Quick Take: Listen to the Anti-Authoritarian Podcast

If you'd like both inspiration and ideas on how to defeat rising fascism in the United States, this podcast is for you!

If we want to stop rising fascism in the United States, we’re going to need more than hope. The Anti-Authoritarian Podcast is right on time, delivering weekly interviews with people who have deep insights into authoritarian movements — and how to defeat them. The first episode features author and legendary organizer Suzanne Pharr, and is hosted by the incomparable duo of Sue Hyde and Scot Nakagawa.

Full disclosure: I am one of the executive producers of the Anti-Authoritarian Podcast, a project I worked on with the 22nd Century Initiative and Convergence: A Magazine for Radical Insights earlier this year before rejoining People’s Action Institute in June. So yes, I am biased, but only because I have listened to this interview already and was blown away by the conversation between Suzanne, Sue, and Scot. Trust me, this is special.

Here’s their description of the first episode:

In this episode, Scot and Sue sit down with Suzanne Pharr, a Southern queer feminist and anti-racist organizer, strategist, writer, community organizer, and educator. Over her decades of work, she has contributed to the advancement of many social justice movements and worked on historic campaigns against authoritarian attempts to exploit popular prejudice for political and financial gain. With much wisdom and experience, Suzanne paints a clear picture of how we have arrived at this political moment with authoritarians infiltrating our governments and communities, and the direction the pro-democracy movement needs to move.

I hope you will join me in listening and subscribing to the Anti-Authoritarian Podcast. Most of the guests are also authors, and if you like what you hear, you can always go deeper.

Thanks for listening!

James