This week on The Final Straw, we present a conversation that I had with , a non-binary writer and journalist from Canada, Ecuador and the United Kingdom who is currently the Editor-In-Chief of the data transparency collective, , or DDOSecrets. In June...
This week we had the opportunity to connect with Delee Nikal, who is a Wet’su’weten community member, about updates from the Gidimt’en Camp that was created to block the TransCanada Coastal GasLink pipeline (or CGL) that Canada is trying to push...
The Intertwined Histories of Queerness and Anarchism; Guest Interview with
Kristian Williams about his new book on Oscar Wilde
Sept. 13, 2020
This week we are pleased to present a guest interview with author Kristian Williams about his new book which was released in June 2020 from AK Press. I found this interview extremely illuminating, perhaps like many other people who might not have...
Prison By Any Other Name: Vikki Law on Toxic Reforms This week we speak with author and activist, Vikki Law about the book , just out from The New Press and co-authored by Maya Schenwar. We speak about how reform and so-called 'more humane'...
This week we are airing a conversation that Bursts had a few weeks ago with Aric McBay, who is an organizer, farmer, and author about his most recent book called published by Seven Stories Press in May 2019.. This book is divided into 2 volumes, and...
Its not uncommon to hear pundits and regular folks making comparisons between the crises we are now facing and other historical moments, such as the 1920s in Germany or the global rebellions of the 1960s. But is this an effective approach for gauging...
We Need To Spread This Freely: JN On HK Under National Security Law This week, I speak with JN, an anarchist who works with the decolonial, leftist HongKonger platform, , talks about where the uprising against Chinese integration in Hong Kong stands,...
RVA In The Uprising with L and Buzz This week, we’re going to hear two specials in two separate episodes, basically exploding radio edition into it’s components. In this one you’ve clicked on, you’ll hear L, who works with the , and Buzz talk...
Omaha In The Uprising with Mel This week, we’re going to hear two specials in two separate episodes, basically exploding radio edition into it’s components. In this one you’ve clicked on, you’ll hear Mel B from Omaha, Nebraska talk about the...
Keep Calm and Get Prepared: A Look Into Month 3 (+ Beyond) of the Portland
Uprising with the Portland GDC
Aug. 2, 2020
This week we got to sit down with two members of the , AC (they them) and Raoul (they he), about the ongoing Uprising in Portland OR in the months since the murder of George Floyd. We get to touch on a lot of topics in this interview; the neo-liberal...
Pipeline Updates from Yellow Finch Tree Sit 690 days. That is how long the tree sit on Yellow Finch lane has been standing to block the progress of the Mountain Valley Pipeline’s proposed 301 mile corridor of pressurized, fracked liquified natural...
Anarchist Prisoners and Updates from the A-Radio Network This week, we're continuing our pandemic vacation. First up is some new words on surveillance and resistance by Sean Swain.[00:02:51-00:09:25] Then you'll hear audio from the most recent episode...
Rik Scarce and Leslie James PIckering Discuss Direct Action
On Blackness and Anarchy This week on the Final Straw, we are taking a break from consistently bringing fresh content over the last few months (frequently twice a week, instead of just the usual Sunday episodes) and re-airing this segment form a prior...
Justice4Jerry2020, Confederate Monuments + Repression During The Movement for
Black Lives
June 28, 2020
Justice4Jerry2020, Confederate Monuments + Repression During The Movement for Black Lives photo by Ben Harper This episode has three portions following a segment by anarchist prisoner, Sean Swain, about confederate monuments. [00:02:31 - 00:09:32]...
Pan-African Social Ecology: A conversation with Dr Modibo Kadalie This week, we’re happy to air a conversation I had with the author and activist, Modibo Kadalie, author of as well as . A version of Dr. Kadalie’s conversation with Andrew...
In the past few weeks since the uprising in response to police killings of Black and Brown folks around Turtle Island, amazing chances have presented themselves and folks have seized opportunities. One great and unfolding circumstance is known as the...
This week we are pleased to present an interview William conducted with and on the 2019 PM Press release . This book, of which Kuhn is the author and editor and Märak is an contributor, details a political history of the Sámi people whose...
June 11th 2020: Marius Mason support and words from Jeremy Hammond In this th podcast special, we’re happy to feature two interviews. The first is with Letha, a supporter of anarchist prisoner Marius Mason who is 7 years from release for animal and...
Hotel Sanctuary in MPLS This week we got to connect with Rosemary, who is an organizer in Minneapolis, about the liberation of a former Sheraton Hotel in that city and its slow but steady transformation into something that is becoming so much...