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Break out the libations! Deeper Roots celebrates it's ten year anniversary on Sonoma County Community Radio and today's show takes some time to celebrate the blend of sounds we've featured with the focus being on our first ten shows. I'll be grabbing some of my very favorites from those early playlists and sharing them with everyone this morning. Great sounds featured include a trip to Chickashay with Roy Rogers, gospel tradition from Fern Jones, jitterbugging with The Roosevelts, some Duke, Fats, The Louvins, and, of course, Miss Morse (Ella Mae, that is). I'll look back at some of the shows featured, the many sites visited and the folks that dropped by along the way. A little nostalgia on a Friday morning on KOWS radio and Saturday morning on KRJF and KWTF.

We accidentally got high this week... No, but really.. With zero intentions. LOL. So obviously had to share that story on the pod! We also give some updates (did Luke pass his English exam?) and play a fun game of Would You Rather?! Which speaking of... would you rather listen to this episode of KWTF or be lame? The choice is yours ;) 

Vinyl-O-Matic Special Presentation Your Old Pal Will's Televisual Holiday Spectacular This is only going to be up through the end of the year. If you want your own copy, shoot me a message. Merry Happy! The Youngsters "Christmas in Jail" Jim Backus with Daws Butler "I Was a Teenage Reindeer" Doctor Teeth & the Electric Mayhem "Little Saint Nic" Frankie & Annette "Surfers' Holiday" The Sonics "Santa Claus" The Wailers "She's Coming Home" The Fall "We Wish You a Protein Christmas" Shonen Knife "Space Christmas" Jonathan Coulton & John Roderick "2600" Dean & Britta with Sonic Boom "He's Coming Home" Loretta Lynn "To Heck with Ole Santa Claus" Buck Owens "Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy" Sonny James "Barefoot Santa Claus" Glen Campbell "The Night Before Christmas" Red Skelton & Betty Garrett "Baby It's Cold Outside" Heino "Ski Und Rodel Gut!" Charo "Feliz Navidad" The Monkees "Riu Chiu" Cover image: Sonny and Cher Christmas Special (1976). If you are a fan of podcast applications, you can use http://vinylomatic.com/rss to subscribe. If you enjoy listening to Vinyl-O-Matic, please consider becoming a member of KWTF (https://www.kwtf.net/donate/) or providing a one time donation. We are a small but growing radio station and could greatly use your assistance. Want to be the first to find out when new episodes are archived? Sign up for the Vinyl-O-Matic newsletter (http://vinylomatic.com/communique).

This episode was pre-recorded for airing on KWTF Sonoma County Radio for June 23, 2020. In this episode, we climb under the covers for part two of our Cover Song theme.Songs Played in this episode (now with time codes!):5:20 : “Miserlou [Eastern Mediterranean folk song cover]” by Dick Dale7:33 : “Never Say Never [Romeo Void cover]” by Queens of the Stone Age 11:55 : “Head Over Heels [Tears for Fears cover]” by Pardoner18:32 : “Playing with Fire [Rolling Stones cover]” by Missing Persons21:32 : “The Sound of the Crowd [The Human League cover]” by Superheroes24:51 : “Heart of Glass [Blondie cover]” by Nouvelle Vague30:17 : “Hanging on the Telephone [The Nerves cover]” by Blondie32:39 : “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction [Rolling Stones cover]” by Devo35:18 : “Girl U Want [Devo cover]” by Superchunk by Grace Jones39:06 : “All Night Long [The Mary Jane Girls cover]” by Waterbed Kev45:12 : “You Can Make It If You Try [Sly & The Family Stone cover]” by Gabriel Garzon-Montano48:16 : “You Should Be Dancing [Bee Gees cover]” by Sky Creackers 56:07 : “The Boy with a Thorn in His Side [The Smiths cover]” by Belle & Sebastian Please subscribe and rate! Thank you.

This episode was pre-recorded for airing on KWTF Sonoma County Radio for June 16, 2020. In this episode, we climb under the covers.Songs Played in this episode (now with time codes!):4:51 : “I Feel Love [Donna Summer cover]” by Blondie12:36 : “Love Will Tear Us Apart [Joy Division cover]” by Missing Persons16:36 : “Dance Yrself Clean [LCD Soundsystem cover]” by MS MR22:59 : “Try a Little Tenderness [Val Rosing cover]” by Otis Redding26:14 : “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long [Otis Redding cover]” by Mike Rudd & Chants R&B29:06 : “Bet’ya Never Lose My Love [Funkadelic cover] while I’m California Dreamin’ [The Mamas & The Papas cover]” by East Underground35:03 : “Destination Unknown [Missing Persons cover]” by Joan Jett & The Blackhearts41:03 : “I Heard it Through the Grapevine [Marvin Gaye cover]” by The Slits45:00 : “Walking in the Rain [Flash and The Pan cover]” by Grace Jones51:13 : “Suffragette City [David Bowie cover]” by Seu Jorge54:22 : “Some Things Last a Long Time [Daniel Johnston cover]” by Beach House58:13 : “Night Fever [The Bee Gees cover]” by The Hebe GeebeesPlease subscribe and rate! Thank you.

This episode was pre-recorded for airing on KWTF Sonoma County Radio for April 28, 2020. In this episode, we find the Heartbreak in Healing and the Healing in Heartbreak.Songs Played in this episode (now with time codes!):5:10 : “Sky Full of Song” by Florence and The Machine8:53 : “Come on Doom, Let’s Party” by Emily Wells12:28 : “More of the Same” by Caroline Rose18:35 : “Perfectly Wrong” by Shawn Mendes22:04 : “Break Me” by Sharon Van Etten26:02 : “Keep You” by Wild Belle31:37 : “I’ll Never Love Again” by Kelly Finnigan34:56 : “True Love” by Durand Jones and The Indications38:37 : “Don’t Blame It On the Moon” by Esther Rose43:10 : “Turn It Off” by Deap Vally47:21 : “Dreams so Real” by Metric50:02 : “Electric Arc” by Lia Ices55:58 : “I’m Scum” by IDLESPlease subscribe and rate! Thank you.

This episode was pre-recorded for airing on KWTF Sonoma County Radio for April 14, 2020. In this episode, we memorialize some of the musicians we lost in 2019. May they all Rest in PowerSongs Played in this episode (now with time codes!):4:13 : “Tea for Two” by Clora Bryant7:56 : “Who Drank My Beer While I Was In the Rear” by Dave Bartholomew10:45 : “Don’t Play That Song (You Lied) [live recording]” by Jackie Shane18:08 : “True Love Will Find You in the End” by Daniel Johnston19:54 : “You’re Dead” by Norma Tanega22:15 : “It’s a Cold Night for Alligators” by Roky Erickson25:15 : “For Pete’s Sake (Closing Theme)” by The Monkees33:13 : “Kids in America” by The Muffs36:24 : “Twist & Crawl” by The English Beat38:57 : “30 Century Man” by Scott Walker43:37 : “Only Black Man in South Dakota” by Andre Williams47:04 : “Hava Nagila” by Dick Dale49:08 : “Right Place, Wrong Time” by Dr. John54:21 : “Cissy Strut” by The MetersPlease subscribe and rate! Thank you.

This episode was pre-recorded for airing on KWTF Sonoma County Radio for March 31, 2020. In this episode, I explore songs for shut-ins!Songs Played in this episode (now with time codes!):4:20: “Ghost Town (Extended Version)” by The Specials10:13 : “Lonely Wanderer” by Panda Bear14.27 : “Leave Me Alone” by MS MR21:41 : “Voices Inside my Head” by The Police 25.30 : “The Way I Feel Inside” by The Zombies27.05 : “Inside” by Jethro Tull- “The Way It Goes” by Sneaks32.38 : “Owner of a Lonely Heart” by Yes37.02 : “Who Can It Be Now?” by Men At Work40.22 : “I Drink Alone” by George Thorogood & The Destroyers48.11 : “Stay Inside! (Nirvana’s “Stay Away” cover” by Urian Hackney of Rough Francis51.19 : “Alone” by James Pants57:18 : “Inside Edition” by SneaksPlease subscribe and rate! Thank you.

If we can't party in person, why not make it a virtual one. Join Dave Stroud for some community radio shenanigans on Friday mornings on KOWS (or Friday evenings on KWTF) as he celebrates a century of America's music. This week's another free form romp with a vibrant (and sometimes raucous) collection of sounds.  He's got songs about weekends, the quest for love, the middle child, and moving on with NRBQ, k.d. lang, Daniel Romano, Bobby Moore, and The Jive Five...all for you. From mid-century classic country to sixties R&B and soul to honker and some classic Richard Berry.

This episode was pre-recorded for airing on KWTF Sonoma County Radio for March 17, 2020. In this episode, I ask, can we move past survival mode into a place of THRIVING during this Pandemic?Songs Played in this episode:-“Drifting (Acoustic)” by Maverick Sabre- “Sweet Conversations” by Black Pumas- “I’ve Been Dazed” by Michael Kiwanuka- “Freedom” by Kelly Finnigan- “Let Me Go” by Sault- “Life’s Too Short” by SACRED PAWS- “The Way It Goes” by Sneaks- “Last Gasp” by Holly Herndon- “It’s Alright” by The Mystery Lights- “I Need a Placebo” by Emily Wells- “Fighter” by Hana VuPlease subscribe and rate! Thank you.

This episode was pre-recorded for airing on KWTF Sonoma County Radio for February 4, 2020. In this episode, we share some of the best music of 2019.Songs Played in this episode:- “Canaan (Live Training)” by Holly Herndon- “bury a friend” by Billie Ellish- ““Paprika Pony” by Kim Gordon- “Jungle Love” by Prince- “Dare to Fly” by Sampa the Great featuring Ecco Vandal- “Kamane Tarhanin” by Mdou Moctar- “See Me Thru” by Madame Gandhi- “Order” by Hana Vu- “If You Think It’s Love” by King Princess- “Roses (Imanbek Remix)” by Saint Jhn- “Con Altura” by Rosalia, J. Balvin and featuring El Guincho- “Just Got Paid” by Alexander Mack- “Dead of Night” by Orville Peck- “Heart of Gold” by J.S. Ondara- “Blisters” by Mattiel- “Saiditzoneza” by Sneaks p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; min-height: 16.0px} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px 'Helvetica Neue'} p.p4 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; color: #323333; min-height: 16.0px} span.s1 {font: 14.0px Arial; color: #323333} Please subscribe and rate! Thank you.

This episode was pre-recorded for airing on KWTF Sonoma County Radio for September 3, 2019. In this episode, we celebrate opening up to more love in life, through loving ourselves…Songs Played in this episode:- “Never Not Gonna Be Ready” by Agent Ribbons- “Sometimes at Night” by Jessica Lea Mayfield- “Worried Shoes” by Karen O & The Kids - “Slow Burn” by Kacey Musgraves- “Leaving the Planet” by Sarah Jaffe- “Down I-5” by case/lang/veirs- “Please Say You Want Me” by The Royal Jesters- “You Don’t Have to Worry” by Doris Kelley- “Is It Any Wonder (live in Boston, MA)” by Durand Jones & The Indications- “I Won’t Hurt You” by The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band- “Anonymous Club” by Courtney Barnett- “True Love Knows” by La Luz- “Let It Be Me” by Jeff Moon p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; min-height: 16.0px} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; color: #323333} p.p4 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; color: #323333; min-height: 16.0px} Please subscribe and rate! Thank you.

There Is No Liberation Until The Borders Are Gone: Bruno from CIMA and Members of IAF Speak This week we are super pleased to share an interview that William did a few weeks ago with two members of the Indigenous Anarchist Federation, Bombshell and insurgent e! We got to talk about a lot of topics in this episode, which was recorded on about the year anniversary of the formation of the Indigenous Anarchist Federation. Bombshell and insurgent e talked about their histories as anarchist people, about the formation of this Federation, what true decolonization of anarchism could look like, and about the upcoming Indigenous Anarchist Convergence which is happening from August 16th-18th in Kinlani, Navajo land, occupied Flagstaff AZ, plus many other topics! I really appreciated getting to connect with Bombshell and e, hearing their words on the topics at hand, and also really appreciated their patience with me as I stumbled thru my sentences with them. To learn more about them you can follow them on Twitter, where they post active updates, news, and analysis @IAF_FAI or go to their website iaf-fai.org where they post more in depth articles about Indigenous struggle all around the world. If you do the Twitter follows, just note that there is an active fake account that is attempting to badmouth and discredit the work of the IAF, and this account has the handle @fai-mujer; their interventions have been confusing to followers of the IAF in the past. To see a full account of this situation, plus of course many more topics that are like not about internet trolls but are about the work, you can visit them at iaf-fai.org! To learn more about the Convergence, to register, and for tips for outsider participation, you can visit taalahooghan.org. If in listening to this you are curious about whose land you were born on or live on, a fantastic resource for this is native-land.ca which provides a world wide map, insofar as it's possible, of indigenous lands and the names of their people spanning thousands of miles. For more great interviews with members of IAF, including words from Bad Salish Girl and Green City: Rev Left Radio Coffee With Comrades   A list of recommendations from B and e: -Do some digging and research to find a bunch of recent authors who have done the work to center Indigenaity and decolonization, -read the complete works of Cutcha Risling Baldy on Decolonized and Indigenous Feminism, -Talk to and listen to Indigenous people, do the necessary research to not ask folks to perform unnecessary emotional labor. Books: Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano (en Espanol Las Venas Abiertas de América Latina) Indigenous Peoples History of the United States by Roxane Dunbar-Ortiz 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann Our History Is The Future by Nick Estes 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance by Gord Hill Some good podcasts, recommended by William of TFS, from Indigenous folks, while not being politically anarchist identified are good to listen to! All My Relations by Matika Wilbur and Adrienne Keene While Indigenous by the NDN Collective Stay tuned next week for an interview with Kanahus Manuel, a Secwepemc woman fighting a pipeline thru her lands in so called BC! CIMA Speaks about ICE Raids But first up Bursts spoke with Bruno Hinojosa Ruiz of the local immigrants advocacy group, CIMA, about the threatened raids by ICE and  CPB, ways for folks to get plugged in wherever they are with defending  their communities and helping those most targeted and strengthening our  bonds. More about CIMA can be found online by searching C I M A W N C on  facebook or at their site cimawnc.org. After the conversation,  Bursts learned that there's a wiki page that's compiling ICE offices and companies profiting from Immigrations police and Border Patrol. That  wiki can be found and added to at https://trackingice.com/wiki/Main_Page   Rest In Power, Willem In related news to the ramping up of ICE repression of people around the so-called US, protests, sit-ins and sabotages of profiteers have been on the rise. Much of this can be tracked by visiting https://itsgoingdown.org/closethecamps/. Of note, in Asheville someone claimed responsibility for damaging an atm owned by PNC and claiming it anonymously on IGD. Also, on Saturday, July 13th, a 69 year old, northwest anarchist named Willem Van Spronsen was gunned down by authorities outside of the North West Detention Center in Tacoma, WA while attempting to destroy buses used by GEO group to transport detainees to and from the center. Willem was allegedly armed with a rifle and was attempting to arson the buses when pigs opened fire and ended his life. There's a statement by a local group focused on shutting down the facility, La Resistencia, up on fedbook and linked in our show notes. We're sorry to lose you, Willem, but proud of your motivation.  . ... . .. playlist pending

Indigenous Spaces + Decolonizing Prison Abolition (Sean Swain starts at 05min, 12 sec) Ni Frontieres Ni Prisons on No New Migrant Prison in Laval, Canada (starts 12min, 08sec) Today we have a two part show! In the first part we are presenting a conversation with someone from Ni Frontiers Ni Prison, which is a group in so called Canada that is resisting the proposed construction of a new migrant prison in Laval, a town just outside of Montreal. This is a transcript of the original audio, read for the show by Grier, shout out to him! In this interview we talk about the prison and what it would mean for people who'd be most affected by it, the general rise of far right sentiment in so called Canada, and many more topics. The interviewee names the place they are based as occupied Tio'tia:ke (jo-jahg'-eh), which is the original indigenous name for so called Montreal, the colonizer name. The naming of indigenous land will continue throughout the interview with various locations in the name of decolonization, though Tio'tia:ke is the one which will be the most prominent. As an audio note to all those paying attention, a fridge turns on midway through the interview then turns back off nearing the end, we've tried to minimize the background noise but it's still somewhat noticeable. Music for the intro and outro by A Tribe Called Red with Stadium Pow Wow. Contact To get in touch with this group you can email them at nifrontieresniprisons@riseup.net and for updates and further ways to get involved you can find them at facebook.com/nifrontiersniprison, or follow the link to visit the clearing house of information and pieces about this resistance. If you would like a zine copy of the transcript to this show, you can email us at thefinalstrawradio@riseup.net or thefinalstrawradio@protonmail.com. Some links to historical events mentioned by our guest relating to Canada's' treatment of immigrants and refugees: "Chinese Head Tax", a policy which "meant to discourage Chinese people from entering Canada after the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway", a government project which I conjecture used a bunch of precarious and immigrant labor in order to complete. Komagata Maru Incident, the historic entry denial of a group of Indian refugees seeking entry into Canada on the Japanese steamship Komagata Maru in 1914, resulting in the death of 20 Sikh people at the hands of the then occupying British government. "None Is Too Many" policy for Jewish refugees fleeing the Holocaust, an anti Semitic stance that put people who were fleeing Nazi terror in further danger and possible death. Robert Free on the Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center (starts at 38min, 04sec) Next we'll hear an interview with Robert Free, a long-term Seattle, WA resident and Tewa (pronounced tay-oh-wa) Native American. We discuss the history of the Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center, a cultural and resource center for urban Native Americans in Seattle and the surrounding communities. The Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center was established after a series of protests and occupations in 1970 of Fort Lawton, an army base that had previously occupied the park. Robert Free discusses the influencing factors of that time, some of the finer points of the occupations, as well as the implications of protesting and occupation on stolen native land. More info on the Daybreak center can be found at https://unitedindians.org/daybreak-star-center/ Some of the names and events mentioned in this chat you may recognize from our February 17th, 2019, episode of The Final Straw when we had the pleasure to speak with Paulette D'auteuil, about the case of long-term American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier. More info on Peltier's case can be found at whoisleonardpeltier.info   Coming Up... Next week we hope to bring you a conversation with support crew for incarcerated former military whistleblower Chelsea Manning, who is now imprisoned for refusing to testify before a Grand Jury. More on her case can be found at https://xychelsea.is including links for donating towards her fundraising goal for legal costs aiming at 150 thousand smackeroos.   Announcements Free Masonique Saunders! From her support website: On December 7, 2018, Columbus police murdered 16 year old Julius Ervin Tate Jr.. On December 13, they arrested his 16 year old girlfriend, Masonique Saunders, charging her with the murder they committed. Masonique is being charged with aggravated robbery and felony murder, and is currently being held in juvenile detention. The police have alleged that Julius attempted to rob, and pulled a gun on a police officer, and that Masonique was involved in said robbery. Felony murder means that if you commit a felony and someone dies as a result of that crime you can be charged with their murder. We believe that these charges are unjust, and demand the freedom of this 16 year old Black girl and justice for the family of Julius Tate! To help Masonique and her family, donate to her GoFundMe. Donate to the Tate family here.   BRABC events A quick reminder, if you're in the Asheville area this coming week, Blue Ridge Anarchist Black Cross is hosting two events. On Friday, April 4th from 6:30 to 8pm at Firestorm, (as we do every first Friday of the month) BRABC will show the latest episode of Trouble, by sub.Media. Episode 19 focuses on Technology and Social Control. After the ½ hour video we'll turn chairs around and have a discussion of the film for those who'd like. Then, on Sunday, April 6th from 5-7pm as BRABC does every first Sunday of the month, we'll be hosting a monthly letter writing event. We'll provide names, addresses, backstories, postage and stationary. Prisoners we'll focus on are longterm political prisoners from Black liberation, to Earth and Animal Liberation, to anti-police violence activists caught up in prison whose birthdays are coming up or who are facing severe repression. Or, just come and write a letter you've been meaning to write to someone else. It's a nice environ for that sort of thing.   Extinction Rebellion week of action The movement to halt and roll back human driven climate change called Extinction Rebellion is planning some upcoming events in the so-called U.S. in line with a worldwide call for action over the week of April 15-22nd. Check out https://extinctionrebellion.us/rebellion-week for info and ways to plug in. If you're in the L.A. area, see our shownotes for a fedbook link to some of their upcoming events. And remember, practice good security culture by not giving up as little info as possible. Keeping your info more secure today ensures your ability to fight with less hindrance tomorrow!   Marius Mason Moved Anarchist political prisoner Marius Mason has been moved to a prison in Connecticut, a change viewed as a success by his supporters as he's closer to family by hundreds of miles. If you'd like to write him a letter to welcome him to his new place, consider writing him at the following site, but make sure to address it as follows: Marie (Marius) Mason 04672-061 FCI DANBURY Route 37 Danbury, CT 06811   Fire at the Highlander Now, here's a statement by the Highlander Research and Education Center outside of New Market, TN, about the fire early on March 29, 2019: “Early this morning, officials responded to a serious fire on the grounds of the Highlander Research and Education Center, one of the nation's oldest social justice institutions that provides training and education for emerging and existing movements throughout the South, Appalachia, and the world. As of 6am, the main office building was completely engulfed and destroyed. One of ten structures on approximately 200 acres, the building housed the offices of the organization's leadership and staff. Highlander's staff released the following statement: “Highlander has been a movement home for nearly 87 years and has weathered many storms. This is no different. Several people were on the grounds at the time of the fire, but thankfully no one was inside the structure and no one was injured. “While we are physically unhurt, we are saddened about the loss of our main office. The fire destroyed decades of historic documents, speeches, artifacts and memorabilia from movements of all kinds, including the Civil Rights Movement. A fuller assessment of the damage will be forthcoming once we are cleared to enter the remains of the building. “We are grateful for the support of the many movements who are now showing up for us in this critical time. This has been a space for training, strategy and respite for decades and it will continue to be for decades to come. Fire officials are working to determine the cause as quickly as possible and we are monitoring the investigation closely.” --Ash-Lee Woodward Henderson and Rev. Allyn Maxfield-Steele, Co-Executive Directors, Highlander Research and Education Center. Highlander has played a critical role in the Civil Rights Movement, training and supporting the work of a number of movement activists: Rosa Parks prior to her historic role in the Montgomery Bus Boycot, members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Septima Clark, Anne Braden, Martin Luther King Jr., James Bevel, Hollis Watkins, Bernard Lafayette, Ralph Abernathy and John Lewis.” Highlander will provide ongoing updates via their fedbook page and questions can be directed to Chelsea Fuller, chelsea@teamblackbird.org. Police Killing of Danquirs Franklin On March 25, 2019, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer Wende Kerl shot and killed Danquirs Franklin in the parking lot of the Burger King on Beatties Ford Rd in Charlotte. Police narratives posit that Mr Franklin was armed and posing a threat, while eye witnesses say that Danquirs Franklin interceded against an armed man bothering an employee and that the armed man ran away before the police arrived, who then shot the first black man they encountered. Friends at Charlotte Uprising have been holding vigil and fundraising for Danquirs Franklin's family as the police's actions leave his child fatherless. More can be found at the Charlotte Uprising twitter and fedbook pages. Rise In Power, Danquirs. . ... . .. Show playlist.

This episode was pre-recorded for airing on KWTF Sonoma County Radio for March 19, 2019. In this episode, we explore Obsessions and Addictions!Songs Played in this episode:- “Save Me From What I Want” by St. Vincent- “Lofticries” by Purity Ring- “If You Have Ghosts” by Roky Ericsson and The Aliens- “Pure Morning” by Placebo- “The Void” by The Raincoats- “You Got I Want” by Prism Bitch- “How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore?” by Prince- “Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk” by Rufus Wainwright- “Gun” by Scout Niblet- “Listerine” by Kristin Hersh- “Soft Picasso” by Vic Chesnutt p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; min-height: 16.0px} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; color: #323333} p.p4 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; color: #323333; min-height: 16.0px} Please subscribe and rate! Thank you.

This episode was pre-recorded for airing on KWTF Sonoma County Radio for March 12, 2019. In this episode, we take a whirl through some of the best music released in 2018.Songs Played in this episode:- “Come Home” by Pip Blom- “Jeannie Becomes a Mom” by Caroline Rose- “Missing U” by Robyn- “Broke My Own” by Shannon Shaw- “Walking Into the Sun” by La Luz- “Hopefulessness” by Courtney Barnett- “Colossus” by IDLES- “Walking with a Killer” by The Breeders- “The Boy” by Shannon and The Clams- “Kid Gloves” by Liza Anne- “Reach Hi” by Tirzah- “So Slow” by YunoPlease subscribe and rate! Thank you.

Gord Hill on Art and Resistance Gord Hill is an indigenous author, anarchist, antifascist and militant, a member of the Kwakwaka'wakw nation living in so-called British Columbia, Canada. Gord is also graphic artist and comic book author who most recently published The Antifa Comic Book, out from Arsenal Pulp Press, and runs the website Warrior Publications and sometimes publishes under the nom-de-plume of ZigZag. For the hour we speak about his writings documenting indigenous resistance history in the so-called Americas (mostly with a focus on Turtle Island), antifascist organizing, intersections of indigenous struggle and anarchism and critiques of Pacifism (see Gord's “Smash Pacifism” zine). Some of the points of resistance that we cover include Elsipogtog (Elsipogtog in 5 Minutes video at sub.media), Idle No More, The Oka Crisis (“The Oka Crisis in 5 Minutes” video at sub.media), Stoney Point/Aazhoodena (another 5 minutes video by Gord), Gustafsen Lake (we didn't talk about but another 5 minute video), the Zapatista Rebellion and the Unist'ot'en Camp resistance to pipelines in so-called B.C. (Sean Swain at 3min 55sec, Gord Hill at 11min 27sec, announces at 57min 29sec) Rayquan Borum Trial Update In a brief and sad update to last week's interview on the case of Rayquan Borum, we'd like to read a statement from the fedbook page for Charlotte Uprising: We are deeply saddened to report that Rayquan Borum has been found guilty of possession of a firearm and second degree murder with him being sentenced to 25/26 years in a cage. We knew it would be difficult to receive a fair trial in the same court that allowed Officer Randall Kerrick to walk free for the murder of unarmed Jonathan Ferrell. We know the police will continue to kill Black and brown folks and escape accountability. We suffered extreme suppression from the judge from the start of the trial. Even though the medical examiner testified there was a 51% chance that ANYTHING else killed Justin Carr, Judge Hayes would not allow any testimony naming the police. Of course, it is far easier to scapegoat a random Black man than to launch an investigation into the same police force that killed ONLY Black people in 2015. We also know that Justin Carr would be alive were it not for the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department murder of Keith Lamont Scott (no trial for that officer, of course). We know that the Mecklenburg County Courts disproportionately sentence Black and brown bodies to time in cages. We know that CMPD disproportionately arrests Black and brown folks. Black people are 30% of Charlotte's population and make up about 70% of the jail population. Heinous. We know that this is the American Way. In response, we will continue to rise up and resist this colonized nation and work toward building a more decolonized world, for all of us. Forward, together #CMPDKilledJustinCarr #CagesFixNothing #FreeThemAll #CMPD #RayquanBorum #MecklenburgCounty #NoMoreKIllerCopsOrJails Announcements A few house keeping notes about the show. We're happy to announce that The Final Straw is now available on the Pacifica Radio platform for affiliate stations to pick up more easily. If you, dear listener, live in an area where we aren't on the radio but there's a community station that airs programming from the Pacifica Network, you now have a WAY easier IN to bug the station's programming director with. If you want us on your airwaves, check out our “broadcasting” tab on our website and reach out to a local radio station. If you have questions or want help, reach out to us and we're happy to chat. We hope to have a some more terrestrial broadcast stations to announce soon. Actually, yah, that was the only note. Tee hee. Otherwise, if you want to hear Bursts dj'ing a 2 hour set of punk, goth and electronica on AshevilleFM, an archive is linked up in our show notes that's available until March 12th.   Asheville Events If you're in the Asheville area, there're a few events coming up on March 16th of note. At 11am at Firestorm books, a participant in the Internationalist Commune, a self-organized collective in Northern Syria, will join us for a video chat about the revolutionary movement to transform Kurdish territory into a stateless society. Later, across town, there're a couple of Blue Ridge ABC events at Static Age on Saturday, March 16th. From 3-5pm there'll be an N64 Super Smash Brothers tournament with vegan philly cheese steaks and fries available, and then from 9pm onward an antifascist black metal show featuring Arid from Chicago, plus local bands Rat Broth and Feminazgul. Then, a reminder, that on March 22nd at the Block Off Biltmore is a benefit for info-sharing between Southern Appalachia and Rojava. The event will include a discussion, a short documentary showing, vegan desserts and nice merchandise. For more info, check out the flyer in our shownotes from March 3rd, 2019. And now a couple of prisoner announcements Chelsea Manning Imprisoned U.S. Army whistleblower and former Political Prisoner, Chelsae Manning, has been jailed for criminal contempt for refusing a subpoena to participate in a Federal Grand Jury in Virginia concerning her 2010 disclosures to Wikileaks of U.S. drone killings of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan. A support committee called “Chelsea Resists!” has been set up and updates will be coming from the website xychelsea.is and there's a fundraiser up at actionnetwork.com for her as well. We hope to feature members of her support as well as former Grand Jury resisters who've been on this show before in an episode soon. You can write to Chelsea at the following address: Chelsea Elizabeth Manning AO181426 William G. Trusdale Adult Detention Center 2001 Mill Road Alexandria, VA 22314 Some quick guidelines to keep her safer while writing are in the show notes Address your letter exactly as shown above send letters on white paper use the mail service to send letters include color drawings if you'd like sparingly send 4x6 photos, as she may only keep 10 at a time Do not send cards, packages, postcards, photocopies or cash Do not decorate the outside of the envelope do not send books or magazines Exonerated Vaughn 17 prisoners transferred out of state As the cases proceed against the Vaughn17, 17 prisoners on trial in Delaware for a prison uprising following the election of Trump as president, an uprising sometimes compared to the Lucasville Uprising, repression continues. The uprising was as follows: prisoners took over Building C at the Vaughn prison in Smyrna, Delaware, and took three prison guards and one prison counselor hostage. Demands issued during the hostage standoff included that Delaware Governor John Carney investigate poor living conditions at the facility. One correctional officer who was taken hostage, Steven Floyd, would later be found dead after police re-entered the facility. The case can be followed at vaughn17support.org as it enters it's third trial group. A few words from the support site note the continued repression of some of the court-exonerated prisoners: The State of Delaware retaliated against defendants in the Vaughn uprising trial last week, by moving them out of state to Pennsylvania. Kevin Berry, Abednego Baynes, Obadiah Miller, Johnny Bramble, Dwayne Staats, and Jarreau Ayers were all transferred to solitary confinement at SCI Camp Hill, a maximum security facility. They joined Deric Forney, who was transferred weeks earlier in January. Berry, Baynes, and Forney have all been fully acquitted on all charges. “It's unusual to move prisoners with short terms left in their sentence out of state,” said Fariha Huriya, an organizer working closely with Vaughn 17 prisoners. “They're being held in solitary confinement, with no showers, no access to commissary, and limited phone calls. It's the same inhumane conditions that they faced at James T. Vaughn.” “The State's vindictiveness will cost them,” said Betty Rothstein, who also organizes with the prisoners. “The Vaughn 17 have resisted these charges, and will continue to resist and expose the corruption of the DOC and abuse on prisoners.” There are nine defendants who are still awaiting trial. New trial dates for groups 3 and 4 are scheduled for May 6th, 2019, and October 21st, 2019. . ... . .. Playlist

Rayquan Borum Trial Begins + Scaling Up Climate Resistance This week we're sharing two interviews. First up, I spoke with glo merriweather and jamie marsicano, two supporters of Rayquan Borum, a young black man accused by Charlotte PD of killing Justin Carr, another protester out during the Charlotte Uprising after the police killing of Keith Lamont Scott in mid September of 2016. Rayquan spent 2 years and 5 months in pre-trial detention and his trial just began. Some witnesses to Carr's death claim the Charlotte PD killed him, not Borum. Check out our April 2018 interview with glo, jamie and ash for background on the case. You can follow CharlotteUprising at their fedbook page. (starts at 11min 30sec) Second we air an interview with Mia from Rising Tide North America, Selma from Ende Gelände and Johanna from the Climate Justice Action Camp in Germany about the tour the three are engaging around the so-called U.S. We talk about mass movements to stop the extractive industries in Germany and the U.S., the Yellow Vest movement, the Green New Deal and more. The tour dates and synopsis is up at risingtidenorthamerica.org under the title “Scaling Our Climate Resistance.” If you can't make the tour dates, there's also a free webinar on March 11 at 8pm EST. (starts at 40min 5sec) (Sean Swain at 4min 30) Announcements Eric King Moved Vegan, anarchist political prisoner Eric King who we focused on in our January 20th episode, has been moved again. Now he's at USP McCreary, about 20 hours drive from his wife and their kids in Colorado. You can write to Eric at: Eric King 27090045 USP MCCREARY P.O. BOX 3000 PINE KNOT, KY42635 and find out about donating to his commissary, his booklist, find his writings and specifics about the tight mail restrictions at McCreary, visit supportericking.org. Soledad Phone Zap On March 3rd and 4th there is a phone zap, a request for as many people to call in to protest as possible, in order to disrupt scheduled “gladiator fights” being deliberately staged by corrections officials between conflicting sets of prisoners at Soledad prison in California. More on these “gladiator fights”, plus a script, numbers and who to call available at IWOC's website. From Blue Ridge to Zagros In Asheville, there's an event we're happy to share coming up to support local solidarity and infosharing efforts between Rojava and Appalachia. From 6-8pm at The Block Off Biltmore on Thursday, March 21st. The event will have vegan deserts, a film screening and sweet, sweet merch to help the effort. More info coming soon. . ... . .. playlist

Support Anarchist Prisoner Eric King This week Bursts spoke with the wife of vegan, antifascist and anarchist political prisoner, Eric King. Eric was was convicted of attempting the September 11, 2014 firebombing of the Kansas City office of a Missouri Democratic Congressman in solidarity with the Ferguson Uprising that kicked off after the killing of Mike Brown in Ferguson, MO. The office was attacked at roughly 3am when it was empty. Eric took a non-cooperating plea agreement for 10 years in Federal prison with no chance of parole. Recently, prison administrators at Florence and later Leavenworth Federal prisons have been abusing, isolating and moving Eric around and his support crew have initiated a call-in campaign, which we mentioned last week. Visit SupportEricKing.org for more details and to keep up on what's happening. Here are a few articles on subjects spoken of in the episode including Daniel McGowan's recent story published by the ACLU entitled "What the Government Shutdown Really Means for Federal Prisoners". Here is a link to the situation unfolding at Florence CI. And this is a link to Eric's call in campaign, including all relevant phone numbers and a script! To write Eric King, you can address letters to: Eric King # 27090045 USP LEAVENWORTH U.S. PENITENTIARY P.O. BOX 1000 LEAVENWORTH, KS  66048 An Update with A-Radio Berlin on the Mapuche Caravan in so-called Chile Before the main interview tho, we are pleased to present audio from the recent episode of B(A)DNews: Angry Voices From Around The World, the monthly podcast of the A-Radio Network. This time, Crna Luknja from Ljubljana, Slovenia spoke with a member of A-Radio Berlin who is traveling with a media caravan through Mapuche Territory to cover news there, and to offer media equipment and trainings to communities in Wallmapu, in so-called Chile and so-called Argentina. You can find the full episode of B(A)DNews at a-radio-network.org and click the menu option to the upper left of the screen. There you can also learn more about A-Radio Network, the participating projects and how to get involved.   A Few Upcoming Events in Asheville Tranzmission Prison Project would love for you to join them on January 24nd, the 4th Annual International Day of Solidarity with Trans* Prisoners, to send letters and drawings of support, love, cheer, and solidarity to incarcerated trans* folks and incarcerated folks with trans* experiences and identities. Cards will be provided, as will envelopes, stamps, and snacks — just bring yr undying desire to end the Prison-Industrial Complex. . ... . .. On Friday February 1st at 6pm sharp, Blue Ridge ABC will be viewing "Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey With Mumia Abu Jamal." This is 2 hour documentary from 2013 about former Black Panther, journalist, author and activist who many believe was framed up on charges of killing a cop by the Philadelphia PD in 1981. Mumia has always held his innocence. In any instance, the case betrays biases in the court and policing system of that great city that held a man on death row for nearly 3 decades, a man who has fought from within to document America's excesses and for the rights of the oppressed inside and outside of prison. . ... . .. After the movie, starting at 8pm at the Mothlight, VVITCHGANGCOVEN presents a showcase of local hip hop and beats including Vvitchboy x Akuma, Scarlaween, Cool World Order, Herb Da Wizard & Xor. The show is a benefit for Blue Ridge ABC and more details can be found on pricing and such at brabc.blackblogs.org. This show is a must see for lovers of dreamy, alien, fierce, witchy hiphop so come out! . ... . .. Playlist here.

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Cindy Milstein, Part One Cindy Milstein is an anarchist, activist and author who was a touring few months back with Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief, published last year by AK Press. The book is compilation of essays by various authors about loss in it's myriad forms experienced under cis-hetero-patriarchy, in a capitalist settler colonialism, anti-Black and otherwise racist, ableist society. After Cindy came to speak at Firestorm Books in October 2018, we sat down for a LONG chat. In this FIRST hour, Cindy shares thoughts on the following topics and more: a prior book they put together, Taking Sides (AK Press, 2015); the process of making Rebellious Mourning and creating “brave spaces” for engaging with hard topics; pre-figuration during the anarchist summer camp they help organize called the “Institute for Advanced Troublemaking”; and multi-generational care and care-taking in anarchist communities. When I say the conversation was long, I mean that we recorded for about two and a half hours. We present the first hour here for radio audiences. We're also going to do an out of the ordinary for us thing, which is that we're going to release the second half along side it. You'll find part two linked soon in our blog post, so you can listen to the both back to back if you choose. Next week, this second half will air for radio audiences but our podcast listeners will get a special treat because in place of a new Final Straw episode, we'll be sharing a new episode of our occasional tech security from an anarchist perspective podcast, Error451. So, stay tuned for the voice of someone engaged in spreading tools of encryption for free to help you to protect your right to whisper. You can check out Cindy's writings on their blog and you can find many of their books up at AKPress.org and anarchiststudies.org Announcements New Broadcast, KFUG-LP! First, we happy to announce that we'll should be airing this Sunday at 12pm Pacific time for the first of many broadcasts on the airwaves of KFUG-LP, Crescent City in Del Norte County in California. KFUG broadcasts at 101.1fm and streams on the website kfugradio.org! Unist'ot'en Camp Needs Help The Canadian State has declared an injunction against the First Nations Unist'ot'en camp blocking Transcanada from building a pipeline through their unceded territory from the Alberta Tar Sands to the east.  They need folks to come and join the blockade, they have an updated asks list for donations and you can keep up by find them on social media or checking their website Unistoten.Camp Jeremy Ricard, Prisoner Check In Jeremy Ricard, a prisoner at David Wade Correctional in Homer, LA, has been facing repression from guards in the forms of getting maced, kept in solitary, beaten, had his personal and legal property taken and given only a paper smock for the 30 days at a time. A friend has asked folks to contact the prison and express concern about his situation and care.  Jeremy Ricard's prison number is #511078 and the Warden at David Wade is Jerry Goodwin. Warden Goodwin can be reached at (318) 927-0400 Donate / Support The Show If you care to support The Final Straw Radio, please consider a one-time donation via our paypal or a recurring donation via our Patreon or librepay. We have items on the Patreon and our BigCartel webstore to thank supporters including stickers, buttons, t-shirts and zines, great for the socially required gift-giving holiday season. We never charge for our audio work, so if you feel like you can kick back some cash our way, we really appreciate it! Find more info at our website by clicking the Donate/Support Button. . ... . .. Playlist here.

Cindy Milstein, Part Two You're listening to the second half of my inteview with anarchist, activist and author Cindy Milstein as they toured with the book Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief, published last year by AK Press. In this portion of the conversation, Cindy will share about community support infrastructures in sickness and in health, the importance of play, the Montreal Student Strikes, insights from Silvia Federici, care circles and religious institutions, anarchism and more. The first half of this chat can be found at our website really should be listened to first. Cindy mentions a documentary about the co-president with Abdullah Öcalan of the PKK who was assassinated in 2013 in Paris. The film was called SARA – My Whole Life Was A Struggle and can be watched on youtube in full with English subtitles. The film covers the life and struggles of Sakine Cansiz who, alongside Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şöylemez were taken by an assassins bullets while struggling for Kurdish autonomy. Cindy also refer to other interviews they've given on podcasts. Two of the more recent ones that happened before ours with Cindy were from The Solecast and This Is Hell. The worst zine can be found here. . ... . .. Playlist

This week, we feature three segments. Locals Respond To Far-Right Doxxings First, we'll feature a statement about recent doxing of a number of anti-racists in the Asheville area by far-right keyboard warriors.  A Jailhouse Lawyer Speaks About #PrisonStrike 2018 After that, we feature an interview with Dee, an anonymous incarcerated organizer affiliated with Jailhouse Lawyers Speak. In this conversation we ask about the effectiveness of the #August21 2018 Nationwide Prisoner Strike, the push to move prisoners under storm threat as these increase under climate change, repression and changes in response to the strike, mail limitations in PA prisons, standardization of increased security in Ohio, outside support and organizing, critiques of the methods of NPS2018, and more. Check our show notes for links to more info concerning the strike. If prisoners want to communicate with and/or join JLS, Dee suggests in some words near the end of the show that they reach out to: Jailhouse Lawyers Speak P.O. Box 1076 Knightdale, NC 27545 And you can find JLS on fedbook or twitter to keep up with their organizing In our final section of the show, you'll hear a report by audio comrades in Germany about the recent resistance to the destruction of the Hambach Forest by authorities. The clearing of the ancient forest is to create the largest open-pit lignite coal mine in Europe on behalf of the corporation RWE, which sells to Netherlands, Germany & the UK. Lignite has a carbon content of around 60-70%, has a low energy yield, and is responsible for 1/3 of CO2 emissions in Germany. This segment shows up in the November 2018 episode of B(A)DNews, Angry Voices from Around The World from the A-Radio Network, of which we're a proud member. Keep an eye on our podcast stream and website for a link to this episode coming out in the next couple of days. Local Doxxings Within the last week, over 15 people were doxxed by white supremacists in our community. Here is most of a collective statement released a day or two after the fact by some of those folks: They've targeted more than twenty people they believe are involved in anti-racist organizing in North Carolina. They've posted information such as our home addresses, places of work, family members, license plates, social media profiles–whatever information they could find. They seem to be fixating on trans and nonbinary people in particular, and delight in trying to deadname and misgender us whenever possible. Some of us, and some of our family members, have received harassing messages. They wrote about us like it's some big secret that we oppose fascism, that we oppose racism, that we oppose all forms of bigotry and oppression. It's not a secret. We weren't hiding. We are not ashamed. This isn't a plea for sympathy. Our friends and immediate community have been amazing. Rather, this is a message to let you know that if you ever find yourself targeted by neo-Nazis and the far right, you are not alone. None of us need to face this rising tide of fascist scum alone. We have each other. Robert Bowers, the Pittsburgh Synagogue shooter, actively and publicly chatted with alt-right trolls who had doxxed anti-racist activists. He even discussed violence against anti-racists in our region. This is probably a good time to think seriously about your online security and that of your family members and friends. But staying safe isn't just a matter of changing your Facebook settings or making your Instagram private. It's a matter of us showing up for each other. Of us not letting them intimidate us, not letting them isolate us. Not letting them stop us from our work. Especially when the work is stopping fascism. To read the full statement, you can visit https://ashevillesolidarity.tumblr.com/ , where you can also see a list of bands and businesses which have been included in the current harassment. And of course, there are ways to donate and send support! For an article about this (released just as our radio show was airing), including a statement by Firestorm Books contextualizing the specific harassment they've received, you can visit The Asheville Blade, which you can donate to here! To support Firestorm Books, our local anarchist community space and bookstore, you can join their Community Sustainer's Program or leave them a positive review on Facebook, Yelp, wherever you can. Additionally, for a really excellent walk through of how to help prevent this kind of thing happening to you or your crew, you can visit the Smiling Face Collective guide to preventing doxxing. This site can be easily adapted into an interactive workshop, because let's face it, wiping your presence off the internet is a tedious, upsetting, and grueling process which is designed to wear you down. It's always better to do this in groups! You can write to us about your experiences with internet hygiene, good, bad, or whatever, at tfsradioshow@protonmail.com Rural Organizing Against Racism Benefit For those in the Western NC area, there will be a Fall Fundraiser to benefit rural organizing and resilience on Friday November 30th at 6pm at the Marshall Container Co. which is located at 10 South Main Street, Marshall, NC. The event will center around a cornbread and chili dinner and will include several surprise musical guests! Support Anti-Fascist Protestors in Philly And finally, if you are in the position to donate to those injured yesterday fighting the Proud Boys in Philly and elsewhere, you can go to this rally.org page. Remember that if you donate to do so anonymously! . ... . .. Playlist here.

Sahar Francis of Addameer This week, I spoke with Sahar Francis, the Director of Addameer. Addameer is a non-governmental organization, or NGO, based in Ramallah in the West Bank in occupied Palestine that focuses on human rights advocacy, political prisoner support & public education efforts like Know Your Rights trainings. Addameer is one of the projects that is receiving a portion of the profits of the 2019 Certain Days: Political Prisoners Calendar that we've you've heard of in past episodes. For the purposes of broadcast, we had to cut some portions of this chat for the radio. If you're listening to the radio version, check out our podcast version for a few more minutes of chat. More instructions below. For the hour, Sahar tells us about aspects of the Palestinian struggle of the last 70 years against the domination of the Israeli state and a little about the refugee situation of the 10 million Palestinians in the region as they await their Right of Return to their homeland. Addameer (which translates to “Conscience” from Arabic) works to highlight the treatment of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories by the military court system of Israel, in particular the situation of youth as young as 12 years old who face harassment and torture, administrative detention of months and years on end with seemingly no end, and the impunity of the military system's use against Palestinians, and the unequal treatment of Palestinians and Israeli Jewish Settlers in the Occupied Territories. We also speak of the movement towards widening the death penalty under military law and the difficulty of Palestinian lawyers offering defense in the Israeli military courts who aren't usually fluent in Hebrew or proficient in Israeli law, as they study Palestinian law in college. Addameer, as a human rights organization, frames it's work in terms of International Human Rights law as enshrined in the United Nations (UNRWA, The Geneva Convention in hopes of eventual international intervention against the ongoing genocide at the hands of the Israeli government. We even cover the incarceration of Palestinians (in Israel or the Occupied Territories) for publishing critique of the Israeli occupation on social media (1,000's, including Tareen Tatour in 2015). In a segment comparing Settler-Colonialism in the U.S. & Israel/Palestine, Sahar speaks about two Bedouin villages under threat of demolition by Israel, Khan al-Ahmar in the occupied West Bank as well as Umm al-Hiran in order to clear way for Israeli colonial design. . ... . .. If you visit our website, thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org you can find all of our episodes going back to 2010. To never miss an episode, click the “podcasting” link, where you can find instructions on how to subscribe to our podcast using iTunes or whatever music app or program you like, including our soon-to-be resurrected Error451 podcast, an occasional tech security podcast from an anarchist perspective. In the near future we hope to bring you perspectives on encryption from the pEp (or Pretty Easy Protection) Foundation, LEAP (or Leap Encryption Access Project) and more. Stay tuned next week for an overview of the 2018 Nationwide Prison Strike with an incarcerated organizer named Dee from Jailhouse Lawyers Speak.   Announcements Phone Zap for Comrade Malik Washington This didn't make it into the recording for today, but this Tuesday, November 13th, BRABC with the backing of IWOC is inciting a phone zap in support of Keith “Comrade Malik” Washington to get Malik out of segregation. Malik has been continuously punished and persecuted, including instances of medical endangerment and solitary confinement with out reason given or recourse. He's also had his property, including legal documents, taken and his communication is greatly stifled at the moment (including legal). Read more by visiting the above links. Digital Security Self-Defense at Firestorm If you're in the Asheville area coming up, on Saturday, November 17th from 4-6pm at Firestorm Books and coffee, Blue Ridge Anarchist Black Cross will be giving a free, interactive presentation on online hygene and security self-defense threat modeling the far-right. But, whether you're concerned about what info's online that might fall into the hands of the fash, a stalker or just want to tie up loose ends, a lot of the tools and tips are the same. Bring a laptop, tablet or phone to work on. And a few hours later there'll be a concert by Nomadic War Machine at the Bottle Shop, an electronic assault by Margaret Killjoy that you're welcome to swing by. SF Bay View Newspaper Updates In an update to our past episode featuring Mary Ratcliff of the SFBayView National Black Newspaper from August, we have good news! Amani Sawari, who we interviewed in July about the Nationwide Prison Strike as an outside spokesperson for Jailhouse Lawyers Speak prisoner organization, will be stepping up to take on the editorial position at that paper and giving Mary and Dr. Willie Ratcliff a long-deserved break. There's an online fundraiser to help get Amani situated in the Bay Area where you can support the transition and hopefully long next phase for the paper. You can find out more at https://www.patreon.com/sfbayview Anti-Anti-Semitism Action In light of the murder of eleven people at the Tree of Life synagogue, Anti-Anti-Semitism Action is asking for your support to take action against anti-Semitic organizers and to defend Jews. We are raising funds which we need to spotlight specific anti-Semitic organizers—especially those who use platforms that cater to the Alt Right such as Gab—to spread their toxic conspiracy theories. Funds will be used to expose and run public campaigns against activists who spread anti-Semitism, as well as those promoters who bring anti-Semitic speakers to their towns. Remaining monies will be used to provide security and protection for Jewish activists who are targeted by anti-Semites. This includes hiring security for public appearances, and arranging security measures at activists' residences. The ADL raises millions of dollars a year to “fight anti-Semitism” but they refuse to do the nuts and bolts work of taking action against anti-Semitic organizers or protecting Jews who are targeted. 100% of your donations will go directly to this. Donate to this fundraiser here Support Craggy Prisoner, Dayvon Person Dayvon Person is a prisoner being accused of inciting a riot on September 24 at the Craggy Correctional Institution, just outside of Asheville, NC, where he was just about to reach minimum security levels. It's requested that people call officials to press them to hear is appeal of innocecence. He is asking that folks on the outside call with persistence, and ask these persons to hear his appeal for this false accusation. You can call: Kenneth E. Lassiter (Director of Prison Facilities): 919 838 4000 919 838 3755 David Rogers (State Representative): 919 733 5749 Ralph Hise (NC Senator representing District 47): 919 733 3460 Express your concern through calling or writing the North Carolina Department of Public Safety: 512 North Salisbury Street Raleigh, NC 27604 919-733-2126 . … . .. Playlist

Taglit-Birthright Israel & Settler Colonialism This week, we spoke with Nani Ferreira-Mathews. Nani is the author of “Birthright?: Travelogue of an American Radical in Israel / Palestine”, published by On Our Own Authority (or OOOA) Books, out of Atlanta, earlier this year. Nani has indigenous Hawaiian and Jewish heritage and talks and in 2013 went on the Taglit-Birthright tour to Israel, which is offered to Jews raised outside of Israel, in this case mostly of those on the trip were from the U.S., Canada & Europe. Going into it, she already had some misgivings but throughout the tour she became more and more aware of the trip as a means to erase Palestinian and Indigenous perspectives from visibility to the tourists, who are being groomed for populating the spaces seized by the Israel as a Jewish-only territory and state. We talk about Zionism as a nationalist movement, the manipulation of the tourists on this free trip including setting up romantic situations among the guests and IDF soldiers and sleep deprivation, funding sources for Taglit-Birthright, and comparisons between the erasure or commodification of non-hegemonic ethnic and religious identities in the history and culture of the United States of America and Israel. We also talk about the BDS (or Boycott, Divest, Sanction) movement, a Palestinian-led protest movement to economically and culturally push Israel to end the occupation. Next week we'll be airing a conversation with activists working on political prisoner and human rights issues in Palestine, so stay tuned! Resources mentioned in the episode include Ilan Poppé, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Jewish Voices For Peace national where you can find info about specific chapters. Related, from CZN members In an update to the International Days of Action against Fascism and Anti-Semitism that we read an announcement from last week, in the crimethInc HotWire weekly podcast #43 from last week you can hear an interview with members of the Outlive Them Network who are calling for the day as well as an anarchist from the Tree of Life synagogue where the terrible anti-semitic attack happened in Pittsburgh last week. Also, though this didn't make the audio for this week, the ItsGoingDown podcast #38 from early November also includes an interview with an anarchist involved in If Not Now, an anti-Zionist organization of young, American Jews. Birthright in the U.S. But first, dear listeners, We would be remiss to leave the fact of birthright citizenship coming under fire recently here in the so called US without comment. Birthright citizenship, which was established by the 14th amendment to grant citizenship to freed slaves, and is characterized by the idea that all people born in the United States are U.S. citizens, regardless of race or where their parents came from. Despite this being a practice which had been reinforced by law - namely the constitution and the courts, more about that in a minute - white supremacists have often tried to tie the concept of “US citizenship” into an understanding of “whiteness” by restricting birthright along racial lines, citing non white people as “unassimilatable”. You can read more about this in a Raw Story article entitled “This isn't the first time white supremacists have tried to cancel birthright citizenship.” This is also not the first time that the current voices on top of this garbage pile that we call a government have utilized othering strategies to further attempt to divide and stratify the thinking regarding non white, non cis, and non papers having folks. We don't have to think very far back for examples of this kind of behavior, and I don't really think that they bear repeating here. Back to the laws tho, citizenship as we know it is a very problematic structure. It is so closely wrapped up in colonialism and overwhelming biases toward the wealthy and white so as to be practically indistinguishable. If any of the components which make up citizenship were to be in any way compromised, the whole system might topple. It's colonizer nature, which is at the same time very established with many supporting structures but also very fragile and riddled with internal contradictions, is also to point here: the US government in our view should not have the right to determine who is legitimate on stolen land. If you or someone you know have a perspective on citizenship which is anti colonial and would like to talk about it with us for a future radio piece, please get in touch at thefinalstrawradio@riseup.net or tfsradioshow@protonmail.com and make the subject heading “Anti Citizenship”. We're seeking to trouble and nuance this conversation in any way and would love to hear from you!   Announcements Phone Zap Monday for Hunger Striking Toledo Prisoners Seven people incarcerated in Toledo Correctional Institution went on strike Saturday, November 2nd). They refused to be moved into the yard for recreation time until a SWAT or SRT team moved them, and are going on hunger strike and refusing food. SWAT and SRT teams have used rubber bullets against protesters in Toledo before. They are protesting renovations to add more solitary confinement wings. In the past 2 months, the state has been trying to turn the entirety of Toledo into a lockdown institution. As a result, people have been sent to solitary because other units didn't have room, and for minor infractions that wouldn't have been reason to send someone to solitary confinement otherwise. Call to protest the expansion of solitary confinement, racist harassment, and the denial of food at the whims of abusive officers. On Saturday, prisoners were maced and refused the ability to wash the chemical weapons off of their body overnight. The details of this callup can be found, including numbers and more, at the IWOC website. . … . .. Playlist

Disaster Relief Moving Forward This week we had the chance to talk to Sascha, who is a community organizer in the triangle area of North Carolina, about ongoing organizing to help rebuild and continue to aid folks after the multiple hurricanes recently hit this region.  This interview went in directions that we couldn't have predicted, and really went on a deep dive of how to conceptualize of disaster relief in our changing climate, in addition to more practical topics. We hope you enjoy it! To get in touch with the project that our guest is talking about, and if you have extra monie$ to spare, you can visit maddistronc.org for ways to donate or drop by to 800 Henderson Street in Durham if you're in the area. To hear the interview that we referenced about halfway through, you can go to our website and search “Indigenous Activist”, it should be the first item in the search results. You can also hear a 10 minute edit of this interview with Vanessa on how to be better accomplices to Lumbee folks in Lumberton NC in the October episode of B(A)D News, Angry Voices From Around the World which you can find both at our website or at aradio.blogsport.de. B(A)D News is a monthly news collaboration between projects in the A-Radio Network, which includes anarchist radio from Chile, various places in Eastern and Western Europe, and right here on Turtle Island. Keep your eyes peeled to our feed for when this show updates! Announcements If you're in the Asheville area this week, Blue Ridge Anarchist Black Cross has two upcoming events. TROUBLE on J20 On Friday, November 2nd at 6:30pm at Firestorm Books & Coffee, BRABC will be airing the latest episode of Trouble, the mini-documentary series by sub.Media. This month's episode is focused on the J20 inauguration conspiracy case that ended some months back. This'll be followed by a brief chat about the film and the case. This event happens the same time, same place, on the first Friday of every month and is a great way to start of your weekend. Political Prisoner Letter Writing On Sunday, November 4th at 5pm, just a little after next week's episode of our show of this show, BRABC will also be hosting their monthly Political Prisoner letter writing night at, you guessed it, Firestorm! ABC will be bringing info on prisoners whose birthdays are upcoming or who are facing repression or coming up on parole, will provide the materials and a friendly atmosphere and help in writing letters to prisoners. If you've ever thought of writing someone in prison before but been overwhelmed by the prospect of it, this is a great way to get started.   Recent Violence from the Far Right We don't frequently comment on this show about ongoing events we aren't either announcing or featuring on the episode, but this is a rare example.  This last week saw a couple of racist attacks that we want to mention in case you missed them, in order to point to the continued and intensifying need for anti-racist and anti-fascist organizing, research and street presence. On October 24th, a white man named Gregory Bush allegedly failed to break into a black church in Louisville, KY, and instead decided to shoot a black man (Maurice E. Stallard) inside of a Kroger and a black woman (Vickie Lee Jones) in the parking lot, killing them both. The shooter told a witness “Whites don't shoot whites.” Yesterday, on Saturday October 27th during shabbat services, a gunman with white nationalist ties named Robert D. Bowers, entered the Tree of Life Congregation Synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA, and killed 11 congregants while wielding an AR-15 and two handguns, injuring 3 more congregants. These are just two recent examples of white rage acting out against others, a visible trend and not out of sync with the settler-colonial and anti-black violence of the United States, yet undeniably horrendous. The victims families are in our hearts, as are all of the many unmentioned victims of reactionary violence. On this note, we're including a couple of anti-racist announcements folks can join in on if they care to. Jewish Anti-Fascist & Anti-Racist Call To literally steal a line from the latest Hotwire episode from crimethInc, “To mark the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht and to push back against the uptick in anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and xenophobic violence around the world, there's a Jewish call for International Days against fascism and anti-Semitism.” The call reads: “On November 8–11, we will sing out and celebrate the survival of our peoples. We will say Kaddish for those who gave their lives in the fight against fascism. We will engage in acts of Kherem and ritually excommunicate those Jews who aid and abet the fascists of our time. And we will march on the institutions, the political parties, and the private businesses that collaborate with their genocidal agenda. At the same time, we will show the world that the real threat to our security as Jews isn't our Muslim neighbors, but “Western Chauvinists,” Christian supremacists, and white nationalists – the would-be pogromists of our day. Starting now and continuing through [the year] 5779 and beyond, we will (re)build an international network of anti-fascist Jews and our allies. From the streets where we live to the places we work and play, we will organize to defend all of our communities from those who would exterminate us. We invite you to join us in the fight: For a world without pogroms. For a future without fascism.” The call is using the hashtags #AntiFascistFall, #CancelThem, and #OutliveThem. More info at outlivethem.wordpress.com. https://itsgoingdown.org/international-days-of-action-for-a-world-without-pogroms-for-a-future-without-fascism/” Call for solidarity from Atlanta Atlanta Antifascists are asking folks to contact Atlanta's John Marshall Law School about one of it's students, Casey Jordan Cooper. Cooper has made explicit lynching threats against black students, has organized Alt-Right efforts around the school and has documented connections to white nationalists like Sam Dickson. Alongside a bunch of really amazing research that AFAinATL has done, you can find more about Casey Jordan Cooper, including a video and 500+ page dossier on him, the request for a call-in on Monday, October 29th to the University and a script up at atlantaantifa.org. We don't need anymore nazi lawyers and this school should be ashamed to continue to hold Cooper as a student considering it's lip service to the importance of it's students providing non-prejudicial service to their clients. WNC anti-racists undermine local Patriot Front A big ups to comrades in WNC who, very carefully and soberly, infiltrated a new chapter of the white nationalist grouping Patriot Front and were able to disrupt their activities during an attempted banner drop. This sort of high level of engagement is dangerous and not to be taken lightly, but can be quite effective at gaining intelligence on the enemy and ruining their days. More info on this can be found on this IGD post!   Support Malik and Rashid! In prisoner news, two affiliates of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party Prison Chapter are in the news. Keith “Malik” Washington, whose supporters we've had on the show before, shared that he's on a hunger strike at the McConnell Administrative Segregation Unit in protest against his continued repression and repeated medical endangerment. More info can be found at comrademalike.com. Also Kevin “Rashid” Johnson who we spoke to in September. He has been refused medical aid by guards at Sussex II, denied the ability to send or receive mail, including legal mail. He has been threatened with dogs while chained up, kept in his cell 24/7 and other terrible circumstances. Visit rashidmod.com for more details and the numbers and officials that you can call to protest on his behalf. . ... . .. Playlist here.

Mutual Aid in the Wake of Hurricane Michael This week on The Final Straw Radio, we feature a conversation with Pearson, an anarchist resident of Tallahassee, Florida, and is involved in storm relief mutual aid work in the wake of Hurricane Michael. Pearson is also the co-host of the leftist podcast “Coffee With Comrades”. For the hour we talk about Hurricane Michael, which just passed through the Florida Panhandle and up through the Carolinas, affecting Georgia and Alabama as well. Within a 36 hour period, the Hurricane ramped up from a Tropical Storm to a category 4 or 5 (depending on who you talk to) Hurricane. Michael was the strongest hurricane to hit that part of Florida ever on record, making landfall on Wednesday, October 10th in the morning and may be the third largest to hit the U.S. mainland with winds surges of up to 175 miles per hour and sustaining at 150. Because of the quick increase, localities in the storms path found themselves underprepared for such a devastating catastrophe. The state of Florida Department of Corrections refused to evacuate about 12 prisons that were in the Mandatory Evacuation areas in the path of Hurricane Michael despite a call-in campaign by Fight Toxic Prisons. For the hour, we talk about the immediate response efforts in Tallahassee, Mutual Aid Disaster Relief, anthropogenic or human-caused Climate Change and it's various impacts on the residents and environs of Florida, and a bunch of other related topics. Later, Pearson shares about his podcast, “Coffee with Comrades”, available at http://coffeewithcomrades.com/ Here are a few links for info if you're in Florida as well as ways to donate from a distance: Florida People's Advocacy Center in Tally is a safe space for people to come for disaster relief (trans inclusive and very supportive of undocumented individuals) Tallahassee DSA Fund: http://gofundme.com/dsa-tlh-hurricane-relief-fund Mutual Aid Disaster Relief: https://mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/donate/ Amazon Wishlist for the Panhandle: https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/3QUS9SLT7QD3/ref=cm_wl_huc_view Announcements Anti-Racists in Greenville, SC On Saturday, October 13th in Greenville, SC, there was a racist “Build The Wall” anti-immigration rally organized in support of Trumps xenophobic policies. Naturally, there was a counter-demonstration. Two anti-racists were arrested for picketing ordinances and another for disorderly conduct. If you'd like to help them, there's a paypal where donations are being collected for legal and any medical fees attached to this at paypal.me/upstatesc Connor Stevens post-release fund First, Connor Stevens, one of the convicted Cleveland 4, is up for potential parole as soon as November, 2018! From the fundraizr for Connor: “Connor Stevens is one of the Cleveland4. He is being released soon so we're raising funds to help get him basic necessities when he is released! It's possible he'll even be released by November! Click here if you are out of the US and would like to donate via Paypal The Cleveland 4 were four Occupy Cleveland activistswho were were arrested on April 30th, 2012, accused of plotting to blow up a bridge. But it was the FBI, working with an informant, that crafted the plot, produced the “explosives,” and coerced these four into participating. Connor took non-cooperating plea deals and pled guilty to all charges. The judge applied a “terrorism enhancement” to their sentences, elongating their sentences as well as subjecting them to harsher prison conditions. Connor served 8 years 1 month—all to be followed by lifetime supervised release.” You can find his post-release fundraiser at: https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/d1PY2c or by searching “Welcome Home Connor Stevens” at fundrazr.com. To hear our past coverage of the Cleveland 4 case, including an interview with Connors mother, you can check out (our website and search Cleveland 4) Zak Kostopoulos Zak Kostopoulos, an 33 year old lgbtq+ drag performer and activist who worked against prejudice faced by folks who are HIV positive was beaten to death in a homophobic attack near Omonia Square in Athens, Greece on September 21st. Zak lept into a jewelry store in order to avoid a nearby brawl when the emergency shutters descended, trapping him inside. He was then set upon by the owner of the shop and others who were heard uttering homophobic and hate statements against those with HIV. After escaping the store, by smashing through the window with a fire extinguisher, he was followed out by the owner and another thug. Zak was beaten to the ground while surrounded by mostly male onlookers. When police showed up, they handcuffed Zak. The murder was captured on camera. The shop owner was only arrested after the video went viral and he was only charged with manslaughter, not murder, as he claims to have been protecting his property, which is absurd. Following news of the murder, an emergency anarchist assembly was called and a march of 500 took the streets of Athens with smaller marches happening in nearby cities. Marches followed that week. Apologies for the wait in announcing this sad news which a listener sent us after the murder took place. We are thankful for being informed. Mumia Abu-Jamal There is a call for supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal to fill the court room and the streets on October 29th from 8am til 11am in Philadelphia at the Criminal Justice Center, 13th and Filbert. Mumia is a former Black Panther, is a journalist and Political Prisoner who was put on death row for decades for the killing of a cop he says he did not commit. Mumia's trial has been recognized internationally, including by Amnesty International, as a political show trial. More info up at http://mobilization4mumia.com   Certain Days Calendar benefit show On October 19th at the Pine Box Rock Shop, 12 Gratton Street in Brooklyn, NY, there'll be a benefit for post-release funds by the organizers of the Certain Days: Freedom For Political Prisoners Calendar. From Certain Days: In the last year, we have been fortunate enough to welcome home a handful of political prisoners from US prisons. Our movements have not exactly been prepared for this good fortune, and so support committees, families and friends of these folks have been forced to scramble for funds for basic living expenses. In addition to that, many of these people have been targeted in the media and beyond by various law enforcement unions and organizations, making open fundraising online a difficult proposition. We need to step up our game and aid not only the handful of political prisoners that have been released this year but also, the people who may be leaving prison soon. The show will feature performances by Despairwolf, MAAFA_Hardcore, High Cost, and Trophy hunt and for a VERY reasonable price for a show in New York City as I understand. . ... . .. Playlist here.

This week we are very pleased to present an interview with Mango and Marin, who are mental healthcare workers based in New York City. We are going to get into a lot of topics, including anarchist critiques of psychiatry, the open dialogue method of treating mental health concerns, ways that anarchists can be comrades with people who have survived the psych industry, and the Earth First! MAD Camp, which our guests started. Shoutout to our buddy Jayden for setting up this interview! If you would like to suggest further interview topics, either from our guests today or from anyone else, you can email us at tfsradioshow@protonmail.com. Links for further reading from our guests: The Self and Those Who Tend It The Self Homosexuality and the DSM 2018 Protest of the APA in NYC Mad In America Critique Outside Mental Health, Will Hall (free book download) Hearing Voices Network NYC Icarus Project BRUJAS Withdrawal Project – Laura Delano National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy Shamanism Disability Incarcerated International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis Association for Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society Drug-Centered Model – Joanna Moncrieff Fountain House centers Family Justice Centers Open Dialogue UK Open Dialogue, Framingham MA Open Dialogue, VT Brujas Prison Strike protest in Raleigh On Monday, October 1st at 8am sharp in Raliegh, NC, there'll be a protest at the North Carolina Department of Public Services, which oversees prisons in the state demanding the release of prisoners from solitary confinement accused of participating in the non-violence 2018 Nationwide Prison Strike and as a reminder that people are paying attention. The DPS can be found at 831 W Morgan St in Raleigh. This jumps off a week of activity state-wide to support prisoners on the inside as a follow up to the 2018 Prison Strike. AVL Blue Ridge ABC events this week For folks in the Asheville area, this week will have two Blue Ridge ABC events y'all should consider taking part in. On Friday, October 5th, there'll be a showing of the latest Trouble by sub.Media about Hip Hop as Resistance from 6:30-8 and will be followed by a discussion. Two days later on Sunday, October 7th at 5pm, BRABC will also be putting on a letter writing to reach out to political prisoners whose birthdays come up this month as well as prisoners in NC facing repression for alleged participation in the Nationwide Work Strike. Podcast recommendation! If you want to hear a great, recent podcast on the repression since the #PrisonStrike, check out the September 21st episode of Kiteline Radio. Kiteline is a weekly radio show that covers prison from inside and outside, and is a member of the Channel Zero Network of Anarchist podcasts. We're excited to announce the addition of Rebel Steps to CZN. Here's a jingle from them. . … . .. ** Correction on the song announce, the first track heard was "Ghost of a Chance" by Danny Dolinger from the 1997 cassette, "Rome Wasn't Burnt In A Day" out from Barnstorm Music** Playlist here.

This week we are presenting audio from the Callisto Collective, which is a local collective “addressing conflict, abuse, assault and everything in between” by utilizing autonomous models of resolution, especially in closer knit communities of affinity. This workshop is called Conflict Resolution for folks who do Anti State Organizing. In this workshop, they talk about many things, including anarchist critiques of Non-Violent Communication, which is a developed process in use mostly by leftist organizers, possible tools for dealing with conflict, and also some discussions on yogurt (stay tuned…). This workshop was originally presented at the 2018 Asheville Anarchist Bookfair. If you would like to write with the Callisto Collective, you can email them at callistocollective@protonmail.com! This was an extremely interactive workshop, and to protect the anonymity of participants I had to cut a bunch of material out. This sometimes makes the audio a bit disjointed to listen to, but I hope you'll enjoy it all the same. Before the workshop tho, we want to plug certain hurricane relief efforts going on in town. As you are probably aware, the coasts of North/South Carolina and Georgia as well as many regions off the coasts are being hit right now with a quite sizeable hurricane. Appalachian Medical Solidarity is helping coordinate disaster relief efforts, running supplies inland to the coast and supporting those who are doing on the ground relief efforts. Donations of supplies can be sent to Firestorm Books at 610 Haywood Road in West Asheville. Things which are needed include: Pop top canned foods which are high in calories that people can eat cold and without utensils Wool socks Anti-fungal spray First aid supplies Any and all baby supplies Adult diapers Toilet paper Flashlights and batteries Travel size personal toiletries Hand soap Charged battery packs for cell phones and cell phone chargers Gasoline If you would like to help but cannot send supplies, you can donate to relief efforts in Asheville by going to: https://www.gofundme.com/mutual-aid-relief-supplies-nc If you are going into affected areas as a relief worker, it's very important to be networked with local efforts and to foreground the work of locals and directly affected populations. If people are interested in reading further about cultural competency in disaster work, we would suggest further reading by the Mutual Aid Disaster Network, which is available on any social media platform. You can contact Appalachian Medical Solidarity through their Facebook page, and they are coordinating efforts on behalf of those affected by hurricane flooding both on the coast and in Asheville. . … . .. Finally, we would also like to plug a phone zap on behalf of Jason Renard Walker, a Texas inmate associated with the 2016 prison strike and who contributed to the Fire Inside zine. He has been subject to an increasingly intense campaign of harassment from staff at the Telford Unit, who first issued him with a fake case for threatening a member of staff, and then sent him to lockup, preventing him from even being able to attend his own hearing for the so called case. The prison strike timeline has officially ended, but repression related to the strike is only just ramping up. For a full article on this case you can visit the full article here. . … . .. The music which we used in the intro is the instrumental version of the track “7” by Frank Waln, who is a Sicagnu Lakota rapper and hip hop artist. His work is very searchable on all streaming media platforms. . … . .. Playlist here.

This episode was pre-recorded for airing on KWTF Sonoma County Radio for September 11, 2018. In this episode, Dr. Shawna, unlicensed sex therapist - and also your friend - takes over Spilling Rubies to talk to her friend Not-Quite-A-Doctor Svetlana. They discuss Ghost Management, Queer Lady Romance, and they both give each other love advice, including how to “be a straight shooter,” and “diversify your intimacy portfolio.” If you want to watch the live video of this episode (without the music), visit https://youtu.be/NgRks460Ouo and to find out more about this and all our episodes visit: https://spillingrubies.com/ and to learn more about donating to KWTF, visit: https://www.kwtf.net/donate/.Songs Played in this episode:- “Wait in the Car” by The Breeders- “Full Control.” by Snail Mail- “Freddies & Teddies” by Shannon Shaw- “End of my Bloodline” by Screaming Females- “So Slow” by Yuno- “Lifted (V2)” by Palmistry- “Como Me Quieres” by Khruanagbin- Knock on Wood (Live)r” by Jackie ShanePlease subscribe and rate! Thank you. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; min-height: 16.0px} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; color: #323333}

This episode was pre-recorded for airing on KWTF Sonoma County Radio for September 11, 2018. In this episode, Dr. Shawna, unlicensed sex therapist - and also your friend - takes over Spilling Rubies to talk to her friend Not-Quite-A-Doctor Svetlana. They discuss Ghost Management, Queer Lady Romance, and they both give each other love advice, including how to “be a straight shooter,” and “diversify your intimacy portfolio.” If you want to watch the live video of this episode (without the music), visit https://youtu.be/NgRks460Ouo and to find out more about this and all our episodes visit: https://spillingrubies.com/ and to learn more about donating to KWTF, visit: https://www.kwtf.net/donate/.Songs Played in this episode:- “Wait in the Car” by The Breeders- “Full Control.” by Snail Mail- “Freddies & Teddies” by Shannon Shaw- “End of my Bloodline” by Screaming Females- “So Slow” by Yuno- “Lifted (V2)” by Palmistry- “Como Me Quieres” by Khruanagbin- Knock on Wood (Live)r” by Jackie ShanePlease subscribe and rate! Thank you. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; min-height: 16.0px} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; color: #323333}

This week on The Final Straw, we're featuring two main events, both themed around the Prison Strike ongoing across Turtle Island until at least September 9th. Kevin Rashid Johnson on the Prison Strike First, an interview we conducted with Kevin “Rashid” Johnson. Rashid is a co-founder of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party and is the Minister of Defense from within it's Prison Chapter. He is the author of two books available from Kersplebedeb, Defying the Tomb and Panther Vision, both collections of Rashid's art and essays on capitalism, racism, imperialism and his view of a road towards liberation. Rashid is a Maoist and presents some interesting arguments in his writings. In this interview, Rashid talks briefly about his own case, his politicization behind bars, organizing the NABPP-PC, it's split from the New Black Panther Party, cross-racial class organizing, the #PrisonStrike and more. We hope to be able to bring more of Rashid's voice in the future. To check out his writing and and his quite literally iconic art, check out rashidmod.com. And at the moment you can write to Rashid at the following address: Kevin Johnson #1007485 Sussex 1 State Prison 24414 Musselwhite Dr. Waverly, VA 23891 Next, we'll hear an audio post-card that some friends put together, interspersing words of encouragement and audio from a noise demonstration outside Hyde prison in Eastern North Carolina on August 20th. Prisoners at Hyde CI met the outside supporters in the yard and from across lines of razor wire they unfurled three banners with simple statements: “parole”; “better food”; and “In Solidarity”. To read an article about the noise demo, see some pictures and hear about NC specific demands, check out the article, “Community Shows Support as NC Prisoners Rally With Banners“ on ItsGoingDown. Make some noise! To close out the hour, we will hear some words of encouragement to striking prisoners in #Amerikkka from comrades incarcerated in #Klanada! If you're in Asheville today, consider dropping by Firestorm at 610 Haywood Rd at 5pm to join #BlueRidgeABC for the monthly political prisoner letter writing night. Supplies will be free as well as info on writing prisoners, names and addresses, and comradery. . … . .. Show playlist here.

This episode was pre-recorded for airing on KWTF Sonoma County Radio for May 29, 2018. In this episode, I pay tribute to some of the writers who passed away in 2017.Songs Played in this episode:- “Dirty Blvd.” by Lou Reed- “The Fairest of the Seasons” by Nico- “Wild Horses” by The Rolling Stones- “Easy Rider” by Janis Joplin- “Born to Be Wild” by Steppenwolf- “1952 Vincent Black Lightning” by Richard Thompson- “Money (That’s What I Want)” by Jackie Shane- “Four Women” by Nina Simone- “She Works Hard for the Money” by Donna Summer- An excerpt from “Paddington Bear” by Stephen Fry- “Charlie Brown Theme” by the Vince Guaraldi TrioThanks for listening! p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; min-height: 16.0px} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; color: #323333}

This episode was pre-recorded for airing on KWTF Sonoma County Radio for May 8, 2018. In this episode, I play recordings of some of my favorite live performances.Songs Played in this episode:- “Cactus” - a live Pixies cover by the Foo Fighters, live in Melbourne, Australia in 1988- “Boy” a live performance by Shannon & The Clams in March 2018- “Live Banter with Flight of the Conchords” recorded live in 2007- “Hey!” by the Pixies, live at the BBC in 1988- “Dress” by P J Harvey, recorded live on WHFS radio- “Dreams with an intro by Stevie Nicks”- “Can’t Let Go” recorded live by Lucinda Williams- “Pale Blue Eyes” a live cover for the Velvet Underground’s induction into the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 by The Patti Smith Group- “King of the Mountain” Act One of Kate Bush’s live tour- “The Drugs Don’t Work” a cover of The Verve, performed by Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals- “Buckets of Rain” a live performance by Neko Case on WFMU- “We All Fall in Love Sometimes” a live performance by Jeff BuckleyPlease subscribe and rate! Thank you. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; min-height: 16.0px} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; color: #323333} span.s1 {color: #323333}

In this week's episode of The Final Straw Radio, we have three segments on two subjects. This week there'll be no Sean Swain segment due to technical difficulties, but we hope to be hearing his clarion call towards dancing around the ashes of swivelization next week. In part one, I spoke with Friday, a former J20 defendant and a supporter of the remaining 59 facing charges. We talk about the arrests, the case so far, what we saw come out of the first trial group in November of last year and the upcoming trail date set for April 17th, 2018. On Monday and Tuesday, April 2nd and 3rd there will be a call-in campaign for the for U.S. Attorney Liu to #DropJ20 and on Tuesday, April 10th there is a call for a day of solidarity with the J20 defendants. More info on that can be found in this episodes show notes or up at defendj20resistance.org alongside printable pdf's plus ideas for solidarity actions alongside the #'s and scripts for the call-in campaign. In part two of this episode, we'll be airing a statement from episode 24 of the Hotwire. Here, you'll hear LX, an anarchist and sex worker in the Midwest, where they'll talk about their perspectives about the impacts of the laws, as well as views of recent struggles among strippers in NYC, NOLA & RVA, tools sex workers have made for themselves to share information, as well as words of encouragement for sex workers and ways that non-sex-workers can offer solidarity . You can find a full transcript of what LX has to say, alongside the rest of the Hotwire episode which we recommend giving a gander and listen, at their website. Following LX's breakdown of the law and some of the views around it, you'll hear William Budington in the inaugural episode of season 2 of the occasionally weekly tech podcast from an anarchist perspective, #error451. William (a tech expert and trainer who is employed at the Electronic Frontier Foundation) breaks down the development of SESTA (which has been folded into the now-passed FOSTA (or Fight Online Sex Trafficking)) ACT, which awaits Trumps signature. The bills posed as anti-sex or human trafficking laws, however William argues, as do many groups who fight against sex trafficking in the U.S. plus consensual sex workers and their advocates, that FOSTA will hurt adults engaging in erotic services and drive them into the shadows where they in fact face more dangers, that FOSTA will take tools from their hands in keeping safer, and that even the US Department of Justice has warned that the Act will making finding and prosecuting actual human traffickers much, much harder. Though there'll be some overlap in what is said between William and LX, we wanted to keep the two presentations intact. A few links that both folks mentioned to pay attention to include: Tits And Sass ; SWOP ; Tech Dirt #157 ; Strippers organizing in NOLA ; Desiree Alliance ; Survive The Club ; An informative IGD article we pulled some links from with MORE INFO. A quick announcement about former black panther and political prisoner, Herman Bell. Herman has been in prison for 45 years for the killing of two police officers during his time with the Black Liberation Army. He has expressed remorse for the killings and family members of one dead cops has expressed that they want Herman released. He has been granted parole to be released on April 17th but there has been a pushback by the Policeman's Benevolent Association in NY state and they've been backed by Mayor deBlasio and Governor Cuomo in attempting to block Herman's release. If you want to help press back, you can: Here are THREE THINGS YOU CAN DO RIGHT NOW to keep the pressure on in support of Herman Bell:: CALL New York State Governor Cuomo's Office NOW 518-474-8390 EMAIL New York State Governor Cuomo's Office https://www.governor.ny.gov/ Script for phone calls and emails:   “Governor Cuomo, my name is __________and I am a resident of [New York State/other state/other country]. I support the Parole Board's decision to release Herman Bell and urge you and the Board to stand by the decision. I also support the recent appointment of new Parole Board Commissioners, and the direction of the new parole regulations, which base release decisions more on who a person is today than on the nature of their crime committed years ago. Returning Herman to his friends and family will help the heal the many harms caused by crime and decades of incarceration. The Board's decision was just, merciful and lawful, and it will benefit our communities and New York State as a whole.” TWEET at Governor Cuomo: use the following sample tweet: “.@NYGovCuomo: stand by the Parole Board's lawful & just decision to release Herman Bell. At 70 years old and after more than 40 years of incarceration, his release is overdue. #BringHermanHome.”  Before we start, we want to share the great news that we can now be heard Mondays at 8pm on the airwaves of KRJF-LP on 92.3FM in Santa Rosa, California! Hella hello, buddies!! We also can be heard on air Sundays on WSFM-LP in Asheville (NC), Mondays on KWRK in Fairbanks (AK) and KWTF in Bodega Bay (CA), Tuesdays on KOWA-LP in Olympia (WA) and Sundays at WCRS in Columbus (OH). If you are hearing this show and want it up on your local airwaves, please consider visiting our website and clicking the Radio Broadcasting link for details and ideas about how you can make that happen. 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This episode was pre-recorded for airing on KWTF Sonoma County Radio for March 6, 2018. In this episode, I play the best music of 2017.Songs Played in this episode:- “Untitled” by L.A. WITCH- “Pbnj” by Sneaks- “Back Into Your Head” a cover of the Tegan and Sara song by Cyndi Lauper - “Oh Baby” by LCD Soundsystem- “Certain Kinds of Trash” by Chain & The Gang- “Creatures in the Sun” by Partner- “Man Done Wrong” by Valerie June- “Oczy Mlody” by The Flaming Lips- “Perfume Days” by Cate Le Bon- “Any Other Way (Live)” by Jackie Shane- “Her Story” by Shamir- “Mystic” by Cindy Wilson- “Can I Say Baby” by GIRLIPlease subscribe and rate! Thank you. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; min-height: 16.0px} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; color: #323333} span.s1 {color: #323333}

This episode was pre-recorded for airing on KWTF Sonoma County Radio for October 10, 2017. In this episode, I take you on a dizzying ride into my newly diagnosed vertigo! Wheee!Songs Played in this episode:- “The Sky is Fallin’” by Queens of the Stone Age- “Fallin’ Down (Live)” by Men at Work- “Autumn’s Child” by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - “Mabon (Acoustic)” by Sowulo- “Mountains Falling” by David Lynch & John Neff- “I Fall to Pieces” by Wanda Jackson- “When You’ve Fallen in Love” by Al Bowlly with Lew Stone & His Band- “Fall in Love with Me” by Iggy Pop- “Fall Down” by Cake Like- “No Side to Fall In (Live)” by The Raincoats- “Dizzy” by Siouxsie & The BansheesPlease subscribe and rate! Thank you. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; min-height: 16.0px} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; color: #323333} span.s1 {color: #323333}

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; min-height: 16.0px} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; color: #323333} This episode was pre-recorded for airing on KWTF Sonoma County Radio for July 24, 2017. In this episode, I celebrate my 45th rotation around the sun by remembering my deep little girl love for radio and my dreams of someday being Dr. Johnny Fever. Songs Played in this episode: - “Dr. Johnny Fever Takes Control” by Howard Hesseman as Dr. Johnny Fever - “Where do We Go From Here?” by Charles Bradley [3:11] - “You You” by The Natives [2:24] - “Taiyou ga Kowai No” by Kaoru Hibiki - “Best of Good Morning Vietnam” by Robin Williams as Adrian Cronauer [1:29] - “Dream Lover” by Bobby Darin [2:31] - “Tears On My Pillow” by Little Anthony & The Imperials [2:21] - “One Summer Night” by The Danleers - “What’s the Forecast?” by Samuel L. Jackson as Mister Señor Love Daddy [.43] - “Bus Passes and Happy Meals” by Lizzo [4:26] - “Very Much Money (Ice King Dream)” Open Mike Eagle - “Pirate Radio” by Christian Slater as Mark Hunter [1:21] - “Sweat Loaf” by Butthole Surfers [6:14] - “Neighborhood Threat” by Iggy Pop [3:26] - “Monkey Gone to Heaven” by Pixies - “You are Here Right Now” by John Corbett as Chris in the Morning [.37] - “Sleep Walk” by Santo & Johnny - “It’s Broken” by Minnie Driver as Debi Newberry [1:16] - “If You Were Here” by Thompson Twins [2:54] - “The Walls Came Down” by The Call Please subscribe and rate! Thank you.

This episode was pre-recorded for airing on KWTF Sonoma County radio on Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - just in time for the Summer Solstice! Author and fully-outed witch sits down to talk with host Tristy Taylor about ritual, finding our way to the craft, feline familiars and much more!

This episode was pre-recorded for airing on KWTF Sonoma County Radio for May 23, 2017. In this episode, I welcome in the Flowering. Songs Played in this episode: - “Water Your Garden” by Luscious Jackson - “Rose 4 U” by TEEN - “Flower” by Deerhoof - “Azt Gondoltam, Esô Esik (I Thought It Was Raining)” by Muzsikás - “Ej Mergel? Per Dvarel?” by Ratilio - “Édesanyám rózsafája (My Mother's Rosebush)” by Márta Sebestyén & Muzsikás - “You Will Always Bring Me Flowers” by Shannon & The Clams - “(Nothing But) Flowers” by Talking Heads - “Roses & Wine” by TEEN - “La Vie en Rose” by Edith Piaf - “Another Spring” by Nina Simone - “Both Sides Now” by Joni Mitchell Please subscribe and rate! Thank you.

Music Behind the DJ: "Sunporch Cha-cha-cha" and "The Singleman Party Foxtrot" Cover image: Plastics. If you are a fan of podcast applications, you can use http://vinylomatic.com/rss to subscribe. If you enjoy listening to Vinyl-O-Matic, please consider becoming a member of KWTF (https://www.kwtf.net/donate/) or providing a one time donation. We are a small but growing radio station and could greatly use your assistance. Want to be the first to find out when new episodes are archived? Sign up for the Vinyl-O-Matic newsletter (http://vinylomatic.com/communique).

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; min-height: 16.0px} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; color: #323333} span.s1 {color: #323333} This episode was pre-recorded for airing on KWTF Sonoma County Radio for April 11, 2017. In this episode, I dive into what it means to be a Spinster Widow. Songs Played in this episode: - “The Way I Feel Inside” [Zombies cover] by Phox - “Spinster” written and read by Sylvia Plath - “Spinster” by Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - “On the Prowl” by Gossip - “Triangle Walks” by Fever Ray - “A Tooth for an Eye” by The Knife - “My Name is Trouble” by Keren Ann - “Ever Fallen in Love” [Buzzcocks cover] by Katy Goodman & Greta Morgan - “Desperado” by Rihanna - “Spinster’s Degree: Too Intense Femme-Inist Poetry Pornography” by Alexander Alvina Chamberland - “Gypsy” by Fleetwood Mac - “Starálfur” by Sigur Rós - “Møykjaeringvise (Spinster's Song)” by Hanne Kjersti Buen - “Dreaming” [Blondie cover by ukelele] by Imelda May Please subscribe and rate! Thank you.

Vinyl-O-Matic Season 4, Episode 9 45s and Other Revolutions: A-Sides beginning with B, and some beginning with C Thou/Human Intruder a: "The Butcher's Bill" b: "Fatal Alliance" Dead Earth Records DE03 (2010) On the subject of Thou, here's Thou and King Woman covering "Something in the Way" (https://youtu.be/V6CgBngIlB8) (and more). **_ Elliott Shavers a: "Butter Beans" b: "Rock My Soul" Zan-Dan Records ZD 302 (1963) Don't worry, Ainsley has a butter bean recipe (https://youtu.be/VKsSKisDJ04) for you. Stereolab/Fugu a: "Cadriopo" b: "F30/F24" Groovy Moogy Recordings OOGY001 (1997) Of course Stereolab know how to have fun (https://youtu.be/6XmGrmRhQsI). Blondie a: "Call Me" b: "Call Me (Instrumental)" Chrysalis Records CHS 2414 Just a gigolo (https://youtu.be/Rcq2bdeP0Ec). Rufus Thomas a: "Can Your Monkey Do the Dog?" b: "I Want to Get Married" Stax Records S-144 This monkey can indeed to The Dog. And The Monkey. Pavement a: "Carrot Rope" b: "And Then" Domino Records RUG90 Best Pavement video (https://youtu.be/G53DW71BlNk)? Or best video? The J. Geils Band a: "Centerfold" b: "Rage in the Cage" EMI America A-8102 Number one single because of heavy MTV rotation? (https://youtu.be/BqDjMZKf-wg) Music Behind the DJ: “Strings of Nashville (Instrumental)” by Pavement (1994). Cover image: Selma Blair as Liz Sherman in Hellboy 2: The Golden Army (del Toro, 2008). If you are a fan of podcast applications, you can use http://vinylomatic.com/rss to subscribe. If you enjoy listening to Vinyl-O-Matic, please consider becoming a member of KWTF (https://www.kwtf.net/donate/) or providing a one time donation. We are a small but growing radio station and could greatly use your assistance. Want to be the first to find out when new episodes are archived? Sign up for the Vinyl-O-Matic newsletter (http://vinylomatic.com/communique).

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; min-height: 16.0px} This episode was pre-recorded for airing on KWTF Sonoma County Radio for March 14, 2017. In this episode, we pay a very inadequate tribute to the authors who passed away in 2016. Songs Played in this episode: - Quotes from Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose - Responsorium in organs: Dum asset Salvator in monte Compostela by Ensemble Organum - Quotes from Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place - Fine & Mellow by Billie Holiday - I’d Rather See Him Dead by Memphis Minnie - Money, Money, Money by ABBA - Quotes from Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird - John the Revelator by Blind Willie Johnson - Big Bed Bug (Bed Bug Blues) by Tommy Settlers & His Blues Moaner - Quotes from Elie Wiesel’s Night - Ana b’Koreynu by Richard Kaplan & Michael Ziegler - Double-String Violin Doina (klezmer fiddle) by Daniel Hoffman - Quotes from Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love - Carnival by Tom Waits - La Valse des Monstres by Yann Tiersen - Quote from Natalie Babbitt’s Tuck Everlasting - Forever is Just a Day by Hurray for the Riff Raff Please subscribe and rate! Thank you.

Vinyl-O-Matic Season 4, Episode 8 45s and Other Revolutions: A-Sides beginning with B, Part 5 L.A. Witch a: "Brian" b: "Untitled" Greenway Records GWY-021 (2016) In case you didn't already know, LA Witch are pretty damned rad (https://youtu.be/7SXQ71YT3Es). The Ladybug Transistor a: "Brighton Bound" b: "Cienfuegos (Cicada Sonata)" Elefant Records ER-226 (2000) For all you fellow Elephant 6 (https://youtu.be/vagJ7osygw) fans. **_ Bonny Billy/Rainywood a: "Brother Warrior" b: "Cornflower Blue" Palace Records PR27 (2002) Once upon a time I was a Palace/Will Oldham/Bonnie 'Prince' Billy completist. I was fortunate enough to pick up this single at a BPB show in Monte Rio CA, of all places, in 2002. Rainywood played that date as well. Rainywood would later become Brightblack Morning Light (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brightblack_Morning_Light). Chuck Berry & His Combo a: "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" b: "Too Much Monkey Business" Chess Records 1635 (1956) Never too much monkey business (https://youtu.be/2cFgCUIJL2g) as far as this simian is concerned. The Rolling Stones a: "Brown Sugar" b: "Bitch" Rolling Stones Records RS-19100 (1971) Here's Keef and The Rooster checking out a mix of Brown Sugar (https://youtu.be/4rlGoDD-Vt8). The Rock and Roll Dubble Bubble Trading Card Co. of Philadelphia a: "Bubble Gum Music" b: "On a Summer Night" Buddah Records BDA 78 (1968) Seems like the perfect branding fit and namedropping all the while with the likes of Boyce and Hart (https://youtu.be/mfnlBXLHd08), The Monkees (https://youtu.be/tNqUufWLfZc), and 1910 Fruitgum Company (https://youtu.be/93zZ8_KO4pA). Talking Heads a: "Burning Down the House" b: "I Get Wild/Wild Gravity" Sire Records 7-29565 (1983) Sure they got the attention of us nerds with Once in a Lifetime (https://youtu.be/I1wg1DNHbNU), but this was pretty much their breakout, reaching all the way to Number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100. Madonna a: "Burning Up" b: "Physical Attraction" Sire Records 7-29609 Easily my favorite Madonna single (https://youtu.be/pufec0Hps00), no question. Mike Watt's rendition (https://youtu.be/BjpKb3rb2Qc) is pretty rad too. The B side could easily have been 3 minutes shorter. Music Behind the DJ: “Gomez” by Vic Mizzy (1964). Cover image: Selma Blair as Liz Sherman in Hellboy 2: The Golden Army (del Toro, 2008). If you are a fan of podcast applications, you can use http://vinylomatic.com/rss to subscribe. If you enjoy listening to Vinyl-O-Matic, please consider becoming a member of KWTF (https://www.kwtf.net/donate/) or providing a one time donation. We are a small but growing radio station and could greatly use your assistance. Want to be the first to find out when new episodes are archived? Sign up for the Vinyl-O-Matic newsletter (http://vinylomatic.com/communique).

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; min-height: 16.0px} This episode was pre-recorded for airing on KWTF Sonoma County Radio for January 10, 2017. In this episode, we find the rainbow in the storm… Songs Played in this episode: - The Rain on the Roof by The Lovin’ Spoonful - It’s Raining by Irma Thomas - Buckets of Rain by Neko Case - Rains on Me by Tom Waits - Stormy, Stormy, Stormy by The Busy Signals - Green Rain by Shugo Tokumaru - Rain on Tin by Sonic Youth - I See the Rain by The Marmalade - Over the Rainbow by Helen Forrest with Artie Shaw & His Orchestra - Rain, Rain, Go Away by Al Bowlly with Lew Stone & His Band - I Think It’s Going to Rain Today by Nina Simone - Red Angel Dragnet by The Clash - Oh the Wind & Rain by Helium - Shadows in the Rain by The Police Please subscribe and rate! Thank you.

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; min-height: 16.0px} This episode was pre-recorded for airing on KWTF Sonoma County Radio for January 3, 2017. In this episode, we say a very inadequate goodbye to many of the stars we lost in 2016. Songs Played in this episode: - When Doves Cry by Prince - Nasty Girl by Vanity 6 - I Learned the Hard Way by Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Theme from Valley of the Dolls by Patty Duke - The Godamned Commercial! by Zsa Zsa Gabor - Paper Thin Hotel by Leonard Cohen - Andy Warhol Live in Santa Monica in 1972 by David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes by Warpaint - Snape in Alan Rickman’s words - You Belong to the City by Glenn Frey - Raise a Ruckus by Debbie Reynolds - Wishful Shrinking by Carrie Fisher - It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue (Live) by Leon Russell Please subscribe and rate! Thank you.

Vinyl-O-Matic Movie of the Month, Episode 8 Days of Heaven Terrence Malick, 1978 Side One: Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra "The Aquarium, Carnival Of The Animals (Saint-Saëns)" Linda Manz "We Used To Do Things" Leo Kottke "Enderlin" Ennio Morricone "Harvest" "Threshing" "Happiness" "The Honeymoon" Doug Kershaw "Swamp Dance" Side Two Ennio Morricone "The Return" "The Chase" "The Fire" "Ashes & Dust" "Days Of Heaven" Extra Bits Leo Kottke "Buckaroo" Rusty & Doug "Diggy Liggy Lo" Music Behind the DJ: "Aquarium (Saint Saens)" by William Orbit. Cover image: The locusts arrive. If you are a fan of podcast applications, you can use http://vinylomatic.com/rss to subscribe. If you enjoy listening to Vinyl-O-Matic, please consider becoming a member of KWTF (https://www.kwtf.net/donate/) or providing a one time donation. We are a small but growing radio station and could greatly use your assistance. Want to be the first to find out when new episodes are archived? Sign up for the Vinyl-O-Matic newsletter (http://vinylomatic.com/communique).

Vinyl-O-Matic Season 4, Episode 7 45s and Other Revolutions: A-Sides beginning with B, Part 4 Bobby Vinton a: "Blue Velvet" b: "Is There a Place (Where We Can Go)" Epic Records 5-9614 (1963) Ms. Rossellini's version of said song (https://youtu.be/gHFk0Asaxuo). Thurston Moore/Talk Normal a: "Boogie X/Hot Date/Boogie Y" b: "Gold Dime" Fast Weapon Records (2011) You're probably wondering what Talk Normal is like live (https://vimeo.com/26742138), apart from awesome. Pretenders a: "Brass in Pocket (I'm Special)" b: "Space Invader" Sire Records (1979) Ah, my first rock and roll crush (https://youtu.be/-7Hy7uAb_eU?t=8s). Bobby Wood a: "Break My Mind" b: "This Thing Called Love" MGM Records K13797 (1967) Here's a pretty rad version of this JD Loudermilk song (https://youtu.be/Rj9LONoNljU) by Linda Ronstadt & Swampwater. Kris Kristofferson a: "Breakdown/The Pilgrim - Chapter 33" b: "Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)" CBS Records (1972) Cisco Pike (https://youtu.be/FbiqXvLK8LY) AND arthritis! Deerhoof a: "Breakup Song" b: "There's That Grin" Joyful Noise Records (JNR102) Woo! Plexidisc album. The Greg Kihn Band a: "The Breakup Song (stereo)" b: "The Breakup Song (mono)" Berserkley Records (1981) From that very same era (https://youtu.be/0GoI48D4oAg). Music Behind the DJ: “Is Anybody Going to San Antone” by Texas Tornadoes (1991). Cover image: Kris Kristofferson and Karen Black in Cisco Pike (Norton, 1972). If you are a fan of podcast applications, you can use http://vinylomatic.com/rss to subscribe. If you enjoy listening to Vinyl-O-Matic, please consider becoming a member of KWTF (https://www.kwtf.net/donate/) or providing a one time donation. We are a small but growing radio station and could greatly use your assistance. Want to be the first to find out when new episodes are archived? Sign up for the Vinyl-O-Matic newsletter (http://vinylomatic.com/communique).

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Arial; min-height: 16.0px} This episode was pre-recorded for airing on KWTF Sonoma County Radio for November 29, 2016. In this episode, I try to process to alarming news that a Rapist, Racist Garbage Monster is going to be our new President. I give some good safety tips for helping those being attacked by Racist Garbage Monsters and I ask us all to pull on our deep roots of power to find love and peace in these awful times. Songs Played in this episode: - Run Fast by The Julie Ruin - Nasty Grrls by Childbirth - I Am An American by James Baldwin - Sinnerman by Nina Simone - To Be Free by Nina Simone - Albak Gradar Bi by Oum Kalthoum - ’Til the End of the Day by The Kinks - Don’t Step on the Children by The Make-Up - Dimestore Diamond by Beth Ditto - Don’t Wanna Fight by Alabama Shakes Please subscribe and rate! Thank you.