidi: I'm haunted by one detail from the harassment campaign against her. It's about how she posted the clip of Al Jazeera bureau chief Wael Al-Dahdouh refusing Christiane Amanpour's question, "Do you wish Hamas had never committed October 7th?" by dismantling its premise entirely. I look at Adam Johnson's research on the "Do you condemn Hamas" formula as a media disciplining strategy, Frantz Fanon's analysis of the colonized intellectual required to perform Western values before being heard, Charles Cobb's history of the nonviolence demand inside the civil rights movement, and communications scholar Zohar Kampf's empirical study of adversarial ethnopolitical interviews. Kampf identifies six options for interviewees facing the condemnation ritual, and only one of them doesn't feel like caving.  Sources Al Jazeera Journalist Wael Al-Dahdouh Slammed CNN — YouTube Adam Johnson and Nima Shirazi — Citations Needed podcast Noura Erakat — Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine — Stanford University Press Frantz Fanon — The Wretched of the Earth — Grove Press Charles Cobb — This Nonviolence Stuff'll Get You Killed — Duke University Press Zohar Kampf — "Do You Condemn?" chapter in The Discourse of Indirectness — John Benjamins Edward Said — Covering Islam — Penguin Random House Ramzy Baroud — My Father Was a Freedom Fighter — Pluto Press The Onion — Dying Gazans Criticized for Not Using Last Words to Condemn Hamas Order Antifascist Dad Bluesky: matthewremski.bsky.social Instagram: @matthew_remski YouTube: @antifascistdad TikTok: [@antifascistdad] Patreon: antifascistdadpodcast Order Antifascist Dad

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