The Final Straw Radio

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...

This is a The Final Straw Radio mini-episode and we just had a quick conversation with Assata, an activist and member Yellow Hammer Alternative , an Alabama-based far left autonomous mutual aid group. We talked about relief work done by Assata's group around Hurricane Harvey, in Mobile with Food Not Bombs and in the run-up to Hurricanes Irma and Jose.  More about Assata's group can be found at the...

The haps: This week we'll be taking a little break. We'll be sharing a short interview conducted by friends of ours at Prison Radio at CKUT from the studios of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec in so-called Canada. This interview is the first of a few with Jalil Muntaqim , incarcerated since 1971 as an accused member of the Black Liberation Army. In the interview, he talks about his conviction...

Interview with São Paulo member of Indymedia This week on The Final Straw, we're featuring an interview produced by comrades from Anarchistisches Radio Berlin with Elisa. Elisa has been involved in the anarchist movement for a long time and is one of the co-founders of the Brazilian Indymedia. Which in turn is one of the earliest counter information projects using the name and mode of Indymedia. I...

Interview This week, we're featuring two segments. Kara Wild The first conversation is with a supporter of Kara Wild. Kara is an anarchist, a trans woman, an artist and is currently incarcerated and awaiting trial in France for participation in the Nuit Debout protests that swept across France in 2016 against changes to labor laws in that country. Kara was arrested on May 16, 2017 and will finally...

This is the third episode of "B(A)D NEWS - Angry voices from around the world", a news program from the international network of anarchist and anti-authoritarian radios, consisting of short news segments from different parts of the world. Content: * Radio Kurruf : Government social care projects * 98FM : Update on resistances to state repression of political activists * The Final Straw : Grand jur...

Interviews For this week we are featuring two interviews from listeners and past contributors. August 19th Protest in Solidarity with Prisoners The first interview is an excerpt of a longer interview that Disembodied Voice did with with a supporter of Malik Washington about the august 19th demo in Washington to end prison slavery, the millions for prisoners march. they talk about how the march cam...

INTERVIEW This week, we're airing the formerly only podcast conversation I had with organizers of the Haymaker Gym project in Chicago, IL.  Haymaker is an explicitly anti-fascist and feminist self-defense initiative. If you want to help out the Haymaker project, until August 14th they have a fund raising page up at launchgood.com .  If you want to encounter the folks from the gym and get involved...

Interview This week William had the opportunity to speak with Margaret Killjoy about her new novella The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion, which is coming out on August 15th from Tor.com. In this interview we will talk about how she got into writing genre fiction, how writing has shaped her politics, about the book itself, and about fighting a battle on a cultural front, among many other things. If yo...

In this podcast special, Bursts spoke with L.A. & Hawaii, collective members at the Radiozones Of Subversive Expression, Radio98fm, a squatted pirate radio station on the campus of Athens University & the Polytechnic School in the Zografou suburb in the capitol of Greece.  During the chat, L.A. & Hawaii talk about the radio station, about recent threats of repression at the hands of the university...

This week William got to speak to two people about the anti KKK demo in Charlotesville VA on July 8th, plus about the resistance to a Unite the Right gathering proposed for Charlotesville on August 12th. We speak about what went down on J8, plus things to keep in mind for A12 and who all may be attending the event. Here is some intro text from our guests that lays the groundwork for some of the th...

Interview This week William interviewed Mark Bray, who is a professor, author, and anti authoritarian, about the G20 protests that took place in Hamburg Germany last week. We will talk about the event, how it unfolded, much in the way of cultural and historical context for resisting G20 summits, and much more! You can follow our guest on Twitter @Mark__Bray and search any search engine to find his...

This is the second installment of the International Anarchist Radio Network's monthly show, featuring resistance news from around the world in the voices of the member-projects of the A-Radio Network. It includes news from:   105fm : about resistance to a rape by a security guard at University of the Aegean of one of the students housed there The Final Straw on the August 19th Prisoner solidarity...

Nashville Anti Racist Action about the upcoming American Renaissance Conference in Burns, Tennessee from July 28th to 30th, 2017.  AmRen, as it's called, is a yearly conference that sprange from Jared Taylor's suit and tie nazi thinktank journal by the same title and is being held on state land in Tennessee and anti-racists plan to make the "white identitarians" uncomfortable to say the least.  Fo...

This week William spoke with Maria and Jeff, who are two long term members of the humanitarian aid group based in Arizona called No More Deaths. This group does solidarity work with those who are crossing the border in that region, as well as advocacy, legal work, and work which runs along many other vectors of solidarity. We will speak about the group and how each member got involved, the exact n...