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The Poor Prole’s Almanac

Navigating Anarchist Media in the Age of Social Media with It's Going Down

The Poor Prole’s Almanac

Bleav + The Poor Prole’s Alamanac

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5761 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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0:00.0

Hey, guys, thanks for joining us.

0:16.8

I know most of our audience is probably familiar with its going down, but for folks not familiar,

0:21.0

could you describe your organization really quickly and introduce yourselves, I guess?

0:24.7

Sure. It's going down as a media platform from an anarchist perspective, but it's cross-tenancy

0:31.3

of variety of autonomous social movements that describe as anti-state, anti-colonial anti-capolis.

0:37.8

And we have a podcast.

0:40.0

We have a radio show that comes out on several Pacifica stations on the West Coast and beyond.

0:45.7

And we also have a platform for news.

0:49.5

And we feature interviews, roundups, and take submissions in the form of action reports and

0:54.9

critical reflections and stuff like that.

0:57.1

Awesome.

0:58.0

So, you know, I think there's a lot of variations of like anarchist news media, but somehow

1:05.0

you've got, you guys have really managed to stand out.

1:07.8

Do you have any thoughts about why that might be the case?

1:10.5

I think it's an interesting question. And I think it has to do with a number of different

1:14.9

factors.

1:15.6

So if you think about the anarchist media ecosystem, you tend to have like two models, right?

1:22.6

There's sort of the anarchist news model, which is the everyone says everything, submit whatever you want,

1:28.2

anyone could say anything in the comment section, and like, that can be entertaining and at

1:32.3

times interesting and useful, but it's kind of a more or less unfocused environment intentionally,

1:37.4

right? Then you have outlets like crime thing, which publish their own stuff. And like if you

1:43.1

are part of that circle of people,

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