The Child and Its Enemies

With me today is Tsela Barr, an organizer with the Madison, Wisconsin chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace.Tsela: Thanks for having me on your podcast. I guess I’ll start with my, my background and how I came to my activism.I’ve been a Palestine solidarity activist since the mid eighties, so since roughly my early twenties I was raised in a pretty typical Jewish household in the DC area. And I went to services regularly at a synagogue. And my parents put me and my siblings in a Hebrew school...

"I could not even pretend to be neurotypical if I tried. So the neurodivergent community is very important to me. My fellow neurodivergents are my kin and my comrades, and we live anarchy day in and day out, even if we don't realize it. I think most of us would have a harder time trying to shove ourselves into capitalistic, neurotypical boxes than to let ourselves be free, if we all thought about it and did the work necessary to liberate ourselves and each other."

Join us for an exploration of what Satanism has been and is today. David from Queer Satanic has been through the ringer being sued by The Satanic Temple numerous times. His group has successfully resisted litigation and exposed this so called church for the harmful and abusive institution it is. Let's hear what he has to say about Satanism and the Anarchist movement. Music today is I Survived American Christianity by New Here. You will find a transcript on our website at thechildanditsenemies.noblogs.org. Enjoy!

From PDX Jail Support organizer Clover joins us for a discussion about the implications for youth that this strategy of organizing holds. Music from Elliot Smith this time. Enjoy!

Co-Author of the new book "We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action" Shannon Clay joins us for a discussion about this youth movement phenomenon that is still going strong today. Music fro Ramshackle Glory this time. Enjoy!

Join us and Tom from Its Going Down, one of the more successful anarchist news organizations in recent years, to talk about what got them into this work, how its going now, and thoughts about what people should be doing in this moment. Music is "Wrecking Ball" by Mother Mother. Enjoy!

An episode on Madeline Lane-McKinley and their work. We get into how it intersects with youth autonomy and liberation efforts. Heck we even talk about what childhood even means and where it comes from. Is children's literature even possible? This and more on a long one, double interlude, let's go!

"We don't seek to create forever institutions or parties. We acknowledge that we need to retain the flexibility to move with conditions and to counter the tendency of power to collect and stay in certain places."