The Final Straw Radio

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The Final Straw Radio is a weekly, anarchist show eminating from occupied Cherokee lands in so-called North Carolina and featuring the voices of folks engaged in struggles for liberation and the creation of rad culture since 2009. We're also syndicated on a few community radio stations around the U.S. We frequently also feature radio commentaries from anarchist prisoner Sean Swain and are a proud member of CZN (The Channel Zero Network) and ARN (The A-Radio Network). Check out our past archives and ways to connect with us at https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org

This week we are pleased to present something a little bit new for TFSR listeners. This is a kind of informal round table discussion that co host Scott and I had alongside Vicky Osterweil, who has been on the show before to speak on her book . We all...
Eric King Speaks | 2 Radical Ukrainian Voices This week, we’re sharing 3 segments on this episode. Eric King Transferred To High Security Prison in VA [00:04:08 - 00:23:50] First up, you’ll hear Eric King, anarchist prisoner whose recent...
This week's episode has two segments... Merced County Prisoner Hunger Strikes This week, you’ll hear a chat with California-based activist Victoria from Merced Under Construction, who talks to us about the prisoner hunger strikes at Merced County...
This week, we’re joined again by Aryanum, a member of the Federation of Anarchism Era (), mostly made up of anarchists from Iran and Afghanistan. We mostly get updates about the situation of anarchists, atheists and feminists in Afghanistan under...
This week, we spoke with Petr, a Russian anarchist member of the group Autonomous Action, who is living in Europe right now. For the hour we speak about the invasion of Ukraine, a bit about the resistance inside of Russia to the war drums and the...
Monarchy In The UK March 6, 2022
This week, you’ll hear my chat with Jon Bigger about the status of the monarchy in the UK, the power it wields, the interventions it makes into parliamentary procedure and where we might see hopes of challenging it from an anarchist approach. Jon is...
On Thursday, February 24th, I spoke with Ilya, a Russian anarchist living and organizing in Kyiv, Ukraine. We spoke about the relationship between Russia and Ukraine, the Maidan uprising and war in the Donbass, resistance to the invasion of Ukraine...
Hey folks. This week, we’re sharing our with Keith Lamar aka Bomani Shakur who is facing execution on November 16th 2023. We hope you enjoy his insights and check out his support website, KeithLamar.Org and get involved in helping him fight for his...
This week, we are re-broadcasting an inteview with the sci-fi and picture book author, technologist and social critic . is an editor of the blog , a fellow at the and the book we spoke of on this episode was (you get a 10% discount and...
We are sharing a cross-over episode with the Time Talks Podcast (member of the Channel Zero Network alongside TFSR) where Chris "Time" Steel and Bursts share songs about the struggle for abolition and what they like about them. Check out the ...
Tom Nomad is an organizer based in the Rust Belt and the author of and . You can find more of Tom’s writings on . Tom is on Mastadon, and on . We speak about conspiracy theories and real conspiracies, strategies of tension, the use of...
Anarchist Struggle, or Tekoşîna Anarşist in Kurmanji, is an anarchist combat medic collective operating in Rojava since the time of the war against Daesh / Isis, though its roots go back further. For the hour, you’ll hear a voice actor sharing...
Andrej Grubačić is a former teacher at the University of Rojava, founding Chair of Anthropology and Social Change at the , author of books such as , co- authored with and most recently the co-author of with Dennis O’Hearn. Andrej is also the...
This week on the show, we sat down with Bayla Ostrach, an activist, anarchist, longtime defender, provider of and researcher around issues of reproductive healthcare. We speak about experiences researching and working on the issue in Catalunya, the...
This week we are really pleased to feature Scott conducting an interview with author and activist William C. Anderson about his new book which is out now from AK Press. In this interview they speak on the book and its many facets, and Black anarchism...
This week on the show, you’ll hear from Doug, Onion & Papi, three folks involved in the Aston Park Build, a daily event to hold space in Aston Park in downtown Asheville, creating art, sharing food and music and a wider part of organizing here...
Serbia has been rocked by recent, mass blockades in the streets to challenge changes to the Law of Expropriation which would allow the state to take farm lands and other private property to open space for constructing mega projects and extraction like...
Leigh Lassiter from prison books collective in Durham, North Carolina, a nonprofit project that sends zines and books to prisoners in Alabama in North Carolina prisons and jails comes on this week to tell us about recent changes by the NCDPS to use...
Today we’re excited to share a conversation with adrienne maree brown, the writer of such books as , , and . adrienne’s recent novella, , the first of a trilogy, was published by AK Press’ new Black Dawn imprint of speculative fiction. In this...
This week, Scott spoke with about their new book, , which was just published by Duke University Press. Eric A. Stanley is an associate professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. In...