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Tracking Technology and Food Distro in Pandemic

May 3rd, 2020 by

This week, we feature two conversations. Cora Borradaile and Michele Gretes, folks involved in the Digital Security Project of the Civil Liberties Defense Center, speak about contact tracing apps and surveillance. Then, Se speaks about Tucson Food Share’s grocery distribution program.

Barry Pateman on Anarchist History and Challenges

April 26th, 2020 by

Barry Pateman was born in the early 1950’s, grew up in a working class coal mining town of Doncaster in the UK and became an anarchist in the 1960’s in London. He is a longstanding member of the Kate Sharpley Library which covers histories of little-known anarchists and events in history. We talk about anarchist history, community, repression, defeat, insularity, popular front with authoritarian Marxists, class analysis and how to beat back capitalism. Find Kate Sharpley Library at KateSharpleyLibrary.Net

Harm Reduction in Pandemic and Jason Renard Walker

April 19th, 2020 by

This week we feature two segments, first up we got to chat with Hill Brown about Asheville’s response to the pandemic in terms of public health, drug use and the houseless communities. Then, Jason Renard Walker talks about his journalism, activism and troubles in the Texas prison system.

Release Ramsey Orta! / Housing Struggle in Asheville

April 12th, 2020 by

First we hear from Deja, the fiance of incarcerated copwatcher Ramsey Orta (who has been persecuted for recording the police killing of Eric Garner in 2014) who is currently being denied personal cleaning items by staff at Midstate CI in New York state. Deja is seeking support to pressure NY to releases Ramsey who is less than 90 days from the end of his sentence for a nonviolent conviction. Then, two members of Unemployed Humans Organizing Help who are organizing rent resistance and lobbying for housing relief for houseless members of the community.​

No Evil Foods Union and PLAN Line 3

March 15th, 2020 by

This week on The Final Straw, we’re presenting two conversations. The first was a chat with workers from the local, plant-based protein company ‘No Evil Foods’. The company has been getting flack for using social justice imagery while working to undermine unionization efforts at it’s factory here in Asheville, NC. Then we speak with Garrett Fitzgerald of Pipeline Legal Action Network about their new, free workbook for legal strategies in resisting the Line3 pipeline and more.

Josh Harper of SHAC7 and Voices from Gidimt’en Access Point

February 9th, 2020 by

This week, we feature two portions of the show. First up, we’ll hear Josh Harper, a co-defendant from the SHAC7 case and former political prisoner talking the struggle to shut down the company, Huntington Life Sciences, a contract animal testing laboratory, which is the focus of a recent documentary, ‘Animal People.’ Then, you’ll hear the voices of three warriors who were on the barricade on the road to Unist’ot’en Camp at the Gidimt’en Access Point. Eve Saint (Wet’suwet’en land defender), Anne Spice (Tlinket land defender) and Shiloh Hill (from Onandaga nation, Haudenosaunee, Six Nations) were there to defend unceded Wet’suwet’en land from the Canadian state’s violent imposition of the Coastal Gas Link pipeline.

The Old Law and The New: Jason Goudlock in Ohio

January 5th, 2020 by

Jason Goudlock, an Old Law prisoner in Ohio, speaks about his case, struggles with sentencing disparities and the parole board. Then, Comrade Easley talks about his recent hunger strike against the torture of neurodivergent prisoners at Toledo CI and the transfer out of state faced by he and other prison rebels for their protests and lawsuits.