The Ex-Worker

In this Hotwire we bring you two interviews: one from an anarchist organizer involved in indigenous-led anti-pipeline struggles in Canada about the recent announcement that construction will be halted on the Trans Mountain Pipeline ; and we speak with an anti-fascist who was on the streets of Chemnitz, Germany on Saturday when anti-fascists blocked the latest Nazi mobilization there. We also rumin...

This week, you will hear about an anti-Nazi picnic in Avalon, PA, some brief analysis about the Nazi mob in Chemnitz, Germany and about some folks pushing back against the Pope's visit in Ireland]. We interview Michael Loadenthal, a social movement academic and former J20 defendant, about the riotization of protest and new strategies the state is using to criminalize dissent. We also continue to h...

This week, you will hear updates from the Stony Creek tenant strike in Canada, some creative anti-ICE actions, and about some humorous and some of the alt-right's recent losses . We interview Maya Little about the recent toppling of a confederate statue in North Carolina on Monday. Maya shares information about the impact of the statue on campus, some history, and some initial feelings after the f...

Our first episode of the new season! This week, we look back at the long, hot summer and give an update on antifascist clashes, pipeline resistance, and ICE occupations. Hundreds gathered in Charlottesville on the anniversary of the defeat of Unite the Right, drawing attention to the increasing cozy relationship between white supremacists and the police . We interview someone from Washington, DC a...

Our last episode of the season! This episode is chocked full of May Day repression updates—from FBI visits in Washington state to the dozens of anarchists rounded up in Indonesia . The New School in New York City is occupied once again, and we have an audio report! The next J20 trial begins in less than a week. Teachers , tenants , and fast food workers are getting organized and striking back agai...

Our annual roundup of worldwide May Day actions. We have interviews with participants in May Day actions in Puerto Rico , where there was a general strike, and Paris , whose black bloc didn't only take the cake, they took the whole damn bakery! Indonesia saw black blocs erupt all over the country, and now a wave of politically-motivated arrests there are targeting anarchists. In the USA, oppositio...

Happy May Day ! Find an action near you HERE . To celebrate the anniversary of the strike that led to Haymarket , and the 8 anarchists executed for it (two of whom were anarchist media producers themselves !) we bring you our favorite anarchist news reporting from throughout history. As an anarchist news show ourselves, we wanted to pay homage to all the anarchist newspapers, zines, and other medi...

This Hotwire we bring you an interview with an anarchist in Managua about the past few weeks of anti-government revolt in Nicaragua. We also report on the arrests of anti-fascists in Georgia, a school bus drivers' strike also in Georgia, a hunger strike in San Diego's jails , and community resistance to ICE raids in North Carolina. Next week we'll bring you our regular episode a day late, but look...

It's been a week of battle at La ZAD , and we share a day-to-day play-by-play of the resistance to the government's eviction operation . Elsewhere in France, the Tarnac Nine's legal victory shows that with a little luck and courage, we can beat the state. Direct action gets the goods for a university occupation against a racist student body president at Texas State University in San Marcos, we fin...

As we go to press, hundreds of squatters and eco-rebels are battling against cops at La ZAD in France. We interview someone there, as well as a participant in The Syrian Revolution about the no-state-solution to the Syrian government's ongoing attacks on rebel areas. The treesits in West Virginia against the Mountain Valley Pipeline are expanding . Anarchist prisoner Sean Swain needs support . {Ap...

As we go to press, anti-police protests are ongoing over the police killing of Stephon Clark , students at Howard University in DC are still occupying the recently re-named Kwame Ture Student Center, and teachers in Kentucky and Oklahoma are on strike . This week we interview Uri Gordon , an anarchist from Israel, about the deadly repression in Gaza . We also reflect on the 50th anniversary of the...

As we go to press, protests in Sacramento and beyond are ongoing over the police murder of Stephon Clark . We interview an anarchist sex worker about the new FOSTA-SESTA bill and its impact on sex workers' safety and organizing. We also feature an interview with a comrade from Quebec about the anti-capitalist mobilization against the G7 summit in Quebec in June. Don't miss our roundup of #DefendAf...

Hundreds of thousands of high school students defy adult authority and walkout against mass shootings ; anti-pipeline camps hold strong from Virginia to West Virginia to so-called British Columbia ; we interview an anarchist in Brazil as protests erupt there after an anti-police brutality politician was assassinated; the annual march against police brutality in Montreal beats cops back ; Russian a...

This episode we bring you two roundups: one for women's strike actions on International Women's Day , and another for #DefendAfrin actions across Europe. We also share a call for and international day of solidarity to #DefendAfrin on March 24. The West Virginia teachers' strike has ended, and we share our complicated takeaways from the longest strike in West Virginia history. The alt-right is unra...

This episode we bring you two interviews. The first is an on-the-ground report from the days of anti-fascist action against Richard Spencer's visit to Detroit and Lansing, with a plea for bail funds to help arrested anti-fascists. Next, we interview a West Virginian anarchist about what makes the teachers' strike there so unique and important. We plug a call from the West Virginia IWW for how to s...

While students walk out of classes all over the country (and occasionally fight cops ) we make the pitch for an anarchist youth liberation movement. In wild, wonderful, and apparently rebellious West Virginia, striking school employees have shut down every public school in the state, while treesitters are putting up resistance to the Mountain Valley Pipeline. We also share calls to support politic...

This episode is packed to the gills with news! There is antifa activity in Tennessee and folks in the Northwest continue to hold it down against the fascist creep. Solidarity for Afrin spreads and an inspiring model to fight ICE raids emerges out of Koreatown, Los Angeles . We offer some analysis about the school shooting in Parkland, FL and interview both an anarchist attending the student led ra...

The second episode of our second season! There is antifa activity in Olympia , Athens , and Seattle . Vaneesa Hopson died while in the custody of Olympia police and we report on the death and the subsequent protests. . There are strikes by delivery drivers across Hong Kong and Europe, by prisoners detained at an immigrant detention center in Washington, and walkouts across the country as part of t...

The first episode of our new season! This week we run down the list of antifascist confrontations from San Diego to Olympia, Washington . We also share a call for opposing Richard Spencer in Lansing, Michigan on March 5. Fast food workers in Portland, sex workers in New Orleans, and Uber drivers in Indonesia are all getting organized. Camille, Camille, and Camille from the ZAD explain their compli...

In Episode 63 of the Ex-Worker, we conclude our series of reflections on 2017 with an audio version of the recently published essay " Anarchists in the Trump Era: Scorecard, Year One ." It analyzes five key turning points in 2017, assessing how anarchists took part and what lessons we can learn for the battles ahead. While recognizing all we've accomplished under incredible stress, it argues for t...

As we reconnect to plan a new year of resistance this January 20th , what lessons can we take from the inspiring but traumatic year that was 2017? In Episode 61 of the Ex-Worker , we interview three anarchists who reflect on their role on the front lines of struggles against the state and fascism over the past year. Hex, who survived a shooting attack by a fascist at a Seattle anti-fascist demonst...

In this episode, we take an in-depth look at the blockade in Olympia, WA that stopped a train carrying fracking supplies for twelve days. {January 19, 2018}   -------SHOW NOTES------     Table of Contents: Introduction {0:05} How Did This Happen? {10:07} It Was Fun! {24:42} Can It Be Repeated? {32:53} Tensions and Disagreements {39:27} Media and the "General Public" {57:12} Conclusion {1:08:20} Ad...

In the first of two episodes looking back over 2017, we present an audio version of the recently published CrimethInc. feature "How Anti-Fascists Won the Battles of Berkeley: 2017 in the Bay and Beyond: A Play-by-play Analysis." The article charts the rise and fall of the alt-right through the lens of the conflicts that erupted in the San Francisco Bay Area, and how anarchists and anti-fascists su...

Our final episode for the season! But we'll be back in February. This week, antifascist students were active with a #StopSpencer week of action at the University of Michigan and shutting down Lucian Wintrich at the University of Connecticut . Racist remarks keep coming up during police testimony at the [#J20 trials] (https://itsgoingdown.org/drop-j20-podcast-update–3-police-take-stand/). We have u...

The Rebel Girl goes over the last week of anti-colonial , anti-#ThingsTaken actions across Turtle Island. The anti-fracking blockade in Olympia is going strong, opening up space for struggle and churning out innumerable demands . Anarchists in Chile demonstrate what anti-electoral action looks like, and decentralized mutual aid is spreading across Puerto Rico. Stay tuned until the end for updates...