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This week, you’ll hear from Juan and Fatima, who people who’ve been organizing and thinking about the southern US border for a long time to speak about the escalations in border force violence and kidnappings by ICE and CBP around the US (including Minneapolis where Fatima resides), an explosion in proposed immigration detention (including near El Paso where Juan resides), the expansion of low intensity conflict and counter-insurgency in the southwest since the mixing in of language of the War on Crime, War on Drugs and the Global War on Terror and how autonomous mutual aid provides opportunities for scaling up community defense and prefiguring the world we want to see.

If you’re listening to the radio edition of the interview, you can find another 30 minutes of discussion at our website.

Links

• Casa Carmelita
• https://www.immigrantsurvivors.org/statement-sw-key-sexual-abuse-case-dismissal
• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/31/writing-from-manus-prison-a-scathing-critique-of-domination-and-oppression
• Fatima’s essay: The Insurgent Southwest
• Grey Is The Color of Hope Book
• No Friends But The Mountain Book

El Paso Groups

• Casa Carmelita
• Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy
• Estrella del Paso

Related Past Interviews

• Our recent interview with Donna Mae about resistance in Minneapolis
• Interview on Life During Wartime book
• Past interviews concerning immigration, including with people held on Manus Island

Articles Of Note

• https://www.immigrantsurvivors.org/statement-sw-key-sexual-abuse-case-dismissal
• https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/20/shutdown-stalemate-deepens-as-white-house-dems-dig-in-on-dhs-funding-00789614
• https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/courts-have-ruled-4400-times-that-ice-jailed-people-illegally-it-hasnt-stopped-2026-02-14/
• https://theintercept.com/2026/02/17/warehouses-immigration-detention-camp-prisons-immigrants/
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/13/ice-detention-center-expansion/
• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/31/writing-from-manus-prison-a-scathing-critique-of-domination-and-oppression

Announcements

Peppy Moved to Halfway House

We are happy to announce that Peppy has entered a halfway house where he will finish out his remaining incarceration. You can learn more about writing to him and what he likes to talk about at his support website. His crew is still fundraising for a post-release fund there as well found at FreePeppyAndKrystal.NoBlogs.Org

Casey Goonan Moved

Palestine solidarist Casey Goonan has been transferred from Mendota in California to what is likely to be their home for the foreseeable future, FCI Allenwood – Medium. You can learn more about getting into contact, updates on their case and how to support their commissary at FreeCaseyNow.NoBlogs.Org

Hrdindu Roychowdhrury Moved

Alleged Janes Revenge prisoner and Grand Jury Resister Hrdindu Roychowdhrury has been moved to FCI Thomson in Illinois. He just had a birthday and could use some sweet words. More on the move and how to write him at ABCF.Net

Prairieland Case Updates

The Prairieland Case was declared a mistrial and has been restructured in an audacious move by the Trump appointed judge Pitman. Restrictions applied to the case will could greatly limit the ability of the 9 defendants to make their cases where decades of their lives behind bars are at stake. You can learn more, including detailed notes from each day of trial, by visiting PrairielandDefendants.Com, find the defendants new updated Tarrant County mailing addresses and followcalls for support by finding their social media.

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This week, we’re sharing two segments.

First up, a chat with Cooper Quintin, a senior staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and developer of the Rayhunter. Rayhunter is open-source firmware to turn specific hotspots into IMSI-catcher, effectively scanning for and logging any signs of fake cell towers (often known under the brand-name of Stingrays) in the area. Law enforcement has at times deployed these as a way of collecting information about phones in the area and could use it to intercept some communications like sms or phone calls. Cooper talks about what’s known of law enforcement use of IMSI-catchers, what has been observed of the data collected by deployed Rayhunters, phone security at demonstrations and related topics.

Then you’ll hear Radio Ausbruch from Frieberg from this month’s B(A)D News podcast from the A-Radio Network talking about the repression and deBanking of anti-repression projects like ABC Dresden and Rote Hilfe in Germany based on pressure from the US government related to the so-called Antifa Ost case. This carries heavy implications for prisoner support, anti-racist and other social struggles.

Links

• Cooper at DefCon talking about Rayhunter: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=meC2JqNAbCA
• EFF on what Rayhunter has found so far: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/rayhunter-what-we-have-found-so-far
• Github for Rayhunter: https://github.com/EFForg/rayhunter
• EFF Mattermost chat platform: https://opensource.eff.org/
• A project for detecting Meta Rayban sunglasses: https://github.com/NullPxl/banrays
• Ouispy bluetooth scanning and notification tool: https://github.com/colonelpanichacks/oui-spy

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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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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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