Bringing Indigenous Revolution to Campus
From Below
From Columbia to the University of California Santa Cruz, the Palestine solidarity movement has moved on to college campuses across the United States. In most cases, students are pressuring their institutions to divest endowment funds from corporations which maintain financial ties to the state of Israel—a demand which ties into the broader Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) strategy. The student movement on campuses has generally taken to the tactic of occupying public space with tents and other semi-permanent structures. In so doing, these encampments have become hubs of round the...
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Means and Ends With Zoe Baker
From Below
Here is our conversation with author and historian Zoe Baker. Until recently, Zoe was perhaps best known for publishing YouTube videos on anarchist theory and history under the moniker anarchopac. Zoe's new title from AK Press 'Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in the United States and Europe', takes the thorough research and accessible prose she's known for in her YouTube commentary and expands it to book length. Means and Ends covers the period of anarchist activity and theory between 1868-1939 in both Europe and the United States. In our conversation we discuss...
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Organizing Trader Joe's with Jamie Edwards
From Below
In this episode we speak with Jamie Edwards, president of the independent labor union Trader Joe's United (TJU). In our conversation we cover a range of topics, including the strategy that Jamie and their coworkers have pursued in organizing the grocery chain, the realities of being black worker in a predominantly white workplace, and the ways that the union has survived and thrived in spite of management's union busting tactics. As we mention in the introduction, Jamie recently experienced the brunt of this anti-union retaliation when management targeted them directly. Read more about...
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Meet the Hosts: Robin & Cameron
From Below
Your favorite podcast covering political, social, economic, and cultural issues from a libertarian socialist perspective is back! In this episode you meet your new hosts, Robin and Cameron.
info_outlineHere is our conversation with author and historian Zoe Baker. Until recently, Zoe was perhaps best known for publishing YouTube videos on anarchist theory and history under the moniker anarchopac. Zoe's new title from AK Press 'Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in the United States and Europe', takes the thorough research and accessible prose she's known for in her YouTube commentary and expands it to book length.
Means and Ends covers the period of anarchist activity and theory between 1868-1939 in both Europe and the United States. In our conversation we discuss Zoe's dual roles as revolutionary and scholar, political historiography, the relevant lessons to be drawn from anarchism's past, and much more.
You can find Zoe's YouTube channel at: www.youtube.com/@anarchozoe
You can purchase Means and Ends from AK Press at: www.akpress.org/means-and-ends.html
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From Below is a podcast produced by members of Black Rose / Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation. To learn more about Black Rose / Rosa Negra visit: blackrosefed.org