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During the first hour of Brews and Blues on Tuesday, March 17th, Buffalo Mike plays the entire Mardi Gras music program carried live from the float, complete with special messages from some of the Asheville FM DJs.

 

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This week, we’re sharing an interview with Julie and Jeremy, two anarchists and participants in the Asheville Community Bail Fund. We speak about the US system of pre-trial incarceration aka bail and bond, the work of the bail fund locally, the overcrowding of the Buncombe County Jail here in Asheville, the ICE holds happening in the local jail, and how local policy choices regarding criminalization are being compounded by recent and new North Carolina legislation. Even if you aren’t in Asheville or North Carolina, it’s likely that much of this conversation will be pertinent to goings-ons in your neck of the woods (though hopefully not).

If you’re listening to the radio edition, you can find a longer edit via streaming services listed at https://tfsr.media or check out the show post here

If you’re a regular listener to The Final Straw Radio, have a passion for enriching the anarchist media environment, feel like your values align with what you’ve heard on the show and want a chance to help out and hone your skills, we’re always looking for help. If you’ve thought of getting a podcast or other media project going but aren’t sure how to start, we can be a good jumping off point. Feel free to reach out via our emails

Links

• https://avlcommunitybail.carrd.co/
• https://www.patreon.com/Ashevillecommunitybailfund
• National Bail Fund Network: https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org
• Immigration Resources info: https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/es/directorio-para-inmigracion
• Emancipate NC: https://emancipatenc.org/
• Lecture on Crime Data: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/338-counting-crime-a-lecture-on-the-politics-of-crime-data-and-its-uses
• NC Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty: https://nccadp.org/
• Prairieland Case: https://prairielanddefendants.com/trial-support/

North Carolina Laws discussed

• NC SB-153 – Border Protection Act (pending): https://www.acluofnorthcarolina.org/legislation/sb-153-border-protection-act-anti-immigrant/
• NC HB-10: https://www.ncjustice.org/nc-justice-center-statement-on-house-bill-10-veto-override/
• NC HB-318: https://www.carolinajournal.com/nc-senate-passes-criminal-alien-enforcement-act/

Iryna’s Law (HB-307)

• https://southerncoalition.org/justice-system-reform/reframing-public-safety/public-safety-solutions-we-deserve-better-than-this/
• https://lincnc.org/when-tragedy-becomes-a-banner-reflections-on-irynas-law-and-the-politics-of-grief/

Related Past interviews

• The Prairieland Case: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/category/prairieland-case/
• NSPM-7 conversation: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/09/28/the-implications-of-trumps-war-on-antifa-with-moira-meltzer-cohen/

Asheville politics and police repression

• https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2024/05/09/clean-for-who-safe-for-who-asheville-business-improvement-district/
• https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2023/03/19/felony-littering-trials-under-way-in-asheville/
• https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2021/08/01/ashevilles-policing-crisis-with-ursula-wren-of-asheville-free-press/

Public surveillance by ALPR systems like Flock

• https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/04/13/pushing-back-on-flock-cameras-with-kate-bertash/
• https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/11/02/southerners-against-surveillance-systems-infrastructure-with-ed/

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This week, you’ll hear from Juan and Fatima, who people who’ve been organizing and thinking about the southern US border for a long time to speak about the escalations in border force violence and kidnappings by ICE and CBP around the US (including Minneapolis where Fatima resides), an explosion in proposed immigration detention (including near El Paso where Juan resides), the expansion of low intensity conflict and counter-insurgency in the southwest since the mixing in of language of the War on Crime, War on Drugs and the Global War on Terror and how autonomous mutual aid provides opportunities for scaling up community defense and prefiguring the world we want to see.

If you’re listening to the radio edition of the interview, you can find another 30 minutes of discussion at our website.

Links

• Casa Carmelita
• https://www.immigrantsurvivors.org/statement-sw-key-sexual-abuse-case-dismissal
• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/31/writing-from-manus-prison-a-scathing-critique-of-domination-and-oppression
• Fatima’s essay: The Insurgent Southwest
• Grey Is The Color of Hope Book
• No Friends But The Mountain Book

El Paso Groups

• Casa Carmelita
• Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy
• Estrella del Paso

Related Past Interviews

• Our recent interview with Donna Mae about resistance in Minneapolis
• Interview on Life During Wartime book
• Past interviews concerning immigration, including with people held on Manus Island

Articles Of Note

• https://www.immigrantsurvivors.org/statement-sw-key-sexual-abuse-case-dismissal
• https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/20/shutdown-stalemate-deepens-as-white-house-dems-dig-in-on-dhs-funding-00789614
• https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/courts-have-ruled-4400-times-that-ice-jailed-people-illegally-it-hasnt-stopped-2026-02-14/
• https://theintercept.com/2026/02/17/warehouses-immigration-detention-camp-prisons-immigrants/
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/13/ice-detention-center-expansion/
• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/31/writing-from-manus-prison-a-scathing-critique-of-domination-and-oppression

Announcements

Peppy Moved to Halfway House

We are happy to announce that Peppy has entered a halfway house where he will finish out his remaining incarceration. You can learn more about writing to him and what he likes to talk about at his support website. His crew is still fundraising for a post-release fund there as well found at FreePeppyAndKrystal.NoBlogs.Org

Casey Goonan Moved

Palestine solidarist Casey Goonan has been transferred from Mendota in California to what is likely to be their home for the foreseeable future, FCI Allenwood – Medium. You can learn more about getting into contact, updates on their case and how to support their commissary at FreeCaseyNow.NoBlogs.Org

Hrdindu Roychowdhrury Moved

Alleged Janes Revenge prisoner and Grand Jury Resister Hrdindu Roychowdhrury has been moved to FCI Thomson in Illinois. He just had a birthday and could use some sweet words. More on the move and how to write him at ABCF.Net

Prairieland Case Updates

The Prairieland Case was declared a mistrial and has been restructured in an audacious move by the Trump appointed judge Pitman. Restrictions applied to the case will could greatly limit the ability of the 9 defendants to make their cases where decades of their lives behind bars are at stake. You can learn more, including detailed notes from each day of trial, by visiting PrairielandDefendants.Com, find the defendants new updated Tarrant County mailing addresses and followcalls for support by finding their social media.

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This week, we’re sharing two segments.

First up, a chat with Cooper Quintin, a senior staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and developer of the Rayhunter. Rayhunter is open-source firmware to turn specific hotspots into IMSI-catcher, effectively scanning for and logging any signs of fake cell towers (often known under the brand-name of Stingrays) in the area. Law enforcement has at times deployed these as a way of collecting information about phones in the area and could use it to intercept some communications like sms or phone calls. Cooper talks about what’s known of law enforcement use of IMSI-catchers, what has been observed of the data collected by deployed Rayhunters, phone security at demonstrations and related topics.

Then you’ll hear Radio Ausbruch from Frieberg from this month’s B(A)D News podcast from the A-Radio Network talking about the repression and deBanking of anti-repression projects like ABC Dresden and Rote Hilfe in Germany based on pressure from the US government related to the so-called Antifa Ost case. This carries heavy implications for prisoner support, anti-racist and other social struggles.

Links

• Cooper at DefCon talking about Rayhunter: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=meC2JqNAbCA
• EFF on what Rayhunter has found so far: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/rayhunter-what-we-have-found-so-far
• Github for Rayhunter: https://github.com/EFForg/rayhunter
• EFF Mattermost chat platform: https://opensource.eff.org/
• A project for detecting Meta Rayban sunglasses: https://github.com/NullPxl/banrays
• Ouispy bluetooth scanning and notification tool: https://github.com/colonelpanichacks/oui-spy

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