This week on The Final Straw we’re featuring a chat with Elia J. Ayoub, a Lebanese-Palestinian writer and researcher, and Leila Al-Shami, a British-Syrian activist and author. For the episode we discuss resistance movements in the last 30 years in Lebanon and Syria, the ongoing anti-sectarian and anti-regime protests in Lebanon, the Syrian civil war and diaspora, and shared elements between the two situations. We also talk about the western left and media, it’s failings at solidarity and some ways it can learn from and support social justice movements emanating from that region.
This week we have two segments, an interview with an Anarcha-Feminist organizer in San Salvador, El Salvador on the situation there, followed by Mitch of Red Strings And Maroons podcast on the upcoming Militia demonstration on MLK Jr. Day, January 20th, 2020 in Richmond, VA.
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.
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!
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.
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.
This week, we feature two audios with y’all. The voice of a prisoner in SC as the 2018 #PrisonStrike ends and someone resisting Nuclear Waste in Bure, France.
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 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→
