This week, an interview we did with a couple of smart friends about the question: what would those of us who rely on Signal encrypted messaging do if that service were disabled in the US. First up, all participants in this discussion agree that Signal is amazing and always getting better, so this is not a take down of that app or it’s developers. But the buds do think that the weakest point for Signal is the centralization of infrastructure with US-based companies. My friends did some thinking and research and put it into a website called Signal-Contingency-Plan.Info and made a zine discussing it and what they consider the best alternative for their needs an app called Delta Chat.

So, for this discussion, they’ll talk about how encrypted apps work, what works so great about Signal, some ups and downs of other available encrypted chat apps and how folks might rebound if Signal got choked out in this manner. As a reminder, at the end of 2024 large parts of the region I’m in lost cellular and internet service and it came back in starts and staggers over a number of months, similar for running and potable water, roads and other infrastructure we rely on. Our hope in sharing this conversation is that people will consider threat modeling to develop social plans for contingency and alternatives for the infrastructures they rely on.

Delta Chat & having a backup for Signal:

• Contingency website: https://signal-contingency-plan.info/
• Contingency zine: https://archive.org/details/signal-contingency-zine/signal-contingency-zine/
• Delta Chat forum: https://forum.delta.chat
• Delta Chat faq: https://faq.delta.chat
• Delta Chat mastodon: https://chaos.social/@delta
• PACE planning for communications: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PACE_(communication_methodology)

Some reporting mentioned:

• https://www.404media.co/when-your-threat-model-is-being-a-moron-signal/
• https://www.404media.co/the-signal-clone-the-trump-admin-uses-was-hacked/
• “inspirational” fiction: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/crimethinc-survival

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Featured Track:

• Creep (Instrumental) by TLC
• Sad React by Emperor X from Sad React _ United Earth League of Quarantine Aerobatics

This week – join DJSmittymon  as he welcomes Asheville photographer / artists  “Steven Hall”  to the first ever – Positive Vibes’ Early Morning ART Sessions.. 

Happening this Tuesday, December, 9th, 2025 – starts around 9am..

Steven will be live in the studio talking about his exhibition show at the Ish Gallery (24 Buxton Ave, AVL) Friday, 12.12, 5pm –

Plus!!!     I have pair of tickets to see Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band at Revival with Beekeepers+ special guests: funk band – https://bootyband.com/

—  Friday, December 12th, 2025    tune in from 8-9am for your chance to win a pair…    plus great reggae and local music vibes  -tune in / turn it up!..  enjoy…   smittymon

REVIVAL -Asheville (https://www.revivalavl.com/)

Revival is located at 66 Asheland Avenue, right in the heart of downtown Asheville’s vibrant South Slope Brewery District. You’ll find us just around the corner from local favorites like Hi-Wire Brewing and Ben’s Tune-Up.

Parking is easy and convenient. Ample street parking is available along Coxe Avenue and there are two nearby public garages

About the Artist:   Steven Hall

This week, we’re featuring two segments.

First up, we’re joined by Francesca, a member of Prisoners For Palestine who is a former prisoner herself who speaks about Palestine Action, a group proscribed in the UK as a terrorist organization at the behest of the Israeli state and Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems for their successful direct actions against Elbits war profiteering and the UK’s role in assisting the genocide in Gaza. Currently, 6 incarcerated members of Prisoners For Palestine are on an open-ended hunger strike against their conditions and the continued operation of Elbit which has garnered support from around the world.

This last week, he UK government has begun it’s trial against the 29 Palestine Actionists, simultaneous to the legal challenge to the proscription being brought before the courts. You can keep up on the hunger strikers at PrisonersForPalestine.org and many of the other cases at FiltonActionists.com . Check our show notes for more links.

• Hunger Strikers: Qesser Zuhrah, Amu Gib, Heba Muraisi, Jon Cink, T Hoxha and Kamran Ahmed
• solidarity strikers include: anarchist prisoner Luca “Stecco” Dolce at Sanremo prison in Italy and Dimitris Chatzivasileiadis in Domokos Prison in Greece
• Video of the attack on the Filton warehouse of Elbit Systems where people broke in and destroyed killer drones
• Quite good episode of 12 Rules For What! podcast on the proscription of Palestine Action: https://m.soundcloud.com/12rulesforwhat/106-proscription-and-the-uk-counter-terror-regime-w-iida-kayhko
• Article about concerns of the proscription of Palestine Action: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vmjjxvj0eo
• A Muslim anti-repression group supporting the hunger strikers: https://www.cage.ngo/
• A group in WNC opposing the local Raytheon subsidiary, Pratt and Whitney: https://rejectraytheonavl.com/who-we-are/

Then, you’ll hear a part of our interview with members of the DFW Support Committee that didn’t make the radio two weeks ago speaking about the application of terrorism charges to antifascists in the US, the wider repression of liberationist movements in the imperial core and the collaboration between far right governments paralleling this.

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Featured Track:

• Wein Al Malayeen by Deena Abdelwahed from Nisf Madeena

DJ rohbear subs for DJ Airon on My So Called Radio Show, and counts down the Top 40 Punk Rock Songs Of All Time, from #40 to #1, compiled from four online ranked lists. Gabba Gabba Hey!