On this special episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we speak with folks across the country that are taking part in the exploding movement of anti-war encampments and occupations sweeping across US campuses in solidarity with Palestine. First, we speak with someone at Columbia University in New York. We discuss how the Right and the campus administration is attempting to attack protesters as ‘anti-Semitic,’ even as anti-Zionist Jewish students are playing a key role in the organizing alongside many other students from a variety of backgrounds. Next, we speak with grassroots journalist Vish ..read more

La siguiente es una entrevista con un grupo de afinidad feminista-anarquista anónimo de Ciudad de México realizada por Scott Campbell, colaborador de IGD. Una versión editada de este texto aparece en inglés en la antología Constellations of Care: Anarcha-Feminism in Practice, editada por Cindy Barukh Milstein y publicada por Pluto Press. Read this interview in English. IGD: ¿Cómo les gustaría presentarse? Tenemos que empezar diciendo que no somos un colectivo o un grupo formal. Nos vemos más como un grupo de mujeres y disidencias a quienes las une el amor, la amistad y la lucha por la libertad ..read more

Statement from the Emory University Gaza Solidarity Encampment originally posted to the Escalate Network. As the Palestine Solidarity movement rips across college campuses, college administrators and government bureaucrats are rushing to denounce anyone taking action as an “outside agitator.” Those who grease the gears of the war machine think that this rhetoric will erode public support for bold actions at Emory. They are wrong. 45 years after the Camp David Accords – an infamously botched, imperialist plan for peace between Israel and Egypt with no input from Palestinians – was orchestrated ..read more

Report on successful blockade and tree-sit in so-called southern Oregon that stopped the logging of old-growth forest. For more background on the campaign, go here. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) was pressured by activists to remove an area with ancient trees that was set to be logged as part of the Poor Windy project. This decision comes after three weeks of protest where community members prevented logging in the area by occupying a tree sit in an old growth ponderosa pine. The BLM and Boise Cascade caved to the demands of the activists and last night amended the contract for the Salmon ..read more

On April 17th, students at Columbia university in New York launched an encampment calling for the private, ivy league university to divest from the state of Israel, taking inspiration from past divestment struggles on campus against the Vietnam war and apartheid in South Africa. The encampment is only the latest in a series of growing campus protests which have denounced the US backed occupation of Palestine and the ongoing ethnic cleansing and genocide within Gaza. On April 18th, the NYPD moved in and arrested over 100 students and attempted to breakup the encampment, however hundreds of rein ..read more

Report from so-called Eugene on the recent April 15th blockade in solidarity with occupied Palestine. Check out a roundup of April 15th actions here. Amidst a genocide in occupied Palestine, Eugene, OR joined the people of the world to make their demand clear: we want a free Palestine. Despite months of protesting, contacting officials, and boycotting, the governments of the Western world unsurprisingly refuse to listen to the voices of their people and instead continue to enable the violence that facilitates their imperialistic stronghold in the Middle East. On Monday, April 15th, advocates f ..read more

Action report from Appalachians Against Pipelines about recent lock down in West Virginia against the Mountain Valley Pipeline. Early Saturday morning, a pipeline fighter using the name Vole locked herself to an excavator on the West Virginia side of Peters Mountain in the Jefferson National Forest, preventing Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) from finishing construction on both sides of the mountain, next to the Appalachian Trail. Banners at the site of the action read, “DESTROY ALL PIPELINES” and “LAND BACK,” and a rally of supporters gathered nearby in the National Forest. After blockading pip ..read more

Welcome, to This Is America, April 18th, 2024. In this episode, first we present an interview with a member of Houston Food Not Bombs, who speaks about how the group has been pushing back on attempts by the city to shut down their mutual aid program through ongoing ticketing and police harassment. We then turn towards New York City, and discuss how Democrats have greased the wheels through fear campaigns over crime and migrants, to bring in the National Guard onto the city’s subway system. Via @slam.matu We then speak to members of the Montreal Autonomous Tenants’ Union, who discuss their or ..read more

Report from Carbondale, Illinois on recent march and demonstration during the eclipse. On August 21dy, 2017 a total solar eclipse crossed across the continent of North America with the peak of its totality in Makanda, IL 15 mins south of Carbondale, IL. On April 8th, 2024 another total solar eclipse crossed through southern Illinois with the paths of both eclipses intersecting right in Makanda, IL. On the eve of the first eclipse a joyous march happened in Carbondale with a banner that read, “This Empire too will be Eclipsed.” After the first eclipse a small group of earthlings took on a very ..read more

Announcing upcoming forest defense gathering in so-called California. Go to Lost Sierra Forest for more information. Calling All Forest Defenders! Join us for a Forest Defense-Climate Action Camp May 23-29. We’ll be setting up just outside the Plumas National Forest (not far from the town of Paradise, which burned down in 2018 after widespread logging) where the U.S. Forest Service hopes to log 274,000 acres under the phony guise of “wildfire fuel reduction,” spewing 6 million tons of carbon dioxide and $30 million in toxic pesticides, including in ancient rainforest, while fueling 2 polluting ..read more