Rebel Steps

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The Rebel Steps podcast gives you inspiration for your future activist manifestations. It's an American podcast produced by two activists from an anarchist group in Brooklyn, New York, but the content is relevant to practically anyone who dreams of starting a movement or simply organize a demonstration or just a regular event.

The podcast is structured as a checklist for becoming a good activist. Each episode is about a particular activist competence or task, and reminds you to take all sorts of things into account, such as ordering vegan pizza for your panel debate, so that everyone feels included, to balancing efficiency and inclusion when designing a decision-making process in your organisation. In all episodes of the podcast we get to listen to seasoned activists sharing their experiences with, for example, physical self-defense, supporting fellow activists who have been arrested in a demonstration, or with how to get a message out in the media.

Rebel Steps communicates these stories in rather creative ways, with many voices contributing to each episode, but it's done in an understated way and put together seamlessly. A nice touch which also speaks to the level of ambition of the Rebel Steps producer team is all the episodes have their own – if perhaps slightly melodramatic – soundtrack. I highly recommend listening to Rebel Steps chronologically, and if you choose to do so you get a 5 hour audio manual on the basics of activism.

Listen to the podcast here or in your podcast app