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G20 Finance Track in Asheville + Prosfygika

This week’s episode features two segments.

G20 Finance Track in Asheville this month

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First up, you’ll hear Jeremy and Sea speak about the upcoming G20 Financial Track gathering of Finance Ministers and Central Bankers happening in Asheville at the end of August this year. We speak about the G20, neoliberalism, and some of the organizing happening locally. More info available at G20AVL.NoBlogs.Org

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Squatted Neighborhood of Prosfygika

Then you’ll hear a segment form the June 2026 episode #103 of B(A)D News: Angry Voices from Around The World by the A-Radio Network. In this audio, members of Crna Luknja from Ljubljana, Slovenia, speak with participants in the autonomous, squatted neighborhood of Athens, Prosfygika, a name which translates to Refugee. The audio was recorded on May 28th , so likely the situation has shifted and you can find more information and updates at SaveProsfygika.GR/index.php/en/ for English. According to a statement from June 24th found on that website, the hunger strikes of Aristotelis Chantzis and Suzon Doppagne were suspended following municipal statements in line with movement demands. Check the Materials page for statements, photos, audios and documentaries from and about the community.

Announcements

Mutual Aid in Spokane in the wake of massive fires

A comrade sent some fundraising links for mutual aid, particularly for undocumented community members and folks at the Colville Tribal Rez north of town where fire damage has been extensive. Check our show notes for links.

Asheville Anti-Surveillance Week of Action August 16-22

CAMS (Community Against Mass Surveillance) is doing a week of action against mass surveillance alongside the nationwide DeFlock week of action. Check our show notes for the local schedule of events in Asheville.

SCHEDULE FOR WEEK OF ACTION:

Aug 16-22:

Sunday 8/16 – Week of Action kickoff & potluck: coalition building, info and resource sharing, and organizing for week of action and beyond, 1 to 3 pm, Home Hub Pavilion, 27 Balm Grove Ave., W AVL, rain or shine (covered outdoor space and access to indoor spaces).

**Tuesday evening 8/18 – online panel and Q&A with local and national experts, 7 – 8:30 pm.**

Friday evening 8/21 – Infoshare, Q&A, Speak Out + dance party, 6 to 10 pm, location TBD.

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Bursts: Would you care to introduce yourselves to the audience with any names, pronouns, affiliations, or locations that’d be helpful for the listeners?

C: I’m going with C. As for affiliations, I don’t know if I have any. Pronouns of she and her.

Jeremy: Hey, I’m Jeremy. My pronouns are he and they. We’re with a group of folks who got together to do some community education around the G20 when we heard that it was coming to Asheville. Speaking for myself, I knew that the G20 and these financial summits are bad, but if you’d ask me why exactly, I don’t think I could have really explained it. I wanted to try to learn as much as I could to spread that analysis to the community.

Bursts: I’m happy that we can go on this journey of discovery with you both, because I know you’ve been doing a lot of research into this. So, what even is the G20, or the G8, for that matter? What does an organization like that do, and why are anarchists and others who are interested in international solidarity, ecological issues, and class warfare concerned about groups like the G20?

Jeremy: The G20 is a summit of global financial leadership to plan global economic policy. It’s basically a meeting of elites to talk about how they’re going to exploit the working-class, maintain and expand global capitalism. It exists as a reform that came out of a crisis of legitimacy in the neoliberal global capitalist structure. You mentioned the G8. There was a formation after the end of a system called the Bretton Woods System. It was placed to limit international financial speculation, and it ended under the Nixon administration and this opened the door for international financial speculation. The G7, which is another formation that’s similar to the G20, consists of the countries with the seven largest economies, which are mainly Western. It’s Western European countries, the United States, and Japan – who made up the G7. The G8 was basically the G7 plus Russia. Russia was added after its liberalization, after the fall of the Soviet Union. Then Russia was kicked out again in 2014, and the G8 went back to being the G7. I think that anarchists, anti-authoritarians, and people who are in solidarity with working-classes all over the world pay attention to these summits because this is really where the rich plan how they’re going to set policies that are used to control populations, extract wealth, oppress the working-class people, and prevent international solidarity. I think that it is a time when we should be thinking about how we can rebuild international solidarity between working-class people to fight what these capitalists are doing.

Bursts: If the G20 is a sort of reform of the G7 or G8, and it includes countries that were former colonies, does that reform reflect a democratization of global finance or of these decisions that have an impact on such a large proportion of the world? Was this an opening of the gates to the rooms where decisions are made?

C: So it was definitely intended as a neoliberal reform to do that, but that is not the case. What it really just does is reinforce austerity measures. The G20 does encompass over 80% of the world population’s GDP as well as pollution in the world, but what they do is just try to force austerity measures on the Global South. They do this with the help of the IMFand World Bank, which are also invited to the finance ministers’ and bank governors’ summits that we’re going to see in Asheville. So it isn’t really democratic. It was trying to say that it was more democratized, but Africa is put in as just the entire continent in the African Union. There was one African country that was in it, which was South Africa. They hosted last year’s G20, but they’ve been excluded this year due to a thing that I have a Trump quote here for: “To put it more bluntly, the South African ANC are killing white people and randomly allowing their farms to be taken from them.” He and Rubio have also stated that they are “sheltering Hamas sympathizers.” It is just racist rhetoric trying to make false claims about white genocide and so on. So it’s still an incredibly racist and elitist forum.

Bursts: There’s probably an element there because South Africa, as a former apartheid state, stood up and made statements to the international court and the international community more widely decrying the genocide in Gaza as well as the ongoing apartheid in Israel. Besides the white genocide claims of certain Afrikaners and the white supremacist movement, I guess that’s probably the other element of it. It seems like a lot of the wheels are being turned and strings are getting pulled still by some of the same actors that have always pulled the strings.

C: Absolutely.

Bursts: You mentioned that Asheville is going to be hosting finance ministers. Is it called the “Financial Track”? What is the upcoming event in Asheville, and why was this fair city chosen to host a gaggle of Central Bank ghouls?

Jeremy: Let me also add a clarification to the last question. When we think of the G20 as a sort of reform to the G7 system, which still exists, we have to be clear about who it was a reform for. Giving these other countries a seat at the table was not an effort to give the working-class or the people of those countries a seat at the table. In the 90s the policies set under the direction of the G7 system destroyed a bunch of economies. They created a bunch of financial crises: the Mexican Peso Crisis, they instigated the fall of the Soviet Union, as well as a follow-up crisis of the Russian financial system; and the Asian Financial Crisis. Where they screwed up caused a lot of damage to a lot of rich people all over the world. This is giving the rich people of those countries, the financial leadership of those countries, a seat at the table. That’s what the G20 is about. The G20 Finance Track is actually how it started. The original G20 summit was first held back in 1999, and it was literally held a month after the Battle of Seattle resulted in an early end to the WTO summit in Washington. The Political Leaders Summit didn’t start until 2008 under the Bush administration. This year, the Leaders Summit is happening in Miami in December. The Leaders Summit started in response to the housing bubble that was popping, and the G20 came to a consensus at that summit in 2008 to reaffirm neoliberal principles and to bail out the bankers. This, of course, resulted in the Great Recession. C, would you like to talk about why it’s being held here?

C: Yeah, I’ll try to answer that.

Jeremy: Thanks.

C: Typically, the process for choosing cities involves cities or regions volunteering or putting up offers. This did not apparently happen here, according to some people who asked the city of Asheville if they did that. They were told by the federal government, and the rationale the government gave is that it’s meant to highlight resiliency post Hurricane Helene. At the time of this announcement, I believe, and correct me if I’m wrong, the federal administration was withholding over 170 million dollars in FEMAfunds for recovery. It’s basically just them trying to say, “Look, we can choose a place that was the poster child of climate-change-caused-crisis, and say it’s not that bad.” I don’t know exactly what convinced the Asheville government to agree, other than maybe being told around the same time they got more funding for a real-time Intelligence Center, or it is perhaps related to the tourism industry. That is more in the realm of speculation, but it’s definitely coming with an increase in surveillance from the federal trend.

Bursts: So you mentioned the withholding of FEMA funding. There was a decision after Hurricane Helene, or maybe rather after the election and with the new Trump administration taking office in 2025, that FEMAwould be restructured so that redistribution of emergency aid after a natural disaster, for instance, would go through the White House and be at the discretion of the Oval Office. I wonder if that model falls in line with the model of neoliberalism that’s being promoted by the G20. And I wonder if you have the numbers or the experience that you want to speak to? How has the recovery in this region been since the storm? Is it a poster child for a success story?

Jeremy: I think that’s a good question. It’s sort of funny. Here I’m just going to read a quote from what Treasury Secretary Bessent stated. He said, “I am proud to spotlight that the United States will host the G20 Finance Ministers Summit and central bank governors in Asheville, North Carolina. The selection of historic Asheville reflects the Trump administration’s commitment to the revitalization and resilience of Western North Carolina, which continues to rebuild after the devastating impact of Hurricane Helene.” A lot of people in the community are obviously very upset by, because we got little to nothing from the federal government. The government was extremely unhelpful at every level. Everybody here knows that it was people, their neighbors, and community groups that have done the recovery. I don’t have the numbers in front of me, but we still have a ton of newly unhoused people that are the result of Hurricane Helene. It hasn’t gone well by any measure, and so it’s a slap in the face to tell people that this is about Helene recovery. Though when you consider what neoliberalism is all about and what they are promoting at this summit, it is perfect for them, because it is a demonstration that these elites can come to this beautiful tourist mountain town. They can have a retreat, have a nice weekend where they can have their meetings despite the fact that they did nothing to help us. Despite the fact that there are still so many poor and working-class people who are struggling here, so many unhoused people, and they will at least, they assume, still get to have their nice vacation here.

Bursts: Yeah, and besides people being made newly homeless, there was also a destruction of a good portion of the percentage of the housing stock around western North Carolina. That in itself will increase the cost of living and the market cost of rents as well as for purchasing housing afterwards. If there are fewer houses available, the market will increase the costs. To be fair, it’s not just the Trump administration. Hurricane Helene hit during the election period, but it was still the Biden administration up until the top of the year. There were a few months left under Biden’s administration, where the recovery was super slow in the region.

Jeremy: That’s a good point. Certainly, this formation and this neoliberal ideology are bipartisan and have maintained a continuity between all the administrations of this country. I want to add a projection here from the president of the much-hated Tourism Development Authority. They say that there will be approximately 500 attendees and that it will generate 1.5 to 2 million dollars in direct spending and that this is somehow good news for people here. It’s going to be held at a luxury resort, the Grove Park Inn. Who is this going to benefit? This is going to benefit a small handful of rich people in the tourism sector. It is not going to benefit the people of the area in general.

Bursts: The term ‘neoliberalism’ was used; it gets bandied about. You’ve talked about some of the institutions globally, for example, bringing up the Bretton Woods Agreement. People may be familiar with the three organizations that really are the powerhouses of that period, which are still in existence – the World Bank, the IMF, and the WTO, which acts as a court. I wonder if you could talk a bit about how what you’re saying is translating in terms of the economic impact on the local community. What are the values behind neoliberalism, and how has it played out to perform in real-world settings?

Jeremy: Yeah. It is a term that I think is widely misunderstood and can just stand in for a lot of things we don’t like, which is not a helpful way to use words. I think it can be summed up with this: there was a title of a book called Freedom for Capital, Not for People. I think that accurately sums up the political program of neoliberalism. It’s often referred to as ‘free market fundamentalism’. This is the idea that capital needs to flow, that financial speculation is a good thing, that deregulation is a good thing, that austerity measures are good for the economy, and that governments should not be spending money to help their populations. They should be spending money to support businesses. And the way that the IMF and the World Bank have played into this system is that these institutions reside in the US – the center of empire – and financial speculation has been used to create financial crises in other countries. Often, these are those who are perhaps not as open to US investment and US interests as the businesses and our capitalists in this country would like. So, first, you destroy a country’s economy and create a financial crisis, and then the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank can dangle aid money to bail out the bankers and the governments of those countries in exchange for implementing neoliberal economic policy reforms or structural adjustment reforms, which involve implementing austerity measures. It involves deregulating markets, selling off nationally held assets (oftentimes to US business interests), and making the world free for US capital.

Bursts: And the countries that are participating – it’s not like they started on an equal footing with setting up this organization and the rules that it imposes. I’ve heard people talk about ‘neo-colonialism’ as a way of describing the post-colonial, post-1950s wave of recapturing by first-world capital or Global North capital of the economies and the institutions and resources held within the industrializing or formerly colonized parts of the world. Is that a fair assessment?

Jeremy: Yeah, I think the two are very much connected.

Bursts: Could you all talk a little bit about what resistance to G20 summits has looked like historically or in recent years and what you know about what’s planned in Asheville or later this year in Miami?

C: Most of the resistance is super well documented, at least as resistance-to-summits goes. As for the Leaders’ Summit, like the one that is happening in Miami, I believe there was another Final Straw episode about this a while ago, it’s worth noting that these are National Security Special Events. They bring police and law enforcement officers and agencies in from all over the country, spearheaded by the FBI and the Secret Service. There are several larger ones where I saw the number 18,000 police flowing into town, I believe. Some large examples of resistance have been Hamburg, Germany, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Toronto, Canada, where there were mass movements against these summits. These often did manage to disrupt, not in a quite Battle of Seattle way, but in a very significant way.

All of these summits, regardless of whether they are the massive Leader Summit or the like we have here in Asheville, the Finance Track, are going to come with increased repression and surveillance. We are already seeing this in Asheville with the development of the real-time intelligence center, putting up more Flock cameras and more ALPRs. We are seeing our unhoused community get hit with more and harder charges, like enhancements for having a screwdriver on your person, making it like attempted breaking and entering. And jail’s already overcrowded. I believe that downtown patrols have doubled over the summer, and Pisgah View Apartments is now under 24/7 patrols. So we’re seeing the repression start early, and we are not really seeing a reason why it would leave after the summit does.

Jeremy: As far as resistance in Asheville goes, we have a website that I’ll promote again at the end, G20avl.noblogs.org. We’ll promote any public events that we hear about on there. The main thing that I’ve heard about so far is there’s a group that’s called the WNC Alignment Table, which is organizing a series of events in response to the summit. The WNC Alignment Tableis a group of local activists and political organizations that are working together to address issues impacting our most vulnerable communities and build collective power. They’ve got a weekend of programming for the weekend of the G20. They will be having an info session on Thursday the 20th, and then there will be some demonstrations and a press conference on Friday the 28th. On Saturday, there’s going to be some more demonstrations, and on Sunday there’s going to be a WNC Community Summit that’s specifically focused on Helene recovery, since that’s one of the stated reasons it’s being held here. They’re going to be honoring groups that actually did work to help the community during Helene and who continue to do work. This organization’s events are going to be linked on our website. If anybody wants more information, they can also go to linktr.ee/wncalignment. That’s got a bunch of resources as well as their list of events for the weekend.

Bursts: Rolling back to C, who brought up the National Special Security Events. If anyone’s interested, that show from a couple of months ago was a Christian Williams show. C, can you talk a little bit about what’s expected for the footprint of the financial summit here? I’ve heard that there is going to be an increased number of law enforcement from various agencies here. Can you talk a little bit about what is feared in terms of immigrant populations and undocumented neighbors? About the homeless sweeps that have been going on – what’s expected to continue around those? Changes in jurisdiction – I heard someone saying something about federal property? How is it going to be for those communities, or what’s expected or feared for those communities and also for non-targeted populations that live in the areas where finance ministers are going to be transiting, staying, or meeting?

C: It’s likely that the other jurisdictions will be at a very significant and still alarming number. As for our vulnerable communities, we are likely going to see a large uptick in license checks and checkpoints. We already know that Buncombe County Detention Center is a major way that WNC is transporting people into ICE detention, and this is a very big risk for our local immigrant communities. We are already starting to see an uptick in arrests of unhoused people, and we expect to see a greater uptick in sweeps of encampments and such. Basically, they want to show this as “Wow! Look how well we did cleaning up the storm.” They are going to try to make it look like the city is rich by pushing the people that they don’t like out and into detention. There is a risk for everyone that is marginalized that they will be swept away in this sense by checkpoints and encampment sweeps. These are definitely the most vulnerable populations here and the ones that can use the most community support. As for federal jurisdiction, Jeremy, do you want to talk more about that? Do you have more notes?

Jeremy: I don’t have a lot of information on this. This is something that I’ve heard from people who were trying to get more information about this event and who have been talking to city leadership, city council, and city managers. What somebody was told by the city is that the Grove Park Inn property is going to be designated as federal land. Now, what exactly that means, honestly, I’m not sure of. I can just speculate. I would imagine that it’s to give federal pigs jurisdiction over the area and to elevate consequences for anybody who is arrested for attempting to disrupt the event on the property or anything like that, but I really can’t say for sure.

Bursts: There was a list of described events that are on the Poor People’s Campaign alignment table, which is going to be linked at the noblogs for the pop-ed group. There’s the blog, but are there any ways that you could suggest that people learn more about how the policies of international institutions like the G20 impact their daily lives and organizing even outside of these local summits and the pressure that they put onto communities that host them? Jeremy, I don’t know if that video is going to be online, or we could just point to the slideshow or whatever at the website, but are there any other resources, podcasts, articles, books, or anything like that that stem from ongoing education that either of you can think of?

Jeremy: I think it’s a difficult question to answer just because it’s such a big question. The way I’ve started to think about this is that every time I was with somebody and they were reading the news and saw something horrible happening in their community related to developments in local government or whatever and asked themselves, “Why are we living in the stupidest timeline possible?” I think it almost always connects back to this stuff. This is part of a very large and long-running program to destroy our lives that goes back since the end of World War II and even before that. I guess as far as educational resources, we do have the website that I already mentioned, G20avl.noblogs.org, that we will have more educational resources on. We’re hoping to get a recording of a presentation that we are doing for the community that goes into the history of not just the G20, but neoliberalism and how it has created problems.

If people want a book to read, the book The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein is a pretty good summary of how these things connect. It’s a good book to check out, and we’ll have some other books linked on the website that go into more depth and details. Another thing is to look at the resources linked on the WNC Alignment Table’s Linktree that point to the rationale given by our own political leaders for why the G20 is happening and what is on the agenda for the G20. One of the things on the agenda is building data centers. They want to make sure that countries are open for building data centers. I think at this point data centers are even less popular than ICE. Across the political spectrum, everybody hates data centers. They are destroying the environment, and why are they doing that? They are doing it for policing and surveillance technology primarily, as well as for AI infrastructure. Right now, Flock cameras as well as ALPRs and facial recognition—all of these surveillance tools—depend on this infrastructure. It’s pretty easy for people to make the connection of how this affects their daily life. There is a community group in Asheville called CAMS, Communities Against Mass Surveillance. People might want to check out that group and consider getting involved in that. I would also just suggest getting involved in organizations that are aligned with your values in your area. If you are in the Asheville area, check out Firestorm.Coop and look at their event calendar. They host a lot of great community events.

I was just skimming the G20 agenda right before we got on this call, and another thing that I didn’t notice previously on the agenda, right at the very bottom, that might seem pretty innocuous is promoting financial literacy. That’s something that in the past I might have just seen and thought nothing of really. I want to shout out the work of Dr. Jared Ball, his book The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power, as well as Black Liberation Media and I Mix What I Like. I think he’s done a lot of work to analyze how this concept of financial literacy is a really important tool for counterinsurgency. There is so much stuff on social media and the internet. Our popular culture is saturated with the notion that people need to work really hard for their money, that you’ve got to grind, and you’ve got to get a second job. It’s shown that if people are poor and struggling, it is their fault for not understanding finance. In reality, it is the fault of the elites who are organizing the G20 and who are intentionally planning to extract wealth and exploit us. That’s the reason people are poor and struggling. It’s not because people are not working hard enough. So it’s a pretty noxious thing to see on the list of things on the agenda that they’re promoting.

Bursts: C again. Any follow-up?

C: That was an awesome, comprehensive answer. Just touching on resources. The G20avl.noblogs.org does have a list of resources. I agree with everything else, especially talking about ways to plug in and getting involved with groups that align with your values; that’s so awesome. If you can’t find a group that is doing what you want, or if it’s not working for you, just go out and do it. I very much believe that a lot of these issues seem like they need a seat at the table to stop, and I think we don’t need the table at all. Do what you want. You can help your neighbors without a seat at the table, and that will make the table less relevant.

Jeremy: One thing that I might want to highlight here. You mentioned before that South Africa was dis-invited from this summit and that the stated reason is this white genocide conspiracy. I think that it’s important to note (and you may have already mentioned this) that the United States has stopped accepting refugees from any country except for white South Africans. I think it’s notable to make the connection between the economic policy that is set by this organization and mass migration. Because a lot of the migration that has been coming into the United States for decades is the direct result of this global financial policy destroying the economies of those countries. The United States destroyed the economy of Mexico in order to force them to sell communally owned land to US corporations, and this drove massive poverty in Mexico. It’s one of the reasons that the Mexican Coke that you see in the grocery store comes out of a factory in Chiapas outside of San Cristobal de las Casas, which is the highest poverty area in Mexico. The United States is destroying the economies of these countries and then trying to crack down on immigration.

C: These policies are completely “freedom for capital, not for people.” This freedom for capital creates crises, which then lead to debt and more crises, which then are capitalized on. It’s this endless cycle that ends with the upward flow of capital and people subjected to being part of an underclass because everything is taken from them due to not their decisions at all but the decisions of finance ministers. Remember, all of the people that are coming to Asheville are unelected officials. This is purely money acting for money’s sake, as close as it gets.

Bursts: One other point that I heard Jeremy refer to before the recording is the WTO protests. When the WTO protests happened, there was dialog from elements of the statist left about increasing the voices of formerly colonized countries within the framework of the WTO so as to democratize the institution. Brazil, South Africa, and India were three of the most recent hosts of G20 summits. I don’t know if you have any insights into what impact or voice those host countries have within the G20 or if they were able to make any changes in the policy. Do they have an impact? Is their voice heard? Does the voice of a country like India under Modi represent an opening of the gates or democratization of international capitalism?

Jeremy: That’s a great question and something we have a little bit of information on in our history presentation, which we’ll hopefully have online sometime soon. This is where it’s important to remember that these financial leaders, these states, they are not the people. The past three G20 summits that have been hosted in Global South countries have attempted to shift the agenda somewhat to bring in some issues that are of interest to those countries. This is why, under the Trump administration, they are trying to roll that back out. In those countries they have still done sweeps. They have done mass arrests of poor people. They have been generally repressive of their working-class populations and were very unpopular. I think the biggest organization that has consistently maintained a line against the G20 summits is the International Federation of Trade Unions, and I actually have a quote from an organizer in India in response to the G20 summit being held there. They had massive protests where they burned effigies of financial leadership, and they also had a lot of sweeps there. This quote is from a union leader in India, Sarwan Singh Pandher; he says, “We are against this summit, as the decisions taken by G20 countries have always been anti-middle-class and anti-below-the-poverty-line populations. India is a developing country, and so efforts are always made to exploit its labor and natural resources by imposing pro-corporate policies.”

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B(A)D News 102 (from the A-Radio Network)

"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 Santarem, Brazil plus a member of the Retraverse Assembly about abortions in Greece"
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This week, we’re taking a break from new content and sharing with you content from the May 2026 episode of B(A)D News: Angry Voices from Around The World. B(A)D News is a collaboration of members of the A-Radio Network of anarchist and anti-authoritarian radios and podcasts with member projects from Europe, the US and Chile at this moment.

Each month, a project takes responsibility to put together audio segments form other radio and podcast projects in the A-Radio Network. About the time that we’re releasing this, the June 2026 episode should be released, so keep an eye out at A-Radio-Network.org and clicking the link for B(A)D News to see the monthly episodes as they are released.

From the notes of episode 102:

This is episode number 102 of “B(A)D NEWS -angry voices from around the world”, a news program from the international network of anarchist and antiauthoritarian radios, consisting of short news segments from different parts of the world.

Content of this episode

  • Črna Luknja with a contra-report about the situation on borders of greece and migrant struggles. They discuss this with a member of Open Assembly Against Pushbacks in Athens and also active in Notara (migrant) squat.

More info: https://againstpushbacks.wordpress.com

  • Frequenz A with an interview of a comrade from Santarém, Brazil about indigenous struggles. They spoke with Raphael about anarchist organizations in the region, the main threats for indigenous communities, Indigenous struggles and how anarchists can support them.

You can find more infos here:

Radio show Parias of Athens with an interview of a member of the Retraverse Assembly about abortions in Greece and the issues surrounding them.

You can find more info’s here: https://retraverse.espivblogs.net/

  • A-Radio Berlin: Weird politics (a satiric take on news from Germany and around the world)

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A-Radio Network, activism, Anarchist, B(A)D News, Brazil, Capitalism, Črna Luknja, Denmark, Forest Defense, Health, Indigenous, Israel, Palestine, Peter Gelderloos, Transcribed, United States, war, zine

Voices in Brazil for Radical Ecological Struggle (feat. Peter Gelderloos and Gah Te Iracema)

This week, we’re featuring three segments.

Peter Gelderloos of Weaving Paths to Ecological Revolution

A picture of a march of various communities of people behind a Teia Dos Povos (Web Of The Peoples) banner, plus “TFSR 11-23-25 | Voices In Brazil for Radical Ecological Struggle”
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First up, you’ll hear from anarchist and author Peter Gelderloos speaking about his ongoing trip to Brazil as a member of Weaving Paths to Ecological Revolution to listen to and network with indigenous, anarchist, autonomous, ecological and land reclamation projects in that country, coinciding with the COP30 UN climate conference.

Gah Te Iracema of the Kaingang

Then, we hear an interview with Gah Te Iracema of the Kaingang people from southern Brazil, speaking about their land reclamation, reforestation, their post-flood water distribution mutual aid in 2024 and other topics.

Links

Anti-Maersk Action for Palestine, Copenhagen 2025

Finally, Črna luknja from the November 2025 episode of B(A)D News spoke with a Danish activist about the February 2025 Cut Ties With Genocide action camp in Copenhagen which included an action against Maersk, a Danish shipping and logistics company facilitating arms transfers from the US to Israel. You can hear the rest of this interview in the upcoming B(A)D News, Angry Voices from Around The World, episode 96 for November of 2025 from the A-Radio Network.

Links

  • Cut Ties With Genocide Action Camp: https://cuttheties.ukrudt.net/
  • Mask Off Maersk: https://www.maskoffmaersk.com/
  • B(A)D News: https://www.a-radio-network.org/bad-news-angry-voices-from-around-the-world/
  • Crna Luknja: http://radiostudent.si/druzba/crna-luknja

Announcement

Prisoners for Palestine Hunger Strike

Collective members of Prisoners for Palestine (PrisonersForPalestine.Org), a prisoner-led collective in Britain representing all those detained under charges related to Palestinian liberation, have entered their fourth week of their hunger strike as of the day of this podcast, with participation of Qesser, Amu, Heba, Jon, T, and Kamran. This week, the first of the Filton 24 trials began as well. From a press release of the collective’s website:

While suffering physically due to the effects of the hunger-strike, the six prisoners currently taking part in the protest remain strong, defiant, and committed to winning their… demands:

  1. An end to the censorship of letters and books, and freedom of expression.
  2. Immediate bail.
  3. The right to a fair trial.
  4. The deproscription of Palestine Action.
  5. The closure of all Elbit weapons factories in Britain.

We hope to conduct an interview soon with members of the Prisoners for Palestine on the proscription of Palestine Action, Elbit Systems, the conditions of confinement case and the hunger strikes.

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Anarchism and Disability, plus A-Radio Segments

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This week, we spoke with Richard Amm, a member of the Disability Action Research Kollective, or DARK, which they describe as a disabled-led group working to make disability perspectives, history, and research more accessible to a general audience. Amar and Richard speak about disability, eugenics, radical history the Corona virus and other topics. You can learn more about the project at linktr.ee/disabilityark

DARK Links

Then we’ll feature two segments from the May 2025 episode of BAD News: Angry Voices From Around The World, the English-language podcast of the A-Radio Network.

First up, A-Radio Berlin shared a conversation about the political motivated arrests and harassment of members of the Labor Desk Confederation of Trade Unions in Azerbaijan, which is calling for international solidarity.

The Labor Desk Confederation of Trade Unions in Azerbaijan is calling for international solidarity following the politically motivated arrests of its chairman Afiaddin Mammadov and fellow unionists Aykhan Israfilov, Elvin Mustafayev, and Mohyaddin Orujov. These arrests are part of a systematic crackdown on independent labor organizing in Azerbaijan..

https://www.labourstartcampaigns.net/show_campaign.cgi?c=5634

Next, Črna Luknja from Ljubljana conducted an interview with OLTA (Open Leftist Assembly of Antifascist, Carinthia) from south-west of austria.They are mobilizing against the so-called “Burschentag” of the Austrian Pennaler Ring ,which is the association of the conservative fraternities.The austrian Pennaler Ring is connected with the ruling, fascist party FPÖ and extra-parliamentary extreme right.

Finally, Sean Swain’s segment

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Jay Ward on Hunger Strike + Antifascists Organizing in Europe

We’re sharing our episode a few days early this week and it contains two segments plus Sean Swain…

Jay Ward Hunger Strike

Phone zap flyer including demands and contacts (also present in blog post)

First up, a recent interview with James “Jay” Ward. Jay was featured in a show about a year ago: he went into prison at 15 years old in Ohio and has been in for 19 years at this point. He participated in the 2018 Nationwide Prisoner Strike as well as other self-advocacy protests since and is trying to raise funds with his outside supporters to pay for a lawyer to help him win his release as his mandatory minimum date comes up next year. When this was recorded, Jay was 11 days into a hunger strike demanding a return of his personal items and a transfer to a space where he won’t be targeted for violence by gangs, alongside a couple of other requests listed in his letter at the end of this post. You can hear how tired he is from subsisting only on water for the last week and a half, struggling to keep focus and concentrate on the conversation throughout our chat. You can find his gofundme for updates and ways to donate.

If you want to support his hunger strike, his supporters are requesting people call between 9am and 5pm central time (Mon-Fri) the following numbers to voice concern for the safety and conditions of James Ward A517461 on hunger strike :

  • Mansfield Correctional Institution at 419-525-4455 and ask to talk to Warden Harold May
  • the Central ODRC office at 614-387-0588

At the bottom of our show notes you can find Jay’s public announcement of his circumstances and requests. You can also email your concerns to drc.manci@odrc.state.ohio.us as well as to the ODRC Director Annette Chambers-Smith (via annette.chambers-smith@odrc.state.ohio.us ).

Jay is wanting people to reach out to contact him via his mailing address (below) or JPay.com (using the info in his mailing address):

James Ward A517461
Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction
Mail Processing Center (OMPC)
884 Coitsville-Hubbard Road
Youngstown, Ohio 44505

Antifascist Voices in Europe

Then you’ll hear an interview conducted by our comrades at crna luknja in Ljubljana, Slovenia with antifascists countering neonazi demonstrations in Budapest, Hungary, and Sofia, Bulgaria. This was featured in the latest episode of B(A)D News from the A-Radio Network, a monthly podcast from a network that we affiliate with and worth checking out for “angry voices from around the world”.

Finally, you’ll hear Sean Swain’s promise for a brighter, goldener era for the USA (and subsequently the world)

Announcements

Malik Muhammad Phone Zap

There’s a phone zap currently on to move 2020 “Palestinian pansexual Muslim… anarchist antifascist, anti-racist abolitionist” prisoner Malik Muhammad out of solitary confinement at Snake River Correctional in Oregon.

Call Snake River Correctional with the following demands weekdays between 9am and 5pm pacific time:

  • Return Malik to general inmate population;
  • Restore communications rights and mail;
  • Return all books and possessions immediately;
  • End the persecution now!

Master Control: 541-881-5018
Superintendent: 541-881-5002
Inspector: 541-881-5081
Chaplains: 541-881-4624, 541-881-4625, 541-881-4626, 541-881-4686
General Line: 541-881-5000

Please write to Malik and let him know you stand with him!

Malik Muhammad #23935744
Snake River Correctional Institution
777 Stanton Blvd
Ontario, OR 97914-8335

*Note*: Please include page numbers and return addresses on each page because the prison typically does not give inmates the envelopes.

Update on Fund Raising and supporting TFSR

A quick update to the patreon request we made in recent episodes: We’re back where we were a month ago, covering the basic costs. Big thanks to those who stepped up to help! We have other costs beyond that (printing and mailing our small contribution to prisoner zines per month, replenishing our stickers, equipment upgrades) that we could also use support in if you have a few bucks a month. We have that patreon with it’s early audio releases and other thank-yous, or anonymized payments via liberapay that can be one-time or recurring. We also have a big cartel store with some merch and can take payments via venmo and paypal. These are linked at https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/donate

If you appreciate the work we do but don’t have the extra money, the best way to contribute is to get involved in face to face organizing where you are, integrating movements against oppression and capitalism into your life and brings others along with you since we can’t get there without each other.

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Statement from Jay on his conditions

This is Jay’s letter to the head of the Ohio DRC:

Dear Annette chambers-smith

This is James Ward from ManCI. The last time I wrote to you I had explained a lot to you that has been going on here concerning my safety. And after that letter the administration got mad at me for going to you because they have not been trying to do anything to really ensure my safety here at Mansfield. And I’m writing you again because I don’t know who else to go to with my recent situation and concerns, because nobody has been helpful. And currently, my safety is back at risk.

About 7 months ago right before the admin got the letter I sent you, UMC Henry got me placed in unit 4B (the faith based block here), mainly for my safety concerns. Every block that I’ve been put in since I been here, I’ve became a victim to gangs and have also got a hit put on me, which UMC Henry and the rest other admin doesn’t want to believe although they seen and heard proof. So it makes it to where I have to go on PC invest, suicide watch or hunger strike to ensure my safety. But I honestly don’t like being in the hole unless I legitimately did something wrong. So my current situation is that I am on hunger strike to ensure my safety, but also for other reasons that I will explain.

When I got put in 4B, its an inmate that the unit refers to as frank (4B/128 bottom) and they basically let him control the operation of the block. How? He’s been in that block for a long time and manages the faith base programs, etc. But due to the reputation he has built up with the unit staff, Sgt Knowlton and others believes everything he tells them. So when I first got moved over their, I was honestly selling food to people that didn’t have any. But frank went to the unit and told them that I was selling drugs to try and get me moved out of the block. The unit called me over and talked to me about it and I stopped selling food for awhile. I was do in everything I was required to do and haven’t got no ticket. Recently, I was trying to organize a group meal for people that really didn’t have much. And an inmate named Green wanted to be involved. But when I told Green that a prisoner support group was going to do a fundraiser to raise the money for the meal he backed out. He then went to inmate frank and told frank that I was trying to scam people and get them outside cases. Franks celly told me that frank said this and was going to put a stop to what I was doing. Next thing you know I’m on the list to move out of the block ( I was sent to 2B). I then sent a kite to Sgt. Knowlton and basically asked him why I got moved and also told him things that frank and others are doing in that block, but he disregarded everything I told him and only told me “you were doing too much, use your imagination”. So I then kited UMC Henry and told him what happened and he said he’d look into it. But before Henry could let me know anything, my Cally told me that someone wanted him to take the hit on me. I then went on suicide watch to ensure my safety. Because PC invest has not gotten me anything and they put you in a cell with someone else that can have their family look you up. That’s what people do here (sneak thru your stuff to find your ID number and have their family look you up). And I also started my hunger strike because I know that the admin won’t do anything to help me.

Recently, henry talked to me and said that he will investigate what happened in 4B, but that a hunger strike isn’t how I will get moved back. But for me to go to a regular block while he investigates. And I get it that a hunger strike is not the way to get moved back, but I refuse to go to a regular block where my safety will be at risk. Henry wanting me to go to a regular block while he investigates is like saying go get jumped on while I look into this. 4C is the only block here that I will be safe in, because its the intake block (all of the new people that don’t know anything about e hit on me goes to that block), but Henry will not put me there.

During the time that I was on PC invest before I got moved to 4B, I found out that property of mine came up missing from the TPU vault. While I was in TPU I was writing complaints on LT. Brooks and Sgt. Risner for not allowing me to do my 2.4. The end result was that the active AIIS at the time (B. Lower) and the IIS D. Blankenship falsified a modified response to my complaint to make it seem like I was lying and that they found the items in my cell. But 2 days before Lower came to search my cell, I was called to the inspectors office concerning my lost property because someone in your office wanted to know what property was I talking about in my complaint. So I told them everything and that a theft report was filed. But the theft report was not put on onbase yet, so lower had to contact the block officer that wrote it (officer Comstock). So they called me back up to the inspectors office and offered to reimburse me with $42+ on my commissary and a few items from contraband. So I told them I’d think about it. They called me back up the next day and I told them I didn’t want it because they wouldn’t replace everything I was missing. So the next day after that is when lower came to search my cell. And when he left he told me that I should have taken the deal. After that, IIS Blankenship wrote 13 false statements in her modified response, which is a criminal offence that I can prove with the paperwork that I have. And now they have lower walking around as a Lt. Blankenship was already caught falsifying state documents in Darryl Smith’ lawsuit.

I been 5 years R.I.B ticket free. 3 of those years was when I was in level 4. I been here 2 years with no real trouble. The first year when I went up for my security review it was said that I needed time to adjust. This past year when I went up, the admin recommended level decrease. But then I find out that I didn’t get my level dropped, because an incident that took place 8 years ago and isn’t true. The BOC said that my level decrease was denied because I tried to kill a staff. I’ve never been a threat to anybody since I been locked up. And the time that they referred to is when I had just got put in a regular cell on suicide watch. They didn’t have a crisis cell to use. So the cuff port had to stay open. And I had joked with the officer saying that I found a razor, so without really knowing if I had one he sprayed me in the face with OC. So they removed me from the cell to clean it, but they never found a razor. And I told them not to put that officer back on my watch cuz he sprayed me for no reason, and I was honestly mad. But they put him back on my watch. So to try and get him off my watch, in a fast motion I acted like I was reaching out to grab him. He was too far from the door for me to grab or anything, but he wrote me up saying that I tried to cut him with a razor. And they never allowed me to go to my R.I.B or SMP hearing. But that happened 8 years ago. And majority of that time since then I have continuously show a dramatic change in my behavior with no R.I.B tickets. I believe the only reason my level decrease was denied is because UMC Henry contacted someone in your office to find something that they can use against me to hold me here. Because I have wrote complaints against Henry and wrote that letter to you. And he knows how much I been wanting to leave this prison, but he won’t transfer me even though my safety is continuously at risk here.

Lastly! I have chronic damage in both of my shoulders that causes them to be able to dislocate if I’m not paying attention to how I use my arms, mainly only when it comes to having my arms outstretched or if I have to climb something. The last time I was placed on the top bunk, my left shoulder dislocated when I was trying to climb up. I feel backwards and busted my head open on a dresser, then on the floor. And that is in my medical record from when I was at W.C.I. And since then, I have had many other dislocations that is in my medical record. I was given bottom rack restriction each time, but I never really needed it since I been at level 4. Since I been here I been trying to get it back but medical tells me its not required for my injuries. They gave it to me for 3 months and that was it. If my shoulder dislocates while trying to climb onto the top bunk and I bust my head open again, then I can sue the medical department for negligence and deliberate indifference because I have told them about my chronic dislocations and they choose not to do anything about it.

All I ask for:
1) My property to be replaced
2) My bottom bunk restriction
3) My level decreased so I can leave ManCI
4) If I can’t get 3, then I ask to be placed in 4C for the remaining time that I’m at ManCI

These are reasonable request and within reason.

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Facing 12 Years in Florida Abortion Graffiti + Anti-Fascist March in Bulgaria

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This week, we’re sharing two portions.

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First up, a chat with two members of the South Florida Anti-Repression Committee doing solidarity for the 4 queer activists facing up to 12 years in Federal prison on charges related to graffiti at a Pregnancy Crisis Center, aka a building funded by church and state to dissuade people from getting abortions. The Department of Justice is charging them under the FACE Act, a criminal law passed in the 1990’s to stop threats, violence and blockades against health clinics that offered like abortions, screenings, contraception and other services under attack by religious extremists in the USA. There are also Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation, known also as a SLAPP suits being brought by a Miami-based Christian anti-abortion Crisis Pregnancy Center called Heartbeat of Miami as well as the state of Florida against the accused apparently intended to have a chilling effect and minimize their ability to defend themselves against the Federal indictments.

Oso and Hunter of SFLARC talk about the arrests, about the defendants and the rising tide of gender fascism and war on bodily autonomy in DeSantis’ Florida and around the country.

Anti-Fascist March in Bulgaria

Following this, we’re sharing audio from the February 2023 episode of Bad News, a monthly English-language podcast from the A-Radio Network. In this segment, you’ll hear comrades from Črna luknja show on Radio Študent speakin with an activist in Sofia, Bulgaria about the antifascist mobilization known as Anti-lukovmarsh, which will take place on 25th February under the slogan “No Nazis On Our Streets” – This is a manifestation against one of the biggest international neo-nazi gatherings (Lukov March). You can find more info at: http://antifa-bulgaria.org.

Announcements

Support Parole for Sundiata Jawanza

Political prisoner and activist Sundiata Jawanza in South Carolina has an upcoming parole and is looking for support. You can learn more about his case at https://www.sundiatajawanza.com/

Alfredo Cospito Ends Hunger Strike

As you’ll hear in Sean Swain’s segment, Alfredo Cospito continues to languish in 41bis close custody. After Sean recorded this segment, Alfredo ended his hunger strike of roughly 5 months. You can learn more at AbolitionMediaWorldwide. You can hear our interview last year on the conditions of 41bis with anarchists in Italy here: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2022/10/30/solidarity-with-prisoner-resistance-from-alabama-to-italy/

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Featured Tracks:

  • Gentleman by Fela Kuti from Gentleman
  • Yes All Cops by Worriers from Imaginary Life

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A History of Black Bloc, plus Bad News!

A History of Black Bloc, plus Bad News!

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First up, we’re sharing a blast from the past blast from the past, an interview that we conducted in 2013 via our comrades from A-Radio Berlin with a participant in the autonomous anti-capitalist street movement in Germany in the latter half of the 20th century known as Autonomen. Specifically, the guest speaks about the context of anonymous street actions during May Day of 1987 in the district of then-West Berlin known as Kreuzberg and about the tactic that became known as Black Bloc. Apologies for the audio quality of this portion.

Then, you’ll be hearing portions of the May 2022 episode of Bad News: Angry Voices From Around The World by the A-Radio Network, of which the already-mentioned Berlin crew is also a member. You’ll hear:

  • comrades from Free Social Radio 1431AM in Thessaloniki, Greece with some updates from that country.
  • Then, friends at Črna luknja in Lubjlana, Slovenia, shares an interview with members of the autonomous social center in Trieste known as Germinal on the 10th anniversary of that space.
  • Finally, you’ll hear A-Radio Vienna sharing the call-out for the 2022 June 11th Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason and All Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners. You can find more on June 11th at June11.NoBlogs.Org

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Daryle Lamont Jenkins: Defend DC, December 11 and 12th (plus Updates from Slovenia and Greece)

Daryle Lamont Jenkins: Defend DC, December 11 and 12th

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This week, you’ll hear a full show, with an update on antifascist resistance in the US by Daryle Lamont Jenkins, updates from Greece and Slovenia (more below). Plus, a segment by Sean Swain [00:01:38 – 00:07:54]

Defend DC, 12/11-12/12

[00:07:52 – 00:51:28]

Our main content is a conversation with antifascist organizer Daryle Lamont Jenkins of the One People’s Project and IdaVox to talk about his views of the state of the far right at this time in the US, their Stop The Steal rallies and the November 14th Million for MAGA March in DC at which three BLM and anti-racists activists were stabbed, what the shift in regimes will mean for anti-racists and the importance of our participation in December 11th and 12th to counter a rally called for by the Proud Boys. You can find Daryle’s work up at OnePeoplesProject.com and at IdaVox.com and more about the December 12th counter demo at DefendDC.Org

B(A)DNews November 2020

[00:51:28 – 01:07:01]

Then, you’ll hear some audios from the latest episode of BAD News, the montly, English-language podcast from the A-Radio Network, of which The Final Straw Radio is a member. In that block, the first audio is an update from Greece by Radio Fragmata, a longstanding pirate station based in Athens. Then, Črna Luknja shares updates from Slovenia, including notes on the repression of the autonomous squatted factory, Rog, in the center of Ljubljana. You can hear the whole episode, plus any past ones, up at A-Radio-Network.Org and finding the BAD News link.

A few links to subjects mentioned:

  • Antifascist Unity Coalition’s Days of Unity site where they talk about their January 2nd mobilization to bring in donations to foodbanks nationwide

  • POPMOB, a Portland-based group building a mass movement against Fascism

  • The documentary “Alt-Right: Age of Rage” which features Daryle Lamont Jenkins can be watched on Netflix or Amazon and likely elsewhere. The feature film “Skin” in which Jenkins is depicted while attempting to help a former white supremacist move out of that milieu is available on youtube for rental. There is also a short film by the name of “Skin” by the same director from the same year that features Daryle which can be viewed on YouTube for free.

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Tracks featured during this episode:

  • “Kick Push (instrumental)” by Lupe Fiasco
  • “It’s Gonna Be Me (instrumental)” by N’Sync
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Anarchist Prisoners and Updates from the A-Radio Network

Anarchist Prisoners and Updates from the A-Radio Network

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This week, we’re continuing our pandemic vacation. First up is some new words on surveillance and resistance by Sean Swain.[00:02:51-00:09:25]

Then you’ll hear audio from the most recent episode of our cousin project, Dissident Island Radio, where they spoke with a fan of London Anarchist Black Cross about the upcoming July 23-30th Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners. Dissident Island Radio is also a member of the Channel Zero Network and the A-Radio Network, and you can find more of their work, including their shows dating back almost 13 years to the day, at DissidentIsland.Org. The show notes include a lot of notes and links for solidarity. [00:09:25-00:22:31]

Comrade Malik shares his birthday greetings and informs us about the current struggles of anarchist and anti-fascist prisoner, Eric KIng. [00:22:31-00:26:38]

Note that on Sunday, July 19th 2020 at 8pm EST there is a benefit trivia game for Malik’s release and the SF Bay View over Zoom. More info on fedbook, and you can RSVP before the event by emailing blueridgeabc(at )riseup( dot)net!

We’ll also be featuring audio from this months Bad News: Angry Voices From Around The World. Bad News is a monthly, English-language podcast with updates from various participants in the A-Radio Network of anarchist and anti-authoritarian radio and audio projects. If you like what you hear, we invite you to check out other projects in the network, learn more about our work, how get your project involved and to listen to other episodes Bad News by visiting A-Radio-Network.Org and you can keep an eye on our twitter feed for regular retweets of episodes, coming out at roughly the 15th of each month.  [00:26:38-forever]

Contents from BADNews (produced by 1431AM):

1) Radio-zones of Subversive Expression (Athens) about:

  • media foundation by the Greek goverment during the quarntine,
  • the police violence in Exarchia some days after a squat eviction,
  • the violence and eviction of Victoria square

2) Črna Luknja is contributing an antireport from Slovenian unrests, that in the middle of march, because of the virus started with drumming on balconies, went on the bicycles and ended up on foot, against the right-wing government with authoritarian, neoliberalistic and nationalistic intentions.

3) Free Social Radio 1431AM (Thessaloniki) about:

  • the arrest of two anarchist comrades in Thessaloniki,
  • the latest developments on the shutdown and reconnection of espiv.net’s server,
  • the violence and eviction of Victoria square

4) A-radio Berlin: Stop the eviction of the collective bar Syndikat
“In the context of a possible summer of evictions of collective bars, house projects and youth centers in Berlin, the Anarchist Radio Berlin wants to help make it instead a summer of resistance.”

5) Radiofragmata (Athens) with news from Greece.

6) FrequenzA with an interview with somebody from solikomitee 1007 about the street festival “resist-2” about the festival, the resistance against the deportation in the past and the trial against two persons who where part of it.

7) Dissident Island Radio: a round-up of UK-related ‘B(A)D News’

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BAD News: April 2020 (#33)

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BAD News #33: Angry Voices From Around The World

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Welcome to the 33rd edition of Bad News. This is our Angry Voices From Around The World for April, 2020. A report from the international network of anarchist and anti-authoritarian radios.

If you’d like to get involved in the network or want to hear more – send an email to a-radio-network@riseup.net.
Check out all the shows look for the a-radio-network collection on archive.org or at our website, a-radio-network.org.

You can listen to the episode here!

Contents:

    1. Črna Luknja sharing a thought on how does corona virus influence our society and thoughts on how to intervene politically in state of emergency – from Federation for Anarchist Organizing from Slovenia and part of Croatia.
    2. 105fm (Mytilene, Lesvos) for the general situation in Lesvos, situation in Moria camp and hunger strike in Moria’s prison.
    3. The Final Straw Radio sharing a short description of recent covid-19 subjects in the US and some commentary by anarchist prisoner Sean Swain on how to make it through isolation more safely.
    4. R.O.S.E. (Athens) with updates and news from Athens.
    5. A-Radio Berlin on a commentary about the global situation these days.
    6. Free Social Radio 1431AM (Thessaloniki) about
      • the cut of power supply in BIO.ME. (an occupied and self-organized factory in Thessaloniki)
      • movements and struggles in prisons during the quarantine and corona-virus.
      • repression in so-called Greece during the quarantine and corona-virus.
      • arrests of Kurdish and Turkish comrades in Athens.
      • evictions of migrant’s “home” squats.
    7. Dissident Island (London) focuses on issues around housing in the UK, discussing moves the state has made to protect landlords, the lip service paid to renters and homeless folk, and the self-organised solutions that are emerging through rent strike and mutual aid groups.
    8. Frequenz A with an interview with somebody of the anarchist network Dresden (germoney) about their initiative in their neighborhood during the convid-19 crisis.
    9. Radio Fragmata (Athens) with an introduction on the socio-political situation and struggles in greek territory.

(Total Length:  1hour & 18min. & 26sec.)