Dissident Island Radio – June 2020 – Episode 247

06/16/20 • 185 min

Dissident Island Radio episode 247 is a bumper mashup of black lives matter and mutual aid, tending you with:

– A report back and street sounds from the first weekend of Black Lives Matter demonstrations in London (00:01:35 – 00:12:10)

– RaRa sharing mutual support strategies for mental health carers, critiques of psychiatry, the impacts of covid and how we can sustain each other (00:14:34 – 00:45:40)

– Faith from Leabridge Mutual Aid Group discussing practical community support networks taking root under lockdown (00:46:49 – 01:04:04)

– A double dose of legal learnings from ACAB Andy – first with updates on police and court responses to the demos (01:07:52 – 01:21:10) followed by advice on what to expect should you suffer arrest (01:27:14 -01:45:10)

– Sprinkled throughout are spoken word poems and snippets of speech from the Newington Green Black Lives Matter demo held last Saturday, 13th June

– And playing us out is Ronin with a technically filthy set ahead of his new release (01:46:15 – 03:05:45)

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or download the chat show and/or dj set separately here: SHOW // DJ SET

For additional resources on collective care check out: – CRADLE Community for resources around care and accountability – Power Makes us Sick zine, ‘physically distant, connected by care: towards collective resilience and strength during the covid-19 pandemic’ – PirateCare’s syllabus of resources, inc. content around coronavirus – Queercare : Mental Health Intervention Protocol pocket guide – Death Cafes gone digital, inc. The Outside Project‘s Virtual Community Center centering LGBTQ+ – Misery Party: a mental health collective centering queer/trans/nb BIPOC. The Misery Meets Curriculum has many great links – Healing Justice LDN centers black, brown and indigenous healing. Latest sessions include confronting savior complexes within carework. – If you’ve any cash to share RaRa recommends Black Minds Matter UK

For more on mutual aid check out: – Transformative justice handbook – Lessons from Covid-19 on transformative justice and mutual aid – Reflections for activists going local for the first time

Dissident Island Radio episode 247 is a bumper mashup of black lives matter and mutual aid, tending you with:

– A report back and street sounds from the first weekend of Black Lives Matter demonstrations in London (00:01:35 – 00:12:10)

– RaRa sharing mutual support strategies for mental health carers, critiques of psychiatry, the impacts of covid and how we can sustain each other (00:14:34 – 00:45:40)

– Faith from Leabridge Mutual Aid Group discussing practical community support networks taking root under lockdown (00:46:49 – 01:04:04)

– Sprinkled throughout are spoken word poems and snippets of speech from the Newington Green Black Lives Matter demo held last Saturday, 13th June

– And playing us out is Ronin with a technically filthy set ahead of his new release (01:46:15 – 03:05:45)

Download the full show below

or download the chat show and/or dj set separately here: SHOW // DJ SET

For more on mutual aid check out: – Transformative justice handbook – Lessons from Covid-19 on transformative justice and mutual aid – Reflections for activists going local for the first time

Previous Episode

Dissident Island Radio – May 2020 – Episode 246

Dissident Island Radio episode 246 presents another dose of covid centric content with noises from:

– Rent Strike London and London Renters Union discuss mutual aid and supporting renters during the global #RentStrike2020 (00:01:13 – 00:27:06)

– Communities Against Prison Expansion talking about the situation inside UK prisons during the pandemic, the farce that is the government’s compassionate release scheme, and the growing interest in prison abolitionist narratives (00:29:52 – 00:49:50)

– ACAB Andy telling us about the risks of spitting at cops in the time of coronavirus, the reality of retrials while jury trials are suspended and the current standings in the race to accumulate the highest number of fixed penalty notices for covid related offences (00:54:16 – 01:02:56)

– A brief burst of Bad News from new islander Tifta (01:03:12 – 01:07:07)

– A set of the finest ambient electronica from The Whispering Minority (01:07:38 – 02:14:18)

– Plus tracks from the Wyatt Act, taken from their upcoming album SlamRock In Place

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Dissident Island Radio – July 2020 – Episode 248

Dissident Island Radio is 13 years old! In this 248th episode we send you home from the birthday party with a special bag of treats including:

– Gendered Intelligence discuss their campaign to achieve positive change for trans people in the age of right-wing culture wars (00:05:02-00:30:22)

– Chat about the Anarchist Black Cross International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners happening 23-30 August 2020 (00:34:52-00:47:41)

– ACAB Andy on fireworks, Black Lives Matter updates, conditional cautions, ‘international police cooperation’ and why Activist Court Aide Brigade advice won’t work in Hong Kong any more (00:51:45-01:00:38)

– Thoughts from members of Rent Strike London and the London Renters Union after several months of organising a city Rent Strike (which forms part of a Global Rent Strike) (01:04:19-01:18:48)

– Pinda with a round-up of UK-related ‘B(A)D News‘ (Dissident Island’s contribution to the a-radio network‘s monthly international news digest) (01:18:48-01:23:45)

Plus – tracks by Killdren from their album ‘Dismembers of Parliament’ as well as a Killdren music set (01:26:12-02:37:59) to end!

Download the full show below

or download the chat show and/or dj set separately here: SHOW // DJ SET