Notices by The Final Straw Radio (thefinalstrawradio@chaos.social)

We're pre-sharing a chat with Champagne Song, the antifascist who received a 100 year prison sentence in the #Prairieland Antifa trial. We spoke about their political development & current US situation

Join our patreon for $3+/month to get early access to this & more
https://www.patreon.com/tfsr/posts/champagne-song-172182933

Hear as Cal of the @minnesota15 talks about the labor and community organizing he believes brought DOJ targetting of he and his co-defendants.

Learn more at:
https://thefinalstrawradio.mayfirst.info/2026/09/27/cal-of-the-mn15-on-metro-surge-and-this-moment-of-growing-fascism/

RE: https://chaos.social/@thefinalstrawradio/110231854986885894

RIP Barry Pateman

https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/8kptrm

M.V. Ramana, author of "Nuclear Is Not The Solution" ( Verso , 2024) speaks about Nuclear energy, it’s proposal as a clean option for power generation to counter the fossil fuel industry-exacerbated climate crisis, it’s ties to weapons development and other topics.

https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/07/19/a-long-and-deadly-con-nuclear-power-and-weapons-with-m-v-ramana/

@liaizon proton appears less a honeypot than a business that operates in legal jurisdictions under a TOS, required to give info they have to governments during investigations.
Movements and individuals shouldn't consider info they give up safe to such a project (payment info, legal IDs, contact info).
Such concerns require services where anonymous payment is possible or no payment is required
This thread gives some smart challenges to the question of security v useability
https://bsky.app/profile/activistchecklist.org/post/3mgdwg4zn5c2d

Check out our patreon pre-release chat on the question of "what might we do if big tech / US regime chose to shut down Signal?"!
Hear it now for $3+/month to our patreon

https://www.patreon.com/posts/signal-plan-chat-144473701

A conversation with a supporter of the Stop Cop City Imaginary Crimes Tour and a RICO defendant talking about the case and antirepression

https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/03/30/stop-cop-city-imaginary-crimes-tour/

Check out the zine of our interview on the #StopCopCity Imaginary Crimes tour, alongside many other zines and pdfs at https://tfsr.media/zines/#March2025

An interview with three anarchists in #Serbia (two current students, one from the early 2010s) about the student-led protests that have blossomed to a democratic social movement in response to government corruption and the collapse of a train canopy in Novi Sad on November 1st, 2024, killing 16 people (so far)

https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/03/23/prefiguring-autonomy-student-led-social-movement-in-serbia-shake-the-government/

An interview with Errico, a combatant member of Tekoşîna Anarşist, an internationalist anarchist formation in critical solidarity with the Rojava Revolution, speaks about the conditions on the ground in Syria, particularly the north east
https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2024/12/22/an-anarchist-view-from-rojava-on-recent-events-in-syria-a-conversation-with-a-combatant-of-tekosina-anarsist/

Did we mention that we transcribed our interview with a member of TA on the situation in #Syria and in #Rojava in particular? No, well we did. There's a zine and a transcript for reading, printing, translating and sharing at https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/zines/#December2024

An interview with anarchist author, Peter Gelderloos, on his recent books "They Will Beat The Memory Out Of Us" and "Organization, Community, Continuity" discussing topics of movement memory, community, care work, organization and struggle

https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2024/12/01/peter-gelderloos-on-memory-community-organization-and-struggle/

#ICYMI our conversation with Peter Gelderloos about memory, community, organization and imagination. Find it at https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2024/12/01/peter-gelderloos-on-memory-community-organization-and-struggle/

We present 2 chats about prisons in NC: 1st, Elizabeth Simpson of Emancipate NC talks about pushes to release 100s of NC prisoners due to overcrowding, exacerbated by #HurricaneHelene; then, Mona Evans of Benevolence Farm talks Womens Prisons & post-release
https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2024/11/17/nc-womens-prisons-overcrowding-post-helene/

An interview with Maru Mora-Villalpando of La Resistencia about organizing against the privately owned immigration prison the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, WA. Then, @pghfashwatch talks about documenting and challenging local fascists in western PA

https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2024/11/10/resisting-immigration-prison-in-tacoma-and-fascists-in-pittsburgh/

From Appalachian Medical Solidarity:
We are collecting URGENT funds for flood & storm repair
Buncombe county and surrounding counties are currently experiencing widespread flooding & are preparing for the cascade of damage & emergency that follow.
WE ARE COLLECTING FUNDS TO SUPPORT COMMUNITY MEMBERS AFFECTED BY ANY IMMEDIATE AND LONG TERM DAMAGE:
VENMO: @AppMedSolid
CASHAPP: $Streets1de
Put Flood Support in the description

#MutualAidRequest #Appalachia #DisasterRelief #flooding #HurricaneHelene

Check out an early release (for patrons at $3+ / month) of our chat with @antifaintl about anti-repression, antifascist organizing and the July 25 International Day of Solidarity with Antifascist Prisoners

Our patreon goes to help us make zones for easy mailing of topical interviews to prisoners

https://www.patreon.com/posts/pre-release-intl-106491384

Simón Sedillo, activist and author of "Weapons, Drugs & Money", joins us to talk about the history of US & Mexican political, economic & military relationships, neoliberalism, land grabs, corrupt banks, narcos, big pharma and indigenous-led efforts at autonomy

https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2024/04/28/simon-sedillo-on-crime-corruption-and-community-based-liberation-in-the-u-s-mexico-neoliberal-military-political-economy/

This week, as big ep:
1) Reportback from @hotvbookfair in so-called Oregon;
2) Updates on the #TyumenCase against anarchists & antifascists in Russia;
3) @notrace on countering state surveillance;
4) and Sean Swain!

https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2024/03/10/countering-surveillance-with-notrace-how/

This week, our chat with Appalachians Against Pipelines about the stepping up of the paused Mountain Valley Pipeline, fracked gas pipeline threatening waterways across VA, WV & NC + atmospheres everywhere https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2023/07/09/continuing-struggle-against-the-mountain-valley-pipeline/