Mo on Knowing Your Rights and Risks With Police
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This week we spoke with Moira Meltzer-Cohen, an anarchist and lawyer with the National Lawyers Guild who practices mostly in New York City. For the hour, Mo talks about knowing ones rights and risks during interactions with law enforcement in the US during Trump 2.0, why even scofflaws should know some basic Bill of Rights trivia, info on warrants and house visits, airports and borders, and the importance of face-to-face practice with local lawyers who know the legal precedents on the ground in your jurisdiction. Links NLG Anti-Repression Hotline: NLG website: CUNY CLEAR website: ...
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An Anarchist View from Havana
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This week on the Final Straw, we’re sharing another audio gift from comrades. Isbel Diaz Torres is a participant in the Taller Libertario Alfredo Lopez / ABRA in Havana, Cuba, recorded in late 2018. In this chat, Isbel talks about the ABRA which is the only openly anarchist organization in Cuba at the time, about the LGBTQ movement and abortion rights in Cuba, political discourse and difference, government co-optation, neoliberalism, animal rights, repression of dissent and the erasure of anarchist histor
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"Anarchy In The Big Easy" with Max Cafard and Vulpes
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This week, we spoke with author Max Cafard and illustrator Vulpes about their new book, . Among other topics, they discuss Cafard’s , the origins and production of the book, and what the media gets right and wrong about New Orleans. The book came out from PM Press on April 15, 2025. . ... . .. Featured Track: Four Corners (part 2) by Lee Dorsey from Four Corners EP
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The Lives and Legacy of Martin Sostre (with Garrett Felber)
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This week, we’re sharing an interview with Garret Felber, author of the book , out May 5 from AK Press. Garret speaks about the life of Martin Soster, famed jailhouse lawyer who successfully won cases related to the constitutional rights of prisoners, was politicized in prison by the Nation of Islam in the 1950’s, ran radical Afro-centric bookstores in Buffalo NY to radicalize the youth, embracing anarchism during his time imprisoned on a frame up during which he was a celebrated political prisoner resisting cavity searches through the courts, went on to organize after his release...
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A Red Road To The West Bank (with Clifton Ariwakhete Nicholas and Franklin Lopez)
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This week, an interview with Clifton Ariwakhete Nicholas and Franklin Lopez about about the film currently in production via , . The conversation covers some about relationships between the people of occupied Palestine and Kanehsatà:ke in so-called Canada, histories of settler colonialism and resistance of it. Clifton and Franklin are attempting to raise $10000 CAD for the film. PDF (Unimposed) - pending Zine (Imposed PDF) - pending Franklin also talks about his recently published kids book “The mega-adventures of ” that he co-created with his son. Links: (film by Clifton) ...
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Former Uprising Defendant from ICE Detention (Ángel Espinosa-Villegas)
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This week, we’re sharing an interview with Ángel, an ICE detainee currently incarcerated in Otero Detention Center in New Mexico. Ángel is a trans-masculine lesbian of Mapuche heritage, whose family moved hir to the US from Chile at the age of 7 and has lived undocumented since, attaining DACA status under Obama. During the 2020 George Floyd Uprising she pled guilty to charges related to arson of police vehicles in Little Rock, serving 15 months before moving to Chicago and where s/he was detained by ICE. Approaching 30 years old, the majority of which has been in the so-called USA, Angel...
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Countering Dispossession in Casiavera, Indonesia (with David E Gilbert)
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This week you’ll hear our chat with the author of , the political ecologist David E Gilbert (not to be confused with the former Weather Underground prisoner in the US). For this episode, David and I speak about the book, the small community in south Sumatra, Indonesia known as Casiavera, the legacy of colonial land grabs, the people who live there and the agro-ecology of the rainforest at the base of the Arin volcano. You can find more of David’s work at Links: by Via Campesina: Landless Workers Movement (MST): Sarakhat Patani Indonesia (SPI): Mentions of Tan Malaka in the...
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A Left Trans Voice from Turkey + no Bonzo on Art and Anarchism
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This week, we're sharing two segements. First up, you’ll hear comrades from Frequenz-A out of Germany speaking with Eylem Çağdaş, a trans woman and an activist from Istanbul about current protest, queer and feminist perspective, anarchist participation and needs of solidarity. This segment was featured in the April 2025 episode of Bad News: Angry Voices from Around The World, the monthly English-language podcast from the A-Radio Network, which will be available early this week, so keep an eye out in our social media and updated links in our show post. You can find more work by at...
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Pushing Back On Flock Cameras with Kate Bertash
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Kate Bertash of the Digital Defense Fund to talk about Flock cameras, automatic license plate readers, the ubiquity of ai-driven surveillance, databasing and storage of real-time info of people and vehicle movements in public and privacy fears being raised. Katie also speaks about organizing with her village-mates to counter or limit them and artful approaches towards resistance with her Adversarial Apparel project. Good Links: Articles on the subject: (Maybe visit with TOR or a VPN?) . ... . .. Featured Tracks: Somebody's Watching Me (Instrumental) by
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Solidarity Collectives: 3 years into the Full-scale Russian Invasion in Ukraine
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This week, we’re featuring an interview with Anton, a longtime member of Solidarity Collectives, a group that supports anti-authoritarian and anarchist activists involved in the resistance to the Russian invasion of Ukraine as well as funding mutual aid projects for civilians and domesticated animals suffering or displaced by the invasion, bolstering left libertarian social movements during wartime, making propaganda and manufacturing FPV drones as well as a few other projects. In this ranging conversation we spoke for 2 hours covering issues of anarchists participating in military...
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This week, we’re sharing an interview with Selena who speaks about the "Stop Cop City: Imaginary Crimes Tour" and Jordan, a RICO defendant from the Stop Cop City 61 case. The two speak about anti-repression, about where the case is at right now and a wider view of resistance and support. The tour will be hitting over 60 cities (not all in the USA)
From their tour announcement:
61 people are facing RICO trials in Atlanta for alleged involvement in resistance to the construction of Cop City. The State uses imaginary associations and crimes, framed as RICO, as a means to break solidarity and momentum when movements are strong. Anti-repression is a response that uses an alternate imagination to strengthen solidarity and resistance.
In Spring 2025, a nationwide tour will visit over 60 cities to discuss the history of the Atlanta forest, the resistance to Cop City, history of RICO, ongoing legal updates and facilitate discussions on anti-repression and movement defense. Through this tour we aim to share the lessons we have learned across struggles, and adapt to the evolving repressive forces so that we can continue to move bravely together.
Stay updated here:
- www.instagram.com/sccimaginarycrimestour/
- linktr.ee/sccimaginarycrimestour
- tinyurl.com/SCCImaginaryCrimesTourUpadates (announcements only signal chat)
If you want some more content on the struggle, check out this really interesting episode of Audio Interference, a podcast associated with the Interference Archive in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood featuring materials from and discussion of a September 2024 installation entitled "Archiving Stop Cop City: This Is Not A Local Struggle"
To hear past episodes of ours on the Stop Cop City movement, check out this link.
Announcements
A Message from Peppy
A brief statement from Brian "Peppy" DiPippa, an anarchist in Pittsburgh convicted of engaging a home made smoke bomb at cops protecting an anti-trans event at University of Pittsburgh in May of 2023 and sentenced to 60 months in Federal Prison. You can learn more about Peppy & his co-defendant Krystal (who just had a birthday!) at their support site
May we find inspiration and creativity in these challenging times. Let us be guided by friendship and self determination. May we mind our pace, study our ancestors, listen to our storytellers and run towards expansive freedom and autonomy. Solidarity to all those held captive by the state and their loved ones on the outside, your work is felt even if it is not always the most visible.
Now Airing on WEFR 1700 AM, Fairmont WV
We are happy to announce that we're airing at 3pm on Saturdays on WEFR 1700AM in Fairmont, WV. To support this small station, check out their GoFundMe, and if you've got a community radio station, college radio station or public radio station in your area that you'd like to hear us on, check out our Radio Broadcasting tab and send us their way!
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Featured Tracks:
- Springs forth by The Willow's Whisper
- The Internationale by U. Utah Phillips and Ani DiFranco from "Fellow Workers"