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The Case of the Spokane 3 + Ontological Exhaustion

This episode features two segments.

The Case of the Spokane 3

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On June 11, 2025, there was a demonstration of hundreds of people in Spokane, Washington to defend two young asylum-seekers, Cesar Alexander Alvarez Perez and Joswar Slater Rodriguez Torres, who were kidnapped by ICE while appearing for a scheduled check-in. The next day, the Trump administration’s DOJ sent out a memo to all districts to prioritize prosecution of anti-ICE protestors and publicize the repression. Months later, 9 people were brought to Federal trial, with 6 of them taking a non-cooperating plea deal. The remaining 3,  refused to back down and were taken to trial and were convicted of conspiracy.

For this episode we’re joined by Hadley, a member of the Spokane 3 Support Committee to speak about those defendants ( Justice Forral, Bajun Mavalwalla II, and Jac Archer ), their case and struggle for justice. A great, local media outlet named Range Media has been covering this case in detail, check it out at https://www.rangemedia.co/spokane-9-protests/ . Finally, stay tuned for a press conference this coming week after some next legal steps are taken by the defendants.

Ontological Exhaustion

After that, you’ll hear an interview by audio comrades at Radio Ausbruch out of Frieberg, Germany, with an interview of Marina Christodoulou on her essay “TOWARD A GENEALOGY OF ONTOLOGICAL EXHAUSTION: becoming indignant-to-life ( ontological indignation ) before becoming exhausted-to-life ( ontological exhaustion )“. Check our shownotes for links to the original essay and more from Ausbruch, which is a fellow member of the A-Radio Network of anarchist and anti-authoritarian radios and podcasts.

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Clare Follman on Humans in Nature and How We Imagine Belonging

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This week we’re sharing a conversation with Clare Follman, a writer, activist and gardener with a masters in environmental science about her 2026 AK Press book, Scapegoat: What the Invasive Species Story Gets Wrong. The conversation covers questions of ecological balance, belonging, linguistic clarity and the stories we tell about our relationship to the rest of nature.

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The Religious Function of Whiteness and Mass Criminalization in the US (with Andrew Krinks)

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This week, we’re sharing an interview with Andrew Krinks, author of White Property, Black Trespass: Racial Capitalism and the Religious Function of Mass Criminalization from NYU Press, 2024. For the chat, we speak about taking a theological lens to the question of what ties exclusive private property, white masculinity, police impunity and mass incarceration in the US. We discuss aspects of Christian thought, employ concepts borrowed from the Black Radical tradition and try to get closer to the root of the sickness in our culture that flourishes from others pain.

To check out a Firestorm book event with the author and others about the book and related topics, check out this video!

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Science, Radical Realism, and Anarchy (with William Gillis)

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This week, we’re sharing an interview with Will Gillis, author of the recently published book Did The Science Wars Take Place: The Political and Ethical Stakes of Radical Realism, published via C4SS where Gillis holds the position as The Voltairine de Cleyre Chair in Centrifugal Studies and technical coordinator.

For the hour we talk about the so-called Science Wars of the 1990’s, debates involving scientific approaches and shared understandings of a a measurable physical reality, post-modernism, the roles leftists and anarchists played in the debates and how cults and authoritarians employ anti-realist explanations of the world to limit their subjects’ moves toward liberation.

You can read more of William’s writings at https://humaniterations.net and https://c4ss.org

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