The Dugout | a black anarchist podcast

I’ve always loved movies—not just for the storytelling, but for the way they’ve shaped how I see the world. In this video, I break down a few films that radicalized me and pushed me to think differently about history, power, and resistance: Malcolm X, The East, Selma, and The Black Power Mixtape.

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Why do I identify as an anarchist—specifically, a Black anarchist? I share my journey from early organizing and labor work to international protest. From the Black Panther Party’s survival programs to my time at Standing Rock, in France during Nuit Debout, and traveling through the Philippines, I’ve seen how mutual aid, decolonization, and direct action can transform our understanding of freedom.✏️ What radical moment shaped your p...

In this reupload of a collaboration between The Dugout Podcast and In the Mix Prisoner Podcast, we sit down with historian and organizer Garrett Felber to explore the life, politics, and legacy of Martin Sostre. From defense committees and anarchist theory to gender politics and prison abolition, this conversation traces Sostre’s journey through incarceration, radicalization, and post-release activism. We reflect on the lessons his...

It’s been a year since Trump’s return to the White House. We look at the chaos of his second term—from attacks on birthright citizenship to sweeping emergency powers and foreign policy shocks. We break down the fallout at home: labor pushback, a fractured left, and the rise of fascist movements. Most of all, we ask what resilience, solidarity, and new forms of anti-fascist organizing look like in this moment.

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Let's unpack the recent happenings with the assassination of Charles Kirk, and what this means for this moment of rising fascism.

What is Turning Point USA? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/us/turning-point-usa-charlie-kirk.html

How Kirk Earned Trump’s Admiration? https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/politics/relationship-charlie-kirk-donald-trump

Kirk Build The MAGA Youth Movement | https://nypost.com/2025/09/11/us-news/charlie-kirk-shot...

In this Security Culture 101 episode, we uncover COINTELPRO’s ongoing tactics—from the Black Panthers to recent cases like the Cleveland 5—showing how the state uses infiltration, entrapment, and surveillance to disrupt activism. We highlight why Black, queer, Indigenous, and abolitionist organizers are targeted and share strategies to protect each other without fear. Essential listening for anyone resisting state repression.

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In this episode, we sit down with Anastasia bat Lilith to explore the intersections of Jewish anarchism, spirituality, and organizing. From the roots and lineages that shaped her text Teshuva to the ways Jewish ritual, decolonial thought, and anarchist praxis inform her daily life, Anastasia offers a deep and vulnerable conversation on building liberatory community.

Together we dig into themes of teshuva as both practice and zine, t...

What does survival look like under fascism? History tells us that people resist in different ways — some fight, some flee, some freeze. From Hitler’s Germany to Cold War Latin America to Trump’s America, we’ll examine the lessons of democratic collapse. Drawing on Jason Stanley and Black radical thinkers, this video explores how to recognize authoritarian creep, how solidarity can keep us alive, and the haunting question: Is it tim...

What is Black August? And why does it matter? In this episode, we're diving deep into the history and spirit of a month dedicated to resistance. It's a time to honor the freedom fighters and political prisoners who sacrificed everything for our liberation.

Our main focus is on the incredible legacy of Kwame Ture, formerly known as Stokely Carmichael. We'll follow his journey from a young, charismatic student leader in the Civil Righ...

This episode of The Dugout Jordan takes listeners through a series of powerful readings and reflections on learning, resistance, and survival inside and outside the walls of prison. We begin with Brian Fuller’s Lifelong Learning, considering how education remains a liberatory practice even in confinement. Next, we turn to Boukman Ptah’s The New Solja: A Black Manifesto, digging into its radical call to arms for self-determination ...

From televangelism to Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, and today’s internet trolls, this video essay unpacks how alt-right media and the internet age have monetized fascism—often in more ways than one. And what does it mean when edgelords are in office and Trump fascism means that internet fascism is institutionalized?

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VIDEO CHAPTERS00:00 Intro - Jubilee Debates and Alt Right Media03:12 Alt-right media history – Me...

Trump police state. National Guard in D.C. Arresting activists, like Afeni, protecting Black youth. This video breaks down how Trump’s deployment of the National Guard into Washington, D.C. isn’t about crime reduction — it’s about expanding the police state that has always been here.

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The Dugout is expanding beyond the mic. We’re building a new website as a hub for political education, resource-sharing, and collective study. It will feature accessible learning modules—on Black anarchism, the Black Panther Party, mutual aid, and more—alongside a growing archive of books, films, and zines that have shaped our politics. Visitors will also be able to explore The Dugout’s own catalog of episodes and series in a curat...

In Direct Action 101: Episode 10, we expose how modern policing relies on surveillance—not just force—to control, intimidate, and punish. From facial recognition and drones to door knocks and license plate readers, this episode unpacks the digital and physical tools the state uses to monitor dissent. We trace the roots of policing from slave patrols to AI-driven surveillance, showing how pain compliance and repression are embedded ...

In this conversation, former political prisoner and anarchist Eric King shares the emotional depth of his journey—through solitary confinement, court battles, and spiritual struggle—to the slow and ongoing work of healing. From tattooing as therapy to fighting patriarchal power in prisons and families, Eric explores how trauma, solidarity, and resistance intersect. We discuss paralegal activism, building an abolitionist legal strat...

Originally hosted by the Organic Filaments Network, this conversation with Jordan from The Dugout traces the roots of political commitment and collective endurance. From environmental organizing post-2020 to lessons drawn from the Zapatistas, Rojava, and Black anarchist tradition, this dialogue is a deep dive into memory, infrastructure, and the emotional and strategic realities of building resistance.

Topics include: Gaza solidarit...

What does it mean to be Afro-Indigenous in a settler colonial state like the so called U.S.? In this conversation, we speak with author Kyle T. Mays, whose book An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States challenges conventional narratives and asks us to reckon with both anti-Blackness and Indigenous erasure.

From his early experiences navigating poverty in Michigan to finding political consciousness through texts like Black Ind...

In this reading of Jailbreak Out of History: The Re-Biography of Harriet Tubman By Butch Lee, we trace the revolutionary roots of one of the most misrepresented figures in U.S. history. From the violent backdrop of slavery and colonial war to the specific burdens—and power—carried by New Afrikan women, we explore the formation of Harriet Tubman’s militant spirit.

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This week on The Dugout, we speak with Fawaz, a Sudanese anarchist organizer, about building resistance in the face of dictatorship, war, and repression. From organizing underground student circles after the 2018–2019 uprising to going public as anarchists in 2020, Fawaz shares how youth movements in Sudan are rejecting military, religious, and tribal authoritarianism—and planting the seeds of mutual aid and collective care. We dis...