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• Countering Dispossession in Casiavera, Indonesia (with David E Gilbert)
  
  April 27th, 2025
  

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  This week you’ll hear our chat with the author of Countering Dispossession: Reclaiming Land: A Social Movement Ethnography, 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 https://DavidEGilbert.Com

  If you’re listening to the radio edition, we suggest you check out the podcast at our website or on various streaming services listed at tfsr.media .

  Links:

  • The Black Snake: Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice by Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys
  • Via Campesina: https://viacampesina.org/
  • Landless Workers Movement (MST): https://mst.org.br/
  • Sarakhat Patani Indonesia (SPI): https://spi.or.id/
  • Mentions of Tan Malaka in the Southeast Asian Anarchist Library (https://sea.theanarchistlibrary.org/search?query=tan+malaka ) or writings on Marxists.Org (https://www.marxists.org/archive/malaka/ )
  • Feed’em Freedom Foundation (Detroit): https://feedemfreedom.org/
  • Our interviews on the ZAD: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/?s=zad
  • Grassroots Indonesian Eco-movement Wahli: https://www.walhi.or.id/

  Announcement

  May Day

  Happy upcoming May Day, comrades known and unknown! I hope that wherever you are and whatever you do, you’re surrounded by siblings in love and struggle, you can take pleasure in the beauty of the world around you, take strength from our predecessors who share our vision of a life unencumbered by state / capital & the other anchors foisted upon our shoulders, and with the energy to create a path towards our desires

  Angel Espinosa Villegas

  We had an interview scheduled with Angel Espinosa Villegas, a trans masc butch dyke, formerly a 2020 uprising prisoner who was transferred to ICE detention for deportation, however the screws seem to have decided to escalate the deportation to Chile rather than let hir continue to speak to the media. Keep an eye out for upcoming interviews with Angel, and consider checking out hir GoFundMe, linked in our show notes.

  Supporting The Show

  Hey listeners… we’ve had a string of early releases with more on the way coming out through our patreon for supporters at $3 or more a month, alongside other thank-you gifts. If you can kick in and help, the funds go to our online hosting, and creation of promotional materials like shirts and stickers, but MOSTLY to funding our transcription efforts. We hate to ask for money, but if you have the capacity to kick us a few bucks a month, either through the patreon or via venmo, paypal or librepay or by buying some merch from us (we have a few 3x, 4x & 5x sized tshirts in kelly green coming soon), we’d very much appreciate the support. We’re hoping to make a big sticker order in the near future.

  If you need another motivator, the 15^th anniversary of The Final Straw Radio is coming up on May 9^th, 2025 and we are not above accepting birthday presents. That’s 15 years of weekly audio (albeit at the beginning it was more music than talk), including 8 of which 7 of which aren’t in our podcast stream (you can find some early show examples in this link _by skipping to the last page of posts on our blog).

  Other ways to support us include rating and reviewing us on google, apple, amazon and the other podcasting platforms, printing out and mailing our interviews into prisoners, using our audio or text as the basis for a discussion of an ongoing movement, contacting your local radio station to get us on the airwaves, and talking about us to others in person or on social media.

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  • Judas Goat by Filastine from Burn It (a benefit for Green Scare defendants)

  
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• Pushing Back On Flock Cameras with Kate Bertash
  
  April 13th, 2025
  

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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.

  To hear the full episode, check out our website or on various streaming services.

  Good Links:

  • https://www.katebertash.com/projects
  • https://adversarialfashion.com/
  • https://deflock.me/
  • https://atlasofsurveillance.org/

  Articles on the subject:

  • https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/how-to-pump-the-brakes-on-your-police-departments-use-of-flocks-mass-surveillance-license-plate-readers
  • (Maybe visit with TOR or a VPN?) https://unravel.noblogs.org/birds-of-a-feather-destroy-a-flock-together/
  • https://www.forbes.com/sites/larsdaniel/2024/10/22/warrantless-surveillance-federal-lawsuit-challenges-flock-safety-cameras/
  • https://www.404media.co/fusus-ai-cameras-took-over-town-america/
  • https://www.404media.co/lawsuit-argues-warrantless-use-of-flock-surveillance-cameras-is-unconstitutional/
  • https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/neighborhood-watch-out-cops-are-incorporating-private-cameras-their-real-time

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  • Somebody’s Watching Me (Instrumental) by Rockwell

  
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• Solidarity Collectives: 3 years into the Full-scale Russian Invasion in Ukraine
  
  April 6th, 2025
  

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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 structures, the state of the armed resistance, impacts of changes in the US administration and more, so if you’d like to hear the full chat, we suggest you check out the online streaming version or podcast at our website.

  Solidarity Collective Links:

  • Website listing ways to support different sectors of work: https://solidaritycollectives.org/en/support/
  • youtube and kolektiva channels, with interviews of comrades fighting and yearly reports of activity playlists:
    • https://www.youtube.com/@sol_col
    • https://kolektiva.media/c/solidarity.collectives
  • Libcom blog: https://libcom.org/tags/solidarity-collectives

  Sol Col socials:

  • mastodon: https://social.edist.ro/@solidaritycollectives
  • bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/solcolua.bsky.social
  • telegram :https://t.me/SolidarityCollectives
  • instagram: https://www.instagram.com/solidaritycollectives/
  • Twitter: https://x.com/SolidarityColl1
  • FB: https://www.facebook.com/SolidarityCollectives

  Anton’s  work related socials:

  • bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/antonkolcol.bsky.social
  • mastodon: https://social.edist.ro/@[email protected]

  Other Links:

  • Past interviews on Ukraine: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/category/ukraine/
  • Timothy Snyder about Ukrainian history :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJczLlwp-d8&list=PLhTRXzDqRJxjwJVIddAFOF3Eg8OESGiSM
  • Comrades reviewing far right violence activities in Ukraine since 2018: https://violence-marker.org.ua/en/

  Media About the 3 Internationalist Anarchists Who Fell April 19, 2023:

  • Dmitry Petrov was interviewed under a psuedonym on this episode of our show: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2022/02/25/anarchists-in-ukraine-against-war/
  • Memorial page on Crimethinc for Dmitry: https://crimethinc.com/2023/05/03/in-memory-of-dmitry-petrov-an-incomplete-biography-and-translation-of-his-work
  • Documentary on Finbar (English subtitles available): https://www.tg4.ie/en/player/home/?pid=6347744855112
  • Remembering Cooper Andrews: https://itsgoingdown.org/remembering-cooper-andrews/

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  • Не забудем і не пробачим (“We Wont Forgive and We Won’t Forget) – SKOFKA

  
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• Prefiguring Autonomy: Student-led Social Movement in Serbia Shake The Government
  
  March 23rd, 2025
  

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  This week, we speak with Ilik and Koko, two students from Serbia, and another anarchist comrade who participated in student and other movements earlier in this century to speak about the anti-corruption protest that have rocked the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) government of president Vučić’ since the deadly collapse of a recently opened concrete train platform canopy in Novi Sad on November 1st 2024, so far killing 16 people. Starting with student demands for transparency and accountability from the government that were answered with violence and subterfuge, the protests have grown and drawn from wider and wider portions of the public into millions taking the streets, creating autonomous assemblies and plenums rejecting the political parties. The guests speak about the growth, the reactions against it, and the possibilites they see in what has the seeds that could bring it from social movement to social revolution.

  If you’re listening to the radio edition, you’re missing about 1/3 of the interview. You can find the rest (plus Sean Swain) at our website.

  Some other reading sources (thanks Rey!)

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%E2%80%93present_Serbian_anti-corruption_protests
  • https://www.masina.rs/eng/
  • https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/53121/serbian-students-are-reimagining-what-society-could-be
  • https://biltenstanar.rs/en/analysis/student-protests-and-changes-without-politics/

  
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• Jay Ward on Hunger Strike + Antifascists Organizing in Europe
  
  March 16th, 2025
  

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  Three segements this week…

  Jay Ward Hunger Strike

  

  First up, a recent interview with James “Jay” Ward. Jay was featured in a show about a year ago: he went into prison at 15 years old in Ohio and has been in for 19 years at this point. He participated in the 2018 Nationwide Prisoner Strike as well as other self-advocacy protests since and is trying to raise funds with his outside supporters to pay for a lawyer to help him win his release as his mandatory minimum date comes up next year. When this was recorded, Jay was 11 days into a hunger strike demanding a return of his personal items and a transfer to a space where he won’t be targeted for violence by gangs, alongside a couple of other requests listed in his letter at the end of this post. You can hear how tired he is from subsisting only on water for the last week and a half, struggling to keep focus and concentrate on the conversation throughout our chat. You can find his gofundme for updates and ways to donate.

  If you want to support his hunger strike, his supporters are requesting people call between 9am and 5pm central time (Mon-Fri) the following numbers to voice concern for the safety and conditions of James Ward A517461 on hunger strike :

  • Mansfield Correctional Institution at 419-525-4455 and ask to talk to Warden Harold May
  • the Central ODRC office at 614-387-0588

  At the bottom of our show notes you can find Jay’s public announcement of his circumstances and requests. You can also email your concerns to [email protected] as well as to the ODRC Director Annette Chambers-Smith (via [email protected] ).

  Jay is wanting people to reach out to contact him via his mailing address (below) or JPay.com (using the info in his mailing address):

  James Ward A517461
  Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction
  Mail Processing Center (OMPC)
  884 Coitsville-Hubbard Road
  Youngstown, Ohio 44505

  Antifascist Voices in Europe

  Then you’ll hear an interview conducted by our comrades at crna luknja in Ljubljana, Slovenia with antifascists countering neonazi demonstrations in Budapest, Hungary, and Sofia, Bulgaria. This was featured in the latest episode of B(A)D News from the A-Radio Network, a monthly podcast from a network that we affiliate with and worth checking out for “angry voices from around the world”.

  Finally, you’ll hear Sean Swain’s promise for a brighter, goldener era for the USA (and subsequently the world)

  Announcements

  Malik Muhammad Phone Zap

  There’s a phone zap currently on to move 2020 “Palestinian pansexual Muslim… anarchist antifascist, anti-racist abolitionist” prisoner Malik Muhammad out of solitary confinement at Snake River Correctional in Oregon.

  Call Snake River Correctional with the following demands weekdays between 9am and 5pm pacific time:

  • Return Malik to general inmate population;
  • Restore communications rights and mail;
  • Return all books and possessions immediately;
  • End the persecution now!

  Master Control: 541-881-5018
  Superintendent: 541-881-5002
  Inspector: 541-881-5081
  Chaplains: 541-881-4624, 541-881-4625, 541-881-4626, 541-881-4686
  General Line: 541-881-5000

  Please write to Malik and let him know you stand with him!

  Malik Muhammad #23935744
  Snake River Correctional Institution
  777 Stanton Blvd
  Ontario, OR 97914-8335

  *Note*: Please include page numbers and return addresses on each page because the prison typically does not give inmates the envelopes.

  Statement from Jay on his conditions

  This is Jay’s letter to the head of the Ohio DRC:

  Dear Annette chambers-smith

  This is James Ward from ManCI. The last time I wrote to you I had explained a lot to you that has been going on here concerning my safety. And after that letter the administration got mad at me for going to you because they have not been trying to do anything to really ensure my safety here at Mansfield. And I’m writing you again because I don’t know who else to go to with my recent situation and concerns, because nobody has been helpful. And currently, my safety is back at risk.

  About 7 months ago right before the admin got the letter I sent you, UMC Henry got me placed in unit 4B (the faith based block here), mainly for my safety concerns. Every block that I’ve been put in since I been here, I’ve became a victim to gangs and have also got a hit put on me, which UMC Henry and the rest other admin doesn’t want to believe although they seen and heard proof. So it makes it to where I have to go on PC invest, suicide watch or hunger strike to ensure my safety. But I honestly don’t like being in the hole unless I legitimately did something wrong. So my current situation is that I am on hunger strike to ensure my safety, but also for other reasons that I will explain.

  When I got put in 4B, its an inmate that the unit refers to as frank (4B/128 bottom) and they basically let him control the operation of the block. How? He’s been in that block for a long time and manages the faith base programs, etc. But due to the reputation he has built up with the unit staff, Sgt Knowlton and others believes everything he tells them. So when I first got moved over their, I was honestly selling food to people that didn’t have any. But frank went to the unit and told them that I was selling drugs to try and get me moved out of the block. The unit called me over and talked to me about it and I stopped selling food for awhile. I was do in everything I was required to do and haven’t got no ticket. Recently, I was trying to organize a group meal for people that really didn’t have much. And an inmate named Green wanted to be involved. But when I told Green that a prisoner support group was going to do a fundraiser to raise the money for the meal he backed out. He then went to inmate frank and told frank that I was trying to scam people and get them outside cases. Franks celly told me that frank said this and was going to put a stop to what I was doing. Next thing you know I’m on the list to move out of the block ( I was sent to 2B). I then sent a kite to Sgt. Knowlton and basically asked him why I got moved and also told him things that frank and others are doing in that block, but he disregarded everything I told him and only told me “you were doing too much, use your imagination”. So I then kited UMC Henry and told him what happened and he said he’d look into it. But before Henry could let me know anything, my Cally told me that someone wanted him to take the hit on me. I then went on suicide watch to ensure my safety. Because PC invest has not gotten me anything and they put you in a cell with someone else that can have their family look you up. That’s what people do here (sneak thru your stuff to find your ID number and have their family look you up). And I also started my hunger strike because I know that the admin won’t do anything to help me.

  Recently, henry talked to me and said that he will investigate what happened in 4B, but that a hunger strike isn’t how I will get moved back. But for me to go to a regular block while he investigates. And I get it that a hunger strike is not the way to get moved back, but I refuse to go to a regular block where my safety will be at risk. Henry wanting me to go to a regular block while he investigates is like saying go get jumped on while I look into this. 4C is the only block here that I will be safe in, because its the intake block (all of the new people that don’t know anything about e hit on me goes to that block), but Henry will not put me there.

  During the time that I was on PC invest before I got moved to 4B, I found out that property of mine came up missing from the TPU vault. While I was in TPU I was writing complaints on LT. Brooks and Sgt. Risner for not allowing me to do my 2.4. The end result was that the active AIIS at the time (B. Lower) and the IIS D. Blankenship falsified a modified response to my complaint to make it seem like I was lying and that they found the items in my cell. But 2 days before Lower came to search my cell, I was called to the inspectors office concerning my lost property because someone in your office wanted to know what property was I talking about in my complaint. So I told them everything and that a theft report was filed. But the theft report was not put on onbase yet, so lower had to contact the block officer that wrote it (officer Comstock). So they called me back up to the inspectors office and offered to reimburse me with $42+ on my commissary and a few items from contraband. So I told them I’d think about it. They called me back up the next day and I told them I didn’t want it because they wouldn’t replace everything I was missing. So the next day after that is when lower came to search my cell. And when he left he told me that I should have taken the deal. After that, IIS Blankenship wrote 13 false statements in her modified response, which is a criminal offence that I can prove with the paperwork that I have. And now they have lower walking around as a Lt. Blankenship was already caught falsifying state documents in Darryl Smith’ lawsuit.

  I been 5 years R.I.B ticket free. 3 of those years was when I was in level 4. I been here 2 years with no real trouble. The first year when I went up for my security review it was said that I needed time to adjust. This past year when I went up, the admin recommended level decrease. But then I find out that I didn’t get my level dropped, because an incident that took place 8 years ago and isn’t true. The BOC said that my level decrease was denied because I tried to kill a staff. I’ve never been a threat to anybody since I been locked up. And the time that they referred to is when I had just got put in a regular cell on suicide watch. They didn’t have a crisis cell to use. So the cuff port had to stay open. And I had joked with the officer saying that I found a razor, so without really knowing if I had one he sprayed me in the face with OC. So they removed me from the cell to clean it, but they never found a razor. And I told them not to put that officer back on my watch cuz he sprayed me for no reason, and I was honestly mad. But they put him back on my watch. So to try and get him off my watch, in a fast motion I acted like I was reaching out to grab him. He was too far from the door for me to grab or anything, but he wrote me up saying that I tried to cut him with a razor. And they never allowed me to go to my R.I.B or SMP hearing. But that happened 8 years ago. And majority of that time since then I have continuously show a dramatic change in my behavior with no R.I.B tickets. I believe the only reason my level decrease was denied is because UMC Henry contacted someone in your office to find something that they can use against me to hold me here. Because I have wrote complaints against Henry and wrote that letter to you. And he knows how much I been wanting to leave this prison, but he won’t transfer me even though my safety is continuously at risk here.

  Lastly! I have chronic damage in both of my shoulders that causes them to be able to dislocate if I’m not paying attention to how I use my arms, mainly only when it comes to having my arms outstretched or if I have to climb something. The last time I was placed on the top bunk, my left shoulder dislocated when I was trying to climb up. I feel backwards and busted my head open on a dresser, then on the floor. And that is in my medical record from when I was at W.C.I. And since then, I have had many other dislocations that is in my medical record. I was given bottom rack restriction each time, but I never really needed it since I been at level 4. Since I been here I been trying to get it back but medical tells me its not required for my injuries. They gave it to me for 3 months and that was it. If my shoulder dislocates while trying to climb onto the top bunk and I bust my head open again, then I can sue the medical department for negligence and deliberate indifference because I have told them about my chronic dislocations and they choose not to do anything about it.

  All I ask for:
  1) My property to be replaced
  2) My bottom bunk restriction
  3) My level decreased so I can leave ManCI
  4) If I can’t get 3, then I ask to be placed in 4C for the remaining time that I’m at ManCI

  These are reasonable request and within reason.

  
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• Bodily Autonomy and Health Education In An Easy To Swallow Package (Abortion Pill Zine)
  
  March 9th, 2025
  

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  This week, we’re sharing an interview Ian conducted with cartoonists Isabella Rotman, Sage Coffey, and Marnie Galloway on the subject of the Abortion Pill Zine: A Community Guide to Misoprostol and Mifepristone out now from Silver Sprocket (and freely readable on their website). They discuss the process by which this resource was assembled, the benefits of local, focused abortion organizing, the timeliness and timelessness of the fight for safe abortion care, and the power of comics to disseminate valuable and complex information.

  Links

  • https://store.silversprocket.net/products/abortion-pill-zine-a-community-guide-to-misoprostol-and-mifepristone-by-isabella-rotman-sage-coffey-marnie-galloway
  • https://wetestify.org/
  • https://www.liberatingabortion.org/ by Renee Bracey Sherman of We Testify
  • SASS: https://abortionpillinfo.org/
  • Euki app: https://www.every.org/euki-app
  • If-When-How: https://ifwhenhow.org/
  • Abortion Legal Defense Fund: https://nwlc.org/abortion-access-legal-defense-fund/
  • Plan-C: https://www.plancpills.org/
  • National Abortion Funds https://abortionfunds.org/
  • https://www.heyjane.com/how-it-works
  • Jessica Valenti: Abortion Everyday https://jessica.substack.com/

  Announcements

  BAD News for February 2025

  The A-Radio Network of anarchist and antiauthoritarian radios and podcasts just released the latest in their monthly series, B(A)D News: Angry Voices From Around The World for February 2025, episode 88. This one features Parias from Athens sharing an interview about resisting wind farms and green developmentalism in the Greek mountains as well as Črna luknja from Ljubljana speaking with antifascists from Budapest and Sofia about resisting Europes largest annual neo-nazi rally, the LukovMarch.

  Support for Anarchists in Sudan

  You can read a short publication by the Sudan Anarchist Gathering called Al-Amal in English thanks to the translation work of CNT-AIT France (or the original Arabic as well) at this blog. From the blog:

  If you want to receive the next
  issues, please contact us : [email protected]
  If you want to support financially the Sudan Anarchist Gathering, you can use our paypal
  https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/cntait1
  (please validate “Sending ‘money to an individual’ to pay less bank charges) Send an email to [email protected] to inform us of the donation and also so that we can keep you informed of its use.

  
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• Military Decruitment, Trump 2.0 and Resisting New Empire (with Fig of About Face)
  
  March 2nd, 2025
  

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  This week, we’re featuring an interview with Fig, an anarchist and member of the anti-Imperialist US veterans organization About Face to talk about decruitment, the work of About Face and an assessment of shifts in military priority under the lead of Hegseth towards the southern US border and the Trump administration 2.0’s multi-polar spin. There’s a lot here and we’ll have a transcript in the near future. To hear the whole chat, check out our blog post or the streaming platforms at https://tfsr.wtf

  • About Face: https://aboutfaceveterans.org/
  • GI Rights Hotline: https://girightshotline.org/
  • Military Law Task Force of the NLG: https://nlgmltf.org/
  • a recent Politico article considering some military focus shifts discussed in this chat

  Past veteran interviews on TFSR:

  • Graham Clumpner pt 1 & pt 2 (2020)
  • Eddie Falcon (2013)

  
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• 5 Months After Hurricane Helene in Barnardsville, NC
  
  February 23rd, 2025
  

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  This week we’re sharing recent chat with Jazz and Badger, two residents of Barnardsville, a small village just outside of Asheville, NC. We spoke about the community, the impact of Hurricane Helene, some lessons learned from coordinating among the neighbors and how people are faring now, nearly 5 months out from the storm. You can find their website at MutualAidBarnardsville.com

  If you’re listening to the radio edition, you can find the full ep at our website or listen on various streaming platforms listed at TFSR.WTF. To hear similar stories from after the storm you can find links to past interviews here. Also mentioned were interviews recorded by Blue Ridge Public Radio: Voices of Helene.

  Articles on recovery referenced:

  • https://www.bpr.org/bpr-news/2025-01-13/are-fema-rules-to-blame-for-slow-wnc-housing-recovery-heres-what-we-learned
  • https://www.newsweek.com/fema-kicking-hurricane-survivors-housing-administrator-responds-2013660
  • https://www.bpr.org/bpr-news/2025-02-03/gov-stein-calls-for-1-07-billion-in-state-funding-for-helene-recovery

  Recent Storm Support for EKY, ETN, SWVA + WV

  Recent floods in middle Appalachia in the middle of an intense winter cold snap have left many without potable water or other basic needs. ATV donation / loan / operation request to help check on people in hollers, help clear roads, drive supplies: reach out to theferalraccoon (a t) proton (d ot) me OR MutualAidDisasterRelief ( at) gmail (do t) com.

  EKY

  One place you can look for where to send resources is Eastern KY Mutual Aid, found on Instagram or Facebook under the name Hillbillies Helping Hillbillies. And you can find out more by visiting the website or checking social media for Mutual Aid Disaster Relief. Some of the useful links are here for those unable to use the platforms:

  • EKY Mutual Aid Patreon
  • Volunteer form if in the region
  • EKY Mutual Aid Cashapp: $SoupBeansFriedTaters
  • EKY Mutual Aid Paypal: @EKYMutualAid

  In Pikeville, KY, there’s a request for food grade 5 gallon for water filtration where municipal water isn’t running or wells are contaminated there’s a request for restaurants to save buckets for water filtration. People interested can contact Cara at 859_533_0349

  DROP OFF LOCATION:
  Pike Central HS
  100 Winners Circle Drive Pikeville, KY 41501

  Other EKY sites:

  • Appalachian Crisis Aid Fund
  • The Y’all Squad TheYallSquad.org/donate

  SWVA

  • SAMS Lonesome Pine Mutual Aid Paypal: @SAMSVA
  • The Care Collective of SW VA Venmo: @carecollectiveofswva
  • Cumberland Mountain Mutual Aid
    • Paypal: cumberlandmountainmutualaid (a t) gmail (d o t) com
    • Venmo: @CMMAID
    • CashApp: $CMMUTUALAID

  WV

  • WVUMC Disaster Response Ministries WVUMC.org/donate
  • Bluejay Rising BluejayRising.org/donate
  • Spark of Love Foundation
    • CashApp: $sparkoflove4thekids
    • PayPal: The Spark of Love Foundation

  ETN

  • Disaster Relief at Work https://www.drawbuckets.org/donate

  
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• Surveillance Self Defense, Encrypted Chat Apps and Securing Devices with Thorin Klosowski
  
  February 16th, 2025
  

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  This week, a conversation with Thorin Klosowski of the Electronic Frontier Foundation about some basic tools and ideas for keeping our information a little safer online and the Surveillance Self-Defense site, ssd.eff.org . We discuss device encryption, tor-browser, vpns, encrypted messaging apps like WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram as well as password vaults. I’m hoping this’ll be the first of a few interviews to try to make digital security concepts a little more accessible.

  To hear a longer version of this chat, check out our website.

  • Consumer Reports Digital Security and Privacy site (including personal planning app): https://www.consumerreports.org/digital-security-privacy/
  • https://www.404media.co/
  • https://www.theverge.com/
  • https://techcrunch.com/

  
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• CIMA on Community Defense Against ICE + Kristian Williams on the Comics of Alan Moore
  
  February 9th, 2025
  

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  This week on the show, we’re sharing two interviews.

  First up, Dulce, a member of Companeros Inmigrantes en las Montanas en Accion, or CIMA, a local organizing and advocacy group by and for immigrants in western NC about her experience working for dignity and solidarity in light of the current and past administrations. More on CIMA can be found at CIMAWNC.Org

  Then, Ian speaks with Kristian Williams, author of Gang Politics, Resist Everything Except Temptation, and Our Enemies in Blue, among others, about his recent book, The Illuminist: Philosophical Explanations in the work of Alan Moore. The chat touches upon Moore’s work and its anarchist underpinnings, his legacy in and out of comics, the necessity of imagination, and the possibilities that arise from death and disaster. The book is available from emergencyhearts.com, emergencyhearts.bandcamp.com, and kristianwilliams.com. You can find past interviews we’ve done with Kristian here.

  To hear the full podcast version, including Sean Swain’s segment, check out our website.

  
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• “From Hash Rebels to Urban Guerrillas” with Gabriel Kuhn
  
  February 2nd, 2025
  

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  Today we’re sharing an interview recorded this week with Gabriel Kuhn speaking about the West German urban guerrilla group the 2nd of June Movement, the book he co-edited on this subject entitled From Hash Rebels to Urban Guerrillas: A Documentary History of the 2nd of June Movement (from PM Press and Kersplebedb), the milieu from which it arose, how it compared to other groups at the time like the Red Army Faction, and some of the legacy of their critiques and interventions on radical politics in the autonomen movement and beyond.

  For the hour we speak about the context from which the 2nd of June Movement grew (alongside the Red Army Faction, Revolutionary Cells and others) in the 1970’s, their goals and actions, the timing of the book and the legacy that these groups left to German society and the autonomous movements that continued. If you’re listening to the radio edition, to hear the full conversation plus Sean Swain’s segment, you can find it at our website or various streaming services.

  • Our prior interview with Gabriel on Liberating Sapmi
  • Gabriel’s blog: https://lefttwothree.org/
  • A blog collecting documents of this period: http://germanguerilla.com/

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  Featured Track:

  • 5:45 by Gang of Four from The Peel Sessions

  
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• The Ampelokipoi Case, Repression and Anti-Repression in Greece
  
  January 26th, 2025
  

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  This week, we are sharing an interview with a member of the Solidarity Fund for Imprisoned and Persecuted Revolutionaries, or Tameio. We talk about the case of the explosion in an apartment in the Athens district of Ampelokipi from late October of 2024 which left comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris dead and left Marianna badly injured, after which there have been arrests of four other comrades (so far), including Nikos Romanos. Some supporters of those arrested believes the case is the New Democracy government distracting from their economic collapse by increasing repression and the spectre of terrorism

  We also speak about the anti-repression landscape that Tameio participates in, the end of asylum protections against police on university campuses and difficulties faced by the anti-authoritarian and anarchist movements in Greece today.

  • https://tameio.net
  • https://athens.indymedia.org/
  • Nikos Romanos’ letter on the case from December 5^th, 2024: https://actforfree.noblogs.org/2024/12/08/letter-from-anarchist-comrade-nikos-romanos-from-korydallos-prison-greece/

  
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• Forced Labor, Living Conditions, Opacity and Impunity in Texas Prisons (with Michelle Pitcher)
  
  January 19th, 2025
  

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  We’re sharing a recent interview with Michelle Pitcher of the Texas Observer about living conditions and forced labor in the TDCJ, the Texas prison system. You can reach Michelle at [email protected] or follow her at @michellepitcher.bsky.social .

  • https://www.texasobserver.org/prison-heat-lawsuit-tdcj/
  • https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-prison-plantations
  • https://www.texasobserver.org/solidarity-prison-labor-union/

  Our prior interview with Jason Walker (more of his writings at his blog) can be found here (with a transcript available). And our prior chat with Comrade Z can be found here.

  
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• We (MUST) Keep Us Safe: An interview with a Long-Term, Anonymous Anarchist Comrade on Repression, Trauma, Security Culture, and Revolutionary Solidarity
  
  January 12th, 2025
  

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  This week, we’re featuring an anonymized chat with a longtime anarchist on lessons learned trying to be free while being targeted by state repression. We talk about experiencing trauma, the need for strong relationships and movements offering shelter and strong alternatives to the alienated society of state and capital, while also speaking on the challenges of mental health and inviting in new participants in anarchist movement.

  • Podcast Transcript

  You can find the zine of the full interview (including curses) on our blog post alongside the full hour and forty minutes of conversation plus Sean Swain segment.

  Descending References and Resources List According to Interview:

  Green Scare Background

  • Green Scare Intro and Article References
  • Mainstream Media Story (MSM Story): The Green Scare: How a Movement That Never Killed Anyone Became the FBI’s No. 1 Domestic Terrorism Threat
  • TFSR Interviews:
    • Green Is The New Red with Will Potter
    • Eric McDavid after his release

  Grand Juries

  • CLDC: Grand Juries
  • Surviving a Grand Jury: Three Narratives from Grand Jury Resisters
  • People’s Law Office: The Improper Use of the Federal Grand Jury: An Instrument for the Internment of Political Activists
  • Surviving a Grand Jury What it means to resist a grand jury; stories from those who have; how to support North Carolina grand jury resistance (PodCast)

  Border Detention

  • Crossing the United States Border A Security Guide for Citizens and Non-Citizens

  Police Visitation

  • Center for Constitutional Rights: If An Agent Knocks Resource
  • When the Police Knock on Your Door Your Rights and Options: A Legal Guide and Poster
  • If the FBI Approaches You to Become an Informant An FAQ: What You Need to Know
  • National Lawyers Guild: If An Agent Knocks

  On Phone and Digital Security Culture

  • Taking Ourselves Seriously: Digital Harm Reduction (PDF Format)
  • Electronic Frontier Foundation: Mainstream Resource and Non-Profit Advocate for Digital Privacy

  Infiltration Cases:

  • MSM Story on Mark Kennedy: How a Married Undercover Cop Having Sex With Activists Killed a Climate Movement
  • TFSR interview on Spy Cops
  • MSM Story on Eric McDavid case: Manufacturing Terror: An FBI Informant Seduced Eric McDavid Into a Bomb Plot. Then the Government Lied About It
  • Earth First!: Informants List

  Anti-Repression Resources:

  • NYC Anarchist Black Cross
  • Support Defendants & Prisoners From the George Floyd Uprisings
  • TFSR interview: Anti-Repression, Supporting Uprising and Anarchist Prisoners
  • A Tilted Guide to Being a Defendant (PDF Zine)

  J20 Case

  • Lessons from #DefendJ20 on Building Movement Defense Against Repression

  Sobriety Discussion

  • Sobriety and Anarchist Struggle (PDF Version)

  Mental Health/Trauma/Burn Out

  • Survivors Manual: Surviving In Solitary (PDF)
  • Sub.Media video: Redefining Sanity Through Struggle
  • Conflictual Wisdom: On Burning Out and Anarchist Self-Preservation
  • Against the Struggle of the Coward: A Note of Strength for the Underdogs
  • Repression, Resiliency, & Movement Support: An Interview
  • Solidarity Apothecary (Podcast)
  • Broader Wellness Resources by Mutual Aid Disaster Relief
  • Trauma & Recovery Brochure (PDF)
  • Solidarity Is Greater Than Fear: Lessons from G20 to Stop Cop City (Youtube Link)
  • A Life Worth Living: Care, Survival, Suicide, and Grief (Zine Resource on the Subjects)

   

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  Featured Track:

  • Hold Onto Each Other by Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band from Horses In The Sky

  
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• All Will Be Equalized with Andrew Zonneveld and Modibo Kadalie (ACAB 2024)
  
  January 5th, 2025
  

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  This week, we’re sharing a recording of Andrew Zonneveld from the 2024 Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair talking about his book All Will Be Equalized!: Georgia’s Freedom Seekers of the Swamps, Backwoods, and Sea Islands 1526-1890 alongside his friend Modibo Kadalie. To see a video with the slides from the presentation, check out our youtube page.

   

  
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