The Final Straw Radio
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Joint Convo with Sole from Solecast
07 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In mid October, Bursts and Sole sat down at Sole's Colorado Villa by the family grotto and chatted over some bubbly water. In the hour they spoke ab...
A Conversation with Cascadia Forest Defenders
05 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
For a 59 minute long, radio clean version for syndication purposes, please visit the archive.org collection. Cascadia Forest Defenders This week Willi...
Betsy Raasch-Gilman on Anarchism, Organizing and Movement for a New Society
29 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Airs on WSFM-LP 103.3 in Asheville / streaming at AshevilleFM from 3am EST on October 30th through November 5th, 2017 and podcasting on libsyn.com. Fo...
Anarchist Perspectives on DACA
22 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Anarchist Voices on DACA and much more. This week we are presenting two anarchist voices regarding DACA, among many other things. DACA stands for Defe...
Northern California Fire Relief
17 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
I'd like to share a Final Straw Radio mini-episode, a conversation with Emilio of the currently unofficial Sonoma County IWW, or Industrial Workers of...
B(A)d News episode5 1710 en
16 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
introduction of the program news from 98fm (athens) 3:47,5 – 12:24,5 syriza changes Law attack on the french institute of athens harm of environmen...
Support Herman Bell & a discussion of the Signal App
15 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Airs on WSFM-LP 103.3 in Asheville / streaming at AshevilleFM from 3am EST on October 16th through October 22nd and podcasting on libsyn.com. For a 59...
Kevin Tucker on Anarcho-Primitivism (pt2)
08 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
For a 59 minute long, radio clean version for syndication purposes, please visit the archive.org collection. Interview This week we air the second hal...
Kevin Tucker on Anarcho-Primitivism (pt1)
01 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
For a 59 minute long, radio clean version for syndication purposes, please visit the archive.org collection. Interview This week Bursts spoke with Ke...
Catalan Referendum: An Anarchist Perspective
27 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This segment is a conversation Bursts had on Monday, September 25th with an Anglophone anarchist who has lived in Catalunya, within the Spanish borde...
Coalition for Immokalee Workers on #IrmaRelief and Jalil Muntaqim (p2)
24 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Airs on WSFM-LP 103.3 in Asheville / streaming at AshevilleFM from 3am EST on September 25th through October 1st and podcasting on libsyn.com. For a 5...
UNCA Rad Rush & Supporters of Comrade Malik Washington
17 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
For a 59 minute long, radio clean version for syndication purposes, please visit the archive.org collection. Interviews UNCA Radical Rush In this two ...
B(A)DNews September 2017
14 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Hey people! Here is bad news #4, presented by Radio Pirata of Tegucigalpa (so-called Chile) with the collaborations of: 98 fm presented a roundup of...
Tech Security, Doxxing, Encryption
10 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Main Event This week Bursts spoke with William Budington, a digital security expert, about various topics under that heading. We spoke about: encr...
Special: Assata on autonomous Hurricane Relief on the Gulf Coast
09 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This is a The Final Straw Radio mini-episode and we just had a quick conversation with Assata, an activist and member Yellow Hammer Alternative, an Al...
Jalil Muntaqim + New Anarchist Punk and Metal
03 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The haps: This week we'll be taking a little break. We'll be sharing a short interview conducted by friends of ours at Prison Radio at CKUT from the s...
Interview with Elisa of São Paulo Indymedia (ARadio Berlin) plus announcements
28 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Interview with São Paulo member of Indymedia This week on The Final Straw, we're featuring an interview produced by comrades from Anarchistisches Rad...
Free Kara Wild plus Conflict in Movement
20 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Interview This week, we're featuring two segments. Kara Wild The first conversation is with a supporter of Kara Wild. Kara is an anarchist, a trans wo...
B(A)D News Episode 3 (August 2017) en
19 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This is the third episode of "B(A)D NEWS - Angry voices from around the world", a news program from the international network of anarchist and anti-a...
Resisting LNG Storage in Tacoma & August 19th Prison Solidarity
14 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Interviews For this week we are featuring two interviews from listeners and past contributors. August 19th Protest in Solidarity with Prisoners The f...
Haymaker Gym on Antifascism, Fitness and Much More! (rebroadcast)
06 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
INTERVIEW This week, we're airing the formerly only podcast conversation I had with organizers of the Haymaker Gym project in Chicago, IL. Haymaker...
Margaret Killjoy on "The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion"
30 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Interview This week William had the opportunity to speak with Margaret Killjoy about her new novella The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion, which is coming...
Radio98FM Athens on Repression
25 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast special, Bursts spoke with L.A. & Hawaii, collective members at the Radiozones Of Subversive Expression, Radio98fm, a squatted pirate ...
Shite The Right: Charlottesville (VA) July 8th Report-back Plus August 12th Announcement
23 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week William got to speak to two people about the anti KKK demo in Charlotesville VA on July 8th, plus about the resistance to a Unite the Right ...
Hamburg G20 Protest Report Back + NC Resists the Grand Jury
16 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Interview This week William interviewed Mark Bray, who is a professor, author, and anti authoritarian, about the G20 protests that took place in Hambu...
B(A)D News Episode 2 July 2017 en
15 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second installment of the International Anarchist Radio Network's monthly show, featuring resistance news from around the world in the voi...
Confronting the suit & tie White Nationalists
09 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Nashville Anti Racist Action about the upcoming American Renaissance Conference in Burns, Tennessee from July 28th to 30th, 2017. AmRen, as it's cal...
No More Deaths: Border Abolition And More
02 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week William spoke with Maria and Jeff, who are two long term members of the humanitarian aid group based in Arizona called No More Deaths. This ...
August 19th Prisoner Protest: convo w Ben Turk of IWOC
25 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Bursts spoke with Ben Turk about the August 19th call out for solidarity with prisoners. The Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, a...
Anti-Pipeline Action Camp in VA & Errekaleor Bizirik squatted neighborhood in Euskal Herria/Basque territory
18 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we featured two conversations in the episode. "Stop The Pipelines Action Camp" Firstly, Bursts chatted with erin. erin is a resident of t...
B(A)d News episode1 1706 en
17 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
As a podcast special, we're sharing the first episode of the International Anarchist Radio Network's collaborative, monthly, English language radio sh...
Defend J20 Resistance & Hamburg G20 Invite (Welcome To Hell)
11 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode we feature two interviews. In the first, we spoke with Em, a supporter of the mass arrestees from the January 20th inaugurati...
TFSRadio: Haymaker (podcast special)
04 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to a podcast special release of The Final Straw's interview of two members of The Haymaker, a gym project under way in Chicago, IL. The Haym...
Burning Down The American Plantation
04 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Burn Down the American Plantation For this episode, we are featuring a conversation that William had with some members of The Base, a social and poli...
Support Eric King and black metal band Dawn Ray'd!
28 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This episode will include two segments, firstly Bursts speaks with a longtime supporter of vegan anarchist prisoner Eric King, who was accused in 2014...
Mini-Episode: Dawn Ray'd bandmates talk about anarchism, black metal and more
26 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
For this special mini episode we are featuring an interview with two members of the Liverpool based anarchist black metal project Dawn Ray'd, who ar...
Heartwood Forest Council in NC and Riseup! bird speaks about gag order
21 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
#A In the first half of this week's show we spoke with Rodney about the upcoming Heartwood Forest Council, one of two yearly meet and greet events by ...
Anarchy in Portugal w/ Sylvia and Mário
15 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Due to concerns of the ability of the interviewees to speak on behalf of BOESG & Disgraça Collective, we're pulling this audio to remove the portions...
Anarchist Radio DJ's from Slovenia and El Salvador
08 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're just back from a few weeks in Europe, most recently attending the 3rd International Anarchist Radio Conference at Radio98FM, an anarch...
Paganism, Anarchism and May Day
30 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week Bursts spoke with Rhyd Wildermuth. Rhyd is a co-editor and founder or the website Gods & Radicals, which also publishes periodical journal...
Resistance to the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley Pipelines
23 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we spoke with Whitney about the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Mountain Valley Pipeline, two pipelines flowing through mid-Appalachian and...
Eastern KY Antifa on resisting the TWP plus antifascist metal!
16 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week William spoke with a member of Eastern Kentucky Antifa about the upcoming resistance to the Traditionalist Workers Party's event in Pikevill...
Black Women's Defense League on Feminism, Anti-Blackness, and Sexism
09 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Black Women's Defense League This week I spoke with Niecee X of the Dallas Texas based group Black Women's Defense League, which has been in existenc...
Shon Meckfessel interview, p2
02 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This is a continuation of our episode talking about violence, non-violence, nonviolence, property destruction, Liberalism's public secret, antifa viol...
"Nonviolence Ain't What It Used To Be"
02 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Interview This week, we air our conversation with Shon Meckfessel. Shon is a longtime anarchist and activist from Sacramento, CA. He has penned nu...
A Tilted Guide to Being a Defendant
27 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Interview This week Bursts spoke with Jude, a member of the Tilted Scales Collective, about the collective's new book, A Tilted Guide to Being a Defen...
Janye Waller and anarchist thoughts on tactics at Standing Rock
19 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This episodes features two portions. Janye Waller In the first segment we talk to Noelle about the case of Janye Waller. Janye is a young Black revo...
Hunger Striking Lucasville Defendants & TROUBLE by subMedia
12 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Interviews with Queen Tahiyrah and Franklin López This episode contains two segments: In the first, Bursts spoke with Queen Tahiyrah about the hung...
I Don't Know About Yall, But I'm in it to Win it: a conversation with Black Rose Anarchist Federation in L.A.
05 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we spoke with Romina and César, who are two members of the Black Rose Anarchist Federation in LA. We talk about what it's like organizing i...
Red Warrior Soceity Tour and Defending Water Protectors
26 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Red Warrior Society Tour This week on the show we spoke with Ikmu, an indigenous activist who was involved in the Red Warrior Camp at Standing Rock ag...
Sabal Trail Pipeline Resistance in FL (USA) and "Antipolitika" newspaper in ex-Yugoslavia
19 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This Episode Sabal Trail Resistance This week we're sharing a conversation we had with Karrie and Niko, two folks involved in the initiative called Sa...
Underground Passages: Anarchist Resistance Culture 1848-2011
12 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Jesse Cohn rebroadcast This week we are re-broadcasting an episode which originally aired in early May 2015 with Jesse Cohn who is the author of the ...
NEW(ish) ANARCHIST (and antifascist) MUSIC plus announcements
05 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we thought we'd take a teeny break from politics and scream it out with some new and not so new anarchist and antifascist punk, metal, new w...
Jeremy Bentham *loves* the Surveillance State
29 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Inspection House This time we are rebroadcasting an episode which originally aired in March 2015 with the two authors of the book "The Inspection...
The Deep State Ain't Gonna Save Ya, People
23 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we spoke with James. James is involved in anti-fascist and anti-repression work. Over the hour we spoke about the election of Donald Tru...
Kamau Franklin on #ungovernable + Repression in Turkey w Crna Luknja
15 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we feature two interviews in the show. Kamua Franklin on #ungovernable First, we spoke with Kamau Franklin, who is a radical activist, the ...
Fifth Estate Magazine:A conversation with Peter Werbe (rebroadcast with new announcements)
02 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Interview This week we are rebroadcasting an interview with Peter Werbe of Fifth Estate magazine, which originally aired in February 2015. Fifth Estat...
DAF (Revolutionary Anarchist Action), Turkey pt1
26 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Here, we present the first part of an interview with Merve Arkun, Hüseyin & Özgür, members of Devrimci Anarşist Faaliyet, or DAF. DAF translates t...
Mars Goetia talks about conflict engagement
25 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Final Straw Radio, I spoke with Mars Goetia. Mars is, among other things, a musician, parent and anarchist who's been doing a lot of ...
(A)ist Legal Worker on Grand Jury Resistance at Standing Rock & Scott Campbell on the upcoming Insumisión/IGD tour of Mexico
18 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Grand Jury Resistance at Standing Rock This week we are airing two short interviews, the first is with an anarchist legal worker who has been parti...
Podcast: Breaking Loose [a conversation with Ron Sakolsky] (rebroadcast)
11 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we're replaying an interview that Bursts conducted with Ron Sakolsky in March of 2016. Ron had just recently published Breaking Loose: Mutu...
Podcast: The Cleveland 4 & Unicorn Riot media
04 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we air 2 interviews, one about the case of the Cleveland 4 and one with members of Unicorn Riot. pt 1: The Cleveland 4 Firstly, w...
Podcast: pt 2, Former Political Prisoners Panel 2016
30 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This is a podcast version of the second part of the 2016 North American Anarchist Black Cross Former Political Prisoners Panel. The first part can be ...
TFSRadio: New York City Anarchist Black Cross
27 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the Final Straw, we air a conversation Bursts had with a member of New York City Anarchist Black Cross, heretoforth known as nyc-abc. F...
Podcast: Discussion of election by two Asheville area anarchists
20 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week we spoke with two Asheville area anarchists, May and Julie, about THE ELECTION of all things. We talked about anarchist strategy in this day...
Where To Now?: A CrimethInc. participant on significance of election and moving forward
13 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week we spoke with an autonomous participant in CrimethInc. about the work of that collective around elections, about their views on the recent e...
Daniel McGowan on his activism, Certain Days calendar, prisoner support & mo
06 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week (last week, actually) we spoke with Daniel McGowan. Daniel is from New York City (Queens, actually) and talks about his start in activism wi...
Podcast: pt 1, Former Political Prisoners Panel 2016
31 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Here we present the first half of the Former Prisoner Panel of the 2016 North American Anarchist Black Cross Conference. During the hour, you'll hear ...
Cruz Negra Anarquista (Mexico City) on situations in Mexico
30 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we present a conversation with a member of CNA-DF, or Anarchist Black Cross of Mexico City. During the hour she speaks about the work of ...
Central PA Antifa on the 5th of November anti NSM rally in Harrisburg
24 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week we spoke with members of Central PA Antifa about antifascist organizing in Pennsylvania, about some of the racial and socioeconomic aspects ...
Anarchist, Antifascist, and Antiracist Goth, Darkwave, and Coldwave (mostly) plus Sean Swain on Clownx
16 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the show we decided to take a musical interlude, and I thought we would try something slightly different from what we normally do. Since ...
Podcast: Bruno Y Hinojosa Ruiz of CIMA about immigration struggles in Western NC
09 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we spoke with Bruno Y Hinojosa-Ruiz, a co-director of CIMA, Companeros Inmigrantes de las Montanas en Accion, about some immigration situat...
Updates on the Prison Strike, ATL Antifa on Hammerfest, and words on the NAABC conference
03 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
I wanted to do some announcements regarding the prison strike, but honestly so many amazing things have been going on it would be impossible to do the...
A-Radio on Anti-Fenix from CZ, updates on #PrisonStrike & #CharlotteUprising + music
25 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week we'll be rebroadcasting a recent update from A-Radio Berlin on the repression called Operation Fenix in Czech Republic against anarchists th...
Greg Curry on #PrisonStrike (Podcast)
18 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Greg Curry This week Bursts speaks with Greg Curry, a prisoner serving time for alleged participation in the Lucasville Prison uprising of 1993 where ...
Prison Strike updates & pt2 of Guy Steward on Rojava
11 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we'll be featuring a short roundup of some of the events inside and outside of the prison walls during the beginning of the Prisoner Work S...
September 9th Prisoner Strikes Against Prison Slavery (with Tyler of PDXABC)
04 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Tyler of PDXABC on September 9th Strikes This week's episode features a conversation with Tyler Durden of Portland Anarchist Black Cross (http://pdxab...
Sean Swains September 9th Prison Strike statement
01 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Prison officials recently placed Siddique Abdullah Hasan, a death row prisoner held at Ohio's supermax, in segregation. Siddique was framed as a leade...
A Debate on the No Border Camp in Greece (from ARadio Berlin)
28 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Main Event This week we'll feature a recording produced by our friends at Anarchistisches Radio Berlin of a debate that took place at the Congress of ...
Reflections on June 26, 2016 antifa resistance in Sacramento, CA
16 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We have an hour long conversation with organizers of the June 26th antifascist resistance in Sacramento, CA, that routed the attempted organizing on t...
Dezeray on anarchist and antifa struggle at the RNC, Sean Swain on "gun safety", and some music
16 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week we had an interview with Dezeray about her participation in the recent Cleveland Republican National Convention protests. We talk about how ...