This Is America #132: Eviction Defense in Portland, Certain Days Collective, Eleanor Goldfield on 'Hard Road of Hope'

Welcome, to This Is America, December 18th, 2020.

On today's episode, we bring you a series of interviews. First, up, we speak with someone at the Red House in North Portland, which recently was at the center of a mass eviction blockade. While the interview took place before the barricades around the house came down, our interview discusses how the blockade can hopefully provide important lessons for future eviction defense campaigns.

We then speak to two participants in the _Certain Days_ collective, which puts together both the _Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners_ yearly calendar as well as IGD's _Prison Break_ column. We talk about political prisoners, repression in a post-rebellion world, what a print project like Certain Days means in 2021, and much more.

Finally we speak with activist, filmmaker, and journalist Eleanor Goldfield, the host of _Act Out_ on Fress Speech TV. We talk about Goldfield's career in grassroots journalism as well as their new award-winning documentary film, Hard Road of Hope, which covers the current situation in Appalachia and coal country. During our discussion we talk about Mountain Top Removal, the opioid crisis, Trump, and the importance of the memory of working-class resistance.

All this and more, but first, let's get to the news!