From Embers
117 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsFrom Embers is a regular show about anarchist and anti-authoritarian politics in so-called Canada. We are part of the Channel Zero Anarchist Podcast Network.
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Cruise Control
September 07, 2018 02:21 - 57 minutes - 36.8 MBAn interview with a member of a Montreal-based collective that is researching and raising awareness about police crackdowns in gay cruising areas. Links: Cruise Control collective page (facebook link) Ultra Red audio activists, Los Angeles, USA
Rent Strike Update and Eviction Resistance in Ontario
August 30, 2018 01:43 - 1 hour - 41.5 MBWe return to the rising wave of renters struggles across the province of Ontario. On May 1st, tenants in the Stoney Creek Towers in Hamilton declared a rent strike, demanding that their corporate landlord drop an above-guideline rent increase of almost 10% over three years, and that the property managers perform numerous needed overdue repairs to their units. I first interviewed Jason of the Hamilton Tenants Solidarity Network back in May. The HTSN helped initiate the rent strike and wor...
Tenant Organizing in Hamilton and Kingston
August 30, 2018 01:32 - 54 minutes - 35.2 MBThis episode first aired in May 2018 and featured two interviews with tenant organizers in Ontario. The first interview is with Jason from the Hamilton Tenants Solidarity Network about the East Hamilton Rent Strike launched on May 1st. The second interview is with Adam from the Limestone Solidarity Network in Kingston.
Burnside Jail Protest and Prisoner Justice Day
August 23, 2018 01:35 - 50 minutes - 35 MBConversations about prison organizing in Canada - interview with a Halifax organizer about the Burnside Jail protest and conversation about Prisoner Justice Day organizing in Nova Scotia and Ontario Burnside prisoners' statement: https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/province-house/the-prisoners-at-the-burnside-jail-are-engaged-in-a-non-violent-protest-here-is-their-statement/ Info on the US prison strike: https://itsgoingdown.org/prisonstrike/ https://incarceratedworkers.org/campaigns/p...
85 Years Since The Christie Pits Riot
August 16, 2018 01:17 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MB85 years ago this week, in the midst of another long hot summer, a series of anti-semitic and xenophobic provocations in Toronto escalated into a full blown riot at Christie Pits. Tonight we bring you two interviews to mark the 85th anniversary of the Christie Pits Riot in Toronto. The first is with Cyril Levitt, co-author of the book The Riot at Christie Pits. The 2nd edition is being released this week through New Jewish Press with a new foreword and postscript. The second interview is...
Is Anarchism For Me Or For Us?
August 07, 2018 17:05 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBAn interview with a comrade who recently published a critique of Max Stirner's The Ego And Its Own. We discuss anarchist morality and ethics, why we hate the state, whether anarchism means building a world with no masters or slaves, egoism, individualism, killing the cop inside your head, and whether dead philosophers matter.
Anti-Fascism in Quebec
July 26, 2018 02:14 - 1 hour - 71.6 MBAn interview with an anti-fascist based in Montreal. We discuss the history of the Quebec far right dating back to the 1930s, anti-fascist resistance in 1990s Montreal, and the contemporary context, including an important victory against La Meute on July 1, 2018. Links: Montreal Antifasciste Montreal Counter-Information
Conversation with an anarchist person of colour from Montreal
July 19, 2018 01:49 - 50 minutes - 46.2 MBI talk to Rosa, a friend and anarchist person of colour living in Montreal, about racism, identity politics, identity-based organizing and projects she's involved with. Thanks to Rosa for the music selections!
No Pride in Genocide
July 11, 2018 11:15 - 1 hour - 70.8 MBA post-Canada Day reflection on resistance to colonial celebrations. Interviews with two Indigenous organizers, one about "Canada Day" here in Kingston, Ontario, and another on "Australia Day," also known as Invasion Day, which meets massive protests across Australia each January. Links: Background on the resistance to colonial birthday parties in Kingston. Idle No More Kingston (facebook link!) Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance (also a facebook link!) Canada Day actions in K...
Resisting the Trans Mountain Pipeline
June 28, 2018 01:45 - 1 hour - 55.5 MBAn hour-long investigation into efforts in recent years to resist the Trans Mountain Pipeline and its world. Our first interview is with an anarchist who participated in an anti-pipeline camp on Burnaby Mountain in 2014. Our second interview is with Kanahus Manuel, a Secwepemc woman currently involved in the struggle against the pipeline which runs through her territory. Links: Wreck: A Vancouver Anarchist Publication Defend the Territory by Warrior Publications Secwepemcul'ecw Ass...
Freeing Our Relationships
June 21, 2018 00:53 - 56 minutes - 65.5 MBA conversation with a friend who recently gave an "introduction to anarchism" workshop and is also writing an article called "Making Our Relationships More Free." He's putting forward an anarchism that seeks a collective, relational freedom rather than an individual one. Topics include: - how to frame anarchism to people who don't understand it yet. - a forthcoming anthology about the place of individualism in anarchism. - the difference between freedom and capacity. - the definiti...
Reportbacks and Reflections from the G7
June 14, 2018 04:21 - 59 minutes - 54 MBStories from the Québec anti-G7 mobilizations, June 7-9. Two interviews, one with a RRAG7 (Réseau de Résistance Anti-G7) organizer in Québec and one with an Ontario anarchist previously charged with conspiracy for organizing against the Toronto G20 summit in 2010. Music by Keny Arkana.
Open The Borders
June 07, 2018 02:06 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBTwo interviews with people involved in supporting the thousands of refugees currently crossing irregularly into Canada from the United States through Southern Quebec. Topics include migrant justice, border policy, countering the far right, and solidarity. For more information on Solidarity Across Borders: http://www.solidarityacrossborders.org For more information on Bridges Not Borders: http://www.bridgesnotborders.ca
Surrealism and Anarchy
May 31, 2018 03:10 - 56 minutes - 51.3 MBAn interview with anarchist and surrealist author Ron Sakolsky. We discuss his life, free jazz, academia, the intersections of surrealism and anarchy, mutual acquiescence, maroon communities, and his day to day life on Denman Island, BC. Ron's latest book "In Search of the Masterless Men of Newfoundland" is available from Little Black Cart. This interview was recorded at the 2018 Montreal Anarchist Bookfair. The music is by John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman.
Repression and Community Resilience
May 26, 2018 07:13 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBStories about dealing with repression and an interview about conspiracy charges, infiltration, and movement defense
May Day Roundup
May 26, 2018 07:04 - 58 minutes - 53.5 MBReflections from May Day events in different places across so-called Canada and short interviews with organizers from Halifax, Montreal and Kitchener
Anarchism in the Middle of Nowhere
May 22, 2018 05:10 - 55 minutes - 50.7 MBConversation about organizing in a rural context with an anarchist living in Prince Edward County, Ontario.