Monthly Archives: June 2023

Anarchist, Author, games, Margaret Killjoy, Transcribed, zine

Co-Envisioning Worlds in Penumbra City

Co-Envisioning Worlds in Penumbra City

"Penumbra City: A World of Harrow Game" logo, showing a chunk of land pulling up and floating above the landscape with a city on top, small pieces of soil dripping down
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Here we are presenting Ian’s interview with members of Strangers In a Tangled Wilderness, a collectively run publisher of radical podcasts, fiction, zines, games, and much more. We discuss the kickstarter fundraiser the group just launched to fund their tabletop RPG, Penumbra City, their history with games and with each other, world building, the value of goal-free play, and how it might be applied to projects and organizing. You can watch a playthrough of the game on youtube.

Penumbra City links:

STW links:

STW Podcasts:

Inmn online:

Robin online:

Margaret online:

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  • Spellwork by Austra from Feel It Break

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Anarchist Media, Atlanta, Bail Funds, Forest Defense, General, Georgia, Police, repression, StopCopCity, Transcribed, zine

Updates On The Struggle To Stop Cop City

Updates On The Struggle To Stop Cop City + The Balkan Anarchist Bookfair

Poster advertising week of action based on the style of the movie poster for Endless Summer featuring a setting sun and polarized pictures of the forest from above and within “DEFEND THE FOREST Week OF ACTION 6 WEELAUNEE Summer "IT'S UP TO US TO DEFEND OUR FUTURE" -KATHLEEN HANNAH JUNE 24 - JULY 1 2023 SUMMER P BREAK COP CITY, ATLANTA A PEOPLE'S POWER Production In association with NO COP CITY The WEEK OF ACTION 6 GEORGIA Week STAY FOR THE SUMMER City is THE FOREST Justice for TORTUGUITA WILL NEVER BE BUILT Go to hell RYAN MILLSAP STOPCOPCITYSOLIDARITY.ORG DEFENDTHEATLANTAFOREST.ORG”
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This week, you’ll hear an interview with Matthew Scott, a journalist with ACPC in Atlanta to talk about recent developments with the struggle against Cop City, the building of a giant police training facility with a simulated cityscape for urban counter insurgency training for law enforcement from around the USA & around the world in a forest in Atlanta, Georgia. You can read Matthews work at ATLPressCollective.Com.

We review the development of the project and the organizing against it, touch on the current situation for the 41 people facing domestic terrorism charges from the state of Georgia, talk about the SWAT raid and financial crime charges against the Atlanta Solidarity bail fund, the vote by city council to move forward with tens of millions of dollars of funding despite 15 hours of public comment against and take a look at where the project is now that clearcutting has happened.

Other Sites of Interest

Balkan Anarchist Bookfair

Then, you’ll hear a segment by A-Radio Berlin from the May 2023 episode of Bad News about the upcoming Balkan Anarchist Bookfair and the St-Imier 2023 anarchist and anti-authoritarian gathering.

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activism, Anarchist, Anti-Racist Action, Antifa, Author, History, PM Press, Protest, Racism, Transcribed, zine

A History of Anti-Racist Action with Shannon Clay

A History of Anti-Racist Action with Shannon Clay

book cover of "We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action" featuring an anti-racist protest in red tone with "TFSR 6-14-23" along the side
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Here’s our interview with Shannon Clay, co-author of We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action. For this episode, Shannon and I walk through the book, covering some of the history of the network, how it evolved, challenges it faced, and invitations to discuss current day anti-fascist and anti-racist organizing on Turtle Island.

Shannon also suggests co-authors Kristin Schwartz and Michael Staudenmaier podcast interview on The Brief about Canadian ARA history: http://thebriefpodcast.com/anti-racist-action/

This audio was released earlier to Patreon supporters of $3 or more a month. It’s one of the thank you gifts, alongside tshirts, zines, stickers and updates on the project. If you’d like to support our ongoing transcriptions help to make these conversations more accessible to a wider audience, give yourself that warm and fuzzy feeling by visiting tfsr.wtf/support for a link to ways to support our project with your pocket book.

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activism, Colonialism, European Union, Immigration, Italy, Mediterranean, Neoliberalism, Politics, Transcribed

Mediterranean Passages with Maldusa

Mediterranean Passages with Maldusa

logo of "Maldusa Freedom of Movement" featuring a line drawing of Medusa with arrows at the end of the snakes showing movement in many directions, overlayed on a map of the Mediterranean Sea
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This week we chatted with Jasmine, an anthropologist and activist involved in the migrant solidarity and freedom of movement cultural organization called Maldusa which is based in some of the southern most reaches of Italy in Palermo, Sicily, and the island of Lampedusa and in the Mediterranean Sea. We speak for the hour about migration across the sea, what drives and draws people to make the treacherous journey, state, para state and civil institutions on both sides of the sea engaging the issue of crossings and other topics.

Maldusa:

Louise Michel Rescue Boat:

SeaWatch:

Alarmphone:

Baye Fall Guys:

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  • Set Adrift on Memory Bliss (instrumental radio edition) by PM Dawn

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activism, Health, Missouri, Politics, Queer, Transcribed, United States, zine

Mid MO Trans Folks on Living Under Emergency

Mid MO Trans Folks on Living Under Emergency

Missouri state borders in Trans Flag colors with trans resistance logo in purple all over black background
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In this discussion, we talk with two trans organizers in Missouri about the recently withdrawn emergency rule made by the state Attorney General Andrew Bailey. At the time, the emergency rule, which was one of the most far reaching bans on trans access to affirming medical care, had been stayed by the courts and was awaiting further hearing.

The Attorney General withdrew the ruling, claiming that it was no longer needed because the Missouri legislature had passed two bills that removed access to trans care for youth. The situation on the ground in Missouri is still dire, but the particular extremity of the rule has at least temporarily been dodged. (Just after, Gov. DeSantis in Florida introduced a flurry of new anti-trans legislation as if to outstrip Missouri in hateful targeting). During this conversation, we discuss the specific details that made this rule significantly threatening, as well as the various reactions and organizing efforts that it provoked. Though the situation has changed in Missouri, the discussion still holds important insight for those of us committed to the struggle against the state’s gender fascism, since this is a coordinated effort by the Republican party across state lines to wield violent power against specific populations deemed disposable. I will also read a statement by the organizers written in the wake of the withdrawal of the rule.

You can find the guests at Mid Missouri Trans Folks on instagram and venmo.

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