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Oral Histories of Political Prisoners + The Role of Anarchist Radio

Oral Histories of Political Prisoners + The Role of Anarchist Radio

From The Final Straw Radio

This week, we’re sharing 3 segments.

First up, Josh Davidson from the Certain Days: Freedom For Political Prisoners Calendar talks about the upcoming book that he co-edited with political prisoner Eric King from AK Press entitled RATTLING THE CAGES: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners, containing over 450 pages of first hand experiences of resisting from within the belly of the beast across generations and movements in Turtle Island. And you can find out more about the Running Down The Walls events at ABCF.Net/WarChest

The Legacy of Ricardo Flores Magón

From The Final Straw Radio

We just passed the 100th anniversary of the murder by incarceration and hounding of Mexican Revolutionary anarchist communist Ricardo Flores Magón on 21st of November. For this hour or so, I spoke with Mitchell Cowen Verter, co-author of the 2005 AK Press book, Dreams of Freedom: A Ricardo Flores Magon Reader. We talk about RFM’s life, ideas and legacy.

Anarchy Radio 08-23-2022

"Love" in the Metaverse

Upcoming anti-civ talks. Cooking reduces energy expenditure of chewing; major evolutionary impact. Author-activist-anarchist Allan Antliff is call-in guest (postmodernism, Camas Books, Victoria Anarchist Book Fair). Anarchist actions, book fairs. Smartphones as deadly distraction. U. S. life expectancy declining. "Love" in the Metaverse. Is radical energy returning after 20-something years in U. S.? One call.

Adventure Capitalism with Raymond Craib

This week on The Final Straw, Professor Raymond Craib talks about his book, “Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age” out recently from PM Press. We talk about capitalist fundamentalists attempting to create free market utopias, right wing so-called Libertarians, Ayn Rand, neoliberalism and the oxymoronic tendency known as “anarcho-capitalism” at the center of the recent HBO Max series called “The Anarchists”.

Fighting Back Against Displacement In Greece

This week, we spoke with Alex, an anarchist squatter in the Athenian neighborhood of Exarchia. They talk about repression by the New Democracy party, struggles against green washing wind turbines around rural Greece, the fires raging through the country, resistance to rape culture, fighting against the building of a metro station in Exarchia and the privatization of public spaces like Strefi Hill, police presence at Universities, anarcho-tourism and the hunger strike of anarchist prisoner Giannis Michialidas.

Ongoing Sabotage and Resistance to War in Russia and Ukraine

From The Final Straw Radio

This week, we’re airing 2 interviews to do with the Russian war in Ukraine. Plus, Kevin Rashid Johnson talks about being denied medical care for his prostate cancer in the Virginia prison system.

Anarchy Radio 07-19-2022

R.A.t.M. fan holds a copy of "Breaking the Alphabet" by Sascha Engel. (c. 2022, colorized)

World is burning, civilization dying. Bizarre disease eruptions. 988 suicide line - texting as human life-line?? New anarchist books, music, actions. Conversation with James Van Lanen on CHAGS, food autonomy in Italy. (two calls)

Dissident Island Radio: February 2022

From Dissident Island Radio

- Anarchist writer Jon Bigger discusses standing as a Class War Party candidate in the 2015 general election as well as looking at the tactical effectiveness of electoralism for anarchist campaigning.

ACAB Andy bids adieu and good riddance to a certain Dick, performs a dramatic reading from the classic book 'Scotland Yard',  gives updates on the latest Kill the Bill trials and does a shout-out to beloved Bristol social-centre BASE

Bristol Anarchist Black Cross on the importance of building and creating structures to support prisoners.

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