Community Armed Self-Defense: Setting Sights on Liberation

Revolutionary Left Radio

Breht O'Shea

Communism, Politics, Liberalism, Society & Culture, Philosophy, News, History, Leftwing, Socialism, Marxism

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🗓️ 19 February 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Scott Crow is an American anarchist organizer, speaker and writer. A longtime activist, he is an advocate for the philosophies and politics of anarchism. In addition to a number of other groups, Crow is a co-founder of Common Ground Collective or Common Ground Relief, an anarchist organization formed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. His book Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy and the Common Ground Collective details those efforts. Crow's newest work is an anthology which he put together and edited called "Setting Sights: Histories and Reflections on Community Armed Self Defense".

scott joins Brett to discuss the new book, gun culture, mass shootings, the FBI, and much more.

Follow scott on Twitter: @scott_crow

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1:13.0	And today we have on Scott Crow to talk about community self defense, gun culture, American society, and a little advice for the left.
1:20.9	Scott would you like to introduce yourself and say a bit about your background for anyone who doesn't already know who you are?
1:25.5	My name is Scott Crow. I'm a longtime community organizer. I've been a dad, a long time musician.
1:33.5	I'm a living Texas and advocate for the ideas of anarchy. I believe that we can self organize in small communities and as individuals much better than any governments can.
1:44.5	And let's see I guess I've cut my teeth on quite a few things.
1:48.5	You know main issues have been and deliberation, radical environmentalism, prisoner issues, political prisoner issues, because these are threads that have kind of run through my life.
1:58.5	So I guess I would kind of sum it up.
2:00.5	Cool. Yeah, and I want to give a shout out up top to MC Seoul from the sole cast. He was instrumental in introducing me to Scott's work and a lot of souls interviews. I use as preparation for my interview here. So I just want to give him a shout out.
2:15.5	One of the things you talked about with soul.
2:17.5	Yeah.
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