This week on Live Like the World is Dying, James and Brooke talk with Chiya about mesh radio systems. Mesh radios are portable, anonymous, and encrypted communication devices. They talk about how to set them up, what to look for, and the different features that they offer.
July 11, 2025EpisodesComments Off on Kai Cheng on De-Escalation and Dreaming of Abolition
Episode Summary
This week on Live like the World is Dying, Casandra and Kai Cheng chat about conflict deescalation, somatics, transformative justice, and dreaming of abolitionist futures.
Guest Info
Kai Cheng Thom is an author, healer, mediator, sex educator, lasagna lover, and wicked witch. Developer of the Loving Justice Methodology. Dreamer. She’s written a few books, and some of them are even good! She’s an extremist for love.
On This Month in the Apocalypse, James, Miriam, and Inmn talk about everything that happened in June, including a dive into the wildfires in Canada, an update the state of immigration enforcement, and a bit about a contentious election in NYC. Also, friend of the pod, Kneecap makes another appearance.
June 27, 2025EpisodesComments Off on Martyr Culture and the Revolution in Rojava Pt. II
Episode Notes
This week on Live Like the World is Dying, we have part two of a crossover episode with the Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness podcast, with our monthly feature zine Martyr Culture by Sara Blum., which is an essay about martyr culture within the Kurdish Freedom Movement. In the last episode we had an audio version of the zine as well as an interview with Sara about the piece and her time with the YPJ. Today’s episode continues the interview. If you’d like to read the piece then check out our monthly features . You can also get a physical copy of our future monthly feature zines by signing up for our Patreon .
Our June feature was generously provided by Sara Blum, an internationalist who spent several years with the YPJ in Rojava, to accompany and contextualize our newest book, Orso: Wartime Journals of an Anarchist, which is currently available for preorder as of right now at tangledwilderness.org, and will be regularly available/ship out in early-mid July.
Orso contains the first-person narrative of Lorenzo Orso Orsetti–also known as Heval (he-vawl) Tekoser (teko-cher) Piling (pih-ling), now Sehid (sheh-heath) Tekoser (teko-cher) or “martyr Tekoser–an internationalist soldier in Rojava. This journal was published in its original Italian following Oro’s death. We’re excited to bring you the first English edition, which includes additional essays that share the historical and cultural context in which Orso lived, fought, and died. We’re excited to bring his message to a new audience. The struggle against Daesh for an autonomous, liberated region in Rojava is bigger than one person, but one person’s life can offer us a glimpse of a vast project and how one life can fit into it.
Sara’s essay helps build a backdrop for the world Orso gives us a glimpse of in his journals. This is part one of this episode, as the interview with Sara ended up being quite long. Tune in in 2 weeks for the second half of the interview, as next week is This Month in the Apocalypse on Live Like the World is Dying. We won’t get to it until the second half of the interview, but the word of the month this month is about those who are mindful.
The host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery Miriam can be found making funnies on the Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness BlueSky.
June 20, 2025EpisodesComments Off on Martyr Culture and the Revolution in Rojava pt. i
Episode Notes
This week on Live Like the World is Dying, we have a crossover episode with the Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness Podcast, with our monthly feature zine Martyr Culture by Sara Blum., which is an essay about martyr culture within the Kurdish Freedom Movement. We have an audio version of the zine as well as an interview with Sara about the piece and her time with the YPJ. But, if you’d like to read along then check out our monthly features on our website and you can read along there for free. You can also get a physical copy of our monthly feature zine, but unfortunately not this one, by signing up for our Patreon .
Our June feature was generously provided by Sara Blum, an internationalist who spent several years with the YPJ in Rojava, to accompany and contextualize our newest book, Orso: Wartime Journals of an Anarchist, which is currently available for preorder as of right now at tangledwilderness.org, and will be regularly available/ship out in early-mid July.
Orso contains the first-person narrative of Lorenzo Orso Orsetti–also known as Heval (he-vawl) Tekoser (teko-cher) Piling (pih-ling), now Sehid (sheh-heath) Tekoser (teko-cher) or “martyr Tekoser–an internationalist soldier in Rojava. This journal was published in its original Italian following Oro’s death. We’re excited to bring you the first English edition, which includes additional essays that share the historical and cultural context in which Orso lived, fought, and died. We’re excited to bring his message to a new audience. The struggle against Daesh for an autonomous, liberated region in Rojava is bigger than one person, but one person’s life can offer us a glimpse of a vast project and how one life can fit into it.
Sara’s essay helps build a backdrop for the world Orso gives us a glimpse of in his journals. This is part one of this episode, as the interview with Sara ended up being quite long. Tune in in 2 weeks for the second half of the interview, as next week is This Month in the Apocalypse on Live Like the World is Dying. We won’t get to it until the second half of the interview, but the word of the month this month is about those who are mindful.
The host is Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery Miriam can be found making funnies on the Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness BlueSky.
This week on Live Like the World is Dying, James and Miriam talk about how to stay safe while danger lurks all around. They talk about some health and safety basics for protest like security culture, gear to consider wearing, things to keep in a first-kit, and dangers you might encounter like projectiles, tear gas, and pepper spray. They talk about how to treat chemical irritant injuries as well some helpful reminders of how not to treat chemical injuries. They also cover first-aid basic talking about stopping bleeding, assessing injuries, and how to avoid injuring people further when treating them. Stay safe out there.
This time on a special episode of Live like the World is Dying, Casandra talks to James about what’s been going on in LA with the ICE protests and resistance. They talk about the deployment of the National Guard and Marines, what people have been doing in the streets, what the police have been doing, and debunk some misinformation.
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This week on Live like the World is Dying, Brooke and Casandra talk about the ins and outs of keeping birds—chickens and quail specifically. We discuss all things food, shelter, eggs, and how to care for extremely accident-prone feathered friends.
Host Info
Brooke can be found on Mastodon @ogemakwebrooke and Casandra can be found on BlueSky @hey-casandra.bsky.social
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On This Month in the Apocalypse, James, Brooke, and Inmn talk about everything that happened in May, including two very different set of refugees, the ongoing war in Ukraine and its affects on Poland, some legal updates on Oak Flat, an exciting tree sit in Washington, abortion legislation in Missouri, libraries, a very cute bear, and two pop culture pod favorites: Bruce Springsteen and Kneecap.
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This week on Live Like the World is Dying, Inmn talks with Dorothy about Canada’s police force that was designed specifically to fuck with land defenders. They talk about Canada’s history as a petro state, the extraction projects that the police force was designed to protect, and the land defense movements that sprung up to resist.
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