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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.

Dec 29, 17

CrimethInc. on 2017: Battles We’ve Faced, the Path Ahead

In this episode of the IGDCAST, we catch up once again with someone from the CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective, as we look back... Read Full Article

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Dec 28, 17

All The News You Didn’t Even Know Was Going Down

2017 comes to close, and while we’ll leave the year end analysis for another column, there’s been a lot happening this past... Read Full Article

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Dec 26, 17

Earth First! Journal: “They’re Trying to Stop the Next Standing Rock”

In this episode, we talk with someone from the long running Earth First! Journal, a magazine that chronicles the radical environmental movement in the... Read Full Article

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Dec 26, 17

New Year’s Eve Noise Demonstrations Across North America

On Sunday, December 31st, across so-called North America and beyond anarchists, autonomists, abolitionists, and anti-authoritarians will hold noise demonstrations outside of jails,... Read Full Article

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Dec 21, 17

First #J20Trial Ends: Round Up as Jury Acquits on All Charges

By early afternoon NO CHARGES and #J20Trial was trending on Twitter, as a jury in the first round of J20 defendants came... Read Full Article

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Dec 19, 17

Another 1,000 Plus Killed by Police This Year, Here’s What it Means

Currently, 2017 is on track to becoming just as deadly a year in terms of the police killing of American citizens as 2016, and... Read Full Article

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Dec 18, 17

As Opposition Grows Against Pipelines in Virgina, Far-Right Press Plays Up ‘Green Antifa’

Photo from RVA MAG, Madelyne Ashworth According to the End of the Line podcast, which chronicles anti-pipeline fights across the US, there is growing... Read Full Article

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Dec 17, 17

The Revolutionary Global History of the IWW with Peter Cole

Photo: IWW Hall and Offices of Italian Anarchist Publication “The Social Question,” in New Jersey The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW),... Read Full Article

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Dec 17, 17

Holiday Discount Sale of “Setting Sights: Histories and Reflections on Community Armed Self-Defense”

Order Book Here Looking for the perfect gift for that black clad rabble rouser in the family? Got a gift card burning a... Read Full Article

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Dec 15, 17

#DropJ20 Podcast Update #4: The First Trial Ends

Photo from Mic.com As the first of many J20 conspiracy case trials draws to a close, we have a lot to catch you up on. Sorry for the delay with... Read Full Article

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Dec 13, 17

Growing Connections Between the Far-Right & J20 Prosecution

“the government is not concerned with policing forces which seek to uphold the power of the State and the colonial hierarchies upon which it... Read Full Article

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Dec 12, 17

From Automation to the Gig Economy: Mapping Capital’s Networks

From Trump tweeting about how low unemployment is to patting himself on the back for a ‘roaring’ stock market, we are bombarded... Read Full Article

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Dec 11, 17

Audio Report: Austin Antifascists Out Mobilize Far-Right

Donate to Bail Fund Here This Saturday, a handful of demonstrations took place across the US that in several instances broke out into... Read Full Article

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Dec 9, 17

#NOACP: Fighting the ACP and MVP Pipelines in Virginia

Photo from Jason Lappa In this episode we discuss with a guest from #NoACP, the ongoing resistance to both the Atlantic Coast Pipeline... Read Full Article

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Dec 6, 17

Audio Report: Autonomous Relief In Houston Post-Harvey

In this audio report with Solidarity Houston, we talk with anarchists doing autonomous disaster relief in the wake of hurricane Harvey. While... Read Full Article

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Dec 5, 17

DC: Richard Spencer Dives into SUV to Escape as Neo-Nazi Protest Fizzles

Photo From @DCMediaGroup On Sunday, December 3rd, one hour before an antifascist teach-in on immigration was supposed to start, a group of neo-Nazis... Read Full Article

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Dec 4, 17

“Make the World Stop”: Joshua Clover on Capital & Riots Yet to Bloom

In this episode, we are joined by longtime professor, journalist, social critic, author, and thinker Joshua Clover, a part of Commune Editions,... Read Full Article

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Dec 4, 17

#DropJ20 Podcast Update #3: Police Take the Stand

“This means that a good chunk of the so-called evidence from that planning meeting that the prosecution is relying on only entered... Read Full Article

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Dec 1, 17

Audio Report: #StopSpencer Actions at University of Michigan

Photo from @sorayagiaccardi Students and community members in Ann Arbor, Michigan at the University of Michigan took part in a wide variety of... Read Full Article

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Nov 29, 17

#DropJ20 Podcast Update #2: The State Stumbles

Photo from @DLamotJenkins The first of the J20 conspiracy trials resumed on Monday, November 27th. The prosecution continued its presentation of witnesses and... Read Full Article

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Nov 28, 17

Class War on the Lobby Floor: How Tenants Won a Rent Strike

In this episode, we talk to an organizer with Parkdale Organize, an autonomous and grassroots working-class organization in so-called Toronto, Canada, which... Read Full Article

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Nov 28, 17

Train Stopped and Banner Dropped in Solidarity with #OlympiaBlockade

In solidarity with the ongoing #OympiaBlockade, people are taking action in solidarity. According to an anonymous post on Puget Sound Anarchists, persons unknown shorted... Read Full Article

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Nov 27, 17

Facebook Shuts Down Event Page for Student Walk Out Against Richard Spencer as Week of Action Begins

Students at the University of Michigan have begun a week of action against neo-Nazi and white nationalist leader Richard Spencer, who is... Read Full Article

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Nov 27, 17

Unicorn Riot Reports Live From J20 Trial

Journalists with Unicorn Riot reported live from the J20 trial today, where it was revealed that police had plans to carry out a mass... Read Full Article

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Nov 25, 17

Commune by the Tracks: Discussion on the #OlympiaBlockade

In this episode, we discuss the ongoing Olympia blockade against fracking proppants with several locals who have watched the blockade, also known... Read Full Article

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Nov 24, 17

All the News You Didn’t Even Know Was Going Down

Photo from @jpegjoshua Resistance is heating up. Across the US, struggles are taking place against pipelines, and rebel communities are squatting buildings, fighting... Read Full Article

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Nov 22, 17

The Real Story Of Thanksgiving

“Learning” about Thanksgiving in our school system for some of us may be the first time we are even told about indigenous... Read Full Article

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Nov 20, 17

#DropJ20 Podcast Update #1: The Trial Begins

“Kerkhoff admitted that the state does not have any evidence to prove that any of these 6 defendants are themselves guilty of... Read Full Article

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Nov 20, 17

Audio Report: Behind the Anti-Fracking Blockade in Olympia

Download and Print PDF Here Photo from Tony Overman from The Olympian Over the past several days, a blockade has sprung up in Olympia,... Read Full Article

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Nov 20, 17

Audio Report: Florida Students Converge Against NSM & KKK

In the last week at the University of North Florida, Ken Parker, a former grand dragon of the Ku-Klux-Klan, and current member... Read Full Article

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Nov 18, 17

Twilight of Statecraft: Carne Ross on Crisis, Climate Change, & War

“The nation state as we have known it in the 20th century, is in decline. Mainly because the sorts of issues that... Read Full Article

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Nov 17, 17

Neo-Nazi Claims to Still Have A Job at Virginia Tech – & Asian Wife

Imagine paying money to attend a public university. Now imagine at that university, a teaching assistant, someone who grades your papers and... Read Full Article

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Nov 17, 17

Support Autonomous Media & IGD This Winter! New Shirts!

IGD is growing, and everyday we are putting out new and original content, signal boosting news and analysis, and working to connect... Read Full Article

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Nov 17, 17

Students Mobilize to Counter Neo-Nazi Rally at University of North Florida

Neo-Nazis and KKK members are stating that they will rally at the University of North Florida in support of Ken Parker, a... Read Full Article

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Nov 15, 17

Pittsburgh, PA: Students Occupy ‘Cathedral of Learning’

Police and FBI agents converged at the University of Pittsburgh on November 14th after a network of autonomous groups of students occupied... Read Full Article

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Nov 15, 17

Shane Burley on Trumpism, Nativism, & Mass Antifascism

In this episode, we talk with antifascist author and organizer Shane Burley, who has just released a new book, Fascism Today: What It... Read Full Article

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Nov 10, 17

Hunger Strikes & Abolitionist Organizing in Indiana Prisons

On this episode, we are joined with someone from IDOC Watch, a group which is organizing alongside and amplifies the voices of... Read Full Article

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Nov 10, 17

Porland, OR: Portland Pickets In Support of IWW Burgerville Workers Union

Tonight, Portland residents joined with Burgerville Workers Union members to picket outside of a Burgerville store to demand that the corporation begin... Read Full Article

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Nov 8, 17

Virginia Tech Successful in Driving Out Neo-Nazi Mark Neuhoff

Photo from @ajmalalami As IGD reported back in early October, students at Virginia Tech have been organizing on campus to remove a... Read Full Article

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Nov 8, 17

Hunger Strikes Breaking Out in Jails and Detention Centers

In the last week, we’ve seen a successful hunger strike take place at a detention facility in Northern Oregon, and another pop... Read Full Article

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