Program Information

Charlie Allison - No Harmless Power

Series:

Subtitle:

The Life and Times of the Ukrainian Anarchist Nestor Makhno

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Featured Speakers/Commentators:

Charlie Allison

Contributor:

Essential Dissent Contact Contributor

Date Published:

May 22, 2024, midnight

Summary: Charlie Allison's book talk at the first annual Upstate Anarchist Book Fair, held May 4 & 5, 2024 in Binghamton, NY. The event sponsor and host was PM Press. https://www.pmpress.org/

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Notes: *****BIG FAT BROADCAST ADVISORY*****

Versions 1 - 4 contain potentially offensive language. The specifics in the versions that don't have my voiceover intro/mid/outro (Versions 1 & 3) are as follows:

00:06:27 kind of a DICK move
00:06:54 What the HELL?
00:12:02 He’s based as FUCK
00:13:14 SHIT gets really FUCKING real
00:19:24 What the FUCK are you doing?
00:27:29 He’s kind of a reddit SHITLORD
00:28:03 holy SHIT
00:35:03 Where’s our SHIT?
00:38:33 real PISSED at you
00:39:04 a FUCKING long time
00:39:25 down with these FUCKERS
00:46:11 pretty cool SHIT
00:51:39 Who FUCKING knows?
00:52:23 and now you can’t UNFUCK that
00:52:50 This is some BULLSHIT
00:56:16 and what the FUCK is wrong with you?

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This episode is a talk by author Charlie Allison, given at the first annual Upstate Anarchist Book Fair, held May 4 & 5, 2024 in Binghamton, NY. The subject of the talk was Allison's 2023 book, No Harmless Power: The Life and Times of the Ukrainian Anarchist Nestor Makhno.

Makhno and the movement he began are seldom mentioned in most mainstream histories—Western or Russian—mostly on the grounds that acknowledging anarchist politics calls into question the inevitability and desirability of the nation-state and unjust hierarchies.

Charlie Allison is an anarchist writer, storyteller, and activist who lives in Philadelphia.

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There are FIVE versions of this talk on the R4A server. All are 58 minutes. VERSIONS 1- 4 CONTAIN POTENTIALLY OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE AS DETAILED ABOVE:

Version 1: Optimized for RADIO PLAY (-24 LUFS 192kbps Mp3).

Version 2: A RADIO READY edit (-24 LUFS 192kbps Mp3). Includes my intro/mid/outro.

Version 3: Optimized for INDIVIDUAL USE (-19 LUFS 128kbps Mp3). Identical content to Version 1, but a louder file encoded at a lower bitrate so it uses less storage space on your device.

Version 4: Optimized for INDIVIDUAL USE (-19 LUFS 128kbps Mp3). Identical content to Version 2, but a louder file encoded at a lower bitrate so it uses less storage space on your device.

Version 5: A sanitized RADIO READY edit (-24 LUFS 192kbps Mp3) in which I silenced the potentially offensive words. Includes my intro/mid/outro. I added this version (later) in the interest of making the talk more suitable for radio play.

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Version 1: No Voiceover 192 kbps -24 LUFS Mp3 - BROADCAST ADVISORY