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An Anarchist View From Rojava on Recent Events in Syria: A conversation with a combatant of Tekoşîna Anarşist

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This week, we’re sharing a conversation with Errico, a combatant member of Tekoşîna Anarşist, an internationalist anarchist formation in critical solidarity with the Rojava Revolution. For this episode, Errico answers some questions we had about what’s been happening in Syria and concerns from within the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. You can find ideas and updates from the TA formation on their blog, https://tekosinaanarsist.noblogs.org. The full audio of this interview can be found at our website and past interviews with TA can be found here.

Errico’s voice has been re-recorded by a comrade for anonymity. The transcript is already up in the show notes and at our website for easier reading, translation and sharing and you can find past interviews we’ve done with TA linked in the show notes. And there is an announce-only signal group that anyone can join with updates and analysis by anarchists in the region or paying attention which we’ll link in our shownotes. Just a headsup, the usernames of members of this group will be visible to the all other users there and it might be a good opportunity to set up your signal username and make your phone number unfindable for better anonymity prior to joining the signal group ( https://signal.group/#CjQKIN0TDK_nsHV4uXRtLIdaUOL2R6yv7uvRs8c3RUiXLr-EEhBPEntGCDqJQOD4pzU36i6O )

We simultaneously recorded an interview with Cedric and Khuzama, two libertarian communists and editors of and contributors to the blog Interstices-Fajawat.org about their insights into Syria. This interview will be coming out soon, so keep an eye on our podcast feed.

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Art As A Vehicle For Anarchist Ideas (ACAB 2024)

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This week, we’re sharing another presentation from the 2024 ACABookfair in so-called Asheville. If you’re listening to the radio edition, we’ve had to trim this for length but you can find the full presentation, plus Sean Swain’s segment at our website and on youtube you’ll find the audio sync’d up with the slideshow presentation from the bookfair by visiting youtube.com/@thefinalstrawradio.

The following is a recording from the 2024 Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair in so-called Asheville, NC. You can find more info and recordings from this and other years at ACABookfair.NoBlogs.Org. This is a presentation entitled Art as a Vehicle for Anarchist Ideas with N.O. Bonzo, Des Revol, and Sugarbombing World. From the description:

“Three longtime anarchist artists—N.O. Bonzo, Des Revol, and Sugarbombing World—will explore the role that art plays in resistance and movements, along with remembrance of the past and visions of the future. They’ll look at ways that art brings people together, and can serve as a great tool, whether in organizing and agitating, and/or inviting people into anarchism.”

 


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Red Onion Prison Updates + Antifa-OST Case in Germany

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This week, we’re featuring two segments.

 

First up, Phil Wilayto of the Virginia Defenders talks about conditions at Red Onion State Prison in western Virginia where a number of prisoners have been self-immolating in order to escape longterm isolation and racist guard violence. You can find Phil’s article on the SF Bay View which includes a clip of Noelle Hanrahan on Al-Jazeera talking about this subject, and past interviews with and about Kevin “Rashid” Johnson at this link here.

Then, you’ll hear Jo, an anarchist from Germany, speaking about the recent building of conspiracy cases against antifascists known as Antifa-Ost, or Antifa East. You can find our prior interview about NSU Watch and Day X here.

The full podcast can be found at our website.

More info on Antifa-Ost and the Budapest Structure:

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Peter Gelderloos on Memory, Community, Organization and Struggle

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This week, we’re airing an interview with anarchist author, Peter Gelderloos about two of his recent books They Will Beat the Memory Out of Us: Forcing Nonviolence on Forgetful Movements (Pluto Books, 2024) as well as Organization, Community, Continuity (Detritus, 2024). For this episode, we speak on movement memory, community, care work, organization and struggle.

To hear the another 30 minutes of discussion, plus Sean Swain’s segment, check out our blog post at TheFinalStrawRadio.NoBlogs.Org


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Abortion Beyond The State (with Jex Blackmore, ACAB24)

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This week, we’re sharing a presentation entitled “Abortion Beyond The State” by Jex Blackmore and Hydra Mutual Aid Fund, recorded at the 2024 Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair in so-called Asheville, NC. You can find more audios, past schedules and more at ACABookfair.NoBlogs.Org.

From the description:

“Government control of reproductive capacity has long persisted as a tool to subordinate birthing people, women, people of color, people living on lower incomes, and other marginalized groups. The Supreme Court’s harmful ruling in Dobbs made clear that both the State, its actors, and the non-profit industrial complex have failed the people, giving rise to the urgent necessity for the movement to defend itself through direct provisions to community. This workshop will provide context to the current crisis surrounding bodily autonomy and reproduction and share a roadmap for subverting state control by building networks of support to provide safe and effective abortion regardless of legality.

The Hydra Fund is an independent mutual aid fund supporting access to reproductive care in Michigan. Their mission is to eliminate financial barriers to abortion access in Michigan by providing direct financial aid for purchasing abortion pills and obtaining in-clinic abortion procedures. Additionally, Hydra Fund is engaged in a community outreach education program to support access to evidence-based abortion information.”

For other abortion chats you can listen to from TFSR, check out this link

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Phone Zap for Malik Muhammad

Malik Muhammad, a prisoner from the George Floyd Uprising has been on hunger strike against extended use of solitary confinement with no property and after a beating and tasering by staff. You can learn how to participate in a phone zap at MalikSpeaks.NoBlogs.Org

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Art Remains with Lamplight AVL

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This week on the AFM News Hour, we sat down with Lamplight AVL’s executive director Emily McDaniel to discuss her mission for helping artists recover in the wake of Hurricane Helene.

Lamplight AVL is a non-profit organization focused on supporting local artists through grants and funding. Their mission is to provide resources, spaces, and time to artists so that artists can create work and share it with the community. Since the day after the storm, Lamplight AVL has shifted to a recovery-focused program. Emily recognizes that artists need help immediately, and they will also need help in the near and distant future.

The first of three phases of Lamplight’s recovery plan is a rollout of grants of $1,500 to 20 artists. The applications for those grants have been received and are in review, and Lamplight has shifted to phase two: fundraising for the larger grants. The goal is to offer grants of up to $20,000 to an individual, collective, or organization. This is where Asheville FM’s Fund Drive can help! For every donation we receive during the Fund Drive, the Carol Waggle Oliver Fund will give $10 to Lamplight AVL’s Art Remains effort! Phase three will focus on affordable spaces for artists. 

Many of us in Asheville have been asked by friends and family outside the community what they can do to help. Emily says that donating to these efforts is a way to help our community continue to recover. She says that this has been “so hard and so terrible but also so beautiful, the way our community has shown up for one another.” Let’s keep showing up!

To hear more about Lamplight AVL and our interview with Emily, listen in the archives.


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