North Carolina Prisoners Initiate Hunger Strikes

This week’s show features a conversation with Francis Delaney about the Prison Hunger Strikes that were initiated on Monday, July 16 at three facilities in North Carolina. This action seems to have the potential to spread to other facilities because of the apparent universality of the demands (better/more food, access to legal literature, human contact, an end to torture, an end to mail tampering, medical care). We discuss some context for the strikes and how folks on the outside can get involved and show solidarity.

Chapel Hill Prison Books
Triangle Anarchist Blog
Down: Reflections on Prison Resistance in Indiana

Streamable from www.ashevillefm.org/the-final-straw from 7/23-7/29/12

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This week’s conversation features a discussion of the case of the Cleveland 5, anarchists arrested in Ohio on April 30th for allegedly attempting to blow up a bridge. But the case isn’t so simple as idealists independently taking direct and spectacular action against infrastructure. As members of Cleveland 5 Justice (the support group for the defendants) share with us information about the accused, what is known about the alleged infiltrator sent by the FBI to facilitate a terror case (Shaquille Azir), and the significance of the timing of the arrests to coincide with May Day celebrations worldwide and the reawakening of the Occupy Movement in the U.S., we see a widened scope of intrigue and entrapment that fits into a bigger picture of corrupt government and self-serving security services.

This show will be streaming at www.ashevillefm.org/the-final-straw from 7/16/12 til 7/23/12 and archived permanent-style at archive.org by searching the show title.

http://www.cleveland5justice.org/
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/how-fbi-entrapment-is-inventing-terrorists-and-letting-bad-guys-off-the-hook-20120515
http://www.crimethinc.com/blog/2012/05/29/inside-the-fbi-entrapment-strategy/

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The first half of this week’s show features a conversation with Telly of the Hoosier Anti-Racist Movement, an Indiana Anti-Fascist grouping. We’ll talk about the Tinley Park 5, five young men arrested in a suburb south of Chicago and accused of disrupting a white supremacist gathering in early May.

July 21st is the next bail hearing for the Tinley Park 5. July 31st is International Day of Action against Fascism.

The second half of the episode is atmospheric black metal and sludge metal.

https://tinleyparkfive.wordpress.com/
http://antiracistaction.org/

This episode is streamable at www.ashevillefm.org/the-final-straw through 7/8/12, can be found downloadable at www.archive.org by searching the phrases: “tinley park five” and “final straw”.

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Originally broadcast 7/1/2011:

“This week’s show is a conversation with Parks about Stonewall, the cooptation of it’s rememberance in the form of Pride marches, the split of the liberation movement into the pride movement and continued radical struggles.”

Original audio can be found HERE. Streaming on https://ashevillefm.org/the-final-straw from 6/25-7/2/12.

Stonewall events for this year in Asheville include:

Thursday, June 28 @ 5pm, Firstorm (48 Commerce St, Asheville): A showing of the 1996 movie, Stonewall

Saturday, June 30th:
11:00 – 1:00 Self-Defense & Know Your Rights @ Aston Park
1:30 – 2:30 Trans 101 w/ the Tranzmission Prison Project@ Wall Street Coffee (62 Wall St.)
3:00 Meet under the N. Lexington Ave. Bridge (Murals near Rosetta’s)
3:30 MARCH!!!
4:30 RALLY! Pritchard Park with Ice Cream from Ultimate Ice Cream Co.!
5:00 – 6:00 “Why Is Stonewall Relevant?”/Incarcerated Realities Workshop w/ the Tranzmission Prison Project @ Smokey’s (18 Broadway St.)
8:00 – 9:00 BDSM Safety & Ethics Facilitated Discussion @ The Underground (237 Haywood St.)
9:30-after 2AM: This year’s Asheville Stonewall Dance Party is at the Underground (Back of O’Henry’s 237 Haywood St)!
$5-15 sliding scale donation (but no one turned away for lack of funds!) Folks able to donate and show up early will receive a lil special something for your donation!
PROCEEDS go to: Tranzmission Prison Project, the Mount Hope Infinity Defense Fund, Asheville Transformers, and a little for next year’s Stonewall organizing fund!
THEME: QUEERPOCALYPSE. It’s 2012. Let the epic battle against heteronormativity and gender conformity begin! Dress in your queerest apocalyptic best!
DOORS @ 9:30. Show starts @ 10pm.
MC’S: Malachi & AmyRose!
DRAG PERFORMANCES by: Dimitri Savage, Yeraldine Kennedy, and one TBA
RAFFLE with fabulous prizes from tons of local businesses!
DJ’s Little Fury, Souljabryd, & Queen Plz will provide a sweaty mix of hot jamz, radio jamz, classic gay anthems, some 80’s & 90’s hits, and any requests you may have!

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This week’s show features a conversation with Aragorn! Aragorn is an author based out of the Bay Area who is responsible for numerous essays on anarchism, nihilism and indigeneity; was an editor on Green Anarchy and Anarchy: a Journal of Desire Armed, and currently helps to publish The Anvil Review. More recently, Aragorn hass been working with Ardent Press and edited a compilation on anarchism and the occupy movement entitled “Occupy Everything”, available from Little Black Cart. I spoke with Aragorn earlier this week about the book and about anarchism in occupy related projects of the past and future around the world.

About

http://littleblackcart.com/Occupy-Everything.html
http://freehammond.com/

Streamable at www.ashevillefm.org/the-final-straw from 6/18 to 6/25. Downloadable from archive.org

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This week features a conversation with attorney, educator and trans activist, Dean Spade about his new book, “Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the limits of law”, just out from South End Press. Normal Life is a finalist for the 2012 Lambda Literary Awards. Follow Mr. Spade’s writing at http://www.deanspade.net/

Before hearing from Dean Spade, though, we hear from Bailey, who’s doing support for Christopher French, an Atlanta Anarchist who’s facing multiple felony charges and has to raise $25,000 to be bonded out in relation to the recent anti-NATO demonstrations in Chicago. More information about Christopher’s case can be found at:
http://freedomforchris.wordpress.com

This show will be available for streaming until 6/3/12 at https://ashevillefm.org/the-final-straw and downloadable from archive.org by searching the show title

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