4.2 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
A conversation with Chicago's Lake Effect Collective about the pro-Palestine University Occupations, the Chicago DNCs of 2024 and 1968, the current struggles against ICE, and their experience forming an organization.
Lake Effect's texts: UChicago Occupation: https://lakeeffect.noblogs.org/post/2024/08/01/reflections-on-the-uchicago-popular-university-for-gaza-encampment/
DNC: https://lakeeffect.noblogs.org/post/2024/09/07/seattle-is-never-coming-back/ ICE: https://lakeeffect.noblogs.org/files/2025/03/previoustactics_FINALREAD.pdf
On organizing: https://lakeeffect.noblogs.org/post/2025/05/29/bring-the-ruckus-2008-notebook-on-cadre-revolutionary-organization/
https://lakeeffect.noblogs.org/post/2025/07/03/getting-organized/
Jarrod Shanahan's new book: Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help: A Decade of Rebellion, Reaction, and Morbid Symptoms
For a FREE copy of the book, subscribe or upgrade your subscription to annual Antifada supterstars tier (a 16% discount!), and include your mailing address in a DM
(more info on Fall promotion: https://www.patreon.com/posts/fall-promotion-138957785)
Song: Fall Out Boy - Lake Effect Kid
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | What's up, everyone? |
| 0:05.0 | All right. |
| 0:05.9 | We've got a full house in Antifada Studios today. |
| 0:09.3 | We're joined by Jared Shanahan, a voice you, I'm sure you remember. |
| 0:15.3 | What's up, Antifada World? |
| 0:17.1 | And he's here with his massive, masked cadre of Chicago rabble-rousers. |
| 0:25.0 | They're part of a group called Lake Effect from the shores of Lake Michigan. |
| 0:29.6 | And we're going to talk about practicing politics the right way. |
| 0:33.3 | So you figured it out? |
| 0:34.6 | Well, you're going to tell us. |
| 0:36.0 | So this is a group that came to my attention from some writings about the DNC in Chicago this summer. |
| 0:43.4 | And they've continued writing about organizing and, you know, reflections on American culture and politics. |
| 0:49.5 | And so we're going to go into some of those articles. |
| 0:53.6 | Who of this massive assemblage would like to introduce the group a little bit better than I just did it? |
| 0:59.9 | Hi. |
| 1:00.4 | So we're Lake Effect Collective from like Andy said, Lake Michigan. |
| 1:05.8 | We're a group that does a lot of collective writing, together various topics talked about the DNC |
| 1:14.4 | we've been thinking a lot about deportations in Chicago that sort of situation in the Midwest |
| 1:23.2 | yeah we're sort of a group of different anarchists, communists, thinking together, working together. |
| 1:31.0 | Yeah, and I'm going to pass it to someone to talk about some of the writing. |
| 1:35.0 | Hi. |
| 1:35.5 | So one of the things that our group places a pretty high premium on, I think after just kind of being in this world for a bit, is having some kind of |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Sean KB and AP Andy, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Sean KB and AP Andy and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.