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In search of new forms of life. It's Going Down is a digital community center and media platform featuring news, opinion, podcasts, and reporting on autonomous social movements and revolt across so-called North America from an anarchist perspective.

Oct 28, 24

This Is America #202: Report from North Carolina on Mutual Aid Efforts, Interview with ‘The Dugout’

Welcome, to This Is America, September 27th, 2024. On this episode, we feature an interview with an organizer with Rural Organizing and... Read Full Article

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Oct 26, 24

How Antifascists in Pennsylvania Mobilized Their Community Against an Active Neo-Nazi

In early September, around 50 people in Millvale, PA organized a march on the home of Brandon Cahall, a local landlord and... Read Full Article

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Oct 5, 24

“The Utopia we Dream of Becomes Most Visible in the Dark”: Dispatches from Firestorm in Asheville, NC

The following are several dispatches from Firestorm, a radical anarchist community center and cooperative bookstore in Asheville, NC, which in the aftermath... Read Full Article

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Oct 4, 24

This Is America #201: Report on Mutual Aid Efforts in North Carolina; War Expands to Lebanon

Welcome, to This Is America, October 4th, 2024. On this episode, first we have an interview with someone on the frontline of... Read Full Article

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Oct 3, 24

Andrew Lee on How Capitalists Are Raising Rents, Not Immigrants

During the recent election cycle, politicians from both parties have attempted to shift anger around gentrification, rising rental costs, and lack of... Read Full Article

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Sep 29, 24

Mutual Aid and Autonomous Disaster Relief Groups Mobilize in Wake of Hurricane Helene

A Category 4 storm, Hurricane Helene, one of the largest storms to hit the Gulf Coast in a century, collided into the... Read Full Article

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Sep 18, 24

This Is America #200: Trump Pushes Racist Attack on Haitians in Ohio, Resistance Roundup

Welcome, to This Is America, September 17th, 2024. On this episode, first we present an interview with a community member and participant... Read Full Article

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Sep 11, 24

“Shake in Your Boots Bureaucrats!”: Resistance, Recuperation, and the Legacy of the Situationists

In this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, with speak with Bill Brown, author of the publication Not Bored, about the history... Read Full Article

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Sep 3, 24

Protests in Solidarity with Palestine Resume at Columbia as Universities Across the US Attempt to Clamp-Down on Dissent

Pickets and protests continued today at Columbia university in New York, in solidarity with Palestine and to demand that the university divest... Read Full Article

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Sep 3, 24

Three Way Fight on the Changing Terrain of the Far-Right, the State, and Resistance from Below

On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we speak with antifascist authors Matthew Lyons and Xtn Alexander of Three Way... Read Full Article

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Aug 22, 24

This is America #199: Antifascist Report from the UK, Vicky Osterweil on Election Cycle Amidst Ongoing Genocide

Welcome, to This Is America, August 21st, 2024. In today’s episode, first we speak with the host of 12 Rules for What?,... Read Full Article

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Aug 12, 24

The Election Cycle as Counter-Insurgency

It has been four years since a deadly pandemic ripped through the social terrain and the George Floyd uprising brought millions out... Read Full Article

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Aug 10, 24

As Texas Antifascist Found “Not Guilty,” Billionaire GOP Mega-Donor Reportedly Bankrolling Lawsuit for Fascist, Anti-Semitic Group

On Thursday, August 8th, Chris “Big Tex,” was found not guilty by a jury in a criminal trial on charges of “assault... Read Full Article

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Aug 6, 24

UK Communities Mobilize to Defend Themselves as Police Fail to Stop Far-Right Attacks Spurred by Viral Misinformation

Following the tragic murder of three children, a viral campaign of far-Right misinformation pushed by neo-Nazi groups like Patriotic Alternative, far-Right grifters... Read Full Article

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Jul 30, 24

Building Support for Anarchist Political Prisoner Jorge “Yorch” Esquivel and Okupa Che

On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, IGD contributor Scott Campbell speaks with Flor, a compa in so-called Mexico actively... Read Full Article

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Jul 29, 24

This Is America #198: Boeing 5, Heath Autonomy Convergence, Deep-Dive on Project 2025

Welcome, to This Is America, July 29th, 2024. In this episode first we present an interview on the case of the Boeing... Read Full Article

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Jul 22, 24

Steve Ongerth on the Bombing of Judi Bari and Redwood Summer

On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we speak with Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) organizer and historian Steve... Read Full Article

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Jul 16, 24

Antifascists Expose Rental Home of Neo-Nazis Who Attacked a Bartender in Nashville as Locals Call for Counter-Protest

Antifascist researchers at GDL Exposed are reporting that a group of violent neo-Nazis who rallied in Tennessee on Monday, July 15th with... Read Full Article

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Jul 11, 24

Peet’s Coffee Employees “March on the Boss” as IWW Union Campaign Expands to Fourth Store

Workers at Peet’s Coffee and members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), organized a “march on the boss” in Berkeley,... Read Full Article

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Jul 9, 24

This Is America #197: Resistance Roundup, Josh Fernandez on Antifascist History, Peter Gelderloos on Supreme Court & Beyond

Welcome, to This Is America, July 8th, 2024. On today’s episode, we speak first with Josh Fernandez, author of the new book,... Read Full Article

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Jul 4, 24

Shane Burley and Ben Lorber on “Safety Through Solidarity” and Community Mobilization in the Current Terrain

In this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we again speak with antifascist researchers Shane Burley and Ben Lorber, authors of... Read Full Article

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Jun 13, 24

More Voices From the Growing Anti-War Movement in Solidarity with Palestine

On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we speak with folks across the so-called United States about the ongoing movement... Read Full Article

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Jun 11, 24

Strikes, Building Occupations, Blockades and Direct Actions Continue to Spread in Solidarity with Palestine

While reports on student led protests have largely left the news cycle, new encampments, both on and off campus, the taking over... Read Full Article

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May 26, 24

Andrew Lee on Displacement, Rising Rents, and Social War

On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we speak with Andrew Lee, an organizer and author of the new book... Read Full Article

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May 26, 24

There’s No Liberty Under Fascism and No Alternative In Trump

On Saturday, May 25th, to jeers and boos, Donald Trump addressed the Libertarian Party conference, a testament to the far-Right turn that... Read Full Article

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May 5, 24

“They’ll Never Forget It”: Report from the Battle to Defend the Palestine Solidarity Encampment at UCLA

Photo by Shay Horse On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we are joined with a guest who discusses the... Read Full Article

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Apr 28, 24

Six Things You Need to Know About the Growing Anti-War Movement

Across the US, demonstrations, protest encampments, and the occupation of buildings are spreading against the ongoing US backed genocide of Palestinians by... Read Full Article

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Apr 26, 24

“We Are Not Afraid of You”: Voices from Inside the Growing Anti-War Movement Sweeping US Campuses

On this special episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we speak with folks across the country that are taking part in... Read Full Article

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Apr 23, 24

Following Violent Police Crackdown of Anti-War Protests, Campus and Building Occupations Spread

On April 17th, students at Columbia university in New York launched an encampment calling for the private, ivy league university to divest... Read Full Article

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Apr 18, 24

This Is America #196: Houston Food not Bombs Fights City Hall, Montreal Autonomous Tenants’ Union, National Guard on New York Subway

Welcome, to This Is America, April 18th, 2024. In this episode, first we present an interview with a member of Houston Food... Read Full Article

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Apr 17, 24

Unsolvable Tension: State and Capital Against Communal Autonomy in Oaxaca

There is an unresolvable tension present in the valleys, mountains, deserts, jungles, and highlands of the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, between... Read Full Article

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Apr 17, 24

“Stop the World For Gaza”: Thousands Take Part in Direct Actions and Blockades Against the War

Thousands took part in mass direct actions and blockades on Monday, in protest of the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing within the... Read Full Article

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Apr 9, 24

Davis, CA: Campus Dining Hall Occupied in Solidarity with Palestine

On Monday, April 9th, Cops of Campus in Davis, California reported that a dining hall on the University of California Davis campus... Read Full Article

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Apr 3, 24

Walkouts, Blockades, and Student Occupations in Solidarity with Palestine Continue

Resistance to the US backed Israeli war and genocide against Palestinians living in the occupied territories remains ongoing, with a chorus of... Read Full Article

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Mar 27, 24

The IWW, the Red Scare, and Lessons on Resisting Repression Today

On today’s episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we sit down with labor historian Peter Cole, who speaks on how the... Read Full Article

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Mar 26, 24

Announcing New ‘It’s Going Down’ Zine Creator

You may have already seen one of these floating around in the wild over the past several months, but today we are... Read Full Article

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Mar 21, 24

This Is America #195: Friends of Aaron Bushnell Speak, Deep Dive on Situation in Haiti

Welcome, to This Is America, March 21st, 2024. In this episode, first we speak with several anarchists and mutual aid organizers in... Read Full Article

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Mar 15, 24

The Enemy Arrives by Limo, Not by Caravan: Building a Politics of Solidarity Across Borders

Decades of brutal US imperial intervention and corporate globalization have created the conditions that are forcing thousands to migrant and seek refuge... Read Full Article

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Mar 9, 24

This Is America #194: Jeremy White on San Diego ‘Antifa’ Case, Smash by Smash West, Franklin Lopez on New Children’s Book

Welcome, to This Is America, March 8th, 2024. On today’s episode, we feature an interview first with Jeremy White, a long-time community... Read Full Article

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Feb 27, 24

Summit Against ‘Cop City’ Concludes in Tucson as Hundreds March in NYC

On Friday, February 23rd, a summit against the “Cop City” counter-insurgency training facility in Atlanta, Georgia kicked off in so-called Tucson, Arizona,... Read Full Article

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