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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).
An interview with Flint Taylor about his book The Conviction Machine, misconduct and cover-up by the FBI and Chicago PD in the assassination of Chicago Black Panther’s Leader Fred Hampton, the forty year effort to free Andrew and Jackie Wilson, the tradition of movement lawyering, and the legacy of the People’s Law Office
Segments from the A-Radio Network’s B(A)D News 102, featuring news from assemblies in Greece about abortion rights and resisting pushbacks of immigrants at sea, as well as indigenous struggle in Brazil and some political humor
An interview with Devi Machete of Contra Viento Y Marea in Tijuana and James Stout in San Diego about the border and immigration
Jules Boykoff speaks about his latest book, “Red Card: The 2026 World Cup, Sportswashing, and the FIFA Greed Machine”, big capitalist sports and resistance / alternatives
Kristian Williams speaks about National Special Security Events in the USA and their impacts on policing and gentrification, followed by Sam Schmidt of Our Streets Collective speaking about homeless sweeps and the April 2026 NFL Draft event that happened in Pittsburgh, PA
Recording of a live presentation by Vicky Osterweil from Firestorm in April 2026 of her latest book, “The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed The Movies and Took Over the World” with q&a
This week, we’re sharing two segments: an interview with the recently released anarchist organizer and writer Hybachi Lemar; plus a member of the Xinachtli Freedom Campaign speaks on the incarcerated elder’s condition in Texas prison
Historian Tom Goyens talks about the subject of his recent biography, German anarchist Johann Most, how his ideas developed, the historical movements he participated in as an organizer, cultural producer and propagandist from Social Democratic parliamentarian in the 1850s to his death as an anarchist in the US in 1906
Nina of Anarchist Black Cross Dresden speaks about the implications of the Foreign Terrorist Organization status by the US State Dept on the members of the Antifa Ost case in Germany, the deBanking of anti-repression and prisoner support groups, and the political landscape in Germany
An interview with 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
An interview with John Janosko and Freeway, two organizers formerly of the Wood Street Commons encampment in Oakland plus the director, Caron Creighton, of a feature length documentary on the struggle to save the community from eviction to talk about lessons and skills learned during the organizing
