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All Episodes of Trouble

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All Episodes of Trouble

A documentary series offering in-depth anarchist analysis on a range of topics, themes and spaces of resistance. Intended to be watched in groups.
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Season 1

  • Killing the Black Snake: Behind the Scenes of the #NODAPL Struggle
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    Killing the Black Snake: Behind the Scenes of the #NODAPL Struggle

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/3/2017

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Bash the Fash: Confronting the Rise of the New Right
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    Bash the Fash: Confronting the Rise of the New Right

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/28/2017

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Refugees Welcome: Creating Solidarity Across Borders
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    Refugees Welcome: Creating Solidarity Across Borders

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 5/26/2017

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • No Justice... Just Us: Movement Defense Against State Repression
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    No Justice... Just Us: Movement Defense Against State Repression

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 6/23/2017

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • You Are Being Watched: Movement Defense Against State & Corporate Surveillance
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    You Are Being Watched: Movement Defense Against State & Corporate Surveillance

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 7/28/2017

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Adapt and Destroy: Counterinsurgency and Social War
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    Adapt and Destroy: Counterinsurgency and Social War

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 9/29/2017

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • No Permission Needed: Mutual Aid in an Age of Climate Catastrophe
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    No Permission Needed: Mutual Aid in an Age of Climate Catastrophe

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/2017

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Hack the System: The Internet as a Battlefield
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    Hack the System: The Internet as a Battlefield

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/24/2017

    In Trouble #8 we look at hacking as an act of resistance and how states are weaponizing the internet

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Learning to Resist: Student Struggles Against Capital and the State
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    Learning to Resist: Student Struggles Against Capital and the State

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 1/26/2018

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • School's Out: Student Struggles Against Capital and the State
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    School's Out: Student Struggles Against Capital and the State

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 2/23/2018

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Destroying Domination: Revolutionary Feminism in an Age of Misogynist Reaction
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    Destroying Domination: Revolutionary Feminism in an Age of Misogynist Reaction

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/23/2018

    In this month’s edition of Trouble, sub.Media takes a look at patriarchy as an enduring system of social, economic and political control.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • There Goes the Neighbourhood: Gentrification as Class Warfare
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    There Goes the Neighbourhood: Gentrification as Class Warfare

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 4/27/2018

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Defend the Block: Fighting Back Against Gentrification
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    Defend the Block: Fighting Back Against Gentrification

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 5/25/2018

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Fighting Where We Stand: Struggles for Autonomous Spaces
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    Fighting Where We Stand: Struggles for Autonomous Spaces

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 6/15/2018

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • And You Don't Stop: Hip Hop as Resistance
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    And You Don't Stop: Hip Hop as Resistance

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 9/14/2018

    This installment of Trouble is subMedia’s 35-minute love letter to radical hip hop

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Conspiracy to Riot: The Case of the J20 Resistance
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    Conspiracy to Riot: The Case of the J20 Resistance

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 10/26/2018

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Mad Worlds: Redefining Sanity Through Struggle
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    Mad Worlds: Redefining Sanity Through Struggle

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 11/30/2018

    Trouble #17 explores mental health, and radical solutions to the problems causing mental un-wellness.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • ACAB
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    ACAB

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/25/2019

    For the first Trouble episode of 2019, subMedia rings in the new year by looking at the institution we love to hate: the cops.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Quiet Storm: Technology & Social Control
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    Quiet Storm: Technology & Social Control

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/29/2019

    In this month’s episode of Trouble, we look at technology – specifically at the growing nexus between mass data collection, artificial intelligence and surveillance.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Inside-Out: Against Prison Society
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    Inside-Out: Against Prison Society

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 5/3/2019

    In the 20th edition of Trouble, subMedia takes a closer look at the Prison-Industrial-Complex.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Land & Freedom
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    Land & Freedom

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 8/2/2019

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Crossing the Line
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    Crossing the Line

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 9/27/2019

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Prelude to a Disaster
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    Prelude to a Disaster

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 11/29/2019

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Organize: For Autonomy & Mutual Aid
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    Organize: For Autonomy & Mutual Aid

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 4/10/2020

    The final installment of Trouble looks at anarchist strategies, visions and methods of organizing.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown