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International Solidarity and the 2025 Week of Solidarity With Anarchist Prisoners

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This week, we’re sharing three segments. First up, you’ll hear Yara speaking about Solidarity International, a new initiative to support prisoner support and anti-repression work beyond borders initiated by various anarchist and anti-authoritarian groups networked together, including the International Anarchist Defence Fund and various anarchist black cross groups across the world.

We’re releasing this in the run up to the 2025 Week of Solidarity With Anarchist Prisoners (or WOSWOP), August 23-30th, in which people are invited to gather, connect and take action against borders and against prison walls. You can find more about Solidarity International at their website, Solidarity.International, find them on their mastodon, bluesky, telegram or instagram accounts, and see the 2025 WOSWOP call for solidarity on that site or linked in our show notes. Yara’s voice has been re-recorded for anonymity.

Then, you’ll hear 2 segments from recent episodes of B(A)D News, a monthly podcast in English from the international A-Radio Network. More audios like these, plus archives, can be found at A-Radio-Network.Org

  • The first of these is from the Anarchist Assembly of Biobío near so-called Concepción, Chile from the June 2025 episode of B(A)D News, featuring a chat with the art collective Mesa 8, where they discussed memory, art, and the military dictatorship that began in 1973.
  • Following this, Ausbruch from Freiburg in the German territory spoke with the Red Aid, “der Rote Hilfe” about their work and current challenges from it’s founding over 100 years ago by the German Communist Party (KPD) into it’s current iteration. This segment can be found in our July 2025 episode of B(A)D News.

Finally, you’ll hear a segment from Sean Swain…

Some Materials Related To Mentioned Cases:

  • Roman Shvedov, fallen comrade
  • Antifa OST & Budapest Complex including Maya who just ended a hungerstrike (TFSR ep)
  • Moscow ABC and Solidarity Zone supporting Russian dissidents
  • Marianna, Dmitra plus their fallen comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris, of the so-called Ampelokipoi case in Athens (TFSR ep)
  • Women Prisoners of Iran facing death: Sharifeh Mohammadi, Pakhshan Azizi, Verisheh Moradi and Nassim Simiyari
  • Stop Cop City 61 RICO defendants

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Featured Track:

  • Vitamin C by Can from Ege Bamyasi

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Simplicity (with Mattie Lubchansky) + La Boina Anarquista archive in Chile

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This week, we’re sharing two segments.

First up, Ian talks with cartoonist Mattie Lubchansky about her new book, Simplicity, out July 29 from Pantheon Graphic Library. The conversation touches on Mattie’s work as Associate Editor for The Nib, her history with comics, and her ambitions beyond the printed page, but mostly focuses on the role of art in organizing and living our politics amid all the compromises required of life in the Real World.

Then, you’ll hear the first part of an interview by Jurnal Anarki from Indonesia with the archive La Boina Anarquista, based in Chile. This interview was conducted by comrades at A-Radio Berlin and the whole interview (and much more) can be found in the July 2025 episode of B(A)D News: Angry Voices From Around The World

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Featured Track:

  • Take The ‘A’ Train by Duke Ellington from The Duke – The Essential Collection (1927-1962)

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Mutual Aid in CA’s Fire Country (with Dani Burlison)

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This week, we’re sharing this a chat with my friend, Dani Burlson on her recent book, Red Flag Warning: Mutual Aid and Survival in California’s Fire Country! We speak about fire ecology, housing pressures and mutual aid in the wake of natural (and human caused) disaster. Check the show notes for links to a few projects mentioned. You can find more of Dani’s writings at DaniBurlison.com/, books listed here, and more by Caw at CawShinyThings.com

Northern CA projects mentioned:

Southern CA projects mentioned:

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Featured Track:

  • Be Yourself by Air Power from Be Yourself 12″

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POSITIVE VIBES – For your morning drive or wherever you are – its only on 103.3 AshevilleFM

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Tune in this week – Tuesday from 8-10a – great world wide reggae and local musical vibes plus Ticket Giveaways…  Positive Vibes..   only on 103.3 AshevilleFM…

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Labor Resistance on Vinyl (with Josh MacPhee + Kennedy Block)

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This week, we’re sharing a recent interview with Kennedy Block and Josh MacPhee, editors of Strike While The Needle Is Hot: A Discography of Workers Revolt from Common Notions. We speak about audio strike records, their role, what they tell us about the struggles they cover or were produced to amplify, and a bit about where music and popular resistance stand today.

To hear an extra 30 minutes of chat, some more music and Sean Swain’s segment, check out our podcast.

Until the end of the month, the book is available from CommonNotions.org with a 15% discount if you check out using the code: strike15 .

Josh can be reached on instagram via @jmacphee or via email at [email protected]

They’re also both involved with Interference Archive (which produced audio of this collection of Stop Cop City communiques for their podcast, Audio Interference), and Josh is a co-founder of JustSeeds.Org, produces Signal Journal (he was interviewed by Ian for the show on the topic)

Free Jack, Free The Airwaves zine can be found here

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Featured Tracks:

  • Sciopero Interno by Fausto Amodei from Sciopero Interno, 1968, Italy
  • More Percent by Kirk Thorne from Songs from the NCU Strike, 1987, UK
  • A Year and a Bit by The Hindle Strikers with TBE from Part of the Union!, 1984 , UK
  • Viva La Huelga! by Polibio Mayorga from La Huelga, 1982, Ecuador

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