Welcome
Hello! You’ve reached the internet home of Horizontal Power Hour, the anarchist radio show produced by The Dream Committee, a consensus-based collective in Middletown, CT, airing on WESU-FM. Horizontal Power Hour airs on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month at 4pm. You can listen in the Connecticut area by tuning into 88.1 FM, or from anywhere else, by going to the WESU website, wesufm.org and clicking “Listen Live.”
Below is our digital archive of past programs. Within it can be found over 35 hours of exciting programing featuring some of the most exciting thinkers and activists at work today!
Be in touch with us at horizontalpowerhour@wesufm.org
Episode 42: Dean Spade
Co-hosts Zaq and Dan share action news updates from around the world, including updates on the police repression of NATO protests in Chicago, and the upsurge of vigilante fascist-bashings from Italy to Illinois. Zaq and guest interviewer Nico also talk to Dean Spade, founder of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project and Assistant Professor at Seattle University School of Law, where he teaches Administrative Law, Poverty Law, Law and Social Movements and Critical Perspectives on Transgender Law. Dean discusses his latest book, Normal Life, and touches on topics ranging from the inadequacy of legal reform movements in securing queer/trans liberation, to the relationship between monogamy and state violence. This show also features some classic tracks from The Cure and Bad Brains. Original air-date: 5-22-12.
http://archive.org/details/HorizontalPowerHourEpisode42DeanSpade
Episode 33: Radical Philanthropy
This episode features an interview with Ro Seidelman, an organizer with Resource Generation and POOR Magazine, and a co-founder of the Hummingbird Collective. Original air-date: 1-10-12.
Episode 41: Kathy Ferguson and Emma Goldman: Political Thinking in the Streets
This episode features a conversation between Kehaulani Kauanui and Kathy Ferguson about Ferguson’s new book “Emma Goldman: Political Thinking in the Streets.”Action news, top-notch music (including the drive-time debut of Quantuum Queerness) and more!
About the book: “Emma Goldman has often been read for her colorful life story, her lively if troubled sex life, and her wide-ranging political activism. Few have taken her seriously as a political thinker, even though in her lifetime she was a vigorous public intellectual within a global network of progressive politics. Engaging Goldman as a political thinker allows us to rethink the common dualism between theory and practice, scrutinize stereotypes of anarchism by placing Goldman within a fuller historical context, recognize the remarkable contributions of anarchism in creating public life, and open up contemporary politics to the possibilities of transformative feminism.” Original air-date 5-8-12.
Episode 40: Bash Back – Queer Ultraviolence
On this very special 40th episode of the Horizontal Power Hour, your hosts Xaq and Meggi present the usual bi-weekly dose of action news from around the world, with a focus on the student manifestations happening in Montreal. We feature a recording of a talk given on the Wesleyan campus by Tegan Eanelli, co-author of the new anthology about the militant queer anarchist tendency Bash Back, entitled Queer Ultraviolence. Tegan introduces us to the controversial idea that animated the existence of Bash Back: that queer and trans folks have a right and an obligation to use any means necessary to resist and avenge the violence of the heteropatriarchal white supremacist social order. In addition to sharing stories and communiques from the book that illustrate Bash Back’s short-lived but powerful existence, Tegan reflects on what Bash Back can show us about organization, identity, and politics. We also feature some of the best tunes of the homohop genre. Original air-date: 4-24-12.
Episode 39: Ben Morea and Black Mask
This week’s edition of the Horizontal Power Hour features an interview with Ben Morea, an artist and anarchist agitator who emerged after over 35 years of anonymity to discuss his participation in the late 1960s with the Lower East Side-based collectives Black Mask and Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers. Of humble origins, Morea gained notoriety as an associate of Abbie Hoffman, a defendant in an attempted murder trial, a vocal supporter of feminist (and Andy Warhol assailant) Valerie Solanas and as the only person to be expelled from the Situationist International who was never a member in the first place. As part of their assault on bourgeois art and respectable society in general, Black Mask/UAW-MF shut down the Museum of Modern Art, cut the fences at Woodstock and developed radical affinities across racial, ethnic and class constituencies then present on the Lower East Side. In the interview, Morea reflects on his participation in this crucial and under-appreciated component of the counterculture, ultimately explaining the reasons for his long absence. Global action news updates and exciting music will complement the conversation. Original air-date: 4-10-12.
Episode 38: (De)Occupy Honolulu
This week’s edition was hosted by Mica Taliaferro. The show features action news, music, and an interview conducted by J Kēhaulani Kauanui with activists with (De)Occupy Honolulu – Laulani Teale, H. Doug Matsuoka, Chris Smith, and Rich Rath – during a recent visit to the island of O`ahu. They discuss the intersections of (De)Occupy politics with the local indigenous context of the Hawaiian sovereignty movement, U.S. occupation of Hawai’i, the historical significance of the place where they hold camp, and axes of difference within the 99%. Original air-date: 3-27-12.
