Coffee with Comrades
211 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 163 ratingsa podcast discussing culture, current events, theory, and action through a radical lens.
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BONUS: "All Good Things Must Come to an End..."
October 20, 2023 04:00 - 14 minutes - 32.2 MBDear listeners of Coffee with Comrades, with special regard to the wonderful folks who support this program on Patreon, Hello! I hope that the autumnal season has brought crisp, cool air and abundant joy to you and yours. I write to you today with a bittersweet sense of pride and melancholy to announce Coffee with Comrades is officially coming to an end. Although I know I don’t “owe” anyone an explanation, I thought it wise—for both my own peace-of-mind and for the wonderful communit...
Episode 196: "This is Just Practice" ft. Marisa Holmes
October 03, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 68.8 MBThis week, I sat down with Marisa Holmes, one of the organizers behind Occupy Wall Street, to talk about her new book Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This is Just Practice. Follow Marisa on Twitter and Instagram and pick up a copy of her book. Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Mastodon, Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website. Coffee with Comrades is a proud affiliate of the Channel Zero Network. Coffee with Comrades is an affiliate of the Firestorm Books & Ca...
Episode 195: "The Earth Tells Our Story of Imperfect Beauty" ft. Ami Weintraub
August 16, 2023 18:45 - 58 minutes - 40.8 MBCW: In this week's episode, we discuss anti-Semitic violence. Listener discretion is advised. Today, Ami Weintraub (he/they) joins us to discuss his new book To the Ghosts Who Are Still Living. In this joyous and melancholic discussion, Ami and I explore the essay collection in detail, touching on anti-fascism, anti-semitism, Jewish identity in diaspora, and Ami's spiritual and ancestral affinity. Pick up a copy of To the Ghosts Who Are Still Living today! Check out Ami's website and ...
Episode 194: "Smashing the Surveillance State" ft. Chris Robé
August 01, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 54.6 MBOn today’s episode of Coffee with Comrades, I am pleased to be joined by Chris Robé, a professor of film and media studies at Florida Atlantic University and the author of the new book Abolishing Surveillance: Digital Media Activism and State Repression. Follow Chris on Twitter and pre-order a copy of Abolishing Surveillance! Check out Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair. Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Mastodon, Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website. Cof...
Episode 193: "Building Power in the Midwest"
July 09, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 138 MBThis week, I sat down with some of the organizers behind Dual Power Gathering Midwest to discuss the weekend long event, the concept of dual power, building solidarity, and sharing knowledge with each other as we develop our greater movement affinity. Dual Power Gathering Midwest 2023 will take place in the traditional homelands of the Miami, Potawatomi, and Kickapoo, about thirty minutes south of downtown Chicago. A follow-up to the Dual Power Gathering at Indiana Dunes in 2022, this event ...
Episode 192: "Visions of Queer Futurity" ft. Scott Branson
June 20, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 62.9 MBThis week, I was joined once again by Scott Branson to discuss the new anthology they helped edit for PM Press, Surviving the Future: Queer Abolitionist Strategies. Scott and I had a lovely conversation about queerness, futurity, healthcare, academia, and everything in between. Purchase a copy of Surviving the Future: Queer Abolitionist Strategies today! Follow Scott on Twitter and visit her website. Check out this interview Scott did for The Final Straw with trans folks organizing i...
Episode 191: "June 11th"
May 09, 2023 04:00 - 58 minutes - 40.9 MBThis week, we're sharing a recent conversation with some of the organizers behind the International Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason & All Longterm Anarchist Prisoners. Check out June11.org and read this essay from CrimethInc. to learn more about the long-term struggles of anarchist prisoners. Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Mastodon, Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website. Coffee with Comrades is a proud affiliate of the Channel Zero Network. Coffee wi...
Episode 190: "Everything Grade B Sucks" ft. Mixæl Laufer
April 25, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 50.1 MBWe spoke with Mixæl Laufer of Four Thieves Vinegar Collective. Check it out! Follow Mixæl on Twitter and visit Four Thieves Vinegar Collective's website! Check out our previous episodes with Mixæl, too: Episode 14, 21, and 171. Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website. Pick up a Coffee with Comrades t-shirt or coffee mug at our official merch store. Coffee with Comrades is a proud member of the Channel Zero Network. Coffee ...
Episode 189: "The Black Line of Liberty" ft. Brenton Lengel
April 11, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBThis week, I hung out with Brenton Lengel to talk about Issue #2 of Durruti: Shadow of the People, a comic exploring the life and times of revolutionary Spain's Buenaventura Durruti! Pick up a copy of the Durruti, Issue #2 special variant to benefit folks displaced by the war in Ukraine Follow Brenton on Twitter. Check out our previous dialogue with Brenton in Ep. 152 of Coffee with Comrades! Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Mastodon, Twitter and Instagram, and...
Episode 188: "The Future is Black & Red" ft. Michael Löwy and David Campbell
March 28, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 64.8 MBThis week, I sat down with Michael Löwy and David Campbell to talk about the book Michael co-wrote and David recently translated into English, Revolutionary Affinities: Toward a Marxist Anarchist Solidarity. The three of us got into a lovely dialogue about the recent uprisings in France against the neoliberal Macron regime, as well as the painstaking labor David undertook of translating this book into English by hand. Then, we dive into the book and talk about the principled points of solida...
Episode 187: "Gamifying History" ft. Alex Knight
February 28, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 42.3 MBThis episode of the program features my conversation with Alex Knight, designer and developer of the board game Land and Freedom, inspired by the Spanish Revolution and Civil War. Check out Land and Freedom today! Pick up a copy of Land and Freedom. Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Mastodon, Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website. Coffee with Comrades is a proud affiliate of the Channel Zero Network. Coffee with Comrades is an affiliate of the Firestorm B...
Episode 186: "Bite Back" ft. Shannon Clay
February 14, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 57.9 MBWe are back with another episode of Coffee with Comrades featuring Shannon Clay, one of the folks behind the new book We Go Where They Go: The Story of Antiracist Action available today via PM Press. Pick up a copy of We Go Where They Go today! Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Mastodon, Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website. Coffee with Comrades is a proud affiliate of the Channel Zero Network. Coffee with Comrades is an affiliate of the Firestorm Books & C...
Episode 185: "The Cartography of Struggle" ft. Working Class History
January 31, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 48 MBThis episode of Coffee with Comrades is dedicated to Tortuguita. Rest in Power, Tort. May we carry on the defense of Earth in your memory. Here are some ways to support the defense of the forest in Atlanta: Donate to the Atlanta Solidarity Fund to support legal costs for arrested protestors and ongoing legal action. Call on investors in the project to divest from Cop City (list of APF investors). Call on builders of the project to drop their construction contracts. Organize politica...
Episode 184: "Little Turtle" RIP, Manny
January 22, 2023 23:05 - 30 minutes - 21.6 MBThis episode of Coffee with Comrades is dedicated to Tortuguita. Rest in Power, Tort. May we carry on the defense of Earth in your memory. Eros, a dear friend and comrade of Manny "Tortuguita" Teran, joins me to memorialize the dearly departed. Donate to the GoFundMe for Manny's family. Here are some ways to support the defense of the forest in Atlanta: Donate to the Atlanta Solidarity Fund to support legal costs for arrested protestors and ongoing legal action. Call on investors in...
Episode 183: "Just Past the Next Horizon" ft. Caleb Wexler
January 10, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 70.8 MBWe are back with our first episode of 2023! This edition of Coffee with Comrades features a dialogue with my dear friend and comrade, Caleb Wexler. Our conversation is pretty wide-ranging. We spend the first half of the episode talking about Caleb’s housing cooperative—how it runs, how they make decisions, and what it looks like to exist in the liminal space between our contemporary housing hellscape and the better tomorrow we’re all dreaming of and fighting for. In the second half of...
Episode 182: "The Lapdogs of Capital" ft. Chad Pearson
November 29, 2022 05:00 - 57 minutes - 40 MBThis week, we are sharing a recent conversation I had with Chad Pearson about his book Capital’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century. Chad and I chat about vigilante violence, the coercive nature of the law, the capaciousness of the term “terrorism,” and a whole lot more. Follow Chad on Instagram and pick up a copy of Capital's Terrorists today! Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitterand Instagram, and visit our website. Pick ...
Episode 181: "Anarcha Islām" ft. Mohamed Abdou
November 15, 2022 17:15 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBRecently, I hung out with scholar and organizer Mohamed Abdou. We spoke at length about his book Islam and Anarchism: Relationships and Resonances. Follow Mohamed on Twitter and pick up a copy of Islam & Anarchism: Relationships and Resonances today! Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitterand Instagram, and visit our website. Pick up a Coffee with Comrades shirt or coffee mug at our official merch store. Coffee with Comrades is a proud member of the Channel Zero ...
Episode 180: "Solidarity Begins at Home" ft. carla bergman
November 01, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 58.9 MBRecently, I hung out with my very dear friend, carla bergman. carla and I spent a good chunk of time talking about their new edited anthology, Trust Kids! Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy. Pick up a copy of carla's book, Trust Kids! Check out Grounded Futures, as well. Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website. Pick up a Coffee with Comrades shirt or coffee mug at our official merch store. Coffee with C...
Episode 179: "No Pasarán!" ft. Shane Burley
October 25, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 50.3 MBI recently sat down with the one and only Shane Burley to talk about his new edited anthology, No Pasarán: Dispatches from a World in Crisis. The book is a collection of essays by and interviews with antifascists: community-organizers, researchers, journalists, artists, and more. Shane and I have a pretty wide-ranging dialogue, touching on violence, prefiguration, the so-called “meme alibi,” the history of antifascism, and a whole helluva lot more. Follow Shane on Twitter and Instagram and ...
Episode 178: "Tierra y Libertad" ft. Jim Yeoman
October 18, 2022 19:00 - 1 hour - 54.2 MBJames Yeoman, author of Print Culture and the Formation of the Anarchist Movement in Spain, 1890-1915 joins me to talk about propaganda by the deed, violence, terror, education, and the anarchist printing press in Spain at the turn of the twentieth century. Pick up a copy of Print Culture and the Formation of the Anarchist Movement in Spain, 1890-1915! Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website. Pick up a Coffee with Comrades shir...
Episode 177: "Kin-Making in Disaster's Wake" ft. Jimmy Dunson
October 04, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 43 MBI recently sat down with my dear friend and comrade, Jimmy Dunson, who put together an anthology on mutual aid, disaster relief, and building dual-power called Building Power While the Lights Are Out. The anthology is gripping and brilliant and the two of us have a wide-ranging conversation on a number of the essays contained within the anthology. We talk about mutual aid as the process of making kin, the ways mutual aid is becoming less of a niche thing that just anarchists dressed all in b...
Episode 176: "The Power of Story" ft. Margaret Killjoy
September 20, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 50.1 MBToday, we’re sharing an interview with the all-around-badass Margaret Killjoy. Margaret is a writer of fiction, a musician in multiple bands, and she is also the host of two great podcasts: Live Like the World is Dying and Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. And that’s an inexhaustive list. Margaret joined me to talk about her new book, We Won’t Be Here Tomorrow, which is a delightful anthology of short stories collected for the first time together in this brand new edition for AK Press. Pi...
BONUS: "Free Dan Baker!"
September 14, 2022 22:27 - 1 hour - 50.5 MBIn this special bonus edition of Coffee with Comrades, I sit down with Tallahassee, FL-based artist and community-organizer, Eric Champagne, to talk about the life and plight of Dan Baker. Dan Baker is a YPG veteran, yoga instructor, and anarchist who was arrested for posts he made on social media in the wake of the January 6th insurrection. Stay tuned to the end of the episode to hear Dan talk in his own words about his experiences on the inside. Special thanks to Eric and Adrien, wh...
Episode 175: "Deathways" ft. Nash Flynn
September 06, 2022 16:08 - 1 hour - 61.5 MBThis week, I am sharing a dialogue I recently had with my new friend Nash Flynn. Nash is a comedian, historian, and host of the podcast Death and Friends. In our dialogue, we talk about death. A lot. Like, a whole helluva lot. So keep that in mind as you wade into this discussion. We chat about the death of non-human animals, climate change, the inevitable heat-death of the universe…but the majority of the dialogue focuses on Nash’s area of expertise: the deathways of so-called New England...
Episode 174: "Children's Liberation, Now!" ft. Srsly Wrong
August 24, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 106 MBShawn of Srsly Wrong joins me for a discussion inspired by two books: Escape from Childhood by John C. Holt, and Raising Free People by Akilah S. Richards. In our expansive dialogue, we talk about climate anxiety, raising kids, studenthood, the abolition of family, and the process of teaching yourself how to treat children with respect. Support Srsly Wrong on Patreon, follow them on Twitter and Instagram, and visit their website. Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twit...
Episode 173: "Anarchists Care About Books" ft. Firestorm Books
August 16, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 58.8 MBToday, we’re sharing an interview with an Ashville-based collective called Firestorm Books. For those not already acquainted with our Appalachian comrades’ work, Firestorm Books is a queer, feminist, anarchist collective operating a co-op bookstore and social movement space. Esmé, Ash, and Libertie sat down with me this past week to talk about starting up their cooperative business, the tensions and dynamics of running a horizontal, collaborative workplace, how they thwart hierarchy interp...
Episode 172: "What Are the Rules in Hell?" ft. Overcritical
August 02, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBIn this week's special, collaborative episode of Coffee with Comrades, Parker from Overcritical joins me to discuss the "most watched" television phenomenon of all time: Squid Game (2021). Follow Overcritical on Twitter and Instagram. While you're at it, follow Parker, too! Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitterand Instagram and Mastadon, and visit our website. Pick up a Coffee with Comrades shirt or coffee mug at our official merch store. Coffee with Comrades ...
Episode 171: "This Card is an Abortion" ft. Dr. Mixæl Laufer
July 26, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 46.8 MBIn this edition of Coffee with Comrades, we talk with Dr. Mixæl Laufer about Four Thieves Vinegar Collective's most recent DIY, autonomous medicine shenanigans. Mixæl walks us through abortion pills that've been transposed to business cards. We talk about 4TVC's revamp of the Microlab Suite, which now features an intuitive system for researching medicines and helping you diagnose your own symptoms. Together, we discuss abortion access and why DIY medicine shouldn't be necessary in the first...
Episode 170: "Preparing the Soil" ft. Adrien of L.O.R.E.
July 19, 2022 04:00 - 45 minutes - 31.6 MBToday, we’re sharing an interview with Tallahassee-based poet, essayist, and social ecology community organizer, Adrien. You might know Adrien better by their pen-name, Cybele. Recently, Adrien put out a new essay called (Re)Growing Communal Life: Preparing the Soil for Revolution. I’d recommend checking it out, if you got a sec. The essay is pretty short and a brisk, lovely read. I’ve appreciated Adrien’s writing ever since we were roommates swapping poetry. I know you’ll dig their work, to...
Episode 169: "We Will Overcome" ft. Tom Wetzel
July 05, 2022 14:08 - 48 minutes - 33.5 MBToday, I'm joined by labor organizer Tom Wetzel, author of the new book Overcoming Capitalism: Strategy for the Working Class in the Twenty-First Century. Pick up a copy of Tom's book, Overcoming Capitalism. Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website. Pick up a Coffee with Comrades shirt or coffee mug at our official merch store. Coffee with Comrades is a proud member of the Channel Zero Network. Coffee with Comrades is an af...
Episode 168: "Turf Wars" ft. Kristian Williams
June 21, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 45.3 MBIn this edition of Coffee with Comrades, we sit down with Kristian Williams, author of the new book Gang Politics: Revolution, Repression, and Crime. Kristian and I explore the long history of counterinsurgency, the emergence of gang-style political formations in the imperial core, the efficacy of community armed self-defense, and so much more. Pick up a copy of Kristian’s latest book, Gang Politics: Revolution, Repression, and Crime. Visit Kristian’s website. Support Coffee with Comrade...
Episode 167: "Care without Fear" ft. Bruce E. Levine
June 07, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 46.9 MBI recently sat down with Bruce E. Levine to talk about his new book A Profession without Reason: The Crisis of Contemporary Psychiatry Untangled and Solved by Spinoza, Freethinking, and Radical Enlightenment. In my conversation with Bruce, we touched on a whole host of things: freethinking, care work, peer-to-peer mutual aid groups of psychiatric survivors, horizontal versus hierarchical modes of care, and Spinoza. Lots of Spinoza. Pick up a copy of A Profession Without Reason and chec...
Episode 74: "Eating the Other" ft. Alisha Gaines
May 29, 2022 19:03 - 38 minutes - 26.8 MBThis week, we sat down with Dr. Alisha Gaines to talk about racialized empathy, the failures of white liberalism, collaborative pedagogy, and authentic solidarity. Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website. Pick up a Coffee with Comrades shirt or coffee mug at our official merch store. Coffee with Comrades is a proud member of the Channel Zero Network. Coffee with Comrades is an affiliate of the Firestorm Books & Café. Check out...
Episode 164: "Thriving in the Ruins" ft. Peter Gelderloos
May 29, 2022 18:59 - 1 hour - 57.9 MBToday, I’m very excited to share a conversation with you that I had with Peter Gelderloos, author of the new book The Solutions Are Already Here, available now through Pluto Press. Peter and I talk about why “climate change” doesn’t quite capture the urgency of ecological catastrophe, why a fixation on “fossil fuels” is a strategic error, the kinship relations that inform our intricate and intimate connections to all living critters and the planet itself, indigenous wisdom and situated knowl...
Episode 166: "Like Mushrooms Thriving Amidst Ruins" ft. Gareth Damian Martin
May 29, 2022 18:55 - 1 hour - 49.3 MBIn this week’s edition of Coffee with Comrades, I’m joined by writer, artist, and game designer Gareth Damian Martin, developer of the new indie RPG Citizen Sleeper. Gareth and I talk about Citizen Sleeper’s systems, structures, and mechanics, its vast cast of NPCs, themes of precarity and symbiosis, and the importance of mushrooms. Like Gareth’s game, neither of us came up with many answers for how to survive–and thrive–in the ruins of capitalism, but the conversation was immensely edifying...
Episode 165: "Toward an Anarchist Critique of Psychiatry"
May 21, 2022 04:07 - 1 hour - 45.9 MBChris, a psychotherapist with sixteen years in the field, joins me to critique the psych profession. We explore the history of psychology and psychiatric coercion, the violence and carceral logic implicit in locking away the "insane." We discuss the ways in which neurotypicality is constructed to serve the hegemony of the ruling class. Chris and I examine the ways that capital and the state regiment our minds, cajoling, commanding, and controling. We also touch on the emerging concept of "ma...
Episode 163: "Horizontal Mentorship" ft. carla bergman
April 05, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 50.1 MBOn this week's edition of Coffee with Comrades, I am joined by carla bergman to discuss the pamphlet she co-authored with scott crow, Just anarchy. carla and I explore intergenerational struggle, burnout, the general utility of peer-to-peer mentorship, anarchist conceptions of authority, trusting kids, cultivating kinship, and a whole lot more. Follow carla on Twitter, visit her website, check out Silver Threads and Grounded Futures, and pick up a copy of Just anarchy. Support Coffee wit...
Episode 162: "Room for Everyone..." ft. Jay Dragon & Mercedes Acosta
March 22, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 60.9 MBToday, we’re sharing an interview with Jay Dragon and Mercedes Acosta, two of the developers, designers, and writers behind the brand new TRPG Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast which, as of today, is officially available to support on Indiegogo! We had a really lovely conversation about sanctuary, refuge, transgender characterization, seeing elements of yourself reflected back at you in your writing, twitter beef, drama in leftist milieus, and the joy of finding community together. I’d strongly encou...
Episode 161: "Trans Liberation, Now!" ft. Charli Ash
March 08, 2022 14:34 - 1 hour - 63.9 MBThis week, I am joined by my friend and comrade Charli Ash to talk about, well, a whole helluva lot. In this dialogue, Charli lays out trans* history, including how transgender folks have been pathologized, how trans* folks have accessed medical care for transition, the pathologization of transness, and a whole bunch more. Then, we transition to looking at the current moment and the anti-trans and homophobic legislation in places like Texas. We even touch on the struggles of folks in Ukraine ...
Episode 160: "Went to Bed in a Failed State, Woke Up in a Fugue State" ft. Sole & DJPain1
February 22, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 138 MBI recently caught up with Tim Holland Pacal Bayley, better known as Sole and DJ Pain 1, to chat about their forthcoming record, Post-American Studies, out this week on the record label Emergency Hearts. Tim, Pacal, and I had a humorous, wide-ranging chat about the record, its themes, and the artists’ shared musical history. Pick up a copy of Post-American Studies by Sole & DJPain1. Follow Sole on Twitter, listen to Propaganda by the Seed, and peep his bandcamp. Follow DJPain1 on Twitter ...
Episode 159: "Directions to Move Towards" ft. Margaret Killjoy
February 08, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 64.2 MBOn this week's edition of Coffee with Comrades, I sit down with Margaret Killjoy to discuss the new edition of A Country of Ghosts, an anarchist utopian fantasy novel. Pick up a copy of A Country of Ghosts! Follow Margaret on Twitter and listen to Live Like the World is Dying. Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website. Pick up a Coffee with Comrades shirt or coffee mug at our official merch store. Coffee with Comrades is a ...
Episode 158: "Creation & Destruction, Bloc by Bloc" ft. Out of Order Games
January 25, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 68.4 MBIn this episode of Coffee with Comrades, T.L and Greg, designers of the forthcoming third edition of Bloc by Bloc: Uprising join me to discuss the game’s revamped mechanics, new and emergent gameplay, mutual aid, insurrection, and so much more. In many ways, this conversation functions as a follow up to an earlier episode of Coffee with Comrades, Ep. 22: “The Magic Circle-A.” If you haven’t listened to that episode, we definitely recommend you check it out, but it’s not essential. This e...
Episode 157: "Bedtime Tyranny (& Other Myths)" Children's Liberation & Radical Parenting
January 11, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 49.4 MBThis week, I’m sharing a conversation I had with my family about children’s liberation and parenting as radicals. The dialogue is pretty wide-ranging. We talk about the “bedtime discourse” that sparked the idea for this episode, chat about unschooling, the limitations of “abolishing the family,” parenting as anarchists, how to be good models as adults in kids’ lives, the tension between individual autonomy and our communal responsibilities, parenting under capitalism, and a whole lot more. ...
Episode 156: "Bread Santa - A People's History of Christmas" ft. Liz of Rebel Steps
December 24, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 69.7 MBDid you know that “We Wish You A Merry Christmas” is secretly a song about stealing from the rich? Did you know the “Lord of Misrule” was the original holiday party animal? Did you know solidarity and justice are the real reason for the season? “Bread Santa” is a holiday special, a people’s history of Christmas. Liz, of Rebel Steps, joins us to discuss the pagan origins of Christmas in Yule and Winter Solstice, the Roman Empire’s hegemonic institution of Christianity, the Puritans’ reactio...
Episode 155: "Benign Anarchy"
November 23, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 48 MBThis week, I had a chance to hang out with my pal, Amy, and talk about the benign anarchy of Alcoholics Anonymous. We talk about the beauty and allure of voluntary association, why coercion doesn’t help addicts recover, why seeing addiction as an “individual failing” rather than a systemic healthcare issue is facile and vacuous, and levy a whole bunch of critiques at the organization for its regressive attitudes and white supremacy. Follow Amy on Twitter! Need someone to watch your pets ...
Episode 154: "Mind Made Manifest" ft. Petroglyph Studios
November 16, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 58.6 MBRecently, I had the chance to read a wonderful graphic novel put together by my friends nicole and Hugh called Wonder Drug: LSD in the Land of Living Skies. I sat down with the two of ‘em to discuss the history of LSD research, psychedelics, hippies, capitalism, therapy, and a whole bunch more. I think the comic is lovely and I hope you’ll pick up a copy if you enjoy this dialogue between the three of us. Pick up a copy of nicole and Hugh’s graphic novel, Wonder Drug. Follow them on Twitter...
BONUS: Merch & Yuletide Celebration
November 09, 2021 05:00 - 13 minutes - 9.12 MBThis week, we don’t have a new interview for you but we do have a bunch of rad announcements, some of which are time-sensitive. If you’re a Coffee with Comrades Patron (or you’ve ever considered becoming one,) this is definitely a 13 min. episode you don’t wanna miss! · Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website. · Pick up a Coffee with Comrades shirt or coffee mug at our official merch store. · Coffee with Comrades is a proud mem...
Episode 153: "(Capitalism is) Capital Murder" ft. JJ Demon
November 02, 2021 04:00 - 50 minutes - 35 MBThis week, we share an interview with communist rapper JJ Demon. We touch on a whole host of topics: the prison industrial complex, capitalism as capital murder, solidarity, intersectionality, class war, and JJ's new LP, ghost gun Red Menace. Follow JJ Demon on Twitter and stream ghost gun Red Menace wherever you get your favorite music. Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website. Coffee with Comrades is a proud member of the Cha...
Episode 152: "Outlaw, Robin Hood, Revolutionary: Buenaventura Durruti" ft. Brenton Lengel
October 26, 2021 04:00 - 55 minutes - 38.6 MBRecently, all of anarchist Twitter lit up like the Minneapolis Third Precinct when AK Press shouted out the forthcoming comic book, Durruti: Shadow of the People. I had the good fortune to sit down with Brenton and chat about the graphic novel, as well as the life and times of Beunaventura Durruti, the struggles of the anarchists and socialists against the fascists in Revolutionary Spain, and why a comic book is a great option for telling Durruti’s story (at least, that is, until it can ge...
Episode 151: "A Tiny Dinosaur Version of a Cat" ft. Poor Proles' Almanac
October 19, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 47.3 MBI recently sat down with Andy from The Poor Proles Almanac to discuss, well, a whole bunch of shit. We talked about firearms, guerilla gardening, permaculture, and raising chickens. Andy even had the audacity to defend the Pumpkin Spice Latte on a podcast called Coffee with Comrades. Truly, the nerve… Support Poor Proles' Almanac on Patreon, follow them on Twitter and Instagram! Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website. Coffee w...