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This week, we’re taking a break from new content and sharing with you content from the May 2026 episode of B(A)D News: Angry Voices from Around The World. B(A)D News is a collaboration of members of the A-Radio Network of anarchist and anti-authoritarian radios and podcasts with member projects from Europe, the US and Chile at this moment. Each month, a project takes responsibility to put together audio segments form other radio and podcast projects in the A-Radio Network. About the time that we’re releasing this, the June 2026 episode should be released, so keep an eye out at A-Radio-Network.org and clicking the link for B(A)D News to see the monthly episodes as they are released.

From the notes of episode 102:

This is episode number 102 of “B(A)D NEWS -angry voices from around the world”, a news program from the international network of anarchist and antiauthoritarian radios, consisting of short news segments from different parts of the world.

Content of this episode

• Črna Luknja with a contra-report about the situation on borders of greece and migrant struggles. They discuss this with a member of Open Assembly Against Pushbacks in Athens and also active in Notara (migrant) squat.

More info: https://againstpushbacks.wordpress.com

• Frequenz A with an interview of a comrade from Santarém, Brazil about indigenous struggles. They spoke with Raphael about anarchist organizations in the region, the main threats for indigenous communities, Indigenous struggles and how anarchists can support them.

You can find more infos here:

• • https://cabanarquista.com.br/
  • https://cclamazonia.noblogs.org/
  • https://nepes-geografia.webnode.page/

Radio show Parias with an interview of a member of the Retraverse Assembly about abortions in Greece and the issues surrounding them.

You can find more info’s here: https://retraverse.espivblogs.net/

• A-Radio Berlin: Weird politics (a satiric take on news from Germany and around the world)

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Featured Track:

• TFSR by The Willows Whisper

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After nearly nine years on 103.3 Asheville FM, Life Out of Tunes will be coming to an end next month. The show began back in the fall of 2017 as a one-hour Monday afternoon experiment nestled between Kat’s Live Transmission and Sarah B’s Songs for Friends. A few months later it expanded to two hours, eventually stretched to three during the pandemic, and finally landed on Friday evenings. Including today Friday, June 12th, there are four shows left. Over the remaining weeks I might be revisiting some of my favorite moments. Thanks for sticking with me and never fear… I’ll sub for other hosts whenever I can.

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This week, you’ll hear a long sharing of perspectives from occupied Kumeyaay [Kum-ee-aih] land, the Mexico-US border. Devi Machete from Contra Viento Y Marea in Tijuana in the Mexican state of Baja California about the history and activity of that project and journalist and activist James Stout speaks from San Diego in the US state of California about desert conditions north of the border wall. For this chat, you’ll hear third-hand accounts of border crossings, imprisonment, and deaths in border regions but also about solidarity, organizing, and resistance among those on the move as well as the communities they encounter. The radio edition only contains half of this discussion, plus misses the 2026 Call for the June 11th Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason and Long Term Anarchist Prisoners you’ll find in the podcast.

• Transcript

Past Interviews

• Contra Viento Y Marea: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2023/05/21/mutual-aid-at-the-border-in-tijuana-with-el-comedor/
• James Stout: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/01/11/anarchists-at-war-in-spain-myanmar-and-rojava-with-james-stout/
• June 11th episodes: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/category/june-11/

Contra Viento Y Marea Links

• Facebook: @ContraVientoYMareaComedor
• Instagram: @ContraVientoYMarea_ElComedor
• Venmo: @TJRefugee-support
• Youtube Channel: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCFY2Pmih9n1hN1b5-6JVq9A/videos
• Email: [email protected]
• zelle 832 216 5722
• cashapp $ComedorTJ
• GoFundMe

Other Links

• Refugee Help Alliance: https://www.refugeehealthalliance.org/
• Inland Empire Harm Reduction Coalition: https://www.ieharmreduction.org/
• Casa Carmelita (El Paso): https://www.instagram.com/casa_carmelita/
• Al Otro Lado: https://www.alotrolado.org/
• Borderlands Relief Collective: https://linktr.ee/borderlandsreliefcollective
• Sidewalk School: https://www.sidewalkschool.org/
• City Heights Community Defense: https://dev.cityheightsdc.org/
• Mutual Aid Moms: https://linktr.ee/mutualaidformoms
• Casa Manos Benditas: https://manosbenditas.info/

Announcements

Shine White Hunger Strike Continues

Many of you have been asking for an update, so here’s where things stand.

While at Scotland Correctional Institution, Shine was helping organize political education among prisoners and speaking out about conditions and serious medical concerns inside the facility. As many already know, he had a contraband cell phone. According to Shine, that phone contained recordings and information documenting conditions inside Scotland, including prisoners begging for medical attention. Not long after, Shine and others around him were transferred and separated across different facilities.

In mid-April, Shine was transferred overnight from Scotland to Granville Correctional Institution in what he described as one of the fastest transfers he had seen in 17 years of incarceration. Upon arrival, he was immediately placed on HCON (High Security Maximum Control). Shine maintains the placement was arbitrary, requested a grievance regarding that placement, and to our knowledge has yet to receive a meaningful opportunity to challenge it. He has been on hunger strike ever since.

Over the past few weeks, many of you participated in Calls to Action, making phone calls and sending emails seeking answers about his health, communication, property, grievances, and HCON status. Those efforts led to direct conversations with Assistant Regional Director Timothy Jones, who assured us that concerns were being reviewed and investigated.

Here’s the problem.

We have now confirmed through official records that Shine was already housed at Central Prison on the same date we were being given information that appeared to place him at Granville. We still don’t know whether that means the Regional Office had outdated information, didn’t know where he was, or something else entirely. What we do know is that the answers we were given don’t line up with the timeline we can now verify.

At this point, we have no direct communication with Shine. Updates are coming through fellow comrades who have been able to get word out through prison channels.

What we know right now:

• Shine remains on HCON.
• Shine remains on hunger strike.
• Shine is housed in Central Prison’s medical unit.
• Communication remains extremely limited.
• Questions about his mail, property, grievances, and classification remain unanswered.

The transfer changed the address. It did not answer the questions.

This week we are launching another Call to Action. Supporters will once again be contacting Central Prison, the Regional Office, and NC DAC leadership seeking answers and accountability.

If Shine’s status remains unchanged and these concerns continue to be ignored, we are preparing for an in-person demonstration later this week.

If the goal was to make people stop paying attention, it didn’t work.

For updates and ways to get involved, follow the Instagram or other links at https://linktr.ee/shinewhitesupport

You can hear a prior interview we did with Shine White here: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2021/01/17/shinewhite-on-turning-razor-wire-plantations-into-schools-of-liberation/

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Featured Track:

• TFSR by The Willows Whisper

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This week, as the 2026 FIFA World Cup looms across Turtle Island, we’re pre-sharing an interview with Jules Boykoff about one of his latest books about international sports spectacles, the upward money flow and authoritarian political power they facilitate but also a bit about the folks that are fighting back entitled Red Card: The 2026 World Cup, Sportswashing, and the FIFA Greed Machine (O/R Books, 2026).

• Jules’ recent memoir, Kicking
• Essay on FIFA Greenwashing
• Recent guest James Stout’s book on the 1936 Peoples Olympics
• CONIFA alt to FIFA:
• Anti-Fascist Football Coalition
• Peoples Football Coalition
• NOlympics LA

This conversation falls into the same series as the recent interview with Kristian Williams and Sam Schmidt as regards evacuation of public spaces and attacks on community by the state and capital in the aid of police state capitalism.

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Featured Track:

• TFSR by The Willows Whisper

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