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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.

Mar 5, 20

That Ledge, My Friend: Suicide Rates Among Young People Are Exploding, Why?

We live in an age where police killings are the 6th leading cause of death for young men and life expectancy for... Read Full Article

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Mar 3, 20

This Is America #108: “A New Age of Antagonism”

Cover Image from Vitalist International Welcome, to This Is America, March 2nd, 2020. On today’s show, we bring you an interview with... Read Full Article

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Feb 29, 20

Who Let the Frogs Out?: A Round Table Discussion on the Far-Right in 2020

In this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we are lucky enough to be joined by three different grassroots antifascist journalists... Read Full Article

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Feb 28, 20

Mexico City: High School Students Take Over School, Clash with Police, Declare Indefinite Strike

On Wednesday, students at the Azcapotzalco campus of the College of Sciences and Humanities (CCH) in Mexico City, a high school system... Read Full Article

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Feb 26, 20

Solidarity Actions Continue After Tyendinaga Raid, As Calls for Repression & Far-Right Vigilantism Escalate

On the morning of February 24th, the Ontario Provisional Police (OPP) launched a raid against a railroad blockade and encampment on unceded... Read Full Article

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Feb 25, 20

We Are All Samir: Roundup of Three Days of Action in Defense of Territory and Mother Earth

In the early morning hours of February 20, 2019, Samir Flores Soberanes, an Indigenous community organizer, radio worker and land defender from... Read Full Article

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Feb 25, 20

Mexican Supreme Court Stormed & Vandalized as Hundreds March Against Femicide

On Sunday, February 23, hundreds of women marched in the northern Mexican city of Hermosillo, the capital of Sonora, as part of... Read Full Article

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Feb 23, 20

This Is America #107: Reach for the Sky

Cover Photo: @dhunnasim Welcome, to This Is America, February 22nd, 2020. On this episode, first we speak with Dinize Ste ohn tsiy,... Read Full Article

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Feb 21, 20

Wildcat Strike Spreads: UC Santa Cruz Shut Down & UC Dining Halls and Offices Occupied

Cover photo: @backup_sandwich In what is being referred to as “Doomsday,” UC President Janet Napolitano has given striking student workers at the... Read Full Article

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Feb 19, 20

Milwaukee, WI: GOP Field Office Heavily Vandalized with Paint

According to Fox News, the windows of a new Republican field office was heavily vandalized with black paint. On Twitter, the Wisconsin... Read Full Article

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Feb 18, 20

Overthrow the Algorithm: Sole on the Music Industry, Permaculture & the Channel Zero Network

In this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we speak with the long running underground hip-hop artist Sole, who burst onto... Read Full Article

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Feb 18, 20

Strike While the Iron is Hot: An Interview on the Growing Wildcat Strike at UC Santa Cruz

Since the wildcat strike at the University of California in Santa Cruz kicked off last Monday, thousands of students have blocked streets... Read Full Article

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Feb 17, 20

“Where’s Your Diaper?”: Pro-Monarchy Troll Linked to Alt-Right Run Off Ohio Campus

On the morning of February 17th, hundreds of students at Ohio University campus pushed out far-Right grifter and provocateur Kaitlin Bennett and... Read Full Article

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Feb 16, 20

National Palace Attacked in Mexico City as Anger Explodes Against Femicide

On Friday February 14, 2020, women attacked the doors of the National Palace in the Zocalo of Mexico City, while president Andrés... Read Full Article

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Feb 13, 20

“This Is Insurrection”: #ShutDownCanada Action “Cancels Trains Nationwide” as Acts of Sabotage Continue

The mass wave of action in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en Nation, who is fighting to remove both the Canadian security forces and... Read Full Article

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Feb 12, 20

This Is America #106: Riot Police Attack Wildcat Strike at UC Santa Cruz

Welcome, to This Is America, February 11th, 2020. In this episode we speak with a member of the Black Rose Anarchist Federation... Read Full Article

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Feb 10, 20

Offices Occupied & Ports, Freeways, and Railroads Shut Down Across Canada As RCMP Reaches Unist’ot’en Camp

On Thursday, February 6th, the RCMP began a highly militarized raid on unceded Wet’suwet’en territory. By nightfall on Thursday, demonstrations, protests, acts... Read Full Article

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Feb 6, 20

Solidarity Actions Blockade Ports, Highways, and Rails After RCMP Raids Wet’suwet’en Territory

Early in the morning of February 6th, the RCMP raided the Wet’suwet’en territory, making several violent arrests and opening the region to... Read Full Article

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Feb 5, 20

Mexico City: Resistance to Sexual Violence at UNAM Explodes During Campus General Strike

On November 5, 2019, women from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) began an... Read Full Article

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Feb 4, 20

Original Content, Podcasts & Reporting: January 2020 on IGD

We hit the ground running in January 2020! From coverage of combative housing struggles, solidarity actions with the Wet’suwet’en, interviews with frontline... Read Full Article

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Feb 4, 20

This Is America #105: Between Spectacle, History, and Revolt

Welcome, to This Is America, February 3rd, 2020. In this episode, first we speak with folks involved in a Food Not Bombs... Read Full Article

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Feb 1, 20

“The Spark Is Already There & the Flame is Catching On”: Between the Shell of the State & the Growth of Autonomy in Puerto Rico

On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we spoke with an organizer from El Grito de Sunset Park and Asamblea de... Read Full Article

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Jan 30, 20

Decolonize This Place on J31 and Beyond: “People Are Becoming Ungovernable”

Over the past few months, anger has exploded on the streets of New York as the city has pushed (along with increased... Read Full Article

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Jan 26, 20

This Is America #104: Wet’suwet’en Prepare for RCMP Raid; Report Back from Virginia

Welcome, to This Is America, January 26th, 2020. In this episode, first we speak with Wet’suwet’en Chief Dtsa H’yl about what he... Read Full Article

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Jan 23, 20

Josh Harper & Andy Stepanian on the New Documentary ‘The Animal People’ and Lessons from the SHAC 7

“The number of activists isn’t huge, but their impact has been incredible … There needs to be an understanding that this is... Read Full Article

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Jan 21, 20

#WetsuwetenStrong: Solidarity, Sabotage, and Shutting It Down

Since late December, the struggle on unceded Wet’suwet’en territory to evict and keep out the Coastal GasLink corporation and RCMP authorities, has... Read Full Article

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Jan 19, 20

This Is America #103: Antifascist Thoughts on Virginia; Trump, Iran & Impeachment

Welcome, to This Is America, January 19th, 2019. In this episode, we speak with someone from the Red Strings and Maroons podcast about an... Read Full Article

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Jan 15, 20

After Hundreds Mobilize to Defend Occupied Home, Riot Police Evict Mothers With Tanks & Robot

Cover Photos from Indybay Donate to Bail Fund HERE On January 14th, a massive, militarized eviction by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department... Read Full Article

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Jan 12, 20

An Anti-Colonial Anarchist Analysis on the Rise of Far-Right Hindu Nationalism in India

In this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we bring you an interview with Sarang Narasimhaiah, an anti-colonial anarchist, on the... Read Full Article

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Jan 10, 20

This Is America #102: Abolitionist Organizing in Mississippi, Anarchist Analysis of Trump’s Push Toward War

Welcome, to This Is America, January 10th, 2020. In this episode, we speak with two people on the ground in Mississippi, who... Read Full Article

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Jan 8, 20

Marches, Office Occupations & Rail Sabotage Denounce Attacks on Wet’suwet’en as 72 Hour Notice Given

Pipeline employees and the so-called B.C. supreme court have told Native Wet’suwet’en land defenders and their supporters that they have 72 hours... Read Full Article

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Jan 7, 20

2019 in Review: The Long and Hard Fought Road

2019 was truly a year of extremes: massive generalized revolt, hard fought campaigns, continuing repression, and tested limits for autonomous social movements... Read Full Article

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Jan 2, 20

Black Socialists of America on Building Dual Power in an Age of Crisis

In this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we speak with Z from Black Socialists of America about the group, building... Read Full Article

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Jan 1, 20

More Than 25 Cities Light Up the Night Against Prisons & Migrant Detention Camps

On New Year’s Eve, in over 25 cities across so-called North America, anarchists, abolitionists, and autonomous anti-capitalists took part in noise demonstrations... Read Full Article

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Dec 31, 19

This Is America #101: There’s No Time to Waste

Welcome, to This Is America, December 31st, 2019. In this episode, first we talk to one of the Tucson 12 about their... Read Full Article

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Dec 31, 19

Noise Demonstrations Across North America Being Organized Outside of Detention Centers, Jails & Prisons

For years, anarchists, abolitionists, and autonomous anti-capitalists have marked New Year’s Eve with noise demonstrations in an attempt to let those locked... Read Full Article

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Dec 27, 19

“Fighting in a Way That Makes Us Stronger”: CrimethInc. on the Current Wave of Uprisings

On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we present a recording of a talk given by a member of the... Read Full Article

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Dec 26, 19

War, Crimes & the Spectacle of Impeachment

On December 18th, Donald Trump became the third president in US history to be impeached, as the House of Representatives approved two... Read Full Article

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Dec 19, 19

This Is America #100: Palm Beach Tenants Launch Barricade Against Eviction & Horrific Conditions

Welcome, to This Is America, December 19th, 2019. On this episode, first we talk with two folks from the Palm Beach Tenants... Read Full Article

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Dec 18, 19

Protesters Disrupt MTA Board Meeting as City Hires 500 More Cops

Today, several people disrupted a meeting of the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), who pushed through a decision to hire an additional 500... Read Full Article

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