Asheville FM

The home of Asheville FM, WSFM-LP 103.3

Show Posts

A Better World Bookfair + Save The UNCA Woods

by

This week on the radio show, we’re featuring two segments. If you’re listening to the radio edition and want to hear the interview with the DFW Support Committee about the 11 arrests in Texas following the noise demo on July 4th at the Prairieland ICE Detention Facility and Sean Swain’s segment, check out our podcast at our website or via various streaming services.

A Better World Book Fair

First you’ll hear Beet and Mad Dog, two anarchists organizing the upcoming A Better World Bookfair in Waynesboro, VA on Saturday, July 26th. We talk about the bookfair and taking space in rural locales as leftists and strengthening our bonds amidst the rise of the right under Trump 2.0.

Save The UNCA Woods

Then, you’ll hear Callie and Heather of Friends of the Woods talking about their campaign to save the UNCA woods, 45 acres in Asheville’s Five Points neighborhood from destruction by the university in a scheme to build a 5,000 seat soccer stadium, market rate housing and retail spaces. You can learn more at www.SaveUNCAWoods.org.

. … . ..

Featured Track:

  • Mercy, Mercy, Mercy by Cannonball Adderly from The Best of Cannonball Adderly The Capitol Years

More Posts for Show: The Final Straw Radio

Learning Together From Uprisings (InterRebellium with sub.Media)

by

This week, we’re sharing an interview with Heatscore and Nuke of sub.Media about their new documentary series, InterRebellium. The first episode, entitled El Estallido Social about the social uprising that flared up in 2019 in lands controlled by the state of Chile featuring anarchist and Mapuche voices on the conditions in which the uprising developed, experiences of it and its aftermath. You can view the film for free at sub.Media/InterRebellium alongside materials for discussion. We also speak about the role of film and media production in radical organizing and critique and upcoming episodes of the series.

  • Transcript
  • PDF (Unimposed) – pending
  • Zine (Imposed PDF) – pending

Another recent documentary about the Estallido Social mentioned, Fell In Love With Fire

Sean Swain’s video deposition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhbAEYUUeiQ

. … . ..

Featured Track:

Despacito (Remix) by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee (feat. Justin Bieber)


More Posts for Show: The Final Straw Radio

Christian Nationalism, Apocalyptic Visions + Child Welfare (with Talia Lavin)

by

This week, we’re sharing an interview with Talia Lavin, author of Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy. In this chat, we speak about her more recent book, Wild Faith: How the Christian Right is Taking Over America. There’s a lot in the book, most of it pretty disturbing (especially, I’m sure, for anyone who is ex-vangelical) and there is discussion of hateful ideology and child abuse and corporal punishment, though not in lurid detail, so listener discretion is advised. We hope to cover related topics in the future.

To hear an extended version of the interview, check out the podcast at our website.

Links to Talia’s:

. … . ..

Featured Track:

  • Voice Of God Is Government by Bad Religion from How Could Hell Be Any Worse

More Posts for Show: The Final Straw Radio

Rapid Responses To Immigration Raids + Homeless Sweeps in So Cal

by

This week on the show we feature an interview with two anarchists activists in southern California about the recent resistance to Federal-led immigration raids in Los Angeles and the wider region. Both guests speak about their experiences working in rapid response structures to immigration raids, to anti-homeless sweeps and other community needs over the years and how they’ve changed as conditions and technologies have changed. We talk about inviting and engaging new activists and some strategies that showed success.

. … . ..

Featured Track:

  • Bella Ciao by La Plebe from Brazo En Brazo

More Posts for Show: The Final Straw Radio

Anarchism and Disability, plus A-Radio Segments

by

This week, we spoke with Richard Amm, a member of the Disability Action Research Kollective, or DARK, which they describe as a disabled-led group working to make disability perspectives, history, and research more accessible to a general audience. Amar and Richard speak about disability, eugenics, radical history the Corona virus and other topics. You can learn more about the project at linktr.ee/disabilityark

DARK Links

Then we’ll feature two segments from the May 2025 episode of BAD News: Angry Voices From Around The World, the English-language podcast of the A-Radio Network.

First up, A-Radio Berlin shared a conversation about the political motivated arrests and harassment of members of the Labor Desk Confederation of Trade Unions in Azerbaijan, which is calling for international solidarity.

The Labor Desk Confederation of Trade Unions in Azerbaijan is calling for international solidarity following the politically motivated arrests of its chairman Afiaddin Mammadov and fellow unionists Aykhan Israfilov, Elvin Mustafayev, and Mohyaddin Orujov. These arrests are part of a systematic crackdown on independent labor organizing in Azerbaijan..

https://www.labourstartcampaigns.net/show_campaign.cgi?c=5634

Next, Črna Luknja from Ljubljana conducted an interview with OLTA (Open Leftist Assembly of Antifascist, Carinthia) from south-west of austria.They are mobilizing against the so-called “Burschentag” of the Austrian Pennaler Ring ,which is the association of the conservative fraternities.The austrian Pennaler Ring is connected with the ruling, fascist party FPÖ and extra-parliamentary extreme right.

Finally, Sean Swain’s segment

. … . ..

Featured Track:


More Posts for Show: The Final Straw Radio

A History of Anarchist Prisoner Support (with Matt Hart) + June 11, 2025

by

This week on the Final Straw Radio, we’re sharing an interview with Matt Hart of the Los Angeles Anarchist Black Cross chapter of the ABC Federation. We talk about the book Matt just released via PM Press, an expanded edition of Boris Yelensky’s history of anarchist prisoner support “Shadows In The Struggle For Equality”, illustrated by NO Bonzo. Matt talks about the work of the LA-ABCF, ABC’s pre-history with the Narodnik movement in mid-19th century Russia, prisoner defense under the nihilist movement, some moments in resistance and mutual aid through the following hundred and fifty years or so, some colorful moments and comrades up into the 21st century. We hope you enjoy!

Then, we’ll share a reading of the 2025 June 11th statement since this week is the day of Solidarity with Long Term Anarchist Prisoners. More info on that initiative at June11.noblogs.org

If you’re listening to the radio edition of this episode, you’ll find an additional 30 minutes of Matt Hart plus Sean Swain’s segment in the streaming or podcast version of the show, found at TFSR.Media

. … . ..

Featured Tracks:


More Posts for Show: The Final Straw Radio