This week on The Final Straw Radio, you’ll hear three interviews interviews relating to community needs and recovering concerning Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina.

First up, you’ll hear Jen Hampton of the WNC Tenants Network about the re-opening of eviction courts in Buncombe County and conditions of housing in an already difficulty place to live.

Then, Bruce and G talk from the Asheville Community Bail Fund speak about conditions in the local jail during and after this unnatural disaster.

If you’re listening to the radio edition, consider checking out the podcast where you’ll find an additional interview with Yousef of the Palestinian and Arab-led Sumud Collective speaking about his experience of the storm and recovery work in the region in an interview recorded a couple of weeks ago.

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Featured Track:

• Reflections by The Supremes from Gold

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Homeless Organizing in Oakland and Rural Relief After Helene

This week on the show we’re featuring two inteviews. First up, you’ll hear from Freeway, a houseless activist in Oakland, CA, about the recent series of sweeps of homeless being promoted by Governor Gavin Newsom. Freeway has been a member of Wood Street Commons and is now a member of Oakland Homeless Union (IG or donate). Then, Janet of Rural Organizing and Resilience (IG or donate) in Madison County, speaks about post-Hurricane Helene organizing and disaster preparedness in the mountains of Western North Carolina. More and links to be added soon.

If you’re a non-Pacifica station airing our show and need access to the episode, you can find a radio-friendly version here until Archive.Org is restored following a DDOS attack

A longer version of this show can be found here

Other groups mentioned by Janet of ROAR include:

• Holler Harm Reduction
• PODER Emma
• Appalachian Medical Solidarity
• Asheville Tool Library
• Asheville Repair Clinic
• Another Gulf is Possible
• Bulboncha Liberation Radio

Announcement

Phone Zap for Buncombe County Jail

Members of the Asheville Community Bail Fund have announced a phone zap concerning conditions in the Buncombe County Detention Facility where reports are coming out of a lack of clean water, irregular bathroom breaks and other lack of access are leading to calls for those in the jail to be released or transferred to a facility with more humane conditions.

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Featured Track:

• I Wanna Know If It’s Good To You by Funkadellic from Free Your Mind… And Your Ass Will Follow

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Mutt on the (Incomplete) Black Autonomy Reader

 

This week, you’ll hear my conversation with Mutt, editor of a new and incomplete Black Autonomy Reader, contributor to Muntjac Magazine, Organise Magazine and Seditionist Distro. We speak about Black Anarchism, intellectual property, community self-defense in response to the racist riots that spread around the UK in August of 2024 as well as other topics. And keep an ear out for an interview on the ItsGoingDown podcast with Mutt as well.

To hear the complete interview, you can find the episode at our website or on various streaming services.

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Featured Track:

• No Agreement by Fela Kuti and Africa 70 from No Agreement

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ISM in the West Bank and the Assassination of Ayşenur Eygi

This week on the final straw we’re featuring a conversation with Tom and Miriam of the International Solidarity Movement, a Palestinian-led network of activists standing in solidarity with Palestinians on the ground in the occupied territories. For the hour we talk about the organization, its history, what got these folks involved, the recent and tragic murder of Ayşenur Eygi in Beita in the West Bank which Miriam witnessed, and how conditions have changed as the war by the Israeli settler state has expanded.

To hear our prior conversation with Tom about the uprising in Bristol, check out this interview and to hear another 30 minutes of ISM chat, plus Sean Swain’s segment, check out our website.

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Featured Track:

• Long Live Palestine pt1 by Lowekey from Long Live Palestine Parts 1 & 2 (single)

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Hear an exclusive excerpt of an interview with the legendary David Gilmour, of Pink Floyd fame, which aired on Closer to the Edge September 12th, and is up for two weeks on our web-site and App! The interview begins at the one hour mark of the archive! Asheville journalist and music historian Bill Kopp did the interview for Spin Magazine, who granted Asheville FM permission to broadcast it across our shows… If you just want to hear the interview, click arrow below. David Gilmour is heading out on a limited tour, supporting the album and also perform his favorite Pink Floyd songs this Fall, in residency’s at only six venues in the world, in Rome, London, New York and Los Angeles! To follow JD and listen to his show, here is the page: Archive

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