Trouble

2017 · 30m · Documentary · War & Politics

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

1. Killing the Black Snake: Behind the Scenes of the #NODAPL Struggle29m · 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 Right30m · 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 Borders34m · 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 Repression31m · 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 Surveillance34m · 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 War32m · 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 Catastrophe32m · 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 Battlefield34m · 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 State35m · 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 State34m · 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 Reaction32m · 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 Warfare32m · 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 Gentrification32m · 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 Spaces29m · 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 Resistance35m · This installment of Trouble is subMedia’s 35-minute love letter to radical hip hop

16. Conspiracy to Riot: The Case of the J20 Resistance37m · 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 Struggle33m · Trouble #17 explores mental health, and radical solutions to the problems causing mental un-wellness.

18. ACAB32m · 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 Control33m · 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 Society35m · In the 20th edition of Trouble, subMedia takes a closer look at the Prison-Industrial-Complex.

21. Land & Freedom39m · Trouble #21 episode takes a deep dive into anti-colonial struggles in Turtle Island and in Palestine.

22. Crossing the Line36m · 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 Disaster37m · Trouble 23 takes a closer look at climate change, its implications, and the shortcomings of the mainstream environmental movement.

24. Organize: For Autonomy & Mutual Aid34m · The final installment of Trouble looks at anarchist strategies, visions and methods of organizing.

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