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March 3, 2017

Season 1

01. Killing the Black Snake: Behind the Scenes of the #NODAPL Struggle

The first episode of Trouble looks beyond the mainstream narratives surrounding the Standing Rock encampment to get a better understanding of some of the camp’s overlooked dynamics, including serious disagreements over which tactics to use to best stop the Dakota Access Pipeline.

29min
March 3, 2017

02. Bash the Fash: Confronting the Rise of the New Right

In the wake of Trump’s ascendancy to the US presidency, this episode analyzes the toxic mix of white nationalism, Islamophobia, transphobia, misogyny, and anti-migrant hysteria that is coalescing into a movement that has, in turn, sparked more interest in anti-fascist organizing.

30min
April 28, 2017

03. Refugees Welcome: Creating Solidarity Across Borders

In this month’s episode of Trouble, anarchist media collective we interview a number of individuals from around the world who are helping to chart a course for the future based on living practices of solidarity and mutual aid, and who are invested in tearing down the physical and imaginary borders that seek to keep us divided.

34min
May 26, 2017

04. No Justice... Just Us: Movement Defense Against State Repression

In this episode of Trouble, we interview a number of individuals engaged in legal defence and prisoner solidarity, and look at some of the ways we can begin to build movements that are more resilient in the face of state repression.

31min
June 23, 2017

05. You Are Being Watched: Movement Defense Against State & Corporate Surveillance

In Trouble #5 we bring you first-hand accounts of people dealing with snitches and undercover cops and how to navigate the brave new world of digital surveillance.

34min
July 28, 2017

06. Adapt and Destroy: Counterinsurgency and Social War

In this month’s episode of Trouble, we interview individuals as they explain some of the main principles of counterinsurgency, and identify historical and contemporary examples of how they are put into practice.

32min
September 29, 2017

07. No Permission Needed: Mutual Aid in an Age of Climate Catastrophe

In this month’s episode of Trouble, we look at individuals carrying out front-line disaster relief using a decentralized framework rooted in solidarity and mutual aid.

32min
October 27, 2017

08. Hack the System: The Internet as a Battlefield

In Trouble #8 we look at hacking as an act of resistance and how states are weaponizing the internet

34min
November 24, 2017

09. Learning to Resist: Student Struggles Against Capital and the State

subMedia pays homage to the insurgent youth who partook in the global uprisings of 1968by taking a look at some contemporary student-led movements that are still tearing things up around the world.

35min
January 26, 2018

10. School's Out: Student Struggles Against Capital and the State

The second in a two-part series marking the 50th anniversary of the student-led uprisings of 1968, sub.Media continues to shine a light on contemporary student struggles from around the world.

34min
February 23, 2018

11. Destroying Domination: Revolutionary Feminism in an Age of Misogynist Reaction

In this month’s edition of Trouble, sub.Media takes a look at patriarchy as an enduring system of social, economic and political control.

32min
March 23, 2018

12. There Goes the Neighbourhood: Gentrification as Class Warfare

This episode examines gentrification as a process of capitalist urban development, by taking a closer look at how it’s playing out in three mega-cities: Toronto, New Orleans and Istanbul.

32min
April 27, 2018

13. Defend the Block: Fighting Back Against Gentrification

In this month’s Trouble, sub.Media talks to comrades in Montreal, the Bay Area and Berlin to see how people in these cities are fighting back on attacks on their communities by developers, real estate speculators and the tech industry.

32min
May 25, 2018

14. Fighting Where We Stand: Struggles for Autonomous Spaces

In this month’s episode of Trouble, subMedia showcases three ongoing land defence struggles: the Unist’ot’en Camp, the autonomous spaces movement in Ljubljana, Slovenia and the eco-defence occupation known as La ZAD.

29min
June 15, 2018

15. And You Don't Stop: Hip Hop as Resistance

This installment of Trouble is subMedia’s 35-minute love letter to radical hip hop

35min
September 14, 2018

16. Conspiracy to Riot: The Case of the J20 Resistance

This episode of Trouble looks at the riotous protests against the inauguration of Donald Trump, carried out under the banner #DisruptJ20… and the historic trial that followed.

37min
October 26, 2018

17. Mad Worlds: Redefining Sanity Through Struggle

Trouble #17 explores mental health, and radical solutions to the problems causing mental un-wellness.

33min
November 30, 2018

18. ACAB

For the first Trouble episode of 2019, subMedia rings in the new year by looking at the institution we love to hate: the cops.

32min
February 25, 2019

19. Quiet Storm: Technology & Social Control

In this month’s episode of Trouble, we look at technology – specifically at the growing nexus between mass data collection, artificial intelligence and surveillance.

33min
March 29, 2019

20. Inside-Out: Against Prison Society

In the 20th edition of Trouble, subMedia takes a closer look at the Prison-Industrial-Complex.

35min
May 3, 2019

21. Land & Freedom

Trouble #21 episode takes a deep dive into anti-colonial struggles in Turtle Island and in Palestine.

39min
August 2, 2019

22. Crossing the Line

In episode 22, we take a look at the worsening situation at the US/Mexico border, the US immigration system, and the implications of heavily militarized borders on stolen land.

36min
September 27, 2019

23. Prelude to a Disaster

Trouble 23 takes a closer look at climate change, its implications, and the shortcomings of the mainstream environmental movement.

37min
November 29, 2019

24. Organize: For Autonomy & Mutual Aid

The final installment of Trouble looks at anarchist strategies, visions and methods of organizing.

34min
April 10, 2020