Episode 76: Lily Forester

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Thaddeus Russell

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4.2 • 706 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2019

⏱️ 165 minutes

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Summary

Three years ago Lily Forester fled the United States for Mexico with her partner, John Galton, to escape long-term prison sentences for the production and sale of cannabis. On February 1, John was murdered at their homestead on the outskirts of Acapulco. This is Lily’s first interview since John’s death. For full show notes, go … Continue reading →

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0:00.0	This is the Unregistered Podcast, and I'm Thaddeus Russell.
0:07.2	This is a show about ideas, people, and behaviors that are considered inappropriate, out of bounds, or beyond the pale.
0:15.5	The things you're not supposed to talk about if you're a schoolteacher, a college professor, a businessman, a politician, a parent, a neighbor, or even a podcast host. These are the things you're not supposed to say or even think if you're a good liberal, a good conservative, or a good citizen. Each week, I'll interview a person who has something bad to say.
0:40.2	They might be a journalist or a professor, they might be a porn star or a drug dealer.
0:45.3	They might just be an ordinary person with an ordinary job who doesn't care about the rules of
0:50.7	polite society. I'm not interested in breaking the rules just to be a troublemaker.
0:56.1	I'm interested in people who break the rules of conventional thought
0:59.5	and to expand the scope of what is possible to say in our society.
1:04.1	I'm interested in people who make me think.
1:09.6	Four weeks ago, I received an email from a Los Angeles-based production company by the name of
1:14.8	Bird Murmur that was making a film about a group of anarchist expatriates living in Acapulco, Mexico.
1:21.1	They wanted to interview me for the film, whose working title is stateless.
1:26.1	I watched their footage, and I was immediately interested in two people who were featured in the film,
1:31.3	who went by the names of John Galton and Lily Forrester.
1:35.6	John and Lily were fugitives who had fled the United States.
1:39.9	Both of them had gone to prison in Ohio for growing cannabis when they were teenagers.
1:45.6	They were arrested a second time, and they were facing 25 years behind bars.
1:52.5	So they fled across the border into Mexico, and they made their way to Acapulco,
1:58.4	where they joined up with a group of anarchists who had formed a community
2:02.3	around the annual Anarchopulco conference. John and Lily soon became dissatisfied with the values
2:09.6	and culture and sensibility of the anarchist community there, and they decided to establish
2:14.6	their own conference called Anarchoforko or The Fork.
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