The Final Straw Radio

This week we are presenting Scott's interview with Hil Malatino, who is a current professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Philosophy at Penn State University. They are also the author of three books, Trans Care, Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience, and Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad. Scott and Hil speak on many themes which are fou...

[00:09:34 - 01:43:24] This week we're sharing an interview that we conducted with anarchists and abolitionists mostly in and around Manila, the capital of the Philippines. You'll hear from K, Honey, Adrienne, Castle, Magsalin and R. During the chat they share about their projects, discussions of abolitionism in the Philippines, decolonization discourse, informal organizing, accountability and chal...

This week, we're airing 2 interviews to do with the Russian war in Ukraine. Plus, Kevin Rashid Johnson talks about being denied medical care for his prostate cancer in the Virginia prison system. Transcript Assembly. Org. UA (English) Español: ALasBarricadas. Org Deutsche: EnoughIsEnough. Org BOAK (English) Deutsche: EnoughIsEnough. Org Russian Czech: afed.cz PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed) Assembl...

This week, Scott and William talk to Sophie Lewis , author of Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family and the soon-to-be-released Abolish The Family A Manifest for Care and Liberation (out in October, 2022) about the current political moment that is characterized by attacks on trans people and peoples reproductive abilities. They also talk through what creates this moment, where trans people c...

Stop Cop City +David Campbell on Antifascist Prisoners This week's episode features two interviews. Stop Cop City Transcript PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PDF) David Campbell on Antifascist Prisoners Transcript PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PDF) Stop Cop City / Defend the Atlanta Forest First up, the struggle to Defend the Atlanta Forest and Stop Cop City has been gaining momentum over the last ye...

This week, we're re-airing a 2019 conversation with Nora Samaran , author of the essay "The Opposite Of Rape Culture Is Nurturance Culture" , which became the seed of her book " Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture. " Transcript PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PDF) We talk about harm, entitlement as relates to positions of power like masculinity or whiteness in our culture...

Rojava Again Under Threat of Turkish Invasion [00:10:35 - 01:45:30] Emre, Rimac, Xero and Anya, members of the Emergency Committee for Rojava join us on the show this week to talk about the escalation of violence and threats of invasion by Turkey into northeast Syria, updates from the region and their thoughts on how people in the West can help folks living under the Autonomous Administration of N...

This week on the show, we're airing two portions. Transcript Jessica Reznicek Conflict In Movement PDF (Unimposed) – pending ZIne (Imposed PDF) – pending Support Jessica Reznicek [00:02:06 - 00:36:33] First up, Charlotte speaks about their friend, political prisoner and water defender Jessica Reznicek who just had an appeal denied of an 8 year sentence and terrorism enhancement for sabotaging the...

This week on the show, we're featuring a few segments. First up, Chazz speaks about the website UprisingSupport.org which shares the names and cases of people criminalized in relation to the George Floyd Uprising of 2020 across the so-called USA, as well as the importance of growing a culture of anti-repression and resistance. Then, for this year's June 11 th Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason an...

First up, we're sharing a blast from the past blast from the past, an interview that we conducted in 2013 via our comrades from A-Radio Berlin with a participant in the autonomous anti-capitalist street movement in Germany in the latter half of the 20 th century known as Autonomen. Specifically, the guest speaks about the context of anonymous street actions during May Day of 1987 in the district o...

Dunstan Bruce is perhaps most famous for his lead vocals and listing of libations in the Chumbawamba pop hit, Tubthumping. But there is so much more to him and that band than that one song. For the hour we touch on some of the band's 30 year history, their relation as a collective, anarchist band to social justice movements around the world and how they used their fame and money to give back, Duns...

For this special mid week podcast release, we are presenting a conversation with three defendants who are in an ongoing legal battle with the city of Asheville. This group of 15 people, three of whom are speaking today, are facing felony littering charges in connection with a demonstration in December of 2021 against a targeted camp sweep in a local park adjacent to the downtown district. For this...

This week, we spoke with Liaizon Wakest. Liaizon grew up in an anarchist commune in rural America. They can be found climbing into dumpsters from Mexico to Kazakhstan looking for trash to make art with. In recent years they have been focused on research into ethical technology and infrastructural anarchism. For the hour we speak about the interoperable, open source ensemble of federated online pub...

This week we are pleased to present an interview that Bursts did with two members of IWOC (the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee), Caroline works with Millions for Prisoners New Mexico ( @iwocnm and @millionsforprisonersnm on the Fedbook), IncarceratedWorkers. Org and Xeno is with IWOC Sacramento ( @sacramento_iwoc on Instascam). For the little-over-an-hour they speak on what it's like to...

We're joined this week by some of the folks behind the Earthbound Farmer's Almanac , a self-published annual collection of art, comics, facts, articles and incitements to challenge us to thicken our relationship to the land and grow autonomy against state, colonialism and capitalism. You are welcome to  read the almanac for free in portions on the Lobelia Commons social media ( fedbook or instasca...

This week on The Final Straw, we're featuring a recent conversation with anarchist author and activist, Peter Gelderloos about his latest book, " The Solutions Are Already Here: Strategies For Ecological Revolution From Below ", published by Pluto Press in 2022. For the hour we speak about critiques of science and Western Civilization that Peter levels, as well as the centrality of struggling on t...

This week we are pleased to present something a little bit new for TFSR listeners. This is a kind of informal round table discussion that co host Scott and I had alongside Vicky Osterweil, who has been on the show before to speak on her book In Defense of Looting; A Riotous History of Uncivil Action . We all sat down to talk about a short and thought provoking article which was published in Januar...

Eric King Speaks | 2 Radical Ukrainian Voices This week, we're sharing 3 segments on this episode. Transcript (Eric King, found alongside 3/27/22 episode) Transcript (Maria) Transcript (Mira) PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PDF) Eric King Transferred To High Security Prison in VA [00:04:08 - 00:23:50] First up, you'll hear Eric King, anarchist prisoner whose recent legal victory against the Federal...

This week's episode has two segments... Merced County Prisoner Hunger Strikes This week, you'll hear a chat with California-based activist Victoria from Merced Under Construction, who talks to us about the prisoner hunger strikes at Merced County Jail and John Latorraca Center. Over 40 prisoners engaged in hunger strike for 17 days, fighting for issues like protesting black mold, little food, lack...

This week, we're joined again by Aryanum, a member of the Federation of Anarchism Era ( ASRAnarshism. Com ), mostly made up of anarchists from Iran and Afghanistan. We mostly get updates about the situation of anarchists, atheists and feminists in Afghanistan under the Taliban or in an effort to escape as refugees, but we also get a few updates from Iran as well, including the regime's founding of...

This week, we spoke with Petr, a Russian anarchist member of the group Autonomous Action, who is living in Europe right now. For the hour we speak about the invasion of Ukraine, a bit about the resistance inside of Russia to the war drums and the Putin regime, the dangers of a nuclear conflict, the impacts of increased sanctions and anarchists organizing across the borders of Russia, Ukraine and B...

This week, you'll hear my chat with Jon Bigger about the status of the monarchy in the UK, the power it wields, the interventions it makes into parliamentary procedure and where we might see hopes of challenging it from an anarchist approach. Jon is an anarchist who is involved with the Anarchism Research Group , writes a column on UK politics at Freedom News and has been involved in the project C...

On Thursday, February 24 th , I spoke with Ilya, a Russian anarchist living and organizing in Kyiv, Ukraine. We spoke about the relationship between Russia and Ukraine, the Maidan uprising and war in the Donbass, resistance to the invasion of Ukraine and the Putin regime, conspiracy theories about Ukraine promoted by Russia and Russian-aligned media outlets, critiques of the Ukrainian state, and a...

Hey folks. This week, we're sharing our 2020 chat with Keith Lamar aka Bomani Shakur who is facing execution on November 16 th 2023. We hope you enjoy his insights and check out his support website, KeithLamar. Org and get involved in helping him fight for his life and for justice. Starting February 25, 2022 you can hear Keith, Albert Marquet and others performing " Freedom First " Lorenzo Transcr...

This week, we are re-broadcasting an inteview with the sci-fi and picture book author, technologist and social critic Cory Doctorow .  Cory is an editor of the blog BoingBoing , a fellow at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the book we spoke of on this episode was Walkaway (you get a 10% discount and support for us when you order from the above link from Firestorm Books in Asheville), out fro...