Episode 31: How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022)

Hal and Craig discuss high-risk activism and the 2022 thriller How to Blow Up a Pipeline (dir. Daniel Goldhaber). We also discuss:

• The end of the Vince McMahon era of professional wrestling;

• The Insane Clown Posse (WHOOP! WHOOP!) and their fight against the FBI;

• The misogyny of the police, as seen in Netflix's AMERICAN NIGHTMARE;

• Jonathan Glazer's new film THE ZONE OF INTEREST; and

• The effects of successful high-risk activism.

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SOURCES & LINKS

• “Alabama Rising” https://inquest.org/alabama-rising/ 

• Anarchist Black Cross Federation (https://www.abcf.net/prisoner-info/)

• Arkansas 2020 Uprising Repression links: 

  • https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-angels-commissary-prison-costs

  • https://staging.bsky.app/profile/queersatanic.bsky.social/post/3khqqoh7boq2u

  • https://www.thenation.com/article/society/movement-racial-justice-police-arkansas/

  • https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2023/12/12/little-rock-police-vehicle-arson-cases-end-with-federal-sentencing-of-four-defendants

• How to Provide Support to Political Prisoners: https://www.prisonersolidarity.com/how-to

• Gundelach, Peter and Jonas Toubøl; HIGH- AND LOW-RISK ACTIVISM: DIFFERENTIAL PARTICIPATION IN A REFUGEE SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT. Mobilization: An International Quarterly 1 June 2019; 24 (2): 199–220. doi: https://doi.org/10.17813/1086-671X-24-2-199

• McAdam, Doug. "Recruitment to high-risk activism: The case of freedom summer." American journal of sociology 92.1 (1986): 64-90.

• McAdam, Doug, and Ronnelle Paulsen. “Specifying the Relationship Between Social Ties and Activism.” American Journal of Sociology, vol. 99, no. 3, 1993, pp. 640–67. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2781286. 

• Nepstad, Sharon, Christian Smith; Rethinking Recruitment to High-Risk/Cost Activism: The Case of Nicaragua Exchange. Mobilization: An International Quarterly 1 April 1999; 4 (1): 25–40. doi: https://doi.org/10.17813/maiq.4.1.8152670287r21558

• “Struggle for Power: The Ongoing Persecution of Black Movement by the U.S. Government” https://m4bl.org/struggle-for-power/

• Zwerman, Gilda, and Patricia G. Steinhoff. 2005. “When Activists Ask for Trouble: State-Dissident Interactions and the New Left Cycle of Resistance in the United States and Japan.” Pp. 85-107in Repression and Mobilization: Social Movements, Protest, and Contention, edited by Christian Davenport, Hank Johnston, and Carol Mueller. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 

• Gilda Zwerman, Patricia Steinhoff; The Remains of the Movement: The Role of Legal Support Networks in Leaving Violence While Sustaining Movement Identity. Mobilization: An International Quarterly 1 February 2012; 17 (1): 67–84. doi: https://doi.org/10.17813/maiq.17.1.b56l107q2n175778

• Zwerman, Gilda, Patricia G. Steinhoff, and Donatella della Porta. 2000. “Disappearing Social Movements: Clandestinity in the Cycle of New Left Protest in the United States, Japan, Germany, and Italy.” Mobilization 5(1): 83-100. 

• Examples of repression:

  • https://theintercept.com/2020/06/02/history-united-states-government-infiltration-protests/

  • https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/may/19/chicago-nato-protesters-terrorism-charges 

  • https://truthout.org/articles/revealed-the-story-behind-the-nato-3-domestic-terrorism-arrests/