The Final Straw Radio

  DefendJ20 Updates on 1st Trial Block For the hour, we spoke with Betty Rothstein of DefendJ20Resistance and Jude Ortiz of DefendJ20Resistance and the Titled Scales Collective , about how the case is going as this first trial group finishes up it's defense and the prosecution fires it's last shots. This conversation was recorded on Friday, 12/15/17 after the final arguments in the case of the fir...

This week, Bursts was joined by Pat Boyle, a collective member at Unicorn Riot (more about them later in this post), radical independent media project.  We chatted about crypto-currency, Bitcoin in particular, technologies and strategies involved in the implementation of crypto-currency, recent comings to light of increased wealth coming via Bitcoin into the hands of far right racists and ecologic...

Interview with RAM-NYC This week we spoke with members of The Base, which is an anarchist space in New York City, about the newly formed Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement NYC Community Bail Fund. In this episode we talk about the concept of bail and its origins, what folks have happen to them from the moment of arrest to the moment bail is set, what it means to have an explicitly abolitionist ba...

This week, William Budington chats with Bursts about the recent exposé published by Yael Grauer at The Intercept about research by Exodus and Yale Research Group leading to the findings that hundreds of common apps available from the Android Google Play Store contain clandestine tracking apps, allowing for the scooping up of the data a phone user gives off throughout their use of the device.  Ever...

This week we feature two segments. Prison-Related Audio Roundtable The first is a roundtable discussion with producers from various audio projects around North America that focus on prisoner struggles and amplifying incarcerated voices. In the chat you'll hear from me, two producers of The Prison Radio show on CFRC radio in Kingston, Ontario, a producer of the Prison Radio Show on CKUT from McGill...

This week on the occasionally-weekly tech podcast from The Final Straw, Error451 , Bursts and guest William Budington , a tech security expert, talk about Net Neutrality .  The context is that it's back in the news as FCC Chairman Ajit Pai appears to be pushing for the revocation of the 2015 FCC decision to declare the Internet a Title II public utility in U.S. law.  The upside of this is that acc...

Interview with Eleanor Goldfield This week we spoke with Eleanor Goldfield, who is an activist on the far left and a proponent of creative activism, a stance that centers creative approaches to direct action with the aim of leading people to interrogate their own politics on an emotional and psychological level. From her website :  "Creative Activism is outreach and change through the mediums that...

In perfect timing for holiday driving many will be doing in the U.S., we're releasing episode 3 of Error451 , The Final Straw's occasionally weekly tech security podcast with William Budington . This episode is about GPS navigation on mobile devices and ways to use it without disclosing your information to service providers.   Oh, hand here's a link to one of those Motherboard chat logs about Mr....

  This week on the Final Straw we feature 2 interviews. Walid, an asylum seeker held at the Manus Regional Process Center, Papua New Guinea First up, you'll hear a conversation that Bursts had with a refugee seeking asylum in Australia. His name is Walid, he is 24 years old and from Afghanistan. Manus Regional Processing Centre , where Walid is being held alongside nearly 450 other men, is a facil...

This is the first standalone episode of Error451 ,  The Final Straw's occasionally weekly podcast featuring a conversation between Bursts and William Budington about tech, security and safer practices.  Upcoming episodes include how to avoid leaking info while using maps on your device and safer practices at borders.  If you have other topics you'd like to see covered, drop us a line at thefinalst...

Anti-Repression Panel from Denver, October 2017 This week we are featuring a recording from an Anti-Repression panel that took place in Denver in October of this year. The sound quality is affected by a fan system that the venue had running, but the words are well worth hearing. For the hour, we'll hear words from a few perspectives of resistance in the U.S. currently. First, we hear from Danica f...

In mid October, Bursts and Sole sat down at Sole's Colorado Villa by the family grotto and chatted over some bubbly water.  In the hour they spoke about: CZN and its aspirations J20 Repression Political prisoner support Why the Anarchist Black Cross is so awesome The Situationists and folk traditions In music Science fiction books we are geeking out on Much more! You can find more work by Sole at...

For a 59 minute long, radio clean version for syndication purposes, please visit the archive.org collection . Cascadia Forest Defenders This week William had the opportunity to speak with someone who works closely with the group Cascadia Forest Defenders, which is based around Eugene Oregon. This crew has been opposing logging in the Willamette National Forest, and was recently driven out of the c...

Airs on WSFM-LP 103.3 in Asheville / streaming at AshevilleFM from 3am EST on October 30th through November 5th, 2017 and podcasting on libsyn.com. For a 59 minute long, radio clean version for syndication purposes, please visit the archive.org collection . This week, we share a conversation that Bursts had with Betsy Raasch-Gilman. Betsy is a lifelong Quaker, feminist and anti-capitalist. She tal...

Anarchist Voices on DACA and much more. This week we are presenting two anarchist voices regarding DACA, among many other things. DACA stands for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, and has been in the news recently because of a stay on this program by the current administration. I should say that these two interviews were conducted separately, and I am trying something different regarding the...

I'd like to share a Final Straw Radio mini-episode, a conversation with Emilio of the currently unofficial Sonoma County IWW, or Industrial Workers of the World. This chapter doesn't yet have an official charter but they were in the process or organizing one when the fires in Northern California started last week and have used this as a platform for fund-raising and trying to work out solidarity r...

introduction of the program news from 98fm (athens) 3:47,5 – 12:24,5 syriza changes Law attack on the french institute of athens harm of environment / shipowner and gold mining law about the gender issue 15 years of prison in cause of self-defence attack against goethe intitut of athens several actions of a anarchist group A-Radio Berlin (berlin, de) 12:25,0-23:18,0 a collage about the Anarchist D...

Airs on WSFM-LP 103.3 in Asheville / streaming at AshevilleFM from 3am EST on October 16th through October 22nd and podcasting on libsyn.com. For a 59 minute long, radio clean version for syndication purposes, please visit the archive.org collection . Support Herman Bell First this week, we had the opportunity to speak with Dr Kihana Mariah Ross, who is the daughter in law of Herman Bell, a former...

For a 59 minute long, radio clean version for syndication purposes, please visit the archive.org collection . Interview This week we air the second half of Bursts conversation with Kevin Tucker. Kevin is an anarcho-primitivist, author and publisher of Black & Green Review. This week we air Kevin's views about tribal-bro-ism in the white supremacist and macho approach to historical misappropriation...

For a 59 minute long, radio clean version for syndication purposes, please visit the archive.org collection . Interview This week Bursts spoke with Kevin Tucker, anarcho-primitivist, author and publisher of Black & Green Review. We had a rather lengthy conversation, so we've split the conversation up. This is the first portion, in which Kevin talks about anarcho-primitivism, domestication, civiliz...

This segment is a conversation Bursts had on Monday, September 25 th with an Anglophone anarchist who has lived in Catalunya, within the Spanish borders, for some years now. This conversation comes as there is an intense escalation in the region with government officials from the semi-autonomous region of Catalunya declaring that Sunday, October 1 st there will be a public and binding referendum o...

Airs on WSFM-LP 103.3 in Asheville / streaming at AshevilleFM from 3am EST on September 25th through October 1st and podcasting on libsyn.com. For a 59 minute long, radio clean version for syndication purposes, please visit the archive.org collection . Coalition for Immokalee Workers Today we are airing an interview conducted with Lupe Gonzalo of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in Immokalee, Fl...

For a 59 minute long, radio clean version for syndication purposes, please visit the archive.org collection . Interviews UNCA Radical Rush In this two parter episode, firstly we chatted with Beck, a University of North Carolina Asheville student and fellow organizer this year's Radical Rush Week, which builds off of the model of the UNControllables of UNC and their Disorientation. The hope of the...

Hey people! Here is bad news #4, presented by Radio Pirata of Tegucigalpa (so-called Chile) with the collaborations of: 98 fm  presented a roundup of the last month of action and repression in labor, student struggles, anti-fascist anniversaries around Greece; 105fm  spoke about immigration struggles, resisting fascist attacks, gender violence and other topics from Lesvos and other Aegean Islands;...

The Main Event This week Bursts spoke with William Budington, a digital security expert, about various topics under that heading. We spoke about: encryption for texting, email and mobile devices operating systems; about anonymity on the internet; safer practices with social media; doxxing; and more. The conversation was ranging and a bit thick at times due to Bursts very specific style of posing q...