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First Radio Show

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Hello! My name is Blake and I am very honored and thrilled to become a regular DJ on Asheville FM! The Gilded Cauldron is a free form radio show, meaning you will hear a variety of genres. You will always hear international music, especially Indian or Indian inspired songs. You will also hear folk, classic country, avant-garde, jazz, blues, and more!

Aside from training and substituting for other DJs, this will be my first time officially having a radio show and I am beyond excited! I hope you find something that interests you, catalyzes creativity, or allows you to bask in something familiar. I play mostly records from my collection, though sometimes I will use other formats as well. I tend to focus on music that is acoustic, strange, traditional, and/or music from outside of the U.S., but you will hear a variety of music that I consider great.


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A Better World Bookfair + Save The UNCA Woods

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This week on the radio show, we’re featuring two segments. If you’re listening to the radio edition and want to hear the interview with the DFW Support Committee about the 11 arrests in Texas following the noise demo on July 4th at the Prairieland ICE Detention Facility and Sean Swain’s segment, check out our podcast at our website or via various streaming services.

A Better World Book Fair

First you’ll hear Beet and Mad Dog, two anarchists organizing the upcoming A Better World Bookfair in Waynesboro, VA on Saturday, July 26th. We talk about the bookfair and taking space in rural locales as leftists and strengthening our bonds amidst the rise of the right under Trump 2.0.

Save The UNCA Woods

Then, you’ll hear Callie and Heather of Friends of the Woods talking about their campaign to save the UNCA woods, 45 acres in Asheville’s Five Points neighborhood from destruction by the university in a scheme to build a 5,000 seat soccer stadium, market rate housing and retail spaces. You can learn more at www.SaveUNCAWoods.org.

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Featured Track:

  • Mercy, Mercy, Mercy by Cannonball Adderly from The Best of Cannonball Adderly The Capitol Years

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Learning Together From Uprisings (InterRebellium with sub.Media)

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This week, we’re sharing an interview with Heatscore and Nuke of sub.Media about their new documentary series, InterRebellium. The first episode, entitled El Estallido Social about the social uprising that flared up in 2019 in lands controlled by the state of Chile featuring anarchist and Mapuche voices on the conditions in which the uprising developed, experiences of it and its aftermath. You can view the film for free at sub.Media/InterRebellium alongside materials for discussion. We also speak about the role of film and media production in radical organizing and critique and upcoming episodes of the series.

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Another recent documentary about the Estallido Social mentioned, Fell In Love With Fire

Sean Swain’s video deposition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhbAEYUUeiQ

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Featured Track:

Despacito (Remix) by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee (feat. Justin Bieber)


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Christian Nationalism, Apocalyptic Visions + Child Welfare (with Talia Lavin)

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This week, we’re sharing an interview with Talia Lavin, author of Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy. In this chat, we speak about her more recent book, Wild Faith: How the Christian Right is Taking Over America. There’s a lot in the book, most of it pretty disturbing (especially, I’m sure, for anyone who is ex-vangelical) and there is discussion of hateful ideology and child abuse and corporal punishment, though not in lurid detail, so listener discretion is advised. We hope to cover related topics in the future.

To hear an extended version of the interview, check out the podcast at our website.

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Featured Track:

  • Voice Of God Is Government by Bad Religion from How Could Hell Be Any Worse

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Rapid Responses To Immigration Raids + Homeless Sweeps in So Cal

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This week on the show we feature an interview with two anarchists activists in southern California about the recent resistance to Federal-led immigration raids in Los Angeles and the wider region. Both guests speak about their experiences working in rapid response structures to immigration raids, to anti-homeless sweeps and other community needs over the years and how they’ve changed as conditions and technologies have changed. We talk about inviting and engaging new activists and some strategies that showed success.

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Featured Track:

  • Bella Ciao by La Plebe from Brazo En Brazo

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Anarchism and Disability, plus A-Radio Segments

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This week, we spoke with Richard Amm, a member of the Disability Action Research Kollective, or DARK, which they describe as a disabled-led group working to make disability perspectives, history, and research more accessible to a general audience. Amar and Richard speak about disability, eugenics, radical history the Corona virus and other topics. You can learn more about the project at linktr.ee/disabilityark

DARK Links

Then we’ll feature two segments from the May 2025 episode of BAD News: Angry Voices From Around The World, the English-language podcast of the A-Radio Network.

First up, A-Radio Berlin shared a conversation about the political motivated arrests and harassment of members of the Labor Desk Confederation of Trade Unions in Azerbaijan, which is calling for international solidarity.

The Labor Desk Confederation of Trade Unions in Azerbaijan is calling for international solidarity following the politically motivated arrests of its chairman Afiaddin Mammadov and fellow unionists Aykhan Israfilov, Elvin Mustafayev, and Mohyaddin Orujov. These arrests are part of a systematic crackdown on independent labor organizing in Azerbaijan..

https://www.labourstartcampaigns.net/show_campaign.cgi?c=5634

Next, Črna Luknja from Ljubljana conducted an interview with OLTA (Open Leftist Assembly of Antifascist, Carinthia) from south-west of austria.They are mobilizing against the so-called “Burschentag” of the Austrian Pennaler Ring ,which is the association of the conservative fraternities.The austrian Pennaler Ring is connected with the ruling, fascist party FPÖ and extra-parliamentary extreme right.

Finally, Sean Swain’s segment

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