The Final Straw Radio

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The Final Straw Radio is a weekly, anarchist radio show based out of Asheville, NC. Its hosts, Bursts and William, work to bring listeners: timely info; insights from folks in struggle against injustice and for autonomy; thoughts and expressions from artists and authors working to enlighten and overcome sexism and racism; as well as stories from activists creating a world where our ecosystems are healed and where everyone shares power, across Turtle Island and beyond! We also produce an irregular tech security podcast that occasionally makes it into TFSR, called Error451.

You can find our episodes back to 2009 at our website, thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org, alongside projects that we affiliate with through the Channel Zero Network (of English-language anarchist podcasts) and The A-Radio Network (which produces a monthly anarchist news podcast in English called B(A)DNews). We love feedback, so please find out how to follow us on various social media presences and ways to contact us there as well, or drop us a letter at: TFSR, P.O. Box 6004, Asheville, NC 28816.

Topic tags: 
Activism, Civil Liberties, Government/Politics, Media
Streams: 
BooTwo - second stream
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Current

Anti-Fascist Struggle in Europe and Repression in Russia

Airs at: Mon, 02/04/2019 at 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Produced for:  The Final Straw Radio
This week, we feature two segments on the show: an interview with a Russian anarchist about the recent ramping up of torture and repression by the FSB in Russia against anarchists and anti-fascists  (00:14:13); and a chat with Patrick Strickland, author of "Alerta! Alerta!:... Read more

Norman Shamas updates on FOSTA and digital harm reduction

Airs at: Mon, 01/28/2019 at 4:00pm - Fri, 02/01/2019 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  The Final Straw Radio
This week, we continue our look at sex, work and the state with guest, Norman Shamas. Norman Shamas is an activist and educator whose work focuses on human-centered information and digital security and privacy. Now, Norman is not a lawyer but shares their insights about the... Read more

SWOP Behind Bars with Jill McCracken: Sex Work, Incarceration, and Intersections

Airs at: Mon, 01/21/2019 at 4:00pm - Fri, 01/25/2019 at 5:00pm
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Sex Worker Outreach Project Behind Bars w/ Dr. Jill McCracken This week, William spoke with Jill McCracken, codirector of SWOP Behind Bars, or the Sex Worker Outreach Project, Behind Bars chapter. Jill is also a professor at University of South Florida at St. Petersburg tea... Read more

Eric King Hunger Strike + Mapuche Solidarity with A-Radio Berlin

Airs at: Mon, 01/14/2019 at 4:00pm - Fri, 01/18/2019 at 5:00pm
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Support Anarchist Prisoner Eric King This week Bursts spoke with the wife of vegan, antifascist and anarchist political prisoner, Eric King. Eric was was convicted of attempting the September 11, 2014 firebombing of the Kansas City office of a Missouri Democratic Congressm... Read more

B(A)DNews #19, January 2019

Airs at: Mon, 01/14/2019 at 4:00pm - Fri, 01/18/2019 at 5:00pm
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from A-Radio Network B(A)DNews #19 Welcome to the 19th edition of B(A)D news: angry voices from around the world a commonly produced monthly show of the anarchist and anti-authoritarian radio network, on this occasion composed by Črna Luknja, anarchist show on Radio Stude... Read more

F.L.O.W.E.R. on Opposing “Rock Stone Mountain” 2019 + Black Flags Over Brooklyn with Kim Kelly

Airs at: Mon, 01/07/2019 at 4:00pm - Fri, 01/11/2019 at 5:00pm
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F.L.O.W.E.R. on Opposing “Rock Stone Mountain” 2019 + Black Flags Over Brooklyn with Kim Kelly Firstly we’re presenting a conversation that William had with an organizer with F.L.O.W.E.R., which stands for Front Line Organization Working to End Racism, about opposition to ... Read more

Gitdimt’en threatened with RCMP invasion; sub.Media’s JR on Madness

Airs at: Sun, 12/30/2018 at 4:00pm - Fri, 01/04/2019 at 5:00pm
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This week we feature two segments, the first on anti-pipeline resistance at the Gidimt’en Camp in Canada and second with JR from sub.Media about Mental Wellness and the recent Trouble episode on the subject. First Nations Pipeline Resistance in so-called BC First up, we’l... Read more

TFSR: Support the NoDAPL Prisoners!: A chat with Jess and Olive

Airs at: Mon, 12/24/2018 at 4:00pm - Fri, 12/28/2018 at 5:00pm
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This week, we’re excited to share the voices of Jess and Olive, who both did legal support, and do prisoner solidarity with the folks facing Federal prison time from the struggle at Standing Rock against the Dakota Access Pipeline. This episode was heavily edited for radio,... Read more

Error451: #13 (pEp with Hernani Marques)

Airs at: Mon, 12/24/2018 at 4:00pm - Fri, 12/28/2018 at 5:00pm
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Hernani Marques on Pretty Easy Privacy On this episode I’m joined by Hernani Marques, a hacker and member of the pEp Foundation, talking about Pretty Easy Privacy, a concerted attempt to make adoption of end-to-end email encryption easier and more ubiquitous through automa... Read more

Error451 #14: Leap Encryption Access Project on VPNs & Psuedonymity

Airs at: Mon, 12/24/2018 at 4:00pm - Fri, 01/04/2019 at 5:00pm
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Leap Encryption Access Project On this episode, we’d like to share a conversation had a little bit ago with Kali Kaneko, from LEAP.  Leap Encryption Access Project, like pEp featured in our prior Error451 interview, is an open-source project meant to ease… access to encryp... Read more