An interview with Dominika Ożyńska and Aleksandra Chrzanowska, two human rights activists from Grupa Granica in eastern Poland near the Belarus border, about the situation with the migrant route through the Białowieża forest in the midst of increased militarization on both sides of the border through this ancient forest and through the region.
This week on The Final Straw, we spoke with Vasili and Maria, two Belarusian anarchists living abroad about the aftermath of the 2020 Uprising in their country of birth, lessons learned, the current political prisoners and the Lukashenko regime’s attempts to attack dissidents abroad. Maria is also a member of Belarus Anarchist Black Cross, which does anti-repression education and prisoner and legal support for anarchists in or from that country.
The Uprising in Belarus Belarus is continuing to experience a revolt against the 26 year dictatorship of the post-Soviet dictator, Alexander Lukashenko. The situation came to a boil, fueled by yet another election rife with administration corruption, the creation of mutual aid infrastructure in the face of a government that abandoned public health measures in … Continue reading The Uprising in Belarus
This week: we spoke with Kevin Price about the medical emergency that William Phil Africa of the MOVE9 was undergoing and lack of transparency on the part of his captors at SCI-Dallas in Pennsylvania; we feature audio from Črna Luknja from Slovenia “P” in Barcelona, Spain, talks about the recent series of raids and repressions called Operacion Pandora against anarchists around that country; A-Radio interviews a member of Belarus Anarchist Black Cross about current situations for radicals and refugees in Belarus, Ukraine, & Russia, as well as how those ABC’s work together.
This week’s show features a conversation with the anarchist, Jason Hammonds, about his brother, Jeremy, who’s been imprisoned over a year without trial for allegedly leaking information to Wikileaks. The second conversation is an interview with a member of the Belarus Anarchist Black Cross about recent history and repression in Belarus. First things first: Jeremy … Continue reading Support Jeremy Hammond + Updates from Belarus (March 24, 2013)
M.V. Ramana, author of “Nuclear Is Not The Solution” 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.
Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc speaks about the June ‘26 anti-immigrant pogroms in Belfast, similar riots in the UK and Ireland in past years, ties between fascists and Loyalists, Republicanism, nationalism and anti-fascism today
Nina of Anarchist Black Cross Dresden speaks about the implications of the Foreign Terrorist Organization status by the US State Dept on the members of the Antifa Ost case in Germany, the deBanking of anti-repression and prisoner support groups, and the political landscape in Germany
An interview with Ben Passmore on history, Black liberation, anarchism, martial arts, myths and comics. Then, an interview with anarchist and former Belarusian political prisoner Mikola Dziadok, conducted by Frequenz-A
Aaron Losty talks about “The Hanging” and his comics process, as well as the Comics Cooperative. Then we revisit an interview with Alex of Szpila antirepression collective in Poland about the case of the H5, 5 humanitarian activists accused of human trafficking for helping refugees on the Belarus border
