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Since NC Governor Roy Cooper lifted all Covid restrictions, families with children are still very unsure of how to protect their children. Christian Green is the lead Carolina Public Press contributing writer reporting on healthcare and health policy in North Carolina and joined us to make sense of it.
Listen to the full interview here:
Read Christian’s work at Carolina Public Press HERE.
airing 6/13/21 at 2pm EST on AFM, archived from 3am EST 6/14-6/21/21 at ashevillefm.org, podcasting always at our website.
One thing that sets anarchism aside from other radical, egalitarian critiques of Power developed in the modern West is the conception of the State as an enemy. But what is the State, how does it work, why and how do we as anti-authoritarians and anarchists oppose it? These questions and more are the focus of the recent book, The Operating System: An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State (AK Press, 2021). This week, we air Scott‘s conversation with Eric on the book, theorizing the State as computer operating system, the necessity of social revolution prior to a political revolution and other heady topics.
You can follow Eric on Twitter (@EricLaursen) and he has written for HuffPost, Z Magazine, In These Times, The Nation, The Village Voice, Counterpunch and The Arkansas Review. He also authored The People’s Pension: The Struggle To Defend Social Security Since Reagan and Duty to Stand Aside, The: Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Wartime Quarrel of George Orwell and Alex Comfort as well as Understanding The Crash.
The introduction of Operating System was written by Maia Ramnath, a historian and author of Decolonizing Anarchism and Haj to Utopia.
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We’ve got a great big bundle of new music on this week’s Radio Active Kids show, featuring songs by Tiptoe Giants, Josh & The Jamtones, Koo Koo Kanga Roo, mömandpöp, Little Miss Ann, uncle dox & Fancy Pants Kids Pop, Mi Amigo Hamlet & Alina Celeste, Carrie Ferguson Makes Music, Esther Crow Music, Music for Kiddos, #MarkoPolo, Cantando con Pepo, Oleg Kostrow, Dream Quaffle, & #DorothyCresswell!!! 8-10am ET Saturday at ashevillefm.org/show/radio-active-kids or tun.in/pjiei & podcasting at anchor.fm/radio-active-kids!
The blues are coming! The blues are coming! Just tune in Soul of the Blues this Thursday from noon to 2pm on AshevilleFM and the Blueshound will bring you two hours of mind prancing, butt dancing blues! Listen live at 103.3fm in Asheville, NC or stream it live and for one week after it airs at ashevillefm.org! This week I got some new music for you from Donna Herula and Alex Lopez! Also, some sweet favorites from Johnnie Taylor, Denise LaSalle, Bobby Bland, Bonnie Raitt, Lonnie Mack, Buddy Guy and swamp boogie queen, Katie Webster!. The Notcho’ Blues Artist this week is Charlie Daniels! Join the Blueshound on Soul of the Blues if you want a little extra gravy on dem blues!
Tonight at 9 PM est on The UnCola is celebrating another week of African-American Music Appreciation Month 2021 with two more hours of soul, jazz, rock, hip-hop, reggae and more, spotlighting African-American artists.
airing 6/6/2021, available from 3am 6/7/21-6/13/21, and always in longer form at our website or as a standalone file.
June 11th is the international day of solidarity with Marius Mason and all long-term anarchist prisoners. This year we want to explore the connections between long-term prisoner support and anti-repression efforts around recent uprisings, a sharp reminder to us that the difference between a status of imprisoned or not is often tenous and temporary. With thousands of arrests for protesting, rioting, and property destruction from last summer’s George Floyd uprising, we must be preparing for the posibility that more of our friends and other rebels may end up in prison. We’re also seeking to find ways to facilitate interactions between our long-term prisoners and uprisings in the streets. To this end, we speak with:
They share with us their experiences with state repression, what motivates them, and some thoughts on what we can be doing to make us, our communities, and our liberatory movements more resilient. The speakers responded to questions in the same order throughout the conversation but didn’t identify themselves much, so remember that the order and the projects they’re involved in can be found in our show notes.
You can learn more about Marius Mason and how to support him at SupportMariusMason.org. You can see past podcasts by June 11th, prisoner statements, artwork, info about the prisoners supported by the effort, a mix-tape they curated last year and events listed for various cities you can join at June11.org. We’re releasing this audio before June 11th to entice folks to consider a potluck, an action, a letter writing event, a banner drop, a postering rampage or something to share the day with folks behind walls. Hear our past June 11 episodes here.
If you’re in Asheville, join Blue Ridge Anarchist Black Cross today, June 6th for a letter writing from 5-7pm at West Asheville Park on Vermont Ave. BRABC meets every first Sunday at that time, provides info on prisoners with upcoming birthdays or facing repression, stationary, postage and company. Never written a letter? Don’t know how to start? Swing by and share some space!
Sean Swain is fighting to be paroled after 30 years in prison and 316 podcast segments. You can find more about how to support his efforts here: https://www.anarchistfederation.net/sean-swain-is-up-for-parole/
Comrade David Easley, A306400 at the Toledo Correctional Institution, who has in previous months been viciously assaulted by prison staff at the direction of the ToCI Warden Harold May, as well as number of other inmates also who have been isolated for torture and other oppressive, covert, and overt retaliatory actions at that facility, denied adequate medical care for speaking out against the cruel, inhumane treatment at that Ohio facility. More and more comrades are reporting occurring throughout the ODRC, and across this country for any who dare stand up and speak up for themselves, and the voiceless within the steel and concrete walls.
This is a CALL TO ACTION to zap the phone at the U.S. District Court in Toledo, Ohio and demand that Comrade David Easley be granted a phone conference with Judge James R. Knepp II, and the Attorney General because Comrade Easley’s lawyer of record has decided to go rogue by not filing a Memorandum Contra Motion as his client requested and now the State has presented a Motion to Dismiss his case to that court.
Plaintiff: David Easley, A306400
Case No: 3:18-CV-02050
Presiding Judge: James R. Knepp II
Courtroom Clerk: Jennifer Smith
Phone No: (419) 213-5571
Also, reach out to Comrade Easley using the contact info he like many of our would appreciate the concerns, and love from us on the outside to stay the course, and not get discouraged in his Daily Struggle.
David Easley #A306400
Toledo CI
PO Box 80033
Toledo, OH 43608
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13 Blues for Thirteen Moons by Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band from 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons