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A-Radio Network, Anarchist, Author, Autonomy, Chicago, General, IWOC, Mutual Aid, repression, United States, Xinachtli

Hybachi LeMar Shares Some Thoughts + Updates On Xinachtli

2026/04/19 The Final Straw Radio

washed out black and white image of Hybachi in an adidas jumpsuit and mask holding lit in one hand, look at the camera from in front of a chainlink fence that divides foreground from a lawn and brick building in the bakcground. The image shows an anarchist black cross fist / cross, the words "Solidarity With Hybachi Lemar" and "TFSR 4-19-26 | Hybachi Lemar Shares Some Thoughts + Updates on Xinachtli” — Download This Episode

This week, we’re sharing two segments: the main feature is an interview with the recently released anarchist organizer and writer Hybachi LeMar; but first up you’ll hear Aarohi of the Xinachtli Freedom Campaign about the elder political prisoner’s medical condition and the phone zaps to pressure the TDCJ to alleviate his medical neglect

Xinachtli Phone Zap

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Xinachtli is an elder, Chicano communist activist and political prisoner 30 years into a 50 year sentence for disarming a sheriff’s deputy. Of that 30 years, he’s spent 23 in solitary confinement. At age 73, Xinachtli has and continues to face medical neglect at the hands of the Texas prison system, with outside supporters having to apply pressure to get him things like a wheelchair or a proper diet. You’ll hear Aarohi of the Xinachtli Freedom Campaign talk about his case and about the phone zaps about Xinachtli’s condition as well as how to get in touch with the comrade.

Past Interviews:

Our 2024 interview with Xinachtli talking about his conditions
An audio of Xinachtli telling his story

Hybachi LeMar

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First up, an interview that’s been a long time in the making. Hybachi LeMar is an anarchist who grew up in Chicago and began considering anarchism thanks to a letter he received from Anthony Rayson of the South Chicago Anarchist Black Cross Zine Distro during over a year in solitary confinement years ago. Since that time, Compa LeMar has been organizing with projects like IWOC, IWW IU613, the self-organized Liberation School in Englewood, food distribution mutual aid, the Chicago local organizing committee of the Black Autonomy Federation and is now the author of three collections of essays (listed at his website) as well as numerous zines.

The majority of this chat has difficult audio quality because it was over prison phones. Happily at the end of the chat, we speak with Hybachi following his recent release, having maxed out his sentence and returned to his organizing and life in the streets of Chicago. There is a fundraiser ongoing to support Hybachi in his post-release life.

To hear Hybachi’s spoken piece On The Powers of Self-Reflection, produced by Slug, check it out at the end of the chat.

There are a few mentions of mental distress and suicide in the chat, just a headsup. Compa LeMar mentions a few names in the episode of people that we’ve had on the show in the past, and we’ll link those episodes where we can (Brianna Peril of IWOC, Sean Swain, Anthony Rayson of South Chicago ABC Zine Distro, True Leap). You can find ways to support Casey Goonan at their support site.

Announcements

B(A)D News Episode 100!

If you’re looking for more anarchist news beyond the Channel Zero Network podcasts, check out B(A)D News: Angry Voices from Around The World from the A-Radio Network (of which we are also a member). The March 2026 episode features:

FrequenzeA presents an interview about environmental struggles in Russia.
A-Radio Berlin presents a satiric piece called “Weird politics” where they talk about German military, AfD, and the wolf.
Parias radio-show presents an interview about the repression the Community of Squatted Prosfygıka in Athens.
The last contribution is from Radio Ausbruch that was visiting feralcrust, an Eco-anarchist Infoshop and Social Center close to Davao City, Philipines. The first of a series.

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The Life and Ideas of Johann Most (with Tom Goyens)

2026/04/12 The Final Straw Radio

The book cover featuring a blurry photo of Johann sporting a big beard, entitled "Johann Most: Life of a Radical" alongside a side-bar reading "TFSR 4-12-26 | Tom Goyens on the Life and Ideas of Johann Most" — Download This Episode

An interview with Tom Goyens, professor of history at Salisbury University and author of Johann Most: Life of a Radical, out last year from University of Illinois Press speaking about the life and times of the atheist and propagandist (notably through his journal, Freiheit) and his development from social democrat parliamentarian to socialist revolutionary to anarchist. For the chat we talk about Mosts’s life, development and legacy, from the mid-1800’s in Bavaria up to his death in 1906.

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activism, Anarchist, Antifa, Antifa Ost, fascism, Germany, Law, Police, repression, United States

ABC Dresden on deBanking and US Anti-Antifascist Pressure

2026/04/05 The Final Straw Radio

pic of a giant worker swinging a hammer down prison guard tower, smashing it with the words "Til All Are Free", then below the words "ABC Dresden on deBanking, US Declaration of 'Antifa Ost' as FTO, and Far Right Swing in Germany” — Download This Episode

This week, we’re sharing a conversation with Nina at Anarchist Black Cross Dresden to speak about the political landscape in Germany, the Antifa Ost and Budapest Komplex cases and the impacts on anti-repression work in Germany since the Trump administration’s declaration that a group they’re calling Antifa Ost be added to the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations that is kept by the US State Department.

This sits alongside the US government prosecuting the Prairieland case in Texas that was the subject of our prior episode, and could be one step further toward an official declaration of war on Antifa in the US, whatever that means exactly. We really feel that these cases are important to keep up on as the administration telegraphs it’s bizarre but frightening counterinsurgency strategies.

Some German Context:

ABC Dresden articles on deBanking:
- https://abcdd.org/en/2026/03/05/debanking-current-status/
- https://abcdd.org/en/2025/12/18/debanking-attack-on-anarchist-black-cross-dresden-solidarity-work/
Past episodes on Antifa Ost and the Budapest Komplex including support links: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/category/antifa-ost/
A past episode mentioning Lina E: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2022/07/03/stop-cop-city-intl-day-of-solidarity-with-antifascist-prisoners/

US Implications:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSPM-7
Trump Admin calls for Anti-Antifa (…. ) summit in June / July this year: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-counterterror-officials-plan-antifa-summit-sources-say-2026-03-31/
Prairieland Case episodes: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/category/prairieland-case/
NLG lawyer Mo Meltzer-Cohen on NSPM-7: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/09/28/the-implications-of-trumps-war-on-antifa-with-moira-meltzer-cohen/
WSJ on Trump weaponizing IRS against the US left: https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-irs-investigations-left-leaning-groups-democratic-donors-612a095e

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activism, Anarchist, Antifa, conspiracy, General, Law, Political Prisoner, Politics, Prairieland Case, Protest, repression, Texas, United States

Out Here For Them: Updates As Prairieland Federal Trial Ends

2026/03/29 The Final Straw Radio

image with featuring broken chain links, crescent moons, kale, flowers, raccoons, other animals and the words " Support The Prairieland Defendants" plus "TFSR 3-29-26 | Out Here For Them: Updates As The Prairieland Federal Trial Ends"

This week we spoke with AC and E, two members of the DFW Support Committee about the recently finished federal trial for 9 defendants in the terrorism case around the Prairieland Detention Center noise demo in July of 2025.

To recap the case, in the midst of increased racist and nativist rhetoric, ICE and CBP snatch squad deployments ripping apart communities across the US in the first year of Trump 2.0, and the buildup of immigrant rendition and imprisonment in the southwest there was a July 4^th noise demonstration called for to happen outside the infamous Prairieland Detention Center outside Alvarado, Texas. During the protest, meant to be loud enough for people held there to hear that they were not forgotten, participants used bullhorns, shouted, shot off fireworks and painted slogans. In response the staff called the Alvarado police and upon arrival the cop drew his weapon and aimed at dispersing protestors. At this point the state narrative and that of the defendants diverge: on the one hand the state argues that this whole event was a planned ambush for law enforcement by a north Texas Antifa terrorist cell in black bloc meant to draw police into a fight and then liberate the prison; on the other side the defendants claim the event was escalated to targeted gunfire by defendant Song meant to deter deadly violence by the cop and allow the crowd to disperse without bloodshed.

For the hour, you’ll hear folks from DFW Defense Committee talking about what evidence and arguments were presented in court, what evidence and arguments were suppressed, the strange decisions of the judge in jury selection, venue and other elements effecting the ability of those facing decades in prison to mount and defense and where we’re at now with the case. This case cannot be disconnected from the Trump administration’s call to name Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, to tie in projects and movements they consider to be enemies (ranging from Democrats to civil liberties groups, queer folk and immigrants rights advocates to anti-fascists, communists and anarchists and everyone in between) with the goal, some speculate, of more fully capturing the federal government under a white, christian nationalist and fascist regime. More on the case at PrairielandDefendants.Com

A couple of useful links for the case:

Next week, keep an ear out for a chat we plan to release with Nina of Anarchist Black Cross Dresden about the impacts of naming German antifascists as terrorists by the Trump Regime on the ability of various leftist, anti-repression groups there to do their work, to hold bank accounts for sending money to prisoners or pay for lawyers and about the shift towards the right electorally and politically that is being experienced in that country. You may be surprised about the parallels with the situation in the US.

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Anarchist, Asia, Capitalism, Elia J. Ayoub, History, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Politics, Transcribed, United States, war, zine

The US-Israeli War with Iran Spreads, Nuclear Weapons, Lebanon and Anti-Imperial Solidarity (with Elia Ayoub)

2026/03/15 The Final Straw Radio

a photo of Elia Ayoub crouching in a blue jacket in front of a wooded trail, the words "The US-Israeli War with Iran Spreads, Nuclear Weapons, Lebanon & Anti-Imperial Solidarity (with Elia Ayoub) | TFSR 3-15-26” — Download This Episode

This week, we’re sharing our interview with Elia Ayoub, an anti-authoritarian historian and essayist originally from Lebanon, co-founder of From The Periphery media collective, co-host of The Fire These Times podcast and many more things. We spoke about the US and Israeli war on Iran, it’s escalations into the wider region of west Asia, the Axis of Resistance, nuclear weapons, motivations of the various actors involved and thoughts on where that leaves anti-authoritarians in the imperial core countries like the US.

Elia links

You can contact Elia by email at ayoub@thefirethesetimes.com or on Signal at @ ayoub.02
Elia’s blog ( https://www.hauntologies.net/ ) and Ko-Fi account ( https://ko-fi.com/eliaayoub )
Elia’s Lebanon class: https://thefirethesetimes.com/lebanonclass/
Where you’ll soon find Elias latest +972 article: https://www.972mag.com/writer/elia-ayoub/
From The Periphery Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fromtheperiphery
FTP website: https://fromtheperiphery.com/
The Fire These Times Podcast: https://firenexttime.net/why-neutral-anti-imperialism-keeps-losing/

Related Episodes:

Our recent interview about Iran before the war: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/02/15/death-to-the-dictator-uprising-and-repression-in-iran-with-anarchism-perspective/
Past interviews we’ve done with Elia: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/category/elia-j-ayoub/

Mutual Aid in Lebanon

Instagrams featuring info on some mutual aid efforts in Lebanon:
- https://www.instagram.com/p/DVovwUojIYq/
- https://www.instagram.com/beirutbydyke/p/DVbTtyciK7m/
Lebanon Emergency Relief: https://www.chuffed.org/project/171933-lebanon-emergency-relief
A Queer Lebanese mutual aid project involving Elia’s co-creator, Ayman Makruem: https://www.patreon.com/qmalebanon

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abolition, activism, Asheville, Bail Funds, Law, North Carolina, Police, Prisons, Racism, Transcribed, United States, zine

Why Is Asheville’s Buncombe County Jail Full of People?

2026/03/08 The Final Straw Radio

This week, we’re sharing an interview with Julie and Jeremy, two anarchists and participants in the Asheville Community Bail Fund. We speak about the US system of pre-trial incarceration aka bail and bond, the work of the bail fund locally, the overcrowding of the Buncombe County Jail here in Asheville, the ICE holds happening in the local jail, and how local policy choices regarding criminalization are being compounded by recent and new North Carolina legislation. Even if you aren’t in Asheville or North Carolina, it’s likely that much of this conversation will be pertinent to goings-ons in your neck of the woods (though hopefully not).

If you’re a regular listener to The Final Straw Radio, have a passion for enriching the anarchist media environment, feel like your values align with what you’ve heard on the show and want a chance to help out and hone your skills, we’re always looking for help. If you’ve thought of getting a podcast or other media project going but aren’t sure how to start, we can be a good jumping off point. Feel free to reach out via our emails

Immigration Detention, Low Intensity Warfare and Popular Resistance to the Ubiquitous Border

2026/03/01 The Final Straw Radio

This week, you’ll hear from Juan and Fatima, who people who’ve been organizing and thinking about the southern US border for a long time to speak about the escalations in border force violence and kidnappings by ICE and CBP around the US (including Minneapolis where Fatima resides), an explosion in proposed immigration detention (including near El Paso where Juan resides), the expansion of low intensity conflict and counter-insurgency in the southwest since the mixing in of language of the War on Crime, War on Drugs and the Global War on Terror and how autonomous mutual aid provides opportunities for scaling up community defense and prefiguring the world we want to see.

Announcements

Peppy Moved to Halfway House

We are happy to announce that Peppy has entered a halfway house where he will finish out his remaining incarceration. You can learn more about writing to him and what he likes to talk about at his support website. His crew is still fundraising for a post-release fund there as well found at FreePeppyAndKrystal.NoBlogs.Org

Casey Goonan Moved

Palestine solidarist Casey Goonan has been transferred from Mendota in California to what is likely to be their home for the foreseeable future, FCI Allenwood – Medium. You can learn more about getting into contact, updates on their case and how to support their commissary at FreeCaseyNow.NoBlogs.Org

Hrdindu Roychowdhrury Moved

Alleged Janes Revenge prisoner and Grand Jury Resister Hrdindu Roychowdhrury has been moved to FCI Thomson in Illinois. He just had a birthday and could use some sweet words. More on the move and how to write him at ABCF.Net

Prairieland Case Updates

The Prairieland Case was declared a mistrial and has been restructured in an audacious move by the Trump appointed judge Pitman. Restrictions applied to the case will could greatly limit the ability of the 9 defendants to make their cases where decades of their lives behind bars are at stake. You can learn more, including detailed notes from each day of trial, by visiting PrairielandDefendants.Com, find the defendants new updated Tarrant County mailing addresses and followcalls for support by finding their social media.

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Anarchist, Antifa, Antifa Ost, Error451, General, Germany, repression, Surveillance, Technology, Transcribed, United States, zine

Rayhunter with Cooper Quintin plus deBanking the Movement in Germany

2026/02/22 The Final Straw Radio

This week, we’re sharing two segments.

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First up, a chat with Cooper Quintin, a senior staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and developer of the Rayhunter. Rayhunter is open-source firmware to turn specific hotspots into IMSI-catcher, effectively scanning for and logging any signs of fake cell towers (often known under the brand-name of Stingrays) in the area. Law enforcement has at times deployed these as a way of collecting information about phones in the area and could use it to intercept some communications like sms or phone calls. Cooper talks about what’s known of law enforcement use of IMSI-catchers, what has been observed of the data collected by deployed Rayhunters, phone security at demonstrations and related topics.

Then you’ll hear Radio Ausbruch from Frieberg from this month’s B(A)D News podcast from the A-Radio Network talking about the repression and deBanking of anti-repression projects like ABC Dresden and Rote Hilfe in Germany based on pressure from the US government related to the so-called Antifa Ost case. This carries heavy implications for prisoner support, anti-racist and other social struggles.

Rojava Revolution In Peril: a perspective from Tekoşîna Anarşîst and a voice in Qamişlo

2026/02/02 The Final Straw Radio

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We’re sharing this episode a little early so it’s still timely as relates to the threats faced by the Rojava revolution in north and east Syria.

First up, we’ll hear some updates and assessments from Garzan, a member of Tekoşîna Anarşîst, an internationalist anarchist structure based in Rojava and aligned with the Syrian Defense Forces. Garzan’s voice has been re-recorded for anonymity and a transcript of their audio is available in the show notes.

Then, we hear from Jînda a western activist engaged in solidarity with the Rojava Revolution to speak about what the spread of Syrian transitional government and the Turkish-backed so-called Syrian National Army militia into areas formerly under control of the Syrian Defense Forces means for women and different ethnic and religious minorities.

Some Further Reading

You can follow TA by visiting https://tekosinaanarsist.noblogs.org/ where you can also follow their war updates
To check out that report by Rojava Information Center on ISIS prisoners under the Syrian transitional government, visit https://rojavainformationcenter.org/2026/01/isis-escapes-as-a-result-of-syrian-army-assault/
An article that TA shared recently, though with some disagreement in the critique “Kurdish Reaction To The Current Situation In Rojava” by Zaher Baher is available here: https://libcom.org/article/kurdish-reaction-current-situation-rojava
Our past interviews on Rojava: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/category/rojava/
Revolution In Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women’s Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan : https://classautonomy.info/revolution-in-rojava-democratic-autonomy-and-womens-liberation-in-the-syrian-kurdistan/
Rojava Information Center interview with Lonjin Abdo who founded Lelun organization to support survivors of human trafficking by Turkish-backed SNA in Afrin: https://rojavainformationcenter.org/2025/07/lonjin-abdo-lelun-interview/

Some Internationalist Structures to Keep Up with Calls for Support

Emergency Committee For Rojava: https://www.defendrojava.org/
Internationalist Commune: https://internationalistcommune.com/
Rise Up For Rojava: https://riseup4rojava.org/en/

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activism, community, Immigration, Minneapolis, Police, Protest, repression, Transcribed, United States, zine

Being The Right Best Person: A Conversation with Donna Mae in Minneapolis

2026/02/01 The Final Straw Radio

crowd photo from above of the January 2026 Minneapolis General Strike by Lorie Shaull with "TFSR 2-1-26 | Being The Right Best Person: A Conversation with Donna Mae in Minneapolis"Photo: Lorie Shaull/CC — Download This Episode

This week, we spoke with Donna Mae, a longtime resident of Minneapolis and registered nurse working mostly with people who are unsheltered and use injection drugs. Donna lives in a neighborhood of the city that has had very heavy ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and CBP (Customs and Border Patrol) activity and speaks for the hour about the last two months of invasion, organizing with neighbors, the legacy of the George Floyd Uprising and the aftermath of the murders of Renée Good and Alex Pretti, the recent General Strike and lessons for preparing in the next incursion, wherever that may be.

Some links for support

Fundraiser for folks in the Phillips neighborhood: https://gofund.me/0ba86917d
Southside Harm Reduction Services: https://shrs.org/get-involved/donate/
Minneapolis Indian Women’s Resource Center: https://miwrc.salsalabs.org/miwrcgeneraloperations/index.html

Additional Links

A great recent interview with two folks doing rapid response in Minneapolis by The Beautiful Idea: https://thebeautifulidea.show/ice-vs-ice-on-the-ground-in-minneapolis/

Facial Recognition Tech Used in Minneapolis to Target Protestors:

in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/27/ice-facial-recognition-minnesota
in Politico: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/29/ice-tracking-tools-protesters-00755703

Rojava Updates Podcast Release

Recently, armed conflict has flared between the Syrian Democratic Forces and both the Turkish-backed, so-called Syrian National Army militia and the forces aligned with the Syrian transitional government. In coming days we’ll be sharing a timely podcast featuring an interview with a member of Tekoşîna Anarşîst and another with a western activist on the ground in Qamişlo to share their perspectives on the situation and updates on the changing terrain. We talk about the danger of a resurgence of ISIS, the humanitarian crisis growing due to the seige in Kobane and the fears of a renewed patriarchal governance, but also about organizing and international solidarity.

This is a good time to get together with community in your area to figure out how you can support the revolution in Rojava. If you don’t have a Rojava solidarity group in your area (start one), keep an ear out for calls to action via the Emergency Committee for Rojava: https://www.defendrojava.org/

In the meantime, check out this first podcast by the Youth Media project, Ronahi: https://www.ronahi.eu/2026/ronahi-podcast-episode-1/

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Iryna’s Law (HB-307)

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Asheville politics and police repression

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Peppy Moved to Halfway House

Casey Goonan Moved

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