Coffee with Comrades
211 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 163 ratingsa podcast discussing culture, current events, theory, and action through a radical lens.
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Episodes
Episode 8: "Teaching Anarchy" feat. Mark Bray & Rob Haworth
August 14, 2018 16:25 - 1 hour - 64.9 MBOn Episode 8 of Coffee with Comrades, Bree and Pearson sit down for a conversation with Mark Bray and Rob Haworth to discuss their upcoming book, Anarchist Education and the Modern School: A Francisco Ferrer Reader. But first, Pearson digs into some of his experiences at the Shut it Down DC demonstrations. While a broad coalition of anti-fascists successfully managed to deplatform the white supremacists who’d invaded the city for Unite the Right 2 and that victory ought to be widely celebr...
Episode 7: “Empty Every Cage, Break Every Chain”
August 07, 2018 04:00 - 50 minutes - 23.6 MBTW: Be advised, this episode includes a sound-byte from Richard Nixon’s chief of staff, Lee Atwater, spewing racial slurs from 22:02--22:22. In this week’s episode of Coffee with Comrades, Bree and Pearson discuss the #August21 Prison Strike and dissect the prison-industrial complex, the abolition movement, and transformative justice. But, first, a look at this week in current events: A migrant child died shortly after being released from detention by ICE Detained migrant fathers and...
Episode 6: "Build the Spine"
August 01, 2018 00:04 - 1 hour - 53.2 MBOn today’s episode of Coffee with Comrades, Bree and Pearson explore the symbiotic relationship of science and anarchy with Kaleb Morgan. But first, some current events: A FL auto shop owner snitched on a fifteen-year-old girl who escaped her ICE captors A six-year-old girl was sexually abused while in a DHS detention facility Comrades in Occupy ICE TPA were arrested before police trashed their tents. Donate to their legal defense fund. Anarchists in the Four Thieves Vinegar Col...
Episode 5: "I'm Literally a Communist, You Idiot"
July 24, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 39.7 MBOn the latest episode of Coffee with Comrades, we spend the hour discussing contemporary politics in the UK with Bree’s partner, Ben Stone, a British citizen living in the United States. But first, in lieu of a current events segment this week, Pearson drove south and sat down for an interview with two of the occupiers at a Tampa Bay ICE facility who are putting their bodies on the line to abolish ICE. If you’d like to support the Occupy ICE Encampment in Tampa, you can do so here: https...
Episode 4: "Not Even Babies Get a Free Lunch"
July 17, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 95.5 MBOn the latest episode of Coffee with Comrades, Bree and Pearson explore late-stage capitalism’s neoliberal paradigms. Today’s News: Liberate Stonybrook Migrant Mothers in ICE detention facilities are staging hunger-strikes to demand calls with their separated children Standing Rock water protectors face jail time for civil disobedience J20 defendants fight back Anti-Antifascist Bill Alerta, alerta! Antifascista! Shut it down in DC Over a hundred thousand protesters in the ...
Episode 3: “Kylo Ren was a School Shooter”
July 10, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 86.7 MBEpisode 3: “Kylo Ren was a School Shooter” - A Leftist Analysis of Star Wars, Ep. VIII: The Last Jedi On today's show, Bree and Pearson take you to a galaxy far, far away for a leftist analysis of the most controversial Star Wars film to date—Ep. VIII: The Last Jedi. But, before digging into the day's discussion, our hosts explore some current events: - The Occupy ICE movement continues to grow - The rest of the J20 Defendants had their charges dropped - All prisoners are political p...
Episode 3: “Kylo Ren was a School Shooter”
July 10, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 86.7 MBEpisode 3: “Kylo Ren was a School Shooter” - A Leftist Analysis of Star Wars, Ep. VIII: The Last Jedi On today's show, Bree and Pearson take you to a galaxy far, far away for a leftist analysis of the most controversial Star Wars film to date—Ep. VIII: The Last Jedi. But, before digging into the day's discussion, our hosts explore some current events: - The Occupy ICE movement continues to grow - The rest of the J20 Defendants had their charges dropped - All prisoners are political p...
Episode 2: "Arm The Proletariat, Not The Police"
July 07, 2018 18:21 - 42 minutes - 48.1 MBEpisode 2: "Arm The Proletariat, Not The Police" - Violence, Control, & Liberation On this episode of Coffee with Comrades, Bree and Pearson explore the history of gun control in the United States, tracing the legacy of the Black Panthers' armed resistance in order to better understand the racist enforcement of gun control legislation. After diving into the causes of mass violence in the U.S. today, Bree and Pearson then briefly discuss the barrier police pose to our safety and securit...
Episode 2: "Arm The Proletariat, Not The Police"
July 07, 2018 18:21 - 42 minutes - 48.1 MBEpisode 2: "Arm The Proletariat, Not The Police" - Violence, Control, & Liberation On this episode of Coffee with Comrades, Bree and Pearson explore the history of gun control in the United States, tracing the legacy of the Black Panthers' armed resistance in order to better understand the racist enforcement of gun control legislation. After diving into the causes of mass violence in the U.S. today, Bree and Pearson then briefly discuss the barrier police pose to our safety and securit...
Episode 1: "All the Walls Will Fall"
July 07, 2018 17:54 - 44 minutes - 50.9 MBOn today's episode, Bree and Pearson dig into the Kafkaesque cluster-fuck that is ICE and the CBP, examining the historical context of these relatively young agencies. As outrage explodes over the detention of children and the separation of families, resistance, defiance, and the #OccupyICE movement grows across stolen lands. Bree and Pearson dissect the reactionary mind and challenge tepid liberal reformism, calling instead for direct action, mutual aid, and a movement that makes ICE obsole...
Episode 0: What is Coffee with Comrades?
July 07, 2018 17:34 - 18 minutes - 21.7 MBEpisode 0: What is Coffee with Comrades? On the premiere episode of Coffee with Comrades, Bree and Pearson fumble through their first time recording a podcast together! Learn a bit about what motivated the two hosts to team-up and create this show. Twitter: @coffeewcomrades Website: https://www.coffeewithcomrades.com Intro: Woody Guthrie, "I Ain't Got No Home in this World" Outro: Father John Misty, "Bored in the U.S.A."