Last Born In The Wilderness

Anarchist writer Peter Gelderloos returns to the podcast to discuss his new book, They Will Beat the Memory Out of Us: Forcing Nonviolence on Forgetful Movements, published through Pluto Press. We dialogue on topics such as movement heartbreak, memory as relationship, how enclosure produces memory loss, and how ruptures in generational continuity in liberatory struggles have brought us to where we are today. // Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/peter-gelderloos-3 // Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Donate: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast

Anarchist writer Peter Gelderloos returns to the podcast to discuss his new book, They Will Beat the Memory Out of Us: Forcing Nonviolence on Forgetful Movements, published through Pluto Press. We dialogue on topics such as movement heartbreak, memory as relationship, how enclosure produces memory loss, and how a loss of memory in liberatory struggles has brought us to where we are today. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

Author and activist Xander Dunlap joins me in this wide-ranging interview to discuss permanent ecological conflict, as theorized and documented via numerous case studies in his new book, This System is Killing Us: Land Grabbing, the Green Economy and Ecological Conflict, published through Pluto Press. // Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/xander-dunlap // Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Donate: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast

Author and activist Xander Dunlap joins me in this wide-ranging interview to discuss permanent ecological conflict, as theorized and documented via numerous case studies in his new book, This System is Killing Us: Land Grabbing, the Green Economy and Ecological Conflict, published through Pluto Press. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

Long Covid Action Project (LCAP) activists Corsi Rosenthal (CR) and Clean Air (CA), along with journalist and LCAP founder Joshua Pribanic, discuss the recent direct action CR and CA participated in to disrupt the National Institute of Health's (NIH) first meeting for the RECOVER Initiative, ostensibly created to "understand, treat, and prevent Long COVID" in the United States. / Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/lcap-activists-2 // Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Donate: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast

Long Covid Action Project (LCAP) activists Corsi Rosenthal (CR) and Clean Air (CA), along with journalist and LCAP founder Joshua Pribanic, discuss the recent direct action CR and CA participated in to disrupt the National Institute of Health's (NIH) first meeting for the RECOVER Initiative, ostensibly created to "understand, treat, and prevent Long COVID" in the United States. // Support the work and listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

Political analyst, writer, and Three Way Fight contributor Matthew N. Lyons joins me to discuss his analysis of the upcoming US presidential election, and how the choices presented to voters is "between a Democratic option more abysmal than four years ago and a Republican option even more catastrophic than last time." This interview was recorded just a few days before voting day on November 5th, and is based on Matthew's article, Three Way Fight Analysis of Trump and the 2024 Election. // Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/matthew-lyons // Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Donate: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast

Author and scholar Dr. Mohamed Abdou returns to the podcast, one year after October 7, 2023. Our discussion flows across various subjects: Al-Aqsa Flood and the US-Israel genocide of Palestinians in Gaza; Islam and the crusading Euro-American imperial project; anti-colonial struggle as resistance, decolonization as "creating the world of many belows"; and Abdou's participation in the Palestine solidarity encampment at Columbia University, where he was targeted, threatened, and slandered by Zionists in the university administration, United States Congress, and by prominent media figures. // Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/mohamed-abdou-2 // Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Donate: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast

Author and scholar Dr. Mohamed Abdou returns to the podcast, one year after October 7, 2023. // Support the work and listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

Meteorologist Jeff Masters joins me in this interview to discuss the damage wrought by Hurricane Helene in the southeastern United States, as he has written extensively about for the Yale Climate Connections blog, Eye on the Storm, and to contextualize this year's hurricane season within the larger trends of human-caused climate change. // Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/jeff-masters // Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Donate: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast