This week on The Final Straw, we’re airing three international segments
covering anarchist perspectives from the Rojava Revolution in
Northern Syria, voices from the pirate radio, Radio Klaxon on the
ZAD, a land occupation in western France, and refugee solidarity and
struggle in on the border of Croatia and Bosnia in the Balkans.
Last Tuesday morning, March 20th, 5 people with ski masks, armed with baseball bats and pepper spray entered a squat on the ZAD. They beat the people present, and took one of them, hogtied, with duct tape over his eyes and mouth. They put him in the trunk of a car and left. Further on, … Continue reading Post-script: Position of the Legal Team about the militia actions on the ZAD
Bursts spoke with a comrade y’all might recognize, a Camille who lives on the ZAD, or Zone To Defend in Notre Dame De Landes, Britanny, France. Camille and Bursts spoke in January upon the announcement of the French government’s decision to cancel the building of an airport to replace the one in Nantes. After literally … Continue reading ZAD Resists Eviction
This week on the Final Straw, we air two interviews. In the first segment, we hear from two organizers with the Centro de Apoyo Mutuo or Mutual Aid Center in Caguas, Puerto Rico. Emilu and Kique talk about Caguas, about the colonial relationship between the U.S. mainland and Puerto Rico, the post-hurricane disaster relief they’ve … Continue reading Mutual Aid in Caguas (PR) + La ZAD Wins?
For the majority of this show, we spoke with Sascha and Igor who live in Prague about Operation Fenix, which began in April 2015 when the police of the Czech Republic commenced an operation against the anarchist, anti-authoritarian and animal liberation movement.
This week’s episode features a conversation with Paul and Camille from the ZAD du Testet. ZAD du Testet, as they will explain, is a land occupation in the southwestern department of Tarn, France.
This week’s show features an interview with two residents of the ZAD about the demonstrations of February 22nd, 2014, in Nantes, France.
A conversation with Cami, a resident of the ZAD (Zone À Défendre or Zone To Defend) speaks about experiences of living on, defending, struggling on and with the project and the people in Western France and against the police, airport expansion and fascists.
Aryanum of Anarchism Perspective talks about the recent uprisings and repression in Iran, the contribution of the last 9 years of protest, monarchist attempts to seize the momentum and the role of religion in the power of the regime.
An interview with James Stout on his recently published AK Press book, “Against The State: Anarchists At War in Spain, Myanmar And Rojava”, discussing topics of open source technologies, formality, gender and coercion as relates to anarchists and anti-authoritarians in war