Polling and the Policy: an Unsettled America

StarChain Volturione, Artist & Activist 

StarChain is an Anarcho activist and artist who creates videos, zines, and poster.  StarChain runs the Anarcho Polling feed in Twitter

@starchain6, esty.com/shop/starchain

Your Deadliest Girlfriend: Meet Tacticool Girlfriend

Youtube Personality

Tacticool GF is an alternative “guntuber” who provides solid and left focused gun training, her channel has seen a precipitous rise with 30K subscribers and still growing.  

https://www.youtube.com/c/TacticoolGirlfriend/about

Protecting the Front Line: The Story behind  Conquest of Thread’s Plate Carriers

Christen, The Conquest of Thread

Christen runs a worker owned and operated shop with her husband and one other couple, who are making tactical gear and accessories. The shop began the Conquest of Thread Workers Union in 2021 with the belief that the means of production should be owned by workers collectively, and that each member of our union should make the full value of their labor.

https://conquestofthread.com/

Observation Based Defense: A look at Asphalt Anthropology

Beverly Baker, Metropolitan Finishing School 

Beverly is the creator and instructor of Asphalt Anthropology, an observation based methodology of self defense. For over a decade, Beverly has been a student and observer of violence dynamics. She has dodged peril and outwitted threats on the streets of major American cities, Europe, the former Eastern Bloc and Southern Africa.

https://www.metrofinishschool.com/about

Parkour for Self Defense: Flight before Fight 

Brandi Laird, Citizen Operating Systems

Brandi is an instructor as well as offers services in security and executive protection. Her YouTube channel Citizen Operating Systems aims to encourage civic responsibility, create investment in challenging the diseases of civilization, and empower extraordinary action by ordinary citizens.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCJ42jsyLijj2tlzsI8ev5g

While traveling the world and serving with the Marine Corps., “Chowa” found a new political realization among his comrades in arms. Today as a member of the Socialist Rifle Association, he brings to his local chapter insights and experienced gained from the Corps., weapons and tactics aside, where he truly excels is in his philosophy of taking on the enemy with a full-on assault of leadership before taking up arms. What began as an idea and a subreddit, his leadership has brought to you the Desk to Defender guidebook and this podcast.  

Our first podcast is a introduction to the podcast and the Desk to Defender project.