Episode 22: "The Magic Circle-A" feat. Out of Order Games

This week, Pearson picked the brain of TL, founder of Out of Order Games and developer of Bloc by Bloc: The Insurrection Game. But first, Bree and Pearson tackle a busy news week.

• Yesterday, the CBP fired tear-gas across the Tijuana border at migrant families and shot children with rubber bullets.
• Neo-nazis are organizing secret paramilitary trainings all across the U.S. Watch Documenting Hate: New American Nazis.
• White supremacists tried to crash the Anarchist Book Fair at Boston University this week and were promptly chased off.
• Gavin McInnes quits the proud boys.
• Hillary Clinton decided if ya can't beat the far-right, why not join 'em?
• The Camp Fires continue to rage in California. Local organizers on the ground are facilitating mutual aid disaster relief.
• • Help fund North Valley Mutual Aid.
  • Support the Camp Fire Displacement Fund from Chico DSA.
• This week, we celebrated Transgender Day of Remembrance. Check out the Trans Day of Resilience art project!
• Oregon FedEx driver is a model for anti-racist self-defense.

Bloc by Bloc: The Insurrection Game is a semi-cooperative strategy board game inspired by twenty-first century riots and revolutions. The game features hidden agendas, deep strategy, area control, asymmetrical player abilities, and a special method for randomly generating billions of unique city layouts. Pearson and TL spend the hour discussing the game's roots in anarchism, the way Bloc by Bloc's design synthesizes game mechanics and political philosophy, the colonialist roots of many contemporary tabletop games, and the necessity of leisure and play in the struggle for a better world.

You can order a physical copy of Bloc by Bloc at Out of Order Games website.

You can also download a FREE version of Bloc by Bloc.

Support Out of Order Games' initiative to put copies of Bloc by Bloc at local community centers.

Follow Out of Order Games on Twitter.

Pearson went on the Macabre Media podcast to talk about avant-garde horror. Follow them on Twitter.

Hear about Tallahassee DSA and MADR on Chapo Trap House.

Intro: "I Ain't Got No Home in this World" by Woody Guthrie

Interlude: "Solidarity Forever Illegal Version" by Jester of No Court

Outro: "Black Friday" by Stray From the Path