Jan 18, 2024
Sean Swain is an anarchist prisoner who's serving an indeterminate sentence in Ohio for a self-defense killing. Sean has authored 3 books (one co-authored with Travis Washington) and released an album of his music (with collaboration of a number of artists) while behind bars. Sean is also a dear friend and collaborator on The Final Straw for 10 years, now. We’re sharing here a conversation Bursts had with Sean Swain to mark the 10th anniversary of Sean's (mostly) regular segments on the show, You Are The Resistance.
The show notes will be chock full of links to segments and articles worth checking out, but you can find a full rundown of Sean’s audios on the first link labeled “You Are The Resistance”, our first interview with him about the Army of the 12 Monkeys linked in the first paragraph and a whole bunch more writings and audio at SeanSwain.Org and at our website. You can find contact info there to reach out to Sean if you want to strike up a conversation.
Links to materials as they come up in the conversation:
- You Are The Resistance Archive
- Sean’s first segment
- an interview with Ben Turk
- Sean’s writeup about the attempted cell extraction during A12M situation
- A12M inerview, Sean's first appearance on TFSR
- A12M writeup on Sean’s blog (some broken links)
- Sean Swain Run for Governor 2014
- A statement on 2014 segment by Sean about his Presidential run for 2016
- Sean’s OSP hungerstrike, one segment
- The FBI Can Go Fuck Itself
- Ohio: The Truth Behind Bob's Lanes online book
LBC isn’t online right now, but apparently a fuller version is in the published edition - Ihsan reading a statement by Sean when Sean was incommunicado
- Some background on the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (per A12M as Animal Enterprise) and the Green Scare, our interview with Will Potter
- Sean Swain’s folk punk album, Burning Down
- Sean Swain’s finger getting cut off
- UNHCR testimony information
- Swain 2020 election discussion on AnarchistNews.Org
- Sean’s post on losing his father
- Kevin Rashid Johnson’s website
- Our interview with Rashid in 2018
- A more recent interview with a comrade of Rashid about his medical neglect
- Sean’s Opposing Torture book
Other Interviews with Sean Swain
- Political Prisoners channel on YouTube
- Sean's Guerrilla Litigation and Re-Imagining Outside Support
- PrisonsKill interview with Sean on 12 Monkeys