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The Final Straw Radio

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). We also frequently feature commentary (serious and humorous) by anarchist prisoner, Sean Swain.

The Final Straw Radio

The Ampelokipoi Case, Repression and Anti-Repression in Greece

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Flyer showing prisoners out of their cells, rioting in a prison with the words "Up until the demolition of the last prison, we organize the material, moral, political support of imprisoned revolutionaries - Tameio - contact http://tameio.org/ __ tameio@espiv.net | TFSR 1-29-25 - The Ampelokipoi Case, Repression & Anti-Repression in Greece"

01.29.25 - 11:00am

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Updates on the Ampelokipoi case in Athens, repression and antirepression in Greece with a member of Tameio


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

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01.22.25 - 11:00am

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A recent interview with Michelle Pitcher of the Texas Observer about living conditions and forced labor in the TDCJ, the Texas prison system


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Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the confirmation of Pamela Bondi as US Attorney General

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01.15.25 - 11:00am

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An anonymized chat with a longtime anarchist on lessons learned trying to be free while being targeted by state repression


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All Will Be Equalized with Andrew Zonneveld and Modibo Kadalie (ACAB 2024)

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01.08.25 - 11:00am

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A recording of Andrew Zonneveld from the 2024 Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair talking about his book All Will Be Equalized!: Georgia’s Freedom Seekers of the Swamps, Backwoods, and Sea Islands 1526-1890 alongside his friend Modibo Kadalie.


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We Will Need Time: Two Libertarian Communist perspectives on events and possibility in Syria

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"TFSR 01-01-25 | We Will Need Time: Two Libertarian Communist perspectives on events and possibility in Syria" featuring a photo of two people (one with a rifle slung over their shoulder) hugging and facing away from the camera and towards a bombed-out building with graffiti reading "We Will Return" in Arabic

01.01.25 - 11:00am

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An interview with two libertarian communists with connections to Syria and editor contributors to the blog interstices-fajawat.org


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An Anarchist View From Rojava on Recent Events in Syria: A conversation with a combatant of Tekoşîna Anarşist

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"An anarchist view from Rojava on recent events in Syria: a conversation witha combatant in Tekoşîna Anarşist | The Final Straw Radio, Dec 22, 2024" featuring a drawing of a combatant with their face covered, holding an AK47 and sitting on cinder blocks

12.25.24 - 11:00am

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An interview with Errico, a combatant member of Tekoşîna Anarşist, an internationalist anarchist formation in critical solidarity with the Rojava Revolution, speaks about the conditions on the ground in Syria, particularly the north east.


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Art As A Vehicle For Anarchist Ideas (ACAB 2024)

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12.18.24 - 11:00am

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This is a presentation entitled Art as a Vehicle for Anarchist Ideas with anarchist graffiti artists and designers N.O. Bonzo, Des Revol, and Sugarbombing World.


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Red Onion Prison Updates + Antifa-OST Case in Germany

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12.11.24 - 11:00am

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An interview with Phil Wilayto of the Virginia Defenders about prisoner self-immolations at Red Onion State Prison, and Jo about the repression and conspiracy cases in Germany known as Antifa-Ost and the Budapest Structure


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Peter Gelderloos on Memory, Community, Organization and Struggle

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12.04.24 - 11:00am

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An interview with anarchist author, Peter Gelderloos, on his recent books “They Will Beat The Memory Out Of Us” and “Organization, Community, Continuity” discussing topics of movement memory, community, care work, organization and struggle.


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Abortion Beyond The State (with Jex Blackmore, ACAB24)

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11.27.24 - 11:00am

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“Abortion Beyond The State” by Jex Blackmore recorded at ACABookfair 2024 in so-called Asheville, NC, on the history and need for autonomous health care


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