Another World Is Possible
145 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 13 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsA revolutionary anarchist podcast originating from Boston, MA.
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Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America: Chapter 9 - Part 2
July 06, 2011 15:28Kristian Williams' book, "Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America" explores the history of policing including its roots in slave patrols and its evolution in the post-slavery US as a tool for controlling people of color and working people. Chapter 9, part 2 download
Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America: Chapter 9 - Part 1
July 06, 2011 15:14Kristian Williams' book, "Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America" explores the history of policing including its roots in slave patrols and its evolution in the post-slavery US as a tool for controlling people of color and working people. download
Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America: Chapter 8 - Part 2
July 06, 2011 14:51Kristian Williams' book, "Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America" explores the history of policing including its roots in slave patrols and its evolution in the post-slavery US as a tool for controlling people of color and working people. download
Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America: Chapter 8 - Part 1
July 06, 2011 14:40Kristian Williams' book, "Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America" explores the history of policing including its roots in slave patrols and its evolution in the post-slavery US as a tool for controlling people of color and working people. download
Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America: Chapter 7 - Part 2
July 06, 2011 14:17Kristian Williams' book, "Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America" explores the history of policing including its roots in slave patrols and its evolution in the post-slavery US as a tool for controlling people of color and working people. download
Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America: Chapter 7 - Part 1
July 06, 2011 14:07Kristian Williams' book, "Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America" explores the history of policing including its roots in slave patrols and its evolution in the post-slavery US as a tool for controlling people of color and working people. download
Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America: Chapter 6 - Part 2
July 06, 2011 13:52Kristian Williams' book, "Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America" explores the history of policing including its roots in slave patrols and its evolution in the post-slavery US as a tool for controlling people of color and working people. This is chapter 6, part 2 download
Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America: Chapter 6 - Part 1
July 06, 2011 13:37Kristian Williams' book, "Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America" explores the history of policing including its roots in slave patrols and its evolution in the post-slavery US as a tool for controlling people of color and working people. This is Part one of Chapter 6 download
Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America: Chapter 5 - Part 2
February 12, 2011 04:44Kristian Williams' book, "Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America" explores the history of policing including its roots in slave patrols and its evolution in the post-slavery US as a tool for controlling people of color and working people. Chapter Five, " The natural enemy of the working class" explains the role of the police in suppressing organized labor and supporting employers in labor disputes with historical examples. Part 2 of 2 download
Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America: Chapter 5 - Part 1
February 12, 2011 04:18Kristian Williams' book, "Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America" explores the history of policing including its roots in slave patrols and its evolution in the post-slavery US as a tool for controlling people of color and working people. Chapter Five, " The natural enemy of the working class" explains the role of the police in suppressing organized labor and supporting employers in labor disputes with historical examples. Part 1 of 2 download
Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America: Chapter 4 - Part 2
February 10, 2011 02:33Kristian Williams' book, "Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America" explores the history of policing including its roots in slave patrols and its evolution in the post-slavery US as a tool for controlling people of color and working people. Chapter Four, "Cops and Klan, hand in hand", explains the role of the police as a tool to prop up white supremacy, from slave patrols, to enforcement of white supremacist laws, to racial profiling. Â It provides historical examples. Part 2 of...
Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America: Chapter 4 - Part 1
February 09, 2011 23:05Kristian Williams' book, "Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America" explores the history of policing including its roots in slave patrols and its evolution in the post-slavery US as a tool for controlling people of color and working people. Chapter Four, "Cops and Klan, hand in hand", explains the role of the police as a tool to prop up white supremacy, from slave patrols, to enforcement of white supremacist laws, to racial profiling. Â It provides historical examples. Part 1 of...
Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America: Chapter 3 - Part 2
February 09, 2011 09:40Kristian Williams' book, "Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America" explores the history of policing including its roots in slave patrols and its evolution in the post-slavery US as a tool for controlling people of color and working people. Chapter Three, "The genesis of a policed society", describes the history behind police as a tool in the hands of politicians, and gives examples of historical police forces involved in corruption such as voter fraud. Part 2 of 2 download
Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America: Chapter 3 - Part 1
February 09, 2011 09:22Kristian Williams' book, "Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America" explores the history of policing including its roots in slave patrols and its evolution in the post-slavery US as a tool for controlling people of color and working people. Chapter Three, "The genesis of a policed society", describes the history behind police as a tool in the hands of politicians, and gives examples of historical police forces involved in corruption such as voter fraud. Part 1 of 2 download
Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America: Chapter 2 - Part 2
February 09, 2011 07:24Kristian Williams' book, "Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America" explores the history of policing including its roots in slave patrols and its evolution in the post-slavery US as a tool for controlling people of color and working people. Chapter Two, "The origins of American policing", explores what it means to be a modern police force and details history of police forces and their predecessors from Europe and the US. Part 2 of 2. download
Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America: Chapter 1 - Part 1
February 09, 2011 06:53Kristian Williams' book, "Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America" explores the history of policing including its roots in slave patrols and its evolution in the post-slavery US as a tool for controlling people of color and working people. Chapter Two, "The origins of American policing", explores what it means to be a modern police force and details history of police forces and their predecessors from Europe and the US. Part 1 of 2. download
Our Enemies In Blue - Chapter 1 part 2
September 01, 2010 05:01Kristian Williams' book "Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America" explores the history of policing including its roots in slave patrols and its evolution in the post-slavery US as a tool for controlling people of color and working people. This is Part 2 of Chapter One: "Police brutality in theory and practice", It explores the history of police brutality and our cultural understanding of it. download
Our Enemies In Blue - Chapter 1 part 2
August 19, 2010 07:05Kristian Williams' book "Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America" explores the history of policing including its roots in slave patrols and its evolution in the post-slavery US as a tool for controlling people of color and working people. This is Chapter One: "Police brutality in theory and practice", It explores the history of police brutality and our cultural understanding of it. Part Two download
Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America (Introduction)
August 07, 2010 00:30Kristian Williams' book, "Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America" explores the history of policing including its roots in slave patrols and its evolution in the post-slavery US as a tool for controlling people of color and working people. This is the introduction to the text. download
Our Enemies In Blue - Police and Power in America - Chapter 1 part 1
August 06, 2010 23:22Kristian Williams' book, "Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America" explores the history of policing including its roots in slave patrols and its evolution in the post-slavery US as a tool for controlling people of color and working people. This is Chapter One: "Police brutality in theory and practice", Â It explores the history of police brutality and our cultural understanding of it. Part One download
The Palestinian Struggle and the Anarchist Dilemma
August 05, 2010 08:10A review of the discussion of the relationship between anarchism and the Palestinian/Israeli struggle by Uri Gordon, an Israeli anarchist, in his book "Anarchy Alive!", including a response to his attack on the views and possible solutions of the author, Wayne Price. download
How To Piss Off Authority in Eight Easy Steps
July 30, 2010 12:45How to Piss off Authority in Eight Easy Steps is a short essay written for young people who are desperate to find something more than just what capitalism and hierarchy have planned for them, but are not sure where to look. Written by James Hutchings and stolen from the Anarchist Library. download
Toward the Destruction of Schooling: Part Four
July 30, 2010 12:30Anonymously written, "Toward the Destruction of Schooling" is an intelligent critique of modern schooling and it's role in society as a machine that produces, not free thinkers, but obedient workers. Topics include the history of schooling and the poverty of student life. Chapter Four: Notes of the Poverty of Student Life download
Toward the Destruction of Schooling: Part Three
July 30, 2010 10:30Anonymously written, "Toward the Destruction of Schooling" is an intelligent critique of modern schooling and it's role in society as a machine that produces, not free thinkers, but obedient workers. Topics include the history of schooling and the poverty of student life. Chapter Three: Theories of Schooling download
Toward the Destruction of Schooling: Part Two
July 30, 2010 09:20Anonymously written, "Toward the Destruction of Schooling" is an intelligent critique of modern schooling and it's role in society as a machine that produces not free thinkers, but obedient workers. Topics include the history of schooling and the poverty of student life. Chapter Two: The History of Schooling download
The New Jim Crow: Chapter Six - Part 3
July 27, 2010 00:52Michelle Alexander argues that mass incarceration of people of color in the US constitutes the newest structure of racialized social control, replacing slavery and Jim Crow to create an African American undercaste. She argues that the vastly disproportionate imprisonment (and the resultant disenfranchisement and exclusion from numerous aspects of mainstream society such as education and employment) of African Americans constitutes the single most important impediment to equality and civi...
The New Jim Crow: Chapter Six - Part 2
July 27, 2010 00:21Michelle Alexander argues that mass incarceration of people of color in the US constitutes the newest structure of racialized social control, replacing slavery and Jim Crow to create an African American undercaste. She argues that the vastly disproportionate imprisonment (and the resultant disenfranchisement and exclusion from numerous aspects of mainstream society such as education and employment) of African Americans constitutes the single most important impediment to equality and civi...
The New Jim Crow: Chapter Six - Part 1
July 27, 2010 00:04Michelle Alexander argues that mass incarceration of people of color in the US constitutes the newest structure of racialized social control, replacing slavery and Jim Crow to create an African American undercaste. She argues that the vastly disproportionate imprisonment (and the resultant disenfranchisement and exclusion from numerous aspects of mainstream society such as education and employment) of African Americans constitutes the single most important impediment to equality and civi...
The New Jim Crow: Chapter Five - Part 2
July 16, 2010 02:37Michelle Alexander argues that mass incarceration of people of color in the US constitutes the newest structure of racialized social control, replacing slavery and Jim Crow to create an African American undercaste. She argues that the vastly disproportionate imprisonment (and the resultant disenfranchisement and exclusion from numerous aspects of mainstream society such as education and employment) of African Americans constitutes the single most important impediment to equality and civi...
The New Jim Crow: Chapter Five - Part 1
July 16, 2010 02:04Michelle Alexander argues that mass incarceration of people of color in the US constitutes the newest structure of racialized social control, replacing slavery and Jim Crow to create an African American undercaste. She argues that the vastly disproportionate imprisonment (and the resultant disenfranchisement and exclusion from numerous aspects of mainstream society such as education and employment) of African Americans constitutes the single most important impediment to equality and civi...
The New Jim Crow: Chapter Four - Part 2
July 09, 2010 09:45Michelle Alexander argues that mass incarceration of people of color in the US constitutes the newest structure of racialized social control, replacing slavery and Jim Crow to create an African American undercaste. She argues that the vastly disproportionate imprisonment (and the resultant disenfranchisement and exclusion from numerous aspects of mainstream society such as education and employment) of African Americans constitutes the single most important impediment to equality and civi...
The New Jim Crow: Chapter Four - Part 1
July 09, 2010 08:29Michelle Alexander argues that mass incarceration of people of color in the US constitutes the newest structure of racialized social control, replacing slavery and Jim Crow to create an African American undercaste. She argues that the vastly disproportionate imprisonment (and the resultant disenfranchisement and exclusion from numerous aspects of mainstream society such as education and employment) of African Americans constitutes the single most important impediment to equality and civi...
Toward the Destruction of Schooling: Part One
June 29, 2010 03:24Anonymously written, "Toward the Destruction of Schooling" is an intelligent critique of modern schooling and it's role in society as a machine that produces, not free thinkers, but workers. Topics include the history of schooling and the âpoverty of student life.â This is Chapter One: The Role of Schooling in Society download
In Gaza Like Elsewhere...
June 20, 2010 02:07"In Gaza Like Elsewhere" is the text taken from posters found on the walls of numerous cities in France and Belgium in January of 2009. Stolen from the anarchist library. (http://theanarchistlibrary.org/ ) download
The New Jim Crow: Chapter Three - Part 3
June 20, 2010 01:08Michelle Alexander argues that mass incarceration of people of color in the US constitutes the newest structure of racialized social control, replacing slavery and Jim Crow to create an African American undercaste. She argues that the vastly disproportionate imprisonment (and the resultant disenfranchisement and exclusion from numerous aspects of mainstream society such as education and employment) of African Americans constitutes the single most important impediment to equality and civi...
The New Jim Crow: Chapter Three - Part 2
June 20, 2010 00:34Michelle Alexander argues that mass incarceration of people of color in the US constitutes the newest structure of racialized social control, replacing slavery and Jim Crow to create an African American undercaste. She argues that the vastly disproportionate imprisonment (and the resultant disenfranchisement and exclusion from numerous aspects of mainstream society such as education and employment) of African Americans constitutes the single most important impediment to equality and civi...
The New Jim Crow: Chapter Three - Part 1
June 20, 2010 00:02Michelle Alexander argues that mass incarceration of people of color in the US constitutes the newest structure of racialized social control, replacing slavery and Jim Crow to create an African American undercaste. She argues that the vastly disproportionate imprisonment (and the resultant disenfranchisement and exclusion from numerous aspects of mainstream society such as education and employment) of African Americans constitutes the single most important impediment to equality and civi...
The New Jim Crow: Chapter Two - Part 2
June 11, 2010 04:43Michelle Alexander argues that mass incarceration of people of color in the US constitutes the newest structure of racialized social control, replacing slavery and Jim Crow to create an African American undercaste. She argues that the vastly disproportionate imprisonment (and the resultant disenfranchisement and exclusion from numerous aspects of mainstream society such as education and employment) of African Americans constitutes the single most important impediment to equality and civi...
The New Jim Crow: Chapter Two - Part 1
June 10, 2010 21:04Michelle Alexander argues that mass incarceration of people of color in the US constitutes the newest structure of racialized social control, replacing slavery and Jim Crow to create an African American undercaste. She argues that the vastly disproportionate imprisonment (and the resultant disenfranchisement and exclusion from numerous aspects of mainstream society such as education and employment) of African Americans constitutes the single most important impediment to equality and civi...
The New Jim Crow: Chapter One - Part 2
May 20, 2010 06:46Michelle Alexander argues that mass incarceration of people of color in the US constitutes the newest structure of racialized social control, replacing slavery and Jim Crow to create an African American undercaste. She argues that the vastly disproportionate imprisonment (and the resultant disenfranchisement and exclusion from numerous aspects of mainstream society such as education and employment) of African Americans constitutes the single most important impediment to equality and civi...
The New Jim Crow: Chapter One - Part 1
May 20, 2010 04:44Michelle Alexander argues that mass incarceration of people of color in the US constitutes the newest structure of racialized social control, replacing slavery and Jim Crow to create an African American undercaste. She argues that the vastly disproportionate imprisonment (and the resultant disenfranchisement and exclusion from numerous aspects of mainstream society such as education and employment) of African Americans constitutes the single most important impediment to equality and civi...
The New Jim Crow: Introduction
May 08, 2010 05:52Michelle Alexander argues that mass incarceration of people of color in the US constitutes the newest structure of racialized social control, replacing slavery and Jim Crow to create an African American undercaste. She argues that the vastly disproportionate imprisonment (and the resultant disenfranchisement and exclusion from numerous aspects of mainstream society such as education and employment) of African Americans constitutes the single most important impediment to equality and civi...
The Problem with Infoshops and Insurrection: US Anarchism, Movement Building and the Racial Order
May 04, 2010 08:29'The Problem with Infoshops and Insurrection: US Anarchism, Movement Building and the Racial Order' was written by Joel Olson. Joel Olson argues that the anarchist movement in the US has failed to recognize the central importance of white supremacy in shaping American capitalism, ignoring anarchist struggles of peoples of color in US history; it has also failed in movement building in favor of the more fragmented tactics of covert direct action and autonomous spaces. download
Living My Life: Chapter Nine
May 04, 2010 02:00Anarchist, feminist, labor agitator, advocate for sexual freedom and birth control, fiery speaker and prolific writer, Emma Goldman was finally deported from the U.S. for her anti-militarist stances. Her classic autobiography was published in 1930 and recounts her personal and political life in Europe and North America from early childhood through 1927. Chapter Nine. download
Living My Life: Chapter Ten
May 04, 2010 01:28Anarchist, feminist, labor agitator, advocate for sexual freedom and birth control, fiery speaker and prolific writer, Emma Goldman was finally deported from the U.S. for her anti-militarist stances. Her classic autobiography was published in 1930 and recounts her personal and political life in Europe and North America from early childhood through 1927. Chapter Ten download
Insurrection vs. Organization, Part Two
April 03, 2010 19:03When there are two different strategies for revolution, many of us do not see this as two paths for different groups of people to walk, taking their own while also trying to understand the path of the Other, but as evidence that somebody must be Wrong (and it is almost certainly the Other). An extraordinary essay on the differences between insurrectionary anarchists and organizational anarchists (anarcho-communists, syndicalists, etc.) and why both groups MUST work with each other beca...
Insurrection vs. Organization, Part One
April 03, 2010 18:56When there are two different strategies for revolution, many of us do not see this as two paths for different groups of people to walk, taking their own while also trying to understand the path of the Other, but as evidence that somebody must be Wrong (and it is almost certainly the Other). An extraordinary essay on the differences between insurrectionary anarchists and organizational anarchists (anarcho-communists, syndicalists, etc.) and why both groups MUST work with each other beca...
Living My Life: Chapter Eight
April 03, 2010 06:12Anarchist, feminist, labor agitator, advocate for sexual freedom and birth control, fiery speaker and prolific writer, Emma Goldman was finally deported from the U.S. for her anti-militarist stances. Her classic autobiography was published in 1930 and recounts her personal and political life in Europe and North America from early childhood through 1927. Chapter Eight download
Living My Life: Chapter Seven
April 03, 2010 05:57Anarchist, feminist, labor agitator, advocate for sexual freedom and birth control, fiery speaker and prolific writer, Emma Goldman was finally deported from the U.S. for her anti-militarist stances. Her classic autobiography was published in 1930 and recounts her personal and political life in Europe and North America from early childhood through 1927. Chapter Seven download