Memory and Solidarity: An Evening with Sean Burns and Andrej GrubacicIn this audio production from the Friendly Fire Collective, Irish anarchist intellectual and labor organizer Andrew Flood came to San Jose and Oakland as part of his North American speaking tour. Flood is a long time member of Workers Solidarity Movement (WSM) and has participated in the anarchist movement’s development from a handful of dedicated organizers into a directly democratic anti-capitalist movement that has spread across Ireland.
The Squatter Movement: Seizing HousingIn this recording you will hear an event organized by the Friendly Fire Collective featuring Sean and Andrej, two organizers, teachers, and historians of the Left. Recently they have each completed works on two dynamic elders of US radicalism: Archie Green and Staughton Lynd. Burns and Grubacic discussed why they entered into these projects, including questions of cross generational activist dialogue, memory and social struggle, Marxism and anarchism, cultural politics, and more. Additionally, discussion will focus how they have developed their historical work through oral and archival history, marking continuity as well as generational and philosophical tensions between collaborators.
An interview on KPFA’s Guns and Butter with journalist, squatter, and housing activist Frank Morales. Morales tells of the direct action campaigns for housing in the South Bronx and lower east side of Manhattan in the late 1970s. His analysis is top-notch as he discusses the banks’ redlining of loans to certain neighborhoods, government reports outlining the deconcentration of the urban poor from inner-cities as a counter-insurgency strategy, and the creation of the modern shelter system. An excellent look into the causes of endless housing crises as well as means of resistance and creation in the face of such attacks on the basic right to shelter.
