This week on the show, you’ll hear an interview with Lala an anarchafeminist in the Azerbaijani group Feminist Peace Collective about the recent war against and expulsion of ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh, about the Aliyev regime and patriotic elements in Azerbaijan’s reaction against anti-militarist voices, conspiracy theories and real critiques of non-profit NGO’s versus grassroots lgbtq+ and feminist organizing, and other topics. You can learn more about Lala’s group at FeministPeaceCollective.Com.

On December 19th at 8pm Caucasus time / UTC+4 (or 11am Eastern Standard or 8am Pacific Standard time) Feminist Peace Collective is hosting an online discussion with Dr. Chiara Bottici via zoom called “Anarchafeminism in troubled times” and with a focus on antifeminist and anti-queer backlash and war in the South Caucasus, central Asia, Turkey and Russia. There’s a registration link here.

Links from Lala

Antidoqma, posts in English, Russian and Azerbaijani
FemUtopia (facebook), posts in Azerbaijani
Transvisionary (Instagram), also posts in Azerbaijani
Nafas LGBT (Telegram) , in Azerbaijani
Queer Radar, in Azerbaijani
Başla, radical publishing (translates literature in azerbaijani on facebook)
Egalite, radical publishing (facebook)

Sean Swain

Sean’s segment starts at [ 01:06:24 ]

Announcements Fundraiser for Emergency Committee for Rojava

There’s a GoFundMe fundraiser for the guests of our October 15th interview, the Emergency Committee for Rojava including some thank-you gifts. More details at https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-emergency-committee-for-rojava-2023

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Featured Track:

Down 4 Life (instrumental) by DJ Muggs

Anti-Militarist and Feminist Resistance in Azerbaijan