This week on The Final Straw, 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. Maria is also a member of Belarus Anarchist Black Cross, which does anti-repression education and prisoner and legal support for anarchists in or from that country.
The Uprising in Belarus Belarus is continuing to experience a revolt against the 26 year dictatorship of the post-Soviet dictator, Alexander Lukashenko. The situation came to a boil, fueled by yet another election rife with administration corruption, the creation of mutual aid infrastructure in the face of a government that abandoned public health measures in … Continue reading The Uprising in Belarus
This week: we spoke with Kevin Price about the medical emergency that William Phil Africa of the MOVE9 was undergoing and lack of transparency on the part of his captors at SCI-Dallas in Pennsylvania; we feature audio from Črna Luknja from Slovenia “P” in Barcelona, Spain, talks about the recent series of raids and repressions called Operacion Pandora against anarchists around that country; A-Radio interviews a member of Belarus Anarchist Black Cross about current situations for radicals and refugees in Belarus, Ukraine, & Russia, as well as how those ABC’s work together.
This week’s show features a conversation with the anarchist, Jason Hammonds, about his brother, Jeremy, who’s been imprisoned over a year without trial for allegedly leaking information to Wikileaks. The second conversation is an interview with a member of the Belarus Anarchist Black Cross about recent history and repression in Belarus. First things first: Jeremy … Continue reading Support Jeremy Hammond + Updates from Belarus (March 24, 2013)
A conversation with Aster, a European anarchist involved 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 in order to better and expand our collective knowledge, tools and abilities at evading state crackdowns as we organize and act.
An interview with Matt Scott of Atlanta Community Press Collective on the 61 RICO indictments handed down by the state of Georgia against people accused of affiliation with the movement to Stop Cop City as well as the current process to get a public referendum on the ballot about the land lease and ongoing and upcoming civil disobedience at the construction / destruction site.
A panel with anarchists from Belarus and Ukraine discussing organizing in Europe since repressed uprising in Belarus and escalation of Russian war in Ukraine, recorded in July 2023 in St-Imier, Switzerland at the RIA or International Anarchist Gathering.
An interview with Leo, an eco-feminist anarchist from Russia living abroad about the organization she co-founded, Feminist Anti-War Resistance
Shupavu wa Kirima talks about the medical neglect by VDOC of Kevin “Rashid” Johnson who is being denied treatment for prostate cancer, then segments from A-Radio’s Bad News featuring a Russian voice from Feminist Anti-War Resistance, a member of Belarus Anarchist Black Cross and an organizer of PLAC squat in Ljubljana.
We hear from Kevin Rashid Johnson about his medical neglect despite a diagnosis of prostate cancer at Nottoway CI in Virginia. Then, a founder of the anarchistic journal Assembly.Org.UA based in Kharkiv, Ukraine, speaks about disaster capitalism, journalism, resistance to the invasion by Russia and living in a warzone. Finally, a member of BOAK, or the Anarchist Communist Combat Organization, speaks about sabotage against the war effort and decruitment in the military of the Russian Federation.
