From Embers
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From Embers
From Embers is a show about anarchist and anti-authoritarian politics in so-called Canada. We are part of the Channel Zero Anarchist Podcast Network.
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Fighting the PRGT Pipeline
An interview with two settler anarchists in northern British Columbia who are active in a growing struggle against the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission...
Black Oak Anarchist Social Space
An interview with one of the collective members behind Black Oak Anarchist Social Space, which launched in Hamilton in Spring 2025.
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Report from Montreal's NYE Noise Demo
A discussion with two organizers of this year's New Year's Eve noise demo in Laval. We discuss how things went, prisoner solidarity organizing in Mont...
Building Our Own Power: Five Years After The Brawl At Hamilton Pride
Five summers ago on June 15th 2019, a group of homophobic “street preachers” and their white nationalist allies attempted to enter and disrupt the an...
Ben Morea
An interview with Ben Morea, recorded after an art show and talk he gave in Kingston, Ontario entitled "Revolutionary Animism – The Unified Field: Art...
Event Audio: The No State Solution
The No State Solution: A Dialogue with Palestinian sociologist Mohammed Bamyeh and Israeli political scientist Uri Gordon
How can anarc...
Unionizing Prison Labour
An interview with Jordan House and Asaf Rashid, authors of the book Solidarity Beyond Bars: Unionizing Prison Labour.
We discuss the background...
AudioZine: Under New Management
On this special edition of From Embers, we’re sharing a reading of Under New Management: Resistance to Prisons in Ontario & Quebec. Originally publish...
Dispatches from the Fediverse
Our fediverse correspondent Lenny returns to discuss the FBI seizure of the servers of Kolektiva.social, the largest anarchist instance on Mastodon....
Drag Defence in Quebec
Talking with Louve Rose from P!nk Bloc Montreal about Quebec’s transphobic far right, drag defence, and building a revolutionary anti-capitalist queer...
The Public Order Emergency Commission
Interview with an anti-fascist observer about insights gained from the Public Order Emergency Commission hearings, a public inquiry into the federal g...
New Communication Infrastructure For Anarchists
Interview with the author of the PET Guide, a zine discussing secure digital communication tools from an anarchist perspective. We discuss Signal and...
Quebec Nationalism and Settler Futurity - Refusing Innocence
A conversation with two anarchists following a workshop they gave at the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair entitled 10 years since the strike: the place of...
Escaping Tomorrow's Cages
Escaping Tomorrow's Cages is a six-part essay being published throughout the month of May that lays out the coming wave of provincial jail expansions...
Student Organizing with Divest McGill
In this episode I chat with two members of Divest McGill, a student-led organization at McGill University in so-called Montreal. They are fighting to...
Solidarity with the people of Ukraine - Against the Russian State
Conversation with the author of Addressing Russian Propaganda, available online at praleski.org. We discuss some of the political and historic context...
Carla Bergman on School Resistance, Joyful Projects and Trusting Kids
carla bergman is an artist, writer, unschooler and fellow podcaster.
We discuss carla’s backstory, being radicalized by parenting, unschooling,...
Northern Ontario's Ring of Fire
A conversation with two members of Friends of the Attawapiskat River (Website/Facebook) about the Ring of Fire mining project and what's at stake.
Patriots and Big Trucks
We spoke with a transportation worker about the so-called Freedom Convoy currently occupying capital cities and border crossings across Canada. Links:...
Social Networks, Online Life and The Fediverse
This week's discussion features an anarchist who is really into Mastodon. We talk about what's wrong with corporate social media platforms, what we li...
A Stripper's Memoir
This episode features an interview with Cid V. Brunet about their recent memoir "This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir. We talk about stripping, s...
VABF Day 7: Ann Hansen on Prisoner Organizing and Working With Allies
In this interview, Ann Hansen, author of Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerilla and Taking the Rap: Women Doing Time For Society's Crimes, discus...
VABF Day 6: Five Reports From Ada'itx (Fairy Creek)
The Fairy Creek blockades and other blockades on unceded Pacheedaht and Ditidaht territories continue under the invitation of Pacheedaht Elder, Bill J...
VABF Day 6: Jennifer Wickham on Wet'suwet'en Anti-Pipeline Resistance during COVID-19
Jennifer Wickham, a member of Cas Yikh, the grizzly house, in the Gidimt'en Clan of the Wet'suwet'en people and media manager for the Gidimt'en yintah...
VABF Day 5: Art and Activism With Musician and Community Activist Stefan Christoff
An interview on multiple intersections of art and activism with Stefan Christoff, a longtime community organizer and musician living in Montréal / Tio...
VABF Day 5: Jineoloji: Learning from the Revolutionary Women's Movement in Rojava with Sarah Marcha
Sarah Marcha speaks to the revolutionary science of women's equality called Jineoloji that was developed in the autonomous region of Rojava. Jineoloji...
VABF Day 4: Kahala Johnson on Hawai'i, Anarchism, and the Politics of Indigeneity
Hawaiian activist and land defender Kahala Johnson discusses anarchism through the lens of Indigeneity and shares insights regarding resistance strugg...
VABF Day 3: Gord Hill on 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance
In this interview, Gord Hill discusses the making of his new edition of The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book and tactics and strategies the history...
VABF Day 2: Uri Gordon on Prefigurative Politics
Welcome to Day Two of the Victoria Anarchist Bookfair!
In this episode, Uri Gordon discusses some issues surrounding the use of the terms ‘prefi...
VABF Day 1: N.O. Bonzo on Anarchy, Art, and Mutual Aid
Welcome to the Victoria Anarchist Bookfair!
N.O. Bonzo is an anarchist street artist and illustrator whose work is much admired in the a...
Terrain Vague
The Terrain Vague, which loosely translates into English as the "wasteland," is a large de-industrialized and partially wooded area on the outskirts...
Mike Gouldhawke on Truth, Reconciliation, The State and #LandBack
An interview with Mike Gouldhawke about Truth and Reconciliation Day, the Canadian state, and #LandBack.
Find more of Mike's work here: https:...
The state, the virus, the far right: how can anti-authoritarians intervene?
Writer, researcher and teacher Dr. Alex Khasnabish talks about a recent workshop he gave at the Halifax Anarchist Bookfair called “You Can’t Police Yo...
Settlers on the Red Road
Interview with Tawinikay about her essay released in spring 2021 Settlers on the Red Road: On Indigeneity, Appropriation and Belonging which addresses...
Coming Together Amid The Pandemic
This episode features an interview with two members of the Halifax Anarchist Bookfair collective. We talked about how and why to organize an anarchist...
Climate Crisis, Activism, and the Future Of The Planet
For this episode I sat down (in person!) with author, farmer and organizer Aric McBay. We talked about the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate C...
A Year At 1492 Land Back Lane
This episode features an interview with Skyler Williams of 1492 Land Back Lane, a land reclamation on the edge of the Six Nations of the Grand River r...
Fairy Creek
A discussion with an anarchist participant in the Fairy Creek blockades on so-called Vancouver Island.
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Five Months of D...
Re-Launch Announcement
After nearly a year on hiatus, we're excited to finally be re-launching From Embers. In this mini-episode we briefly explain our absence, reflect on w...
VABF Day 7: Ma’amtagila (Kwakwaka’wakw) Matriarch Tsastilqualus of House Umbas on Indigenous Sovereignty and Rematriation
Tsastilqualus is an elder of the House Umbas from Ma’amtagila (Kwakwaka’wakw) territory. In this final episode of the Victoria Anarchist Bookfair's we...