On this episode, we spoke with Irena Klepfisz. Irena is a writer, a poet, an activist, a lesbian feminist, a teacher, a researcher, and a movement elder. We talked with Irena about her experience being born in the Warsaw Ghetto to Bundist parents, her role in founding the Jewish Women’s Committee to End the Occupation, her years of work in the lesbian feminist movement in NYC, and her thoughts on the ways Jewish history is taught today. Show notes & full transcript: https://www.treyfpodcast.com/2021/02/23/50-irena-klepfisz

The final episode in our series on the Jewish Labour Bund! We first spoke with David Slucki about the ways the organization was reimagined after the Holocaust, with Bund chapters scattered around the world. We then spoke with Molly Crabapple about the Bund’s different legacies & what the symbol of the Bund can mean for different people today. Special thanks to JB Brager for the art we’re using for the series! Show notes & full transcript here: https://www.treyfpodcast.com/2020/12/13/49-the-general-jewish-labour-bund-pt-3

For this instalment of In the Streets, we spoke with Skyler Williams, spokesperson for 1492 Land Back Lane, an ongoing land reclamation effort on Six Nations territory. We talked about the repression that people there are facing, the recent solidarity day of action, and the relationship between this struggle and the 2006 reclamation of Kanonhstaton. Show Notes & Full Transcript: https://www.treyfpodcast.com/2020/10/17/1492-land-back-lane

The second episode of our series on the Jewish Labour Bund, a secular Jewish socialist movement founded in the late 1890s. On this episode, we spoke with Jack Jacobs about the Jewish Labour Bund during the interwar period in Poland. We talked about the Bund's widespread support during this period, its approach to Secularism, Zionism, Doykeit, and its many different auxiliary organizations. Show notes & full transcript here: https://www.treyfpodcast.com/2020/09/08/48-the-general-jewish-labour-bund-pt-2 Special thanks to JB Brager for the art we're using for the series!

Ashanti Alston is an anarchist, a prison abolitionist, and a former member of the Black Panther Party & Black Liberation Army. He was a political prisoner for over a decade and continues to work with the Jericho Movement for the freedom of all political prisoners. We talked with Ashanti about his life, his political work, state repression, prison abolition, and his thoughts on the current political moment. Show Notes & Transcript: https://www.treyfpodcast.com/2020/07/28/47-ashanti-alston

The first episode of our series on the Jewish Labour Bund, a secular Jewish socialist movement founded in the late 1890s! We spoke to Elissa Bemporad and Josh Meyers about the founding of the Bund, its underground revolutionary activities, and it's complicated relationship with the Bolsheviks. Special thanks to JB Brager for the art we're using for the series and to Brivele for calling in a rendition of 'FTP in der Gasn.' Show notes & full transcript here: https://www.treyfpodcast.com/2020/05/31/46-labour-bund-pt-1 [This episode was recorded prior to the inspiring Black-led resistance following the white supremacist police killings of George Floyd, Regis Korchinski-Paquet, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and many others.]

On April 19th, car caravans visited prisons & migrant detention centres in cities across so-called Canada. The caravans made noise and held signs in solidarity with those locked up, demanding their immediate release in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. This recording is an edited version of a special live broadcast by CKUT's Prison Radio Show that aired during the mobilization. Show Notes: https://www.treyfpodcast.com/2020/04/20/in-the-streets-freethemallcaravan

For this instalment of In the Streets, we spoke with Jennifer Wickham, media coordinator for the Gidimt'en Camp on Wet’suwet’en territory. We spoke about the Wet’suwet’en struggle for their territory, the recent raids by Canadian police, and the Indigenous-led Shut Down Canada uprising that's emerged in solidarity. [Note: This episode was recorded on Feb 27th 2020] Show Notes: https://www.treyfpodcast.com/2020/03/02/in-the-streets-shut-down-canada/

We spoke with Tallie Ben Daniel and Nava EtShalom about their new show, Diaspora Podcast from Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP). We discussed the origins of the podcast, the goals and intentions of putting it out, and what folks can expect in the first season of the show.

To celebrate the yearly #WaronChristmas, we are rebroadcasting our special episode from a few years ago. “Inspired by the confluence of panic and satire that is the War On Christmas, we endeavoured to discover its true meaning. Relying on the guidance of longtime activist Moishe Volf Dolman, we moved through Christmas past and present in Montréal, trying to understand what the War On Christmas is actually about.“ Merry Kratsmaych to all! #NishtGeshotygenNishtGefloygen #Didn’tRiseupDidn’tFlyUp!

For this episode, we explored the relationship between fascism and colonialism. We talked with Christian Davis about Germany's colonial genocide in Namibia and the ways that this tragedy acted as a precursor to the Holocaust. We then spoke with Rowland Keshena Robinson about how to understand fascism in a settler colony like the US, as well as what the threat of fascism means for Indigenous people today. Show Notes: https://www.treyfpodcast.com/2019/11/30/episode-45-fascism-and-colonialism