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Prairieland Defendants Federal Sentencing plus Flock Sabotage in the Great Lakes

This week, we’re sharing two segments on the episode: updates on the federal sentencing in the Prairieland Antifa terrorism case; followed by a discussion of a recent anti-Flock surveillance sabotage case in the Great Lakes region.

Prairieland Federal Sentencing Updates

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First up, two members of the DFW Support Committee return to give a rundown of the sentencing in that case with people receiving decades in relation to a noise demonstration in support of detainees at the Prairieland ICE Detention facility on July 4th of 2025. This case, framed in terms of Trump’s State Dept declaration of Antifa as a terrorist organization and his NSPM-7 memo titled “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence” declaring the intention to prosecute those motivated to violence by views of “anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.”

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Great Lakes Anti-Flock action

Then you’ll hear a guest speak about a recent court case involving two individuals in the Great Lakes region who took action against flock surveillance cameras. You’ll hear some insights into the sorts of evidence presented, the defendants experiences of incarceration and how you can send support their way as they do their bid.

You can send funds to support them at @deez_zines on venmo. If you donate $20 or more to the fundraiser, send proof of donation and an address to deez_zines@tutamail.com and you’ll be sent a thank you gift from the support team.

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Rayhunter with Cooper Quintin plus deBanking the Movement in Germany

This week, we’re sharing two segments.

"Rayhunter: Detecing Cell-Site Simulators (aka Stingrays) with Cooper Quintin | The Final Straw Radio – TFSR 2-22-26" featuring the logo for Rayhunter, an orca leaping and taking a bite out of a graph showing available cellular connectivity
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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.

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Southerners Against Surveillance Systems and Infrastructure (with Ed)

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Ed, co-founder of SASSI (Southerners Against Surveillance Systems & Infrastructure), speaks to The Final Straw Radio about the proliferation of surveillance infrastructure in the South (and more broadly in United States), methods of researching and a little into resisting them.

We speak about topics such as the increasing cooperation between the state and corporate surveillance companies, the desire of these companies to extract ever-increasing amounts of data from the public, the way the state uses private databases to sidestep traditional warrant processes, some of the specific technologies that cities in the south have contracts with and their efficacy. We also touch on how folks at SASSI investigate these topics, and what can be done to help with this effort and ways to think about individual and community safety.

Also of interest to listeners may be our prior episode, Pushing Back On Flock Cameras with Kate Bertash, which Ed references during the chat.

The following links provide more information about topics we briefly touch on in the chat.

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