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Left Trans Voice from Turkey + NO Bonzo on Art and Anarchism

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This week, we’re sharing two segements.

First up, you’ll hear comrades from Frequenz-A out of Germany speaking with Eylem Çağdaş, a transwoman and an activist from Istanbul about current protest, queer and feminist perspective, anarchist participation and needs of solidarity. This segment was featured in the April 2025 episode of Bad News: Angry Voices from Around The World, the monthly English-language podcast from the A-Radio Network, which will be available early this week, so keep an eye out in our social media and updated links in our show post. You can find more work by Frequenz-A at frequenza.noblogs.org and more from the A-Radio Network and its contributors at a-radio-network.org. Eylem mentions Bianet and Birgun as good places to get introduced to ongoing news from leftists in Turkey.

Then, a chat with no Bonzo, anarchist historian, printmaker and artist, about how they developed their art, the historical work they do and some upcoming projects. You can find more of their work at https://noBonzo.com and you can find more of no Bonzo from the ACAB 2024 presentation we shared of Art As A Vehicle for Anarchist Ideas, the Decmeber 15 2024 TFSR episode.

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  • Isyan by Bandista from sokak meydan gece

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“Indelible Sauce ” – Positive Vibes Early Morning Music Sessions – 103.3 AshevilleFM – www.ashevillefm.org – Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025

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This week – join DJSmittymon  as he welcomes local Asheville band “Indelible Sauce” on the Positive Vibes’ Early Morning Music Sessions..  Happening this Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025 – starts around 9am..               tune in / turn it up!..  enjoy…   smittymon

The band will be performing live in the studio and talking about their new music / album (Hits the Spot!), upcoming shows and much more..  ..

ABOUT THE ARTIST:  Indelible Sauce   

Indelible Sauce is a very original, eclectic, dynamic, diverse, and busy Asheville, NC 2 piece band.

Without question, we are extraordinarily blessed, and there is endless amount of beautiful and not so beautiful things to be inspired, motivated and driven by.
And we are, and will always remain open to infusing many different styles, flavors and ways of thinking and relating into our mix.
Our themes can range from the whimsical and silly to the serious and profound, and it is very important to us that we try to make a positive and meaningful impact through our work, both through the music and the words they speak.
We’ve been together for five years.
And our families have lived in the Asheville area for over 20 years at this point, and our kids have and continue to grow up here in this community.
And we find that it is very important to contribute to our community and be active agents of assistance and change.
Please look for and sign up with Indelible Sauce on Spotify, Instagram, YouTube, Distro kid, Facebook and other streaming platforms.
And we’ve got some exciting shows coming out that we’d love to tell ya about!
Muchisimas Gracias!!!!!!!!!!!
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BAND MEMBERS

Radix Drums, sings, and plays sax

Michael plays bass/guitar, Kazobo, and sings

 

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Pushing Back On Flock Cameras with Kate Bertash

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Kate Bertash of the Digital Defense Fund to talk about Flock cameras, automatic license plate readers, the ubiquity of ai-driven surveillance, databasing and storage of real-time info of people and vehicle movements in public and privacy fears being raised. Katie also speaks about organizing with her village-mates to counter or limit them and artful approaches towards resistance with her Adversarial Apparel project.

To hear the full episode, check out our website or on various streaming services.

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Featured Tracks:

  • Somebody’s Watching Me (Instrumental) by Rockwell

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Solidarity Collectives: 3 years into the Full-scale Russian Invasion in Ukraine

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This week, we’re featuring an interview with Anton, a longtime member of Solidarity Collectives, a group that supports anti-authoritarian and anarchist activists involved in the resistance to the Russian invasion of Ukraine as well as funding mutual aid projects for civilians and domesticated animals suffering or displaced by the invasion, bolstering left libertarian social movements during wartime, making propaganda and manufacturing FPV drones as well as a few other projects.

In this ranging conversation we spoke for 2 hours covering issues of anarchists participating in military structures, the state of the armed resistance, impacts of changes in the US administration and more, so if you’d like to hear the full chat, we suggest you check out the online streaming version or podcast at our website.

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Media About the 3 Internationalist Anarchists Who Fell April 19, 2023:

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Stop Cop City: Imaginary Crimes Tour + Hamza M. Salha in North Gaza

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Stop Cop City: Imaginary Crimes Tour

This week, we’re sharing an interview with Selena who speaks about the “Stop Cop City: Imaginary Crimes Tour” and Jordan, a RICO defendant from the Stop Cop City 61 case. The two speak about anti-repression, about where the case is at right now and a wider view of resistance and support. The tour will be hitting over 60 cities (not all in the USA)

From their tour announcement:

61 people are facing RICO trials in Atlanta for alleged involvement in resistance to the construction of Cop City. The State uses imaginary associations and crimes, framed as RICO, as a means to break solidarity and momentum when movements are strong. Anti-repression is a response that uses an alternate imagination to strengthen solidarity and resistance.

In Spring 2025, a nationwide tour will visit over 60 cities to discuss the history of the Atlanta forest, the resistance to Cop City, history of RICO, ongoing legal updates and facilitate discussions on anti-repression and movement defense. Through this tour we aim to share the lessons we have learned across struggles, and adapt to the evolving repressive forces so that we can continue to move bravely together.⁩⁩

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If you want some more content on the struggle, check out this really interesting episode of Audio Interference, a podcast associated with the Interference Archive in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood featuring materials from and discussion of a September 2024 installation entitled “Archiving Stop Cop City: This Is Not A Local Struggle”

To hear past episodes of ours on the Stop Cop City movement, check out this link.

The Last Standing House In The Neighborhood (Hamza M. Salha in North Gaza)

Then, we’re sharing audio from audio recorded by Franklin Lopez of Amplifier Films with Palestinian journalist Hamza M Salha who lives in North Gaza describing the conditions with the resumption of the escalated genocide being conducted by the Israeli settler-colonial military. Hamza speaks about the means that people are informed of incoming bombing raids, speaks of the sleepless night in the midst falling bombs in the rubble and tents, clearly exhausted himself. He speaks about the availability of food, his thoughts on the strangling and murderous siege of Israel, the failure of the world to stop the genocide and occupation.

You can find stories and photos from Hamza on his  instagram account. If you want to support him and 40 members of his extended family and attempting to get out of Gaza to get medical attention, you can check out his Go Fund Me.

You can watch the video without any accounts, only a web browser and internet connection by visiting the Amplifier Films mastodon account. To echo Hamza, thanks to Franklin Lopez of Amplifier Films (Facebook, Instagram) for sharing this audio and creating videos to share Hamza’s world with us on the outside, and our deep gratitude to Adrienne for the support and Hamza for expressing his experience for the audience. We wish you solidarity and health.

You can read some of Hamza’s writings below (same as last episode):

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2025 Fall Fund Drive!

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Even though the Drive is over, you can still donate! Together we can grow and strengthen community radio and keep Asheville thriving! The only way that Asheville FM can broadcast independent, community radio is with the help of contributing listeners LIKE YOU! We are a volunteer-driven organization, and contributions go directly to cover our expenses so that we can continue to bring you what you want to hear.

 

 


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