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)
The Final Straw Radio
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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).
UE local 667 members at the East End Co-Op grocery in Pittsburgh talk about their union, conflicts with management and their participation in BDS to remove products from occupied Palestine from the shelves. Then, a rebroadcast of Parias of Athens’ interview with ORMA about Antifascist September in Greece
An interview with an anarchist in Kathmandu on the “Gen Z” anti-corruption protests that ousted the Nepalese Prime Minister
An interview with Professor Tariq D. Khan, author of The Republic Shall Be Kept Clean: How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression (University of Illinois, 2023)
Moira Meltzer-Cohen speaks about the Trump administrations declarations on “antifa”, plus a little chat about mutual aid in Gaza
Aaron Losty talks about “The Hanging” and his comics process, as well as the Comics Cooperative. Then we revisit an interview with Alex of Szpila antirepression collective in Poland about the case of the H5, 5 humanitarian activists accused of human trafficking for helping refugees on the Belarus border
An interview with Nolan Huber of Atlanta Community Press Collective on exciting news in the 61 RICO indictments in the Atlanta Stop Cop City case & a discussion of the impacts of the movement
Shannon of Remora House DC talks about supporting houseless neighbors and strengthening alliances against ICE sweeps in Washington DC under Trumps federal police and national guard surges the city. Then Paria of Athens speaks to Research Critique about media distraction from the Tempi train disaster to manufacture consent for more police on University campuses
An interview with author Tomas Rothaus ( @batallonbakunin.bsky.social ) on his recently publish memoir, “Another War Is Possible: Militant Anarchist Experiences in the Antiglobalization Era”, out this year from PM Press
A panel discussion with anarchists from ABC Belarus, Solidarity Apothecary (UK) and Solidarity Zone (Russia) about prisoner support, care work, burnout and sustaining movements