Shon Meckfessel's guest appearances

Shon Meckfessel

The Final Straw Radio

The Arts of Travel

The Fire These Times

Joey Ayoub

Leila Al-Shami

Vicky Osterweil

Peter Thiel

Hussein Kesvani

Shahid Buttar

Cory Doctorow

Raj Patel

Andy Ngo

Jake Flores

Chris Arnade

Joshua Clover

Kevin Tucker

John Brown

Jeremy Bentham

OwlTail

In which I sat down with my buds Leila Al-Shami and Shon Meckfessel to talk about how and why a bunch of fascists became fans of everyone's favorite genocidal mass murdering dictator, Bashar (يلعن روحك يا) Assad, who was recently voted most likely to end up like Mussolini by I-just-made-it-up magazine.  Leila, a recurring guest, is the co-author of Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War and, together with Shon, she co-wrote the chapter of No Pasarán: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis (edited by Shane Burley, also a previous guest of the pod) on this topic. You can also check out Mariam Elba's excellent 2017 piece on this issue for The Intercept.  Shon is also the author of "Suffled How It Gush: A North American Anarchist in the Balkans" and "Nonviolence Ain't What It Used To Be: Unarmed Insurrection and the Rhetoric of Resistance." Aaaand check out Bizri#6!   Kind reminder that the best way to support this podcast is by Mussolini-ying Bashar.  The second best way? you can support The Fire These Times on patreon.com/firethesetimes with a monthly or yearly donation and get a lot of perks including early access, exclusive videos, monthly hangouts, access to the book club, merch and more.  Credits: Host: Joey AyoubProducer: Joey AyoubMusic: Rap and RevengeMain theme design: Wenyi GengSound editor: Artin SalimiEpisode design: Joey Ayoub  Pluggables: The best way to keep up to date is through the website thefirethesetimes.com or through patreon. I occasionally post on Mastodon and friends of the pod occasionally post on Twitter and Instagram. The newsletter will be available on www.thefirethesetimes.com and www.thefirethesetimes.substack.com as well.

In which I sat down with my buds Leila Al-Shami and Shon Meckfessel to talk about how and why a bunch of fascists became fans of everyone's favorite genocidal mass murdering dictator, Bashar (يلعن روحك يا) Assad, who was recently voted most likely to end up like Mussolini by I-just-made-it-up magazine. Leila, a recurring guest, is the co-author of <a href="https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745337845/burning-country-new-edition/" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War</a> and, together with Shon, she co-wrote the chapter of <a href="https://thefirethesetimes.com/2023/02/03/podcast-understanding-anti-fascism-w-shane-burley/" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">No Pasarán: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis</a> (edited by Shane Burley, also a previous guest of the pod) on this topic. You can also check out Mariam Elba's excellent <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/09/08/syria-why-white-nationalists-love-bashar-al-assad-charlottesville/" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">2017 piece on this issue for The Intercept</a>. Shon is also the author of "<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1893059.Suffled_How_It_Gush" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Suffled How It Gush: A North American Anarchist in the Balkans</a>" and "<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25329984-nonviolence-ain-t-what-it-used-to-be" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Nonviolence Ain't What It Used To Be: Unarmed Insurrection and the Rhetoric of Resistance</a>." Aaaand check out <a href="https://www.instagram.com/bizri.6/" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Bizri#6</a>! Kind reminder that the best way to support this podcast is by Mussolini-ying Bashar. The second best way? you can support The Fire These Times on <a href="http://www.patreon.com/firethesetimes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">patreon.com/firethesetimes</a> with a monthly or yearly donation and get a lot of perks including early access, exclusive videos, monthly hangouts, access to the book club, merch and more. Credits: Host: Joey Ayoub Producer: Joey Ayoub Music: <a href="https://www.rapandrevenge.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Rap and Revenge</a> Main theme design: <a href="https://wenyigeng.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Wenyi Geng</a> Sound editor: Artin Salimi Episode design: Joey Ayoub Pluggables: The best way to keep up to date is through the website <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/dashboard/episode/www.thefirethesetimes.com" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">thefirethesetimes.com</a> or through <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/dashboard/episode/www.patreon.com/firethesetimes" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">patreon</a>. I occasionally post on <a href="https://social.thefirethesetimes.com/@podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mastodon</a> and friends of the pod occasionally post on <a href="http://twitter.com/firethesetimes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and <a href="http://www.instagram.com/firethesetimes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a>. The newsletter will be available on <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/dashboard/episode/www.thefirethesetimes.com" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">www.thefirethesetimes.com</a> and <a href="https://thefirethesetimes.substack.com/" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">www.thefirethesetimes.substack.com</a> as well.

134/ Why White Nationalists Love Assad w/ Leila Al-Shami and Shon Meckfessel

For insights on Seattle's CHAZ autonomous zone we spoke with Author and Seattle local - Shon Meckfessel. Shon, a professor at Highline College, is the author of the 2016 book: Nonviolence Ain't What It Used To Be: Unarmed Insurrection and the Rhetoric of Resistance  We discuss the timeline of CHAZ,  how the zone both rejects and dialogues with local Seattle politics, his thoughts on the methods and mutual aid present in the zone, and how the Zone fits into the constellation of uprisings after the police murder of George Floyd.  For more conversations like this, check out the Arts of Travel Podcast or asiaarttours.com   Music by LitKidBeats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRBRA3ZZ1cM

For insights on Seattle's CHAZ autonomous zone we spoke with Author and Seattle local - Shon Meckfessel. Shon, a professor at Highline College, is the author of the 2016 book: <a href="https://www.akpress.org/nonviolence-ain-t-what-it-used-to-be.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nonviolence Ain't What It Used To Be: Unarmed Insurrection and the Rhetoric of Resistance</a> We discuss the timeline of CHAZ,  how the zone both rejects and dialogues with local Seattle politics, his thoughts on the methods and mutual aid present in the zone, and how the Zone fits into the constellation of uprisings after the police murder of George Floyd.  For more conversations like this, check out the Arts of Travel Podcast or <a href="//asiaarttours.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">asiaarttours.com </a> Music by LitKidBeats: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRBRA3ZZ1cM" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRBRA3ZZ1cM</a>

Author Shon Meckfessel - Observations, Insights & Politics from Seattle's CHAZ Autonomous Zone 

This is a continuation of our episode talking about violence, non-violence, nonviolence, property destruction, Liberalism's public secret, antifa violence, insult and way more.  In this podcast bonus is content we couldn't fit in the hour of our show for this week.  Hopefully most of it will end up in an episode in the near future.  Shon recently authored the book, "Nonviolence Ain't What It Used To Be," which is also the focus of this related podcast episode.  We hope you enjoy this.  Let us know by dropping us an email at thefinalstrawradio@riseup.net, check out our archives at https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org or write us at: The Final Straw Radio c/o AshevilleFM 864 Haywood Rd Asheville, NC 28806 At one point we talk about anarchist approaches to the Syrian Revolution &amp; Rojava and I reference an interview with a co-author of Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War, Robin Yassin-Kassab which can be found here

This is a continuation of <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thefinalstrawradio/tfsradio_shon1.mp3" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">our episode</a> talking about violence, non-violence, nonviolence, property destruction, Liberalism's public secret, antifa violence, insult and way more.  In this podcast bonus is content we couldn't fit in the hour of our show for this week.  Hopefully most of it will end up in an episode in the near future.  Shon recently authored the book, <a href="https://www.akpress.org/nonviolence-ain-t-what-it-used-to-be.html" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">"Nonviolence Ain't What It Used To Be,"</a> which is also the focus of this related podcast episode.  We hope you enjoy this.  Let us know by dropping us an email at <a href="mailto:thefinalstrawradio@riseup.net" rel="noopener">thefinalstrawradio@riseup.net</a>, check out our archives at <a href="https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org</a> or write us at: The Final Straw Radio c/o AshevilleFM 864 Haywood Rd Asheville, NC 28806 At one point we talk about anarchist approaches to the Syrian Revolution &amp; Rojava and I reference an interview with a co-author of Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War, Robin Yassin-Kassab which can be found <a href="https://sub.media/video/lessons-from-the-syrian-revolution/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>

Shon Meckfessel interview, p2