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Charlotte of Jessica Reznicek’s support crew talks about her case. Then we rebroadcast a 2017 interview about conflict in movement.

Chazz from UprisingSupport.org talks about supporting prisoners from the 2020 George Floyd Uprising (AKA the ACAB Spring) and resistance culture. Then, readings of anarchist prisoner letters for the June 11th Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason and All Long Term Anarchist Prisoners

Rebroadcast of our 2013 interview (with the help of A-Radio Berlin) of a participant in the Autonomen May Day Riots in Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany in 1987. Then, segments from Free Social Radio 1431AM, Crna luknja and A-Radio Vienna from the May 2022 Bad News episode.

Dunstan Bruce of Chumbawamba talks about his new documentary, “I Get Knocked Down”, the band’s history, other projects his one-man show (“Am I Invisible Yet?”), aging, artists supporting political movements and more!

An interview with members of Asheville Survival Program, a mutual aid group in so-called Western NC, about the political and criminal repression they’re facing for sharing food with and advocating alongside houseless people. 15 people are currently facing felony charges, a mixture of “felony littering” and “aiding and abetting felony litering”.

Liaizon Wakest speaks about autonomous social media platforms and self-hosting software, the fediverse and mastadon and why our model of centralized social media system sucks.

This week we are pleased to present an interview that Bursts did with two members of IWOC (the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee), Caroline works with Millions for Prisoners New Mexico and Xeno is with IWOC Sacramento. They speak on what it’s like to be working with incarcerated folks during the coronavirus pandemic, how prisons and the carceral mentality impacts everyone to varying degrees, the varying conditions in the prisons they are most tangential to, ways to connect with and support IWOC and many other topics!

We’re joined this week by some of the folks behind the Earthbound Farmer’s Almanac, a self-published annual collection of art, comics, facts, articles and incitements to challenge us to thicken our relationship to the land and grow autonomy against state, colonialism and capitalism.

This week on The Final Straw, we’re featuring a recent conversation with anarchist author and activist, Peter Gelderloos about his latest book, “The Solutions Are Already Here: Strategies For Ecological Revolution From Below”, published by Pluto Press in 2022.

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Professor Andrej Grubačić of the California Institute of Integral Studies speaks about anarchism, the Yugoslav experiment, exile, World-Systems Analysis, Rojava, his friend David Graeber and other topics.

This week we’re featuring 2 guests speaking about Russia. First up, John spoke with author and journalist Dmitry Okrest about the state of anarchist and antifascist movements in Russia, the politics of Putin’s United Russia party, nazis and the far right in Russia and successes of the Communist Party in electoral politics. Then, Moscow Anarchist Black Cross member-in-exile, Antii Rautiainen, adds some more detail on repression in Russia.

This week on the show, we spoke with folks involved with Comrade Center, a leftist project focused on accessible education around armed self-defense in so-called New Hampshire.

This week on the show, you’ll hear our conversation with Mwalimu Shakur (also known as Terrence White), a politicized, New Afrikan revolutionary prison organizer incarcerated at Corcoran prison in California.