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This week, we’re sharing two segments.

First up, an interview with Angel, an ICE detainee currently incarcerated in Otero Detention Center in New Mexico. Angel is a trans-masculine lesbian of Mapuche heritage, whose family moved hir to the US from Chile at the age of 7 and has lived undocumented since, attaining DACA status under Obama. During the 2020 George Floyd Uprising she pled guilty to charges related to arson of police vehicles in Little Rock, serving 15 months before moving to Chicago and where she was detained by ICE. Approaching 30 years old, the majority of which has been in the so-called USA, Angel made the hard choice to waive the right to fight deportation and has been in detention centers since on her way to being sent to Chile to join her mother and family now living there.

For three quarters of an hour, Angel speaks about conditions at Prairieland and Otero detention centers, the conditions of her fellow prisoners, the hurdles they face in access to healthcare, quality food, clean facilities, legal resources, access to communications with their families, ability to communicate needs and demands with staff and guards who only speak English, and other topics. Check our show notes for a link to her go fund me, and some other interviews she’s given during detention.

If you want to learn more about 2020 Uprising prisoners (from 2022 & 2023), you can find our interview with one of the people running the website UprisingSupport.org

Following Angel we’re sharing an interview by Crna Luknja from this month’s episode of BAD News: Angry Voices From Around The World about social centers and squatting in Portugal with members of Disgraca collective, a 10 year old social center fundraising to buy it’s location. Check our show notes for pertinent links.

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Featured Track:

• Óyeme by Ana Tijoux from Vida

This week – join DJSmittymon  as he welcomes Jesse Valcich of the band “Strictly Liquid” on the Positive Vibes’ Early Morning Music Sessions..  Happening this Tuesday, May 6th, 2025 – starts around 9am..               tune in / turn it up!..  enjoy…   smittymon

Jesse will be performing live in the studio and talking about their new music / single (Eye-Opened Man), latest tour,  upcoming shows and much more..  ..

ABOUT THE ARTIST:  Strictly Liquid

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This week you’ll hear our chat with the author of Countering Dispossession: Reclaiming Land: A Social Movement Ethnography, the political ecologist David E Gilbert (not to be confused with the former Weather Underground prisoner in the US). For this episode, David and I speak about the book, the small community in south Sumatra, Indonesia known as Casiavera, the legacy of colonial land grabs, the people who live there and the agro-ecology of the rainforest at the base of the Arin volcano. You can find more of David’s work at https://DavidEGilbert.Com

If you’re listening to the radio edition, we suggest you check out the podcast at our website or on various streaming services listed at tfsr.media .

Links:

• The Black Snake: Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice by Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys
• Via Campesina: https://viacampesina.org/
• Landless Workers Movement (MST): https://mst.org.br/
• Sarakhat Patani Indonesia (SPI): https://spi.or.id/
• Mentions of Tan Malaka in the Southeast Asian Anarchist Library (https://sea.theanarchistlibrary.org/search?query=tan+malaka ) or writings on Marxists.Org (https://www.marxists.org/archive/malaka/ )
• Feed’em Freedom Foundation (Detroit): https://feedemfreedom.org/
• Our interviews on the ZAD: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/?s=zad
• Grassroots Indonesian Eco-movement Wahli: https://www.walhi.or.id/

Announcement

May Day

Happy upcoming May Day, comrades known and unknown! I hope that wherever you are and whatever you do, you’re surrounded by siblings in love and struggle, you can take pleasure in the beauty of the world around you, take strength from our predecessors who share our vision of a life unencumbered by state / capital & the other anchors foisted upon our shoulders, and with the energy to create a path towards our desires

Angel Espinosa Villegas

We had an interview scheduled with Angel Espinosa Villegas, a trans masc butch dyke, formerly a 2020 uprising prisoner who was transferred to ICE detention for deportation, however the screws seem to have decided to escalate the deportation to Chile rather than let hir continue to speak to the media. Keep an eye out for upcoming interviews with Angel, and consider checking out hir GoFundMe, linked in our show notes.

Supporting The Show

Hey listeners… we’ve had a string of early releases with more on the way coming out through our patreon for supporters at $3 or more a month, alongside other thank-you gifts. If you can kick in and help, the funds go to our online hosting, and creation of promotional materials like shirts and stickers, but MOSTLY to funding our transcription efforts. We hate to ask for money, but if you have the capacity to kick us a few bucks a month, either through the patreon or via venmo, paypal or librepay or by buying some merch from us (we have a few 3x, 4x & 5x sized tshirts in kelly green coming soon), we’d very much appreciate the support. We’re hoping to make a big sticker order in the near future.

If you need another motivator, the 15^th anniversary of The Final Straw Radio is coming up on May 9^th, 2025 and we are not above accepting birthday presents. That’s 15 years of weekly audio (albeit at the beginning it was more music than talk), including 8 of which 7 of which aren’t in our podcast stream (you can find some early show examples in this link _by skipping to the last page of posts on our blog).

Other ways to support us include rating and reviewing us on google, apple, amazon and the other podcasting platforms, printing out and mailing our interviews into prisoners, using our audio or text as the basis for a discussion of an ongoing movement, contacting your local radio station to get us on the airwaves, and talking about us to others in person or on social media.

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Featured Track:

• Judas Goat by Filastine from Burn It (a benefit for Green Scare defendants)

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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Featured track:

• Isyan by Bandista from sokak meydan gece

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.

BAND MEMBERS

Radix Drums, sings, and plays sax

Michael plays bass/guitar, Kazobo, and sings

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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.

Good Links:

• https://www.katebertash.com/projects
• https://adversarialfashion.com/
• https://deflock.me/
• https://atlasofsurveillance.org/

Articles on the subject:

• https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/how-to-pump-the-brakes-on-your-police-departments-use-of-flocks-mass-surveillance-license-plate-readers
• (Maybe visit with TOR or a VPN?) https://unravel.noblogs.org/birds-of-a-feather-destroy-a-flock-together/
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/larsdaniel/2024/10/22/warrantless-surveillance-federal-lawsuit-challenges-flock-safety-cameras/
• https://www.404media.co/fusus-ai-cameras-took-over-town-america/
• https://www.404media.co/lawsuit-argues-warrantless-use-of-flock-surveillance-cameras-is-unconstitutional/
• https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/neighborhood-watch-out-cops-are-incorporating-private-cameras-their-real-time

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Featured Tracks:

• Somebody’s Watching Me (Instrumental) by Rockwell