Abolition in the Philippines with The Dinner Party and family The Final Straw Radio

[00:09:34 - 01:43:24]
This week we’re sharing an interview that we conducted with anarchists and abolitionists mostly in and around Manila, the capital of the Philippines. You'll hear from K, Honey, Adrienne, Castle, Magsalin and R. During the chat they share about their projects, discussions of abolitionism in the Philippines, decolonization discourse, informal organizing, accountability and challenging patriarchal dynamics in the traditional left and more.
Transcript PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PDF) Collectives Participating: Abolisyon: @AbolisyonPH on twitter, facebook, Instagram and on youtubeemail: abolisyon@subvertising.org The Dinner Party: @DinnerPartyPH on twitter Paglaya: @PaglayaPUP on twitter or facebook Project Kapwa donations on payal: @terreynera Cavite Mutual Aid has a paypal at cavite.mutualaid@gmail.com  and is on facebook @cavite.mutualaid Other Links of note: An anarchist distro in English, Tagalog, and Bisaya: https://bandilangitim.xyz/ older site with more publcation: https://bandilangitim.noblogs.org/ https://sea.theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index Cempaka Collective. Malaysia https://www.patreon.com/cempaka_co Anti-Feminist Feminist Club (Indonesia) on twitter as @AnFemClub References relevant to what was discussed in the podcast On linking policing in the Philippines to the USA: McCoy, A. W. (2009). Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State. Univ of Wisconsin Press. On linking policing in the Philippines to the USA: Vitale, A. S. (2021). The End of Policing. Verso Books. On Joyful Militancy and Rigid Radicalism: Bergman, C., & Montgomery, N. (2017). Joyful militancy: Building thriving resistance in toxic times. AK Press. On Rigid Radicalism: CrimethInc., (1997) "Your Politics is Boring as F**k." https://crimethinc.com/1997/04/11/your-politics-are-boring-as-f**k The essay that got Castle and co interested: Magsalin, S. (2020) "Towards an Anarchism in the Philippine Archipelago." Bandilang Itim. https://sea.theanarchistlibrary.org/library/simoun-magsalin-towards-an-anarchism-in-the-philippine-archipelago-en On opposing carcerality on the left: Magsalin, S. (2022) "Against Carceral Communism, For Abolition Communism." Haters Magazine. https://haters.noblogs.org/post/2022/03/26/against-carceral-communism-for-abolition-communism-by-simoun-magsalin/ A book on the purges: Garcia, R. (2001) To Suffer Thy Comrades: How the Revolution Decimated Its Own. 2nd Edition. Anvil. https://libcom.org/article/suffer-thy-comrades-how-revolution-decimated-its-own-robert-francis-b-garcia Kevin Rashid Johnson Update [01:43:44 - end]
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