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Peter Cole on Port Workers in the Bay Area & South Africa & the Struggle Against Racial Apartheid

It's Going Down | It's Going Down | March 12th 2019

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In this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we again talked with professor, labor historian, and author Peter Cole, who has just put out the new book, Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area. The book details the struggle of port workers to build cross-racial solidarity in two […]

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A Russian Anarchist Speaks on Ongoing Torture & Repression

It's Going Down | It's Going Down | December 7th 2018

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In this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we spoke with someone about the ongoing repression of anarchists and antifascists in Russia and how it ties into larger waves of State clampdowns against dissent and social movements. We also talk about Russiagate, the band Pussy Riot, and in general how both the US and […]

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Inside the Growing Appalachian Anti-Pipeline Movement

It's Going Down | It's Going Down | April 27th 2018

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In this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we spoke with several people involved at the Three Sisters encampment in Virginia fighting the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, the tree sit at the Little Teel Crossing in Virginia fighting the Mountain Valley Pipeline, and someone that has been an on the ground supporter of the various […]

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Inside the Mass Feminist General Strike in Spain

It's Going Down | It's Going Down | May 8th 2018

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In this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we talked again with a member of the CNT (National Confederation of Labor), a combative anarcho-syndicalist union in Spain, about the recent feminist general strike on March 8th, which took place on Internationalist Women’s Day and was “intended to highlight sexual discrimination, domestic violence and the […]

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Audio Report: Arizona Teachers Bring the Heat

It's Going Down | It's Going Down | April 29th 2018

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In this audio report, we were lucky enough to speak with two teachers in the so-called Phoenix, Arizona area (Tohono O’odham Territory), who had just wrapped up two days of striking. Currently, the mass strikes in Arizona, which saw over 50K teachers and supporters out on the streets of just Phoenix, has been the largest […]

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Audio Report: Tree Sit Resists Mountain Valley Pipeline in Appalachia

It's Going Down | It's Going Down | February 28th 2018

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In this audio report, we talk with people on the ground in West Virginia who are fighting the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), which along with the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP), threatens to displace residents, pollute watersheds, and destroy ecosystems and land across Appalachia. In the last two days, it has been announced that a tree […]

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All Out to #DropJ20: The Trial and the Path Ahead

It's Going Down | It's Going Down | November 1st 2017

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Donate to J20 Defendants Here In this very important episode of the IGDcast, we talk with three people facing charges from #DisruptJ20 as well as someone from the Tilted Scales Collective. The charges, described by lawyers as “unprecedented,” that have been thrown at the almost 200 defendants, amount to life sentences, and are an attempt to […]

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Breaking Binary: A Discussion on Gender Nihilism

It's Going Down | It's Going Down | September 14th 2017

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Detractors on the Right claims that they are the only ones opposed to identity politics, but time and time again, we have seen that they are simply promoting another reactionary flavor. On the Left, many people instead push for a diversity of identities to be represented within capitalism. For those that want the destruction of all forms of domination, we must ask if there is an alternative. But what would that look like, and is it possible to push towards something that conceivably we cannot have a blueprint for? What does this mean for our day to day lives as well as how we struggle, organize, and build collective power?

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