International Solidarity and the 2025 Week of Solidarity With Anarchist Prisoners
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This week, we’re sharing three segments. First up, you’ll hear Yara speaking about Solidarity International, a new initiative to support prisoner support and anti-repression work beyond borders initiated by various anarchist and anti-authoritarian groups networked together, including the International Anarchist Defence Fund and various anarchist black cross groups across the world. We’re releasing this in the run up to the 2025 Week of Solidarity With Anarchist Prisoners (or WOSWOP), August 23-30th, in which people are invited to gather, connect and take action against borders and...
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Simplicity (with Mattie Lubchansky)
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This week, Ian talks with cartoonist about her new book, , out July 29 from Pantheon Graphic Library. The conversation touches on Mattie’s work as Associate Editor for The Nib, her history with comics, and her ambitions beyond the printed page, but mostly focuses on the role of art in organizing and living our politics amid all the compromises required of life in the Real World. Instagram: x/twitter: website: tour: bluesky: podcast website: podcast bluesky: . … . .. Featured Track: Take The ‘A’ Train by Duke Ellington from The Duke - The Essential Collection (1927-1962)...
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Mutual Aid in CA's Fire Country (with Dani Burlison)
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This week, we’re sharing this a chat with my friend, Dani Burlson on her recent book, ! We speak about fire ecology, housing pressures and mutual aid in the wake of natural (and human caused) disaster. Check the show notes for links to a few projects mentioned. You can find more of Dani’s writings at D, books listed , and more by Caw at Northern CA projects mentioned: Southern CA projects mentioned: . ... . .. Featured Track: Be Yourself by Air Power from Be Yourself 12"
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Labor Resistance on Vinyl (with Josh MacPhee + Kennedy Block)
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This week, we’re sharing a recent interview with Kennedy Block and Josh MacPhee, editors of from Common Notions. We speak about audio strike records, their role, what they tell us about the struggles they cover or were produced to amplify, and a bit about where music and popular resistance stand today. Until the end of the month, the book is available from with a 15% discount if you check out using the code: strike15 . Josh can be reached on instagram via or via email at They’re also both involved with (which produced audio of this collection of Stop Cop City communiques for their...
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DFW Support Committee, A Better World Bookfair + Save The UNCA Woods
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This week on the podcast, we’re featuring three segments. First up, A member of DFW Support Committee, then organizers of the A Better World Bookfair in Waynesboro, VA and finally, organizers working to save the UNCA woods Transcript PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PDF) DFW Support Committee First up, you’ll hear a member of the DFW Support Committee supporting the defendants arrested on and around July 4th in relation to a solidarity noise demonstration outside the Prairieland ICE Detention Facility in Alvarado, Texas, in which a local police officer was injured. We speak about...
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Learning Together From Uprisings (InterRebellium with sub.Media)
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This week, we’re sharing an interview with Heatscore and Nuke of sub.Media about their new documentary series, InterRebellium. The first episode, entitled El Estallido Social about the social uprising that flared up in 2019 in lands controlled by the state of Chile featuring anarchist and Mapuche voices on the conditions in which the uprising developed, experiences of it and its aftermath. You can view the film for free at alongside materials for discussion. We also speak about the role of film and media production in radical organizing and critique and upcoming episodes of the series. ...
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Christian Nationalism, Apocalyptic Visions + Child Welfare (with Talia Lavin)
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This week, we’re sharing an interview with Talia Lavin, author of . In this chat, we speak about her more recent book, . There’s a lot in the book, most of it pretty disturbing (especially, I’m sure, for anyone who is ex-vangelical) and there is discussion of hateful ideology and child abuse and corporal punishment, though not in lurid detail, so listener discretion is advised. We hope to cover related topics in the future. Links: Newsletter: Instagram: Bluesky: . ... . .. Featured Track: Voice Of God Is Government by Bad Religion from How Could Hell Be Any Worse
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Rapid Responses To Immigration Raids + Homeless Sweeps in So Cal
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This week on the show we feature an interview with two anarchists activists in southern California about the recent resistance to Federal-led immigration raids in Los Angeles and the wider region. Both guests speak about their experiences working in rapid response structures to immigration raids, to anti-homeless sweeps and other community needs over the years and how they’ve changed as conditions and technologies have changed. We talk about inviting and engaging new activists and some strategies that showed success. Some great writings from the streets can be found at Ediciones Ineditas: ....
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Anarchism and Disability, plus A-Radio Segments
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This week, we spoke with Richard Amm, a member of the , or DARK, which they describe as a disabled-led group working to make disability perspectives, history, and research more accessible to a general audience. Amar and Richard speak about disability, eugenics, radical history the Corona virus and other topics. You can learn more about the project at [ 00:01:42 - 00:41:08 ] DARK Links Writings by the collective: A recent article by Richard: Notes on Mike Oliver’s contributions to The Social Model on wikipedia: Then we’ll feature two segments from the , the English-language...
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A History of Anarchist Prisoner Support (with Matt Hart) + June 11, 2025
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This week on the Final Straw Radio, we’re sharing an interview with Matt Hart of the Los Angeles Anarchist Black Cross chapter of the ABC Federation. We talk about the book Matt just released via PM Press, an expanded edition of Boris Yelensky’s history of anarchist prisoner support , illustrated by . Matt talks about the work of the , ABC’s pre-history with the Narodnik movement in mid-19th century Russia, prisoner defense under the nihilist movement, some moments in resistance and mutual aid through the following hundred and fifty years or so, some colorful moments and comrades up into...
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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"