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A weekly, anarchist radio show/podcast with interviews & updates from around the world. Help us get on your local radio!
December 24
Final Straw: Resisting Fascists in Charlotte, NC December 28th
Listen and Download Here This week, the show features two interviews. The first is with an antifascist in Charlotte, NC, about the “March Against Communism”... Read Full Article
December 21
Anarchist Healthcare Workers Respond to Trump’s CDC Censorship
Listen and Download Here Today William talked with two anarchist healthcare workers in Asheville, NC about the Trump administration’s censorship of language regarding... Read Full Article
December 17
Final Straw: Defend J20 Updates as First Trial Finishes
Listen and Download Here This week, we air a conversation recorded on Friday, after the final arguments in the case of the first... Read Full Article
December 14
ERROR451 #06: Cryptocurrencies, Nazis, Bailbloc & IRL Impacts
Listen and Download Here This week, Bursts was joined by Pat Boyle, a collective member at Unicorn Riot (more about them later in... Read Full Article
December 11
Final Straw: RAM-NYC on Community Abolitionist Bail Fund
Listen and Download Here This week we spoke with members of The Base, which is an anarchist space in New York City, about... Read Full Article
December 6
ERROR451 #05: Hidden Tracking in Common Android Apps
Listen and Download Here This week, William Goodenuff chats with Bursts about the recent exposé published by Yael Grauer at The Intercept... Read Full Article
December 5
Final Straw: Prison Audio Roundtable and Manus Island Update
Listen and Download Here For a 59 minute long, radio clean version for syndication purposes, please visit the archive.org collection. Prison-Related Audio Roundtable This... Read Full Article
November 29
Error451: #04 Net Neutrality
This week on the occasionally-weekly tech podcast from The Final Straw, Error451, Bursts and guest William Budington, a tech security expert, talk about Net Neutrality. ... Read Full Article
November 28
Final Straw: Eleanor Goldfield from Act Out!
Listen and Download Here This week we spoke with Eleanor Goldfield, who is an activist on the far left and a proponent of... Read Full Article
November 22
ERROR451 #3: GPS Safer Practices
Listen and Download Here In perfect timing for holiday driving many will be doing in the U.S., we’re releasing episode 3 of Error451, The... Read Full Article
November 20
Final Straw: A Refugee on Manus Island & 2018 Certain Days Calendar
Listen and Download Here Walid, an asylum seeker held at the Manus Regional Process Center, Papua New Guinea First up, you’ll hear... Read Full Article
November 16
Error451 #2: Burner Phones
Listen and Download Here This is the first standalone episode of Error451, The Final Straw’s occasionally weekly podcast featuring a conversation between Bursts... Read Full Article
November 13
Anti-Repression Panel From the NAABC Conference
Listen and Download Here This week we are featuring a recording from an Anti-Repression panel that took place in Denver in October of... Read Full Article
November 5
Cascadia Forest Defenders on Resisting the Goose Timber Sale
Listen and Download Here This week William had the opportunity to speak with someone who works closely with the group Cascadia Forest Defenders,... Read Full Article
October 31
Final Straw: Betsy Raasch-Gilman on Anarchism, Organizing, and Movement for a New Society
Listen and Download Here This week, we share a conversation that Bursts had with Betsy Raasch-Gilman. Betsy is a lifelong Quaker, feminist and... Read Full Article
October 24
Final Straw: Anarchist Perspectives on DACA
Listen and Download Here This week we are presenting two anarchist voices regarding DACA, among many other things. DACA stands for Deferred Action... Read Full Article
October 17
Final Straw: Autonomous Northern California Fire Relief Efforts
Listen and Download Here I’d like to share a Final Straw Radio mini-episode, a conversation with Emilio of the currently unofficial Sonoma County... Read Full Article
October 16
Final Straw: Support Herman Bell & Discussion on Signal App
Listen and Download Here First this week, we had the opportunity to speak with Dr Kihana Mariah Ross, who is the daughter in... Read Full Article
September 25
Final Straw: ‘Radical Rush’ at UNCA and Malik Washington
Listen and Download Here In this two parter episode, firstly we chatted with Beck, a University of North Carolina Asheville student and fellow... Read Full Article
September 25
Final Straw: Coalition for Immokalee Workers and Jalil Muntaquim
Listen and Download Here Today we are airing an interview conducted with Lupe Gonzalo of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in Immokalee, Florida. This... Read Full Article
September 11
Final Straw: Tech Security, Doxxing, and Encryption
Listen and Download Here This week Bursts spoke with William Budington, a digital security expert, about various topics under that heading. We spoke... Read Full Article
September 9
Final Straw: Autonomous Hurricane Relief on the Gulf Coast
Download and Listen Here This is a The Final Straw Radio mini-episode and we just had a quick conversation with Assata, an activist... Read Full Article
September 6
Final Straw: Interview with Jalil Muntaqim
This week we’ll be taking a little break. We’ll be sharing a short interview conducted by friends of ours at Prison Radio at CKUT... Read Full Article
August 21
Final Straw: Interview with Supporter of Kara Wild
Listen and Download Here This week, we’re featuring two segments. Kara Wild The first conversation is with a supporter of Kara Wild. Kara... Read Full Article
August 16
Final Straw: Resisting LNG Storage in Tacoma and August 19th Prison Solidarity
http://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/6/e/f/6ef5fdbf465e2019/tfsradio-08132017-tacomaandaugust19.mp3 Listen and Download Here Interviews For this week we are featuring two interviews from listeners and past contributors. August 19th Protest... Read Full Article
July 24
Final Straw: Report Back from Charlottesville Anti-KKK Mobilization and Info About A12
Listen and Download Here This week William got to speak to two people about the anti-KKK demo in Charlottesville, VA on July 8th,... Read Full Article
July 17
Final Straw: G20 Report Back & NC Resists the Grand Jury
Listen and Download Here This week William interviewed Mark Bray, who is a professor, author, and anti authoritarian, about the G20 protests that... Read Full Article
July 11
Final Straw: Confronting ‘Suit and Tie Nazis’ at AmRen
Listen and Download Here Nashville Anti Racist Action about the upcoming American Renaissance Conference in Burns, Tennessee from July 28th to 30th, 2017.... Read Full Article
July 4
Final Straw: Interview with No More Deaths on Border Abolition & More
Listen and Download Here This week William spoke with Maria and Jeff, who are two long term members of the humanitarian aid group... Read Full Article
June 25
Final Straw: August 19th Day of Action, “Millions for Prisoners”
Listen and Download Here This week, Bursts spoke with Ben Turk about the August 19th call out for solidarity with prisoners. The Incarcerated... Read Full Article
June 20
Final Straw: Anti-Pipeline Action Camp in Virginia
Listen and Download Here This week we featured two conversations in the episode. “Stop The Pipelines Action Camp” Firstly, Bursts chatted with Erin.... Read Full Article
June 11
Final Straw: Defend J20 Resistance
Listen and Download Here In this week’s episode we feature two interviews. In the first, we spoke with Em, a supporter of the... Read Full Article
June 5
Final Straw: Antifascist Haymaker Gym in Chicago
Listen and Download Here Donate Here Welcome to a podcast special release of The Final Straw’s interview of two members of The Haymaker,... Read Full Article
June 5
Final Straw: Burning the Plantation: Conversation with the Base
Listen and Download Here For this episode, we are featuring a conversation that William had with some members of The Base, a social... Read Full Article
May 28
Final Straw: Interviews with Support Eric King and Dawn Ray’d
Listen and Download Here This episode will include two segments, firstly Bursts speaks with a longtime supporter of vegan anarchist prisoner Eric King,... Read Full Article
May 23
Final Straw: Heartwood Forest Council in NC and Riseup! Speaks on Gag Order
Listen and Download Here In the first half of this week’s show we spoke with Rodney about the upcoming Heartwood Forest Council,... Read Full Article
April 24
Final Straw: Resistance to the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley Pipelines
Listen and Download Here This week, we spoke with Whitney about the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Mountain Valley Pipeline, two pipelines flowing... Read Full Article
April 18
Final Straw: Resisting the TWP in Eastern Kentucky
Listen and Download Here This week William spoke with a member of Eastern Kentucky Antifa about the upcoming resistance to the Traditionalist Workers... Read Full Article
April 10
Final Straw: Black Women’s Defense League on Feminism, Anti-Blackness, and Sexism
Listen and Download Here This week I spoke with Niecee X of the Dallas Texas based group Black Women’s Defense League, which... Read Full Article
April 3
Final Straw: “Non-Violence Ain’t What It Used to Be” with Shon Meckfessel
This week, we air our conversation with Shon Meckfessel. Shon is a longtime anarchist and activist from Sacramento, CA. He has penned... Read Full Article