The Final Straw Radio

This week, the show has two segments. Pittsburgh Anarchist Book Fair First up, you'll hear a brief interview with M, an organizer of the first Pittsburgh anarchist book fair, happening October 24-26 across a few venues in the Steel City A list of events (still being updated): https://pizz.ation.ist/ Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1327126225660995 As is anarchist book fair traditio...

A conversation with Tariq D. Khan, author of  The Republic Shall Be Kept Clean: How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression , out from University of Illinois Press in 2023. In this conversation we talk about the connections between the anti-Indigenous motivations of the genocidal frontier wars in the US and the inward turn to heretical movements pushing for freedom for the laboring cl...

This week, an interview with members of Signals Rising , who provide education and support around radio technologies including meshtastic networks as alternative communications or in disaster relief scenarios. Check out their website for resources and ways to get in touch Transcript PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PDF) A couple of fun Software Defined Radio (SDR) toys: https://flipperzero.one/ https...

This week, we're featuring two segments. First up, Moira Meltzer-Cohen, an lawyer with the National Lawyers Guild, speaks about the recent declarations of war by the Trump administration on anteefah, what has changed legally, what they might be telegraphing and smart ways to move forward in this tense atmosphere. Check out our recent chat with Mo about Knowing your Rights and Risks with the police...

This week, Ian talk s with Cartoonist Aaron Losty about his new graphic novel, The Hanging , out now from Strangers Publishing. Among other topics, they discuss formative works, collaboration, and making genre comics for a small press audience. In the back half, they talk about Aaron's experience as a co-founder of Cartoonist Cooperative, the state of the organization three years after its incepti...

This week, we spoke with Nolan Huber of the Atlanta Community Press Collective about recent developments in the case of 61 people facing RICO indictments and other charges in relation to the movement to Stop Cop City, an urban police training center built in south Atlanta's Weelaunee forest. For the hour we talk about the case, last week's dismissal of racketeering and arson indictments and other...

This week, we're featuring an interview with Shannon, one half of the mutual aid project operating in Washington DC known as Remora House. For the hour we talk about Remora House, the impact on houseless and non-citizen communities has been impacted by the Trump Administration's crack down and sending in of troops to DC and some ideas on strengthening the resistance as the feds and national guard...

This week we're sharing an interview with Tomas Rothaus, author of the recently publish memoir, Another W ar Is Possible: Militant Anarchist Experiences in the Antiglobalization Era , out this year from PM Press. We speak about the anti-globalization movement and how it's remembered, debates around mass mobilizations and Black Bloc street conflicts, mentorship and inter-generationality in anarchis...

As we enter into the 2025  Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners , we're sharing a discussion with three anarchists doing prisoner support in different national contexts, prompted by topics brought by the guests. You'll hear first from Moshe of ABC Belarus, then Nicole of the Solidarity Apothecary and finally from Anya of Solidarity Zone speak on topics such as service work in solidarity, ge...

This week, we're sharing a recent interview with anarchist prisoner Malik Muhammad . Malik is 3 years into a 10 year concurrent federal and Oregon sentence for alleged use of molotov cocktails during the 2020 uprising and is currently incarcerated at the Snake River Detention Facility, in the hole. Transcript PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PDF) We speak about Malik's politicization, their case, rea...

This week, we're sharing three segments. First up, you'll hear Yara speaking about Solidarity International, a new initiative to support prisoner support and anti-repression work beyond borders initiated by various anarchist and anti-authoritarian groups networked together, including the International Anarchist Defence Fund and various anarchist black cross groups across the world. SolInt Transcri...

This week, Ian talks with cartoonist Mattie Lubchansky about her new book, Simplicity , out July 29 from Pantheon Graphic Library. The conversation touches on Mattie's work as Associate Editor for The Nib, her history with comics, and her ambitions beyond the printed page, but mostly focuses on the role of art in organizing and living our politics amid all the compromises required of life in the R...

This week, we're sharing this a chat with my friend, Dani Burlson on her recent book, Red Flag Warning: Mutual Aid and Survival in California's Fire Country ! We speak about fire ecology, housing pressures and mutual aid in the wake of natural (and human caused) disaster. Check the show notes for links to a few projects mentioned. You can find more of Dani's writings at D aniBurlison.com/ , books...

This week, we're sharing a recent interview with Kennedy Block and Josh MacPhee, editors of Strike While The Needle Is Hot: A Discography of Workers Revolt from Common Notions. We speak about audio strike records, their role, what they tell us about the struggles they cover or were produced to amplify, and a bit about where music and popular resistance stand today. Transcript PDF (Unimposed) Zine...

This week on the podcast, we're featuring three segments. First up, A member of DFW Support Committee, then organizers of the A Better World Bookfair in Waynesboro, VA and finally, organizers working to save the UNCA woods Transcript DFW Save The Woods A Better World Book Fair PDF (Unimposed) DFW Save The Woods Zine (Imposed PDF) DFW Save The Woods DFW Support Committee First up, you'll hear a mem...

This week, we're sharing an interview with Heatscore and Nuke of sub. Media about their new documentary series, InterRebellium. The first episode, entitled El Estallido Social about the social uprising that flared up in 2019 in lands controlled by the state of Chile featuring anarchist and Mapuche voices on the conditions in which the uprising developed, experiences of it and its aftermath. You ca...

This week, we're sharing an interview with Talia Lavin, author of  Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy . In this chat, we speak about her more recent book, Wild Faith: How the Christian Right is Taking Over America . There's a lot in the book, most of it pretty disturbing (especially, I'm sure, for anyone who is ex-vangelical) and there is discussion of hateful ideolo...

This week on the show we feature an interview with two anarchists activists in southern California about the recent resistance to Federal-led immigration raids in Los Angeles and the wider region. Both guests speak about their experiences working in rapid response structures to immigration raids, to anti-homeless sweeps and other community needs over the years and how they've changed as conditions...

This week, we spoke with Richard Amm, a member of the Disability Action Research Kollective , or DARK, which they describe as a disabled-led group working to make disability perspectives, history, and research more accessible to a general audience. Amar and Richard speak about disability, eugenics, radical history the Corona virus and other topics. You can learn more about the project at linktr.ee...

This week on the Final Straw Radio, we're sharing an interview with Matt Hart of the Los Angeles Anarchist Black Cross chapter of the ABC Federation. We talk about the book Matt just released via PM Press, an expanded edition of Boris Yelensky's history of anarchist prisoner support "Shadows In The Struggle For Equality" , illustrated by NO Bonzo . Matt talks about the work of the LA-ABCF , ABC's...

This week we spoke with Moira Meltzer-Cohen, an anarchist and lawyer with the National Lawyers Guild who practices mostly in New York City. For the hour, Mo talks about knowing ones rights and risks during interactions with law enforcement in the US during Trump 2.0, why even scofflaws should know some basic Bill of Rights trivia, info on warrants and house visits, airports and borders, and the im...

We're re-sharing an audio gift from comrades we originally shared back in 2021. We spoke with a participant in the Taller Libertario Alfredo López / ABRA in Havana, Cuba, recorded in late 2018. In this chat, the guest talks about the ABRA which is the only openly anarchist organization in Cuba at the time, about the LGBTQ movement and abortion rights which are both facing repression due to pressur...

This week, we spoke  with author Max Cafard and illustrator Vulpes about their new book, Anarchy in T he Big Easy: A History of Revolt, Rebellion, and Resurgence . Among other topics, they discuss Cafard's Surregionalism Manifesto , the origins and production of the book, and what the media gets right and wrong about New Orleans. The book came out from PM Press on April 15, 2025. Transcript PDF (U...

This week, we're sharing an interview with Garret Felber, author of the book A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre ,  out May 5 from AK Press. Garret speaks about the life of Martin Soster, famed jailhouse lawyer who successfully won cases related to the constitutional rights of prisoners, was politicized in prison by the Nation of Islam in the 1950's, ran radical Afro-cen...

This week, an interview with Clifton Ariwakhete Nicholas and Franklin Lopez about about the film currently in production via  Amplifier Films , A Red Road To The West Bank: An Indigenous journey of resistance and solidarity . The conversation covers some about relationships between the people of occupied Palestine and Kanehsatà:ke in so-called Canada, histories of settler colonialism and resistanc...