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

photos of protest and organizing against state/corporate alpr/facial recognition cameras with captioned audio underneath, plus the TFSR logo and "The Final Staw Radio - August 9, 2026", "Kelly from Nashville Community Safety Network talks about organizing against state and police surveillance infrastructure"
a photo of Will Smith looking up through a car window from the film "Enemy Of The State" viewed from a surveillance satellite, plus “TFSR 8-9-26 | Discussion on Organizing Against Surveillance in the US South”
captioned audio over a photo of an etruscan statue of a chimera, plus the words "The Final Straw Radio - August 2, 2025", the TFSR logo, and "Clare Follman talks about adaptation and social organizing in the face of ecological disaster interwoven with capitalism"
zine cover of our interview “A Long and Deadly Con: Nuclear Power and Weapons with M.V. Ramana | The Final Straw Radio – July 19, 2026” over a photo of a nuclear power plant cooling tower, foregrounded by trees and power lines
captioned audio over a photo of spreading kudzu in South Carolina, plus the TFSR logo and "The Final Straw Radio - August 2, 2026" and "Clare Follman on the concept of 'invasive species', adaptation, belonging and the role of humans in ecosystems
The book cover of "Scapegoa::What the Invasive Species Story Gets Wrong" showing a number of animals and plants with X's across them, plus "TFSR 8-2-26 | Clare Follman on Humans in Nature and How We Imagine Belonging"
captioned audio over a photo of the Erwin BWXT uranium processing plant, plus "The Final Straw Radio - July 26, 2026" and "Appalachians Against Uranium talk about local health impacts of uranium processing around eastern TN in light of BWXT expansion" plus the TFSR logo
captioned audio over a photo of a mill in the background, foregrounded fence with a "caution, radioactive mateial" sign, plus "The Final Straw Radio - July 26, 2026" and "Appalachians Against Uranium describe plans to expand uranium processing for weapons and military / civilian fuel in eastern TN by BWXT" and the TFSR logo
Photo of people and Grinch protesting by a Jonesborough, TN roadside as a truck passes by, plus "TFSR 7/26/26 | Appalachians Against Uranium on BWXT & Radioactive Weapons Development in Eastern TN"
zine cover of our interview "Flock Surveillance Sabotage in the Great Lakes | The Final Straw Radio - July 5, 2026" over a blurry black and white still of claymation sheep from Shaun the Sheep stacked up for a photo visible through a camera view-finder
zine cover of our interview "Prairieland Defendants Federal Sentencing: Updates From The DFW Support Committee | The Final Straw Radio - July 5, 2026" over a blurry black and white photo of fireworks at the July 4 2025 Priarieland noise demo
captioned audio of our interview over overlapped photos of powerlines, smokestacks and a gasmask with a yellowy-red tint plus "The Final Straw Radio - July 19, 2026 | M.V. Ramana on the need for paradigmatic shifts to address the climate crisis" plus the TFSR logo
captioned audio of our interview over an aerial photo of the Beavery Valley nuclear power plant alongside captioned audio from our interview, plus the text "The Final Straw Radio - July 19, 2026 | M.V. Ramana talks about the AI-industry-pushed demand for nuclear-powered data centers amidst climate crisis" plus the TFSR logo
zine cover of our interview “Jules Boykoff on Sportswashing and the 2026 FIFA World Cup | The Final Straw Radio – May 31, 2026” featuring the image from the bookcover of “Red Card” featuring a green background, a hand holding up a red card from the left side
the book cover of "Nuclear Is Not The Solution" featuring a photo of a nuclear plant and steam clouds plus the words "TFSR 7-19-26 | A Long and Deadly Con: Nuclear Power and Weapons with M.V. Ramana"
captioned audio of our interview over a photo of a tall pallot pyre in the north Ireland featuring Irish and EU flags plus the TFSR logo and the words "The Final Straw Radio - July 12, 2026" and "Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc on the annual July 'Marching Season' among Loyalists in Belfast and anti-immigrant sentiment"
An image of burning vehicles in a Loyalist neighborhood of Belfast during the June 2026 anti-immigrant pogroms, plus the TFSR logo and the words "The Final Straw arDio - July 12, 2026" and "Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc on June 2026 Anti-Immigrant Pogroms in Belfast"
book cover of "Burn Them Out!: A History of Fascism and the Far Right in Ireland featuring a photo of right wing riots and fire, plus "TFSR 7-12-26 | Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc on June ‘26 Anti-Immigrant Pogroms in Belfast, Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Ireland"
captioned audio of our interview over a repeated, alternating posters with the title "We Are All Anti-Fascist!", a row of barbed wire and text about the sentencing from a poster from the PrairielandDefendants.com website
a graphic reading “Free The Prairieland Defendants” including a drawing of vines and flowers entwined with barbed wire and “TFSR 7-5-26 | Prairieland Defendants Federal Sentencing plus Flock Sabotage Case in the Great Lakes”
zine cover of our interview "Homeless Sweeps and Police Militarization: Kristian Williams on Security & Surveillance Impacts of Major Events - Sam Schmidt of Our Streets Collective on Homeless Sweeps & the NFL Draft | The Final Straw Radio - May 24, 2026" featuring a pole with a bunch of cameras, flood lights nad solar panels backed by a skyline
zine cover of our interview "Homeless Sweeps and Police Militarization: Kristian Williams on Security & Surveillance Impacts of Major Events - Sam Schmidt of Our Streets Collective on Homeless Sweeps & the NFL Draft | The Final Straw Radio - May 24, 2026" featuring a pole with a bunch of cameras, flood lights nad solar panels backed by a skyline
zine cover of our interview "Toronto G20 Conspiracy Case & US Extradition Resistance | The Final Straw Radio - March 17, 2013" featuring a photo of riot cops in front of a burning police vehicle with the Toronto cityscape behind
photo of a burning flag, ignited by the hot streets of Durham, NC by Oakwood Park, plus "TFSR 6-28-26 | Thoughts on Houseless Solidarity in Durham, NC"
Cover of our most recent 2025-2026 zine showing the project logo and listing the first episodes of that date range
photo of stacks of zines, a saddle stapler, glue stick, folding bone and envelopes from the June 2026 zine mailer
book cover of "The Conviction Machine" featuring a black and white image of a justice scale tilted to one side
cover of our transcribed interview "Vicky Osterweil on Disney, Intellectual Property and Storytelling | The Final Straw Radio - May 5, 2026" featuring an image of Mickey Mouse from the book cover, back turned to the viewer removing the white glove frome one hand to reveal a shriveled claw
"B(A)D News: Angry Voices from Around The World | A-Radio-Network.org" stylized to look like a BBC News logo over a red and black anarchist flag, plus "TFSR 6-14-26 | Featuring: Open Assembly Against Pushbacks in Athens & Notara (migrant) squat, discussion of indigenous struggle from Santarém, Brazil plus a member of the Retraverse Assembly about abortions in Greece"
cover of our transcribed interview "Briding The Rift Through Kumeyaay Territory | The Final Straw Radio - June 7, 2026" featuring a photo of 3 children in dresses walking along the Mexican-US border with the beach visible over the wall
captioned audio from "The Final Straw Radio - June 7, 2026" over a photo of a man looking through the Mexico-US border as it stretches out in the distance, plus "James Stout on the cumulative nature of US border policy across administrations and decades" plus the TFSR logo
cover of our transcribed interview "Revolutionary Lessons and Internationalism From Below with The Peoples Want | The Final Straw Radio - May 17, 2026" featuring a smooth, rocky background and the The Peoples Want logo
photo of three children in dresses walking along the Tijuana side of the beach border wall next to graffiti and wheat pasted posters, plus "TFSR 6-7-26 | Bridging The Rift Through Kumeyaay Territory (Tijuana & San Diego)"
captioned audio from our May 31, 2026 interview with Jules Boykoff with the text "Jules Boykoff on Sportswashing, Corruption, Repression and the FIFA World Cup" featuring a TFSR logo over a photo of Infantino presenting the innaugural FIFA World Peace medal to Trump in front of a World Cup trophy
captioned audio from our May 31, 2026 interview with Jules Boykoff with the text "Jules Boykoff on the public costs, amassing of power by authoritarians & private grift from FIFA World Cup", over a picture of a FIFA World Cup award on top of a golden map of US / Canada with lights and lines on / between certain cities, plus the TFSR logo
book cover of "Red Card: The 2026 World Cup, Sportswashing, and the FIFA Greed Machine" by Jules Boykoff featuring a photo of a hand holding a red card, plus "TFSR 5-31-26 | Jules Boykoff on Sportswashing and the 2026 FIFA World Cup"
zine cover of our interview "The Coroner's Silence: Dr. Terence Keel on US Deaths in Custody & Public Accountability" featuring a monochrome photo of a crow in front of a prison, plus "The Final Straw Radio - April 26, 2026"
captioned audio of our interview with Sam from Our Streets Collective, over the photo of a nighttime protest against homeless sweeps in 2024 and a photo of police conducting a homeless sweep in Pittsburgh, plus the words "The Final Straw Radio - May 24, 2026 episode | Sam Schmidt of Our Streets Collective on homeless sweeps in Pittsburgh, PA, & gentrification related to the April 2026 NFL Draft
a still of police doing a baton charge, with captioned audio from our interview with Kristian Williams, alongside the TFSR logo and the text "The Final Straw Radio - May 24, 2026 | Kristian Williams on media narrratives claiming police were defunded in 2020"
zine cover of our interview "The Religious Function of Whiteness and Mass Criminalization in the U.S. : An interview with Andrew Krinks, author of 'White Property, Black Trrespass: Racial Capitalism and the Religious Function of Mass Criminalization' | The Final Straw Radio - May 10, 2026" printed over the light profile of a police officer in a uniform hat
photo of police leading a baton charge with the words "TFSR 5-24-26 | National Special Security Events, Homeless Sweeps and Police Militarization"
zine cover of our transcribe interview "Hybachi LeMar shares some thoughts Plus, updates on Xinachtli - The Final Straw Radio - April 19, 2026" featuring a woodcut of two people hugging under a starry sky and another holding a rope attached to the waning moon
captioned audio from our interview with The Peoples Want showing images of the Syrian revolution with a photos of people amassing in public squares and resisting the regime plus the text "The Final Straw Radio - May 17, 2026" and "Rindala of The Peoples Want on 'Revolutions Of Our Times: An Internationalist Manifesto'" and The Final Straw logo in the corner
captioned audio from our interview with The Peoples Want showing images of the Egyptian revolution of 2011 with a photo of people escaping tear gas down a side street with gas going off in the background, an image of an APC disabled and graffiti'd in the street and an image of a helmeted civilian taking a break from a riot in front of lines of riot police and APCs plus the text "The Final Straw Radio - May 17, 2026" and "Doxie of The Peoples Want project shares experiences of the Egyptian Revolution in 2011" and The Final Straw logo in the corner
book cover of “Revolutions of our Times: An Internationalist Manifesto from The Peoples Want” plus “TFSR 5-17-26 | Revolutionary Lessons and Internationalism from Below (with The Peoples Want)”
captioned audio from our interview "Andrew Krinks, author of 'White Property, Black Trespass' on the 'wages of whiteness'" with The Final Straw logo over "The Final Straw Radio - May 10, 2026" overlaid over an image of a multiracial group in buckskin and wearing hats entitled "Henry Berry Lowery and his gang in the swamp", followed by a drawing of white men in early 1800's garb capturing, gagging and holding a Black man from the 1839 Anti-Slavery Almanac.
captioned audio from our interview with Andrew Krinks, over a blue photo of a cop on a grey background, The Final Straw Radio logo and "The FInal Straw Radio - May 10, 2026 | Andrew Krinks, author of 'White Property, Black Trespass'"
the book cover for "White Property, Black Trespass" with a blue police offier head, plus "TFSR 5-10-26 | The Religious Function of Whiteness and Mass Criminalization in the US (with Andrew Krinks)"
zine cover of our interview "The Life and Ideas of Johann Most: An interview iwth Tom Goyens, author of 'Johann Most: Life of a Radical' | The Final Straw Radio - April 12, 2026" featuring in the background a light imprint of the cover of an issue of the German-language anarchist newspaper 'Freiheit' that Most ran for the majority of 25 years from London and New York
captioned audio over a pic of Vicky as a child in a homemade Mickey costume from the back, inside jacket of "The Extended Universe"
captioned audio over a still from the book cover of "The Extended Universe" featuring Mickey Mouse facing away from the viewer, removing his white glove to reveal a shriveled claw, plus "The Final Straw Radio, May 3rd, 2026 | Vicky Osterweil, author of "The Extended Universe" on intellectual property and living cultures"
zine cover of our interview "Immigration Detention, Low Intensity Warfare and Popular Resistance to the Ubiquitous Border | The Final Straw Radio - March 1, 2026" featuring a photo of the border wall in the desert
book cover of "The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed Movies and Took Over the World" with a picture of Mickey Mouse from behind, looking at his hand as he removes his white glove to show a shriveled claw, plus "TFSR 5-2-26 | Vicky Osterweil on Disney, Intellectual Property and Storytelling"
zine cover of our interview "Homeless Organizing in Oakland and the Wood Street Movie | The Final Straw Radio - March 22, 2026" featuring a photo from the film poster of Jon from below, with a very blue sky above
captioned audio over a photo of Dr Terence Keel, with the words "The Final Straw Radio - April 26, 2026 | Dr. Terence Keel on Coroner Reporting of In-Custody Deaths"
captioned audio over a still photo of a coroners lab with the text "The Final Straw Radio - April 26, 2026 | Dr. Terence Keel on Coroner Reporting of In-Custody Deaths"
zine cover of our interview "Out Here For Them: Updates As Prairieland Federal Trial Ends | The Final Straw Radio - March 29, 2026" featuring drawings of cacti, a protest sign laying on one cactus reading "Free Them All" and a bullhorn laying on another
book cover of The Coroner's Silence: Death Records and the Hidden Victims of Police Violence, plus "TFSR 4-26-26 | Dr. Terrence Keel on U.S. Deaths in Custody and Public Accountability"
zine cover of our interview "ABC Dresden on deBanking and US Anti-Antifascist Pressure | The Final Straw Radio - April 5, 2026" featuring a picture composed of icons or clip art of a bank, a credit card with smart chip, hammers, jars of coins, a person with a Russian-invasion Z on their forehead, a surveillance camera and another credit card
captioned audio over the book cover of "The Ghetto-bred Anarchist" by Hybachi LeMar, in pink tone showing a figure holding a rifle in front of old buildings and "TFSR 4-19-2026 | Hybachi shares thoughts on the liberating potential of self-refleciton"