Wed, 18 April 2018
It’s been a week of battle at La ZAD, and we share a day-to-day play-by-play of the resistance to the government’s eviction operation. Elsewhere in France, the Tarnac Nine’s legal victory shows that with a little luck and courage, we can beat the state. Direct action gets the goods for a university occupation against a racist student body president at Texas State University in San Marcos, we finally have an address where you can write Cedar, who is in jail on charges of conspiracy over the anti-gentrification prole stroll in Hamilton, Ontario, and we close the episode by sharing calls for May Day actions in Los Angeles, Eugene, Portland, Olympia, and Seattle. {April 18, 2018}
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Direct download: The-Hotwire_27_Legal-victory-for-the-Tarnac-9_calls-for-May-Day-actions_Vive-la-ZAD.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:32am PDT |
Wed, 11 April 2018
As we go to press, hundreds of squatters and eco-rebels are battling against cops at La ZAD in France. We interview someone there, as well as a participant in The Syrian Revolution about the no-state-solution to the Syrian government’s ongoing attacks on rebel areas. The treesits in West Virginia against the Mountain Valley Pipeline are expanding. Anarchist prisoner Sean Swain needs support. {April 11, 2018}
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Direct download: The-Hotwire_26_La-ZAD-resists-eviction_direct-action-against-pipelines-police-academy_Douma.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:21am PDT |
Wed, 4 April 2018
As we go to press, anti-police protests are ongoing over the police killing of Stephon Clark, students at Howard University in DC are still occupying the recently re-named Kwame Ture Student Center, and teachers in Kentucky and Oklahoma are on strike. This week we interview Uri Gordon, an anarchist from Israel, about the deadly repression in Gaza. We also reflect on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Plus announcements for upcoming bookfairs, gatherings, and protest mobilizations. {April 4, 2018}
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Direct download: The-Hotwire_25_April-4_2018-Kentucky-Oklahoma-teachers-strike_anniversary-of-MLKs-death_report-on-Gaza.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:13am PDT |
Wed, 28 March 2018
As we go to press, protests in Sacramento and beyond are ongoing over the police murder of Stephon Clark. We interview an anarchist sex worker about the new FOSTA-SESTA bill and its impact on sex workers’ safety and organizing. We also feature an interview with a comrade from Quebec about the anti-capitalist mobilization against the G7 summit in Quebec in June. Don’t miss our roundup of #DefendAfrin actions that took place on March 24, or our reflections on the political moment we’re in after the March For Our Lives. {March 28, 2018}
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Direct download: The-Hotwire_24_Sacramento-against-killer-cops_DefendAfrin-actions_Anti-G7-mobilizing-in-Quebec.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:31am PDT |
Wed, 21 March 2018
Hundreds of thousands of high school students defy adult authority and walkout against mass shootings; anti-pipeline camps hold strong from Virginia to West Virginia to so-called British Columbia; we interview an anarchist in Brazil as protests erupt there after an anti-police brutality politician was assassinated; the annual march against police brutality in Montreal beats cops back; Russian anarchists explain in an interview why it’s not just Putin that’s the problem, or Trump for that matter, but the systems of power they inhabit; plus a repression round up, announcements for Saturday’s international day of action to #DefendAfrin, and calls for exciting upcoming anarchist bookfairs and speaking tours. {March 21, 2018}
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Direct download: The-Hotwire_23_Historic-school-walkouts_Alt-right-unravels_Solidarity-with-anarchists-in-Russia.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:54am PDT |
Wed, 14 March 2018
This episode we bring you two roundups: one for women’s strike actions on International Women’s Day, and another for #DefendAfrin actions across Europe. We also share a call for and international day of solidarity to #DefendAfrin on March 24. The West Virginia teachers’ strike has ended, and we share our complicated takeaways from the longest strike in West Virginia history. The alt-right is unraveling, but anti-fascists arrested in Michigan last week still need your help. Things are heating up in Hamilton, Ontario as anarchists demonstrate against gentrification and face right-wing backlash for it. Listen until the end for announcements of speaking tours, J20 updates, political prisoner birthdays, and upcoming anarchist bookfairs. {March 14, 2018}
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Direct download: The-Hotwire_22_Intl-Womens-Day-actions_DefendAfrin-solidarity_WV-teachers-strike-ends.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:31am PDT |
Wed, 7 March 2018
This episode we bring you two interviews. The first is an on-the-ground report from the days of anti-fascist action against Richard Spencer’s visit to Detroit and Lansing, with a plea for bail funds to help arrested anti-fascists. Next, we interview a West Virginian anarchist about what makes the teachers’ strike there so unique and important. We plug a call from the West Virginia IWW for how to support and spread the strike. Throughout the episode we make the case for an international, revolutionary movement that can do away with all forms of hierarchy and kyriarchy! {February 28, 2018}
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Direct download: The-Hotwire_21_Lansing-protests-fascists_teachers-strike-grows-spreads_3-cheers-for-anarchy.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:02am PDT |
Wed, 28 February 2018
While students walk out of classes all over the country (and occasionally fight cops) we make the pitch for an anarchist youth liberation movement. In wild, wonderful, and apparently rebellious West Virginia, striking school employees have shut down every public school in the state, while treesitters are putting up resistance to the Mountain Valley Pipeline. We also share calls to support political prisoner Joy Powell, as well as a fundraising drive for a radical café in Istanbul. Listen until the end for announcements of three different speaking tours in March: one about anarchist responses to natural disasters, one about the anarchist critique of democracy, and one all about the J20 case and why the remaining 59 defendants deserve your utmost support. {February 28, 2018}
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Direct download: The-Hotwire_20_West-Virginia-teachers-strike_Studen-walkouts-everywhere_Youth-liberation-NOW.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:51am PDT |
Wed, 21 February 2018
This episode is packed to the gills with news! There is antifa activity in Tennessee and folks in the Northwest continue to hold it down against the fascist creep. Solidarity for Afrin spreads and an inspiring model to fight ICE raids emerges out of Koreatown, Los Angeles. We offer some analysis about the school shooting in Parkland, FL and interview both an anarchist attending the student led rallies there and an anarchist author who’s written about gun control. There is a short update on the repression Florida prisoners are enduring due to Operation Push. Walter Bond is in need of support and we have some good news about accused confederate statue topplers in Durham, NC. To wrap things up, there are loads of upcoming events, so stay tuned until the end! {February 21, 2018}
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Direct download: The-Hotwire_19_Florida-School-Shooting-Gun_Control_Koreatown-Against-ICE-Raids_TN-Antifascism.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:18pm PDT |
Wed, 14 February 2018
The second episode of our second season! There is antifa activity in Olympia, Athens, and Seattle. Vaneesa Hopson died while in the custody of Olympia police and we report on the death and the subsequent protests.. There are strikes by delivery drivers across Hong Kong and Europe, by prisoners detained at an immigrant detention center in Washington, and walkouts across the country as part of the Fight for 15 campaign. We interview an anarchist active in the resistance to the Westlake Landfill. In honor of Valentine’s Day there’s a rant against conventional love. Stay tuned until the Repression Roundup to hear about the Black Pride 4. {February 14, 2018}
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Direct download: The-Hotwire_18_Toxic-Waste-in-STL_Labor-Struggles-in-the-Techno-Age_A-Rant-on-Love.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:58am PDT |