Victoria Anarchist Bookfair: The Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Ann Hansen on Prisoner Organizing and Working With Allies
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, Ann Hansen, author of Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerilla and Taking the Rap: Women Doing Time For Society’s Crimes, di...
Jennifer Wickham on Wet’suwet’en Anti-Pipeline Resistance during COVID-19
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer Wickham, a member of Cas Yikh, the grizzly house, in the Gidimt’en Clan of the Wet’suwet’en people and media manager for the Gidimt’...
Five Reports From Ada’itx (Fairy Creek)
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Five conversations with blockaders presented together. The Fairy Creek blockades and other blockades on unceded Pacheedaht and Ditidaht territories ...
Art and Activism With Musician and Community Activist Stefan Christoff
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An interview on multiple intersections of art and activism with Stefan Christoff, a longtime community organizer and musician living in Montréal / ...
Jineoloji: Learning from the Revolutionary Women’s Movement in Rojava with Sarah Marcha
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Marcha speaks to the revolutionary science of women’s equality called Jineoloji that was developed in the autonomous region of Rojava. Jineo...
Kahala Johnson on Hawai’i, Anarchism, and the Politics of Indigeneity
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hawaiian activist and land defender Kahala Johnson discusses anarchism through the lens of Indigeneity and shares insights regarding resistance stru...
Gord Hill on 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance (Expanded)
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, Gord Hill discusses the making of his new edition of The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book and tactics and strategies the histor...
Uri Gordon on Prefigurative Politics
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Uri Gordon discusses some issues surrounding the use of the terms ‘prefiguration’ and ‘prefigurative politics.’ He is the aut...
N.O. Bonzo on Anarchy, Art, and Mutual Aid
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
N.O. Bonzo is an anarchist street artist and illustrator whose work is much admired in the activist community. In this interview, Bonzo discusses thei...
Blockader Suzanne on the No Roads into Fairy Creek Series of Action
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Suzanne is a Metis activist from Blackfoot territory in Southern Alberta that has been a visitor on L’kwungen/ WSANEC/ Esquimalt territories for fou...
Anarchists Ann Hansen and trans activist Naphtali discuss prison (in)justice
18 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ann Hansen is former member of the anarchist organization Direct Action and served over 7 years in prison for her involvement with that collective. Sh...
Nuu-chah-nulth & Coast Salish activist Queen Sacheen (Ancestral Pride) reflects on her life and Indigenous Sovereignty
11 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Queen Sacheen is co-founder of Ancestral Pride, with whom she has produced many zines. She has spent a great deal of time advising Settler-anarchists ...
UK theorist Ruth Kinna (editor, Anarchist Studies) on capitalism, anarchism, and the commons
04 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ruth Kinna is a world-renowned political theorist and historian of ideas who has authored numerous books on anarchism, nineteenth and early twentieth-...
Anarchist feminist Kathy Ferguson discusses Emma Goldman’s women and anarchism as ‘a movement of the book’
28 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kathy Ferguson is an US-American author, political philosopher, feminist, historian, anarchist, and professor of political science and women's studies...
John Zerzan on his life as an anarchist and the state of affairs in the USA
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
John Zerzan is author of numerous publications exploring the pre-modern dimensions of our being. His weekly radio program, AnarchyRadio can be found h...
Kurdish Sociologist Ozlem Goner on the current struggle for autonomy in Rojava
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ozlem Goner is steering committee member of the Emergency Committee for Rojava, New York, and associate professor at the City University of New York. ...
Homeless in a pandemic - Interview with a front-line supporter from LEOHN
15 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As in other places, unhoused people in Victoria face severe challenges in their daily lives ranging from a lack of food, sanitation and medical servic...
Ma’amtagila (Kwakwaka’wakw) Matriarch Tsastilqualus of House Umbas on Indigenous sovereignty and rematriation
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tsastilqualus is an elder of the House Umbas from Ma’amtagila (Kwakwaka’wakw) territory. In this podcast, Tsastilqualus speaks about her life and ...
Gidimt'en Clan spokesperson Molly Wickham on Wet’suwet’en anti-pipeline resistance
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Molly Wickham (Sleydo) is a member of the Gidimt'en Clan of the Wet'suwet'en Nation. She has been tirelessly active in the Wet’suwet’en’ Nation’...
Teaser Episode
23 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Find out what you can expect in the Victoria Anarchist Bookfair's 2020 podcast!