The Final Straw Radio

We're happy to share Scott's interview with Rhiannon Firth about her recent book, Disaster Anarchy: Mutual Aid and Radical Action . You can get the book at a discount using the code "firth30", on the Pluto Books website or you can get a digital read for free , linked in the shownotes. Rhiannon's: facebook ; twitter ; email . Transcript PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PDF) Next Week… Next week, we'll...

This week on the show, we're sharing two local conversations with community organizers providing mutual aid in Asheville, NC. Bail Out Transcript Water Crisis Transcript PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PDF) 2022 NYE Noise Demo & Bailout First up, we're sharing a short interview with Beck of Pansy Collective, a queer DIY benefit booking collective responsible for Pansy Fest. Beck talks about the 2022...

I'm sure that many people coming out of this holiday season, returning from visiting relatives will wonder: "couldn't we abolish the capitalist family structure?" We've got great news! We're happy to present this conversation between Scott and Sophie Lewis, author of Abolish The Family: A Manifesto of Care and Liberation . Transcript PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PDF) In this episode, Sophie speak...

This week on the show, we featured 2 segments: a chat with Michael Kimble & Gerald Griffin about conditions in Donaldson CF prison in Alabama; and Jim J. Ayers, a 42 year resident in 6 generations of lineage at Winnemucca Indian Colony facing eviction by the Tribal Council. These transcripts are going to different zines, which we'll link once they're ready Conditions at Donaldson Prison in Alabama...

For this week's main podcast, we spoke with an activist of the Atlanta Anti-Repression Committee about the recent police raids and arrests in the Welaunee Forest, aka Atlanta Forest, which have brought charges of domestic terrorism on 5 people for allegedly building treehouses and throwing stones at cops. These arrests come after police entered the forest and used less lethal weapons on people in...

On Tuesday, December 13 th , I spoke with Kyle Missouri, a resident of the Winnemucca Indian Colony in Humboldt County, Nevada where a longstanding conflict between residents and the Winnemucca Tribal Council has come to a head recently with the evictions of elders, youths, and other residents into the snow. We talk about his family's roots in the Indian Colony, some background on the place and th...

This week, you'll hear four segments to the show. To hear the latest Sean Swain segment, you can find it at archive.org .. Rashid segment Transcript PDF (Unimposed) & Zine will be included with other recent prisoner updates - pending Bad News Transcript Feminist Anti-War Resistance ABC Belarus Updates PLAC, Ljubljana PDF (Unimposed) - pending Zine (Imposed PDF) - pending Medical Neglect at VDOC Fi...

We just passed the 100 th anniversary of the murder by incarceration and hounding of Mexican Revolutionary anarchist communist Ricardo Flores Mag ó n on 21 st of November. For this hour or so, I spoke with Mitchell Cowen Verter, co-author of the 2005 AK Press book, Dreams of Freedom: A Ricardo Flores Magon Reader (also free from archive.org ). We talk about RFM's life, ideas and legacy. Transcript...

This week, Scott spoke with Rebecca Gross and Robin, Teaching Assistants at University of California Santa Cruz and members of UAW 2865 at the uni, to get informed about the ongoing strike in the UC system for, among other things, a cost of living increase demand for grad student employees and TA's. Transcript PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PDF) The strike has extended throughout the UC system and...

This is a conversation with Matthew Lyons, antifascist researcher, contributor to Three Way Fight Blog and author of, among other books, Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right's Challenge to State and Empire and contributor to the recent AK Press compilation, No Pasarán: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis (edited by Shane Burley). For the hour, Matthew talks about Christian National...

This week on The Final Straw we have 4 whopping segments, tidbits in length but whopping in importance. Transcripts ABQ Heater Bloc Chicago Heater Bloc Certain Days Calendar Heater Bloc PDF (Unimposed PDF) Heater Bloc Zine (Imposed PDF) First up, you'll hear from Zachariah Jazz ( @BlackariahJazz161 on twitter), who distributes alcohol jet heaters with ABQHeaterBloc in so-called Albuquerque, NM, to...

This week on The Final Straw, we're sharing a chat that Scott had with Smirk, Wink and Nudge of the Stop Camp Grayling Offensive, an anarchist effort to oppose the doubling expansion of the largest military base on Turtle Island, based in so-called Michigan. For the hour, the militants talk about the ecological, social, economic and other potential impacts of expanding the military industrial comp...

This week on the show, you'll hear from Diyawn Caldwell, founder of "Both Sides Of The Wall" which has been supporting striking people behind bars across the Alabama Dept of Corrections where incarcerated workers refused their unpaid work over 3 weeks. The strike is on hold, for now, but prisoners continue resistance despite repression. You can learn more abut the group by finding them on social m...

I'm happy to share this interview with anarchist author and historian, Robert Graham about the split in the historic left that led to the birth of the anarchist movement. Robert published the book We Do Not Fear Anarchy, We Invoke It!: The First International and the Origins of the Anarchist Movement with AK Press in 2015 and, as I say in the interview, I was excited to have this conversation with...

This week, we're airing a conversation with Too Black, communications representative for the defense committee to Free the Pendleton 2. Too Black also hosts the Black Myths podcast . For the hour, Too Black talks about the case of the Pendleton 2, two Black men incarcerated in Indiana who had decades added to their sentences, including decades in solitary confinement, for defending another prisone...

This week on The Final Straw, we feature two portions. First up, you'll hear from Modibo Kadalie and Andrew Zonneveld of On Our Own Authority! Publishing about the upcoming Atlanta Radical Bookfair happening on October 15 th at the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History. Then, you'll hear a recent interview with Aryanam, a member of the Federation of Anarchism Era ,...

Islam and Anarchism with Mohamed Abdou This week, Scott spoke with Mohamed Abdou , a North African-Egyptian Muslim anarchist activist-scholar who is currently a Visiting Scholar at Cornell University and an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the American University of Cairo. Mohamed is the author of the recent book, Islam and Anarchism: Relationships and Resonances published by Pluto Press in 202...

Anti-Coal Struggles in Lutzerath, Germany First up, we share an interview with Fauv, a radical who recently participated in the anti-coal occupation in the village of Lützerath / Lutzerath (aka the ZAD of Rhineland) in western Germany against the company RWE. We talk about RWE's push to break resistance at Luzerath and the currently-calm Hambach Forest, which activists fear will be attacked by RWE...

This week we're re-airing our 2020 conversation with Wayne Price, longtime anarchist, author and then-member of Bronx Climate Justice North and the Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council, or MACC , in New York City. Transcript PDF (Unimposed) - pending Zine (Imposed PDF) - pending From the original post: After reading his book, The Value Of Radical Theory : An Anarchist Introduction to Marx's...

This week on the show, we re-air Amar's 2015 interview with Hilary Klein, author/editor of the book Compañeras: Zapatista Women's Stories , out from Seven Stories Press. Transcript PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PDF) Over the hour, Hilary talks about her 7 years of living in Chiapas and recording the stories and experiences of women there, collecting stories on their behalf. The book covers the Zap...

This week on the show, we feature a chat with Aaron Parker of Edgewood Nursery & Tim Holland (aka MC Sole ), who together form the Propaganda By The Seed podcast. You can find the podcast on the channel zero network , Libsyn , and a bunch of streaming services. We hope you enjoy this chat as much as Bursts did. We talk about their project of sharing conversations with various farmers, herbalists,...

This week on TFSR, you'll hear Watani Tyehimba of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and a supporter and comrade of New Afrikan political prisoner Dr Mutulu Shakur speaking about Dr. Shakur's life, activism and the struggle for his release since he's been diagnosed with serious bone cancer. Transcripts Watani Tyehimba on Dr. Mutulu Shakur St-Imier Weekend Libertaire PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PD...

This week, our guests are Sam and Alex (not their real names). Sam was until recently the co-host of the 12 Rules for What podcast and is the co-author with Alex of their two books, The Post Internet Far Right and The Rise of Ecofascism . Sam is now focusing on writing at Collapsology Sub-Stack and the Collapse Podcast , and you can support Alex's ongoing work with 12 Rules for WHAT podcast via th...

This week on TFSR, Professor Raymond Craib talks about his book, " Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age " out recently from PM Press. We talk about capitalist fundamentalists attempting to create free market utopias, right wing so-called Libertarians, Ayn Rand, neoliberalism and the oxymoronic tendency known as "anarcho-capitalism"...

This week, we spoke with Alex, an anarchist squatter in the Athenian neighborhood of Exarchia. They talk about repression by the New Democracy party, struggles against green washing wind turbines around rural Greece, the fires raging through the country, resistance to rape culture, fighting against the building of a metro station in Exarchia and the privatization of public spaces like Strefi Hill,...