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This week’s show features a conversation with Will Potter about political repression against accused Anarchists in the Pacific Northwest. Later, we’ll speak with Bryan of Katuah Earth First! about his participation in a recent action in West Virginia against Mountain Top Removal.

Our first segment of this weeks show is a conversation with Will Potter, award-winning journalist, author and blogger at www.greenisthenewred.com about the JTTF & FBI raids on suspected Anarchists in the Pacific Northwest and the series of Grand Juries now being convened around participation in the May 1st protests in Seattle of this year.

Also, we’ll be speaking with Bryan, a member of Katuah Earth First!, based out of Asheville. Bryan was arrested on July 28th during a non-violent direct action under the banner of Radical Action for Mountain People’s Survival (RAMPS). This action briefly shut down and brought attention to the Mountain Top Removal style of strip mining being used at the Hobet mine, operated by Patriot Coal in Lincoln County, West Virginia. We talk about the Katuah bioregion, Fracking in North Carolina and getting involved to save our landbase.

as re: Grand Jury Resistance:
Green Is The New Red
Pacific Northwest Grand Jury Resistance
Donate to Committee Against Political Repression

as re: Mountain Top Removal
RAMPS Campaign
Katuah Earth First!
Earth First! Journal
Dustin Steele of RAMPS speaking out before the action

This show will be streaming on ashevillefm.org/the-final-straw from 8/6/12-8/13/12. It can be downloaded from archive.org by searching the show title.

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This week’s show features a conversation with Francis Delaney about the Prison Hunger Strikes that were initiated on Monday, July 16 at three facilities in North Carolina. This action seems to have the potential to spread to other facilities because of the apparent universality of the demands (better/more food, access to legal literature, human contact, an end to torture, an end to mail tampering, medical care). We discuss some context for the strikes and how folks on the outside can get involved and show solidarity.

Chapel Hill Prison Books
Triangle Anarchist Blog
Down: Reflections on Prison Resistance in Indiana

Streamable from www.ashevillefm.org/the-final-straw from 7/23-7/29/12

Downloadable from archive.org by searching the show title.

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This week’s conversation features a discussion of the case of the Cleveland 5, anarchists arrested in Ohio on April 30th for allegedly attempting to blow up a bridge. But the case isn’t so simple as idealists independently taking direct and spectacular action against infrastructure. As members of Cleveland 5 Justice (the support group for the defendants) share with us information about the accused, what is known about the alleged infiltrator sent by the FBI to facilitate a terror case (Shaquille Azir), and the significance of the timing of the arrests to coincide with May Day celebrations worldwide and the reawakening of the Occupy Movement in the U.S., we see a widened scope of intrigue and entrapment that fits into a bigger picture of corrupt government and self-serving security services.

This show will be streaming at www.ashevillefm.org/the-final-straw from 7/16/12 til 7/23/12 and archived permanent-style at archive.org by searching the show title.

http://www.cleveland5justice.org/
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/how-fbi-entrapment-is-inventing-terrorists-and-letting-bad-guys-off-the-hook-20120515
http://www.crimethinc.com/blog/2012/05/29/inside-the-fbi-entrapment-strategy/

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The first half of this week’s show features a conversation with Telly of the Hoosier Anti-Racist Movement, an Indiana Anti-Fascist grouping. We’ll talk about the Tinley Park 5, five young men arrested in a suburb south of Chicago and accused of disrupting a white supremacist gathering in early May.

July 21st is the next bail hearing for the Tinley Park 5. July 31st is International Day of Action against Fascism.

The second half of the episode is atmospheric black metal and sludge metal.

https://tinleyparkfive.wordpress.com/
http://antiracistaction.org/

This episode is streamable at www.ashevillefm.org/the-final-straw through 7/8/12, can be found downloadable at www.archive.org by searching the phrases: “tinley park five” and “final straw”.

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Originally broadcast 7/1/2011:

“This week’s show is a conversation with Parks about Stonewall, the cooptation of it’s rememberance in the form of Pride marches, the split of the liberation movement into the pride movement and continued radical struggles.”

Original audio can be found HERE. Streaming on https://ashevillefm.org/the-final-straw from 6/25-7/2/12.

Stonewall events for this year in Asheville include:

Thursday, June 28 @ 5pm, Firstorm (48 Commerce St, Asheville): A showing of the 1996 movie, Stonewall

Saturday, June 30th:
11:00 – 1:00 Self-Defense & Know Your Rights @ Aston Park
1:30 – 2:30 Trans 101 w/ the Tranzmission Prison Project@ Wall Street Coffee (62 Wall St.)
3:00 Meet under the N. Lexington Ave. Bridge (Murals near Rosetta’s)
3:30 MARCH!!!
4:30 RALLY! Pritchard Park with Ice Cream from Ultimate Ice Cream Co.!
5:00 – 6:00 “Why Is Stonewall Relevant?”/Incarcerated Realities Workshop w/ the Tranzmission Prison Project @ Smokey’s (18 Broadway St.)
8:00 – 9:00 BDSM Safety & Ethics Facilitated Discussion @ The Underground (237 Haywood St.)
9:30-after 2AM: This year’s Asheville Stonewall Dance Party is at the Underground (Back of O’Henry’s 237 Haywood St)!
$5-15 sliding scale donation (but no one turned away for lack of funds!) Folks able to donate and show up early will receive a lil special something for your donation!
PROCEEDS go to: Tranzmission Prison Project, the Mount Hope Infinity Defense Fund, Asheville Transformers, and a little for next year’s Stonewall organizing fund!
THEME: QUEERPOCALYPSE. It’s 2012. Let the epic battle against heteronormativity and gender conformity begin! Dress in your queerest apocalyptic best!
DOORS @ 9:30. Show starts @ 10pm.
MC’S: Malachi & AmyRose!
DRAG PERFORMANCES by: Dimitri Savage, Yeraldine Kennedy, and one TBA
RAFFLE with fabulous prizes from tons of local businesses!
DJ’s Little Fury, Souljabryd, & Queen Plz will provide a sweaty mix of hot jamz, radio jamz, classic gay anthems, some 80’s & 90’s hits, and any requests you may have!

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