Anarchists In Conflict: Rojava + Yellow Vests

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, and our comrades at Dissident Island Radio in London, UK. The interviews will cover issues related to the Rojava Revolution in northern Syria in which anarchists have engaged as fighters, medics, media, construction workers, cooks and in many more ways. And then we’ll hear about anarchists engaged in the Yellow Vest anti-austerity protests in France, a diverse movement that includes far rightists, liberals, conservatives and anti-capitalists.

5th Intl A-Radio Live Broadcast (February 17th, 8am – 2pm EST)

Tomorrow, from 8am to 2pm EST, the International A-Radio Gathering participants, the folks who bring you the monthly B(A)DNews: Angry Voices From Around The World podcast will be producing 6 hours of live broadcast, featuring updates from Rojava, Turtle Island, occupied Mapuche territory in so-called Chile, Russia, Europe and more!

A Jailhouse Lawyer Speaks About #PrisonStrike 2018

This week, we feature three segments: first, we’ll feature a statement about recent doxing of a number of anti-racists in the Asheville area by far-right keyboard warriors; second, you’ll hear an interview with Dee, an anonymous incarcerated organizer affiliated with Jailhouse Lawyers Speak, about the #August21 2018 Nationwide Prisoner Strike and prisoner organizing; finally, we share a report by A-Radio Berlin in Germany about the recent resistance to the destruction of the Hambach Forest by authorities in their attempt to support RWE’s lignite coal pit.

“It Didn’t Occur To Me Until It Occurred To Me”: Donald Rooum, Pt2

This week on The Final Straw we’ll be airing the second half of our interview with anarchist, author and cartoonist nonagenarian, Donald Rooum from Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. Donald talks about the philosophy of Max Stirner, about the police corruption case he inadvertently opened up known as the “Challenor Affair”, multi-generationality in anarchism, anarchists in Glasgow in the 1940’s and more.

scott crow on Liberatory Community Armed-Defense

This week we share as our main feature an interview with longtime anarchist, musician, anti-racist & organizer from Texas, scott crow. scott is the author of numerous books, including “Black Flags & Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective” & “Emergency Hearts, Molotov Dreams: A scott crow Reader“. At the end of 2017, PM … Continue reading scott crow on Liberatory Community Armed-Defense

“This Armed Occupation Needs to Stop Before It’s Too Late”: Yousef Natsha on his new documentary “Hebron”

Hebron Documentary This week we got the chance to speak with Yousef Natsha, who is a Palestinian filmmaker and activist about his new documentary called Hebron. In this interview we talk about how he got into making this documentary, some historical and present day context for this series of struggles in Hebron City, and some … Continue reading “This Armed Occupation Needs to Stop Before It’s Too Late”: Yousef Natsha on his new documentary “Hebron”

Whammo!: MOVE9 Parole; Addicted to Screens; Anarcho-Syndicalism in Kosovo

This episode contains three segments: Move 9 Parole “Stare Into The Lights My Pretties” Anarcho-Syndicalist Organizing in Kosovo http://traffic.libsyn.com/thefinalstrawradio/tfsradio-20180218-MOVE9-ScreenAddicts-Kosovo.mp3 MOVE9 Parole First, there’s the interview that Bursts held with Michael Davis Africa Jr., a member of the MOVE organization.  MOVE is a Philadelphia-based black liberation group founded by John Africa in 1972. The group lives … Continue reading Whammo!: MOVE9 Parole; Addicted to Screens; Anarcho-Syndicalism in Kosovo

A Refugee on Manus Island & the 2018 Certain Days Calendar

This week on the Final Straw we feature 2 interviews. Walid, an asylum seeker held at the Manus Regional Process Center, Papua New Guinea First up, you’ll hear a conversation that Bursts had with a refugee seeking asylum in Australia. His name is Walid, he is 24 years old and from Afghanistan. Manus Regional Processing … Continue reading A Refugee on Manus Island & the 2018 Certain Days Calendar

Anarchist Radio DJ’s from Slovenia and El Salvador

This week we’re just back from a few weeks in Europe, most recently attending the 3rd International Anarchist Radio Conference at Radio98FM, an anarchist pirate radio station of 14 years in the squatted studios at the Polytechnic University in Zografu neighborhood in Athens, Greece. In coming episodes we’ll be releasing some of the interviews that … Continue reading Anarchist Radio DJ’s from Slovenia and El Salvador