The Final Straw Radio

This week, you'll hear two segments.

First up, we spoke with Crystal and Alecia from the Auto(nomous) body shop. From their website:

The Auto(nomous) Body Shop is a Pittsburgh based mobile mutual aid resource supporting bodily autonomy & community care. We provide free info + supplies + propaganda to support & empower folks to be the go to friend for reproductive health, abortion care, & harm reduction in their community. We also fundraise for repro health to break down barriers to care, conduct workshops, collaborate with & support other mutual aid orgs.

The discussion touches upon the many facets of their organizing in the Pittsburgh region, the climate for reproductive healthcare and gender-affirming care in Pittsburgh and the surrounding area, and their expansion into other regions of the state. The conversation also includes discussion of their coalition-based strategy to broaden the breadth and depth of their efforts and the need for joyful celebration of their values and goals. To that end, we get into the social events and zine publication coming up later this month.

• Website: theautonomousbodyshop.com

• Instagram: @the.auto.body.shop

Anti-LGBTQIA+ Repression in Turkey

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Then, we share an interview by FrequenzA out of Germany with a guest about recent repression against queer people and organizations across Turkey from September 12-14th, 2026. This crackdown against activists, organizations and spaces was named "My Family Is Safe", with the reactionary government of Erdogan's AK Party using the same rubric of upholding cis-hetero nuclear families as the only healthy model against "gender ideology" as you hear from regimes in the US under Trump, Russia and from right wing movements around the world. This interview will also appear in episode 106 of B(A)D News: Angry Voices From Around The World from the A-Radio Network, of which we're a member.

• Longer version of the interview (as found in podcast)

• KaosGL Instagram @KaosGL

• Velvele Instagram: @Velvele1977

• Istanbul Pride Instagram: @IstanbulPride

• Istanbul Trans Pride Instagram: @TransPrideIstanbul_

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Featured Tracks:

• TFSR by The Willows Whisper
• Beatbuster by The Willows Whisper

We're sharing a recent chat with Juan of Casa Carmelita to talk about Camp O:Shad about the tree sit and defense of the landscape around Tohono O'odham land around Lochiel Arizona against a double border wall being constructed and in the run-up to the October 4th day of action that organizers are hoping to invite people to at the US-Mexico border. Alongside this, you'll hear Jackson, an organizer with the Human Rights Coalition talking about the situation of 2020 Uprising prisoner Khalif Miller.

We hope you enjoy the interviews! This episode will also be this Sunday's podcast, so expect to hear back from us October 11th.

• Camp O:Shad contact website: https://camposhad.squarespace.com
• Fundraising for the campaign: https://givebutter.com/stop-destruction-in-lochiel-oxsxdp
• CrimethInc article concerning a month of actions against borders across Turtle Island: https://crimethinc.com/2026/09/23/apply-heat-melt-ice-flashpoints-in-the-fight-against-ice-reports-and-calls-to-action-from-around-the-country#arizona
• A recent article on the resistance at Lochiel: https://crimethinc.com/2026/08/12/the-border-is-an-open-wound-a-tree-sit-in-lochiel-arizona-halts-border-wall-construction
• Zine about the border mentioned here and in our March 1st episode: The Insurgent Southwest
• Instagram accounts covering this campaign:
  • @Rally.ForTheValley https://www.instagram.com/rally.forthevalley
  • @Casa_Carmelita https://www.instagram.com/casa_carmelita
  • @TierraLibre_NoBorders https://www.instagram.com/tierralibre_noborders
  • @NoMoreDeaths_NoMasMuertes https://www.instagram.com/nomoredeaths_nomasmuertes
  • Sierra Club @SC_Borderlands https://www.instagram.com/sc_borderlands

Write to Khalif here:

Smart Communications/PADOC Khalif Miller #QQ9287 SCI Forest PO Box 33028 St. Petersburg, FL 33733

Khalif Links:

• @FreeKhalifPhilly on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/freekhalifphilly
• Khalif's fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-khalif-miller
• A good article about his case: https://prismreports.org/2024/12/19/khalif-miller-george-floyd-protests-prison/
• @HRCoalition Philly on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hrcoalition?stkn=ZmJ2c2s3MG82YTQ5
• https://www.hrcoalition.org/

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• TFSR by The Willows Whisper
• Beatbuster by The Willows Whisper

This week, we're sharing a recent interview with Cal Robinet, an anarchist, union electrician, and fire arms instructor involved in the union and LGBT Ray Rainbolt Memorial Shooting Club. Cal is also a member of the Minnesota 15, who were federally indicted following Operation Metro Surge and taking their challenge to court, charged under 18 U.S.C. § 372 "conspiracy to impede federal officers", the civil war-era statute that has been deployed against other, non-violent anti-ICE protesters as we saw in Chicago with the Broadview 6 and in Washington with the Spokane 3. We would direct folks to Minnesota15.org for further reading, updates and ways to support the defendants.

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Of note, there is a call for a day of solidarity with the defendants on Sunday, October 3rd wherever you are. More at the support site, or find a pic in our show notes related to this.

Links:

• Fundraising for legal expenses: https://chuffed.org/project/186570-minnesota-15-legal-defense-fund
• Unicorn Riot interview with Cal: https://unicornriot.ninja/media/minnesota-15-defendant-cal-robinet-speaks-out/
• Co-defendant Cameron Kennedy of the MN15: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeHbMlHDec5NmJfiQXMYGXQ
• Unicorn Riot coverage from Feb, 2026 on the Cold Water Springs encampment: https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/indigenous-activists-occupy-land-near-fort-snelling-plan-to-stay-until-land-back/
• A history of Oceti Sakowin 7 Council Fire: https://unicornriot.ninja/media/the-original-oceti-sakowin-7-council-fires-at-mini-owe-sni-ft-snelling-landback-occupation/
• UR playlist of videos about ICE in Minneapolis: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhO_NX0M3_7gLdXZKDKXL7Hd7ZnB9QDbj

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• TFSR by The Willows Whisper

This week, you're hearing our recent interview with journalist, author and comic creator Spencer Ackerman about his 2021 book, Reign Of Terror: How The 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump . This felt like a fitting chat to record as we approach the 25th anniversary of that event in the dystopian second administration of that reality tv boss Donny J Trump. In the chat we cover some of the topics in the book, like the legalistic and lingustic wrangling of subsequent administrations to expand US exceptionalism to international standards of war and human rights around captured prisoners, expansions of domestic spying and generally how the state of emergency created in 2001 has been used by Democrats and Republicans since to lay the ground work for the naked imperialism abroad and racially eliminationist policies in the US.

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I definitely suggest you check out Forever-Wars.com for more of his journalism and find announcements there for the pre-order of his comic book No One Escapes the Dialectic coming out in November and the upcoming pre-order for his book The Disappeared: A Father, A Son and the War On Terror, scheduled to come out in March of 2027.

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• TFSR by The Willows Whisper

This week, we're sharing a conversation with two anti-repression organizers in the UK who are both associated with NetPol, or the Network for Police Monitoring as well as other defendant support projects. For the chat we speak about the sort of work their orgs are involved in, changes in sentencing amongst protestors, increasingly violent police suppression of antifascists counter-demonstrating (and greatly outnumbering) anti-immigrant crowds, the Filton Palestine Action cases and more. We hope you enjoy and you can find some links in the show notes on where to find more of Maya and Andy's work.

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We recorded this interview several weeks ago, before Palestine Action was proscribed by the US as a Specially Designated Terrorist Entity and has had sanctions applied to it by the US State Department, so it's notable that we can legally not suggest anyone offer material support to Palestine Action thanks to the Anti-Antifascist US government as they could be punished under US law.

• NetPol (including the 'One Day In…' protest reports): https://netpol.org
• Green and Black Cross: https://greenandblackcross.org/
• Freedom Press Youtube channel featuring Andy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v0NhHF0q6c&list=PLwiOksFHbOqSHpyVrlT5FrVaov3IpoWu_
• Keep up on the Filton Cases: https://filtonactionists.com/
• Save the SpyCops Inquiry: https://ucpi.uk/
• SpyCops clearinghouse: https://www.spycops.co.uk/
• Bristol Defendant Solidarity: https://chuffed.org/project/bds
• Guardian article on the death of Nicholas Stone on demo in Bristol: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/19/watchdog-investigate-death-man-after-police-contact-bristol-protest
• Our 2020 SpyCops interview: https://thefinalstrawradio.mayfirst.info/post/2020/11/29/uncovering-spy-cops-in-the-uk/
• Our 2021 interview on the Kill The Bill protests in Bristol: https://thefinalstrawradio.mayfirst.info/post/2021/10/21/support-ryan-roberts-and-killthebill-bristol-defendants/

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• TFSR by The Willows Whisper
• Beatbuster by The Willows Whisper

In this mid-week special, you may have noticed a change in our introduction, that we're listing TFSR.Media as our website (a work in progress, currently pointed at our blog, soon to be pointed at our new web host). This is because we're moving our website from NoBlogs.org following the August 26, 2026 announcements by the US State Department and Department of Treasury that designated the hosts of NoBlogs, the Italian autonomous tech collective Autistici / Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist and placed it on the Specially Designated Nationals list under Executive Order 13224. In this conversation you'll hear a member of the crimethinc ex-workers collective and Sprout from Sabot Media talk about the designation, the intended impacts on anarchist, antifascist and other movements by the US government, and what can come next if we're up for the fight.

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Update: Via their updates page, KeepItAlive.AI, September 6th Autistici/Inventati announced that it would be shutting down. This development saddens us but we can't fault them after a quarter of a century of amazing work. and it works to underline the critical need for infrastructure for movements for liberation that is somehow defensible from capitalist and authoritarian states, where we can communicate among our movements, across their borders. As they say, Stay Human.

I invite listeners to check out the statement from CrimethInc as well as the public letter still awaiting more signatures and articles available on the subject from sabot.media. There's also a recent chat by Outlaw podcast with Shayana Kadidal of the Center for Constitutional Rights on the legal elements of this chat, alongside a list of rad servers from Riseup that could be helpful for people looking for new web hosting homes for their projects.

Sabot Media about NoBlogs:

• The Server Called Paranoia

• A Network Called Resistance

• Molotov Now! Podcast interview with A/I

• A/I's Bank Account Temporarily Suspended

Also, check out Autistici/Inventatiti 's book about their first ten years: +Kaos: Ten Years of Hacking and Media Activism

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Featured Tracks:

• TFSR by The Willows Whisper

• Beatbuster by The Willows Whisper

This week, we're sharing an interview with Chris Mathias, author of To Catch A Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right, a book about militant antifascists and researchers in the so-called USA with a particular insight into Vincent, an anarchist who infiltrated Patriot Front and helped facilitate the sabotage event some know as Patriot Fail in December of 2021, after six months undercover as a member and official photographer for the group and leaking chats and pics who, with the help of other researchers and Unicorn Riot, led to the doxing of over 80 PF chuds. For the chat we talk about the construct of Antifa, antifascist research, adaptations among fascists and thus how antifascists do work, and other topics.

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• TFSR by The Willows Whisper
• Beatbuster by The Willows Whisper

This episode features two segments.

The Case of the Spokane 3

On June 11, 2025, there was a demonstration of hundreds of people in Spokane, Washington to defend two young asylum-seekers, Cesar Alexander Alvarez Perez and Joswar Slater Rodriguez Torres, who were kidnapped by ICE while appearing for a scheduled check-in. The next day, the Trump administration's DOJ sent out a memo to all districts to prioritize prosecution of anti-ICE protestors and publicize the repression. Months later, 9 people were brought to Federal trial, with 6 of them taking a non-cooperating plea deal. The remaining 3, refused to back down and were taken to trial and were convicted of conspiracy. For this episode we're joined by Hadley, a member of the Spokane 3 Support Committee to speak about those defendants ( Justice Forral, Bajun Mavalwalla II, and Jac Archer ), their case and struggle for justice.

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A great, local media outlet named Range Media has been covering this case in detail, check it out at https://www.rangemedia.co/spokane-9-protests/ . Finally, stay tuned for a press conference this coming week after some next legal steps are taken by the defendants.

Ontological Exhaustion

After that, you'll hear an interview by audio comrades at Radio Ausbruch out of Frieberg, Germany, with an interview of Marina Christodoulou on her essay "TOWARD A GENEALOGY OF ONTOLOGICAL EXHAUSTION: becoming indignant-to-life ( ontological indignation ) before becoming exhausted-to-life ( ontological exhaustion )". Check our shownotes for links to the original essay and more from Ausbruch, which is a fellow member of the A-Radio Network of anarchist and anti-authoritarian radios and podcasts.

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• TFSR by The Willows Whisper
• Beatbuster by The Willows Whisper

This week's episode features two segments.

G20 Finance Track in Asheville this month

First up, you'll hear Jeremy and Sea speak about the upcoming G20 Financial Track gathering of Finance Ministers and Central Bankers happening in Asheville at the end of August this year. We speak about the G20, neoliberalism, and some of the organizing happening locally. More info available at G20AVL.NoBlogs.Org (currently offline due to NoBlogs being taken down)

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Squatted Neighborhood of Prosfygika

Then you'll hear a segment form the June 2026 episode #103 of B(A)D News: Angry Voices from Around The World by the A-Radio Network. In this audio, members of Crna Luknja from Ljubljana, Slovenia, speak with participants in the autonomous, squatted neighborhood of Athens, Prosfygika, a name which translates to Refugee. The audio was recorded on May 28th , so likely the situation has shifted and you can find more information and updates at SaveProsfygika.GR/index.php/en/ for English. According to a statement from June 24th found on that website, the hunger strikes of Aristotelis Chantzis and Suzon Doppagne were suspended following municipal statements in line with movement demands. Check the Materials page for statements, photos, audios and documentaries from and about the community.

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Announcements Mutual Aid in Spokane in the wake of massive fires

A comrade sent some fundraising links for mutual aid, particularly for undocumented community members and folks at the Colville Tribal Rez north of town where fire damage has been extensive. Check our show notes for links.

• Amazon Wishlist for Colville Rez
• Spokane Tribal Network food assistance

Asheville Anti-Surveillance Week of Action August 16-22

CAMS (Community Against Mass Surveillance) is doing a week of action against mass surveillance alongside the nationwide DeFlock week of actoin. Check our show notes for the local schedule of events in Asheville.

SCHEDULE FOR WEEK OF ACTION:

Aug 16-22:

Sunday 8/16 – Week of Action kickoff & potluck: coalition building, info and resource sharing, and organizing for week of action and beyond, 1 to 3 pm, Home Hub Pavilion, 27 Balm Grove Ave., W AVL, rain or shine (covered outdoor space and access to indoor spaces).

**Tuesday evening 8/18 - online panel and Q&A with local and national experts, 7 - 8:30 pm.**

Friday evening 8/21 - Infoshare, Q&A, Speak Out + dance party, 6 to 10 pm, location TBD.

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Featured Track:

• TFSR by The Willows Whisper
• Beatbuster by The Willows Whisper

This week, you'll hear a discussion with Ed from Southerners Against Surveillance Systems and Infrastructure / DeFlock, Ben of Communities Against Mass Surveillance in Asheville and Kelly from Nashville Community Safety Network others who share more about their local organizing to counter the nationwide push for interconnected surveillance networks. The push for increasingly more data on the public and the funneling of that information into police fusion centers has been most visible recently in struggles against Flock. We speak about spy cameras, the connections between private companies and the state surveillance apparatus, local organizing tactics and more.

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Interesting links

• https://nashvillecommunitysafety.net/
• https://truthout.org/articles/the-fight-against-surveillance-cameras-is-a-struggle-for-democracy/
• https://sassisouth.org/projects/dhs-flock-fusus
• NC News Articles on Surveillance Tech: https://www.wral.com/news/nccapitol/surveillance-drivers-camera-alpr-license-plate-reader-nc-budget-public-safety-privacy-july-2026/
• Asheville article on Axon and RTIC: https://mountainx.com/news/local-government/asheville-city-councils-public-comment-process-vexes-some-constituents/
• On Greece's OroraTech: https://apnews.com/article/greece-wildfires-satellites-europe-artificial-intelligence-8fe0df5f61f336ef59403f189a5a29de
• Article featuring information about Microsoft's support of Israel: https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2026/06/26/microsoft-worker-emails/
• https://noalprs.com/

Announcements Gianis Michailidis supporters firefund

Supporters of anarchist Gianis Michailidis (imprisoned by the Greek state) took solidarity actions to escalate knowledge of his hunger and thirst strike demanding his release after completing his sentence. These supporters have an appeal coming to Lamia Court of Appeals, September 29, 2026, against rulings by conservative judges threatening 30 months of prison and thousands of Euros each in damages. You can learn more about the case and how to support it at Firefund: https://www.firefund.net/amfissaintervention . Further info at https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1641475/

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• TFSR by The Willows Whisper