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The Final Straw is an hour-long radio show that strives to provide information and contribute to awareness of and participation in self-liberatory activities around the world by providing a platform to English-language listeners to learn about current struggles and ideas. Simply stated, we promote non-sectarian Anarchism(s) to enrich the struggle and widen participation in the battles against Capital, State and Coercion. We believe that the liberation of each is tied to the liberation of all, and so we work to cover struggles against Prisons, Police, Sexism, Racism, Hetero-patriarchy and against Civilization. We support autogestion and autonomy.

The Final Straw has been operating since mid-2010 out of AshevilleFM.org, a freeform internet radio station in Asheville, North Carolina now broadcasting at WSFM-LP, 103.3 FM! The show is currently being rebroadcast on 88.1FM KWTF in Bodega Bay, CA. In Columbus, Ohio, we can be heard on WCRS-LP at 102.1 & 98.3 FM. In Olympia, Washington you can hear the show on the airwaves of KOWA-LP on 106.5 FM. And now, we can be heard Monday and Tuesday mornings on KWRK-LP at 90.9FM in Fairbanks, AK. Archives of the series can be found on archive.org. Please feel free to borrow, steal and modify the content to further spread the ideas. If you see fit to do so, please drop us an email at thefinalstrawradio(at)riseup( dot)net to let us know so we can brag about it!Archives of the show can be found at The Final Straw Radio website.

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  • Mutual Aid in the Wake of Hurricane Michael
    October 14th, 2018

    This week on The Final Straw Radio, we feature a conversation with Pearson, an anarchist resident of Tallahassee, Florida, and is involved in storm relief mutual aid work in the wake of Hurricane Michael. Pearson is also the co-host of the leftist podcast “Coffee With Comrades”. For the hour we talk about Hurricane Michael, which just passed through the Florida Panhandle and up through the Carolinas, affecting Georgia and Alabama as well.

  • An Indigenous Activist on Post Hurricane Relief in Eastern NC
    October 7th, 2018

    Airs on WSFM-LP 103.3 in Asheville / streaming at AshevilleFM from 3am…

  • Anarchist Approaches to Psychology and MAD Camp with Mango and Marin
    September 30th, 2018

    Airs on WSFM-LP 103.3 in Asheville / streaming at AshevilleFM from 3am…

  • Former Political Prisoner Zolo Azania
    September 23rd, 2018

    This week on The Final Straw radio we are sharing a chat that Bursts had with Zolo Agona Azania. Zolo is from Gary, Indiana where he lives now, working a job and also doing re-entry work with the formerly incarcerated and community service to break cycles of trauma. Zolo beat that death penalty from within prison twice and blocked a third attempt by the state to impose it. For the hour, Zolo talks about his life, his parents, his art, his education, his time behind bars, his political development, the Republic of New Africa, and his legal struggle.

  • Conflict Resolution Without the State with the Callisto Collective
    September 16th, 2018

    Airs on WSFM-LP 103.3 in Asheville / streaming at AshevilleFM…

  • SC Prisoner Speaks + Resisting Nuclear Waste in Bure, France
    September 9th, 2018

    This week, we feature two audios with y’all. The voice of a prisoner in SC as the 2018 #PrisonStrike ends and someone resisting Nuclear Waste in Bure, France.

  • Kevin Rashid Johnson on the #PrisonStrike2018 + Two Audio Zines
    September 2nd, 2018

    Airs on WSFM-LP 103.3 in Asheville / streaming at AshevilleFM…

  • Anti-Prison, Anti-Imperialist, Anti-Racist: Ray Luc Levasseur, PT2
    August 26th, 2018

    This is PT2 of Ray Luc Levasseur chatting with us, this time around his beginnings in politics during his participation in the Vietnam War, labor organizing alongside the Southern Student Organizing Committee in Clarksville, TN, his early incarceration at Brushy Mountain, the activities of Sam Melville / Jonathan Jackson Unit & United Freedom Front guerrilla formations in the so-called U.S., and the modern anti-racist struggle.

  • William C Anderson: On Blackness and Anarchy
    August 19th, 2018

    This week on The Final Straw, we are super pleased to present a talk given at the most recent Asheville Anarchist Bookfair by William C. Anderson, who co authored the book As Black As Resistance with Zoe Samudzi. The talk he is giving here is based heavily on the first chapter of the book called Black in Anarchy, and in addition to laying the groundwork of how he and Samudzi wrote the book, he speaks about the truly conditional nature of so called “citizenship” that many people living in the US face, the continuing evolution of race and the reliance of white supremacy to Black subjugation, and he places Blackness in proximity to Anarchy, and much more.

  • Asheville threatening Harm Reduction; SF Bay View with Mary Ratcliff
    August 12th, 2018

    This week on the show we feature two interviews: Hillary Brown is a volunteer at the Steady Collective and their ability to operate a harm reduction program around needle exchange and narcan distribution to stop overdoses in the midst of the #opiodCrisis in Appalachia, plus food distribution by 12 Baskets, is being threatened by the city of Asheville; Mary Ratcliff, the editor of 27 years of the San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper, with a print distribution of 20,000 copies around the U.S., including thousands behind bars.

  • Student/Community Organizing and Fighting Hopelessness with NoNEXUS Oberlin
    August 5th, 2018

    This week we had the opportunity to interview Isabel and Christopher, who are active in differing ways in the No NEXUS Oberlin campaign, one in a long series of anti pipeline pushes in Oberlin Ohio.

  • Donald Rooum, pt1: Author, Cartoonist + Anarchist
    July 29th, 2018

    This week, we invite you to listen in on the first part of a conversation we had with 90 year old anarchist, cartoonist and author, Donald Rooum. Donald was born 1928 in Bradford, UK. Donald is most known for his longtime illustration of the wiley, bomb-throwing, firebrand anarchist cartoon character, Wildcat.

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    July 22nd, 2018

    This week we feature an interview with Kanahus Manuel, who is a Secwepemc woman fighting against the Trans Mountain Pipeline (recorded by From Embers on CFRC, Kingston) and Sweet Pea about the 20 year strong Mattole Forest Blockades in Humblodt County California (recorded by Radical People Podcast).

  • Charles E. Cobb, Jr, on Armed Self-Defense in the Civil Rights Movement
    July 15th, 2018

    In this presentation, done on April 2nd 2018, Charles Cobb talks about his 2014 book “This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed”, which details his work from 1962 to 1967 for the SNCC (the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), the most influential youth and student organization during the Civil Rights Movement. He also fills in a much overlooked gap in the understanding of the Civil Rights Movement, that is, the lived experiences of Black people living in the rural South at this time, gives his insights on embedding in communities for social justice purposes, and draws lessons from those insights as they pertain to the current Movement for Black Lives. In this talk he is being interviewed by Carol, who is a long time comrade and friend.

  • End Prison Slavery: National Prison Strike 2018, Aug 21st- Sept 9
    July 8th, 2018

    This week Bursts had two conversations, both focusing on the upcoming Prisoner Strike from August 21st to September 9th, 2018, one with a member of IWOC and one with a Amani Sawari, a media liaison for some of the prisoners who called for the strike.

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