Feb 23, 2020
Social justice and Struggle in Lebanon and Syria: Joey Ayoub and Leila Al-Shami
Photo taken from
Al Jumhuriya
This week on The Final Straw we’re
featuring a chat with Joey Ayoub and Leila Al-Shami. In this
conversation, Joey tells us of some of the history of Lebanon,
since the civil war that ended in 1990 and up to...
Feb 17, 2020
This week we got the chance to sit down and catch up with Ben Turk, who is an anarchist and prison abolitionist living in Milwaukee WI, about some recent efforts that he has been involved in and some ways that listeners can plug in and do solidarity work from afar. We speak about the lockdowns that have been occuring in...
Feb 9, 2020
Josh Harper of SHAC7 and Voices from Gidimt'en Access Point
This week, we feature two portions of the show.
Josh Harper on 'Animal People' film
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First up, we’ll hear Josh Harper, a co-defendant from the SHAC7 case and former political prisoner talking the struggle to shut down the company, Huntington Life...
Feb 6, 2020
Voices from the Gitdimt'en Access Point
This is a podcast special featuring the voices of three warriors who were on the barricade on the road to Unist’ot’en Camp at the Gitdimt'en Access Point. Eve Saint (Wet’suwet’en land defender), Anne Spice (Tlinket land defender) & Shilo Hill (from Onandaga nation,
Feb 4, 2020
This week on The Final Straw, an anarchist living in Mexico talks about the reign of the MORENA party of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (aka AMLO), the new face of capitalism it presents, it’s relation to social movements and indigenous sovereignty and the anarchist and indigenous resistance to the regime. We...