Live Like the World is Dying

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Episode Notes You can donate to our guest's training of QTBIPOC via cashapp $armqtbipoc or venmo @armqtbipoc The host can be found on twitter at https://www.twitter.com/magpiekilljoy, on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/margaretkilljoy, or on patreon at https://www.patreon.com/margaretkilljoy

Episode Notes The Indigenous Anarchist Federation can be found on twitter @IAF__FAI Their website is one of the best preparedness resources available for protestors and other rebels: https://iaf-fai.org/ Camp Red Sleeves can be found on twitter @redsleevesaca They run a monthly fundraiser to maintain their anticolonial mutual aid efforts and if you enjoyed this episode please donate to them Other websites referenced on this episode include: https://www.indigenousmutualaid.org and https://www.indigenousaction.org/ The host Margaret Killjoy can be found on twitter @magpiekilljoy, instagram @margaretkilljoy, or patreon at https://www.patreon.com/margaretkilljoy

Episode Notes The guests provided us with some resources: Herbal first aid aftercare for those who have experienced police violence: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14nVeF6auCIqQRBh-q3gyEmV5POiYur_Z/view Seed, Soil and Spirit: an herb school for QTBIPOC and allies with social justice framing: https://www.seedsoilspirit.com Rootwork Herbals: an online and in-person school: https://www.rootworkherbals.com/herbal-education Excellent free foundational herbal medicine resources from Jim Macdonald: https://www.herbcraft.org Introduction to herbal medicine book from Rosemary Gladstar: https://www.storey.com/books/rosemary-gladstars-medicinal-herbs/ Herbal first aid wound care from 7song: https://7song.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Herbal-First-Aid-Wound-Care.pdf Free online herb school with the late great Michael Moore: www.swsbm.com/school/ This is an herbal respiratory infection protocol. Good for the upcoming flu season: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12b09xsVmA0_6nDTjgqFtxZXnT8CTkClMKDyqPOi-jOk/edit Youtube channel with educational herb and gardening videos from Joe Hollis at Mountain Gardens: https://www.youtube.com/user/mountaingardens/featured Ideas for an herbal first aid kit. Make your own! https://learningherbs.com/remedies-recipes/herbal-travel-first-aid-kit/ Learn about Bidens, a weedy and abundant herb that works wonders on serious infections: https://radicalvitalism.wordpress.com/2016/02/16/bidens-as-an-herbal-antibiotic-a-case-study/ Indigenous perspective on relations with plants: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer: https://milkweed.org/book/braiding-sweetgrass How is our individual health tied to that of our communities, our society and all of life on Earth? Read about Radical Vitalism: https://radicalvitalism.wordpress.com/2016/08/19/radical-vitalism-by-janet-kent-and-dave-meesters/ Herbs for grounding in turbulent times: https://radicalvitalism.wordpress.com/?s=herbs+for+grounding Herbs for when you are freaking out: https://radicalvitalism.wordpress.com/?s=emergency Zines: Ease Your Mind: Herbs for Mental Health https://firestorm.coop/products/4003-ease-your-mind.html Under Pressure: Herbs for Resilience https://firestorm.coop/products/12035-under-pressure.html On the radical potential of herbalism: Using the elements as a map through the ever-changing and increasingly challenging territory, for individuals and movements: You are Nature: Working with the Elements for Change: https://radicalvitalism.wordpress.com/2020/02/01/you-are-nature-working-with-the-elements-for-change/ The host Margaret Killjoy can be found on twitter at https://www.twitter.com/magpiekilljoy and instagram at https://www.instagram.com/margaretkilljoy. You can support her on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/margaretkilljoy

Episode Notes Robert Evans can be found on twitter at https://twitter.com/iwriteok Some of his podcasts (which can be found wherever you listen to podcasts) include Behind the Bastards, It Could Happen Here, The Women's War, and Worst Year Ever. Margaret Killjoy can be found on twitter at https://twitter.com/magpiekilljoy Her patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/margaretkilljoy

Episode Notes Kitty can be found on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/kittystryker and twitter at https://twitter.com/kittystryker Her five-day preparation article: https://thebolditalic.com/be-prepared-a-5-day-ish-guide-to-basic-emergency-prepping-86960f03279 Margaret can be found on twitter at https://twitter.com/magpiekilljoy and on patreon at https://www.patreon.com/margaretkilljoy

Episode Notes In this episode I talk with Mixæl Laufer of the Four Thieves Vinegar about their work offering access to medications that are sometimes unavailable. We discuss their work on the epi-pencil, the open source apothecary microlab, aboritificants, naloxone, and other wet chemistry drugs as well as offering some introductory information about how people extract hormones, insulin, and thyroid. We also talk a good deal about what it would mean to live in a world in which access to life-saving and life-improving medicine is actually accessible. Mixæl Laufer can be found on twitter at https://twitter.com/MichaelSLaufer The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective can be found online at https://fourthievesvinegar.org/ The open insulin project, referenced in this show, can be found online at https://openinsulin.org/

Episode Notes This episode covers what demonstrators might want to know about wearing body armor. We cover the types of armor, how to source them, how to fit armor to different body types, what you can and can't skip for cost savings, and more. If you choose to wear body armor, we recommend IIIA level vests for soft armor (bulletproof vests) or level III+ for hard armor (plate carriers). Soft armor is substantially lighter and more convenient, but only protects against handguns. We are not advocating for escalation, only for individual and community defense and for our ability to continue to demonstrate as safely as we can.

Episode Notes Nwcg.gov has some online training for firefighting. readyforwildfire.org is for basic home hardening / prep fireadaptednetwork.org is a directory of folks working on fire resilience in various areas Calpba.org has all the prescribed burn associations in California

Episode Notes Bex has compiled this list of supplies and where one option of where you can source them: IFAK Build 🦇 Current lowest price per kit: $95.25 (This doesn't include tax, shipping, or bag/pouch for the kit) CAT Gen 7 (1) $30/each: available from NAR, Chinook, Rescue Essentials, etc ETD (2) 4" flat, $7/each: https://www.narescue.com/flat-emergency-trauma-dressing-etd.html Chest seal (2) Hyfin twin pack, $15/pair: https://www.narescue.com/hyfin-vent-chest-seal-twin-pack.html Hemostatic gauze (1) ChitoGauze z-fold, 3"x4yd, $32/each (on sale) https://www.rescue-essentials.com/chitogauze-xl-otc-3-x-4-yds-z-folded/ Celox rapid Z-fold, 3"x5', needs med auth to purchase? $34/each https://www.rescue-essentials.com/celox-rapid-z-folded-red-packaging/ QuikClot combat gauze z-fold, 3"x4yd, $43/each https://www.narescue.com/all-products/massive-hemorrhage/combat-gauze-z-fold-hemostatic.html Sharpie (1) Staples 12 pack, $8/12 on sale (.66/each) https://www.staples.com/Sharpie-Fine-Point-Permanent-Markers-Black-12-pk-1812419/product_371792 Gloves (2 pair) Nitrile exam gloves size L, $13/100 (. 52/kit) https://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/S-12549L/Nitrile-Gloves/Uline-Exam-Grade-Nitrile-Gloves-Powder-Free-Large Shears (1) 7.5" stainless Shears, $3/each https://www.rescue-essentials.com/emt-shears-7-5stainless-steel/ Zipper bag for gloves (1) "sandwich size", $3.50/50 (. 07/each) https://www.staples.com/Glad-Resealable-Sandwich-Storage-Bags-50-Box/product_134708

Episode Notes I've spent most of the past two months researching police weaponry and how to stay safe while challenging state power. In this episode I discuss gas masks, respirators, goggles, and filters. My guest for this episode is Jack, my bandmate in the band Alsarath ( https://alsarath.bandcamp.com ). Much of this information can also be found in the article A Demonstrator's Guide to Gas Masks & Goggles, published by CrimethInc: https://crimethinc.com/2020/09/02/a-demonstrators-guide-to-gas-masks-and-goggles-everything-you-need-to-know-to-protect-your-eyes-and-lungs-from-gas-and-projectiles

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You can donate to the fund for US medical volunteers returning from Syria here: http://paypal.me/RojMedical I recommended the podcast Worst Year Ever's episode The Reasonable Person's Guide to Prepping and you can find that here: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-worst-year-ever-49377032/episode/the-reasonable-persons-guide-to-prepping-59450250/ For gear lists I recommend theprepared.com

The Jane Addams Collective can be found online at https://janeaddamscollective.org/ The full text of the book Mutual Aid, Trauma, and Resiliency can be found online at https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/the-jane-addams-collective-mutual-aid-trauma-and-resiliency A transcription of the episode, provided by a comrade who desires to see more accessible anarchist content: S01E04 Aine on Isolation, Loneliness and COVID-19 Live Like The World Is Dying 0:00.0# (Introductory music) 0:16.8# Margaret Killjoy: Hello and welcome to Live Like The World Is Dying, the podcast that focuses on, well, what feels like the end times. I'm your host, Margaret Killjoy. This week I'm talking with Aine, a member of the Jane Addams Collective out of New York city. The Jane Adams Collective is an anarchist collective that works on mental health issues. It's mostly mental health professionals who work on... Basically developing forms of self-therapy and... That are applicable to when people don't have access to traditional therapy or don't want the hierarchical model of traditional therapy. They also have done a lot of work and written a short book about mutual aid and trauma and basically the... How trauma comes up in disaster situations and what we can do about it. So I'm very excited to have Aine on the podcast. I know I promised that this week I was going to talk to a friend of mine who just came back from the autonomous regions of... Northern Syria and I have that interview done but I feel like this particular one needs to go up as soon as possible. One result of my own self-isolation is that I don't have access to my usual recording space. I actually live off-grid without real internet and without electricity so sometimes I have limited access to certain things and the place I normally record has someone living there who can't really have people over right now. So I apologize in advance for the audio quality of the interview. But I think it's absolutely worth hearing anyway and I... I hope you enjoy it. 2:00.0# Margaret: Before the interview gets started, I just wanna say a few words on my own about mutual aid and this particular crisis. I think that one of the things that we're watching happen is the failure of national-level governments to keep us safe but an incredible amount of work done both on the international level and at the local level to... And on the individual level to try and keep each other safe during... During this crisis. And I think in a lot of ways that's a natural pre-figuration of what society probably should look like where... Experts on an international level are able to advise local infrastructure about how best to act without actually having the power at the top. Instead having the power at the bottom, we can keep each other safe. And the other thing I wanna say is that... I'm... I'm cooped up right now but a lot of people aren't. A lot of people are out there working their jobs either because they have some shit service class work job where their boss won't... Shut down the cafe and during a pandemic, or people are out there working at day shelters for homeless people, or working in health or delivering food or working in the other... Essential things that... That we need in order to stay safe as a society. And not only does my heart and... My heart go out to people who are doing that work, but I also want to suggest that in a society that we hope to build, hopefully that most dangerous work, that front line work is something that people can cycle through. People can come in and out of. This isn't... Really my own idea, this is coming from someone I care about who... Works at a day shelter and realizes that people will die if they stop going to work. So they still go to work. But it is an awful lot to deal with right now and I hope that whatever happens, none of us really know what's going to happen, I hope that we're able to, not just cheer on people who are doing that kind of work, but figure out how some of us who are capable can step up and take some of the burden off of those people and maybe cycle people in and out of certain tasks. I don't know, something to think about. Maybe I'm completely off base, I don't know. But anyway, here's the interview and I hope you get as much out of it as I did. 4:39.4# (Musical transition) 4:52.2# Margaret: So, welcome to the podcast. If you want to introduce yourself with your name, your pronouns, and any political or organizational affiliations that you want to mention. 5:04.7# Aine: Yeah, my name is Aine. She/her. I am an anarchist and I've... I'm in Jane Addams... the Jane Addams Collective. It's a radical anarchist mental health collective that's been around about five years. I do a few other things and do work out of the base in Brooklyn as well. 5:26.7# Margaret: Okay. Do you want to... So I... I put out a call to try and find basically... Anarchist or radical mental health professionals to talk about... What's been going on right now in terms of... I

Anyone in NYC interested in organizing with MACC can find out more at https://macc.nyc/ The host Margaret Killjoy can be found on twitter at @magpiekilljoy and at http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/ You can support the show at http://www.patreon.com/margaretkilljoy

Episode Notes The guest Zoe Martínez works in public health in the UK The host Margaret Killjoy can be found on twitter at @magpiekilljoy and at http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/ You can support the show at http://www.patreon.com/margaretkilljoy

Episode Notes Kitty Stryker can be found on twitter at @kittystryker and at http://kittystryker.com/ Margaret Killjoy can be found on twitter at @magpiekilljoy and at http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/ The following transcript was provided by a comrade who wants to help us make this show more accessible: S01E01 Kitty Stryker on Anarchist Prepping Live Like The World Is Dying 0:00:00.0# (Introductory music) 0:00:15.1# Margaret Killjoy: Hello and welcome to Live Like The World Is Dying; a podcast that explores life when it feels like the end times. I say "when it feels like the end times", and I’m gonna get into this more throughout various episodes of the podcast, because of course, the world is always ending. It’s always changing the status quo. Always shakes and changes, collapses, rebuilds, all of these things. So sometimes people roll their eyes when you talk about the world ending. And sometimes that makes sense, the world has ended in a lot of different ways. But... It sure feels like the world is ending right now to me and to... Maybe to you and maybe it will, maybe it won't. Obviously what it means for the world to end is a subjective thing. But it's a... It's a stress factor to say the least, on a lot of people's lives right now. Thinking about climate change and thinking about the... The rise of global fascism. So this is a podcast that's gonna explore... Well, how we can live while we feel like the world is dying. For myself and for this podcast I've found that I focus on four different priorities. I focus on living like the world is going to end and that I might not survive, living like the world is going to end and I can try to survive, living like we can prevent the end of the world, and of course, living like maybe the world isn't ending after all. So basically hedonism, prepping, revolution, and not burning all your bridges because... Who knows, the status quo might linger on after all. With this podcast I'm probably going to focus on the middle two of these priorities. I'm gonna focus on prepping and revolution. And I'm going to do that because... Well, I've always sort of wanted there to be more information and more... More going on about anarchist and leftist prepping. Because most of the prepping world is of course steeped in... Not just like right-wing politics, but also right-wing values and individualistic values and of course as an anarchist I believe in the balance between the individual and the community and because of that I don't believe in individualistic survival. I don't believe that the bunker mentality, which we're going to talk a lot of shit on in this podcast over the next couple episodes, is appropriate to most... To most threat models. So I'll be your host, but for the most part I'm going to interview people who know a lot more about a lot of this stuff than me. As for me, I am a prepper I suppose on some level. I keep a small stockpile food. Dried food in 5 gallon buckets in case there's an interruption in... Well, food supplies. I make sure I know where water filtration is. I also keep a to-go bag and... At my house. And I keep another one in my car that's much smaller. Neither of these are a particularly elaborate. They're... They're fairly simple things I put together. And that's... That's more for my own mental welfare than it is like any immediate expectation of crisis. And I also... I live off grid. Which is not something that I'm gonna specifically advocate that anyone else do. I actually live off grid because it just sort of meets my needs here and now in terms of how I like to live. I live about half an hour away from a small city in a cabin I built myself in the woods because I like doing that. I like living that way. I'm an anarchist and that's going to certainly bleed over into the content of this show. I believe in a world without course of hierarchies like the state or capitalism or white supremacy or heteronormativity or... Or any of the intersecting oppressions and hierarchies that rule the world that shouldn't. And so of course, a lot of my... I tell you this because I want you to know my biases because I want you to come to your own conclusions. I have a bias against state and federal aid. I tend to find it to be wildly inefficient. I'm far more interested in creating a society based on mutual aid. And so... And I find agency to be wildly important. I find it very important for us to encourage each other to have agency and so I'm interested in disaster relief or crisis preparation or whatever, that maximizes individual agency, that maximize community agency and... Yeah, that's what's interesting to me so that's what I'm going to be focusing on more. This first episode, our guest is Kitty Stryker who I can let introduce herself. Thanks so much for listening. 0:05:01.9# (Musical transition) 0:05:06.5# Margaret: So today our guest is Kitty Stryker. Well actually, do you want to introduce yourself with your name and pronouns and kind of any political or or