This week, we’re sharing a recent chat with Devi Machete, an anarchist involved in the Tijuana mutual aid project known as Contra Viento y Marea Comedor Comunitario which distributes clothing, medical supplies, meals and stable food boxes throughout...
This week, a new contributor, Ian, talks to cartoonist and educator about his recent releases I’m a cop, featuring dialogue from Police Union speeches and Riot Comics: Tompkins Square Park, which explores the 1988 Tompkins Square Riot in which...
Our interview with journalist and community organizer, (of the ), and anarchist and activist lorén (of or Queer and Trans People Illuminate Everything). Both folks are trans folks in Austin, Texas, and we speak for the hour about the...
May Day 2016 with Peter Linebaugh (repodcast) We're happy to share another past episode, this time from , about 4 months before the start of our rss feed for our podcast. I feel it’s notable that this show approaches it’s 13th birthday on the May...
This week, we’re sharing an interview with 2 contributors an amazing history of anti-racist organizing in the late 1980’s through the mid 1990’s in Portland, Oregon, and with ripples across the so-called USA & beyond. In 2020 released a...
This week, we’re sharing two portions. South Florida Anti-Repression Committee [00:05:37 - 00:54:07] First up, a chat with two members of the doing solidarity for the 4 queer activists facing up to 12 years in Federal prison on charges...
Here’s a chat we just had with 4 radicals in France. Rather than introduce them, I’ll let them do that themselves. We talk about the recent protests and riots in France concerning reforms to the pension system that would push back the age of...
This week, we’re sharing part of our interview with Barry Pateman. Barry, born in the early 1950’s, grew up in a working class coal mining town of Doncaster in the UK and became an anarchist in the 1960’s in London. He is a longstanding...
We’re happy to share this chat with Leah and Payton, directors of the upcoming documentary series “The Elements of Mutual Aid”. You can find previews of the film on their social media and links to those and more in our show notes at our website....
This week, we’re sharing an interview with Leo, an anarchist and eco-feminist from Russia who has temporary relocated to Europe after facing political repressions. Leo is a co-organizer with the Feminist Anti-War Resistance movement ( in English, ...
This week: a chat with Pip, a defendant in, and , a supporter of, the Aston Park Defendants case which led to the arrest of 16 people, including 2 journalists for the , many facing various charges of felony littering and conspiracy to felony...
This week on the show, we’re sharing an interview with of the 4 Thieves Vinegar Collective about the the group, building scientific competency, biohacking, authority, intellectual property... oh boy there’s a lot there. Mixael also speaks...
This week, I spoke with about a range of topics, such as Degrowth, green anarchism, the violence of extractivism, questions of the conception of renewable energy and resistance to ecocide. We covered a lot in this discussion and he’s written a...
South Korean Social Movements in the 20th Century (rebroadcast) [ 00:02:09 - 00:50:03 ] This week we're re-airing our 2012 interview with Dr. George Katsiaficas, author and contributor to over a dozen books on Peoples Movements and the elucidator of...
This week, we spoke with Maia Ramnath about her essay contribution to ¡. The essay was entitled “The Other Aryan Supremacy: Fighting Hindu Fascism in the South Asia Diaspora”. PDF (Unimposed) – pending Zine (Imposed PDF) – pending For...
We're re-airing Scott's 2020 interview with Kristian Williams about his book, . (thanks to MKE Lit Supply!) From the original post: I found this interview extremely illuminating, perhaps like many other people who might not have strong ties...
This week we are re-airing an interview from November 10th, 2019, by Scott Branson with about his book . In this book, Meyerhoff “traces how key elements of education emerged from histories of struggles in opposition to alternative modes of study...
This week, we share our chat with on his recently published book (AK Press, 2022). Tom is an organizer with , an anarcho-syndicalist group relaunching in the SF Bay Area, which publishes to journal online and is affiliated with the International...
Voices In Struggle: Remembering Tortuguita + Resistance in Lützerath and
Against Tren Maya
Jan. 22, 2023
This week on The Final Straw, we feature three segments: words from a friend of Manuel “Tortuguita” Teran, the forest defender killed by law enforcement on January 18th outside of Atlanta, Georgia; A-Radio Berlin’s conversation with an activist...
We’re happy to share Scott’s interview with about her recent book, . You can get the book at a discount using the code “firth30”, on the Pluto Books website or you can get a digital read , linked in the shownotes. Rhiannon's: ; ; . Next...