@beautifulidea.bsky.social
Podcast bringing your news and analysis on frontline autonomous struggles and social movements across the US and beyond from a distinctly anarchist perspective. Proud member of the Channel Zero Network (CZN). Listen and Subscribe: thebeautifulidea.show/
Brand new episode from the @beautifulidea.bsky.social featuring interview with anti-ICE organizers in Chicago.
From February 25 to March 1, the Twin Cities hosted hundreds of people who traveled to Minnesota to take part in the Melt the ICE week of action.
Several events took place daily—including marches, blockades, noise demos, speaking events, and trainings.
A reportback.
crimethinc.com/weekofaction...
i am here today to heartily recommend Woodbine's amazing podcast ep featuring someone from @crimethinc.com
they talk about generational interactions, preserving memory, the auth. left, crimethinc's roles over the years, & everything in between. really good stuff!
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Brand new interview with folks from the Lake Effect Collective on ongoing resistance to ICE in #Chicago. thebeautifulidea.show/lake-effect-...
Brand new interview with folks from the Lake Effect Collective on ongoing resistance to ICE in #Chicago. thebeautifulidea.show/lake-effect-...
The Vichy Democrats—Governor Walz, Mayor Frey, and their ilk—have cut a deal with the feds: they will arrest noise demonstrators keeping ICE awake at night, sweep the blockades impeding ICE operations in the streets, and prosecute rapid responders confronting ICE in every corner of the Twin Cities.
“This conversation is part of an ongoing series we’re developing on ICE resistance efforts across the country. Stay tuned for more like this soon!"
Aryanum of @anarshism.com talks about the recent uprisings and repression in Iran, the contribution of the last 9 years of protest, monarchist attempts to seize the momentum and the role of religion in the power of the regime
thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/02...
ICYMI: Organizers in New Orleans talk about pushing back against ICE. Check it out here!
New episode out now!
"We speak with an organizer based in New Orleans about the community’s efforts to confront ICE during a special operation that took place there in December of 2025." thebeautifulidea.show/mutual-aid-a...
"In this episode we talk to a variety of people on the ground in Minneapolis about their thoughts on the filter blockades and other things happening there currently relating to anti ICE resistance." thebeautifulidea.show/minneapolis-...
Incredible coverage applicable everywhere
"In this episode we talk to a variety of people on the ground in Minneapolis about their thoughts on the filter blockades and other things happening there currently relating to anti ICE resistance." thebeautifulidea.show/minneapolis-...
Today marks one month since ICE mercenary Jonathan Ross murdered Renee Good.
It was not the first public execution ICE carried out. But because rapid responders caught it on film and angry locals forced ICE to withdraw after, there can be no question about what happened.
Resisting makes us safer.
New It Could Happen Here
@iwriteok.bsky.social's keynote speech for the Japanese American National Museum on combatting authoritarianism in the modern world.
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
Check out our 2018 biographical interview with Zolo to get some of his amazing back story in his own words: thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2018/09...
Or the 2020 panel he did with IDOCWatch (plus a followup Q&A)
thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2020/05...
New episode is out!
In this discussion I talk to a friend from @crimethinc.com about the past year, how we got here, and what strategic horizons may be open to us now.
The days have been dark, but the fires burning in the distance are getting brighter.
thebeautifulidea.show/fires-in-the...
Updates from a member of Tekoşîna Anarşîst and a heval in Qamişlo about the seige of Kobanê, SDF conflicts with the Syrian transitional government and defending the #Rojava Revolution
thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/02...
We sat down with someone from @crimethinc.com to talk about the past year, growing social movements in the streets, and the fight against a government hell bent on consolidating authoritarian violence and repression. thebeautifulidea.show/fires-in-the...
“To make sense of everything we have experienced over the last year we start with events that occurred almost 40 years ago, with the fall of the Soviet Union and the rise of neoliberalism to primacy.”
this episode is 🔥
“we will be sitting down with an editor for the upcoming publication BREACH Digest to talk a little bit about operational theory. We discuss what operational theory is, the history of anarchists studying the operational arts, and some resources that you can get into if you want to dig deeper.”
“Something has shifted fundamentally since those ICE vans got themselves looted…Now, the question becomes how communities assert autonomy, defend that autonomy from the state, and mobilize uncontrollable elements to help make that happen.” ~ @creativenothing.bsky.social (on fedi)
Join our patreon for $3+ per month and get early release content like this interview with Cooper Quintin of the Electronic Frontier Foundation ( @eff.org ) talking about open-source tools to detect cell-phone surveillance by law enforcement
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Should be a direct download link in the show notes on the podcast player and on the website, you can download directly here: thebeautifulidea.show/fires-in-the...
We have a bunch of new shows up! Check your podcast feed or download here: thebeautifulidea.show
I listened to this, got to the end and immediately jumped back to the beginning. Everyone should listen to this imo
A general strike in Minneapolis. Student walkouts across the country. Demonstrations break out everywhere, organized by prisoners, workers, and youth - are all picking up speed.
Masses of people are working together to organize mutual aid + community solidarity on a growing scale. A thread.
Don't miss this episode interview on organizing in Minneapolis!
We sat down with someone from @crimethinc.com to talk about the past year, growing social movements in the streets, and the fight against a government hell bent on consolidating authoritarian violence and repression. thebeautifulidea.show/fires-in-the...
“We are stuck in a race between administrative authoritarianism and the collapse of the American state as we understand it…
Operational theory is often described as the space that exists between strategy (large-scale movements over time) and tactics (the immediate techniques of fighting).”