Fight to Repair Podcast

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit fighttorepair.substack.com At the recent CANRepair 2026 conference, speakers from both sides of the border highlighted the burgeoning right to repair movement, and some of the unique achievements north of the border, including Canada’s reformed Copyright Act and legislation passed in the province of Quebec targeting “planned obsolescenc...

Global Trade Wars, Repair Movements, and Tech Updates: This Week in Fight to Repair News Paul Roberts from Fight to Repair News discusses the impact of a global trade war led by U.S. tariffs, including a significant 60% on Chinese goods, and how countries are re-imagining their economies. He highlights a repair cafe in Ottawa as part of a growing circular economy movement. The episode also covers...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit fighttorepair.substack.com In the ever-evolving sphere of smart, interconnected vehicles, Fisker Auto has become a cautionary tale of ambition running headlong into economic adversity with the prospect of brand new, $50,000 vehicles crippled by the manufacturer's bankruptcy and withdrawal of software support. In this podcast interview,...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit fighttorepair.substack.com In this week’s podcast, journalist and author Vince Beiser joins Jack to discuss his new book, Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future . Vince delves into the environmental and social challenges tied to mining critical minerals like cobalt and copper—essential for the energy transiti...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit fighttorepair.substack.com Last week saw the 248th celebration of the founding of the United States on July 4th … recognition of the colonies declaring their independence from England. And it saw the first ever celebration of Repair Independence Day as some 49 million U.S. residents - 13% of the population - won the freedom to fix their...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit fighttorepair.substack.com For those of you who weren’t able to join our Repair Coffee, don’t worry! As a paid subscriber you will always receive a video with the full conversation. This episode is one in a series of Repair Coffees and to bring in the heavy hitters from the front lines of the fight for a right to repair. This month , we...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit fighttorepair.substack.com For those of you who weren’t able to join our inaugural Repair Coffee, don’t worry! As a paid subscriber you will always receive a video with the full conversation. In the months ahead, we are planning more Repair Coffees and to bring in the heavy hitters from the front lines of the fight for a right to repair...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit fighttorepair.substack.com This week we welcome Katie Tregeden, a speaker, podcaster , and author known for her expertise in craft, design, and sustainability. Katie's journey into the world of environmentalism took a unique path. Before she delved into issues like sustainability and circularity, she was a craft and design journalist. W...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit fighttorepair.substack.com In our latest episode of the podcast, we’re bringing you an interview recorded at last year’s Fix Fest in Brussels, Belgium . I speak with Beat Schneiderhan and Carl Mau, students at the Rudolf Steiner School , in Munich, Germany about Fixing For Future , that school’s student run repair clinic that serves bot...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit fighttorepair.substack.com In our latest Fight to Repair Podcast I interview Kyle Wiens , the co-founder and CEO of the online repair site iFixit.com and a Prime Mover behind the global right to repair movement. [Are you a premium subscriber? If so, scroll down to check out the video podcast of my conversation with Kyle!] Kyle joined me...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit fighttorepair.substack.com In this week’s podcast, I interview Matthias Kirschner , the President of the Free Software Foundation Europe and, more recently, author of Ada and Zangemann: a Tale of Software, Skateboards and Raspberry Ice Cream , a children’s book that explores questions about repair, free software and (if you ask me) even...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit fighttorepair.substack.com Host Paul Roberts speaks with Alexandre Isaac about The Repair Academy, the Toulouse, France training organization and repair factory about the push to extend the useful life of enterprise devices, and the high costs of manufacturer part pairing schemes.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit fighttorepair.substack.com On April 11th, Colorado’s state Senate passed a landmark agricultural equipment right to repair bill by an overwhelming 44-16 vote, becoming the first state legislature in the U.S. to pass such legislation. This week the bill was transferred to the desk of Governor Jared Polis, who is expected to sign it into...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit fighttorepair.substack.com This week we bring you an interview with Kit Walsh. Kit is a senior staff attorney at EFF, the Electronic Frontier Foundation , where she works on issues like free speech, net neutrality, copyright, coders' rights, and issues that relate to freedom of expression and access to knowledge. Kit is part of a team o...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit fighttorepair.substack.com Travis Goodspeed has a unique relationship with “stuff.” A renowned “hillbilly hacker” from Tennessee, Travis is a reverse engineer and device hacker without peer. He’s best known as an outspoken advocate of “junk hacking” - the practice of probing low end, low stakes devices like children’s toys and consumer...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit fighttorepair.substack.com This week we bring Ollee Means to the podcast, creator of the guilder , the platform that facilitates repair with its users spending zero money. The overarching goal of the platform is to socialize repair without any monetary exchanges. Instead, what users do is offer their services in exchange for something e...

Automobiles are the only category of product where a formal right to repair exists in the U.S., thanks to a law passed in 2012 by voters in Massachusetts. But, as we have written, that right is under threat . In this podcast, host Paul Roberts is joined by three experts on the front lines of the fight for the right to repair our cars: Catherine Boland of the  Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Associ...

This week we welcome Dr. Lily Baum Pollans, the author of Resisting Garbage: The Politics of Waste Management in American Cities to discuss her research on how we ended up in a world that is so disposable? Resisting Garbage dives into the world of how cities treat garbage – specifically comparing two cities: Boston and Seattle. While Boston is compliant to our current system that recycles and disp...

As residents of the “first world,” it’s easy to think of the fight for repair in “first world” terms - focusing on the impact of our throw away culture on the environment, about market concentration and the rights of consumers versus big business. But - as with many of the ills of our globalized economy - the burden of our throwaway culture is felt acutely by those at the bottom of the economic fo...

Thirteen years ago Peter Mui held the first ever “ Fixit Clinic ” – driven by his motivation to change our disposable culture and to empower people to fix the things they own. The Fixit Clinic model, built on the idea that if people have access to tools and guidance then they can fix their things, has spawned a global following which seeks to make repair more accessible to everyone. Paul and Jack...

At its core, the right to repair is a struggle with corporations over how we interact with products they sell. This week, Dr. Emily West offers Amazon as a case study to help us understand how companies are able to constrain our choices as consumers under the guise of convenience. We see many of the same tactics used to restrict repair like market consolidation and locked software ecosystems play...

Our world is becoming digitized at breakneck speed, with manufacturers putting internet-connected computers into everyday objects from the lights in our homes to even cars and medical devices. This phenomenon, known as the “Internet-of-Things”, is making our lives more convenient in many ways – but in many cases companies are able to make sure strings are attached long after we make a purchase. Wh...

This week we welcome Stacey Tenenbaum, a filmmaker who recently released her film SCRAP which “tells the story of people who each have a deep connection to objects that have reached their 'end of life.” Jack and Stacey chat about how we’ve come to our current culture of disposability and how having a deeper relationship with the things we own can keep waste out of landfills. As an artist herself,...

We spoke with Nirav Patel, Co-Founder of Framework this fall, when the original Framework Laptop launched. He says that making an extremely repair-friendly laptop was not a herculean task. In fact, he said that the laptop “device” is quite well defined. Simply making one that could be easily repaired, modified and upgraded was “surprisingly straightforward.” That’s all the more reason to cast doub...

News Roundup Links: * Microsoft Funded a Right to Repair Study, and the Results Are Encouraging * Apple’s Self-Repair Vision Is Here, and It’s Got a Catch * Ford launches certified glass network focused on use of OEM procedures, parts This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fighttorepair.substack.com/subscribe