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“Forest Defense is Climate Defense”… Tree-Sit Staged in Southern Oregon to Resist Timber Sale

April 17, 2024Climate, Direct Action

Forest defenders have launched a tree sit to stop old growth logging on federal Bureau of Land Management land in Southern Oregon. Community members are opposing the Poor Windy timber…

Occupy This! The Legacy of Occupy Wall Street and Bernie Sanders w/ Activist Jay Ponti

March 1, 2024anti-capitalism, Direct Action, Peoples' History

Some see Occupy Wall Street and the campaigns of Bernie Sanders as some sort of viral phenomenon, but don't recognize the importance that decades of organizing against neo-liberalism and empire…

Who Owns Peoples’ Park? Berkeley’s Historic Struggle. Ft. Mat Wranovix w/ Left in the Bay

January 30, 2024anti-capitalism, Direct Action, Peoples' History

This month, the University of California-Berkeley administration sent a small army of police to secure Peoples’ Park in the south side of campus. The police cleared the park of the…

“Rattling the Cages.” An Oral History of North America’s Political Prisoners w/ Josh Davidson

December 20, 2023anti-capitalism, Direct Action

In our latest episode, Scott talks with Josh Davidson (@certaindays) co-editor of "Rattling the Cages," about his new oral history of political prisoners in North America. Listen in:https://bit.ly/3NDimWi Josh, along…

It’s the End of the Year! Support Green and Red and Get a Free 2024 Calendar!

December 13, 2023anti-capitalism, Direct Action, Media Releases

It's the end of the year, and we're doing another fundraiser with the latest Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar. We just got 10 of them and with a…

“Shut Down APEC!” Anti-War, Labor, Human Rights and Climate Activists Unite Against the Global Elite

November 20, 2023anti-capitalism, Climate, Direct Action

Last week, the San Francisco Bay Area was the center of the political and media world as the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) convened a CEO summit and heads of…

Will Potter on How the State and the Media Go After Radical Movements

August 15, 2023Climate, Direct Action

We’re in an unprecedented rollback of civil liberties. States are passing laws to outlaw protests and direct action, charging non-violent protesters with “domestic terrorism” and legalizing the running over of…

Stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline w/ Appalachians Against Pipelines

August 8, 2023Climate, Direct Action

The Mountain Valley Pipeline is a 300 mile long fracked gas pipeline cutting across the mountains and waterways of Appalachia. For the past five years, Appalachians Against Pipelines (@stopthemvp) has…

Direct Action Gets the Goods: Stop Cop City, Animal Liberation and more ft. Jake Conroy

July 17, 2023Direct Action

We welcome back our friend, comrade and maker of trouble Jake Conroy (@_jakeconroy) to discuss the state of direct action. We talk about the state repression of activists in Atlanta…

Scrappy Sunday | Being “Ungovernable” After Dobbs, Global Protest, Atlanta, Cornel West redux. . .

June 26, 2023Direct Action, Peoples' History, politics

In this week's "Scrappy Sunday," we opened w/ a discussion of the aftermath of the Dobbs decision to take away abortions rights, and claims from activists that they would become…