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The Final Straw Radio
@thefinalstrawradio.bsky.social
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A weekly anarchist radio show / podcast from so-called Asheville, NC, USA

https://tfsr.media
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@nlg.org Director of Mass Defense, Xavier de Janon, and members of the DFW Support Committee speak about the Prairieland Case and the Trump administrations ongoing threats against the left and "Antifa"

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photo of a mockingbird resting on barbed wire with the words "TFSR 11-16-25 | Updates on the Prairieland Case (with NLG and DFW Support Committee)
November 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Here's a pic from our stack of zines for mailing to comrades behind bars and patreon supporters at the $10+ level

Find 5+ years (some going back 14, like that Green Is The New Red one) of zines and transcripts on our zines page & learn how to support the transcription costs at tfsr.media/support
photo of stacks of 12 different titles of zines from (mostly) recent episodes of The Final Straw Radio ready for mailing out
November 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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This week, we’re sharing two segments:
A chat with Palestinian writer and assistant professor @hamayel.bsky.social ;
Plus a segment of the October 2025 B(A)D News with network participants discussing thinking through resisting the rise of fascism

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photo of Abdaljawad Omar in front a view of Bethlehem and “TFSR 11-09-25 | Assessing the Israeli Ceasefire (with Abdaljawad Omar)”
November 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Check out the transcript of our interview with Tomas Rothaus ( @batallonbakunin.bsky.social) on his book "Another War Is Possible: Militant Experiences in the Antiglobalization Era" ( @pmpress.bsky.social , 2025)

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zine cover of our interview "Militant Anarchist Experiences in the Antiglobalization Era with Thomas Rothaus | The Final Straw Radio - August 31, 2025" featuring a photo of an anarchist stage diving off of a Navy Memorial over a line of cops during the 2001 Inauguration of George W. Bush in Washington DC
November 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Ed, co-founder of @sassisouth.bsky.social (Southerners Against Surveillance Systems & Infrastructure), speaks to The Final Straw Radio about the proliferation of surveillance infrastructure in the South (and more broadly in United States).

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black and white drawing of a cat wearing a balaclava with the word "SASSI" near the bottom + "TFSR 11-2-25 | Southerners Against Surveillance Systems & Infrastructure (with Ed)"
November 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Now you can find the interview with graphic artist Aaron Losty on comics composition, his latest book "The Hanging" and the @cartoonistcoop. You can find this and many more transcripts and zines at tfsr.media/zines/zSepte...
zine cover of our interview "Aaron Losty on Comics Composition and the Cartoonist Cooperative | The Final Straw Radio - September 21, 2025" featuring the book cover of "The Hanging" showing two adults looking confused and one child looking up toward the viewer
October 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Here's the zine of our conversation with NLG lawyer, Mo, on recent statements and orders by the white house ala "antifa" and antifascists

Feel free to print, share, translate this and many more zines at tfsr.media/zines/Septem...

Support our transcription work via the means at tfsr.media/support
zine cover of our interview 'The Implications of Trump's War on "Antifa" (with Meltzer-Cohen) | The Final Straw Radio - September 28, 2025" featuring a POTUS logo surrounded by stars and featuring "45" and "47" denoting Trumps numbers as president
October 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Fritz and Iris of the UE Local 667 East End Food Co-op grocery in Pittsburgh talk about their union, conflicts with management and their participation in #BDS to remove products from the Israeli occupation from their shelves

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photo of members of UE667 next to a table with a sign reading Feed Gaza
October 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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You can find the transcribed zine on the latest phase of the Stop Cop City RICO 61 case from Atlanta and some assessments of what's coming next. This and more can be found at tfrs.media/zines/#Septe... for printing, reading and sharing
zine cover of our interview "The End of the Atlanta Stop Cop City RICO 61 Case? ( with Nolan Huber) | September 16, 2025 - The Final Straw Radio" featuring a picture of people protesting in front of a courthouse in Atlanta holding signs to drop the charges
October 24, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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An interview with an anarchist in Kathmandu on the “Gen Z” anti-corruption protests that ousted the Nepalese Prime Minister followed by a chat about the first, upcoming Pittsburgh anarchist book fair, October 24-26

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"TFSR 10-19-2025 | Anarcho of Movement in Nepal and The Gen Z Uprising That Rocked The State" and a photo of someone climbing the gilded gates of the Nepalese parliament building, hanging a flag with a skull and crossbones and wearing a straw hat, with the parliament burning in the background
October 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Dr. @tariq-khan.bsky.social comes on to speak about his 2023 book "The Republic Shall Be Kept Clean" (@illinoispress.bsky.social), US Settler Colonial violence, Red Scares in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Americanism + the importance of education

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book cover of "The Republic Shall Be Kept Clean" featuring the text "TFSR 10-12-25 | Tariq D. Khan on Americanism & Red Scares" over a political comic of a greek soldier labeled civilization attacking a woman with serpentine qualities labeled Anarchy
October 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Members of @signalsrising.org collective discuss various radio technologies for communication such as meshtastic as low power alternatives when disaster strikes or infrastructure is scarce

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logo of signals rising featuring a radio tower with 7 radio bolts emanating from it
October 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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NLG lawyer Moira Meltzer-Cohen speaks about legal implications of the Trump administrations declarations on "antifa", plus a little chat about mutual aid in Gaza

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photo of Trump signing a bunch of orders at his desk in the oval office
September 28, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Here's the zine of our interview with Shannon of @remorahousedc.bsky.social mutual aid project about the Trump admin's deployment of national guard and federal police to harass Washington DC, particularly youth, undocumented neighbors and Black communities. Find it at tfsr.media/September2025
zine cover of our interview "Strengthening Resistance to DC Cop Surge Through Mutual Aid | The Final Straw Radio - September 7, 2025" featuring a photo of a roller with a fist with a circled A at the bottom next to a sign announcing "Remora House DC Mutual Aid"
September 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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@aaronlosty.bsky.social talks "The Hanging" & his process & the @cartoonist.coop. Next we revisit an interview with Alex of Szpila Collective in Poland on the case of the #H5 activists accused of human trafficking on the Belarus border, now acquitted!

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Book cover of "The Hanging" showing two adults looking confused and one child looking up toward the viewer
September 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Digging into the archives: We transcribed two interviews we conducted in 2012 about the student strikes against austerity in Montreal with a participant in the movement.

Check it out (and find linked audio) alongside many more at tfsr.media/zines/#July2...
zine cover of our interview “Student Strike! Popular Struggle! Greve Etudiante! Lutte Popular! | The Final Straw Radio – July 29, 2012” featuring a photo from above of a massive march from the student strikes in Montreal, Quebec
September 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Check out the zine of our interview with Malik Muhammad , 2020 uprising prisoner and anarchist in the Oregon prison system on conditions inside, solitary confinement, keeping connections with the outside and sources of hope. This and more at tfsr.media/zines/
zine cover of our interview "2020 Uprising Prisoner Malik Muhammad Speaks from Snake River DC | The Final Straw Radio - August 18, 2025" featuring a sketch of Malik in profile
September 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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An interview with Nolan Huber of @atlpresscollective.com on exciting news in the 61 RICO indictments in the Atlanta #StopCopCity case & a discussion of the impacts of the movement

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“TFSR 9-14-25 | The End of the Stop Cop City RICO 61 Case? (with Nolan Huber)” over a picture of people protesting in front of a courthouse in Atlanta holding signs to drop the charges
September 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Here you can find the zine of our Prisoner Support Panel discussion featuring a voice from @abcbelarus.bsky.social, Solidarity Apothecary & Solidarity Zone. Print, read, share, translate this & more at tfsr.media/zines/#Augus...
Here you can find the zine of our Prisoner Support Panel discussion featuring a voice from ABC Belarus, Solidarity Apothecary & Solidarity Zone. Print, read, share, translate this & more at https://tfsr.media/zines/#August2025
September 12, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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@remorahousedc.bsky.social on supporting houseless neighbors & strengthening alliances against ICE sweeps in Washington DC under federal police surges.
Then Paria talks to Research Critique on manufacturing consent for more police on campuses in Greece

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ground-level photo of ATF with a dog, FBI in tactical gear in a park in Washington DC
September 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Here's the transcribed zine of our chat with Josh MacPhee and Kennedy Block about labor strike records, what music and art (and their practitioners) add to collective struggle and cultures of change.

Read, print, share, translate this and more at tfsr.media/zines/July2025
zine cover of our interview "Labor Resistance on Vinyl (with Josh MacPhee + Kennedy Block) | July 20, 2025 - The Final Straw Radio" featuring the book cover of "Strike While The Needle is Hot: A Discography of Workers Revolt" featuring a collaged photo of a child with coal / pro-labor pins above and behind the face of an older adult in front of a workers occupation sign, transparently overlaid with images of striking workers
September 6, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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You can now find our interview with organizers of A Better World Book Fair a couple weeks before it took place in Waynesboro, VA. Find it and many more transcripts (easy for printing to pass out at bookfairs) at tfsr.media/zines/#July2...
zine cover of “A Better World Book Fair | The Final Straw Radio – July 13, 2025” featuring multicolored fliers for the book fair
September 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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An interview with author Tomas Rothaus ( @batallonbakunin.bsky.social ) on his recently publish memoir, "Another War Is Possible: Militant Anarchist Experiences in the Antiglobalization Era", out this year from @pmpress.bsky.social

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Book cover of Another World Is Possible featuring an image of gas-masked person in black bloc having just thrown something
August 31, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Here's the transcripted zine of our chat with organizers around the efforts and reasons to save a forest in north Asheville from demolition by UNCA to build a new soccer stadium

This and many more can be read & printed from tfsr.media/zines/#July2...
cover of our zine "Save The UNCA Woods | The Final Straw Radio - July 13, 2025" featuring a "respect the locals" graphic showing a number of local animals and plantsplus a domesticated dog
August 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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This week, we share a panel discussion with anarchists from @abcbelarus.bsky.social (Belarus) , Solidarity Apothecary (UK) and Solidarity Zone (Russia) about prisoner support, care work, burnout and sustaining movements

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line drawing of prison overgrown by nature with the words "TFSR 8-24-25 | Prisoner Support Panel"
August 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM