Coffee with Comrades

Dear listeners of Coffee with Comrades , with special regard to the wonderful folks who support this program on Patreon, Hello! I hope that the autumnal season has brought crisp, cool air and abundant joy to you and yours. I write to you today with a bittersweet sense of pride and melancholy to announce Coffee with Comrades is officially coming to an end. Although I know I don't "owe" anyone an ex...

This week, I sat down with Marisa Holmes, one of the organizers behind Occupy Wall Street, to talk about her new book Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This is Just Practice . Follow Marisa on Twitter and Instagram and pick up a copy of her book.  Support  Coffee with Comrades  on  Patreon , follow us on  Mastodon ,  Twitter  and  Instagram , and visit our  website . Coffee with Comrades  is a proud...

CW: In this week's episode, we discuss anti-Semitic violence. Listener discretion is advised. Today, Ami Weintraub (he/they) joins us to discuss his new book To the Ghosts Who Are Still Living.  In this joyous and melancholic discussion, Ami and I explore the essay collection in detail, touching on anti-fascism, anti-semitism, Jewish identity in diaspora, and Ami's spiritual and ancestral affinity...

On today's episode of Coffee with Comrades , I am pleased to be joined by Chris Robé, a professor of film and media studies at Florida Atlantic University and the author of the new book Abolishing Surveillance: Digital Media Activism and State Repression . Follow Chris on Twitter and pre-order a copy of Abolishing Surveillance !  Check out Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair . Support Coffee with...

This week, I sat down with some of the organizers behind Dual Power Gathering Midwest to discuss the weekend long event, the concept of dual power, building solidarity, and sharing knowledge with each other as we develop our greater movement affinity. Dual Power Gathering Midwest 2023 will take place in the traditional homelands of the Miami, Potawatomi, and Kickapoo, about thirty minutes south of...

This week, I was joined once again by Scott Branson to discuss the new anthology they helped edit for PM Press, Surviving the Future: Queer Abolitionist Strategies . Scott and I had a lovely conversation about queerness, futurity, healthcare, academia, and everything in between.  Purchase a copy of Surviving the Future: Queer Abolitionist Strategies today!  Follow Scott on Twitter and visit her we...

This week, we're sharing a recent conversation with some of the organizers behind the International Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason & All Longterm Anarchist Prisoners.  Check out June11.org and read this essay from CrimethInc. to learn more about the long-term struggles of anarchist prisoners. Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon , follow us on Mastodon , Twitter and Instagram , and visit o...

We spoke with Mixæl Laufer of Four Thieves Vinegar Collective. Check it out! Follow Mixæl on Twitter and visit Four Thieves Vinegar Collective's website ! Check out our previous episodes with Mixæl, too: Episode 14, 21, and 171. Support Coffee with Comrades on  Patreon , follow us on  Twitter  and  Instagram , and visit our  website . Pick up a Coffee with Comrades t-shirt or coffee mug at  our of...

This week, I hung out with Brenton Lengel to talk about Issue #2 of Durruti: Shadow of the People , a comic exploring the life and times of revolutionary Spain's Buenaventura Durruti! Pick up a copy of the Durruti , Issue #2 special variant to benefit folks displaced by the war in Ukraine Follow Brenton on Twitter . Check out our previous dialogue with Brenton in Ep. 152 of Coffee with Comrades !...

This week, I sat down with Michael Löwy and David Campbell to talk about the book Michael co-wrote and David recently translated into English, Revolutionary Affinities: Toward a Marxist Anarchist Solidarity . The three of us got into a lovely dialogue about the recent uprisings in France against the neoliberal Macron regime, as well as the painstaking labor David undertook of translating this book...

This episode of the program features my conversation with Alex Knight, designer and developer of the board game Land and Freedom , inspired by the Spanish Revolution and Civil War. Check out Land and Freedom today! Pick up a copy of  Land and Freedom .  Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon , follow us on Mastodon, Twitter and Instagram , and visit our website . Coffee with Comrades is a proud a...

We are back with another episode of Coffee with Comrades featuring Shannon Clay, one of the folks behind the new book We Go Where They Go: The Story of Antiracist Action available today via PM Press. Pick up a copy of We Go Where They Go today! Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon , follow us on Mastodon, Twitter and Instagram , and visit our website . Coffee with Comrades is a proud affiliate...

This episode of Coffee with Comrades is dedicated to Tortuguita. Rest in Power, Tort. May we carry on the defense of Earth in your memory.  Here are some ways to support the defense of the forest in Atlanta: Donate to the Atlanta Solidarity Fund to support legal costs for arrested protestors and ongoing legal action. Call on investors in the project to divest from Cop City ( list of APF investors...

This episode of Coffee with Comrades is dedicated to Tortuguita. Rest in Power, Tort. May we carry on the defense of Earth in your memory. Eros, a dear friend and comrade of Manny "Tortuguita" Teran, joins me to memorialize the dearly departed. Donate to the GoFundMe for Manny's family .  Here are some ways to support the defense of the forest in Atlanta: Donate to the Atlanta Solidarity Fund to s...

We are back with our first episode of 2023!   This edition of  Coffee with Comrades features a dialogue with my dear friend and comrade, Caleb Wexler. Our conversation is pretty wide-ranging. We spend the first half of the episode talking about Caleb's housing cooperative—how it runs, how they make decisions, and what it looks like to exist in the liminal space between our contemporary housing hel...

This week, we are sharing a recent conversation I had with Chad Pearson about his book Capital's Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century . Chad and I chat about vigilante violence, the coercive nature of the law, the capaciousness of the term "terrorism," and a whole lot more. Follow Chad on Instagram and pick up a copy of Capital's Terrorists today! Support Coff...

Recently, I hung out with scholar and organizer Mohamed Abdou. We spoke at length about his book Islam and Anarchism: Relationships and Resonances . Follow Mohamed on Twitter and pick up a copy of Islam & Anarchism: Relationships and Resonances today! Support Coffee with Comrades on  Patreon , follow us on  Twitter and  Instagram , and visit our  website . Pick up a Coffee with Comrades shirt or c...

Recently, I hung out with my very dear friend, carla bergman. carla and I spent a good chunk of time talking about their new edited anthology, Trust Kids! Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy .  Pick up a copy of carla's book, Trust Kids! Check out Grounded Futures , as well. Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon , follow us on Twitter and Instagram , and visit our website ....

I recently sat down with the one and only Shane Burley to talk about his new edited anthology, No Pasarán: Dispatches from a World in Crisis . The book is a collection of essays by and interviews with antifascists: community-organizers, researchers, journalists, artists, and more. Shane and I have a pretty wide-ranging dialogue, touching on violence, prefiguration, the so-called "meme alibi," the...

James Yeoman, author of  Print Culture and the Formation of the Anarchist Movement in Spain, 1890-1915  joins me to talk about propaganda by the deed, violence, terror, education, and the anarchist printing press in Spain at the turn of the twentieth century.  Pick up a copy of Print Culture and the Formation of the Anarchist Movement in Spain, 1890-1915 ! Support Coffee with Comrades on  Patreon...

I recently sat down with my dear friend and comrade, Jimmy Dunson, who put together an anthology on mutual aid, disaster relief, and building dual-power called Building Power While the Lights Are Out . The anthology is gripping and brilliant and the two of us have a wide-ranging conversation on a number of the essays contained within the anthology. We talk about mutual aid as the process of making...

Today, we're sharing an interview with the all-around-badass Margaret Killjoy. Margaret is a writer of fiction, a musician in multiple bands, and she is also the host of two great podcasts: L i v e L i k e t h e W o r l d i s D y i n g and C o o l P e o p l e W h o D i d C o o l S t u f f . And that's an inexhaustive list. Margaret joined me to talk about her new book, W e W o n ' t B e H e r e T...

In this special bonus edition of Coffee with Comrades , I sit down with Tallahassee, FL-based artist and community-organizer, Eric Champagne, to talk about the life and plight of Dan Baker. Dan Baker is a YPG veteran, yoga instructor, and anarchist who was arrested for posts he made on social media in the wake of the January 6 th insurrection . Stay tuned to the end of the episode to hear Dan talk...

This week, I am sharing a dialogue I recently had with my new friend Nash Flynn. Nash is a comedian, historian, and host of the podcast Death and Friends . In our dialogue, we talk about death. A lot. Like, a whole helluva lot. So keep that in mind as you wade into this discussion. We chat about the death of non-human animals, climate change, the inevitable heat-death of the universe…but the major...

Shawn of Srsly Wrong joins me for a discussion inspired by two books: Escape from Childhood by John C. Holt, and Raising Free People by Akilah S. Richards.  In our expansive dialogue, we talk about climate anxiety, raising kids, studenthood, the abolition of family, and the process of teaching yourself how to treat children with respect. Support Srsly Wrong on Patreon , follow them on Twitter and...