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Mutual Aid Under Attack: a conversation with the AVL Park Defendants

This week on TFSR, we are presenting a conversation with three defendants who are in an ongoing legal battle with the city of Asheville. This group is collectively known as the Asheville Park defendants and is made up of 15 people, three of whom are speaking today. They are all facing felony littering charges in connection with a demonstration in December of 2021 against a targeted camp sweep in a local park adjacent to the downtown district. For this interview, we will talk about their case, the issue of the mistreatment of houseless people generally, camp sweeps and what they mean specifically, how the charge of felony littering is often deployed by the courts, the nationwide crackdown on mutual aid, their own activisms, and how to keep in touch with this situation and support the 15 defendants. You can read all about their case and keep up with this ongoing situation at avlsolidarity.noblogs.org.

You can hear this full interview at TheFinalStrawRadio.NoBlogs.Org

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Mutual Aid Under Attack: a conversation with the AVL Park Defendants

To donate to these folks you can venmo @AVLdefendantfund. The defendants would also like to plug the venmos of another AVL based mutual aid group Asheville Survival Program (link shows an interview with participants of ASP with The Final Straw radio show in October 2021), which is @AVLsurvival, the local Anarchist Black Cross chapter Blue Ridge ABC and their venmo is @BlueRidgeABC, and Asheville for Justice (@ashevilleforjustice on Venmo) which is a mutual aid organization dedicated to combating systemic oppression by offering direct community support.

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Music for this episode is an edited version of:

• Eyeliner by American Hairlines off of the Free Music

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This week on Radio Active Kids, we are incredibly excited to interview The Listies, who called in all the way from Australia to chat about their new #MusicalOwlBum! Also, new songs by Laurie Berkner Band, Aaron Nigel Smith & Red Yarn, Kira Willey, BENNY TIME (ft Itty Bitty Beats), the Fabulous Lemon Drops, fleaBITE, Afghan Children’s Songbook, Totally Knuts, & Cee Bee Teatime, plus older songs by Drew Bunting, Miss Lynn, Monedita de oro, & Roy Moye III/thestemusic! 8-10am ET Saturday at ashevillefm.org/show/radio-active-kids or tun.in/pjiei & podcasting at mixcloud.com/Radio_Active_Kids!

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Liaizon Wakest on Autonomous Social Media and the Fediverse

This week, we spoke with Liaizon Wakest. Liaizon grew up in an anarchist commune in rural America. They can be found climbing into dumpsters from Mexico to Kazakhstan looking for trash to make art with. In recent years they have been focused on research into ethical technology and infrastructural anarchism. For the hour we speak about the interoperable, open source ensemble of federated online publishing servers and platforms known as the Fediverse and its most popular component, Mastodon. This conversation takes place in the context of media hullabaloo about Elon Musk seeking to purchase Twitter, the paradigm in which a rich egomaniac can own the addictive social media platforms over which so much social and political life is engaged and what positives we can draw from alternatives like Mastodon and the Fediverse.

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You can find Liaizon’s account on Mastodon (an analog of twitter) at @[email protected] or on Pixelfed (an analog of Instagram) at @[email protected]. And you can follow us on Mastodon by finding @[email protected] or by visiting https://chaos.social/@TheFinalStrawRadio in a web browser.

Another interesting anarchist media project engaging the Fediverse is Kolektiva, which has a PeerTube instance at https://Kolektiva.Media (analog of youtube) and Mastodon at https://Kolektiva.Social where they’re welcoming new users. Kolektiva includes participation from projects like Sub.Media and AntiMidia

You can find a real good interview by our comrades at From Embers about Mastodon which I mention in the interview from February 3^rd, 2022 entitled Social Networks, Online Life and The Fediverse: https://fromembers.libsyn.com/social-networks-online-life-and-the-fediverse

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Eric King Arrives at USP Lee: call-in continues

As a quick update on the situation of Eric King, he has been transferred this week from USP Atlanta to USP Lee where he and his supporters are concerned he’ll be placed into solitary and isolated for attack. You can find info on his situation as well as who to contact to press for his return to a medium security facility to match his current security points, visit SupportEricKing.Org and find the May 3^rd, 2022 post whose title starts “Eric Transferred”

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• Beauty, Power, Motion, Life, Work, Chaos, Law by DJ Shadow from Our Pathetic Age

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Closer to the Edge presents a Cinco de Mayo special on Thursday to celebrate Mexican/American culture and music. JD will spin all Prog bands and artists from Mexico, with selections from recent albums, in appreciation of Asheville’s vibrant Hispanic/Chicano/Latinx community! Tune in at 2 PM on May 5th until 4PM, and if you miss it live, the entire show will be archived, for on demand playback, right after airing. Contemporary Progressive Rock from Mexico, only on 103.3 FM and Asheville FM on your desktop, phone and all your computer devices. Be sure to check out the NEW Asheville FM App! Felices fiestas!!!

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