The Final Straw Radio

Gord Hill on Art and Resistance

10 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Gord Hill on Art and Resistance Gord Hill is an indigenous author, anarchist, antifascist and militant, a member of the Kwakwaka'wakw nation living in...

Anarchists In Conflict: Rojava + Yellow Vests

24 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Anarchists In Conflict: Rojava + Yellow Vest Movement (Sean Swain at 6:28, interviews begin at 14:05) This week on The Final Straw, the episode's them...

Who Is Leonard Peltier?: Paulette D'auteuil of the ILPDC

17 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A Story of Leonard Peltier This week, Paulette D'auteuil speaks about the life and case of Leonard Peltier. Peltier is one of the best known political...

5th Intl A-Radio Live Broadcast

16 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Tomorrow, from 8am to 2pm EST, the International A-Radio Gathering participants, the folks who bring you the monthly B(A)DNews: Angry Voices From Arou...

Anti-Fascist Struggle in Europe and State Repression in Russia

10 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we feature two segments on the show: an interview with a Russian anarchist about the recent ramping up of torture and repression by the FS...

Updates on FOSTA and Digital Harm Reduction

03 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Updates on FOSTA and Digital Harm Reduction with Norman Shamas This week, we continue our look at sex, work and the state with guest, Norman Shamas. N...

SWOP Behind Bars w/ Jill McCracken

27 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Sex Worker Outreach Project Behind Bars w/ Dr. Jill McCracken This week, William spoke with Jill McCracken, codirector of SWOP Behind Bars, or the Sex...

Eric King Hunger Strike + Mapuche Solidarity with A-Radio Berlin

20 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Support Anarchist Prisoner Eric King This week Bursts spoke with the wife of vegan, antifascist and anarchist political prisoner, Eric King. Eric was ...

F.L.O.W.E.R. on Opposing "Rock Stone Mountain" 2019 + Black Flags Over Brooklyn with Kim Kelly

13 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Front Line Organization Working To End Racism Firstly we're presenting a conversation that William had with an organizer with F.L.O.W.E.R., which stan...

Error451 #14: Leap Encryption Access Project

09 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we'd like to share a conversation had a little bit ago with Kali Kaneko, from LEAP.  Leap Encryption Access Project, like pEp featured in ...

Gitdimt'en Sovereignty; sub.Media's JR on Madness

06 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week we feature two segments, the first on anti-pipeline resistance at the Gidimt'en Camp in Canada and second with JR from sub.Media about Menta...

Support the NoDAPL Prisoners!: A chat with Jess and Olive

30 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Support NoDAPL Prisoners This week, we're excited to share the voices of Jess and Olive, who both did legal support, and do prisoner solidarity with t...

Error451: #13 (pEp with Hernani Marques)

23 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Hernani Marques on Pretty Easy Privacy On this episode I'm joined by Hernani Marques, a hacker and member of the pEp Foundation, talking about Pretty ...

Cindy Milstein, pt2: Rojava, Autonomy, Religion, Anarchism and Care

16 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Cindy Milstein, Part Two You're listening to the second half of my inteview with anarchist, activist and author Cindy Milstein as they toured with the...

Cindy Milstein, pt1: Grief, Care, Anarchy and Vision

16 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Cindy Milstein, Part One Cindy Milstein is an anarchist, activist and author who was a touring few months back with Rebellious Mourning: The Collectiv...

Solidarity with the Migrant Caravan

09 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week William had the opportunity to speak with two people who are doing active support work for the folks involved in what's being called the "m...

Rural Organizing in Appalachia

02 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Rural Organizing And Resiliency (ROAR) This week on The Final Straw Radio, we're sharing an interview with two members of Rural Organizing And Resilie...

Walidah Imarisha on Angels With Dirty Faces (rebroadcast)

25 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Walidah Imarisha on Angels With Dirty Faces (rebroadcast) This week we are rebroadcasting an interview that William and Disembodied Voice conducted wi...

November 2018 B(A)DNews: Angry Voices From Around The World

20 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This is episode number 17 (11/2018) of "B(A)D NEWS – Angry voices from around the world", a news program from the international network of anarchist...

JLS on #PrisonStrike, Doxxings + Hambach Forest Updates

18 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we feature three segments. Locals Respond To Far-Right Doxxings First, we'll feature a statement about recent doxing of a number of anti-ra...

Sahar Francis of Addameer on Palestinian Prisoners

11 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Sahar Francis of Addameer This week, I spoke with Sahar Francis, the Director of Addameer. Addameer is a non-governmental organization, or NGO, based ...

Taglit-Birthright Israel and Settler-Colonialism with Nani Ferreira-Mathews

04 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Taglit-Birthright Israel & Settler Colonialism This week, we spoke with Nani Ferreira-Mathews. Nani is the author of "Birthright?: Travelogue of an Am...

Nuancing Disaster Relief with MAD Distro NC

29 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Disaster Relief Moving Forward This week we had the chance to talk to Sascha, who is a community organizer in the triangle area of North Carolina, abo...

"It Didn't Occur To Me Until It Occurred To Me": Donald Rooum, Pt2

22 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Final Straw we'll be airing the second half of our interview with anarchist, author and cartoonist nonagenarian, Donald Rooum from Br...

B(A)DNews October 2018

18 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This month on B(A)DNews: Angry Voices From Around The World, participants in the A-Radio Network provide you with the news & views from our homes. You...

Mutual Aid in the Wake of Hurricane Michael

14 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Mutual Aid in the Wake of Hurricane Michael This week on The Final Straw Radio, we feature a conversation with Pearson, an anarchist resident of Talla...

An Indigenous Activist on Post Hurricane Relief in Eastern NC

07 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week we had the opportunity to connect with Vanessa Bolin, who is an indigenous artist, community organizer, and activist who has been helping wi...

Anarchist Approaches to Psychology and MAD Camp with Mango and Marin

30 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week we are very pleased to present an interview with Mango and Marin, who are mental healthcare workers based in New York City. We are going to ...

Former Political Prisoner Zolo Azania

23 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Final Straw radio we are sharing a chat that Bursts had with Zolo Agona Azania. Zolo is  from Gary, Indiana where he lives now, work...

September 2018 B(A)DNews: Angry Voices From Around The World

20 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This is the 15th Bad News: Angry Voices from Around the world episode, for September 2018, produced by Radiozones of Subversive Expression. On this ep...

Conflict Resolution with the Callisto Collective

16 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week we are presenting audio from the Callisto Collective, which is a local collective "addressing conflict, abuse, assault and everything in bet...

SC Prisoner Speaks + Resisting Nuclear Waste in Bure, France

09 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we air two segments. South Carolina Prisoner, "J" First, "J" is in segregation in a South Carolina prison. He does not give his full name o...

Kevin Rasid Johnson on the #PrisonStrike2018 + Two Audio Zines

02 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Final Straw, we're featuring two main events, both themed around the Prison Strike ongoing across Turtle Island until at least Septem...

Anti-Prison, Anti-Imperialist, Anti-Racist: Ray Luc Levasseur PT2

26 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Ray Luc Levasseur, PT2 This week, we share some more perspectives on prison, stretching back decades. You're about to hear the second half of our conv...

William C Anderson: On Blackness and Anarchy

19 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

William C. Anderson This week on The Final Straw, we are super pleased to present a talk given at the most recent Asheville Anarchist Bookfair by Will...

SFBay View with Mary Ratcliff; Asheville threatening Harm Reduction;

12 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Steady Collective + SFBayView Newspaper This week on the show we feature two interviews. The first is with Mary Ratcliff, the editor of 27 years of th...

Student/Community Organizing and Fighting Hopelessness with NoNEXUS Oberlin

05 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week we had the opportunity to interview Isabel and Christopher, who are active in differing ways in the No NEXUS Oberlin campaign, one in a lon...

Donald Rooum, pt1: Author, Cartoonist + Anarchist

29 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Rooum, pt1 This week, we invite you to listen in on the first part of a conversation we had with 90 year old anarchist, cartoonist and author, ...

Indigenous Resistance in so called B.C. and Mattole Forest Blockade

22 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week we are talking a little break to work on other things, and so have taken the time to re-broadcast two interviews from two other radical and ...

July 2018: B(A)DNews (Angry Voices From Around The World)

19 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This is episode number 13 of "B(A)D NEWS – Angry voices from around the world", a news program from the international network of anarchist and antia...

Charles Cobb On Armed Self-Defense In The Civil Rights Movement

15 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"You may be nonviolent, but I'm not gonna let these white people kill you". A presentation with Charles Cobb on This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Kille...

End Prison Slavery: National Prison Strike 2018, Aug 21st- Sept 9

08 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week Bursts had two conversations, both focusing on the upcoming Prisoner Strike from August 21st to September 9th, 2018, one with a member of IW...

OccupyICEPDX and J20 case updates

01 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

#OccupyICEPDX and J20 Updates This week, we're featuring two interviews.  The first was an an interview from the IGDcast with someone affiliated with...

Voices from the Balkan Route, Rojava and ZAD (Radio Klaxon)

25 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Final Straw, we're airing three international segments covering anarchist perspectives from the Rojava Revolution in Northern Syria,...

June 2018: B(A)DNews (Angry Voices From Around The World)

19 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Final Straw is happy to share the latest episode of this monthly, international, english-language anarchist podcast.  Share & enjoy! This is epis...

Shane Burley on Fascism Today + Asheville IWW on Service Work

17 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Final Straw, we'll be airing two interviews. Shane Burley on Fascism Today In the first, Bursts spoke with author and activist Shane ...

"If you stay up all night you owe it to yourself to watch sunrise, every time"

10 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week we are airing a presentation that Margaret Killjoy gave at Firestorm Books on the release day of her new release The Barrow Will Send What i...

Error451: #12 (Efail w/ Micah Lee)

06 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Bursts spoke with Micah Lee.  Micah is, according to his bio at The Intercept: " a computer security engineer and an open source software ...

Anarchy in Yogyakarta + Anarchist Bookfair in Asheville

04 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week we have two interviews to share. In the first Bursts spoke with two organizers of the Asheville Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair (ACAB201...

Error451: #11 (CLOUD Act)

30 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A change of plans: instead of airing the interview with comrades in Yogyakarta about May Day repression of anarchists there, we're including that in t...

Post-Scarcity, Privilege and Walking Away: A Chat with Cory Doctorow

27 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Cory Doctorow on Post-Scarcity & Sci-Fi This week, we present an interview that Bursts conducted with the sci-fi and picture book author, technologist...

Error451: #10 (Facebook and Cambridge Analytica)

23 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Error451, William Budington and Bursts chat about the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal.  We've seen Congressional hearings and M...

Planning the Insurgency, Bloc by Bloc

20 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we are excited to share with y'all an interview with TL, the main artist and designer of Bloc by Bloc: The Game of Insurrection. From the w...

2018 Live International Anarchist Radio Broadcast

16 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Sunday, May 20th from 14:00-22:00 Central European Time (UTC+1), so 8am North Carolina time, get ready for HOURS of anarchist audio from around the wo...

"In the End, There are People Still Struggling. And We're Still Fighting": A conversation with Wriply and Ashley of the #BlackPride4

13 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we are airing a conversation that William had a few weeks ago with Wriply Bennet and Ashley Braxton, two members of the Black Pride 4. The ...

8th Anniversary Episode

09 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the 8th anniversary podcast mini-sode special! The Final Straw has an irregular tradition of using our anniversary to air conversations wit...

"They Can Take Our Lives, But They Can't Take Our Will to Defend Them": Supporting the Valle Garita Squat in Boriqué

06 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week I had the chance to speak to Ricchi, who is a Puerto Rican anarchist, about an autonomous squatted community center in Borique called Valle ...

May Day Every Day, and Breaking the Pattern of Sieges

29 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

For this May Day episode William had the chance to speak with Nutty, who has been holding down a monopod blockade which is blocking the construction o...

Error451: #09 (Facial Recognition Technology)

25 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week's installment of #error451 podcast, Bursts and William Budington speak about facial recognition technology.  We chat about how different me...

Error451: #08 (Are My Apps Listening To Me?)

24 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Error451, William Budington and Bursts chat about eavesdropping by digital devices.  This conversation happened before the Cambridge Ana...

scott crow on Liberatory Community Armed-Defense

22 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week we share as our main feature an interview with longtime anarchist, musician, anti-racist & organizer from Texas, scott crow. scott is the au...

Post-script: Position of the Legal Team about the militia actions on the ZAD

17 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

  This is the translation of the legal team response on the ZADto the violence between people on the ZAD in which somoeneas beaten, put in the trunk...

After 25 Years… : Two Perspectives on the Lucasville Uprising

15 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

25 Years After Lucasville: Two Perspectives on the Uprising This week is the 25th anniversary of the longest prison uprising in US history in which li...

ZAD resists evictions

14 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Bursts spoke with a comrade y'all might recognize, a Camille who lives on the ZAD, or Zone To Defend in Notre Dame De Landes, Britanny, France. Camill...

Charlotte Uprising: Repression and Resistance Go On

08 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we have a few goodies for y'all! First, we'll feature some words that friends in central NC recorded of Elijah. Elijah was born and raised ...

J20 Court Updates + Perspectives on the SESTA-FOSTA

01 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's episode of The Final Straw Radio, we have three segments on two subjects. This week there'll be no Sean Swain segment due to technical ...

"This Armed Occupation Needs to Stop Before It's Too Late": Yousef Natsha on his new documentary Hebron

25 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Hebron Documentary This week we got the chance to speak with Yousef Natsha, who is a Palestinian filmmaker and activist about his new documentary call...

B(A)DNews for March 2018

21 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This is episode number 10 of "B(A)D NEWS – Angry voices from around the world", a news program from the international network of anarchist and antia...

Expropriations and Internal Exile

18 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

For this week's episode, Bursts spoke with Ray Luc Levasseur, longtime activist, Vietnam War vet, revolutionary and former political prisoner in the ...

FSB Is The Real Terrorist: Intl Solidarity with Russian anarchists & antifa

12 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this podcast special, I spoke with Antti, Antti is a member of Moscow Anarchist Black Cross, which does anti-repression work for anarchists and ant...

Powderkegs and Cyber Communism: WV Teacher's Strike Reflections + Asheville SETWAC

11 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Interview with Michael about the recent WV Teacher's Strike In this interview, Bursts spoke with an anarchist teacher and IWW labor organizer in West...

Treaties, Peace & Resisting Alton Gas at Sipekne'katik River, in Mi'kma'ki

06 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Final Straw is excited to share with our listeners an episode of the podcast, Shades of Green, which describes itself as "a podcast exploring envi...

Tree-Sitting to Stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline

04 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Main Interview: Stop The MVP and All Pipelines! (at ~ 16min, 38sec) This week, Bursts spoke with Birch and Judy, two folks involved in the Tree Sits o...

"Between The Bullet and The Lie": Kristian Williams on George Orwell

25 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Kristian Williams on George Orwell This week on The Final Straw, Bursts presents a conversation with Kristian Williams about his recently published bo...

Whammo!: MOVE9 Parole; Addicted to Screens; Anarcho-Syndicalism in Kosovo

18 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This episode contains three segments: Move 9 Parole "Stare Into The Lights My Pretties" Anarcho-Syndicalist Organizing in Kosovo MOVE9 Parole First, t...

Keep Loxicha Free!: A conversation with Bruno rh about Political Imprisonment and Indigenous Resistance in Oaxaca

15 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week William got the chance to speak to Bruno Renero-Hannan, who is an anarchist historical anthropologist from Mexico City, about their solidari...

Şoreş Ronahi on Turkish assaults on Afrin Canton, Rojava, Syria

04 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Interview with a member of the Youth Movement of Rojava This week, Bursts spoke with Şoreş Ronahi of the Youth Movement of Rojava (Yekîtiya Ciwanê...

Jalil Muntaqim on Revolution, Spirituality & more + Remembering Le Guin

28 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This Week's Content First, we air a portion of Ursula K. Le Guin's acceptance speech from the 2014 National Book Awards, where she received the Lifeti...

B(A)DNews for January 2018

26 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the 8th edition of B(A)D news: angry voices from around the world – a commonly produced monthly show of the anarchist and antiauthoritari...

Mutual Aid in Caguas (PR) & La ZAD Wins?

21 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the Final Straw, we air two interviews. In the first segment, we hear from two organizers with the Centro de Apoyo Mutuo or Mutual Aid Ce...

Amin: a refugee voice in Moria camp on Lesvos

19 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Enough is Enough spoke with many refugees during their visit to Lesvos, and The Final Straw is happy to release this interview. Here we will hear from...

No Bayou Bridge Pipeline! An Interview with L'eu Est La Vie camp

14 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Bursts had a change to speak with two participants in the L'eu Est La Vie camp (Water is Life in French) organizing against the Bayou Bridg...

Operation PUSH: Strikes in FL Prisons

07 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Operation Push This week, Disembodied Voice spoke with Karen, a member of the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee in Gainesville, Florida.  Peo...

Error451: #07 (Borders and Devices)

04 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week on error451, the occasionally-weekly tech podcast from an anarchist perspective brought to you by The Final Straw Radio, Bursts and William ...

Walidah Imarisha on Angels With Dirty Faces, Accountability Processes, and more

01 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week William and Disembodied Voice had the chance to interview Walidah Imarisha, who is an Oregon based writer, educator, public scholar and spok...

Resisting Fascists in Charlotte, NC & Some Perspectives on CDC Censorship

24 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

  This week, the show features two interviews. Anti-Fascist Organizing in Charlotte Against AntiCom The first is with an antifascist in Charlotte, NC...

Two Anarchist Healthcare Workers on the List of 7 Banned Words at the CDC (mini episode)

21 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Today William talked with two anarchist healthcare workers in Asheville, NC about the Trump administration's censorship of language regarding the Cent...

B(A)DNews for December 2017

20 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Greetings, comrades and welcome to B(A)DNews, Angry Voices from Around The World for December, 2017, a product of the International Anarchist & Anti-A...

Jude & Betty of DefendJ20 Give Updates as 1st Trial Block Finishes

17 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

  DefendJ20 Updates on 1st Trial Block For the hour, we spoke with Betty Rothstein of DefendJ20Resistance and Jude Ortiz of DefendJ20Resistance and t...

Error451: #06 (Cryptocurrencies, Nazis, Bailbloc & Beyond)

13 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Bursts was joined by Pat Boyle, a collective member at Unicorn Riot (more about them later in this post), radical independent media project...

Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement on the RAM-NYC Community Bail Fund

10 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Interview with RAM-NYC This week we spoke with members of The Base, which is an anarchist space in New York City, about the newly formed Revolutionary...

Error451: #05 (Hidden Tracking In Common Android Apps)

07 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, William Budington chats with Bursts about the recent exposé published by Yael Grauer at The Intercept about research by Exodus and Yale Re...

Prison-related Audio Project Roundtable & an update from Walid on Manus Island

03 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week we feature two segments. Prison-Related Audio Roundtable The first is a roundtable discussion with producers from various audio projects aro...

Error451: #04 (Net Neutrality)

29 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the occasionally-weekly tech podcast from The Final Straw, Error451, Bursts and guest William Budington, a tech security expert, talk abo...

Eleanor Goldfield on Paradigm Lost and Creative Activism

26 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Interview with Eleanor Goldfield This week we spoke with Eleanor Goldfield, who is an activist on the far left and a proponent of creative activism, a...

Error451: #03 (GPS safer practices)

22 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In perfect timing for holiday driving many will be doing in the U.S., we're releasing episode 3 of Error451, The Final Straw's occasionally weekly tec...

A Refugee on Manus Island & the 2018 Certain Days Calendar

19 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

  This week on the Final Straw we feature 2 interviews. Walid, an asylum seeker held at the Manus Regional Process Center, Papua New Guinea First up,...

Error451: #02 (Burner Phones)

16 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This is the first standalone episode of Error451,  The Final Straw's occasionally weekly podcast featuring a conversation between Bursts and William ...

B(A)DNews #6: November 2017

16 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

*Editorial note: This month, to save some space and to celebrate the launch of the International A-Radio Network's website, we'll be pointing from her...

Anti-Repression Panel from the NAABC Conference 2017

12 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Anti-Repression Panel from Denver, October 2017 This week we are featuring a recording from an Anti-Repression panel that took place in Denver in Octo...