The Final Straw Radio Podcast: Recent Episodes
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A discussion among activists from Nashville, Asheville and across the south with SASSI talking about corporate and police state surveillance infrastructure
Clare Follman, author of "Scapegoat", talks about the idea of invasive species, language and how humans think about our place in nature
Appalachians Against Uranium on BWXT and Radioactive Weapons Development in Eastern TN and the case of the Ulm 5, accused of damage to an Elbit Systems Deutschland weapons facility in solidarity with Palestinians
M.V. Ramana, author of "Nuclear Is Not The Solution" speaks about Nuclear energy, it’s proposal as a clean option for power generation to counter the fossil fuel industry-exacerbated climate crisis, it’s ties to weapons development and other topics.
Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc speaks about the June ‘26 anti-immigrant pogroms in Belfast, similar riots in the UK and Ireland in past years, ties between fascists and Loyalists, Republicanism, nationalism and anti-fascism today
Updates from two members of the DFW Support Committee about the federal sentencing in the Prairieland Antifa terror case stemming from a 2025 July 4th noise demo outside an ICE detention facility in north Texas, followed up by details and discussion of the court case related to an anti-flock sabotage in the Great Lakes region of the US
Reflections by Row and Bam on their solidarity organizing with folks at the Oakwood Park houseless encampment, the history of Durham NC, and the weight of capitalism on community members
An interview with Flint Taylor about his book The Conviction Machine, misconduct and cover-up by the FBI and Chicago PD in the assassination of Chicago Black Panther’s Leader Fred Hampton, the forty year effort to free Jackie Wilson, the tradition of movement lawyering, and the legacy of the People’s Law Office.
Segments from the A-Radio Network’s B(A)D News 102, featuring news from assemblies in Greece about abortion rights and resisting pushbacks of immigrants at sea, as well as indigenous struggle in Brazil and some political humor
An interview with Devi Machete of Contra Viento Y Marea in Tijuana and James Stout in San Diego about the border and immigration, followed by the 2026 Call for the June 11th Day Of Solidarity With Marius Mason and Long Term Anarchist Prisoners
An interview with Professor Tariq D. Khan, author of The Republic Shall Be Kept Clean: How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression (University of Illinois, 2023)
Members of Signals Rising collective discuss various radio technologies for communication such as meshtastic
Moira Meltzer-Cohen speaks about the Trump administrations declarations on "antifa", plus a little chat about mutual aid in Gaza
Aaron Losty talks about "The Hanging" and his comics process, as well as the Comics Cooperative. Then we revisit an interview with Alex of Szpila antirepression collective in Poland about the case of the H5, 5 humanitarian activists accused of human trafficking for helping refugees on the Belarus border
An interview with Nolan Huber of Atlanta Community Press Collective speaks about the throwing out of counts 1 and 3 of the 61 RICO indictments in the Atlanta Stop Cop City case
Shannon of Remora House DC talks about supporting houseless neighbors and strengthening alliances against ICE sweeps in Washington DC under Trumps federal police and national guard surges the city. Then Paria of Athens speaks to Research Critique about media distraction from the Tempi train disaster to manufacture consent for more police on University campuses
An interview with author Tomas Rothaus on his recently publish memoir, "Another War Is Possible: Militant Anarchist Experiences in the Antiglobalization Era", out this year from PM Press
A panel discussion with anarchists from ABC Belarus, Solidarity Apothecary (UK) and Solidarity Zone (Russia) about prisoner support, care work, burnout and sustaining movements
Interview with anarchist prisoner, Malik Muhammad, serving a 10 year concurrent Oregon and Federal sentence for participation in the 2020 uprising on organizing in prison, solitary confinement, communication with the outside, Black August and other topics
An interview with Yara of Solidarity International about the new network, plus Ausbruch with Rote Hilfe on anti-repression work in the German speaking countries, the Anarchist Assembly of Biobío with Mesa 8 on art, memory and the Chilean Dictatorship, and finally Sean Swain on Conspiracy Thought
An interview with Mutt about the Black Autonomy Reader, Black anarchism, community defense amidst the 2024 UK race riots, intellecutal property and other topics
This week, a chat with two members of @PalSolidarity on their solidarity activity, rising settler and military violence in the occupied West Bank and the murder of Ayşenur Eygi in Beita
Ian's interview with Samm Deighan about her upcoming PM Press book, "Revolution in 35MM" on resistance and political violence in indie film history
An interview with Alex of Szpila Collective on the repression of activists supporting people on the move in eastern Poland known as the #H5Poland case and an interview with a local anarchist about migrant solidarity organizing amidst growing nationalism on the Belarus border
A presentation of Ashanti Omowali Alston's keynote address to the 2024 Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair in so-called Asheville, entitled "Solidarity, Spirituality and Liberatory Promise on a Turtle’s Back"
An interview with Ari and Bryce of No More Deaths / No Más Muertes about immigration solidarity at the Mexico / US border, Democrat and Republican policies and border patrol.
An interview with an anarchist nurse from the USA recently returned from Gaza about health conditions amidst the genoicde there.
A presentation by Quoyle at the ACABookfair 2023 about Migrant Solidarity in the Mediterranean working with Sea-Watch and other NGOs in 2023 doing search and rescue supporting migrants moving toward Europe
Dr. Mohammed Bamyeh's presentation of The No-State Solution at the 2024 Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair followed by audience q&a
An interview with Dominika Ożyńska and Aleksandra Chrzanowska, two human rights activists from Grupa Granica in eastern Poland near the Belarus border, about the situation with the migrant route through the Białowieża forest in the midst of increased militarization on both sides of the border through this ancient forest and through the region.
A presentation from the 2023 Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair entitled "Direct Action Abortion Services in Latin America" with a question and answer period.
An interview with Walter of the Antifa International social media project about the July 25th International Day of Solidarity with Antifascist Prisoners, the associated Antifascist Defense fund, international lines of solidarity around antifascism, recent cases of repression and continuing to support cultures of resistance while comrades are behind bars
Perspectives concerning a recent federal grand jury convented in South Carolina and Cyprus Hartford, an anarchist who is resisting it. Then Ian's interview with Marisa and Molly of the Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Committee in NYC about their recent anarchist film festival
An interview with Matthew Lyons and Xtn Alexander about the book they edited, Three Way Fight: Revolutionray Politics and Antifascism (Kersplebedeb and PM Press, 2024)
Courtney from IWOC and Roc (a communication bridge for Jailhouse Lawyers Speak) talk about the 2024 Shut 'Em Down prison strikes and outside demonstrations called for by JLS this December and the JLS transitional housing project. Then, Monsour Owolabi talks about solitary confinement as counterinsurgency and the need for Movement transitional housing.
An interview with a tree sitter going by Cricket and their supporter D from Siskiyou Rising Tide about the tree sit to stop the "Rogue Gold Forest Management Plan" cut in southern Oregon and the recent succest to stop the cutting of old growth at Poor Windy near Wolf Creek.
Our interview with Rey Katula of The Empire Never Ended podcast about Antipolitika journal #3, nationalism in socialist Yugoslavia, history, anarchism, fascism and more
A discussion with Matthew Hart and Julie Herrada about anarchist history, prisoner support, movement memory and the June 11th Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason and long-term anarchist prisoners.
An interview with Talla Nasser of the Palestinian prisoner human rights organization, Addameer, about conditions in prisons in Palestine and then A-Radio Berlin's conversation with Johan Eriksson about his table top role playing game based on Orwell's "1984" entitled "Oceania 2084".
An interview with Palestinian poet, author and publisher Yaffa As on mutual aid, poetry and supporting queer and trans Palestinians escaping Israeli genocide
An interview with Chloe Moore of the BIPOC food sovereignty project, Southside Community Garden in so-called Asheville NC which is facing displacement by the Housing Authority of the City of Asheville
An interview with Madison, Elliot and Grace about the proposed Business Improvement District in Asheville and people organizing to block its passage
An interview with a radical about the defense of Don Bosco park in Bologna, Italy, from the cementization and development threatened by the leftist municipal government, followed by an interview with Bernard Jemison on conditions at Holman Correctional in Atmore, AL, and rumors of a prison strike brewing.
Crime, Corruption, and Community Based Liberation in the U.S./Mexico Neoliberal Military Political Economy This week, you’ll hear our chat with Simón Sedillo, author of Weapons, Drugs & Money: Crime, Corruption, and Community Based Liberation in the U.S./Mexico Neoliberal Military Political Economy. Simón talks a little about his early days in media near the start of … Continue reading Crime, Corruption, and Community Based Liberation in the U.S./Mexico Neoliberal Military Political Economy →
An interview with Josh Hart of Feather River Action! About the US forest services plans to defoliate and sell for salvage large swaths of forest in the north east of so-called California. More info at FeatherRiverAction.org
Our mid-March 2024 conversation with filmmaker and activist Jeremy White, facing years in prison for conspiracy in the "San Diego Antifa" case for being a street medic at a counter demo during a Stop The Steal rally in San Diego on January 9th, 2021
Interview with a supporter of prisoners demanding justice for racist displays by guards at SCI Rockview prison in Pennsylvania
An interview with David "Mac" Marquis, co-editor of the recently published "Books Through Bars: Stories From The Prison Books Movement" (University of Georgia Press, 2024) on prison books projects, what they say about conditions inside, some of the value of this inside-outside organizing and what you can expect to find in the book.
An interview with James "Jay" Ward, an activist incarcerated in Ohio since he was 15 years old and hoping to hire a lawyer to get a sentence reduction.
Xinachtli, an anarcho-communist Chicano political prisoner held in the Texas prison system speaks settler-colonial white supremacy, jailhouse lawyering and his upcoming parole board visit.
An interview with journalist and activist, Hani Almadhoun about his and his family's experience in Gaza
A conversation with Aster, a European anarchist involved involved in the counter-surveillance and anti-repression project known as the No Trace Project which works to share information about known methods and cases of state surveillance in order to better and expand our collective knowledge, tools and abilities at evading state crackdowns as we organize and act.
An interview with Toby Shone, anarchist imprisoned in the UK, about his confinement as well as an interview with Nichola, an antifascist in Argentina, about the street demonstrations against neoliberal president Javier Milei, the state of the left and the far right in the country as well as the #redgym and social center in Buenos Aires, La Cultura Del Barrio
An interview with Joan Braune about her recent book "Understanding and Countering Fascist Movements: From Void to Hope" out from Routledge.
An interview with Josh Davidson, co-editor of "RATTLING THE CAGES: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners”, Sean Swain on Geronimo and a portion of the A-Radio panel on the role of radio in anarchist movements recorded at the International Anarchist Gathering in St-Imier, Switzerland in 2023.
A recording of Diane Stevens of Jane Collective in the 1960's and 1970's in the Chicago area presenting at theAnother Carolina Anarchist Bookfair in so-called Asheville, NC, Friday, August 11th 2023.
Researcher and journalist Jessica Pishko talks about the Constitutional Sheriff movement, its links to the far right and the upcoming gathering in Murphy, NC, by the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association.
An interview with two people living in UK about a recent visit to Bakur, south-east Turkish Kurdistan to speak about Erdogan's AKP victory in the national elections, modern history of Kurdish struggle in Turkey, the role of prisons in repression, Democratic Confederalism and social justice political parties and more.
An interview with Matthew N Lyons, antifascist researcher, on the political legacy of US red-brown maverick, Lyndon LaRouche on MAGA, tankies, antisemite leftists and more.
An interview with Scott Branson about the 2023 Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair in Asheville (Aug 11-13), and Fern from International Anarchist Defense Fund speaks about the upcoming Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners (Aug 23-30)
Ian interviews Josh MacPhee and Alec Dunn, co-editors of Signal, about the recently published eighth volume of the Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture. Then, Mwalimu Shakur speaks with Bursts about abolition, education and organizing within CA prisons.
An interview with Matilda Bickers on sex work, trafficking, labor and the book she co-authored, Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex
An interview with Rose and Crystal at Appalachians Against Pipelines about the federal push through of the Mountain Valley Pipeline and resistance to it.
An interview with supporters of incarcerated anarchist and antifascist political prisoner, Dan Baker, speaking about his conditions and upcoming release, plus Mongoose Distro and Anarchist Black Cross Orange County chapter on prisoner support.
Ian's interview with Robin, Inmn & Margaret of Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness about their upcoming RPG tabletop game, Penumbra City, about collaborative gaming and imagination.
An interview with Matthew Scott of Atlanta Community Press Collective on updates from the struggle to Stop Cop City, the destruction of the Weelaunee Forest in South Atlanta and police and state repression against activists in Georgia.
An interview with Shannon Clay, co-author of "We Go Where They Go: The History of Anti-Racist Action" on the history of the network and it's legacy to antifascist organizing today.
An interview with Jasmine, an anthropologist involved in supporting migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea with the freedom of movement group, Maldusa.
An interview with trans anarchists in the US state of Missouri about the continued and growing legal, health and economic repression of queer and trans people and the recent Emergency rule in MO threatening increased bans on trans health care.
Scott's conversation with trans antifascists in Liverpool about recent right wing demonstrations against refugees, left and antifascist organizing in Liverpool and trans and queer community defense.
Prisoner updates from OH, June 11th 2023 Call and long term prisoner solidarity with UprisingSupport.Org
An interview with Devi Machete of Contra Viento Y Marea Comedor in Tijuana, Mexico about the history of the project, the free school, the border, autonomy and organizing with a post-script about the expiration of Title 42 and shift in USA border policy.
Ian interviews collagist, Johnny Damm, on comic book art, police propaganda and militarism in popular culture, détournement and history.
An interview with organizer and journalist Kit O'Connell and anarchist and parent lorén, two queer folks in Austin, TX, about ongoing repression against trans adults, youth and families in Texas and across the so-called USA.
A repodcast of our 2016 May Day show featuring an interview with Peter Linebaugh, author of "The Incomplete, True, Authentic and Wonderful History of May Day" and music curated by the hosts
An interview with Mic Crenshaw (co-founder of the Minneapolis Baldies and Anti-Racist Action) and Moe Bowstern (fisher and poet) about the podcast and book on the history of anti-racist organizing in the 1980s and '90s in Portland, Oregon.
A conversation with two members of the South Florida Anti-Repression Committee about the four people facing up to 12 years under the FACE Act for alleged after-hours graffiti of a "Crisis Pregnancy Center" fake abortion clinic in Florida. Also, an interview from February by Crna Luknja with an antifascist in Bulgaria about the demonstration planned against the fascist Lukov March.
A conversation with four radicals in France concerning the recent protests and police violence around pension reforms and water defense at Sainte-Soline, Macron's political machinations, upcoming Darmanin's immigration and asylum law, antifascists in Lyon, work and austerity.
Re-airing our April 26, 2020 interview with Barry Pateman of the Kate Sharpley Library about anarchist history, organizing, capitalism and lots of other topics.
An interview with Payton McDonald and Leah Ayers about their upcoming documentary series, The Elements of Mutual Aid on community organizing and respectful, experimental filmmaking.
Mixael Laufer of the Four Thieves Vinegar Collective talks about the projects work, open source and DIY medicine and technology, intellectual property, and increasing your scientific competency to pursue your own health care.
An interview with political ecologist Dr. Alexander Dunlap, post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Oslo, about renewable energy, extractivism, academia and the intersections of state repression and ecological resistance.
A rebroadcast of our 2012 interview with Dr George Katsiaficas on his book, Asia's Unknown Uprisings: South Korean Social Movements in the 20th Century, some historical instances like the Gwangju and Jeju uprisings, the Eros Effect and related topics.
Maia Ramnath on Resisting Hindutva This week, we spoke with Maia Ramnath about her essay contribution to ¡No Pasarán!: Antifascist Dispatches From a World in Crisis. The essay was entitled “The Other Aryan Supremacy: Fighting Hindu Fascism in the South Asia Diaspora”. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thefinalstrawradio/tfsrpodcast-20230219-MaiaRamnath.mp3 For the hour, we talk about about Hindutva, a brand of Indian … Continue reading Maia Ramnath on Resisting Hindutva →
Rebroadcast of our 2020 interview with Kristian Williams on the life, literature and anarchist philosophy of Oscar Wilde.
Scott and Eli talk about his book, "Beyond Education: Radical Studying For Another World", the vast terrain that the book covers, experiences in academia when one is operating as politically radical, and some alternatives to education that we can see and experience in the world around us.
Tom Wetzel speaks about his recent book, "Overcoming Capitalism", anarcho-syndicalism, direct democracy and the possible shape of libertarian eco-socialism.
This week on The Final Straw, we feature three segments: words from a friend of Manuel “Tortuguita” Teran, the forest defender killed by law enforcement on January 18th outside of Atlanta, Georgia; A-Radio Berlin’s conversation with an activist at Lutzerath encampment in western Germany attempting to block a lignite coal extraction operation by RWE; a discussion of the Tren Maya megaproject by the AMLO administration in Mexico.
Scott speaks with Rhiannon Firth, author of "Disaster Anarchy: Mutual Aid and Radical Action" on disaster relief, anarchist organizing, mutual aid, and building collective power.
Beck of Pansy Collective speaks about the 2022 NYE Noise Demo & Bail Out and Elliot of Asheville Survival Program, M of Asheville for Justice and M talk about the water crisis in Asheville.
A conversation between Scott and Sophie Lewis, author of “Abolish The Family: A Manifesto of Care and Liberation” about the book, the ideas and inspirations she’s pulling from, the critique that the family form not only passes property and generationally allows concentrations of it, but simultaneously limits our horizons of care to these small, private and often abusive relationships.
Two interviews: Michael Kimble and Gerald Griffin, prisoners at Donaldson CF in Alabama talk about conditions there; JJ Ayers of the Winnemucca Indian Colony talks about resisting the evictions and how the current tribal government came into power.
Interview with a member of the Atlanta Anti-Repression Committee about the arrest and charging with, among other things, domestic terrorism for 6 folks accused of tree sitting and throwing stones while resisting eviction in Welaunee / aka Atlanta Forest on December 16th, 2022
Kyle Missouri, multi-generational resident of the Winnemucca Indian Colony, speaks about court-ordered evictions at WIC and the struggle to help keep residents homes safe
Shupavu wa Kirima talks about the medical neglect by VDOC of Kevin "Rashid" Johnson who is being denied treatment for prostate cancer, then segments from A-Radio's Bad News featuring a Russian voice from Feminist Anti-War Resistance, a member of Belarus Anarchist Black Cross and an organizer of PLAC squat in Ljubljana.
Mitchell Cowen Verter, co-author of "Dreams Of Freedom: A Ricardo Flores Magón Reader" talks about the life of RFM, his struggles, his ideas, his death 100 years ago in Leavenworth Federal Prison and his impact on the Mexican Revolution and legacy to today.
Rebecca Gross and Robin, Teaching Assistants at University of California Santa Cruz and members of UAW 2865, talk to Scott about the strikes spreading across the UC system demanding cost of living pay increases and other concessions for Graduate student employees and the wider issues of labor around higher education.
Antifascist author, researcher and activist Matthew Lyons talks about strains of Christian Nationalism in the USA
Four segments in this week's show: An interview with Zachariah Jazz of ABQ Heater Bloc about distributing DIY heaters to houseless folks in Albuquerque, NM; followed by an explanation of how to build the heaters from Tom of Heater Bloc Chicago; Josh Davidson of Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar collective talks about the 2023 ediiton; Sean Swain talks about the midterm elections.
A conversation with members of Stop Camp Grayling Offensive, an anarchist effort to stop the doubling in size of Turtle Islands largest military base and training center, in so-called Michigan.
Two conversations about prison: first with Diyawn Caldwell of "Both Sides of the Wall" about conditions that led to a work stopped by uncompensated, incarcerated workers across the state of Alabama; then anarchists of "La Lima" in Rome, Italy, speak about the 41 bis hard prison regime, the case of Alfredo Cospito and the hunger strike he is beginning in protest of his incarceration.
An interview with Robert Graham about the history of the 1st Internetional Working Men's Association, the split with Marxist Social Democrats, British Trade Unionists and Blanquists on one side and anti-authoritarians, federative socailists, mutualists and anarchists on the other and the subsequent birth of the anarchist movement.
This is a conversation with Aaron Parker of Edgewood Nursery and Tim Holland (aka MC Sole) about their podcast "Propaganda By The Seed", talking to people about growing food, cooking, scavenging, climate change and other topics.
Watani Tyehimba speaks about ailing political prisoner, Dr. Mutulu Shakur, and his bid for compassionate release. Then portions of the A-Radio Network's BAD News for August 2022 featuring A-Radio Berlin interviewing an organizer of the 2022 Weekend Libertaire on the 150th anniversary of the Jura Federation Gathering of the Anti-Authoritarian International.
An interview with Sam and Alex of 12 Rules for WHAT podcast about the far right, antifascism, ecofascism and related topics in the US, UK and abroad
Professor Raymond Craib talks about his book, “Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age”, capitalist fundamentalists attempting to create free market utopias, right wing so-called Libertarians, Ayn Rand, neoliberalism and the oxymoronic tendency known as "anarcho-capitalism" at the center of the recent HBO Max series called “The Anarchists”.
Greek Anarchist squatter in the Athenian neighborhood of Exarchia, Alex, talks 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, police presence at Universities, anarcho-tourism and the hunger strike of anarchist prisoner Giannis Michialidas.
Scott’s interview with Hil Malatino, professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Philosophy at Penn State University and author of three books, Trans Care, Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience, and Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad.
An interview that we conducted with anarchists and abolitionists mostly in and around Manila, the capital of the Philippines about their projects, discussions of abolitionism in the Philippines, decolonization discourse, informal organizing, accountability and challenging patriarchal dynamics in the traditional left and more.
We hear from Kevin Rashid Johnson about his medical neglect despite a diagnosis of prostate cancer at Nottoway CI in Virginia. Then, a founder of the anarchistic journal Assembly.Org.UA based in Kharkiv, Ukraine, speaks about disaster capitalism, journalism, resistance to the invasion by Russia and living in a warzone. Finally, a member of BOAK, or the Anarchist Communist Combat Organization, speaks about sabotage against the war effort and decruitment in the military of the Russian Federation.
A discussion with author Sophie Lewis on topics of abortion, trans and queerness, education, property, patriarchy, parental rights, racism, antiracism and the sexualized discourse of the child in christian fascist movements today in US government.
An interview with Tony Lane about the movement to defend the Atlanta Forest from the construction of the police training center in the USA and a film studio by Blackhall. Then, antifascist and former prisoner David Campbell talks about his experience of incarceration, the upcoming July 25th International Day of Solidarity with Antifascist Prisoners, prisoner support and other topics.