LET'S TEAM UP TOGETHER AND MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE

Finally! This is part 4 of a 4-part radio documentary series on anarchism from 2004, produced at CKUT community radio in Montreal. This episode is Freedom On the Air Part 4: Anarchism and Social Movements. This radio documentary series has been unavailable for a long time online...until now! Enjoy, and create trouble.

We'll be back to regular Rebel Beat programming soon.

Track listing:

0:00 - Intro

0:56 - Deschooling

2:30 - Matt Hern

9:23 - Anarchsim in Africa

9:51 - Ashanti Alston

15:33 - Iraq Solidarity Project

16:14 - Andrea Schmidt

23:12 - Institute for Social Ecology

24:01 - Social ecology and green anarchy

36:05 - Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP)

37:08 - PJ Lilley

42:27 - 7-Year Squat

44:00 - Amy Miller and Mandy Hiscocks

50:50 - Direct democracy in Montreal

51:20 - Anarchy in Point St-Charles

59:39 - Outro

Produced by the anarchist elves of the CKUT community news collective: Aaron, Brook, Neil, Eric, Greg, Sabrina, Tamara, Arun

Part 3 of a 4-part radio documentary series on anarchism from 2004, produced at CKUT community radio in Montreal. This episode is Freedom On the Air Part 3: Theory and Practice. This radio documentary series has been unavailable for a long time online...until now! Subscribe to our podcast feed so you don't miss the other parts!

Track listing

0:00 - Intro

0:47 - The Federation Anarchiste (France)

1:26 - Structure and organization of the F.A.

5:02 - The F.A. and immigration struggles

6:29 - Diversity of the French anarchist movement

7:12 - AK Press

7:59 - Ramsey Kanaan and AK

10:35 - Challenges to collectives

12:42 - Anarchy and sex!

13:25 - Jamie Heckert

14:03 - Anarchist critiques of sexual orientation

17:07 - You ain't born queer

20:34 - Good sex and anarchy

22:46 - Regina Cochrane

24:56 - What is anarcha-feminism?

27:13 - Radical feminism vs. anarcha-feminism

30:43 - Anarcha-feminism and anti-globalization

32:42 - Not4Prophet

33:02 - Anarchist People of Colour (APOC)

37:48 - Anarchism and Puerto Rican youth

40:20 - Direct action

43:55 - Ann Hansen

44:36 - Terrorism vs. direct action

47:14 - Models of direct action

49:15 - Conclusion

Part 2 of a 4-part radio documentary series on anarchism from 2004, produced at CKUT community radio in Montreal. This episode is Freedom On the Air Part 2: Anarchist History. This radio documentary series has been unavailable for a long time online...until now! Subscribe to our podcast feed so you don't miss the other parts!

Track listing:

0:00  - Intro

1:12 - The First International

2:40 - Benoit Desgreniers (NEFAC) on the First International

12:36 - Haymarket Square

14:08 - Howard Zinn on the Haymarket Massacre

24:27 - Spanish Civil War

25:55 - Intro to Martha Acklesberg

26:52 - Martha Acklesberg on the Spanish Civl War

38:10 - Pierre Leyrand on the Paris 1968 Uprising

42:51 - We don't need the WTO!

45:26 - Intro to the Seattle 1999 protests

46:03 - Nadine Bloch and Roger on Seattle '99

54:22 - Conclusion

Produced by the anarchist elves of the CKUT community news collective: Aaron, Brook, Neil, Eric, Greg, Sabrina, Tamara, Arun

Not a regular episode of the Rebel Beat, but over the next few weeks we'll be re-releasing a 4-part radio documentary series on anarchism from 2004, produced at CKUT community radio in Montreal. Hope you enjoy Freedom on the Air part 1: Anarchy 101! This radio documentary series has been unavailable for a long time online...until now! Subscribe to our podcast feed so you don't miss the other parts!

3:11 - What is anarchy?

3:31 - Misconceptions in the street

4:48 - Anarchy and violence

7:48 - Addressing misconceptions

12:19 - Chaos vs. organization

15:36 - Anarchist values

17:46 - Montreal anarchist bookfair

20:04 - Anarchy is order

23:29 - Cindy Milstein intro

27:39 - The Enlightenment

31:13 - The Industrial Revolution

32:49 - Karl Marx

36:04 - Split from socialism

38:05 - William Godwin

40:32 - Pierre Joseph Proudhon

42:53 - Max Stirner

45:07 - Mikhail Bakunin

47:17 - Peter Kropotkin

48:25 - Emma Goldman

50:03 - Rudolph Rocker

51:34 - Errico Malatesta

53:11 - Leo Tolstoy

54:28 - Gustav Landauer

56:21 - May Day in Montreal

For the last quarter-century, Godspeed You! Black Emperor have been putting out epic, orchestral, anarchistic rock music. Their albums and legendary live performances have fuelled radical social movements in their hometown of Montreal, and all around the world. To celebrate the release of the band's latest album G_d's Pee at State's End!, The Rebel Beat is doing a 2-part people's history of Godspeed You! Black Emperor. This first episode features a conversation between host Aaron Lakoff, anarchist graphic designer Kevin Lo, and Sharmeen Khan of No One Is Illegal Toronto and Upping The Anti. We examine how the band's music has been interwoven with some of the greatest moments of social upheaval of our time, from the protests against the war in Iraq, to the massive Quebec student strike of 2012, to the current pandemic.

Part 2 will feature an in-depth discussion with Efrim Manuel Menuck from the band. Coming soon.

Also, happy MayDay! It's a great day to listen to Godspeed's tune Bosses Hang.

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Playlist

Peasantry, or 'Light, inside of light!'

Storm

A Silver Mount Zion - God bless our dead marines

We drift like worried fire

Mladic

Government came

OUR SIDE HAS TO WIN (for D.H.)

Rebel Beat theme music by Cee from Test Their Logik

After a long winter hibernation, The Rebel Beat is finally back and ready to roll out some new episodes this spring!

On this episode, we had the pleasure of speaking with Lawrence Dunn, the son of the late folk singer Willie Dunn. Willie Dunn was of mixed Scottish/Irish and Mi'ma'ki ancestry, and wore many hats throughout his prolific career. He was a powerful anti-colonial songwriter, a film director, an activist, and even took a run for elected office once. Some say that his music didn't get the attention that it deserved during his career, but now his son Lawrence Dunn has teamed up with Light in the Attic records to release an anthology of Willie's work, "Creation never sleeps, Creation never dies". Lawrence joins us for a heart-felt discussion on his father's music, activism and legacy.

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Playlist

Willie Dunn - Charlie

Willie Dunn - The Ballad of Crowfoot

Willie Dunn - The Carver

Willie Dunn - O Canada!

Willie Dunn - Louis Riel

Willie Dunn - Broker

Willie Dunn - I Pity the Country

Willie Dunn - The Pacific

Further resources

The Rebel Beat episode 013 - Native North America

The Ballad of Crowfoot (1968 film, National Film Board)

Theme music for the Rebel Beat by Cee from Test Their Logik

After a long hiatus, we have some very exciting news from The Rebel Beat HQ, including some new episodes and documentaries rolling out this spring. Stay tuned!

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Exactly 10 years ago this June, Toronto was a battleground. The G20 had just invaded the city, with the leaders of the world’s largest economies meeting behind fortified fences to discuss pillaging the world. Outside were thousands of us, there to crash the meeting.

The massive demos, and some rioting that followed, gave way to the largest mass arrest in Canadian history. Two of those people arrested were our guests on the program today, Testament and Illogik of the long-standing anarchist hip-hop duo Test Their Logik. They join us to reflect on the history of their group, the 10 year anniversary of the G20, and their new album "See".

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Grab the new Test Their Logik album on their bandcamp page here! Also check out these other dope projects that Test Their Logik are involved in: Realitea Cannabucha, and the True Cost of Coal book with the Beehive Collective.

Playlist

Kay the Aquanaut, Cee Reality, Lee Reed - 123

Test Their Logik - Rebel

Test Their Logik - WCH (Class)

Test Their Logik - B

Test Their Logik - C

Test Their Logik - Water

Test Their Logik - G8 G20 Crash the meeting

Other links to things we mentioned on the show:

Uprise Daily podcast (give it a listen!), Policing Black LIves book by Robyn Maynard

Today we’re going back in time in a way and exploring some Yiddish radical classic tunes with Brivele! Brivele is a Seattle-based anti-fascist klezmer folk-punk trio who braid together oral history, Yiddish language, contemporary and old-country musical genres, American Vaudeville, and visual arts. Check out their Bandcamp page here! 

I had a chance to speak with two members of the band a while ago, Stefanie and Maia, and they talk about the lineage of this music, and why it’s just as important to be putting out anti-fascist klezmer today as it was 100 years ago. 

Video of members of Brivele playing with "Yiddishists Against Prisons" in Val-David, Quebec in 2019. 

After 100 episodes of The Rebel Beat, we selected our top 5! Read the post on our website here. 

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Playlist 

Brivele - Bread and roses 

Brivele - Hungry Yid 

Brivele - FTP in der Gasn 

Brivele - Oy Zionists