"Let’s do something that they can’t even imagine."
Part 2 of my conversation with my friend Candice who is an economist, communist, mother, and all around rad lady. We spoke about everyday antifascism, being a disabled and limited radical activist, taking care of each other, and more.

Transcript: https://friendlyanarchism.medium.com/s2e3-everyday-antifascism-celebrity-and-making-something-new-with-candice-part-2-transcript-ecfcf650f20a

Notes:
-I just want to note that the inclusion of liberals, while a part of a popular front strategy, is playing with fire. I much prefer radicalizing/working with people who are apolitical 
-I should have mentioned fascist creep in the form of "gender critical" dialogue. Transphobia is a major source of reactionary rightwing garbage right now
-I was a little hard on Portland, it's a big place with a big scene and so obviously not everyone involved has all the ego about it. A couple really good antifascist/activist resources coming out of that area are the podcasts "It Did Happen Here" and "Rural Roots Rising"
-Many Q-anoners are in fact very dangerous, I had in mind one particular memory
-Greasy hair does not actually protect you from Covid-19.

Music by Kylo Ren www.kyloren.bandcamp.com/

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Referenced:
Global birth rate: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/crude-birth-rate?stackMode=absolute&region=World

List of further info on fascist creep:
Population and ecofascism
-https://wearyourvoicemag.com/humans-are-not-the-virus-eco-fascist/
-https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-is-ecofascism-explainer
Antisemitism
-https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/on-antisemitism-critical-thinking-and-conspiracy-theories-db37e7b24fee
-https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-how-the-gop-is-energizing-and-entrenching-antisemitism-in-america-1.9560897
Organic Food/Farming
-https://theconversation.com/the-roots-of-organic-farming-lie-in-fascism-81448
-https://gen.medium.com/nazi-hippies-when-the-new-age-and-far-right-overlap-d1a6ddcd7be4
-http://daanis.ca/2020/09/28/the-racist-history-of-ag-about-big-ag-with-dr-sarah-taber/
Class reductionism
-https://abeautifulresistance.org/site/2020/11/7/class-reductionism-and-white-identity-politics-in-a-post-trump-era
-https://time.com/5864705/climate-change-black-lives-matter/

S2E3 Everyday Antifascism, Celebrity, And Making Something New with Candice Part 2

Just for funsies. Based on "Come All Ye Coal Miners" by Sarah Ogan Gunning, a turn of the 20th century union organizer.

Come all pandemic workers wherever you may be
And listen to a story that I'll relate to thee
My name is nothin' extree but the truth to you I'll tell
I am a covid worker too, I'm sure l wish you well

Right now it is the most dangerous work in our land today
With plenty of dirty slavin' labor and very little pay
Oh worker won't you wake up and open your eyes and see
What the dirty capitalist system is doin' to you and me

They’ll take our very lives, they take our children's lives
Take fathers away from children and husbands away from wives
Oh worker, won't you organize wherever you may be
And make this a land of freedom for workers like you and me

Dear worker, they will slave you 'til you can't work no more
And what'll you get for your living but a dollar in a company store
A broken-down room to live in, no heat or working locks
You have to pay the landlord rent, your payin' never stops

I am a pandemic worker, I'm sure l wish you well
Let's sink this capitalist system in the darkest pits of hell

Come All Pandemic Workers

Don't have spoons for full episodes right now, but just messing around with other forms of expression in the meantime! This is a round I did with myself while stuck in quarantine a while ago. Listened to it again today and was like, what the heck, might as well put it out there. It's a reimagining of an old song from my childhood to try to express what it feels like to disassociate. Enjoy!

A fan made a new discord: discord.gg/mPs8Peah

Disassociate

Transcript: Hi all, so, life keeps happening and I've been having a hard time finding time to work on this show, but just so you know there is another episode in the works. This one is an essay like the first episode of this season and it's of a personal nature and I just want to make sure I get it right so I'm spending some extra time on it. Thank you to everyone who has been supporting me! Thank you to my patrons. And also just so you know, one of the listeners of the show started a discord so if that's something that you're interested in please join, it was really cool that they created that space. So that's a new thing and I've posted the link to it on the soundcloud. Alright, just checking in and I will see you again soon.

Help me out at www.patreon.com/friendlyanarchism and join the Discord at discord.gg/5msYfvZkdx thank you!

Checking In

Wow, this was a trip to find in the archives. Our first ever recording. A lot of it needs citations so listen critically, but there is a lot of good content (especially from CImms) that didn't make it into the first official episode so I'm glad to have found it. It's been a long four years and I don't feel the same way about everything any more, but this also sets up my next episode about Judas, militarism, and guilt very nicely. Feels good to step back and remember where this project came from and reflect on everything at the start of this harvest season. Transcript is partially done, got an auto transcript and it needs to be edited but it's a start: https://friendlyanarchism.medium.com/s1e0-how-it-started-3-23-17-transcript-f471b25f0988

S1E0 How It Started 3.23.17

Wow! A. Campbell Payne is a listener and a professional audio engineer and offered to revamp some of the episodes, which is so awesome. This one in particular had major sound quality issues so here it is after they took a swing at it. Especially important to hear from trans people right now too. Thank you so much A.! Originally aired 7/9/17

S1E9 Remastered: Gender Nihilism With Nors & Nathan

Remastered by A. Campbell Payne. Originally aired 9/3/17

CW: Suicide & police brutality
Spoke with Aneka from the SoJust Collective about centering POC, the founding fathers, police brutality, educating allies, being tired, passing the mic, no plaforming/active platforming, confronting your racist family, the allyship industrial complex, rewarding white mediocrity, the Red Cross, Rechts Gegen Rechts, difficulties with fundraising, and seriously, ruin Christmas.

You can donate to Aneka for their time by sending money to their venmo @pettymcbetty . If you counted more instances of bad allyship than I did, use your number, and if you counted fewer, use mine (14).

Notes:
- The controversy was in fact about Deady Hall at the University of Oregon, named after Judge Matthew Deady, co-author of the Oregon State Constitution and one of the most influential supporters of Oregon’s Exclusion Laws. A good guest viewpoint written on the subject here: uwire.com/2016/02/14/guest-vie…dy-hall-must-change/

-For the uninitiated, "FTP" stands for Fuck The Police

- There was concern expressed for me, but I'm not in that relationship anymore and that story is very old. The point of it is not the individualization of the issue but the systemic stresses

- Instead of donating to the Red Cross, you can go here to find how to get money directly to those who need it for Hurricane Harvey relief: www.colorlines.com/articles/how-do…s-color-houston

Referenced:
CAHOOTS mobile crisis intervention: whitebirdclinic.org/cahoots/

Rechts Gegen Rechts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvjIYl_Nlao

Update 11/7/20: When this episode aired it was why I was rejected from Channel Zero Network. The reason given was because we should be talking about being "accomplices, not allies" and I was given a copy of the zine of the same name to read. However, we do talk about the Ally Industrial Complex in the episode and both Aneka and I disagreed with their response that this episode contributes to that mindset. However, you can read a copy of the zine here and decide for yourself: archive.org/details/Accomplices…lyIndustrialComplex

S1E17 Remastered: Allyship, FTP, And Give People Money with Aneka

I've worked on a dozen essays and episodes in which to add this clip, including in the unfinished episode about my other grandfather's death, who was also military and was also given full military honors. I've tried to find an eloquent way to talk about how hard it is to untangle my sliver of a cultural past from the all consuming monster of whiteness and nationalism. I've also wanted to dig deeper into why I went so hard into antifascism and why it is so personal to me, but honestly what I caught on tape right after finishing our first episode (in which I had made fun of bagpipes and immediately very quietly started to spiral) is a lot by itself. So maybe it is best to just post the raw audio. 

It's a very deep kind of pain when an ancestral part of who you are is used to justify genocide, especially when your own feelings about that part of you is complicated (as it often is with family). This is in solidarity with my anti-zionist Jewish friends right now. On a positive note, Jimmy Marr is dead now. You are not missed. Rest in Piss. #freepalestine

Edit: Was told by a friend that I should add the context that Jimmy Marr was a well known holocaust denier and white nationalist who went by "Genocide Jimmy" and drove around a truck with antisemitic slogans written on it.

Ancestral Pain S1E1.5

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There were nazis on University of Oregon campus today, and since we are in Eugene, we're reporting back and doing some analysis. The conversation developed into a larger discussion about cultural context, media interactions, tactics, and the nature of anarchism. Berkeley and Pepsi both get shout-outs, too.
*This was really off the cuff, we wanted to get this out on the day of. There's a lot to talk about concerning methods of social change, martyrdom, etc that deserve more attention.

Referenced:
Report on white nationalists at UO (The rabbi's name is Jack Melul):
https://www.dailyemerald.com/news/white-nationalists-visit-uo-don-t-find-any-support/article_5f7b073b-b151-57bc-b21f-0c6e09db4c7f.html

LA Times "How Berkeley became epicenter of violent Trump clashes" : https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-berkeley-trump-20170416-story.html

Louise Rosealma, mentions her gofundme: "Berkeley brawl protester punched by white supremacist shares her story" https://www.mic.com/articles/174404/berkeley-brawl-protester-punched-by-white-supremacist-shares-her-story

Nazi Portland cop Mark Kruger (as of this recording still on the force): https://www.wweek.com/portland/article-2933-the-cop-who-liked-nazis.html

Notes Nov 2020:
-I'm actually Scottish and I love bagpipes. Seeing Jimmy Marr play bagpipes to try and recruit people to fascism made me personally really angry, and it's interesting to hear my kneejerk reaction about how to express that was to just reject my own heritage 
-The accidental narrative here was separating "antifa" from the POC/Jewish folks, denoting "antifa" are non-Jewish white people, which is not true, but there was some truth at that time in Eugene that "antifa" largely denoted white anarchists
-Horseshoe theory is bunk, the piece I was struggling with was realizing just how much anti-Blackness there is in the anti-fascist movement 
-Hearing me struggle with my own liberalism is real cringe, please listen to other episodes to see my political development
-My apologies to Cims for cutting him off so much :/ I was just so excited to talk about this stuff. Info-dump!

S1E1 Nazis On UO Campus, Cultural Context, And Other Musings 4.20.17

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Quaker Anarchist Katherine from "Friendly Anarchism" is interviewed about Christianity and radical politics on KEPW 97.3 Eugene, and she explains what it is to be a Quaker, what anarchism is, and how they intersect.

KEPW Open Waves interview with Katherine 4.26.17

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Quaker Anarchists talk about how Christ was an anarchist and Christian tradition has deep radical roots.

S1E2 Intro to Quaker Anarchism 5.7.17

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TW: Graphic depiction of violence
We jumped into the debate surrounding violent vs. nonviolent protest tactics, and it led to discussions about the importance of intersectional feminism, sustaining good anti-authoritarian process, the Portland May Day "riots", and more!

Here is a bibliography and reference guide for this episode:

Mothers Day as an anti-war holiday
http://annapolisvalley.quaker.ca/posts/the-radical-peace-roots-of-mothers-day/

Gene Sharp - From Dictatorship to Democracy... Gene Sharp has also written voluminously on non-violence including a strategies book with 198 nonviolent tactics which can be taken.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Dictatorship_to_Democracy

Mark & Paul Engler - This is an Uprising
http://thisisanuprising.org/

Peter Gelderloos - How Nonviolence Protects The State
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/381842.How_Nonviolence_Protects_the_State

Shon Meckfessel - Nonviolence Ain't What it Used to be
https://www.akpress.org/nonviolence-ain-t-what-it-used-to-be.html

Jonathan Matthew Smucker - Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals
https://www.akpress.org/hegemonyhowto.html

Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the age of Colorblindness
http://newjimcrow.com/about

Audre Lorde - The Uses of Rage
http://www.blackpast.org/1981-audre-lorde-uses-anger-women-responding-racism

'Texas Slim' - Hot Lead is Medicine: Thoughts on Whiteness, Privilege, & Violence:
https://akuk.com/index.php?_a=product&product_id=5878

Milo Yiannopoulos - bridge to the far right: http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/how-alt-right-fellow-traveller-milo-yiannopoulos-cracked-up-the-right

Seattle Antifascist shot by supporter of Milo Yiannopoulos: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/25/shooting-milo-yiannopoulos-speech-seattle-charges

Portland Protest May Day - in the news: http://www.kgw.com/news/politics/may-day-protests-expected-monday-in-portland-across-us/435436532

It's Going Down communique on Portland May Day Protests: https://itsgoingdown.org/portland-make-may-day-anarchist/

Daniel McGowan - served prison time for actions with the Earth
Liberation Front (ELF): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_G._McGowan

Documentary: If a Tree Falls - A Story of the Earth Liberation Front: http://www.ifatreefallsfilm.com/

Riots in Greece - Alexandros Grigoropoulos was killed by police and riots ensued: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Greek_riots

Valarie Kaur - Not the Darkness of the Tomb, but the Darkness of the Womb:
http://www.today.com/video/what-if-this-is-not-the-darkness-of-the-tomb-but-the-darkness-of-the-womb-watch-valarie-kaur-s-speech-917892675740

Vocabulary:
Intersectionality
Socialist Vanguardism
Diversity of Tactics
Tankies: http://sjwiki.org/wiki/Tankie#.WRnxzMllBnZ
Insurrectionary Anarchism
Greeks have many words for love: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_words_for_love

S1E3 Violence and Nonviolence 5.14.17

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We spoke with Friend Sharon Smith, expert on racism within the Quaker community and author of this article: https://www.friendsjournal.org/witness-quaker-racism/

It ended up being such an amazing conversation that it went an hour and a half overtime! 

Apologies for the sound quality.

S1E4 Quaker Racism with Friend Sharon Smith 5.21.17

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Today we had Lonnie Douglas, the Chair for the Eugene Springfield Solidarity Network (ESSN), ex-military, gun-totin' progressive white guy union organizer. We talk about fake Christians, abortion, guns, Redneck Revolt, Marxism, racism, anti-capitalism, union organizing, anti-globalization, the timber industry, Earth First!, Bernie, Revolution, true Anarchy, and buttless chaps.

S1E5 Guns, False Discipleship, and Unions with Lonnie Douglas 5.27.17

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Wonderful talk with my friend Candice, super smart lady who studies economics and has done a million amazing things. We spoke about communism, the problems with exclusivity in communes, the rural Black experience, being a revolutionary mother, economic theory, living in Oregon, class consciousness, neighborhood organizing, radical grandmas, Troy Davis, buying property, the racist Cascadia movements, mansplaining, and a lot more!

Notes:
There are in fact Black farmers in Oregon: https://www.pdxmonthly.com/eat-and-drink/2020/07/a-new-bipoc-led-farmers-market-takes-root-in-portland

Listen, Marxist! By Murray Bookchin: https://www.marxists.org/archive/bookchin/1969/listen-marxist.htm

S1E6 Black Working Class Communism and Revolutionary Families with Candice 6.3.17

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This is a very contemplative episode on a number of sensitive, emotional topics. We spoke about what it is like to be a Quaker, self-care, mysticism, death, silence, and of course, anarchy.

"We all do the best we can, now don't we dearie?"

Referenced in the podcast: https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2017/feb/24/our-bail-system-leaving-innocent-people-die-jail-because-theyre-poor/

Brian Morris, "Anthropology, Ecology, and Anarchism: A Brian Morris Reader" pg 63, PM Press (2014)

S1E7 All Life Is Meeting, Quaker Silence, and Self-Care with Ilene Cummings 6.25.17

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CW: Graphic depictions of violence against nazis and cops.
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Notes from Nov 2020: 
I was weirdly defensive about there being POC antifascists in Portland, which is true but also the scene is very white, and it causes a lot of problems. It is important to acknowledge hearing from someone who came from outside of town and noticed right away how much whiter the antifa groups now are than they were in Europe in the 70's, and how the people the he saw doing fighting nazis during the street warfare against boneheads in the 80's and early 90's in Portland were Black.
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"Why were there no nazis in your town?" "Because they get smash."

Nazi hunting, baseball bats, Doc Martins, ska, fighting cops, and fucking up racists all over Europe, to fighting nazis in late 1980's/early 1990's Portland. All in a very thick French accent. 

Notes:
- It's "Mulugeta" Seraw, I mispronounced his name. 

Referenced: 
Skrewdriver- Neo-Nazi band

About defense in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina: J. Clark, "Three-Way Fight: Revolutionary Anti-Fascism and Armed Self-Defense"

Cecesesola Venezuela: http://www.geo.coop/story/solidarity-economics-transformative-politics

S1E8 Skinheads, Smashing the Fash, and the Original French Antifa 7.2.17

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CW: Abuse
Spoke to Warren Light from the Wesley Center about sexual violence, concentrating on the risk of perpetration instead of the risk of victimization, white fragility, Micah 6:8, allyship, walking humbly with your God, the discipline of humility & revolutionary values, Bruce Lee, anarchist cooperative praxis, false scarcity of pain, and how boring a white ethnostate would be. 

Update: The Rose City Antifa fundraiser counted 47 instances of fascist creep, which amounted to $678 donated to the NNAF. Thanks for your support! Full report here: http://rosecityantifa.org/articles/fundraiser-tally-august-6/

Referenced:
The UO Wesley Center: https://uowesleycenter.wordpress.com/about/

Micah 6:8 (NRSV): 
"He has told you, O mortal, what is good;
    and what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,
    and to walk humbly with your God?"

"The Trauma Toolkit" by Susan Pease Banitt

S1E13 Abuse, White Fragility, and Walking Humbly with Warren Light 8.5.17

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Holding in the light the family of hero Heather Heyer as well as all of the brave people who went out in Charlottesville to oppose fascism knowing how dangerous those people are. Please donate to their medical funds, more info here: https://fundly.com/defendcville

Anarchist media starter pack: It's Going Down, Submedia, Idavox

"All social activism, all organizing, is science fiction."

Spoke to Imaginactivism scholar Joan Haran about sci-fi, writers including Octavia Butler, Starhawk, Marge Piercy, and Ursula K LeGuin, Octavia's Brood, independent publishing & the power of crowdfunding, the G20 in Hamburg, authoritarian sci-fi, the power of stories, the enlightenment, utopias & dystopias, imagining new forms of governance & social technologies, indigenous & afro futurism, the Handmaid's Tale, the war on drugs, and media repression.

Referenced:
Ava Duvernay adapting Octavia Butler for the screen: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ava-duvernay-octavia-butler-dawn_us_598b5f2ee4b0449ed5078015?section=us_arts

It's Going Down article on the G20 in Hamburg: https://itsgoingdown.org/g20-battle-hamburg-full-account-analysis/

The Center for Applied Non Violent Action and Strategies (CANVAS): http://canvasopedia.org/

"But anarchism is not compelled to outline a complete organisation of a free society. To do so with any assumption of authority would be to place another barrier in the way of coming generations. The best thought of today may become the useless vagary of tomorrow, and to crystallise it into a creed is to make it unwieldy." - Lucy Parsons (from http://www.blackrosefed.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Black-Anarchism-A-Reader-4.pdf)

The Rise of Antifa by Peter Beinart of the Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/the-rise-of-the-violent-left/534192/

Also a rebuttal: http://idavox.com/index.php/2017/08/09/newly-re-vamped-atlantic-magazine-calls-for-the-violent-suppression-of-anti-fascist-activists-in-major-editorial/

And here's a reading list given to me by Joan:
-Octavia’s Brood – ed. Walidah Imarisha and Adrienne Maree Brown
-The Fifth Sacred Thing – Starhawk
-Donna Haraway – “A Manifesto for Cyborgs” (collected in Manifestly Haraway)
-"Emergent Strategy" - Adrienne Maree Brown
-"Half-life" - Shelley Jackson
-The Highest Frontier. College out in space—Invaded by undocumented aliens. Tor/Macmillan, September, 2011.
-Brain Plague.  Intelligent microbes invade human brains, offering limitless powers--at a price.  Tor Books, August, 2000; Science Fiction Book of the Month Club, Alternate Selection.
-The Children Star.  A planet with biochemistry so alien that only children can be genetically engineered to survive there.  And what unique alien intelligence is watching in secret?  Analog serial, April, 1998; Tor Books, September, 1998.
-Daughter of Elysium. In the far future, biologists engineer humans to live for thousands of years, then face a revolt by the machines that made it possible. Avon, 1993; Easton Press signed first edition, 1993; Avon pbk, 1994.
-The Wall around Eden. Quaker teen-agers face the environmental consequences of nuclear war. William Morrow, 1989; Avon pbk, 1990; Italian translation, Editrice Nord, 1991.
-A Door into Ocean. Women biologists genetically engineer fantastic creatures on a planet covered entirely by ocean.  Science Fiction Book of the Month Club Main Selection, 1986; Arbor House, 1986; Avon pbk, 1987; Italian translation, Editrice Nord, 1988.
-Still Forms on Foxfield. Quakers colonize a planet with bizarre alien inhabitants. Del Rey Books, 1980.
-Anything by Nnedi Okorafor (start with the Binti novellas)

S1E14 Science Fiction, Crowdfunding, and Media Repression with Joan Haran 8.12.17

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Katherine was interviewed by Kelly Kenoyer from the Eugene Weekly for their article "Antifa". Interview was done on 10/10/17, and this podcast was released on the same day as the article on 10/19/17. 

Notes: 
-It's Jeremy Christian, not Josh

http://eugeneweekly.com/20171019/lead-story/antifa

Referenced:
Decoding the language of extremist clothing
https://www.topic.com/decoding-the-language-of-extremist-clothing

S1E22 Antifa - Eugene Weekly's full interview with Katherine 10.19.17

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Spoke with Adam Weise, an anarchist from Bismarck North Dakota Friends Meeting about Friendly bible study, early morning worship, why anarchism, lost histories and educational redaction, introducing anarchism to people, community projects, Standing Rock court support, state repression and corruption, racism against the indigenous community, double standards in respecting spiritual practice, worldwide solidarity, the power of prayer, complacency, different kinds of prayer, non-hierarchical organizing & cooperative living, being and acting humble, “leadership through service”, and how small acts of service aren’t small.

S1E23 Quaker Bible Study, Standing Rock, and Thoughts & Prayers with Adam Wiese 11.14.17

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Spoke with queer radical Christian blogger Hye Sung Francis about making Quakerism militant again, empire as false authority, nonviolence as a lack of empathy, antifa Jesus, escalation and diversity of tactics, prophecy, being heartbroken as a people, radical generosity and solidarity, revolutionary End Times, being at peace in a scary world, taking up a cross, speaking in tongues, joyous worship, the need for religion, Jesus the anti-king destroyer of hierarchy, how difficult white boys are, prison abolition, and pistachio ice cream.

Notes:
-Did I say Paul? I meant Peter. I sound pretty scattered, I'm tired y'all. 
-I made assumptions about some other people's gender identity/sexual orientation/privilege that I should not have, and I apologize.

Referenced:
Hye Sung's blog: 
www.hyesungfrancis.com

Psalm 46 (climate change)

The Magnificast, another radical Christian podcast
https://themagnificast.wordpress.com/
https://www.facebook.com/TheMagnificast/

"If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution" -Emma Goldman

1 Corinthians 12

"A Religious Solution to the Social Problem" by Howard Brinton
https://pendlehill.org/product/religious-solution-social-problem/

The Friendly Fire Retreat, can be reached at friendlyfireinfo@protonmail.com

S1E24 Anarchist Jesus, Rebuilding Radical Christianity, and Hope with Hye Sung 12.15.17

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CW: Discussion about abuse and body issues
Beautiful conversation with my friend Sophia about conflict resolution, accountability, exile as social sanction, how everyone makes mistakes, talking to each other, outsourcing conflict to authority, in-person dialogues, the problems with written communications, positive conflict, call out culture & public shaming, building trust, the beauty of dance, misogyny and abuse in the dance world, western appropriation of dance, our dissociative relationship with our bodies, re-engaging with dance in classrooms and activism, true prosperity versus the prosperity gospel, discomfort with faith, anti-queer nature of faith communities, queer dating and finding religion, that Jesus was rad, the individuality of the spiritual journey, leading by example, and leading with love.

S1E27 Conflict Resolution, Dance, And True Prosperity with S 1.8.18

The House by the Side of the Road
by Sam Walter Foss (1858-1911)

There are hermit
souls that live withdrawn
In the peace of their self-content;
There are souls, like stars, that dwell apart,
In a fellowless firmament;
There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths
Where highways never ran;-
But let me live by the side of the road
And be a friend to man.

Let me live in a house
by the side of the road,
Where the race of men go by-
The men who are good and the men who are bad,
As good and as bad as I.
I would not sit in the scorner’s seat,
Or hurl the cynic’s ban;-
Let me live in a house by the side of the road
And be a friend to man.

I see from my house
by the side of the road,
By the side of the highway of life,
The men who press with the ardor of hope,
The men who are faint with the strife.
But I turn not away from their smiles nor their tears-
Both parts of an infinite plan;-
Let me live in my house by the side of the road
And be a friend to man.

I know there are brook-gladdened
meadows ahead
And mountains of wearisome height;
That the road passes on through the long afternoon
And stretches away to the night.
But still I rejoice when the travelers rejoice,
And weep with the strangers that moan,
Nor live in my house by the side of the road
Like a man who dwells alone.

Let me live in my
house by the side of the road
Where the race of men go by-
They are good, they are bad, they are weak, they are strong,
Wise, foolish- so am I.
Then why should I sit in the scorner’s seat
Or hurl the cynic’s ban?-
Let me live in my house by the side of the road
And be a friend to man.

S1E29 By What Authority Doest Thou These Things - Unfinished

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CW: Graphic violence, police brutality, mention of sexual harassment
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Note from Nov. 2020: It's hard to listen to how traumatized I am, but amazing to hear in real time the effects of experiencing police brutality first hand for the first time. I had had a number of bad experiences with cops in the past and had seen brutality at protests prior to this, but as (weirdly casually) mentioned, that day cops had tried to run over my friends, had assaulted clergy, and had clearly wanted to kill me in a way I had not personally experienced up to that point. Even for someone who was dedicated to nonviolence with ample mental and martial arts training, it was a lot to deal with. After much thought I left in moments of rage because people should hear what happens when cops act the way they do.
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I spoke to Molly from Charlottesville DSA about the protest last weekend in Knoxville against Matthew Heimbach and the Tradworkers appearance on campus. We got into how much cops suck and why you should yell at them, what exactly it is that antifa do, keeping tabs on fascists (with shout outs to Chris Cantwell "The Crying Nazi", Jason Kessler, and others) diversity of tactics, and a lot more!

Notes:
-It's Traditionalist Worker Party, I obviously knew that, don't look at me. 

-There are a lot of different approaches to antifascism and I am not speaking for all antifascists, just from my own experience and how I understand the work. 

-A big shout out to my new patrons! Thank you so much for your support. You can donate to keep this show running at www.patreon.com/friendlyanarchism :)

-I'm now part of the Critical Mediations podcast network! They have a great line up of leftist podcasts including RevLeftRadio, my friends at the Magnificast, Season Of The Bitch, and more! You can check them out at www.critmediations.com 

References:
A full report back: https://enoughisenough14.org/2018/02/23/knoxville-report-back-counter-protests-against-fascist-traditionalist-workers-party/

Anti-Kettling
http://anarchish.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-to-win-at-kettling-guide-for-non.html

S1E30 No Nazis In Knox, Police Violence, and Mental Fortitude with Molly

anarchy ....(5)..... jesus

Spoke with my friend of circumstance Issac about the Lansing protest, small(big) acts of solidarity, gratitude, athletic musicianship, simplicity, implicit power, affinity groups, instilled hierarchies, being a touring musician, the tyranny of structurelessness, DIY music, balancing idealism and experience, dislodging power, leadership, rules vs. no rules, voluntary association, taking credit for work, intellectual property and creative commons, church+capital+culture, the Western Wall, churches as a socialist enterprise, Friendly Fire, acting from faith and fact, anarchism as a way of life, thanking flowers, ableism, sneetches, light/dark, concurrent contradictory realities, cognitive dissonance, cognitive euphony, and fun with new equipment.

Referenced:
The bail fund for comrades arrested in Lansing protesting Richard Spencer's appearance:
https://www.fundedjustice.com/stopspencermsu?ref=ab_f7ARsc_ab_9LOJM7tjsmX9LOJM7tjsmX

The Tyranny of Structurelessness
http://www.struggle.ws/pdfs/tyranny.pdf

My patreon, thank you so so much to my patrons!!:
www.patreon.com/friendlyanarchism

My radical Quaker collective Friendly Fire:
https://friendlyfirecollective.wordpress.com/

Richard Rohr, Franciscan Catholic mystic: 
https://cac.org/turning-toward-the-good-2016-02-18/

Notes:
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true."

S1E31 Affinity Groups, Cognitive Euphony, And Acting From Good Faith with Isaac

anarchy .(2)........ jesus

Spoke with chemical engineer Sophia Weber about seizing the means of production, anarchist scientists, worker’s cooperatives, the importance of process work, anarcho-syndicalism, stoicism, economies of scale, not-sexy anarchism, creating mutual aid networks, environmental racism and classism, failures of electoral politics, how anarchists deal with large public problems, collective bargaining, larger perspective interests, wildcat strikes, cats, witchery, the Kardashians, being in the struggle, bringing heaven to earth, connecting yourself with the Godhead, solitary witchcraft, covens, the balance between individualism and collectivism, and the Waterbury Mutual Aid and Defense Network.

Referenced:
International Journal of Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace 
http://esjp.org/journal

"Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology" by David Graeber

Support the project on Patreon at www.patreon.com/friendlyanarchism

S1E33 Syndicalism, Witchcraft, and Mutual Aid with Sophia Weber

anarchy .....(6).... jesus 
Last week I spoke at the North American Anarchist Studies Network conference in so-called Montreal on the topic "We're Brokenhearted: Understanding Fierce Love in Anarchist Organizing" using lessons from historical anarchic christian mystic movements. There was a great discussion afterwards included in the audio. 
Notes here, still working on a full transcript: https://friendlyanarchism.medium.com/notes-were-brokenhearted-understanding-fierce-love-in-anarchist-organizing-at-naasn-montreal-65fdd9fed692

Thank you to NAASN for having me! You can support them and the work they do here: https://www.youcaring.com/naasn2018-1179259?utm_campaign=buttonshare&utm_medium=url&utm_source=copy&utm_content=cf_cp_01%20ucaring

S1E34 "We're Brokenhearted: Understanding Fierce Love in Anarchist Organizing" - NAASN Montréal

anarchy ...(4)...... jesus

Originally aired 7/15/17.

Greg Williams is a Christian anarchist organizer and author I was very pleased to be able to speak with! We spoke about above ground community antifascist mass mobilization, how hate speech shuts down free speech, cops, solidarity, loving your neighbor, and more :)

Referenced:
"Free Speech and Love of Enemies: Anti-Fascism Theologically Understood" by Greg Williams http://www.jesusradicals.com/blog/free-speech-and-love-of-enemies-anti-fascism-theologically-understood

So, I actually confused two articles.
This one from Crimethinc: https://crimethinc.com/2017/07/10/dear-citizens-this-is-your-police-in-praise-of-the-police-free-zone-in-hamburg

and this one from It's Going Down: https://itsgoingdown.org/made-large-scale-resistance-possible-g20-hamburg/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Referenced:
"Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology" by David Graeber

For more information about the rally in Portland on August 4th you can go here: https://www.facebook.com/events/239298920131113/

S1E35 Community Antifascism and Free Speech with Greg Williams of the IWW

Happy new year! 
Essay here: https://friendlyanarchism.medium.com/i-want-peace-on-earth-so-i-left-the-quakers-and-became-antifa-889d35aa6f7c

For more on Quakers and slavery: https://www.friendsjournal.org/slavery-in-the-quaker-world/

For an insurrectionary take on Quakers (including a really good indigenous history of William Penn): https://contagionpress.com/books/movement-for-no-society/

S2E1 Essay: I Want Peace On Earth, So I Left The Quakers And Became Antifa

Candice is an economist, housing services specialist, communist, and mom who is brilliant. We spoke about Covid-19, how at-risk people are pushed to the front lines, shitty bosses, the injustice system, the roots of fascism, how important it is to listen to marginalized people, and much more. 
Transcript: https://friendlyanarchism.medium.com/transcript-s2e2-pandemic-karens-and-systemic-fascism-with-candice-part-1-beac0c841177
Notes:
-Candice is in a league of her own and her experience is not legal advice.

- According to the wikipedia timeline of the Covid-19 outbreak: "A September 2020 review noted "The possibility that the COVID-19 infection had already spread to Europe at the end of last year is now indicated by abundant, even if partially circumstantial, evidence", including pneumonia case numbers and radiology in France and Italy in November and December"

-RIP David Graeber :(

Music by Kylo Ren https://kyloren.bandcamp.com/

Support my work here! https://ko-fi.com/friendlyanarchism
or https://www.patreon.com/friendlyanarchism

Referenced:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-to-save-the-world-we-re-going-to-have-to-stop-working

https://universe.byu.edu/2021/01/22/native-and-indigenous-people-are-disproportionately-affected-by-covid-19/

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190123112330.htm

https://eji.org/issues/presumption-of-guilt/

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/innocence-is-irrelevant/534171/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jul/22/henry-louis-gates-arrested-at-home

https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-eric-garner-laws-felons-chokehold-perspec-1125-20141204-story.html

S2E2 Pandemic, Karens, And Systemic Fascism with Candice Part 1

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