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, discusses her work with the Prison for Women Memorial Collective (P4WMC). The group is dedicated to having a permanent Memorial Garden and Gallery for all of the women who died in federal prisons, to be located inside the now-closed P4W Prison. It is their goal to exhibit art, writing and films about the women in prison, so they will be remembered as the fully fleshed-out human beings they were. Ann recounts recent challenges her group faced working with non-prisoner allies.

Links:
P4W Memorial Website
https://p4wmemorialcollectivedotcom.wordpress.com/
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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’en yintah access point who is living on the yintah and working on a feature-length documentary film about Wet’suwet’en sovereignty as a creative producer. In this interview, Jennifer discusses recent developments in the Wet’suwet’en resistance against the Coastal GasLink pipeline construction, the effect of COVID-19 on her community, the legacy of the Residential School system, and the solidarity between Indigenous nations.

Links:
Learn more about how you can support the Gidimt’en on their website: https://www.yintahaccess.com/
Check out recent updates from the Gidimt’en resistance here: https://www.yintahaccess.com/news
Follow the Gidimt’en Checkpoint instagram @yintah_access
Listen to Sleydo’ Molly Wickham’s interview from the 2020 VABF last year here: https://victoriaanarchistbookfair.ca/gidimten-clan-spokesperson-molly-wickham-on-wetsuweten-anti-pipeline-resistance/
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Five conversations with blockaders presented together. The Fairy Creek blockades and other blockades on unceded Pacheedaht and Ditidaht territories continue under the invitation of Pacheedaht Elder, Bill Jones.

Links:
Defence of Indigenous Land BIPOC gofundmesadpkas:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-indigenous-land-defenders-fairy-creek)Fundrazr for legal defense and front line support:
https://fundrazr.com/last_stand_for_forests
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An interview on multiple intersections of art and activism with Stefan Christoff, a longtime community organizer and musician living in Montréal / Tiohtià:ke. This interview will highlight various forms of expression of the arts within social movements against systemic oppression, injustice and for collective liberation.

Stefan will highlight active collaborations and efforts to build support within networks of artists and cultural workers for efforts to defend the rights of precarious workers within the context of the pandemic who are holding down frontline positions. Stefan has collaborated with artists and activists globally and this interview will focus on the intersections of his work within this sphere.

Link:
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Sarah Marcha speaks to the revolutionary science of women’s equality called Jineoloji that was developed in the autonomous region of Rojava. Jineoloji is an international movement spanning Europe and the Middle East. In this interview, Sarah discusses the leadership roles of women in the system of Democratic Confederalism, and provides examples of the transformative nature of womans’ struggles against patriarchy in Rojava. Of particular importance in Sarah’s discussion is her account of the all-encompassing role of self-defense in ensuring and maintaining the revolutionary women’s struggle. If you have questions, feel free to email: jineolojicenter@riseup.net

Links:
Jineoloji Academy:
http://jineoloji.org/en/
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Hawaiian activist and land defender Kahala Johnson discusses anarchism through the lens of Indigeneity and shares insights regarding resistance struggles, including land reclamations and direct action blockades that halted the construction of a massive telescope on Mauna Kea, one of the most sacred volcanoes in Hawaiian culture.

Link:
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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 history of Indigenous resistance teaches us. He provides an analysis of present day resistance against the right wing, as well as an account of the difference between the ideology of pacifism and civil disobedience tactics.

Links:
Archive of Indigenous Resistance:
https://warriorpublications.wordpress.com
The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book: Revised and Expanded:
https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/T/The-500-Years-of-Indigenous-Resistance-Comic-Book-Revised-and-Expanded
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In this episode, Uri Gordon discusses some issues surrounding the use of the terms ‘prefiguration’ and ‘prefigurative politics.’ He is the author of several books and articles on contemporary anarchism, including Anarchy Alive!: Anti-Authoritarian Politics from Practice to Theory, and Prefigurative Politics between Ethical Practice and Absent Promise. He is co-editor of Anarchists Against the Wall: Direct Action and Solidarity with the Palestinian Popular Struggle, and The Routledge Handbook of Radical Politics. Uri co-founded the Anarchist Studies Network and his work has been translated into 13 languages.

Links:
Prefigurative Politics, Catastrophe, and Hope: https://crimethinc.com/2018/06/12/prefigurative-politics-catastrophe-and-hope-does-the-idea-of-prefiguration-offer-false-reassurance