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This week we had so much fun hosting Carmen and Shelby from the Asheville Tool Library on the People’s Radio Hour! As the name implies, it *is* a place where people can check tools out to use. But it’s also so much more than that! With a seed saving project and community garden underway, an art loft, and ample opportunities for community building and volunteerism, the Asheville Tool Library is offering our community a chance to learn, build, tend, and befriend!

Learn more about the Asheville Tool Library:
https://ashevilletoollibrary.org/​

https://www.instagram.com/ashevilletoollibrary/​

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This week, an interview with Aryanum, a member of the Persian-language anarchist group Anarchism Perspective, based in Iran and Afghanistan. Anarchism Perspective is a synthesist anarchist group based mostly in the region that organizes solidarity and resistance as well as publishing writings at Anarshism.com . For this episode, we speak about the recent uprising in Iran that was met with bloody repression by the regime, with internet blackouts and low-ball estimates of 30,000 dead at government hands from January 8^th and 9^th 2026 alone. Aryanum speaks about the posturing by monarchists supporting the return and enthroning of Reza Pahlavi II, the son of the last Shah, and the weaponization of Islam by the Mullahs of the regime and other topics.

Anarchism Perspective links

• Website: https://anarshism.com
• email: [email protected]
• Anarchism Perspective Telegram: https://t.me/+RRUTo6xyoT468fgO & https://t.me/anarchism_perspective
• Insurrection Library: https://t.me/Insurrection_Library

Other Links

• Critique of Mass Mobilization by Anarchism Perspective: https://www.anarshism.com/critique-mass-mobilization-strategy/
• Aryanum’s past writing on religion as a type of power: https://www.anarshism.com/funeral-theocracy-religious-capital-en/
• Article on labor struggles in the run up to the uprising: https://classautonomy.info/workers-councils-reportedly-forming-in-iran/
• It Could Happen Here interview: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/whats-happening-in-iran-317260060/
• CNN report on mass deaths: https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/10/middleeast/tehran-iran-protests-deaths-arrests-intl
• Basij volunteer milita of IRGC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basij
• Hrana (Kurdish human rights group): https://www.en-hrana.org/category/news/
• https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/decolonize-anarchism-in-praise-of-burning-down-clerical-fascism-in-iran
• https://www.hauntologies.net/p/iranian-protesters-dont-owe-us-an
• Thread on mastodon about the usefulness of Delta Chat via locally run servers when the internet (and therefore connection to Signal) was cut off: https://archive.ph/GBR6A
• 70% of Iraniun population suffers from malnutrition: https://ghalamrorefah.ir/id/1959/

Another Farsi Group, Anarchist Front:

• https://t.me/AnarchistFront1
• https://links.anarchist-front.org/
• https://link.kompektiva.org/@anarchistfront
• https://anarchistfront.noblogs.org
• https://t.me/anegofromworldgap
• https://t.me/AnarchistFront

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• TFSR by The Willows Whisper

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This week – join DJSmittymon  as he welcomes “Elizabeth McCorvey”  to the Positive Vibes’ Early Morning Music Sessions..  a part-time psychotherapist, full-time musician and full-time delight. Elizabeth writes original “Americana/Bluesgrass” music about people and places that didn’t ask for her opinions. 

Elizabeth won the Musicians Organizing Activist Committee (MOAC) Protest Song Writing Contest.  We will be live from the studio talking about the release of new single ** Ain’t Gonna Lay Down**    We will be joined by members of MOAC..   talkin music and more..  Happening this Tuesday, February 17th, 2026 – starts around 9am..   tune in / turn it up!..  enjoy…  smittymon

 

MUSICAL GUEST:  Elizabeth McCorvey

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This week we’re sharing two interviews related to ongoing conflicts between the Syrian transitional government alongside the Turkish backed so-called Syrian National Army militia, which has overlaps with ISIS on one side and the Syrian Democratic Forces and the communities of the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, where the Rojava revolution has been happening,

First up, we’ll hear some updates and assessments from Garzan, a member of Tekoşîna Anarşîst, an internationalist anarchist structure based in Rojava and aligned with the Syrian Defense Forces. Garzan’s voice has been re-recorded for anonymity and a transcript of their audio is available in the show notes.

• Transcript

Then, we hear from Jînda a western activist engaged in solidarity with the Rojava Revolution to speak about what the spread of Syrian transitional government and the Turkish-backed so-called Syrian National Army militia into areas formerly under control of the Syrian Defense Forces means for women and different ethnic and religious minorities.

• Transcript

The radio edition of this audio is a bit shorter due to time constraints, so feel free to check our podcast or the streaming sites listed at tfsr.media to hear a longer edition.

Some Further Reading

• You can follow TA by visiting https://tekosinaanarsist.noblogs.org/ where you can also follow their war updates
• To check out that report by Rojava Information Center on ISIS prisoners under the Syrian transitional government, visit https://rojavainformationcenter.org/2026/01/isis-escapes-as-a-result-of-syrian-army-assault/
• An article that TA shared recently, though with some disagreement in the critique “Kurdish Reaction To The Current Situation In Rojava” by Zaher Baher is available here: https://libcom.org/article/kurdish-reaction-current-situation-rojava
• Our past interviews on Rojava: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/category/rojava/
• Revolution In Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women’s Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan : https://classautonomy.info/revolution-in-rojava-democratic-autonomy-and-womens-liberation-in-the-syrian-kurdistan/
• Rojava Information Center interview with Lonjin Abdo who founded Lelun organization to support survivors of human trafficking by Turkish-backed SNA in Afrin: https://rojavainformationcenter.org/2025/07/lonjin-abdo-lelun-interview/

Some Internationalist Structures to Keep Up with Calls for Support

• Emergency Committee For Rojava: https://www.defendrojava.org/
• Internationalist Commune: https://internationalistcommune.com/
• Rise Up For Rojava: https://riseup4rojava.org/en/

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• TFSR by The Willows Whisper

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