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If you missed it, here’s my interview with the founder, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, and the director, Seth Kotch, both historians at UNC Chapel Hill
This week on The Final Straw we have 4 whopping segments, tidbits in length but whopping in importance.
First up, you’ll hear from Zachariah Jazz (@BlackariahJazz161 on twitter), who distributes alcohol jet heaters with ABQHeaterBloc in so-called Albuquerque, NM, to talk about their efforts to help keep folks living on the streets safer from the elements through mutual aid.
Then, Tom of Heater Bloc Chicago talks about the construction of these devices, based on shared design.
After that, you’ll hear Josh of the Certain Days Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar collective to talk about this year’s edition and briefly update listeners on the situations of Oso Blanco & Eric King, two anarchist political prisoners Josh does support work for and works on projects with.
Finally, Sean Swain’s weekly segment!
We’ll be sharing a recent conversation with antifascist researcher and activist, Matthew Lyons, author of the 2015 PM Press & Kersplebedeb book, Insurgent Supremacists, and contributor to the Three Way Fight blog to speak about Christian Nationalist tendencies and their relationship to distinctly racist elements of the far right in the so-called USA, approaches to understanding their approach of Christian Patriarchy as regards axes of gender, sexuality, abortion and bodily autonomy, as well as a call for antifascists to understand and more actively oppose these tendencies. More of Matthews thoughts at his blog, MatthewNLyons.net
It is bittersweet for us to share the news that Dr. Mutulu Shakur of the Republic of New Afrika, imprisoned since 1986, is being released from prison. Bittersweet because his case and incarceration were a travesty, and also because Dr. Shakur was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer in 2019 and has suffered in prison since. We are overjoyed that Dr. Shakur can pass on to the ancestors surrounded by loved ones on the outside of the bars. You can donate to his support via paypal to [email protected]. You can hear our conversation from a few months back about his case and health at our website by searching “Mutulu Shakur”. Free them all!
Lots of us are involved in social efforts of mutual aid, which can be a lot on top of just keeping afloat personally in capitalism, keeping rent paid, etc. In line with the subject matter of most of today’s show, we were hoping to highlight a couple of projects that could use money and support in the good work they’re doing during this so-called holiday season.
Hey listeners. As prices rise and capitalism chugs along, crushing us in its wake, so goes our patreon. We’ve recently lost a about $50 a month in support, which leaves us below $500/mo, which puts us in danger in falling short of being able to pay for transcription services and web hosting each month. We have a regular goal of $550 to cover those months with 5 Sundays and occasional extra costs.
If you can support us via a one-time donation, a merch purchase, a recurring donation via librapay or paypal or a subscription via patreon, we’d be much obliged. At patreon.com/tfsr those who support us at $2 or more a month have access to the occasional early audio release and upcoming planned behind the scenes chats among the producers. At the $5 level and above, you’ll get the aforementioned releases plus some stickers to show our appreciation. For $10 or more per month, you’ll get all that plus a monthly zine in the mail sent to you or the prisoner of your choice. Finally, for $15 per month and above you get those thank you’s plus a TFSR tshirt. But we don’t expect these meager enticements to get you to fork over the cash, honestly it seems more likely you’d kick in a few bucks because you have a little extra and appreciate our transcription work that allows for easier translation and accessibility of our episodes as well as easier sharing with prisoners and others who can’t hear the podcast. You can learn more at tfsr.wtf/support
That said, if you don’t have cash, please consider rating the podcast on amazon, google or apple podcasts to help us beat the algorithm, follow and amplify our social media posts (tfsr.wtf), share our content with others in real life, or try to get us on your local community or college radio station (tfsr.wtf/radio). More info on this and more at our website. Thanks for the support!
I am so stoked (or should I say spoked?) to interview David Gibb this week on Radio Active Kids! His new concept album about bicycles is incredible! 
Also, new songs by 123 Andrés, #TheTallestKidintheRoom, Ms. D&Me, #LosAurores/aka_swell_rell/Dream Quaffle on a comp by Wizrocklopedia Compilation Club, & Happy Music Garden, plus older tunes by Mike Phirman & Lucas Miller, the “Singing Zoologist”! 8-10am ET Saturday at ashevillefm.org/show/radio-active-kids or tun.in/pjiei & podcasting at mixcloud.com/Radio_Active_Kids!
On the Asheville FM News Hour, we aired the headlines, the Civic Roundup on the elections, the Healthy Asheville Report, and an interview from guest contributor Julia Haverstock, who interviewed local writer and collaborator, Ami Worthen, on Stumptown and the Montford neighborhood
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Members of the News Team interviewed all candidates for City Council who responded to our requests for an interview. We asked all the candidates the same questions, and their responses are unedited.
The hosts of The Horse’s Mouth invited both mayoral candidates for interviews, and Kim Roney accepted.
Andrew Fletcher’s interview:
Allison Scott’s interview:
Maggie Ullman’s interview:
Nina Tovish’s interview – begins at :15 :
Kim Roney’s interview: