Episode 4: Peter Werbe, Detroit, MI // Sandy, Montreal, QC

Host Taylor interviews Peter Werbe—radio host, anarchist, and member of the editorial collective of Fifth Estate magazine—about the history of the longest running anarchist publication in print, about the parallels between the current moment and the radical social movements of the 1960’s, and more. In the second interviews of the episode, she interviews Sandy in Montreal—also part of the Fifth Estate team, a founding member of the collective that puts on the annual Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival, and part of the collective that runs Montreal’s anarchist bookstore, L’Insoumise. Discussion includes the ways that ideas of anarchists permeate non-anarchist social movements, the influence of historical anarchism on the current moment, the importance of tangible records and experiences in the forms of print, bookstores, and theater, and more.

This show is part of a series running through the end of 2020, new episodes published weekly, in which I revisit interviews taken during a radio show road trip in the summer of 2015—checking back in with those activists, organizers, and artists I met to see how their lives and work have adapted to changing times. You can find more information about that project at praxisradio.com/praxis.

Find a full transcript of the episode here.

For more information on the projects referenced:

*The Fifth Estate website—https://www.fifthestate.org/

*Fifth Estate Live—https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/fe-live/

*Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival website—http://anarchistetheatrefestival.com/en/news

*L’Insoumise website—https://insoumise.wordpress.com/

Sandy’s book list (each title is a link to purchase NOT from Amazon):

Carceral Capitalism, Jackie Wang

So Much Pretty, Cara Hoffman

We are the Birds of the Coming Storm, Lola Lafon

Caliban and the Witch: Women, The Body and Primitive Accumulation, Silvia Federici

Suosso’s Lane, Robert Knox