An anarchist from Brazil fills us in on Bolsonaro, where he came from, and the dangers his presidency poses to social movements. We talk about how it’s not just killer cop Van Dyke in Chicago, or sexual assaulter Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme...
The Hotwire #39: Brett Kavanaugh—Killer cops in PDX—words from arrested
Hambach forest defenders
Oct. 3, 2018
Alanis is back! And she reads our feature this episode, an audio version of the recent CrimethInc. text We also interview an anarchist in Portland, Oregon about the #PatrickKimmons actions at the intersection where police killed him. Winter, one of...
The Hotwire #38: An anarchist in #OperationAirDrop—Portland anti-cop
occupations—IRPGF dissolves
Sept. 26, 2018
Our feature this episode is an interview with an anarchist involved in one of the more spectacular —Operation Airdrop. We follow it up with some discussion about the role of anarchist politics in doing autonomous, mutual aid relief work. We also...
The world is a dangerous place in 2018- by a Dallas cop and police are actively raiding the rebel encampment in the . There’s inspiring strike resistance in Central and South America where caused thousands of dollars in damage and a . Hurricane...
The Hotwire #36: #PrisonStrike ends—bring back anti-nationalism—economic
crisis in Argentina
Sept. 12, 2018
It’s 17 years and a day after and Iraq is still in , so we rip apart liberals for thinking George W. Bush is somehow . 2001 pops up again when we compare the current economic crisis in Argentina to the wave of worker-led and that resisted the...
The Hotwire #35: Trans Mountain pipeline paused—Chemnitz: antifa block
Nazis—fuck a school board
Sept. 5, 2018
In this Hotwire we bring you two interviews: one from an anarchist organizer involved in in Canada about the recent announcement that ; and we speak with an anti-fascist who was on the streets of Chemnitz, Germany on when anti- fascists blocked the...
The Hotwire #34: #PrisonStrike update—Nazis mobilize in Germany—Riotization of
protest interview
Aug. 29, 2018
This week, you will hear about an picnic in Avalon, PA, some brief analysis about the Nazi mob in Chemnitz, Germany and about some against the Pope’s visit in Ireland]. We interview Michael Loadenthal, a social movement academic and former J20...
The Hotwire #33: #PrisonStrike kicks off—racist statue toppled in NC—alt-right
get self-doxxed
Aug. 22, 2018
This week, you will hear updates from the in Canada, some creative anti-ICE actions, and about some and some of the alt-right’s . We interview Maya Little about the recent toppling of a confederate statue in North Carolina on Monday. Maya shares...
The Hotwire #32: Summer in Review—Antifascists in Charlottesville & DC—2018
Prison Strike
Aug. 15, 2018
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. on the anniversary of the defeat of Unite the Right, drawing attention to the...
The Hotwire #31: Repression in Indonesia—Hamilton rent strike—J20 on May
14—events all summer
May 9, 2018
Our last episode of the season! This episode is chocked full of May Day repression updates—from FBI visits in state to the rounded up in . The New School in New York City is occupied once again, and we have an audio report! The begins in less...
Our annual roundup of worldwide May Day actions. We have interviews with participants in May Day actions in , where there was a general strike, and , whose black bloc didn’t only take the cake, they took the whole damn bakery! Indonesia saw black...
The Hotwire #29: MAY DAY Special—The best of anarchist news reporting from the
vaults (uncensored!)
May 1, 2018
Happy ! Find an action near you . To celebrate the anniversary of the strike that led to , and the 8 anarchists executed for it (two of whom were anarchist media producers !) we bring you our favorite anarchist news reporting from throughout history....
The Hotwire #28: Anti-government revolt in Nicaragua—more treesits in
WV—Bakunin beats Satanism
April 25, 2018
This Hotwire we bring you an interview with an anarchist in Managua about the past few weeks of in Nicaragua. We also report on the in Georgia, a also in Georgia, a hunger strike , and in North Carolina. Next week we’ll bring you our regular...
The Hotwire #27: Legal victory for the Tarnac 9—calls for May Day actions—Vive
la ZAD!
April 18, 2018
It’s been a week of battle at , and we share a day-to-day play-by-play of the . Elsewhere in France, the Tarnac Nine’s shows that with a little luck and courage, we can beat the state. Direct action for a university occupation against a racist...
The Hotwire #26: La ZAD resists eviction—direct action against pipelines &
police academy—#Douma
April 11, 2018
As we go to press, hundreds of squatters and eco-rebels are battling against cops at in France. We interview someone there, as well as a participant in about the no-state-solution to the Syrian government’s ongoing attacks on rebel areas. The...
The Hotwire #25: Kentucky & Oklahoma teachers strike—anniversary of MLK’s
death—report on Gaza
April 4, 2018
As we go to press, anti-police are ongoing over the , students at Howard University in DC are the recently re-named Kwame Ture Student Center, and teachers in Kentucky and Oklahoma are . This week we interview , an anarchist from Israel, about the ....
The Hotwire #24: Sacramento against killer cops—#DefendAfrin actions—Anti-G7
mobilizing in Quebec
March 28, 2018
As we go to press, protests in Sacramento and beyond are over the police murder of . We interview an anarchist sex worker about the new bill and its impact on sex workers’ safety and organizing. We also feature an interview with a comrade from...
The Hotwire #23: Historic school walkouts—Alt-right unravels—Solidarity with
anarchists in Russia
March 21, 2018
Hundreds of thousands of high school students and against ; anti-pipeline camps hold strong from to to so-called ; we interview an anarchist in Brazil as protests after an anti-police brutality politician was assassinated; the annual march...
The Hotwire #22: Int’l Women’s Day actions—#DefendAfrin solidarity—WV
teachers’ strike ends
March 14, 2018
This episode we bring you two roundups: one for on , and another for actions across Europe. We also share a for and international day of solidarity to #DefendAfrin on March 24. The has ended, and we share from the longest strike in West Virginia...
The Hotwire #21: Lansing protests fascists—teachers’ strike grows & spreads—3
cheers for anarchy
March 7, 2018
This episode we bring you two interviews. The first is an on-the-ground report from the days of to and Lansing, with a to help arrested anti-fascists. Next, we interview a West Virginian anarchist about what makes the there so unique and...