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Pittsburgh Fash Watch
A member of Pittsburgh Fash Watch, an antifascist group, talks about their mobilization and unmasking of white supremacists in their area, such as WLM and Goyim Defense League (GDL) chud Brandon Cahall who they recently informed the public about.
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Prisons and Prisoner Solidarity with Eric King, Jake Conroy and Josh Davidson
A discussion featuring former political prisoners Eric King, who went in for actions in solidarity with the Ferguson Uprising in 2014, and Jake Conroy, who was convicted for coordinating successful anti-vivisection divestment campaigns against Huntington Life Sciences as one of the SHAC7. They are joined by Eric’s co-author of Rattling The Cages, Josh Davidson.
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Homeless Organizing in Oakland
Freeway, a houseless activist in Oakland, CA, talks about the recent series of sweeps of homeless being promoted by Governor Gavin Newsom. Freeway has been a member of Wood Street Commons and is now a member of Oakland Homeless Union.
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Rural Relief After Helene
Janet of Rural Organizing and Resilience in Madison County, speaks about post-Hurricane Helene organizing and disaster preparedness in the mountains of Western North Carolina. More and links to be added soon.
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Mutual Aid and Disaster Relief in Southern Appalachia
This episode, we’re speaking with two people who’ve lived in the Asheville-area and have been involved in disaster relief following the Hurricane Helene. First up is Chris, a local medical professional speaking about their experiences during and since the storm. Then, Margaret Killjoy (hostess of “Live Like The World is Dying”) podcast on preparedness in times of apocalypse.
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Mutt on the (Incomplete) Black Autonomy Reader
A conversation with Mutt, editor of a new and incomplete Black Autonomy Reader, contributor to Muntjac Magazine, Organise! Magazine and Seditionist Distro. We speak about Black Anarchism, intellectual property, community self-defense in response to the racist riots that spread around the UK in August of 2024 as well as other topics.
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ISM in the West Bank and the Assassination of Ayşenur Eygi
A conversation with Tom and Miriam of the International Solidarity Movement, a Palestinian-led network of activists standing in solidarity with Palestinians on the ground in the occupied territories about the organization, its history, what got these folks involved, the recent and tragic murder of Ayşenur Eygi in Beita in the West Bank which Miriam witnessed, and how conditions have changed as the war by the Israeli settler state has expanded.
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Revolution in 35MM with Samm Deighan
This week, we’re sharing Ian’s talk with Samm Deighan, co-editor of Revolution in 35 MM: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to Grindhouse, 1960-1990, out 9/24/24 from PM Press.
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Border Repression + Resisting Growing Nationalism in Poland
Two conversations relating to the so-called Green Border in Podlaskie region of eastern Poland, on the Belarus border concerning topics of migration, repression, militarization, nationalism and solidarity among residents and people on the move into Fortress Europe.
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“Solidarity, Spirituality and Liberatory Promise on a Turtle’s Back” with Ashanti Omowali Alston
The keynote speech by anarchist, author, organizer and former participant in the Black Panther and Black Liberation Army, Ashanti Omowali Alston, to the 2024 Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair in so-called Asheville. The presentation was entitled “Solidarity, Spirituality and Liberatory Promise on a Turtle’s Back”.
No More Deaths / No Más Muertes on the Mexico / US Frontier
Our conversation wtih two members of No More Deaths, a 20 year old humanitarian organization operating in the borderlands between Mexico and the USA about the organization, the work it does, how the border has changed, the political legacy of the Republicans and Democrats in the current situation for immigrants, deaths at the border and ways to get involved in supporting people on the move.
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Reflections on Medical Conditions in Gaza by a Recently Returned Nurse
Our chat with Louis, an anarchist emergency room nurse who has just returned from a second tour doing healthcare work in Gaza and is about to leave again. During this difficult conversation, we talk about medical conditions that he encountered in Gaza, what aid is getting in and how it’s being distributed, health infrastructure and how this relates to his prior mutual aid and anti-border work in the so-called USA.
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The No-State Solution (with Mohammed Bamyeh, ACAB2024)
Dr. Mohammed Bamyeh’s presentation entitled “The No-State Solution” as recorded at the 2024 Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair in so-called Asheville, NC. Dr. Bamyeh is a Palestinian sociologist and professor at Pitt and the author of multiple books.
Grupa Granica Activsists Speak About Perils on the Belarus / Poland Border
Dominika Ożyńska and Aleksandra Chrzanowska, two human rights activists in eastern Poland near the Belarus border who speak about the situation with the migrant route through the Białowieża forest in the midst of increased militarization on both sides of the border through this ancient forest and through the region. Both are active in the umbrella Grupa Granica, or border group, movement supporting people on the move.
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Direct action abortion services in Latin America
This week, we’re sharing audio from the presentation “Direct action abortion services in Latin America” 2023 Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair in so-called Asheville, NC. Audios from the 2024 ACABookfair will be online in the near future on the bookfairs website, https://acabookfair.noblogs.org/
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July 25th International Day of Solidarity with Antifascist Prisoners
Here’s an interview with Walter of the Antifa International social media project. For the hour we talk about the day of solidarity, the associated Antifascist Defense fund, international lines of solidarity around antifascism, recent cases of repression and continuing to support cultures of resistance while comrades are behind bars.
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Cyprus Hartford Resists Federal Grand Jury
Asphalt, a supporter of a recent federal grand jury resister Cyprus Hartford in Charleston, South Carolina talks about Grand Juries and Cyprus’ decision to refuse to testify. You’ll also find Cyprus’ statement of refusal in the zine as well.
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MACC 2024 Film Fest
An interview that Ian did with Marisa Holmes and Molly of the Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Committee about their 2024 anarchist film festival that took place in May in New York City., some of the films they showed and the role of film in community organizing and political expression.
Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism
Matthew Lyons and Xtn Alexander, editors and contributors to the book Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism, talked about the development of the political tendency which troubles the read of both liberal capitalism and the autonomous far right from a revolutionary left libertarian perspective, some of it’s progenitors and a bit about the state of the far right today.
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Shut ‘Em Down 2024 + Monsour Owolabi
An interview with Courtney of the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee and Roc, communications bridge for Jailhouse Lawyers Speak and residential manager at the JLS housing center to speak about the JLS call for Shut ‘Em Down strikes inside and outside of prisons in December of 2024. Then you’ll hear Monsour Owolabi, incarcerated New African political prisoner in the Ferguson Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice system sharing some perspectives on inside-outside collaboration, the role of isolation in prisons as counter-insurgency and the importance of transitional housing projects.
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Views from the “Rogue Gold” Tree Sit (with Cricket and D)
Cricket, a tree sitter in a tree called Goldie in southern so-called Oregon as well as D of Siskiyou Rising Tide talk about the experience and efficacy of tree sits, about the land threatened by the Bureau of Land Managements plan to have Boise Cascade and other timber companies log this area they’re calling Rogue Gold, recent success of a tree sit at Poor Windy, revelations of police surveillance and some of the history of forest defense in this region.
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Anarchist Perspectives on Nationalism (with Rey Katula)
Rey Katula, an editor of the Antipolitika: Anarchist Journal from the Balkans and a co-host of the awesome antifascist podcast The Empire Never Ended, talks about the journal, about fascism, nations from an anarchist perspective and, surprising to some, nationalism as a project of socialist Yugoslavia..
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Memory, Movement and June 11th 2024
In celebration of the June 11th International Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason and other long term anarchist prisoners, you’ll hear Julie Herrada, a long time anarchist activist, comrade of Marius Mason and archivist joined by Matthew Hart, another longtime anarchist involved in labor organizing, historical research talk about history, memory, prisoner support and continuing the struggle.
Addameer on Palestinian Prisoners
Tala Nasser of the Palestinian prisoner human rights group, Al-Addameer which has offices in Jerusalem or Al-Quds, as well as in Ramallah, speaks about the report they released on Palestinian Prisoners day, April 17th, on the conditions of Palestinian prisoners, particularly since October 7th, 2023 including in Gaza since the invasion.- Transcript
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“I Don’t Think You Could Have A Resistance Movement Without Poetry”
Yaffa, a Palestinian poet, author and activist living in the diaspora about two recent collections published by the Trans and Queer Muslim publishing house she founded called Meraj, about the importance of poetry and world building, the importance of community care and mutual aid, as well as supporting queer and trans Palestinians escaping genocide at the hands of the Israeli military.
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Asheville’s Southside Community Farm
Chloe Moore, a steward, farmer and educator at the Southside Community Farm, in the historically Black neighborhood of Southside in Asheville, NC, talks about how the farm has been serving the neighborhood and the region with free and inexpensive, fresh produce for a decade, providing educational opportunities, grocery deliveries, an herb garden and a BIPOC farmers market. Asheville’s public Housing Authority is considering forcing SSCF off the land they’ve stewarded for a decade.
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“Clean For Who? Safe For Who?”: Asheville Business Improvement District
Three local activists to talk about the proposed Asheville Business Improvement District, a model of service provision using public funding to increase policing in downtown by an un-elected and unaccountable body of largely business and property owners.
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Don Bosco Park Defense in Bologna
First up, an interview submitted by audio comrades in Italy about the struggle against the cementization of the city of Bologna and the defense of Don Bosco park from the expansion of a university, highways… the whole urban landscape without the input of the residents so the city can move a school rather than renovate it.
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Bernard Jemison on Conditions and Resistance in AL Prisons
Then, you’ll hear Bernard Jemison, an incarcerated activist held in Holman prison in Alabama talking about conditions inside the ADOC recent calls for prisoner strikes in the state by the Free Alabama Movement and their outside supporters, as well as his views on the demands being made. [00:27:57 – 01:05:10]
Crime, Corruption, and Community Based Liberation in the U.S./Mexico Neoliberal Military Political Economy
Simón Sedillo, author of Weapons, Drugs & Money: Crime, Corruption, and Community Based Liberation in the U.S./Mexico Neoliberal Military Political Economy, talks about his early days in media, the news website El Enemigo Común covering grassroots, indigenous led movements in southern so-called Mexico, and about his book.
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Feather River Action! on Forest Fires and Clearcuts
Josh Hart of Feather River Action! in Plumas county joined us to speak about US Forest Service plans for an emergency thinning of forests in this north east part of so-called California, motivations and alternative proposals of activists, scientists and community members and the upcoming Lost Sierra Forest-Climate Action Camp.
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Jeremy White on the “San Diego Antifa” Case
Jeremy White, film-maker, activist, and street medic facing prison time in what has been dubbed the “San Diego Antifa” case talks about what happened on January 9th, 2021 at the Stop The Steal rally, how the police interacted with members of American Guard and Proud Boys as they assaulted passers by, the conspiracy-theory driven DA Sommers Stephan and where the case was before it resumed on March 18th, after we recorded this chat.
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Bulldoze SCI Rockview: Abolition, Prisoner Support, and Resistance to Genocide in PA-DOC
SCI Rockview is a prison in central Pennsylvania where incarcerated comrades have been facing repression for demanding justice in the face of impunity by racist COs and following a year of prisoner deaths due to institutional toxicity and guard violence. We speak to an outside supporter about the situation at Rockview, the reactions of administration, inside / outside relationships and solidarity that have flared up.
Mac Marquis on Books Through Bars
David “Mac” Marquis, one of the editors and contributors to the recently published new book Books Through Bars: Stories From The Prison Books Movement out from University of Georgia Press. We talk about prison books projects, what they say about conditions inside, some of the value of this inside-outside organizing and what you can expect to find in the book.
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James “Jay” Ward On Incarceration And His Struggle To Be Free
This week you’ll hear from James “Jay” Ward, a long-time abolitionist who has been incarcerated in Ohio for over half his life, since he was 15. Over the years, he has participated in the national prison strike of 2018, various hunger strikes, and other movements against the abuse and mistreatment of incarcerated people.
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Xinachtli Speaks From A Texas Dungeon
Xinachtli, an anarcho-communist Chicano political prisoner held in the McConnell Unit of the Texas prison system. Xinachtli, whose name is Nahuatl for “seed” is also known by his state name of Alvaro Luna Hernandez. Xinachtli spoke to us recently about his views on the white supremacist, colonial system of the so-called USA, the legacy of genocide of indigenous peoples in the southwest of Turtle Island, his jailhouse lawyering and his upcoming parole bid.
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A conversation with Hani Almadhoun
Hani Almadhoun, a Palestinian-American journalist from Gaza and living in Virginia is Director of Philanthropy at UNRWA USA, an independent charity to support the UN organization by the same name. In the chat, he speaks about conditions generally and for his family specifically in Gaza as well as the soup kitchen that his brother founded in north Gaza.
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Tyumen Case in Russia
You’ll hear a brief segment updating listeners on the conspiracy case against six anarchists and antifascists in Russia known as the Tyumen case (for where it initiated). The six anarchists, some of whom barely knew each other, were tortured into confessions of conspiracy to further anarchist ideology and damage the Russian war machine
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Heart of the Valley Anti-Capitalist Bookfair
A chat with organizers of the 2024 Heart of the Valley Anticapitalist Bookfair which ran its first iteration in Corvallis, Oregon from January 19-21st.
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Countering Surveillance with NoTrace.How
Aster, a European anarchist involved in the counter-surveillance and anti-repression project known as the No Trace Project which works to share information about known methods and cases of state surveillance. The project does this in order to improve and expand our collective knowledge, tools and abilities at evading state crackdowns as we organize and act. This interview was conducted via encrypted messages and Aster’s portion is being read by an unrelated volunteer.
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Imprisoned Anarchist Toby Shone
An audio from anarchist prisoner in the UK, Toby Shone. Toby was arrested in November of 2020 after a car chase and during 5 simultaneous raids on residences in the Forest of Dean outside of Bristol. The transcript includes audio explaining his case, an interview we conducted after his second arrest in late 2023, and his observatinos about condition at the prison he’s curently held at.
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Argentinian Antifascist on Resisting Milei and Red Gym, La Cultura Del Barrio
An interview with Nicolás of Buenos Aires, Argentina to catch up on what’s been happening since the presidential election of libertarian capitalist Javier Milei whose campaign was highlighted by his claims to subvert the status quo of Peronism – a socially liberal form of democracy with decades of complicated contexts in the 20th century. We also speak about the work of the antifascist and anticapitalist social center, La Cultura Del Barrio.
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Extremism, Fascist Voids and Antifascist Hope with Joan Braune
An interview with Joan Braune, author of Understanding and Countering Fascist Movements: From Void to Hope out this year from Routledge. In this chat we talk about understanding fascism and fascists, motivations and deterrents, the framework of “deradicalization”, the role of former fascists in education around fascism and the importance of fostering antifascist movements.
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Harm Reduction in West Virginia
Tasha of Project Mayday, a harm reduction project operating in so-called West Virginia, discusses harm reduction strategies and the political framework of their approach to mutual aid. The conversation also touches upon co-existing in the public health and non-profit space without compromising their radical values and some of the many ways that drug policy and pharmaceutical marketing affect people who use drugs. Listeners can contact Project Mayday at the links below and should watch those spaces for news about the benefit show coming up on April 28th.
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Updates on Resistance to the Mountain Valley Pipeline
Toby from Appalachians Against Pipelines and Madeline Ffitch, an activist recently arrested for locking down to a drill threatening to move the Mountain Valley Pipeline through Peters Mountain at Jefferson National Forest talk about the recent days of solidarity, direct actions against the MVP, repression of activists and related topics.. … . ..
Andrew Lee on Defying Displacement
Andrew Lee, author of the book Defying Displacement: Urban Recomposition and Social War, about gentrification, speculation and financialization of houses, the destruction of communities by racial capitalism and the state, and some methods used to fight back and stay put.
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US Antifascist Prisoner Free Alex Stokes
An interview with Lo and Meghan, two supporters of Jewish independent journalist, artist and antifascist leftist from Albany, NY, Alex Stokes Contompasis, currently serving a 20 year sentence for defending himself and 3 other community members attacked by Proud Boys and Oath Keepers at the New York state capital on January 6th, 2021. We speak with Lo and Meghan, two friends and supporters of Alex who talk about Alex’s media work, the politically-charged court case and his ongoing appeal.
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Russian Anti-War Saboteur Ruslan Siddiqui
Here is an interview by our comrades at Frequenz-A with Anya of the grassroots group called Solidarity Zone that offers legal, media and other support to people facing charges for anti-war direct actions inside of Russia to speak about their work and the case of Ruslan Siddiqui, an anarchist who does not deny railway sabotage against the Russian war efforts in Ukraine currently facing prison time for his activities.
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Mohammad Hureini of Youth of Sumud
Mohammad Hureini is a young activist from Masafer Yatta, in the occupied West Bank in Palestine, involved in a non-violent group called Youth of Sumud that struggles to hold on to the sites and lives of Palestinian villages despite displacement by the Israeli military occupation as well as the illegal zionist settlements and their routine violence and impunity.
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Hunger Strike at Red Onion
Shupavu wa Kirima talks to us about the ongoing hunger strike among prisoners at Red Onion State Prison in Virginia protesting the abuse of solitary confinement and the medical status of hunger striker Kevin “Rashid” Johnson.
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Military Refuser in Israel
Yuval Dag, an Israeli anarchist member of Mesarvot recently imprisoned for publicly refusing conscription, talks about draft refusal, opposing the war on Palestinians and the occupation and undoing zionist ideology
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Sean Swain’s 10 Year Radio Anniversary
Sean Swain comes on to speak about the last 10 years of his life, some of the ups and downs of his life, his struggle against the impunity of petty tyrants in the Ohio Department of Retribution and Corruption and what he’s working on next, including a run at US President and a series of suits from which he hopes to win his release.
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Kazi Toure of Boston Jericho on Prisoner Support
Kazi Toure is a former political prisoner from the Ohio 7 case and founding member of the Boston chapter of The National Jericho Movement. For the hour, Kazi and I talk about the history of Jericho Movement, supporting political prisoners and support for post-release and aging prisoners.
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Joey Ayoub on the War in Palestine
Joey Ayoub, co-host of The Fire These Times podcast speaks about the Israeli war on Palestinians, US policies in the SWANA region and the possibilities of war expanding to neighboring states, conspiracy thinking in the early days of these massacres, European state approaches to massacres in the Occupied Territories and other subjects.
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Eric King and Josh Davidson
This week on the show, you’ll hear part of our conversation with Eric King and Josh Davidson. Josh has been on a few times to talk about collaborative inside-outside projects he works on such as the Certain Days calendar, the greeting cards he helped make of Indigenous political prisoner Oso Blanco’s artwork to benefit Zapatista schools in Chiapas, and the Rattling The Cages book that he co-edited with Eric King.
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Cypher Human Rights Comics with Adam Shapiro
On this episode, Ian spoke with Adam Shapiro, Co-editor of We Are Many, a comics anthology released as part of the Cypher Zine project and published by Radix Media. The book pairs artists and activists to create narratives around the defense of women and sex workers around the globe.
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Stop Cop City RICO Updates
This week, we have two segments: Bursts speaks with Jewel, a lawyer in NC, about the pursuit of a speedy trial by RICO defendants in the Stop Cop City movement; and also Matt of Atlanta Community Press Collective speaks with Silver about the jury selection for the first RICO defendant, Ayla King.
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Anti-Militarist and Feminist Resistance in Azerbaijan
Lala, an anarchafeminist in the Azerbaijani group Feminist Peace Collective, explains about the recent war against ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh, about the Aliyev regime and patriotic elements in Azerbaijan’s reaction against anti-militarist voices, conspiracy theories and real critiques of non-profit NGO’s versus grassroots lgbtq+ and feminist organizing, and other topics.
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Ongoing Resistance to the Mountain Valley Pipeline
This week, we checked back in with folks involved in the struggle to block the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a 303 mile so-called natural gas pipeline proposed to bring fracked gas from the Marcellus and Utica shale formations across parts of West Virginia and Virginia with an extension into North Carolina.
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Direct Democracy Throughout Human History
A presentation by Dr. Modibo Kadalie recorded at the 2023 Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair in so-called Asheville, speaking with his friend Andrew Zonnevald about: his recent book Intimate Direct Democracy; the maroon communities of Fort Mose in current-day Florida as well as the Great Dismal Swamp and the route through the Okefenokee Swamp; and an anti-authoritarian historiographical approach toward telling our collective stories.
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Sara and Josh On Certain Days Calendar
Longtime anarchist anti-prison activists Sara Falconer and Josh Davidson, organizers from the Certain Days Collective, talk on this years calendar, the creative and administrative processes involved in producing one of the most consistent projects in the abolition space, some updates on the incarcerated comrades they support and other topics.
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Thomas Meyer-Falk is Free!
Thomas Meyer-Falk is an anarchist who just finished a 27 year prison stint in Germany. We spoke about his life, his incarceration and his hopes now that he’s out. Thomas was involved in a bank robbery in 1996 as a young RASH anarchist skinhead who hoped to fund above ground and underground leftist organizing, became a jailhouse lawyer of sorts and built connections with publishing projects, support groups and a radio station on the outside.
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Reflections of a Jewish Anti-Zionist from Palestine
We got to have a conversation with a Jewish anti-Zionist anarchist living in lands occupied by the Israeli state, aka Palestine (specifically Al-Quds / Jerusalem). We speak about some of his experiences of trying to resist the ongoing war against Palestinians, collaboration with Palestinian and Jewish comrades against the occupation, the silencing of dissent during the escalation by the Israeli state and other topics.
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Mr. Block’s Past and Legacy (with Sean Carleton and Iain McIntyre)
Sean Carleton of Graphic History Collective and Labor historian and activist Iain McIntyre talk about the recent release of Mr. Block: The Subversive Comics and Writings of Ernest Riebe by PM Press. After some background on their respective projects, they talk about the legacy of the IWW cartoonist, the origins and process of putting the book together, and what aspects of his work are still relevant today. Here’s a hint: just about all of them are.
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Against Genocide: A Palestinian Solidarity Panel
A panel discussion recorded at Firestorm Books entitled Against Genocide: A Palestinian Solidarity Panel, recorded on Sunday, October 22nd 2023, featuring Palestinian and Jewish activist voices in Asheville, NC, in response to the recent escalation of violence by Israel against Palestinians.
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Armenian Anarcha-feminist on Genocide in Nagorno-Karabakh
Sona, an anarcha-feminist from Yerevan, Armenia, speaks about her experience of anarchism and some of the solidarity efforts related to supporting Armenians expelled from Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian enclave within the borders of the neighboring country of Azerbaijan.
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Updates on Rojava Revolution (with ECR)
An interview with 3 activists involved in the Emergency Committee for Rojava about recent developments in Rojava, escalation of violence from the Turkish state and the KDP party-led Kurdish Regional Government in Iraq, experiences of recent visits to the region, updates on the US relationship to aggressive regimes in the region and other topics.
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December 8th Affair Trial in France is Under Way
Hey listeners, this mid-week release features the words of anarchists involved in or doing support for the December 8th Affair in France, in which 9 people were arrested at the end of 2020, following Movement for Black Lives protests. The French state is asserting, based on some pretty flimsy arguments, that 7 radical and anarchist folks were a part of a conspiracy to engage in terrorism based on their common connection to an activist recently returned from the YPG’s fight against Daesh or ISIS in Rojava. This activist goes by the name Libre Flot, or Free Flow, and he shares some words here as well.
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Imagination and Solar Punk (with Joey Ayoub)
This week we’re sharing a recent interview with Joey Ayoub, host of The Fire These Times podcast to talk a bit about #solarpunk. Joey was on the show with Leila Al-Shami some years ago to speak about revolution and civil war in Syria, uprisings in Lebanon and Iraq.
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#ComicsBrokeMe and The Labor of Comics (with Shea Hennum)
Shea Hennum talks about their article on #comicsbrokeme, in which workers in the comics industry shared their stories of tight deadlines, unreasonable workloads, and low pay following the death of cartoonist Ian McGinty, as well as the history and current day organizing around the labor of comics creation.
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Stop Cop City Movement RICO Indictments (with Matt Scott of ACPC)
An interview with Matt Scott of the Atlanta Community Press Collective update us on the movement to Stop Cop City in light of the recent indictment of 61 people on Racketeering charges by the state of Georgia at the end of August and the legal shenanigans of the city to block a public referendum on the police training center that would destroy the south Atlanta forest and river.
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Anarchists at War: Critical analysis of solidarity in context of war in Ukraine (RIA 2023)
The following is a presentation by anarchists from Ukraine and Belarus, alongside a question and answer portion with the audience, conducted in part via live translation services. This panel is facilitated in part by Nina of Anarchist Black Cross Dresden, and features presentations by Masha (Belarus) an anarchist in Warsaw, Nastya is a member of Solidarity Zone (not speaking on behalf of that group), Mira from Anarchist Black Cross Kyiv and Solidarity Collectives and Boris of Belarus Anarchist Black Cross.
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Oral Histories of Political Prisoners
Josh Davidson from the Certain Days: Freedom For Political Prisoners Calendar talks about the upcoming book that he co-edited with political prisoner Eric King from AK Press entitled RATTLING THE CAGES: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners, containing over 450 pages of first hand experiences of resisting from within the belly of the beast across generations and movements in Turtle Island.
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The Role of Anarchist Radio
Members of the A-Radio Network recorded a panel discussion on Saturday, July 22nd 2023 at the International Anarchist Gathering at St-Imier, Jura, Switzerland spoke on the history and role of radio in anarchist and anti-authoritarian resistance, mostly in Europe but also currently in South America and in support of the Mapuche struggle in Wallmapu within the territories of so-called Chile.
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Diane Stevens of Jane Collective (ACABookfair 2023)
A presentation by Diane Stevens, a member of the Jane Collective in Chicago in the 1960’s. This presentation was recorded at the 2023 Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair in so-called Asheville, NC.
Constitutional Sheriffs (with Jessica Pishko)
Researcher and journalist Jessica Pishko talks about the upcoming, September 9th Constitutional Sheriff & Peace Officers Association gathering in Cherokee, North Carolina, Constitutional Sheriff movement, their ties to militia or other far-right wing and white nationalist formations and related topics.
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Reflections on 2023 Turkish Elections, Post-Earthquake Bakur and the Kurdish Movement
Katka and Hazel, who both living in the UK, speak about the political violence from Erdogan’s ruling AKP, suppression of the Kurdish movement, electoral strategies, democratic confederalism, political prisoners and the F-Type prisons in Turkey, the earthquakes from earlier in the year, widespread corruption and other topics.
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The Political Legacy of Lyndon LaRouche (w/ Matthew N Lyons)
Matthew N Lyons of Three Way Fight blog about the political legacy of Lyndon LaRouche, cultic leftist turned fascist US political figure from the 1970’s through his death in 2019. For the hour, Matthew talks about the network of organizations and publications of the LaRouche movement, some of their approaches toward peeling adherents from the left, antisemitic conspiracy theories he innovated, methods his movement used to control followers and some of the ripples of LaRouche you can find today.
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2023 International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners
Fern from the International Anarchist Defense Fund (AFund.Info) talks about the upcoming International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners from August 23-30th, taking place wherever you make it happen. You can find the call-out, materials, supported prisoners, some anti-repression groups involved and info on past actions and events at https://Solidarity.International .
Josh MacPhee & Alec Dunn on Signal 08
An interview with Josh MacPhee and Alec Dunn, co-editors of Signal: Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture, about the recently published their eighth volume. They discuss their motivations and experiences producing Signal for over a decade, designing print media in the digital age, and their work as part of Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, long-running, geographically dispersed artist collective dedicated to the production of radical art for grassroots movements.
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Mwalimu Shakur on Abolition, Organizing and Education
A conversation with imprisoned New Afrikan revolutionary socialist, Mwalimu Shakur currently incarcerated in Corcoran Prison in CA, about abolition, political education and the hunger strikes of 2013 in which he participated.
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On The Work of Sex Work with Matilda Bickers
We’re happy to share our recent chat with Matilda Bickers, co-editor and contributor to the recent PM Press collection Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex. For the hour we talk about labor organizing in the erotic industries, Matilda’s past experiences in publishing, hangups around sex work in radical communities and related topics.
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Zapatistas Facing Increasing Attacks
Črna luknja (from Ljubjlana, Slovenia) shares an interview with a comrade who’s been living and active in solidarity with the Zapatista communities in Chiapas, so-called Mexico, about increasing violence and fears of civil war. This segment appeared in the June 2023, the 69th episode of BAD News from the A-Radio Network.
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Continuing Struggle Against The Mountain Valley Pipeline
A conversation with Rose and Crystal, two comrades involved in the struggle against the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a 304 mile, 41 inch in diameter liquified so-called natural gas pipeline with a possible 75 mile extension crossing many delicate waterways, slopes and communities across Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina.
Co-Envisioning Worlds in Penumbra City
Ian’s interview with members of Strangers In a Tangled Wilderness, a collectively run publisher of radical podcasts, fiction, zines and games discuss their soon-to-be-released tabletop RPG, Penumbra City.
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Updates On The Struggle To Stop Cop City + The Balkan Anarchist Bookfair
An interview with Matthew Scott, a journalist with ACPC in Atlanta to talk about recent developments with the struggle against Cop City, the building of a giant police training facility with a simulated cityscape for urban counter insurgency training for law enforcement from around the USA & around the world in a forest in Atlanta, Georgia. You can read Matthews work at ATLPressCollective.Com.
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A History of Anti-Racist Action with Shannon Clay
Here’s our interview with Shannon Clay, co-author of We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action as we walk through the book, covering some of the history of the network, how it evolved, challenges it faced, and invitations to discuss current day anti-fascist and anti-racist organizing on Turtle Island.
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Mediterranean Passages with Maldusa
An interview with Jasmine, an anthropologist and activist involved in the migrant solidarity and freedom of movement cultural organization called Maldusa which is based in some of the southern most reaches of Italy in Palermo, Sicily, and the island of Lampedusa and in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Mid MO Trans Folks on Living Under Emergency
Scott spoke with two trans organizers in Missouri about the recently-withdrawn emergency rule made by the state Attorney General Andrew Bailey. At the time, the emergency rule, which was one of the most far reaching bans on trans access to affirming medical care, had been stayed by the courts and was awaiting further hearing.
Femboys Against Fascism, a group based in Liverpool countering anti-migrant protests talk about far-right attempts to try to displace refugees being housed in hotels in and around Liverpool in the UK, the response of locals and the police, and the role trans people have played in facing off with the fash. Twitter: @FemAntifa
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June 11th & Long Term Prisoner Support
A statement from Mark “Mustafa” Hinkston, a politicized prisoner who is being held in Ohio about the cruelty of his keeping. Then, we’ll hear a reading out of Against Oblivion, Against Despair: A Call for June 11th , an invitation to the 2023 celebration of the June 11th International Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason and All Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners. Finally, we’ll hear a chat with Chazz, an anarchist participating in continued support of prisoners from the George Floyd Uprising and the website, UprisingSupport.org
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Mutual Aid At The Border in Tijuana with El Comedor Comunitario
Devi Machete, an anarchist involved in the Tijuana mutual aid project known as Contra Viento y Marea Comedor Comunitario which distributes clothing, medical supplies, meals and boxes of stable food throughout the week at the border with the USA. The project, known for short as El Comedor Comunitario is launching a free school and art laboratory in May.
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Comics, Collage and Anti-Copaganda with Johnny Damm
Ian, talks to cartoonist and educator Johnny Damm about his recent releases “I’m a Cop“, featuring dialogue from Police Union speeches and RIOT COMICS: Tompkins Square Park, the collage technique by which Damm assembles his comics, how his work dovetails with the larger work of abolition, and the role of propaganda in movement-making.
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Trans Resilience in Texas
Our interview with journalist and community organizer, Kit O’Connell (of the Texas Observer), and anarchist and activist lorén (of QTPIE or Queer and Trans People Illuminate Everything), two trans folks in Austin, Texas, speaking about the increasing legal and social oppression of trans and gender non-conforming folks in that state as well as across the so-called USA, some of its impacts on trans children and children of trans parents, organizing, allyship and community defense.
“It Did Happen Here” with Mic Crenshaw and Moe Bowstern
An interview with 2 contributors an amazing history of anti-racist organizing in the late 1980’s through the mid 1990’s in Portland, Oregon, and with ripples across the so-called USA & beyond. In 2020 KBOO radio released a serialized podcast which became the basis for the book.
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South Florida Anti-Repression Committee
A chat with two members of the South Florida Anti-Repression Committee doing solidarity for the 4 queer activists facing up to 12 years in Federal prison on charges related to graffiti at a Pregnancy Crisis Center. Oso and Hunter of SFLARC talk about the arrests, about the defendants and the rising tide of gender fascism and war on bodily autonomy in DeSantis’ Florida and around the country.
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Views On Recent French Protests
A chat we just had with 4 radicals in France. We talk about the recent protests and riots in France concerning reforms to the pension system that would push back the age of retirement and increase the amount of years someone has to work in order to retire, the legal manipulation by Macron’s neoliberal government to get it passed, the composition of the demos, the recent ecological demonstrations violently repressed in Sainte-Soline, police violence more widely, Darmanin’s upcoming immigration and asylum law, antifascists in Lyon, work and austerity.
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Anarchist Filmmaking with The Elements of Mutual Aid
A chat with Leah and Payton, directors of the upcoming documentary series “The Elements of Mutual Aid”. For the hour, we talk about the series, their concepts of mutual aid, the process of radically respectful and consensual film making and some of their inspirations.
Feminist Anti-War Resistance to the Russian Invasion
An interview with Leo, an anarchist and eco-feminist from Russia who has temporary relocated to Europe after facing political repressions. Leo is a co-organizer with the Feminist Anti-War Resistance movement, a network of activists in and outside of Russia involved in struggling against the war in Ukraine and the Putin regime.
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Felony Littering Trials Under Way in Asheville
A chat with Pip, a defendant in, and Grace, a supporter of, the Aston Park Defendants /Sanctuary Camping case which led to the arrest of 16 people, including 2 journalists for the Asheville Blade, many facing various charges of felony littering and conspiracy to felony litter. Trials begin April 10, 2023.
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Open Source, DIY Medicine with Four Thieves Vinegar
An interview with Mixael Laufer of the 4 Thieves Vinegar Collective about the the group, building scientific competency, biohacking, authority, intellectual property, abortion, insulin, hormone replacement therapy, finding other applications for existing drugs, long covid and more.
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A True(r) Measure of Renewable Energy with Dr. Alexander Dunlap
We spoke with Dr. Alexander Dunlap about a range of topics, such as Degrowth, green anarchism, the violence of extractivism and enforcement, academia, questions of the conception of renewable energy and resistance to ecocide.
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Maia Ramnath on Resisting Hindutva
Maia Ramnath speaks about her essay entitled “The Other Aryan Supremacy: Fighting Hindu Fascism in the South Asia Diaspora”, (appearing in ¡No Pasarán!: Antifascist Dispatches From a World in Crisis) the organizations supporting Hindutva and resisting it in India and the Desi diaspora,
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Libertarian Syndicalism with Tom Wetzel
Tom Wetzel talks about book Overcoming Capitalism: Strategy for the Working Class in the 21st Century (AK Press, 2022), questions of economics and self-management, the ecological feasibility of Tom’s Libertarian Socialist model, recent labor struggles and other subjects. We hope you enjoy and suggest giving the book a read if this conversation tickles your fancy.
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Voices In Struggle: Remembering Tortuguita + Resistance in Lützerath and Against Tren Maya
Three segments: words from a friend of Manuel “Tortuguita” Teran, the forest defender killed by law enforcement on January 18th outside of Atlanta, Georgia; A-Radio Berlin’s conversation with an activist at Lutzerath encampment in western Germany attempting to block a lignite coal extraction operation by RWE; a discussion of the Tren Maya megaproject by the AMLO administration in Mexico.
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Rhiannon Firth on Disaster, Mutual Aid and Anarchism
We’re happy to share Scott’s interview with Rhiannon Firth about her recent book, Disaster Anarchy: Mutual Aid and Radical Action, anarchism, mutual aid after Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy and during the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, charity and what comes next.
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Asheville Water Crisis and New Years Eve Bail Out
This week on the show, we’re sharing two local conversations with community organizers providing mutual aid in Asheville, NC. First Beck of Pansy Collective, talks about the 2022 New Years Eve noise demonstration and bailout. Then M of Asheville For Justice, Moira and Elliot of Asheville Survival Program talk about the recent water crisis around New Years 2022, water distribution and repression of mutual aid.
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Sophie Lewis on Abolishing the Family
Scott spoke to Sophie Lewis, author of “Abolish The Family: A Manifesto of Care and Liberation”, about her new pamphlet, Child / Youth Liberation, feminism, care under capitalism and alternative care structures outside of the capitalist family model.
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Alabama Prisoners Speak
Anarchist prisoner Michael Kimble and his friend Gerald Griffin talk about the current situation at William E Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer, Alabama.
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JJ Ayers of Winnemucca Indian Colony
Jim Ayers, tribal council chairman until 2012 talk about how the current Tribal Council came to power at Winnemucca, the council’s wielding of private police and BIA officers to siege remaining holdouts to the eviction orders, Jimmy’s 6 generations of ancestors stretching back on the Winnemucca Indian lands and the ongoing legal proceedings heading through the ITCAN court as residents attempt to stop the council’s evictions, home wrecking and banishment actions.
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Evictions and Domestic Terrorism Charges in Atlanta Forest Defense
An activist of the Atlanta Anti-Repression Committee speaks about the recent police raids and arrests in the Welaunee Forest, aka Atlanta Forest, which have brought charges of domestic terrorism on 6 people for allegedly building treehouses and throwing stones at cops.
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Kyle Missouri at Winnemucca Indian Colony
On Tuesday, December 13th, we spoke with Kyle Missouri, a resident of the Winnemucca Indian Colony in Humboldt County about threats of evictions, banishment and house demolition by the Tribal Council.
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Defend Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
Updates on the situation of Kevin “Rashid” Johnson of the Revolutionary Intercommunal Black Panther Party by Shupavu wa Kirima, General Secretary of that formation and partner of Rashid as he suffers medical neglect for his developing prostate cancer by Virginia Department of Corrections staff and administration.
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Recent B(A)D News Segments
Segments from recent months episodes of Bad News from the A-Radio Network: Frequenz-A with Lölja Nordic a leftist anarchist from the Feminist Anti-War Resistance from St. Petersburg, Russia; An interview by A-Radio Berlin from October with ABC Belarus on the infotour they were conducting at the time; Frequenz-A with someone about the squat opened this fall in Slovenia known as PLAC, the acronym meaning square and standing for Ljubljana Participatory Autonomous Zone.
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The Legacy of Ricardo Flores Magón
For the 100th anniversary of the murder by incarceration and hounding of Mexican Revolutionary anarchist communist Ricardo Flores Magón on 21st of November we spoke with Mitchell Cowen Verter, co-author of the 2005 AK Press book, Dreams of Freedom: A Ricardo Flores Magon Reader. We talk about RFM’s life, ideas and legacy.
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Grad Student Strikes In The University of California System
Rebecca Gross and Robin, Teaching Assistants at University of California Santa Cruz and members of UAW 2865 at the uni, talk about the ongoing strike in the UC system for, among other things, a cost of living increase [COLA] demand for grad student employees and TA’s.
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Matthew Lyons on Christian Nationalism(s)
Matthew Lyons, antifascist researcher, contributor to Three Way Fight Blog and author of, among other books, Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to State and Empire, talks about Christian Nationalist and theonomic tendencies and movements like New Apostolic Reformation, Dominionism, reactionary Catholicism and Christian Reconstructionism to learn more about how they interrelate or conflict with other far right tendencies in the so-called USA and the ongoing assault on bodily autonomy, abortion access and cis-hetero-patriarchy.
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Heater Blocs and Political Prisoners
Zachariah Jazz distributes alcohol jet heaters with ABQHeaterBloc in so-called Albuquerque, NM, and talks about their efforts to help keep folks living on the streets safer from the elements through mutual aid. Then Tom from Chicago Heater Bloc talks about constructing alcohol jet heaters. Finally, Josh Davidson talks about the 2023 Certain Days Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendars, updates on the case of Eric King and other topics.
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Stop Camp Grayling!
Smirk, Wink & Nudge of Stop Camp Grayling Offensive, an anarchist effort to oppose the doubling expansion of the largest military base on Turtle Island, based in so-called Michigan. For the hour, the militants talk about the ecological, social, economic and other potential impacts of expanding the military industrial complex and this counterinsurgency training ground in particular.
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Solidarity With Prisoner Resistance from Alabama to Italy
We spoke with Diyawn Caldwell, founder of Both Sides of the Wall, advocating for better conditions for people incarcerated in the Alabama Department of Corrections system. Then, you’ll hear members of La Lima (The File) from Rome, Italy, speaking about the 41 bis hard prison regime, the expansion of state of emergency conditions from prison to “free” life under democratic states, the case of anarchist Alfredo Cospito and his hunger strike.
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The First International and the Birth of the Anarchist Movement (with Robert Graham)
Anarchist author and historian, Robert Graham speaks about the split in the historic left that led to the birth of the anarchist movement. Robert published the book We Do Not Fear Anarchy, We Invoke It!: The First International and the Origins of the Anarchist Movement with AK Press in 2015.
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Too Black on the Case of the Pendleton 2!
This week Too Black, communications representative for the defense committee to Free the Pendleton 2, talks about the case of Christopher “Naeem” Trotter and John “Balagoon” Cole, two Black men incarcerated in Indiana who had decades added to their sentences for defending another prisoner from a white supremacist guard officer formation in the Pendleton Prison Uprising, February 1st 1985.
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Feminist Uprising in Iran + Atlanta Radical Bookfair
This week, you’ll hear from Modibo Kadalie and Andrew Zonneveld about the 2022 Atlanta Radical Bookfair, and then a member of the Federation of Anarchism Era talks about the feminist uprising against the Islamic Republic in Iran sparked by the police murder of #ZhinaAmini and subsequent repression.
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Islam and Anarchism with Mohamed Abdou
Mohamed Abdou, a North African-Egyptian Muslim anarchist activist-scholar, speaks about his recent book recent book, Islam and Anarchism: Relationships and Resonances published by Pluto Press in 2022.
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Lutzerath Resists RWE Coal Extraction (+ Bad News)
This week we share an interview with Fauv, a radical who recently participated in the anti-coal occupation in the village of Lützerath / Lutzerath (aka the ZAD of Rhineland) in western Germany against the company RWE. We talk about RWE’s push to break resistance at Lutzerath and the currently-calm Hambach Forest, which activists fear will be attacked by RWE and their goons. More info at https://luetzerathlebt.info/en
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Wayne Price on Anarchism and Marxist Economics (rebroadcast)
This week we’re re-airing our 2020 conversation with Wayne Price, longtime anarchist, author, about common visions of what an anarchist economy might look like, how we might get there, class and intersection of other oppressions, critique of State Capitalism
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Compañeras: Zapatista Women’s Stories (rebroadcast)
A rebroadcast of our 2015 interview with Hilary Klein, author/editor of the book Compañeras: Zapatista Women’s Stories about: her 7 years of living in Chiapas and recording the stories and experiences of women there; what gender, indigeneity and class looked like and how that’s changed in the Zapatista communities; the state of Chiapas and in Mexico; the origins of the EZLN; some parallels and distinctions between anarchism and Zapatismo; and much more.
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Propaganda By The Seed (with Aaron Parker and Tim Holland)
This week we chat with Aaron Parker of Edgewood Nursery & Tim Holland (aka MC Sole), who together form the Propaganda By The Seed podcast about their project of sharing conversations with various farmers, herbalists, propagators, scavengers, historians and cooks about plants, food autonomy, agriculture mutual aid and a host of other, related topics.
Free Mutulu Shakur + St-Imier Weekend Libertaire
This week on TFSR, you’ll hear two a conversation about the push to free Dr. Mutulu Shakur from prison and an interview about the 150th anniversary of the Jura Federation gathering in St-Imier, Switzerland. The first portion of this episode will be in a stand-alone zine available soon, the second will sit beside an interview with Robert Graham about his book on the history of the split in the 1st International and the beginnings of the anarchist movement, hopefully in early October.
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The Post-Internet Far Right and Ecofascism with 12 Rules for WHAT
This week, our guests are Sam and Alex (not their real names) of the 12 Rules for What podcast about their books The Post Internet Far Right and The Rise of Ecofascism. Sam is now focusing on writing at Collapsology Sub-Stack. We talk about fascism, ecological trends on the far right, Patriotic Alternative, Patriot Front, grifters, the Tories and antifascist activism. Oh, and a lot more.
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Adventure Capitalism with Raymond Craib
Professor Raymond Craib talks about his book, “Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age”, capitalist-fundamentalists working to create free market utopias, settler colonization, right wing “Libertarians”, Ayn Rand, neoliberalism and the oxymoronic tendency known as “anarcho-capitalism” at the center of the recent HBO Max series called “The Anarchists”.
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Fighting Back Against Displacement In Greece
Alex, an anarchist squatter in the Athenian neighborhood of Exarchia, talks about repression, struggles against green-washing wind turbines amidst raging fires in rural Greece, resistance to rape culture, fighting against a metro station in Strefi Hill, police at Universities, anarcho-tourism and anarchist prisoner Giannis Michialidas.
Hil Malatino on Being Trans in this Moment
Hil Malatino, is the author of three books, Trans Care, Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience, and Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad. Scott and Hil speak on many themes which are found in his books, plus lots more topics!
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Abolition in the Philippines with The Dinner Party and family
This week you’ll hear from K, Honey, Adrienne, Castle, Magsalin and R. During the chat they share about their projects, discussions of abolitionism in the Philippines, decolonization discourse, anarchism, informal organizing, accountability and challenging patriarchal dynamics in the traditional left and more.
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Ongoing Sabotage and Resistance to War in Russia and Ukraine
This week, we’re airing 2 interviews to do with the Russian war in Ukraine: Cheh of Assembly.Org.UA, a journalistic project in Kharkiv, Ukraine near to the Russian border, talks about the war, the publishing project and disaster capitalsm in the war zone; members of BOAK, or the Anarchist Communist Combat Organization, talks about their info channel, sabotage from within Russia to military recruitment and the war effort and the chances of social revolutions in eastern Europe.
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Abortion, Family, Queerness and Private Property with Sophie Lewis
This week, Scott and William talk to Sophie Lewis, author of Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family and the soon-to-be-released Abolish The Family A Manifest for Care and Liberation (out in October, 2022) about the current political moment that is characterized by attacks on trans people and peoples reproductive abilities.
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Stop Cop City + David Campbell on Antifascist Prisoners
This week’s episode features two interviews. Tony Lane of Defend Atlanta Forest talks about the ongoing organizing to stop the destruction of dozens of acres in this forest, ongoing info-tours around the country and upcoming week of action from July 23-30th, 2022. Then, formerly incarcerated antifascist prisoner, David Campbell, about his experience of incarceration for participation a street melee against fascists in January 2018 in New York City and about the importance of prisoner support and the upcoming annual International Day of Solidarity with Antifascist Prisoners on July 25th.
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Rojava Again Under Threat of Turkish Invasion150
Members of the Emergency Committee for Rojava talk about the escalation of violence and threats of invasion by Turkey into northeast Syria, updates from the region and their thoughts on how people in the West can help folks living under the Autonomous Administration of North East Syria. You can learn more about their work at DefendRojava.Org and find related interviews covering some of the subject matter discussed and past events on our website by searching for Rojava.
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Support Jessica Reznicek and Navigating Conflict in Movement
An interview with Charlotte of Jessica Reznicek’s support crew about Jessica’s political activity, sabotage of the Dakota Access Pipeline and 8 year prison sentence with terrorism enhancement. Then an interview with a European anti-authoritarian anti-capitalist about navigating conflict in struggle.
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Anti-Repression, Supporting Uprising and Anarchist Prisoners
Chazz speaks about UprisingSupport.org which shares the names and cases of people criminalized in relation to the George Floyd Uprising of 2020 across the so-called USA, as well as the importance of growing a culture of anti-repression and resistance. Then we included some June 11th statements by incarcerated anarchists.
A History of Black Bloc, plus Bad News!
A 2013 interview via our comrades from A-Radio Berlin with a participant in the Germany Autonomen movement present during the 1987 May Day Kreuzberg riots about the autonomous movement and about the tactic that became known as Black Bloc. Then, Free Social Radio 1431AM in Thessaloniki gives updates from Greece and Črna luknja speaks with members of the Germinal Social Center in Trieste, Italy.
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The Untold Story of Chumbawamba with Dunstan Bruce
Dunstan Bruce of Chumbawamba talks about the band’s history, their relation as a collective, anarchist band to social justice movements around the world and how they used their fame and money to give back, his recently finished documentary “I Get Knocked Down: The Untold Story of Chumbawamba” and his accompanying one man show “Am I Invisible Yet?”, aging and the battle for relevance, staying involved in politics and more.
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Mutual Aid Under Attack: a conversation with the AVL Park Defendants
A conversation with three defendants who are in an ongoing legal battle with the city of Asheville collectively known as the Asheville Park defendants. The group is made up of 15 people all facing felony littering charges in connection with a demonstration in December of 2021 against a targeted camp sweep in a local park adjacent to the downtown district. We talk about police mistreatment of houseless people generally, camp sweeps, the nationwide crackdown on mutual aid and how to keep in touch with this situation and support the 15 defendants.
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Liaizon Wakest on Autonomous Social Media and the Fediverse
This week, we spoke with Liaizon Wakest about the interoperable, open source ensemble of federated online publishing servers and platforms known as the Fediverse and its most popular component, Mastodon.
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Prisoner Solidarity, COVID, and Carcerality with IWOC
An interview with two members of IWOC (the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee), one from the New Mexico chapter active in the southwest of the so-called USA & another in the Sacramento chapter which works with folks around so-called California.
Earthbound Farmers Almanac and Food Autonomy in Bulbancha
We’re joined this week by some of the folks behind the Earthbound Farmer’s Almanac, a self-published annual collection of art, comics, facts, articles and incitements to challenge us to thicken our relationship to the land and grow autonomy against state, colonialism and capitalism. We also talk about spreading food forests and building neighborly food resilience with Lobelia Commons and a little about Ndn Bayou Food Forest (formerly the L’eau Et La Vie anti-pipeline camp).
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Strategies For Ecological Revolution From Below with Peter Gelderloos
A conversation with anarchist author and activist, Peter Gelderloos about his latest book, “The Solutions Are Already Here: Strategies For Ecological Revolution From Below”. We speak about critiques of science and Western Civilization that Peter levels, as well as the centrality of struggling on the ground we stand on, creating autonomous infrastructure, resisting colonial extractivism and the need for imagination and care as we tear down this ecocidal system.
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The Interregnum: Roundtable with Vicky Osterweil
An informal round table discussion that co-hosts Scott and Amar had alongside Vicky Osterweil, talking about a “The Interregnum: The George Floyd Uprising, the coronavirus pandemic, and the emerging social revolution,” published on the Haters Cafe. This article points to the many ways the George Floyd uprising, the covid 19 pandemic, the rise of anti-work, and what the article calls the Great Refusal (a pivot from the ‘Great Resignation’ nomenclature of some mass media) have all created the conditions for a possible broadscale social revolution.
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2 Radical Ukrainian Voices
This week, we had 3 audio segments, but two are going into this zine. Maria of Anarchist Black Cross Kyiv speaks about efforts against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, followed by Mari, a punk rocker currently in Lviv who is supporting leftists in the territorial defense. You’ll also hear a segment by anarchist prisoner Sean Swain.
Merced Prisoner Hunger Strikes | Eric King Trial Ends | Eric King Transferred
This week’s episode has two audio segments, but we swapped in a related audio from our April 3rd episode. Victoria from ‘Merced Under Construction’ talks about conditions and hunger strikes at jails in Merced County, CA. Then Josh and Mookie talk about political prisoner Eric King’s recent trial in which he was acquitted of charges of assault that could have added 20 years to his sentence. Finally, we include Eric King’s experience mid-transfer to USP Lee asking for help from supporters.
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Updates from Afghanistan and Iran
We’re joined again by Aryanam, a member of the Federation of Anarchism Era (ASRAnarshism.Com), mostly made up of anarchists from Iran and Afghanistan. We mostly get updates about the situation of anarchists, atheists and feminists in Afghanistan under the Taliban or in an effort to escape as refugees, but we also get a few updates from Iran as well, including the regime’s founding of a national anarchist group.
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A Russian Anarchist on the Ukraine War
Petr (a Russian anarchist member of the group Autonomous Action, who is living in Europe right now) speaks about the invasion of Ukraine, a bit about the resistance inside of Russia to the war drums and the Putin regime, the dangers of a nuclear conflict, the impacts of increased sanctions and anarchists organizing across the borders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus against the war and against tyranny.
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Monarchy In The UK
Jon Bigger talks about the status of the monarchy in the UK, the power it wields, the interventions it makes into parliamentary procedure and where we might see hopes of challenging it from an anarchist approach. Jon is an anarchist who is involved with the Anarchism Research Group, writes a column on UK politics at Freedom News and has been involved in the project Class War. You can find him online at twitter and at his website, jonbigger.uk
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Anarchists in Ukraine Against War
On Thursday, February 24th , we spoke with Ilya, a Russian anarchist in Kyiv, about the relationship between Russia and Ukraine, the Maidan uprising and war in the Donbass, resistance to the invasion of Ukraine and the Putin regime, conspiracy theories about Ukraine promoted by Russia and Russian-aligned media outlets, critiques of the Ukrainian state, and anarchists choosing their own path of self-defense and revolutionary mutual aid in the face of invading armies.
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Cory Doctorow on “Walkaway”
Sci-fi and picture book author, technologist and social critic Cory Doctorow on his novel Walkaway about themes of open source technologies, class society, post-scarcity economics, ecological remediation, drop-out culture and liberatory social models. Recorded in 2018.
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Tom Nomad on Conspiracism
Tom Nomad is an organizer based in the Rust Belt and author speak about conspiracy theories and real conspiracies, strategies of tension, the use of extremist actors to set conditions of concentrating power un-democratically and challenging conspiratorial thought patterns.
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Anarchist Struggle in Rojava
Robin Goldman, member of anarchist combat medic collective Anarchist Struggle (Tekoşîna Anarşist in Kurmanji), talks about the their experiences of asymmetric warfare waged by Turkey and its proxies in the TFSA, the culture of TA right now, study and critique, the medical work they’re doing, queerness in Rojava and other topics.
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Exile, World Systems Analysis and Anarchism with Andrej Grubačić
Andrej Grubačić (editor of the Journal of World Systems Analysis and founding Chair of Anthropology and Social Change at CIIS) talks about anarchism, the Yugoslav experiment, exile, World-Systems Analysis, Rojava, his friend David Graeber and other topics.
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The Battle for Abortion and Reproductive Autonomy with Bay Ostrach
Activist, anarchist, longtime defender, provider of and researcher around issues of reproductive healthcare, Bayla Ostrach, speaks about the battle for abortion and reproductive autonomy in the so-called US, studies of the same in Catalunya, the challenges faced by independent clinics against the business model of clinic chains like Planned Parenthood, legal and material pressure and attacks by anti-abortion extremists and stigma-free abortion and reproductive care more broadly.
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William C. Anderson on The Nation on No Map (new book)
Scott with author and activist William C. Anderson about his new book The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition which is out now from AK Press. In this interview they speak on the book and its many facets, and Black anarchism more broadly, some of the failures of euro-centric and white anarchism, and many, many more topics.
. … . .. December 2021 . … . ..
Housing Struggles in Asheville
Doug, Onion and Papi, three folks involved in the Aston Park Build, a daily event to hold space in Aston Park in downtown Asheville, creating art, sharing food and music and a wider part of organizing here to demand safer space & redistribution of wealth to care for houseless folks and relieve the incredible strains on housing affordability in Asheville. We talk about the park actions, the housing crisis and service industry wage woes, local government coddling of business owners and police repression of folks on the margins.
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Ecological Uprising, Antifascism & Anarchist Organizing in Serbia
For the hour, we speak with Marko about those Ecological Uprising protests of December 2021 in Serbia, the western NGO influences, labor and solidarity organizing with the Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative of IWA-AIT, challenges faced by leftist anti-authoritarian organizers in former Yugoslavia. He also speaks about his experience of the covid pandemic in Serbia, the politics of anti-lockdown protests, anti-vaxers and the far right in general around Serbia, the impact of US-born neo-nazi Rob Rundo of the Rise Above Movement, international ties and solidarity between various fascistic groups around Belgrade.
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The Perils of Prison Mail Digitization
Leigh from prison books collective in Durham, North Carolina, tells us about recent privatization of prison mail in NC by TextBehind to scan all mail, track their contents, surveil the outside supporters, the work of sending literature, to incarcerated folks privatization and digitization of other services, and what literature gets rejected.
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Grief, Storytelling & Ritual in Liberation Struggle with adrienne maree brown
A conversation with adrienne maree brown about their recent novella, Grievers, the first of a trilogy published by AK Press’ new Black Dawn imprint of speculative fiction. In this conversation, we dig into the book which is set in Detroit where a new illness that seems to only effect Black people (spoiler alert). We talk also about the role of speculative fiction in liberation movements, spirituality, ritual and grief in our organizing and holding space for inter-generational struggle.
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Eric Stanley on “Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable”
This week, Scott spoke with Eric A Stanley about their new book, Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable, about racialized violence against trans/queer people as a foundational part of the modern US state; trace this in the formation of the US settler state and how it persists today. They also discuss the improvised ways trans and queer people learn and share survival tactics and thrive under these condition in order to envision a new world.
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Mèo Mun, Anarchist Views from Vietnam
Mèo Mun is an anarchist collective working to make anarchist materials and ideas more accessible to a Vietnamese audience, together with providing an analysis of social struggles from a Vietnamese anarchist lens.
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The Russian Political Landscape and Anarchist Prisoners
First up, author and journalist Dmitry Okrest spoke about the state of anarchist and antifascist movements in Russia, the politics of Putin’s United Russia party, nazis and the far right in Russia and successes of the Communist Party in electoral politics. Then, Moscow Anarchist Black Cross member-in-exile, Antii Rautiainen, adds some more detail on repression of anarchists and antifascists in Russian prisons.
Asheville Survival Program
Asheville Survival Program is an autonomous mutual aid network formed in early 2020 at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in so-called Asheville, NC. They are building mutual aid with oppressed communities, promoting solidarity and sharing outside the bounds of State structure through their streetside camping gear, food and solidarity distro and their “Until We’re All Free” Store, holding a distribution space open a few days a week walk-up visits and delivering groceries through a network of drivers.
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Support Ryan Roberts and #KillTheBill Bristol defendants!
Tom and Nicole of Bristol Anarchist Black Cross talk about the #KillTheBill, police violence in the UK, the radical scene in Bristol, anti-repression work of Bristol ABC & Bristol Defendant Solidarity, the legacy of former Bristol resident Anna Campbell, the cases of the Colston 4 as well as that of Toby Shone, prison expansion in the UK and more. To learn more about their work and how to support and write to Ryan Roberts and other #KillTheBill defendants, visit BristolABC.Wordpress.Com.
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Fat Liberation for Revolutionary Leftists with Autumn
An interview with Autumn (she/her/hers), an anarchist and scholar-activist, on Fat Liberation in all its many nuances, the pervasive, classist, racist, and colonial nature of fatphobia both in mainstream society and in far left spaces and thought, and the roots of Fat Liberation as a structure which originates and lives with Black, Indigenous, and brown, trans and disabled people.
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“For Trans Liberation, Capitalism Must Be Abolished”
This week we’re sharing a chat that Scott Branson had about Transgender Marxism (2021, Pluto Press) with Jules Gleeson (co-Editor, Contributor) and M.E. O’Brien (contributor). Transgender Marxism brings together Transgender Studies and Marxist theory, exploring Transgender lives and movements and surviving as Trans under Capitalism. In the end, the claim of the book is that for Trans Liberation, Capitalism must be abolished. In this interview we talk about the: collective, material process of transition; trans visibility, assimilation and liberation; the history of Gay Liberation and Trans movements; being Trans in the workplace; care work and family abolition; and Trans solidarities against Capitalism and the State.
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Belarusian Uprising Revisited
This week we spoke with Vasili and Maria, two Belarusian anarchists living abroad about the aftermath of the 2020 Uprising in their country of birth, lessons learned, the current political prisoners and the Lukashenko regime’s attempts to attack dissidents abroad.
. … . … September 2021 . … . ..
Stop The Mountain Valley Pipeline
This week, we’ll speak with Toby and Emily, two longtime activists resisting the MVP’s construction about the pipeline, some of the resistance history, MVP’s attempt in federal court to intimidate and identify folks who run the social media accounts called “Appalachians Against Pipelines” and how to get involved in the struggle to fight climate change.
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Firearm Safety and Education with Comrade Center
This week on the show, we spoke with folks involved with Comrade Center, a leftist project focused on accessible education around armed self-defense in so-called New Hampshire. For the hour we talk about mainstream, reactionary gun culture in the US, the impact of the NRA, the importance and empowerment of education around fire arms and their work to purchase and maintaining a space for armed self-defense education outside of the right wing milieu in their area.
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Stop The Legal Lynching of Ernest Johnson
This week, we spoke with Elyse Max, State Director of Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty about the life of Ernest Johnson, the media and court situation he faced, his twice overturned death penalty, the links between the lynching of Black people in the US and the current death penalty, intersections of race and class in who are the victims of capital cases and who sit on death rows, the mishandling of Ernest’s intellectual disability in the case and other topics.
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“Interpreting Realities: Aligning Fragments Within the Prisoners Resistance Movement“
This is the second segment of a series of political discussions focused on building support for Jalihouse Lawyers Speak 2021 National call to action #ShutEmDown2021 along with support for the 2022 National Prisoner’ Strike & Boycott.
“Representing Radicals” Lawyers’ Guide from Tilted Scales
This week, you’ll hear Jay from the Tilted Scales Collective talk about this book out from AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies, about anti-repression work, and about this book’s attempt to shift the culture of legal representation by intervening with arguments by radical lawyers.
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Sonja on NSU-Watch and Autonomous Anti-Fascist Research
This week on the show, we share an interview with Sonja, an antifascist activist and researcher based in the state of Hessen, Germany, and involved in the network known as NSU-Watch. We talk about the NSU complex case, autonomous antifascist organizing and research, centering the needs of victims of fascist violence, international fascist ties, the Day X conspiracy and the case of Franco A.
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Unity And Struggle Through The Bars with Mwalimu Shakur
This week on the show, you’ll hear our conversation with Mwalimu Shakur, a politicized, New Afrikan revolutionary prison organizer incarcerated at Corcoran prison in California. Mwalimu has been involved in organizing, including the cessations of hostilities among gangs and participation in the California and then wider hunger strikes against unending solitary confinement when he was at Pelican Bay Prison in 2013, helping to found the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, or IWOC, Liberation Schools of self-education and continues mentoring younger prisoners. He was in solitary confinement, including in the SHU, for 13 of the last 16 years of his incarceration.
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Combating Movement Misogyny
This week on the show, William and Scott are presenting an interview with Alice and Doll Parts, two people working toward Disability Justice and Mad Activism (among other things), about the prevalence of movement misogyny in antifascist currents, world building as antifascist and as community defense, ways to rethink harmful patterns in movements, and some things we can do to make each other safer.
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Asheville’s Policing Crisis with Ursula Wren of Asheville Free Press
This week, we spoke with local journalist, activist, abolitionist and anarchist, Ursula Wren of the AvlFree.Press about Asheville’s “crisis in policing”, a brief blooper roll of Asheville police foibles over the last decade, homeless camp evictions, prior and current efforts to restructure public safety, the reactionary business effort to bolster the police with blue ribbons of support, housing issues and other fare.
Dixie Be Damned (Rebroadcast)
This week, we’re excited to (re-)present a 2015 conversation with Saralee Stafford and Neal Shirley, editors and authors of their book out from AK Press entitled “Dixie Be Damned: 300 years of Insurrection in the American South”. The book is a study of Maroon, Indigenous, White, Black, worker, farmer, slave, indentured, women and men wrestling against institutions of power for autonomy and self-determination. All of this in a region stereotyped to be backwards, slow, lazy, victimized and brutal.
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Aishah Shahidah Simmons on Love WITH Accountability (Rebroadcast)
This week we re-air an interview done with Aishah Shahidah Simmons, who is a writer, community organizer, prison abolitionist, and cultural worker who has done just an immense amount of work over the years to help disrupt and end the patterns of sexual abuse and assault within marginalized communities. In this interview we talk about a lot of things, her background and how she came to be doing the work shes doing right now, how better to think about concepts like accountability, what doing this work has been like for her as an out lesbian woman, and about her book Love WITH Accountability, Digging Up the Roots of Childhood Sexual Abuse which was published in 2019 from AK Press.
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Federation of Anarchism Era on Iran and Afghanistan
This week, Aryanam, a member of the Federation of Anarchism Era, shares collective answers to some of our questions and a few personal insights to ongoing events in Iran and Afghanistan. He talks about the recent election of Ebrahim Raisi to the Iranian presidency, a man who helped to oversee the death committees that executed thousands of political prisoners, as well what the election of Biden in the US and the two governments agreements on nuclear development and the sanctions the international community is imposing on Iran. You’ll hear about the course of covid in Iran, the release of prisoners last year, the outcomes of the 2019 uprisings against the government and those in 2020 after the Iranian government downed a Ukrainian jetliner, as well as viewpoints of members of the FAE in Afghanistan on the Taliban expansion as the US withdraws troops and words of solidarity for many places around the world in revolt against authority.
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Joshua Clover on Riots and Strikes
Joshua Clover is the author of seven books including Riot.Strike.Riot (Verso, 2016), which has been translated into six languages. Scott and Joshua talk about proletarian resistance to the capitalist economy through struggles against circulation of commodities and to fix their prices (riots) and struggles against exploitation and to set the price of wages in the workplace (strikes), how these methods are not as indistinguishable as we are told and the future of struggle against capitalism and extraction, for a new communist world.
Free Xinachtli! and Updates from Greece
This week, we’re featuring two main portions of the show. You’ll hear updates from Greek comrades at 1431 AM free social radio in Thessaloniki and Radiozones Of Subversive Expression, 93.8 FM pirate radio in Athens. Both of these were featured on the latest episode of Bad News: Angry Voices from Around The World, available the middle of each month at A-Radio-Network.org. Prior to that, you’ll hear anarchist prisoner Xinachtli talk about his life and his case.
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Cindy Milstein On Mending The World As Jewish Anarchists
This week, we air a conversation between Scott and anarchist, author and organizer Cindy Milstein. The conversation is framed around the most recent compilation that Milstein has edited and contributed to, “There Is Nothing So Whole As A Broken Heart: Mending The World As Jewish Anarchists” (AK Press, 2021). During the conversation, they speak about walking through the world as queer, non-binary Jewish anarchists, Palestine and Israel, Milstein finding increasing healing and ritual among diasporic Jewish anarchist and other communities, antisemitism from the right and the left, argumentation and Cindy’s relationship with Murray Bookchin and more.
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Eric Laursen on Anarchist Conceptions of The State
One thing that sets anarchism aside from other radical, egalitarian critiques of Power developed in the modern West is the conception of the State as an enemy. But what is the State, how does it work, why and how do we as anti-authoritarians and anarchists oppose it? These questions and more are the focus of the recent book, The Operating System: An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State (AK Press, 2021). This week, we air Scott‘s conversation with Eric on the book, theorizing the State as computer operating system, the necessity of social revolution prior to a political revolution and other heady topics.
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Making Links: June 11th, Long-term Prisoners, Anti-Repression Work
June 11th is the international day of solidarity with Marius Mason and all long-term anarchist prisoners. This year we want to explore the connections between long-term prisoner support and anti-repression efforts around recent uprisings, a sharp reminder to us that the difference between a status of imprisoned or not is often tenuous and temporary. With thousands of arrests for protesting, rioting, and property destruction from last summer’s George Floyd uprising, we must be preparing for the possibility that more of our friends and other rebels may end up in prison. We’re also seeking to find ways to facilitate interactions between our long-term prisoners and uprisings in the streets. We were happy to share the production of this episode with the lovely folks at June11.Org.
IDOC Watch, Leon Benson and Abolitionist Organizing in Indiana
First, you’ll hear from Koby Bluitt talking about her father, Leon Benson and his struggle for release after 23 years in prison, 10 of which was in solitary confinement for a murder he was later exonerated for. Leon was released in March 2023. Then, you’ll hear from Landis Reyonolds, a founder of IDOC Watch currently held in Westville Correctional Institution and who’s been in since he was a juvenile, and Ray, an outside organizer with the South Bend, Indiana chapter of IDOC Watch.
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Colectivo Subversión on Protest in Colombia and Global Battles for Dignity
An interview with María Kamila, who is a teacher and a popular journalist who works with the anarchist Colombian journalism and counter-information collective in Bogotá called Subversión, about a historical contextualization of the current riots, who are on the front lines of the protests, Indigenous solidarity with anarchist accomplices via the Minga – which is a pre-colonial term for collaboration, meeting or communal action – , and many more topics.
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Palestine and Challenging Settler Colonial Imaginaries
This week on the show, we’re airing a portion of our 2018 interview with filmmaker and activist Yousef Natsha about his film about his hometown, Hebron, and the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
Then, we’ll be sharing a panel from the 2021 UNC Queer Studies Conference called “No Blank Slates: A Discussion of Utopia, Queer Identity, and Settler Colonialism” featuring occasional Final Straw host, Scott Bransen alongside E. Ornelas and Kai Rajala.
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Shane Burley on “Why We Fight”
This week, we present a conversation with Shane Burley, author of the new AK Press book, “Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse”. For the hour, we speak about the contents of the book, anti-fascism, toxic masculinity, pushing racists and fascists out of cultural space, antisemitism (including in the left), conspiricism, right wing publishing and other topics.
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Max Fox on Chitty’s “Sexual Hegemony”
This week, you’ll hear Scott’s chat with Max Fox, editor of the late Christopher Chitty’s book, “Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy and Capital in the Rise of the World System”, published by Duke University Press in 2020.
For the hour they spoke on the failures of Gay Liberation, connections between sexual identity, class and the state and how sexuality ties into current liberation movements.
An Indian Anarchist on Anti Caste Organizing and More!
This week we are very happy to present an interview with Pranav Jeevan P, who is a student, a writer, an anti-caste activist, and an Indian anarchist living in the state of Kerala. You are listening to the full extended audio from this conversation, where you’ll hear Pranav explaining how he got into anarchism, how anarchistic praxis unfolds in India, some about the origins of and worldwide implications of the caste system, anti-caste organizing and how anarchism feeds it, and about how the BJP and Hindutva have real influence on people’s lives and destinies.
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Veronza Bowers, Jr: 47 Years of Justice Denied
This week, we’re airing a conversation recorded by Eda Levinson on September 12th, 2002, with political prisoner Veronza Bowers, Jr.
For the hour, you’ll hear former Black Panther Party member Veronza describe to the audience in his own words his upbringing, his experiences of racism, his time in prison, his case, his views on the burgeoning War on Terror, and the situation of political prisoners in the US. You’ll also hear some recordings of Veronza playing the shakuhachi bamboo flute. Veronza was convicted of the death of a US Park Ranger on the word of two prison informants who were paid and received reduced sentences. Veronza continues to claim his innocence and he has since been illegally held beyond his mandatory release date of June 21, 2005, based on political pressure by GW Bush appointed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales apparently on behalf of the Association of National Park Rangers, the widow of the dead ranger and the Fraternal Order of Police.
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Alive With Resistance: Diasporic Reflections on the Revolt in Myanmar
This is a conversation with Geoff Aung (@Rgnhardliner on twitter), a Burmese American Marxist anthropology Phd candidate at Columbia University living abroad, about the current uprising, repression and revolutionary potentials in Myanmar. We discuss the evolution of tactics on the ground as revolutionaries adapt to the brutal murders of protesters by the state. Geoff also talks about the ways in which this movement is different from similar current movements in Asia and some of the historical context of struggle in Myanmar.
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Queer Activist Perspectives from Southern Appalachia
This week on the show, we bring you the audio of an activist panel from the recent Queer Conference held online by University of North Carolina, Asheville, in March of 2021.
Shut Em Down 2021: Jailhouse Lawyers Speak
This week on the show, I spoke with Comrade Chux, a member of Jailhouse Lawyers Speak. JLS is an autonomous network of incarcerated activists from across the so-called US. They have been engaged in organizing and calling for the 2016 & 2018 Nationwide Prison Strike activities. Chux and I chat about the call for this year for folks on the outside to engage for Abolition on August 21 and September 9th, we talk about Abolition, Black August and other topics.
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Steve Martinez Still Resists Grand Jury Related To Dakota Access Pipeline Struggle
For the hour, we hear from Chava Shapiro with the Tucson Anti-Repression Committee and James Clark, a lawyer who works with the National Lawyers Guild, talk about Steve’s case, the dangers of Grand Juries, and why it’s imperative for movements to support their incarcerated comrades.
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An Ethiopian Anarchist Perspective on the War in Tigray
Anner is an Ethiopian member of Horn Anarchists, an anarchist group based in east Africa, particularly in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian diaspora. The group has been around for about a year and hopes to organize and spread anarchist ideas and organizing in the horn of Africa. Horn anarchists is a newer group planning to do work with refugees and introduce anarchist ideas to east Africa. For the hour, Anner talks about the group, the history of post-Junta Ethiopa, the context of the ongoing armed conflict in Tigray, the fighting factions and the displacement and violence suffered by residents of the region as well as the ethnic hatred against Tigrayans by the government of Abi Ahmed and his Prosperity Party.
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Aric McBay on “Full Spectrum Resistance”
This week we are re-airing a conversation that Bursts had last year with Aric McBay, who is an anarchist, organizer, farmer, and author about his most recent book called Full Spectrum Resistance published by Seven Stories Press in May 2019.
. … . .. February 2021 . … . ..
In Defense of Looting with Vicky Osterweil
A conversation that I had with writer, anarchist, and agitator Vicky Osterweil about her recently published book In Defense of Looting, a Riotous History of Uncivil Action (Bold Type Press in August of 2020), how the book emerged from a zine written in the middle of the Ferguson Uprising of the summer of 2014, its reception by the far right and by comrades, her process in deciding what to include in this book, the etymology of the word “loot” and ensuing implications thereof, why you should totally transition if that’s the right thing for you to do, and many more topics!
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Chronicling Prisoner Uprisings During Pandemic
We spoke with a member of the Perilous Chronicle about their report “First 90 Days of Prisoner Resistance to COVID-19” concerning the spike in measured prisoner resistance in the forms of work and hunger strikes, fights with guards, riots and escapes from facilities ranging from county jails, state prisons, ICE detention facilities and federal prisons across the so-called US and so-called Canada.
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adrienne maree brown on Cancellation, Abolition and Healing
This week on The Final Straw, we feature a conversation between our occasional host, Scott, and adrienne maree brown. For the hour, Scott and adrienne speak about “We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice”, her latest booklet available through AK Press, as well as sci-fi, abolition, harm, accountability and healing.
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Building Working Class History
The new book, “Working Class History: Everyday Acts of Resistance“, that WCH has published through PM Press, their archives, methodology, the project of popularizing working class, movement and human-sized history and a bunch more.
. … . .. January 2021 . … . ..
The Security State, Far Right and Media Post-January 6th
Spencer Sunshine on the far right and the government’s reaction following the riot on January 6th in DC.
Perspectives on political content removal and social media from anarchist media platforms ItsGoingDown and crimethInc.
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ShineWhite on Turning Razor Wire Plantations Into Schools of Liberation150
The following is a conversation with ShineWhite. ShineWhite is the former spokesperson for the National White Panther Organization, a part of the United Panther Movement. There was quite recently a split in the UPM and ShineWhite is now affiliated with the Revolutionary Intercommunal Black Panther Party.
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Organizing To End Prison Slavery with Bennu Hannibal Ra Sun
A conversation with Bennu Hannibal Ra Sun, co-founder of the Free Alabama Movement and the National Freedom Movement, which is helping coordinate prisoner-led organizing across the so-called US.
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An Anarchist View from Havana: Isbel Diaz Torres
This week on the Final Straw, we’re sharing another audio gift from comrades. Isbel Diaz Torres is a participant in the Taller Libertario Alfredo López / ABRA in Havana, Cuba, recorded in late 2018.
. … . .. November 2020 . … . ..
Cora Borradaile on Phone Extraction, Cloning and Keyword Warrants
Speaking with Cora Borradaile, who sits on the advisory board of the Civil Liberties Defense Center and works around issues of tech security in movements and is an associate professor at OSU.
. … . .. September 2020 . … . ..
The Intertwined Histories of Queerness and Anarchism
Author, Kristian Williams about his new book Resist Everything Except Temptation: The Anarchist Philosophy of Oscar Wilde which was released in June 2020 from AK Press.
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Pan-African Social Ecology: A conversation with Dr Modibo Kadalie
This week, we’re happy to air a conversation I had with the author and activist, Modibo Kadalie, author of Pan-African Social Ecology as well as Internationalism, Pan-Africanism and the Struggle of Social Classes. In this hour, Modibo talks about autonomous community organizing, the contradictions between the survival of the species and capitalism, CLR James, his read on Pan-Africanism and Social Ecology, the pandemic, and direct democracy. We also talk about Geechee history in south so-called Georgia, the weaknesses of nationalism, hierarchy and revering individual historical figures and the strength of spontaneity and community action.
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A View on the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
A conversation with D, a Black Anarchist who grew up in and around Capitol Hill district in Seattle about that neighborhood and adjacent Central District’s rebelliousness and conflictual history with the Eastern Precinct that the Seattle Police abandoned, about his knowledge of the protests of past weeks and the retreat of cops from their pen.
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Liberating Sápmi with Maxida Märak and Gabriel Khun
Our interview with Gabriel Khun and Maxida Märak on the 2019 PM Press release Liberating Sápmi: Indigenous Resistance in Europe’s Far North. on a political history of the Sámi people whose traditional lands extend along the north most regions of so called Sweden, Norway, Finland, and parts of Russia, as well as interviews conducted with over a dozen Sámi artists and activists.
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Hotel Sanctuary in MPLS
We got to connect with Rosemary, who is an organizer in Minneapolis, about the liberation of a former Sheraton Hotel in that city and its slow but steady transformation into something that is becoming so much more than a housing cooperative.
Lorenzo Komb’oa Ervin and Bomani Shakur / Keith Lamar
First up, Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin talks about attempts in the 1960’s and 70’s at building a prisoners union in the United States and parallels with inside / outside organizing in the USA today. Then we hear from Ohio death row prisoner from the Lucasville Uprising case, Bomani Shakur (aka Keith Lamar) about his struggle to stay alive and call out the injustice in his and so many cases.
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Anarchist Historian, Barry Pateman
Our interview with Barry Pateman, an anarchist historian and author about anarchist history, community, repression, defeat, insularity, popular front with authoritarian Marxists, class analysis and how to beat back capitalism.
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Anarchist Resistance In Prison: Jennifer A. Rose and Comrade Z
On this podcast minisode, we feature the voices of two incarcerated comrades: Jennifer Amelie Rose
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Both chats were conducted through the mail and are voiced by comrades in the Channel Zero Network.
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Incarcerated Journalist and Organizer, Jason Renard Walker
Jason Renard Walker, Minister of Labor of the New Arikan Black Panther Party (Prison Chapter) and author of “Reports from Within The Belly Of The Beast: Torture and Injustice Inside Texas Department of Criminal Justice” talks about his journalism, activism and troubles in the Texas prison system.
. … . .. February 2020 . … . ..
Social Justice and Struggle in Lebanon and Syria: Joey Ayoub and Leila Al-Shami
This week on The Final Straw we’re featuring a chat with Joey Ayoub and Leila Al-Shami. In this conversation, Joey tells us of some of the history of Lebanon, since the civil war that ended in 1990 and up to the current demonstrations against the clientelist warlords in power in that country. Intertwined with this, Leila speaks about the sparking of the resistance to Bashar Al-Assad in Syria, the tumult of the civil war, and the state of anti-authoritarian and social justice organizing and media work in that country.
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El Salvador: Una Perspectiva Anarcha-Feminista
Nos complace presentar una conversación con una compañera feminista anarcha, Elisa, en San Salvador, El Salvador. Elisa comparte sus puntos de vista sobre el régimen neoliberal del partido GANA de Nayib Bukele que asumió la presidencia en febrero pasado, la relación de El Salvador con los Estados Unidos, el gobierno anterior del FMLN, la inmigración y la organización anarquista.
An Anarcha-Feminist View on GANA Govt in El Salvador
A conversation with Elisa, an anarchafeminist in San Salvador, El Salvador, talking about the new neo-liberal government of Nayib Bukele’s GANA party, repression, immigration, relation to the US and anarchist organizing there. More on her work at ConcienciaAnarquista.NoBlogs.Org and a Spanish version of this audio is available at our website.
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Perspectives from Iranian Anarchists
This week on The Final Straw we feature a chat with a translator of the Anarchist Union of Afghanistan and Iran to share perspectives from membership in Iran and abroad about resistance to the regime from within, solidarity from abroad, the impact of US Sabre-rattling.
. … . .. December 2019 . … . ..
Sima Lee on Resistance, Repression, Hip Hop, and Creating New Worlds
An interview with Sima Lee, a queer Afro-Indigenous hip hop artist and community organizer of long standing, about a recent raid that occurred at Maroon House in DC this March. We speak about Maroon House, its story and what it is in the process of becoming, the ask for support in helping this movement build and heal from the brutal police repression, her newest album Trap Liberation Army, and many more topics.
. … . .. November 2019 . … . ..
Eli Meyerhoff on ‘Beyond Education’ (Rebroadcast)
Scott’s interview with Eli Meyerhoff about his book “Beyond Education: Radical Studying for Another World” about the history and relationship of traditional higher education in the so-called USA with white supremacy and settler colonialism, as well as historical and contemporary efforts to engage continuing study as a tool, alongside others, for liberation and abolition.
On Nurturance Culture w Nora Samaran
This week, Bursts spoke with Nora Samaran, author of the essay “The Opposite Of Rape Culture Is Nurturance Culture”, which became the seed of her book “Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture.” This book is recently out from AK Press.
Resisting Tyranny in Hong Kong
We spoke with Ahkok who identifies as a humanitarian, antifascist and musician who grew up in Hong Kong and has participated in protests over the years including the Umbrella Movement and current protests today. We talk about the mindset of the Hong Kong protests, the situation in China, decolonization, racism and more.
Kuwasi Balagoon: A Soldier’s Story
This week Bursts spoke with Matt Meyer about a new edition of Kuwasi Balagoon: A Soldier’s Story (PM Press), which details the life of queer, Black Panther, Black Liberation Army member, political prisoner and New Afrikan anarchist Kuwasi Balagoon and compiles many of Kuwasi’s wriings, They talk about Kuwasi’s life, his approaches to anarchism, and his queerness among many other topics.
Ni Frontiers Ni Prison
Today we have a two part show! In the first part we are presenting a conversation with someone from Ni Frontiers Ni Prison, which is a group in so called Canada that is resisting the proposed construction of a new migrant prison in Laval, a town just outside of Montreal. This is a transcript of the original audio, read for the show by Grier, shout out to him! In this interview we talk about the prison and what it would mean for people who’d be most affected by it, the general rise of far right sentiment in so called Canada, and many more topics.
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Gord Hill on Art and Resistance
Gord Hill is an indigenous author, anarchist, antifascist and militant, a member of the Kwakwaka’wakw nation living in so-called British Columbia, Canada. Gord is also graphic artist and comic book author who speaks about his graphic book, The Antifa Comic Book, out from Arsenal Pulp Press, and sometimes publishes under the nom-de-plume of ZigZag.
. … . .. February 2019 . … . ..
Anarchists In Conflict: Rojava + Yellow Vest Movement
(Sean Swain at [00:06:28], interviews begin at [00:14:05])
This week on The Final Straw, the episode’s theme is anarchist interventions in struggles around the world. We’ll be sharing audios from comrades in the A-Radio Network, which just had it’s 5th Annual Gathering in Zurich, Switzerland.
. … . .. September 2018 . … . ..
Zolo Agona Azania
A chat with New Afrikan, former Black Panther and political prisoner Zolo Agona Azania. Zolo is from Gary, Indiana, where he lives now, working a job and also doing re-entry work with the formerly incarcerated and community service to break cycles of trauma. Zolo talks about his life, his parents, his art, his education, his time behind bars, his political development, the Republic of New Africa, and his legal struggle.
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Kevin Rashid Johnson on the Prison Strike
An interview we conducted with Kevin “Rashid” Johnson. Rashid is a co-founder of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party and is the Minister of Defense from within it’s Prison Chapter. He is the author of two books available from Kersplebedeb, Defying the Tomb & Panther Vision, both collections of Rashid’s art and essays on capitalism, racism, imperialism and his view of a road towards liberation. Rashid is a Maoist and presents some interesting arguments in his writings.
. … . .. February 2018 . … . ..
Keep Loxicha Free!: A conversation with Bruno Renero-Hannan about Political Imprisonment and Indigenous Resistance in Oaxaca
This week William got the chance to speak to Bruno Renero-Hannan, who is an anarchist historical anthropologist from Mexico City, about their solidarity work around two of the original 250 Loxicha Prisoners in the state of Oaxaca. This rebellion and imprisonment occurred almost simultaneously to the Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas in the mid-late 90s with very different results. We talk about the long and complex history of this case, the similarities and differences between this uprising and that of the Zapatistas, the ongoing political repression of Alvaro Ramirez and Abraham Ramirez, and the economic solidarity push being orgainized by our guest, as well as some stark parallels between this case and that of the remaining 59 J20 defendants.
. … . .. December 2017 . … . ..
Walidah Imarisha on Angels With Dirty Faces, Accountability Processes, and more
William and Disembodied Voice had the chance to interview Walidah Imarisha, who is an Oregon based writer, educator, public scholar and spoken word artist about her book Angels With Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption, her 2016 book out from AK Press and IAS, which highlights three distinct experiences that are all in different degrees tangential to the realities inherent to the prison industrial complex.
. … . .. October 2017 . … . ..
Betsy Raasch-Gilman on Anarchism, Organizing and Movement for a New Society
Betsy Raasch-Gilman is a lifelong Quaker, feminist and anti-capitalist who talks about her experiences organizing as an anarchist during the Cold War with Movement for a New Society, difficulties of critiquing capitalism within the peace movement, anti-nuke organizing, modeling consensus and affinity group organizing, alternative and cooperative models, attempting to ground organizing in anti-racism, separatism, organizing with the Marxist Left, the RNC8, St. Paul principles, infiltration and more.
Anarchist Thoughts on Tactics at Standing Rock
In the second segment William speaks with Noah, who is a well established movement medic, anarchist, and participant in #NoDAPL at Standing Rock, about his experiences there and analyses of how this resistance was organized and how it developed. This interview was recorded days before media saw the images of the Sacred Stone Camp burning and having been disbanded, so many of the modes and tenses that we employ are not what we might given the current position of the camps. We talk about a wide ranging set of topics, from what worked in the camps to what the failings were, and how resistance to extraction industries could look moving forward.
. … . .. December 2016 . … . ..
Grand Jury Resistance at Standing Rock
An anarchist legal worker who has been participating in resistance at Standing Rock in so called North Dakota. This interview is specifically about the grand jury summons which was recently served to someone who was struggling at Standing Rock, we speak about what a grand jury is and how people might resist them, also a bit about what it means for this movement to have a grand jury subpoena occur at this moment.
Keep Hoods Yours
A conversation with a member of Keep Hoods Yours. Keep Hoods Yours, or KHY, is a radical graffiti crew based in the SF Bay Area that organizes against gentrification, against sexual predators in the scene, against racism and more. During the conversation, we’ll hear about the rebel cultural car events called Sideshows, the police killing of Richard Perkins during one of these Sideshows, KHY participation in uprisings against the Ferguson verdict, resistance to Fast Agent and poning of Kenny Truong and the shutdown of racist, gentrifying business “Locals Corner” in the Mission District. You can find KHY on Instagram or in the streets. This interview was formatted into a zine by 1312 Distro and is available for printing thanks to IGD.
Peter Linebaugh on May Day
We nterviewed autonomous Marxist historian, Peter Linebaugh on essay collection The Incomplete, True, Authentic and Wonderful History of May Day on the ecological and labor roots of the holiday, plus some music we curated at the time. We re-aired this interview on May Day in 2023 as well.
South Korean Social Movements in the 20th Century
This week we spoke with Dr. George Katsiaficas about his book Asia’s Unknown Uprisings: South Korean Social Movements in the 20th Century, the Gwangju and Jeju Uprisings, resistance to the building of a South Korean naval base on Jeju Island, the Eros Effect and other topics.