Seeds of Revolution

This week we are starting a new series of episodes in which we record and post audio versions of different Zines we carry in the store. This week’s Zine is “Camas vs Capitalism,” about how our store and our anarchism interacts with the larger capitalist hegemonic project. We hope you enjoy it! And if you do, you can always drop by the store at 2620 Quadra street in Victoria from 10-6 every day of...

subMedia is an anarchist digital media collective. First established in 1994, subMedia has produced hundreds of videos on everything from urban insurrectionary tactics to land-based mutual aid projects. On this episode we speak to collective member Heatscore about the collective's work documenting the 2019-2020 Estallido Social uprising in Chile, the 2020 ShutDownCanada movement, and the role of a...

Kanien’kehá:ka filmmaker, land defender, and cannabis activist Clifton Ariwakehte Nicholas joins us to talk about the 1990 Oka Crisis and his lifetime of activism. Check out Clifton’s latest film, “A Red Road to the West Bank,” at Amplifier Films .

Franklin López is an anarchist, troublemaker, and incredible filmmaker. We spoke to Frank about the ongoing violence of American colonialism in Puerto Rico and Vieques island, as well as his work documenting Innu land defender Shanipiap's efforts to defend her ancestral territory from logging and environmental degradation. Follow Frank on  IG  and check out his work with  Amplifier Films .

Filmakers Clifton Ariwakehte Nicholas and Franklin López join us to talk about intersectional colonialism and their new documentary, " A Red Road to the West Bank ," which explores the heartwarming and heartbreaking commonalities between the Palestinian and Indigenous Canadian experiences. Follow Clifton and Franklin's efforts on IG .

Shay and Sarah share their lived experience of transitioning, what it's like to move from the heights of cis male privilege to an identity that is oppressed and discriminated against, and how much more beautiful and magical the world is after they transitioned.

USCO is a collective of community activists who are fighting for the rights of the unhoused residents of Kelowna. They are demanding the government cease its militarization of Kelowna's Tent City, allow all people to return for both daytime and nighttime shelter, and transition to a peer-led model where Tent City residents themselves are empowered to govern the site and make decisions that directl...

Allan Antliff is an art history professor, a life-long anarchist and activist, and one of the original founding members of Camas Books & Infoshop . He joins us to discuss the history of anarchism in Canada and the U.S., and how Camas got started in the ancient days of 2005.

HARD Law (Harm Reduction and Decriminalization)  is a student club at the University of Victoria law school. Started in 2021, HARD Law members are activists, academics, frontline workers, people who use drugs, and people who have quit using drugs. Club members are directly impacted by drug prohibition, but are also afforded great privilege because of their position as future legal professionals. H...

Sandra Carr is a maker, instructor in the Fine Furniture Program at Camosun College , woodworker and artist, and all-around exceptional human being. We spoke to Sandra about the nature of work, when does labor become art, and why it is important to make beautiful things.

Author Kerry Coast talks to us about her book, The Colonial Present: The Rule of Ignorance and the Role of Law in British Columbia . Beautifully written with hard hitting prose, Kerry demonstrates how the historical and present injustices faced by the various Indigenous nations in B.C. are founded in deep seated ignorance, which can be traced back to the roots of white supremacy and a driving capi...

Labor activist and musician Art Farquharson shares some stories from his life as an IWW member, labor organizer and agitator, and plays us a few Wobblie songs guaranteed to get the anti-capitalist blood flowing!

Activist and internationalist Kevin Neish shares his experiences being a human shield in Gaza, protecting trade unionists in Guatemala, sheltering Fairy Creek protestors, and what lessons young radicals can learn from his life of solidarity and struggle.

Eve Rickert   is a Gen X, queer, solo polyamorous, relationship anarchist, neurodivergent cis woman living on unceded W̱SÁNEĆ and lək̓ʷəŋən territory (Victoria, Canada). She is a professional writer, editor and mastermind, and the co-author of  More Than Two, Second Edition: Cultivating Nonmonogamous Relationships with Kindness and Integrity  and the founder of Thornapple Press.

On November 25, Camas books partnered with law professor Gillian Calder to host a panel discussion and Q&A at the University of Victoria. The discussion focused on JK Rowling's transphobia, how to resist it, and how readers who grew up loving Harry Potter now think about the books' place in our culture and politics.

In seven and a half interlinked stories, Aaron Kreuter's Rubble Children tackles Jewish belonging, settler colonialism, Zionism and anti-Zionism, love requited and unrequited, and cannabis culture, all drenched in suburban wonder and dread.

Zaynab Mohammed is a performance poet and multi-disciplinary artist who won the Richard Carver Award in 2022, the same year she was a BC Culture Days Ambassador. "Are You Listening?" is a journey of sound, sight and story. Using poems and stories, this memoir explores intergenerational displacement, and speaks the truths of a woman who loses her innocence at a young age due to cultural inequity an...

Afghan activist Suraia and conflict researcher Wil offer their insight on the meaning behind Remembrance Day and lessons we can learn from the anti-war movement, and how it connects with other liberation movements. 

Award-winning Canadian author and Camas regular Michael Christie talks about his new novel “Greenwood,” the nature of labor & land, and the commodification of the natural world.

Stop the Stack YYC is a group of abolitionists who aim to shed light on the criminal charges against Adora Nwofor and Taylor McNallie, two Black Activists in so-called Calgary who are facing attack from the legal system by the intentional stacking of charges against them. Stop The Stack YYC brings attention to this travesty, and educates the public on police and prison abolition. The group's goal...

In 2006, rage, grief, and deep love for her children compelled Tasha Diamant to create The Human Body Project as a vehicle for change. Tasha uses her naked self and body to represent and share not only her own vulnerability as a deeply sensitive person, but also in solidarity with those who are most vulnerable, like children...and also to represent the vulnerability of us all. Check out Tasha's we...

Solidarity Sundays is a mutual-aid collective in so-called "Kelowna, B.C.," which helps provide the immediate material needs of their unhoused neighbours and other marginalized people. They have established a robust network of support from within their own community, and they are funded entirely by community donations. Help their efforts here , and follow them on IG .

We speak with Humans of Fairy Creek , one of the recipients of Camas' inaugural community micro-grant program. Humans of Fairy Creek are a group of volunteer community theatre artists and musicians who are also activists and anarchists, and who have been involved in the movement known as the "Fairy Creek Blockade."

Geographer Wil Sahar Patrick reviews "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity" by David Graeber and David Wengrow. You can read Wil's full review here .

A great interview with Deondre Smiles, Assistant Professor of Geography at UVic, about People's Park and settler colonialism in Palestine and Turtle Island.