Apocalypse Survival Skill #2: Making Home

How to Survive the End of the World

Society & Culture

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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During this time of economic collapse, many of us are wondering how we will create and maintain homes, if and when we can’t afford to rent or buy. One answer is to take over vacant homes and buildings, an activity commonly known as squatting. In this episode, Autumn interviews Vikki Law, a prison abolitionist and squatters’ rights activist. Vikki takes us deep inside the story of how vacant buildings in New York City that started out as squats in the 70s and 80s, became permanent homes for their residents. https://victorialaw.net/ @LVikkiml music by Mother Cyborg and Tunde Olaniran and Trans Alp. - www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow www.endoftheworldshow.org/ www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/ @endoftheworldPC @adriennemaree @meansagittarius --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/how-to-survive-the-end-of-the-world/message

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0:00.0	So, Mom, first thing I want to do is I want to sort of like get a sense of like what we meet at what we're thinking about like in our life and like our minds when we think about the word apocalypse.
0:12.0	The first things that come to my mind are
0:15.4	barren landscapes, blown out buildings, people walking long distances.
0:23.0	Oh, so kind of like the nuclear apocalypse sort of thing.
0:26.0	And...
0:28.0	Hello beloved survivors.
0:31.0	I'm Autumn Brown, and this is how to survive the end of the world.
0:36.0	A podcast about surviving apocalypse with grace, rigor, and curiosity.
0:42.0	The other voice you're hearing is my eldest child Finn.
0:45.2	We've been recording a lot of conversations about apocalypse preparedness and
0:50.6	because we just moved from a five acre plot of land in the woods to an apartment in the city,
0:57.0	we are thinking and talking a lot about home and making home.
1:02.0	I know I've been actually watching a lot of zombie movies lately and one of the things I notice in TV and movies about apocalypse is that oftentimes
1:19.8	the way we imagine an apocalypse happening, there's some kind of...
1:25.0	Government issues?
1:27.0	There's government issues, for sure.
1:30.0	There's some kind of new disease or monster that people don't know how to fight.
1:39.0	A.K. Godzilla Mode.
1:42.0	Godzilla Mode zombies or some sort of virus.
1:46.0	And there is also like an element of people being having to forge
1:56.6	alliances with whoever they happen to be with not necessarily the people that they would have chosen to be with.
2:05.0	The ongoing crisis of the coronavirus pandemic reminds us that when disasters
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