Skip to content
The Final Straw Radio Podcast

The Final Straw Radio Podcast

Search
  • About
  • Donate / Merch
  • Kontact
    • Links
  • Links To Check Out
  • Podcasting
  • Radio Broadcasting
  • Sean Swain
  • Zines

Tag Archives: prison labor

IWOC, IWW, Labor, Prisons, Texas, Transcribed, zine

Forced Labor, Living Conditions, Opacity and Impunity in Texas Prisons (with Michelle Pitcher)

2025/01/19 The Final Straw Radio
a picture of prison bars on a cell block
Download This Episode

We’re sharing a recent interview with Michelle Pitcher of the Texas Observer about living conditions and forced labor in the TDCJ, the Texas prison system. You can reach Michelle at pitcher@texasobserver.org or follow her at @michellepitcher.bsky.social .

  • Transcript
  • PDF (Unimposed)
  • Zine (Imposed PDF)
https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/thefinalstrawradio/tfsr-podcast-20260119-MichellePitcherTDCJ.mp3
  • https://www.texasobserver.org/prison-heat-lawsuit-tdcj/
  • https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-prison-plantations
  • https://www.texasobserver.org/solidarity-prison-labor-union/

Our prior interview with Jason Walker (more of his writings at his blog) can be found here (with a transcript available). And our prior chat with Comrade Z can be found here.

Continue reading Forced Labor, Living Conditions, Opacity and Impunity in Texas Prisons (with Michelle Pitcher) →

Comrade Zincarcerated workeriwocjason renard walkerprisonprison laborTDCJTexas

A weekly Anarchist Radio Show & Podcast

Toots from @thefinalstrawradio@chaos.social :

  • (no title)
    You can now find our recent interview with @leilashami transcribed and in zine form here: https://tfsr.media/zines/#December2025
  • (no title)
    An interview with anarchist media about the repression of and resistance of the Mazateca community to a power grab in Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón in Oaxaca, Mexico beginning in December 2014, as well as the related case of Miguel Peralta and the recent death of Yorch Esquivel.https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/01/04/the-political-repression-and-resistance-of-eloxochitlan-de-flores-magon-oaxaca/
  • (no title)
    #ICYMI Most of the #PalestineAction hunger strikers are now nearly 60 days into their hunger strike! Check out https://prisonersforpalestine.org for updates + find our Nov 30, 2025 ep ☝ for backgorund
  • (no title)
    Find the transcripted zine of our interview with Gah Te Iracema (healer and leader of the Kaingang people in southern Brazil) and @petergelderloos.bsky.social on his movement journalism during #COP30 in Brazil. These and more at https://tfsr.media/zines/#November2025
  • (no title)
    Patrons (for $3+ per month) can check out a preview of our recent interview on repression and ongoing resistance against caciquismo in the home of Ricardo Flores Magón, Eloxochitlán in Oaxaca, Mexicohttps://www.patreon.com/posts/political-and-of-147110211

Archives

  • The Political Repression and Resistance of Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón, Oaxaca2026/01/04
  • Black Arms To Hold You Up (with Ben Passmore)2025/12/28
  • Leila Al-Shami with Updates from Syria + The Peoples Want2025/12/21
  • Michael DeForge on Art and Organizing + Xinacthli Medical Emergency2025/12/14
  • Signal Contingency Plan (Delta Chat with Fanny and Mary)2025/12/07
  • Mastodon
  • RSS Feed
  • Mail
  • Patreon
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Spotify
  • YouTube
  • Tumblr
  • Amazon
  • Google
  • Reddit
  • Facebook
  • Link

Categories

  • A-Radio Berlin
  • A-Radio Network
  • abolition
  • activism
  • AK Press
  • Anarchist
  • Anarchist Media
  • Antifa
  • Art
  • Asheville
  • Author
  • Autonomy
  • B(A)D News
  • Capitalism
  • Colonialism
  • Colonization
  • community
  • Earth & Animal Liberation
  • Environment
  • Feminism
  • gender
  • General
  • Health
  • History
  • Immigration
  • Indigenous
  • Labor
  • Music
  • Neoliberalism
  • North Carolina
  • Palestine
  • Police
  • Political Prisoner
  • Politics
  • Prisons
  • Protest
  • Queer
  • Race
  • Racism
  • Rebroadcast
  • repression
  • Transcribed
  • United States
  • war
  • zine

Meta

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
Privacy policy Proudly powered by WordPress