When THE MAN knocks, health in the coal fields of West Virginia and METAL/PUNK!

Two interviews: a conversation is with Mark of Croatan Earth First! about the recent visits by JTTF/FBI to anti-fracking activists on the East Coast, climate-change activists on the West Coast and and GJ-targetted Anarchist communities in NYC; and a conversation takes place between our friend, Wren Awry (AFM news hour) and Dustin Steele about Dustin’s work with the Beards Fork Health Survey to gather information on the health effects of surface mining in West Virginia with an eye toward mutual aid.

Grand Jury Resistance in PNW/ Mountain Top Removal in West VA

This week’s show features a conversation with Will Potter about political repression against accused Anarchists in the Pacific Northwest. Later, we’ll speak with Bryan of Katuah Earth First! about his participation in a recent action in West Virginia against Mountain Top Removal.

WV Prisoners + the Water Crisis / Hip Hop + Antifa in Greece

a conversation with D from West Virginia to update us about the Elk River chemical spill from January of this year, the West Virginia Clean Water Hub and the project it recently spawned, Voices From South Central WV and then A-Radio speaks with members of the Greek political Hip Hop group Social Waste about the development of Hip Hop in Greece, where it overlaps with politics, immigrant solidarity, anti-capitalism and anti-fascism as currently practiced in Greece.

NATO3 Trial winds down + Coal Ash spill in North Carolina (February 9, 2014)

Two segments: a conversation with Emily who does support work the NATO3 about what’s happened in the trial and what the next steps appear to be as sentencing approaches; we speak with Johanna of Keeper of the Mountains Foundation, a grassroots group out of West Virginia that looks to the effects of Mountain Top Removal and coal extraction and burning on the environment, economy and people in Appalachia and the recent Duke Energy Coal Ash Pit spill on the Dan River.

Ongoing Resistance to the Mountain Valley Pipeline

This week on the Final Straw Radio, we’ll be sharing two segments: an interview about the current status of resistance to the Mountain Valley Pipeline across eastern central Appalachia; and then Sean Swain’s (maybe) announcement of his run for US President in 2023

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, talk to Scott about the strikes spreading across the UC system demanding cost of living pay increases and other concessions for Graduate student employees and the wider issues of labor around higher education.