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Rojava Again Under Threat of Turkish Invasion [00:10:35 - 01:45:30] Emre, Rimac, Xero and Anya, members of the Emergency Committee for Rojava join us on the show this week to talk about the escalation of violence and threats of invasion by Turkey into northeast Syria, updates from the region and their thoughts on how people in the West can help folks living under the Autonomous Administration of North East Syria. You can learn more about their work at DefendRojava.Org and find related interviews covering some of the subject matter discussed and past events on our website by searching for Rojava. Transcript PDF (Unimposed) – pending Zine (Imposed PDF) – pending You can keep find Xero's upcoming podcast, a member of the Channel Zero Network, at ManyWorldsPod.Github.io and you can find the latest of Anya's co-authored pieces at The Nation (though it's paywalled). Greg Curry Hunger Strike [00:01:07 - 00:10:35] First up, we'll be sharing a message recorded a week ago by PAPS Texas of incarcerated activist and survivor of the Lucasville Uprising in 1993, Greg Curry, about his hunger strike for the ODRC's retaliation to his organizing behind bars at Toledo Correctional. Greg's support is asking folks to contact ODRC officials as he's entered over a month on hunger strike, had his communication meddled with and has been hospitalized. Greg has asked folks to contact Chief Legal Counsel Stephen Gray by email (stephen.gray@odrc.state.oh.us) or by phone (614-752-1765) or Annette Chambers-Smith via email at annette.chambers-smith@odrc.state.oh.us Suggested script: "Hello, I am contacting you as a concerned friend of Greg Curry A213159. During Greg's RIB hearing, Officer Sgt O'Brien, who witnessed and investigated Greg was also on the RIB committee which is against your policy RIB/5120-9-08. We are asking you to act on Greg's appeal which has been formally submitted to the Chief Legal Counsel and return Greg to population so he can come off this hunger strike." You can find a recent interview with a member of Prison Abolition Prisoner Support on Greg's case at 1 hour 2 minutes into the episode (mislabeled as September 3rd 2020) at NewDream.US. You can hear our 2016 interview with Greg Curry. . ... . .. Featured Track Beritan from Jîyan Beats (dedicated to fallen PKK fighter, Gülnaz Karataş aka Beritan, who threw herself from a cliff after a fierce battle in Xakurke rather than surrender to Turkey on October 25, 1992) Instant Hit (instrumental) by The Slits from Cut

This week on the show, we're airing two portions. Transcript Jessica Reznicek Conflict In Movement PDF (Unimposed) – pending ZIne (Imposed PDF) – pending Support Jessica Reznicek [00:02:06 - 00:36:33] First up, Charlotte speaks about their friend, political prisoner and water defender Jessica Reznicek who just had an appeal denied of an 8 year sentence and terrorism enhancement for sabotaging the Dakota Access Pipeline with another Catholic Worker prior to DAPL. carrying oil. It's estimated that the two cost $6 million in lost profits to Energy Transfer Partners and stopped the flow of 30 million barrels of oil. For the hour we talk about #NoDAPL, the movements that Jessica was involved in, including Occupy and the Catholic Workers, the increased criminalization of dissent as the climate heats up and how to support Jessica and spread the good work. You can learn more about Jess and her case at SupportJessicaReznicek.com and you can purchase benefit t-shirts here: https://www.eaglescreenprint.com/shop/p/free-jessica-reznicek-tee Navigating Conflict In Movement [00:37:52 - end] Then, we do something a little experimental. We present a conversation with a member of an anti-authoritarian movement in Europe. We don't say what movement. We talk about conflict internal to their movement, but we don't name the parties involved. The conversation was conducted from an anti-authoritarian perspective, in the interest of creating heterogeneous communities of struggle. The purpose of this recording is to promote a mental exercise on the part of the listener to plug in their own experiences in movements with many different trajectories inside of it. The anonymous nature of the conversation was in part to not contribute to internal conflict to the movement, conflict is better addressed between parties involved than with an outside party (our radio show) who's interest may not be the same as the movement. I hope that this conversation is helpful, for all of it's purposeful vagueness. This originally aired in 2017. . ... . .. Featured Tracks: Darker Nature by Carmack & Djemba from Rekindling (benefit for NoDAPL) T.R.O.Y. (instrumental) by Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth from the T.R.O.Y. single . ... . .. Find our socials, contacts and streaming at TFSR.WTF Support the project and our transcription at TFSR.WTF/Support Find our growing library of zines and transcripts for reading, distro and translation at TFSR.WTF/Zines Learn about our radio broadcasts and how to get us on your local station at TFSR.WTF/Radio

This week on the show, we're featuring a few segments. First up, Chazz speaks about the website UprisingSupport.org which shares the names and cases of people criminalized in relation to the George Floyd Uprising of 2020 across the so-called USA, as well as the importance of growing a culture of anti-repression and resistance. Then, for this year's June 11th Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason and All Long Term Anarchist Prisoners, you'll hear supporters reading statements by Toby Shone in the so-called UK & Dan Baker in the so-called USA. You can find more on June 11th, announcements of celebrations, interviews with and about some of the featured prisoners and poster and sticker designs at June11.Org. Transcript (Uprising Support) Toby Shone J11 statement Daniel Baker statement Toby Shone Open Letter Sean Swain J11 statement PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PDF) Prior June 11 interviews by TFSR: 2021 episode with Jason and Jeremy Hammond, Atlanta anti-repression activist and Fergusson Uprising prisoner supporters 2020 episode with Jeremy Hammond behind bars and a supporter of Marius Mason 2016 episode on Marius Mason with his daughter 2015 episode with an Eric McDavid supporter and updates on prisoners in Ohio & Missouri 2013 episode about Marius plus support for Jerry Koch resisting a Grand Jury in NYC 2012 episode on June 11, Cleveland 4, Pax and the Green Scare 2011 episode with supporters of Marius and Eric, plus an organizer with June11.org 2011 interview with Will Potter about his book, Green Is The New Red about the Green Scare Some Former & Current Anarchist Prisoners Supported by June11: Eric King in 2019 and 2022 Eric McDavid post release Michael Kimble in 2015 and 2019 Jennifer Rose in 2019 Cleveland 4 from July 2012, September 2012 and December 2016 NATO 5 from 2013 Xinachtli from 2013 Belarus Partisan Prisoners from 2021 Daniel McGowan from 2016 Anarchist Prisoners and ABCs: Russian anarchist and antifascist prisoners, November 2021 Evcan Osman as presented by Istanbul ABC Mexico City ABC from 2016 NYC ABC from 2016 Iranian anarchist prisoner updates, 2022 Fire Ant Journal interview from 2019 Grand Juries, Tech, Uprising Support Grand Juries Security Culture Michael Loadenthal on Repression During 2020 Uprising Anti-Repression Panel from 2020 North American ABC Anti-Repression Panel from 2017 Announcements ABC Belarus Fundraiser Our comrades in Belarus are out of the funds required to support prisoners resisting the Lukashenko regime. You can learn more including how to support ABC Belarus at abc-belarus.org and finding the post titled "No one will be left alone" Fire Ant Journal The June 2022 issue of Fire Ant Journal is now available! You can download for reading and reproduction at https://bloomingtonabc.noblogs.org Get yourself a Fire Ant benefit t-shirts: https://thefinalstrawradio.bigcartel.com/product/fire-ant-journal-t-shirt . … . .. Featured Track: OUR SIDE HAS TO WIN (for D.H.) by Godspeed You Black Emperor from G_d's Peed at States End!

First up, we're sharing a blast from the past blast from the past, an interview that we conducted in 2013 via our comrades from A-Radio Berlin with a participant in the autonomous anti-capitalist street movement in Germany in the latter half of the 20th century known as Autonomen. Specifically, the guest speaks about the context of anonymous street actions during May Day of 1987 in the district of then-West Berlin known as Kreuzberg and about the tactic that became known as Black Bloc. Apologies for the audio quality of this portion. Transcripts Autonomen Updates from Thessaloniki, May 2022 GerminalSocialCenter PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PDF) Then, you'll be hearing portions of the May 2022 episode of Bad News: Angry Voices From Around The World by the A-Radio Network, of which the already-mentioned Berlin crew is also a member. You'll hear: comrades from Free Social Radio 1431AM in Thessaloniki, Greece with some updates from that country. Then, friends at Črna luknja in Lubjlana, Slovenia, shares an interview with members of the autonomous social center in Trieste known as Germinal on the 10th anniversary of that space. Finally, you'll hear A-Radio Vienna sharing the call-out for the 2022 June 11th Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason and All Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners. You can find more on June 11th at June11.NoBlogs.Org . ... . .. Featured Tracks: Mainzerstraßenlied by Quetschenpaua from Terror Penguin Music (lyrics) No Borders No Nation by Kronstadt from Antipoder

Dunstan Bruce is perhaps most famous for his lead vocals and listing of libations in the Chumbawamba pop hit, Tubthumping. But there is so much more to him and that band than that one song. For the hour we touch on some of the band's 30 year history, their relation as a collective, anarchist band to social justice movements around the world and how they used their fame and money to give back, Dunstan's recently finished documentary "I Get Knocked Down: The Untold Story of Chumbawamba" and his accompanying one man show "Am I Invisible Yet?", aging and the battle for relevance, staying involved in politics and more. "I Get Knocked Down" is still seeking distribution so not streamable, but keep an eye on the fakebook page for updates on that, and you can find his prior documentary on Chumbawamba published about 20 years ago on youtube, entitled "Well Done, Now Sod Off!" Transcript PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PDF) You can find a rather embarrassing mixtape from us years ago on archive.org, expect a replacement playlist for it soon. Chumbawamaba-related: Bandcamp: https://chumbawamba.bandcamp.com/music Wikipedia Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumbawamba Good 2012 article on the band Writeup on Anarcho-Punk.Net Interrobang!? Some hijinks from the era: Miner Strike Poll Tax IndyMedia (benefited from Chumbawamba $$) CorpWatch (benefited from Chumbawamba $$) Bristol Social Centre (benefited from Chumbawamba $$) Radio Onda Rossa (benefitted from Chumbawamba $$) June 18, 1999 Carnival Against Capital protest party in London The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (benefited from Homophobia Single) Mumia Abu-Jamal on Letterman BASE social centre in Bristol (benefited from Chumbawamba $$) Other music related projects mentioned: Loud Women Festival Pussy Riot in the Orthodox Church Flux of Pink Indians Crass Dunstan's Other Docs A Curious Life – The Story of the Levellers Sham 69 China Tour Trailer Announcements Greg Curry Hunger Strike Greg Curry, a prisoner in Ohio serving a life sentence in relation to the Lucasville Uprising of 1993 for which he claims innocence, has just begun a hunger strike for being stuck in extended solitary confinement known as TPU at Toledo Correctional Institution. To voice concern, you can call 419 726 7977 and select choice 8 to speak to the warden during business hours, or you can select 0 to speak to the operator at other times. You can also mail Harold.May@odrc.state.oh.us requesting that his communications be re-instated and that he be able to re-enter general population. You can find our 2016 interview with Greg at our website. Social Media Documentary from SubMedia Stay tuned to Sub.Media for a documentary film on the troubles with social media in early June TFSR Fediverse Podcast We've launched a temporary instance of Castopod podcasting app on the Fediverse at @TheFinalStrawRadio@Social.Ungovernavl.Org. Definitely a work in progress, but check it out if you care to. Bad News, May 2022 The latest episode of the monthly english-language podcast from the A-Radio Network is available now at their website: A-Radio-Network.Org or here: https://www.a-radio-network.org/episode-56-05-2022/ . … . .. Featured Tracks (get ready): Tubthumping by Chumbawamba from Tubthumper Top of the World (Olé, Olé, Olé) by Chumbawamba (single) Do They Owe Us A Living? by Crass from The Feeding of the 5,000 The Cutty Wren by Chumbawamba from English Rebel Songs 1381–1984 Timebomb by Chumbawamba from Anarchy I Never Gave Up by Chumbawamba from Never Do What You're Told (Live) Heartbreak Hotel by Chumbawamba from Fuck EMI (compilation) Shhh-it by Oi Polloi from Bare Faced Hypocrisy Sells Records / The Anti-Chumbawamba EP (compilation) Her Majesty by Chumbawamba (single) Knit Your Own Balaklava by Chumbawamba from The Liberator - Artists For Animals (compilation) Song Of The Mother In Dept / Song Of The Hardworking Community Registration Officer / Song Of The Government Minister Who Enjoys His Work / Song Of The (Now Determined) Mother by Chumbawamba from A Pox Upon The Poll Tax (compilation) Smash Clause 29! by Chumbawamba from Uneasy Listening Homophobia by Chumbawamba from Anarchy One By One by Chumbawamba from Rock The Dock (compilation) Pass It Along by Chumbawamba from WYSIWYG Bella Ciao by Chumbawamba from A Singsong And A Scrap Here Now by Interrobang‽ from Interrobang‽ The Day The Nazi Died by Chumbawamba from Class War So Long, So Long by Chumbawamba from In Memoriam: Margaret Thatcher

For this special mid week podcast release, we are presenting a conversation with three defendants who are in an ongoing legal battle with the city of Asheville. This group of 15 people, three of whom are speaking today, are facing felony littering charges in connection with a demonstration in December of 2021 against a targeted camp sweep in a local park adjacent to the downtown district. For this interview, we will talk about their case, the issue of the mistreatment of houseless people generally, camp sweeps and what they mean specifically, the nationwide crackdown on mutual aid, their own activisms, and how to keep in touch with this situation and support the 15 defendants. Transcript PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PDF) You can read all about their case and keep up with this ongoing situation at avlsolidarity.noblogs.org. To donate to these folks you can venmo @AVLdefendantfund. The defendants would also like to plug the venmos of another AVL based mutual aid group Asheville Survival Program which is @AVLsurvival, and the local Anarchist Black Cross chapter Blue Ridge ABC and their venmo is @BlueRidgeABC.

This week, we spoke with Liaizon Wakest. Liaizon grew up in an anarchist commune in rural America. They can be found climbing into dumpsters from Mexico to Kazakhstan looking for trash to make art with. In recent years they have been focused on research into ethical technology and infrastructural anarchism. For the hour we speak about the interoperable, open source ensemble of federated online publishing servers and platforms known as the Fediverse and its most popular component, Mastodon. This conversation takes place in the context of media hullabaloo about Elon Musk seeking to purchase Twitter, the paradigm in which a rich egomaniac can own the addictive social media platforms over which so much social and political life is engaged and what positives we can draw from alternatives like Mastodon and the Fediverse. Transcript PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PDF) You can find Liaizon's account on Mastodon (an analog of twitter) at @liaizon@social.wake.st or on Pixelfed (an analog of Instagram) at @wakest@pixelfed.social. And you can follow us on Mastodon by finding @TheFinalStrawRadio@Chaos.Social or by visiting https://chaos.social/@TheFinalStrawRadio in a web browser. Another interesting anarchist media project engaging the Fediverse is Kolektiva, which has a PeerTube instance at https://Kolektiva.Media (analog of youtube) and Mastodon at https://Kolektiva.Social where they're welcoming new users. Kolektiva includes participation from projects like Sub.Media and AntiMidia You can find a real good interview by our comrades at From Embers about Mastodon which I mention in the interview from February 3rd, 2022 entitled Social Networks, Online Life and The Fediverse: https://fromembers.libsyn.com/social-networks-online-life-and-the-fediverse Announcement Eric King Arrives at USP Lee: call-in continues As a quick update on the situation of Eric King, he has been transferred this week from USP Atlanta to USP Lee where he and his supporters are concerned he'll be placed into solitary and isolated for attack. You can find info on his situation as well as who to contact to press for his return to a medium security facility to match his current security points, visit SupportEricKing.Org and find the May 3rd, 2022 post whose title starts "Eric Transferred" . ... . .. Featured Track Beauty, Power, Motion, Life, Work, Chaos, Law by DJ Shadow from Our Pathetic Age

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 (@iwocnm and @millionsforprisonersnm on the Fedbook), IncarceratedWorkers.Org and Xeno is with IWOC Sacramento (@sacramento_iwoc on Instascam). For the little-over-an-hour 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! Announcements Eric King Call-In Continues Anarchist, antifascist and vegan prisoner Eric King who you heard from in our April 3rd, 2022 episode has been sitting at the federal prison in Atlanta since his transfer from Grady County Jail. Our comrade shouldn't be behind bars, especially after all he's faced at the hands of federal prison staff, but he's stable for the time being but the fear remains that the Bureau of Prisons is trying to wait out Eric's supporters so we'll drop vigilance and he can be quietly shipped off to the high security facility, USP Lee where he could be isolated in a Secure Housing Unit and be in danger of further attacks. Eric's support team suggests that folks check out the latest post at SupportEricKing.Org to find contacts for people and continue to press officials to not move Eric to a facility above his medium security classification. Transcripts & Zines This is just a quick reminder that you can find a printable zine of that chat and many, many more at tfsr.wtf/zines, alongside transcripts and unimposed pdfs for easy printing of all of our interviews dating back to at least January 2021. If you write a prisoner or run a zine distro or literature to prisoners project, check out the collection for new material. And if you can read and write in another language and want to translate any of the texts, you are welcome to with no permission needed, but please send us a copy and we'll promote it as well. If you care to support our transcription process you can make a one-time or recurring donation or merchandise purchase, more information at tfsr.wtf/support . … . .. Featured Track: Kadi – Audio K off the Free Music Archive

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. You are welcome to read the almanac for free in portions on the Lobelia Commons social media (fedbook or instascam). We also talk about spreading food forests and building neighborly food resilience with Lobelia Commons and a little about Ndn Bayou Food Forest (formerly the L'eau Et La Vie anti-pipeline camp) which can be found on fedbook or instascam. Transcript PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PDF) A few acronyms come up in the chat, and here's a breakdown: MADR is the Mutual Aid Disaster Relief network; Zeta & Ida were hurricanes that damaged the south east of Turtle Island, landfalling near to so-called New Orleans; NOMAG is the New Orleans Mutual Aid Group. You can hear a 2018 interview from L'eau Et La Vie against the Bayou Bridge Pipeline: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2018/01/14/no-bayou-bridge-pipeline-an-interview-from-leu-est-la-vie-camp/ . ... . .. Featured Track: Instrumental #2 (waltz) by Elliott Smith from Grand Mal: Studio Rarities disc 8

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. For the hour we speak about critiques of science and Western Civilization that Peter levels, as well as the centrality of struggling on the ground we stand on, creating autonomous infrastructure, resisting colonial extractivism and the need for imagination and care as we tear down this ecocidal system. Peter has prior authored such books as "Anarchy Works", "How Non-Violence Protects The State", and "Worshiping Power", and you can find a number of his essays up on TheAnarchistLibrary.Org. You can also hear your interviews with Peter here: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/category/peter-gelderloos/ Related Interviews: Anti-Pipeline Interviews Resisting Nuclear Waste Storage in Bure, France Resistance to AMLO Mega Projects in Mexico Protecting Khimki Forest in Moscow Interviews about ZAD to block airport expansion in NDDL, France An interview about the ZAD du Testet Resisting a new airport in Yogyakarta, Indonesia Tiny House Warriors Gidimt'en Access Point Mel Bazil on Unist'ot'en Resisting Gold Mine in Chalkadiki, Greece Serbian Resistance to Hydroelectric Dams No-TAV struggle in northern Italy Likhts'amisyu resistance to colonialism in so-called Canada Ecological struggles from PATIKA by DAF in Turkey, which is part 2 alongside of part 1 of our discussion with DAF Resisting the destruction of Hambacher Forest in Germany Errekaleor Bizirik squatted neighborhood in Euskadi and more... Announcements Call In For Eric King continues Anarchist and antifascist political prisoner, Eric King, has been transferred from Grady County Jail (where we spoke to him from for our April 3rd episode) to USP Lee in southwestern Virginia where he and his loved ones are afraid he will be put into solitary and attacked where there will be no witnesses. This comes directly after he won a trial against the federal Bureau of Prisons showing that he had been set up and punished for false reasons, subjected to obvious acts of petty and not so petty vengeance by the corrections officers, and in spite of the fact that his security level should have him at a medium security facility rather than a high security like Lee. There is a continued call-in campaign that his supporters are asking y'all to participate in. You can find more information in the show notes or at SupperEricKing.org as well as on the twitter, facebook and instagram pages for the under the name @SupportEricKing. May Day May Day is coming up real quick, y'all. The first of May has been known as a festival of spring bounty from pagan times in Europe, and has been celebrated by anarchists, socialists, communists and labor activists to commemorate the 1886 struggle for the power of workers against the capitalists and state and the remember the Haymarket Martyrs. We have a couple of episodes featuring content about May Day that we'll link here, but this is just a quick note to find other comrades and fellow travelers this May Day, there may be something going on in your area. And if there isn't, maybe you can organize an event with you friends! . ... . .. Featured Track The Commons by Sole and DJ Pain 1 from Post-American Studies