About this season
A documentary series offering in-depth anarchist analysis on a range of topics, themes and spaces of resistance. Intended to be watched in groups.
Episodes (24)
1. Killing the Black Snake: Behind the Scenes of the #NODAPL Struggle
Aired 3 March 2017 • 29 min
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.
2. Bash the Fash: Confronting the Rise of the New Right
Aired 28 April 2017 • 30 min
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.
3. Refugees Welcome: Creating Solidarity Across Borders
Aired 26 May 2017 • 34 min
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.
4. No Justice... Just Us: Movement Defense Against State Repression
Aired 23 June 2017 • 31 min
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.
5. You Are Being Watched: Movement Defense Against State & Corporate Surveillance
Aired 28 July 2017 • 34 min
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.
6. Adapt and Destroy: Counterinsurgency and Social War
Aired 29 September 2017 • 32 min
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.
7. No Permission Needed: Mutual Aid in an Age of Climate Catastrophe
Aired 27 October 2017 • 32 min
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.
8. Hack the System: The Internet as a Battlefield
Aired 24 November 2017 • 34 min
In Trouble #8 we look at hacking as an act of resistance and how states are weaponizing the internet
9. Learning to Resist: Student Struggles Against Capital and the State
Aired 26 January 2018 • 35 min
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.
10. School's Out: Student Struggles Against Capital and the State
Aired 23 February 2018 • 34 min
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.
11. Destroying Domination: Revolutionary Feminism in an Age of Misogynist Reaction
Aired 23 March 2018 • 32 min
In this month’s edition of Trouble, sub.Media takes a look at patriarchy as an enduring system of social, economic and political control.
12. There Goes the Neighbourhood: Gentrification as Class Warfare
Aired 27 April 2018 • 32 min
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.
13. Defend the Block: Fighting Back Against Gentrification
Aired 25 May 2018 • 32 min
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.
14. Fighting Where We Stand: Struggles for Autonomous Spaces
Aired 15 June 2018 • 29 min
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.
15. And You Don't Stop: Hip Hop as Resistance
Aired 14 September 2018 • 35 min
This installment of Trouble is subMedia’s 35-minute love letter to radical hip hop
16. Conspiracy to Riot: The Case of the J20 Resistance
Aired 26 October 2018 • 37 min
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.
17. Mad Worlds: Redefining Sanity Through Struggle
Aired 30 November 2018 • 33 min
Trouble #17 explores mental health, and radical solutions to the problems causing mental un-wellness.
18. ACAB
Aired 25 February 2019 • 32 min
For the first Trouble episode of 2019, subMedia rings in the new year by looking at the institution we love to hate: the cops.
19. Quiet Storm: Technology & Social Control
Aired 29 March 2019 • 33 min
In this month’s episode of Trouble, we look at technology – specifically at the growing nexus between mass data collection, artificial intelligence and surveillance.
20. Inside-Out: Against Prison Society
Aired 3 May 2019 • 35 min
In the 20th edition of Trouble, subMedia takes a closer look at the Prison-Industrial-Complex.
21. Land & Freedom
Aired 2 August 2019 • 39 min
Trouble #21 episode takes a deep dive into anti-colonial struggles in Turtle Island and in Palestine.
22. Crossing the Line
Aired 27 September 2019 • 36 min
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.
23. Prelude to a Disaster
Aired 29 November 2019 • 37 min
Trouble 23 takes a closer look at climate change, its implications, and the shortcomings of the mainstream environmental movement.
24. Organize: For Autonomy & Mutual Aid
Aired 10 April 2020 • 34 min
The final installment of Trouble looks at anarchist strategies, visions and methods of organizing.