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The Final Straw is a weekly anarchist and anti-authoritarian radio show bringing you voices and ideas from struggle around the world. Since 2010, we’ve been broadcasting from occupied Tsalagi land in Southern Appalachia (Asheville, NC). We also frequently feature commentary (serious and humorous) by anarchist prisoner, Sean Swain.
Courtney from IWOC and Roc (a communication bridge for Jailhouse Lawyers Speak) talk about the 2024 Shut ‘Em Down prison strikes and outside demonstrations called for by JLS this December and the JLS transitional housing project. Then, Monsour Owolabi talks about solitary confinement as counterinsurgency and the need for Movement transitional housing.
An interview with a tree sitter going by Cricket and their supporter D from Siskiyou Rising Tide about the tree sit to stop the “Rogue Gold Forest Management Plan” cut in southern Oregon and the recent succest to stop the cutting of old growth at Poor Windy near Wolf Creek.
Our interview with Rey Katula of The Empire Never Ended podcast about Antipolitika journal #3, nationalism in socialist Yugoslavia, history, anarchism, fascism and more
A discussion with Matthew Hart and Julie Herrada about anarchist history, prisoner support, movement memory and the June 11th Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason and long-term anarchist prisoners.
An interview with Talla Nasser of the Palestinian prisoner human rights organization, Addameer, about conditions in prisons in Palestine and then A-Radio Berlin’s conversation with Johan Eriksson about his table top role playing game based on Orwell’s “1984” entitled “Oceania 2084”.
An interview with Chloe Moore of the BIPOC food sovereignty project, Southside Community Garden in so-called Asheville NC which is facing displacement by the Housing Authority of the City of Asheville
This week, an interview with a radical in Bologna, Italy, about the defense of the Don Bosco park from cementization (redevelopment) by the leftist municipal administration of the city. This is followed by an interview with Bernard Jemison, incarcerated whistleblower at Holman Correctional Institution in Atmore, AL, about conditions in the Alabama prison system and recent calls to organize a strike by prisoners affiliated with the Free Alabama Movement
The Final Straw is a weekly anarchist and anti-authoritarian radio show bringing you voices and ideas from struggle around the world. Since 2010, we’ve been broadcasting from occupied Tsalagi land in Southern Appalachia (Asheville, NC). We also frequently feature commentary (serious and humorous) by anarchist prisoner, Sean Swain.
Simón Sedillo, author of Weapons, Drugs and Money talks a little about his early days in media with El Enemigo Común, his book with a focus on intervention and integration from capitalist and military powers in the US, multinational banking and big pharma and the violence against and resilience of indigenous communities under that nation-state
An interview with Josh Hart of Feather River Action! About the US forest services plans to defoliate and sell for salvage large swaths of forest in the north east of so-called California. More info at FeatherRiverAction.org
Our mid-March 2024 conversation with filmmaker and activist Jeremy White, facing years in prison for conspiracy in the “San Diego Antifa” case for being a street medic at a counter demo during a Stop The Steal rally in San Diego on January 9th, 2021
