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Anarchist Struggle in Rojava
airing now 1/23/22 @ 2pm EST, archived for a week at ashevillefm.org, podcasting in full at TFSR.WTF
Anarchist Struggle in Rojava
You can find TA online on twitter at @TA_Anarsist as well as their website TekosinaAnarsist.NoBlogs.Org. Members of TA suggested that folks interested in queer and trans organizing in Rojava support the group Keskasor, Kurdish for rainbow and based in Diyarbakir, Turkey. It can be emailed at heftreng.keskesor@gmail.com, found on twitter via @Keskasor_lgbti or on instagram at @KeskesorLGBTI, though their social media presence was last updated in 2020.
Some Formations Related to TA:
- International Freedom Battalion (IFB) on FB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Freedom_Battalion
- International Revolutionary People’s Guerrilla Forces (IRPGF) -demobilized: https://archive.org/details/@irpgf
- The Queer Insurrection and Liberation Army (TQILA) -demobilized
Groups mentioned ala Rojava:
- Make Rojava Green Again: https://makerojavagreenagain.org/
- Internationalist Commune of Rojava: https://internationalistcommune.com/
- You can find an interview we did with ICR at our website
- Jineoloji International: https://jineoloji.org/en/
- Rojava Information Center: https://rojavainformationcenter.com/
- Heyva Sur A Kurd (Kurdish Red Crescent): https://hskurd.org/en/homeen/
Announcements
Zolo Azania
Former Black Panther, political prisoner and BLA veteran Zolo Agana Azania is seeking help. Since being released from prison and returning to the streets of Indiana in 2017 after more than 35 years behind bars, he has poured himself into organizing solidarity and support for other former prisoners. He still has not received his 2020 covid relief funds, likely impacted by his housing precarity, and is trying to purchase an inexpensive house to offer him stability in his later years. If you’d like to help, you can cashapp Zolo at $ZoloAzania5 . You can hear an interview with Zolo from 2018 plus his participation in an IDOCWatch panel at our website, linked in the show notes.
Eric King’s Mail Ban Temporarily Lifted
That’s right, you can send mail and books to anarchist and anti-fascist prisoner, Eric King! You can find his writings, art and updates on his case at SupportEricKing.Org, you can find his amazon wishlist there as well and you can send him letters via:
Eric King #27090-045
FCI Englewood
9595 West Quincy Avenue
Littleton, CO 80123
Asheville Continues To Attack The Homeless
In a last minute addition to these announcements, according to a leaked email by a local, Asheville-based non-profit serving houseless folks, Asheville’s City Council may be considering passing an ordinance based on the failed Ft. Lauderdale, Florida ban on the sharing of food in public spaces, which in the Asheville case appears to be based on a suggestion by Asheville Police Captain Mike Lamb. An article just published on the Asheville Free Press explains the context, what the non-profit group Beloved is suggesting as next steps, which includes applying pressure at the upcoming January 25th City Council meeting. This comes on the heels of a wave of knocks, warrants and arrests of people engaged in protests against homeless sweeps here in freezing temperatures at the end of last year. Keep an ear out and toss support for legal fees to the Blue Ridge Anarchist Black Cross legal defense fund at or you can donate to the final straw’s payment methods with a note that it’s for legal defense and we’ll pass it off.
Fire Ant Journal #11 is Out!
You can find the latest edition of Fire Ant Journal, featuring writings and art by Thomas Mayer-Falk, Eric King, Pepe and info on Sean Swain, Jennifer Rose and more via Bloomington ABC
BAD News #52 is Available!
The monthly episode of the A-Radio Network’s English podcast includes Črna Luknja with a member of CrimethInc on the fire at their publishing house recently, A-Radio Berlin brings words on the attack by leftist bro’s on the queer anarcha-feminist Syrena squat in Warsaw, Elephant In The Room gives a brief round up of the uprising in Kazakhstan and comrades at Free Social Radio 1431 AM in Thessaloniki talk about the eviction of Biologia Squat.
Support
Here are a few ways you can give back to The Final Straw
- You can subscribe to our podcast on various platforms, follow and share our materials online as well as give us feedback via links found at TFSR.WTF/Tree
- Find those transcriptions and zines for distro’ing, mailing into prisons, or translating at TFSR.WTF/Zines
Radio Active Kids January 22!
As usual, we’ve got an incredible amount of new music this week on Radio Active Kids, and our friends EVT Kids have made this absolutely WONDERFUL jingle & video for us! Thank you so much, y’all!!! New songs by POCO DROM, Red Yarn, Kath Bee – Children’s Songwriter, Kira Willey, Music with Gina, Beanstalk Arts, DARIA MUSIC, Canta y No Llores, Herr Jan, Draco and the Malfoys/ #TheLovegoods /Tonks and the Aurors/ #SeenandUnforeseen on a tribute to Lauren Fairweather by Wizrocklopedia Compilation Club, The Happy Racers, #ColourMeSad from Music With Mandy, Zovi, Lyric Star Music, The Zing Zangs ft. Mista Cookie Jar, & Todd’n’Tina!!!! 8-10am ET Saturday at ashevillefm.org/show/radio-active-kids or tun.in/pjiei & podcasting at mixcloud.com/Radio_Active_Kids!
The UnCola’s 2021 Favorites, Vol. 3
Join The UnCola tonight at 8PM est live on 103.3 Asheville FM as we take our third and final review of their #2021 favorites.
Exile, World Systems Analysis and Anarchism with Andrej Grubačić
Airing at 2pm EST on 1/16/22 on AFM, podcasting in full at TFSR.WTF
Exile, World Systems Analysis and Anarchism with Andrej Grubačić
Andrej Grubačić is a former teacher at the University of Rojava, founding Chair of Anthropology and Social Change at the California Institute of Integral Studies, author of books such as Don’t Mourn, Balkanize!, co-authored Wobblies and Zapatistas with Staughton Lynd and most recently the co-author of Living At The Edges of Capitalism: Adventures In Exile and Mutual Aid with Dennis O’Hearn. Andrej is also the editor of the Journal of World-Systems Research as well as the Kairos imprint at PM Press. For the hour we speak about anarchism, the Yugoslav experiment, exile, World-Systems Analysis, Rojava, his friend David Graeber and other topics.
If you’re listening to the radio version, we suggest checking the podcast on any streaming platform or at our website, links at the website, TheFinalStrawRadio.NoBlogs.Org for a longer version plus Sean Swain’s weekly segment. You can also check the post there for a transcription in the very near future and a booklet or zine version for easier sharing and reading.
A couple of Grubačić pieces found online:
- Anarchism, Or The Revolutionary Movement of the Twenty-First Century (Graeber & Grubačić)
- Don’t Mourn, Balkanize! is on The Anarchist Library as a PDF
Some further reading suggestions include (more references in upcoming transcript):
- Daniel Guérin (French, Gay, Libertarian socialist):
- Balkan Federalism on wikipedia
- The Living Theatre anarchistic theater group out of NYC
- (Movement of the Free Spirit by Raoul Vaneigem, out of print but still on AK Press website)
- The Age of Globalization (pdf) by Benedict Anderson, the updated edition of Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination. Published by Verso, but seems out of print
- Sho Konishi, Anarchist Modernity: Cooperatism and Japanese-Russian Intellectual Relations in Modern Japan
- Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914
- Marx’s correspondence with Vera Zasulich shows his development towards Libertarianism near the end of his life: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1881/zasulich/index.htm
- Jason W. Moore (Capitalist World Ecology proposition): ECOLOGY, CAPITAL, AND THE NATURE OF OUR TIMES: ACCUMULATION & CRISIS IN THE CAPITALIST WORLD-ECOLOGY
Announcement
Anti-Repression in Asheville
As a follow up to the episode we did about protests against the homeless sweeps by the city of Asheville, the Asheville Police appears to be serving arrest warrants to people for charges like felony dumping and aiding & abetting felony dumping in relation to the Aston Park protests on Christmas, when the Asheville police arrested multiple journalists from the Asheville Blade as well as others present in the park prior to cufew. If you think this is bullshit and want to help, consider a donation to the Blue Ridge ABC bail & legal defense fund via their venmo, @BlueRidgeABC. You can also send funds to any of The Final Straw’s accounts, found at TFSR.WTF/Support, and mention ABC Bail in the comments.
Radio Active Kids got new music for you! January 15!
Radio Active Kids got new music for you on this week’s episode! And AGAIN AGAIN has created this INCREDIBLE little ditty for the show! Thanks so much for making this, y’all!!! New tunes by Music for Kiddos, Jim “Mr. Stinky Feet” Cosgrove & Rissi Palmer, Mr. Pete’s Playhouse, DJ Willy Wow, Rocknoceros, HEWHOCANNOTBENAMED, Michael and the Rockness Monsters & Little Miss Ann, Little Parade, Ruth and Emilia, Birdie, Zovi, Pink Moth, Triple Rainbow, The Zing Zangs, Totally Knuts covering Dots and Lines, Brócoli Duendes, & more! 8-10am ET Saturday at ashevillefm.org/show/radio-active-kids or tun.in/pjiei & podcasting at mixcloud.com/Radio_Active_Kids!