It’s Going Down

About a year ago, we announced a hiatus on this project. Due to an outpouring of support, we pushed ourselves to continue, and over the last year, we’re proud of the interviews and roundups we’ve been able to produce. But as events in the United States have continued to escalate and conditions have grown more dire, it’s clear that IGD does not have the capacity to meet the moment as a hub for grassroots reporting and journalism.

Long-time radio show and podcast, The Final Straw speaks with an attorney about ongoing attacks on protest and mutual aid projects in Gaza. This week, we’re featuring two segments. First up, Moira Meltzer-Cohen, an lawyer with the National Lawyers Guild, speaks about the recent declarations of war by the Trump administration on anteefah, what has changed legally, what they might be telegraphing and smart ways to move forward in this tense atmosphere.

Assembly of Zapatista Autonomous Government Collectives (A.C.G.A.Z) Common Governments Chiapas, Mexico September 24th, 2025.

Report from the Civil Liberties Defense Center (CLDC) on moves by the Trump administration to attack left-wing groups and ideologies as domestic terrorism. Yesterday the Trump regime signed yet another executive order that plainly states what many of us have known for a while now—that the cabal currently in power are unabashed fascists.

Filed under: Analysis, International Coverage, Mexico, Solidarity, The State September 26, 2025, marks 11 years since the State attack on students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Normal School in Iguala, Guerrero, during which six people were killed, 25 wounded, and 43 students disappeared. The following is the transcript of a Spanish-language audio segment produced by Radio Cósmica Libre in collaboration with the efforts of Communicators for Palestine.

Filed under: Action, Community Organizing, Disaster, US Report from Mutual Aid Disaster Relief on autonomous mutual aid organizing in 2025. It’s been a long, full year already.

Long-running anarchist radio and podcast show The Final Straw speaks with Nolan Huber of the Atlanta Community Press Collective about the ongoing Stop Cop City trial. This week, we spoke with Nolan Huber of the Atlanta Community Press Collective about recent developments in the case of 61 people facing RICO indictments and other charges in relation to the movement to Stop Cop City, an urban police training center built in south Atlanta’s Weelaunee forest.

The Dugout offers an analysis and reflection on the opening of the second Trump administration. Listen and Download HERE It’s been a year since Trump’s return to the White House. We look at the chaos of his second term—from attacks on birthright citizenship to sweeping emergency powers and foreign policy shocks. We break down the fallout at home: labor pushback, a fractured left, and the rise of fascist movements.

Long-running anarchist radio and podcast show The Final Straw speaks with a mutual aid group in Washington DC. This week, we’re featuring an interview with Shannon, one half of the mutual aid project operating in Washington DC known as Remora House.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS The war in Ukraine is often, like many conflicts, discussed through the lens of foreign policy and the interests of these entities that we call states. This is not the framing that we simply inherit from media, it is one that the Left globally has embraced just as thoroughly as liberals and conservatives. Discussions become echoes of the Cold War, where massive power blocks collide in some geopolitical game involving huge historical projects.