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From Embers
by 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.
Episodes
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The Coming Climate Catastrophe
Two anarchists from southern Ontario talk about 25 year climate projections in that region and what it might mean to take them seriously. Related Links Workshop Recap: The Coming Climate Catastrophe Climate Atlas of Canada Desert by Anonymous Aric McBay Interview on Climate Crisis It's Revolution...
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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 Project or PRGT. Resistance to the project has been heating up all summer as government approvals have been issued and construction work is…
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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. LINKS Black Oak Anarchist Social Space Hamilton Anarchist Bookfair North Shore Counter-Info RELATED EPISODES The Locke Street Affair (Part 1) Queers Fight Back Cedar...
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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 Montreal, the value of noise demos as an anarchist tactic and tradition, and where we might go from here. Thanks to CKUT Prison Radio for the live...
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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 annual Hamilton Pride celebrations at Gage Park. Based on experience the previous year at Hamilton Pride and elsewhere in southern Ontario, anarchists...
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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, Politics and Spirituality." Ben Morea is best known as a key figure in the Black Mask group, The Family (popularly known as Up Against The Wall...
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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 anarchist perspectives contribute to Palestinian liberation? Professor Mohammed Bamyeh, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, is author of Anarchy as…
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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 of the book, some historical and legal precedents, the pros and cons of right-based approaches, the core strategic arguments for a prisoners union, and…
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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 published in 2018 on It's Going Down under the title Our Neighbors to the North, this article discusses the establishment of the Canadian prison system…
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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. We also talk about the continuing discrediting of big tech companies such as Twitter, Meta and Reddit, and what that might mean for people working…
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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 organization for both community self-defence and to intervene against gay assimilationism. Links P!nk Bloc MTL – Instagram, Facebook, Linktree...
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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 government's use of the Emergencies Act to repress the so-called Freedom Convoy in February 2022. We discuss why governments invoke emergencies…
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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 its critics, and some new tools being released that incorporate peer-to-peer communication, end-to-end encryption and the Tor network. Further...
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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 nationalism within militant struggle. We discuss the history of Quebec nationalism and its influence in anarchist and radical milieus,...
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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 in Ontario and propose a strategy for how they might be opposed. We spoke with 3 anarchists involved with the project.
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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 force McGill to divest from the fossil fuel industry and transform the university into something liberatory and accountable to the people whose…
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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 for Russia's current invasion of Ukraine including Russian state mythology of anti-fascism, the importance of solidarity with people in Ukraine...
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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, the Purple Thistle, pandemic school closures, learning to trust kids, and striving to bring more joy into our projects and lives. Find carla on twitter,...
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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. Mining Injustice Solidarity Network: (Website/Facebook) Song excerpt from Sounding Rock drum group, Webequie First Nation
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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: Naujawan Support Network Canadian Anti-Hate Network Punch Up Collective (Ottawa) Ottawa Trip Report Three Way Fight
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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 like and don't like about spending time catching up online, and how Mastodon/the Fediverse feels different from hanging out on Instagram. We also get...
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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, sex work, anarchist community, sex, gender and much more. Buy the book at Arsenal Pulp Press.
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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, discusses her work with the Prison for Women Memorial Collective (P4WMC). The group is dedicated to having a permanent Memorial Garden and Gallery for…
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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 Jones. Please consider supporting the Defence of Indigenous Land BIPOC gofundme:...
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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 access point who is living on the yintah and working on a feature-length documentary film about Wet'suwet'en sovereignty as a creative producer.…
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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 / Tiohtià:ke. This interview will highlight various forms of expression of the arts within social movements against systemic oppression, injustice and…
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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 is an international movement spanning Europe and the Middle East. In this interview, Sarah discusses the leadership roles of women in the system…
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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 struggles, including land reclamations and direct action blockades that halted the construction of a massive telescope on Mauna Kea, one of the most…
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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 of Indigenous resistance teaches us. He provides an analysis of present day resistance against the right wing, as well as an account of the...
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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 'prefiguration' and 'prefigurative politics.' He is the author of several books and articles on contemporary anarchism, including Anarchy Alive!:...
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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 activist community. In this interview, Bonzo discusses their beautifully illustrated edition of Peter Kropotkin's most famous book, Mutual Aid, and the politics…
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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 of Hochelega, a neighbourhood in Montreal's east end, and close to the Port of Montreal. That space is under threat from several major development...
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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://mgouldhawke.wordpress.com/ Also check out his new chapter "By All Means, Anti-Politics" in the new Little Black Cart anthology "Not On Any Map." Music in...
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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 Yourself Out of a Pandemic: Anti-Authoritarian Strategies in an Age of Crisis." We discuss both state and far right responses to the COVID-19…
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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 the problem of race-shifting in anarchist and anarchist-adjacent spaces. Music from Snotty Nose Rez Kids.
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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 gathering during the pandemic, anarchy in Halifax, and why we need anarchist bookfairs in 2021. Music by Slow Man Tofu (Kingston) and Desperate...
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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 Change report, what climate scientists are now saying about the future of the planet, whether it's still worth trying to stop climate change, and...
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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 reserve near Caledonia, Ontario. This week marks the one year anniversary of the camp which was reclaimed last July in response to plans to develop…
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Fairy Creek
A discussion with an anarchist participant in the Fairy Creek blockades on so-called Vancouver Island. Further reading: Five Months of Direct Action... (No More City) The Return of the War in the Woods? (BC Blackout) Desert (The Anarchist Library)
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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 why the show still feels important to us, and tease two upcoming episodes.
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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 week of podcasts, Tsastilqualus speaks about her life and views on how Indigenous resistance can be combined with cultural renewal to realize...
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VABF Day 7: Homeless in the Pandemic
As in other places, unhoused people in Victoria face severe challenges in their daily lives ranging from a lack of food, sanitation and medical services to harassment by police and security. One particularly disturbing development are growing resentments and assaults by community members who are...
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VABF Day 6: Kurdish Sociologist Ozlem Goner on the Current Struggle For Autonomy in Rojava
Ozlem Goner is a steering committee member of the Emergency Committee for Rojava, New York, and associate professor at the City University of New York. Her research interests focus on political sociology, ethnographies of the state and nationalism, comparative and historical sociology, race and...
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VABF Day 6: UK Theorist Ruth Kinna (editor, Anarchist Studies) on Capitalism, Anarchism, and the Commons
Ruth Kinna is a world-renowned political theorist and historian of ideas who has authored numerous books on anarchism, nineteenth- and early twentieth-century socialist thought, utopianism and contemporary radicalism. She is a professor of political philosophy at Loughborough University and…
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VABF Day 5: Anarchist Ann Hansen and Trans Activist Naphtali Discuss Prison (In)justice
Ann Hansen is former member of the anarchist organization Direct Action and served over 7 years in prison for her involvement with that collective. She is now living on a self-sufficient farm and works on prison-related issues as a member of the Prison for Women (P4W) Memorial Collective.…
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VABF Day 4: Nuu-chah-nulth & Coast Salish activist Queen Sacheen (Ancestral Pride) reflects on her life and Indigenous Sovereignty
Queen Sacheen is co-founder of Ancestral Pride, with whom she has produced many zines. She has spent a great deal of time advising Settler-anarchists on how to be in solidarity with Indigenous resistance movements. She is a warrior who has taken part in many actions, including Standing Rock....
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VABF Day 3: John Zerzan on His Life As An Anarchist and the State Of Affairs In the USA
John Zerzan is author of numerous publications exploring the pre-modern dimensions of our being. His weekly radio program, AnarchyRadio can be found here: https://www.johnzerzan.net/radio/.
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VABF Day 2: Kathy Ferguson on Emma Goldman's Women and Anarchism As 'A Movement Of The Book'
Kathy Ferguson is an US-American author, political philosopher, feminist, historian, anarchist, and professor of political science and women's studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She has authored one of the best critical biographies of renowned anarchist Emma Goldman: Emma Goldman:...
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VABF Day 1: Gidimt'en Checkpoint Spokesperson Molly Wickham on Wet'suwet'en Resistance Before, During and After The Pandemic
Molly Wickham (Sleydo) is a member of the Gidimt'en Clan of the Wet'suwet'en Nation. She has been tirelessly active in the Wet'suwet'en' Nation's assertion of sovereignty over their unceded territories. This interview discusses the current state of affairs regarding the Coastal GasLink pipeline's...
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The Victoria Anarchist Bookfair is here and we can all (virtually) go!
From Embers will be collaborating with the Victoria Anarchist Bookfair over the next week to bring you some really great audio content that they're releasing in lieu of an in-person event. Their real-life bookfair is, like so many events, cancelled, but they've made the best of the situation and...
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