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Feather River Action! on Forest Fires and Clearcuts
Josh Hart of Feather River Action! in Plumas county joined me to speak about US Forest Service plans for an emergency thinning of forests in this north east part of so-called California and which is threatened to be reproduced in other Federal and private lands in the name of fire prevention around the country. We talk about the claims, motivations and alternative proposals of activists, scientists and community members and the upcoming Lost Sierra Forest-Climate Action Camp happening in the area at the end of May 23-29th.
Here's another group working on the issue:
http://johnmuirproject.org/
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Jeremy White on the "San Diego Antifa" Case
A recent chat with Jeremy White, film-maker, activist, and street medic who’s facing prison time in what has been dubbed the “San Diego Antifa” case. You’ll hear Jeremy talk about what happened on January 9th, 2021 at the Stop The Steal rally, how the police interacted with members of American Guard and Proud Boys as they assaulted passers by, the conspiracy-theory driven DA Sommers Stephan and where the case was before it resumed on March 18th, after we recorded this chat. As always, thank you for the support in getting voices like these further into the world. Jeremy also worked on a horror-comedy film called "Bitch Ass".
Fundraising on the case:
Give Butter to benefit two defendants in the case: http://givebutter.com/protest-defense-sandiego
Instagram: @SuperPowerToThePeople
Fundraising for Tallcan, former defendant:
Benefit concert Saturday, May 18th 2024 @Birdcage Comics
165 W Hospitality Lane,
Suite 17
San Bernadino, CA 92408
Doors @ 6pm / ALLAGES
$8 Suggested donation / (no one will be turned away for lack of funds)
The proceeds from this show will go to legal funds and family support.
FEATURING LIVE PERFORMANCES BY:
SEXETTE / GLORBO / THE HAIL MARIAS / DOVE / LOW SWEEP
Venmo: @PUSHINGDOWNTHEWALLS
Cashapp: $PUSHINGDOWNTHEWALLS
Please put "TC" in the notes.
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Comrades by Bambu from Party Worker
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Bulldoze SCI Rockview: Abolition, Prisoner Support, and Resistance to Genocide in PA-DOC
SCI Rockview is a prison in central Pennsylvania where incarcerated comrades have been facing repression for demanding justice in the face of impunity by racist COs and following a year of prisoner deaths due to institutional toxicity and guard violence. We speak to an outside supporter about the situation at Rockview, the reactions of administration, inside / outside relationships and solidarity that have flared up. We hope that this conversation contributes to increased and thickened ties between folks on both sides of the walls. You can read some recent posts about this situation at AbolitionistStudy.com and PHLAntiCap.NoBlogs.org and you can find audio from the wives of prisoners at SCI Rockview on In The Mix Prisoner Podcast. A few other sites of interest include StudyAndStruggle.com, DC IWOC on instagram, and In The Belly Journal.
This conversation was conducted via encrypted messages and recorded by a comrade Golem and Ash from the the MolotovNow! Podcast, so a big thanks is due to them.
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Jorge “Yorch” Esquivel
Jorge has now been held in prison for over a year without a trial, and urgently needs funds to cover legal fees and prison costs (food, water, phone calls, visits, administration fees, service costs, etc).
Jorge "Yorch" Esquivel is a beloved compañero of the punk community, and a long-time participant of the Okupa Che. He was arrested on December 8, 2022 by plainclothes police as he was leaving the campus of the Ciudad Universitaria (of the UNAM university) in Mexico City as part of a campaign of criminalization against the Okupa or squat.
BACKGROUND
On February 24, 2016, an operative was carried out in which plainclothes policemen detained him, "planting" drugs on him in order to fabricate crimes, and accusing him of drug trafficking, as part of a campaign of repression on the squatted auditorium Okupa Che in UNAM (still existing). The whole case was plagued with irregularities. He was transferred to Oaxaca and then to a maximum-security prison in Hermosillo as a strategy to hinder his legal defense by taking him far away from his support networks. Thanks to the solidarity and legal work, he was reclassified from the crime of drug dealing to simple possession of narcotics, and was released on bail in March 2016.
Even though he was no longer in prison, he was not out of danger. Constant threats and journalistic reports did not cease; the press even reported his death and accused him of participating in organized crime. Meanwhile, steps were being taken to frame him once again and re-arrest him for the same fabricated crime.
On December 8, 2022 he was arrested in exactly the same place - a few steps outside Ciudad Universitaria, where the Okupa is located, once again by plainclothes police - with the grounds for this illegal
detention being that the Attorney General's Office appealed the decision to reclassify the crime.
The compañero's health is fragile due to an extended hospitalization a couple years back and the toll the prison conditions have taken on him.
CURRENT SITUATION
Jorge is currently incarcerated in the Reclusorio Oriente prison in Mexico City. The legal process is still in the evidence stage. Several hearings have been postponed and Jorge’s process is being delayed and prolonged to keep him in what is called “preventative imprisonment” with no sentence, which is common for cases of political prisoners in Mexico.
Despite the fact that there is no evidence to keep him in prison, the strategy of the State is clearly to drag it out as long as possible, which is a tortuous level of uncertainty for all of us close to Jorge.
Thanks to the solidarity of individuals, collectives and networks, it has been possible to cover Jorge's expenses inside the prison, which have been very high due to the corruption that reigns in Mexican prisons. We are raising funds to support his legal costs and basic needs to be able to survive in this unjust incarceration, and to re-join the community on the outside as soon as possible. We call upon the solidarity of our friends and compañerxs around the world to help us in supporting our compañero Yorch.
For updates and news:
Instagram: @yorchlibre
Fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/call-for-solidarity-with-jorge-yorch
Blog: https://yorch-libre.espivblogs.net/
(blog with letters from Jorge)
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Ba Teaches Yoga by Four Tet from Beautiful Rewind
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Mac Marquis on "Books Through Bars: Stories from the Prison Books Movement"
This week, you’ll hear our chat with David “Mac” Marquis, one of the editors and contributors to the recently published new book Books Through Bars: Stories From The Prison Books Movement out from University of Georgia Press. We talk about prison books projects, what they say about conditions inside, some of the value of this inside-outside organizing and what you can expect to find in the book.
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James "Jay" Ward On Incarceration And His Struggle To Be Free
This week you’ll hear from James "Jay" Ward, a long-time abolitionist who has been incarcerated in Ohio for over half his life, since he was 15. Over the years, he has participated in the national prison strike of 2018, various hunger strikes, and other movements against the abuse and mistreatment of incarcerated people.
One of his major political goals is to educate the public about the struggles he and other prisoners face to create systemic change. Without a sentence reduction, Jay will likely spend the next 25 years in prison as well. Jay is currently raising funds to pursue post-conviction relief so that he can reunite with friends and family and begin a new life on the outside. Despite Jay’s best efforts, he was not able to visit his mother before she died of an illness in 2022. He would like the chance to spend time with his father, who is also in poor health, before he passes.
Jay's links:
GoFundMe link is here: https://gofund.me/60f1291b
His ID # is A517461 for those who want to connect via GettingOut.
Twitter / X: @DecarcerateUS
His mailing address is:
James Ward
A571461
P.O. Box 788
Mansfield, OH 44901
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Xinachtli Speaks From A Texas Dungeon
This week, we’re sharing an interview with Xinachtli, an anarcho-communist Chicano political prisoner held in the McConnell Unit of the Texas prison system. Xinachtli, whose name is Nahuatl for “seed” is also known by his state name of Alvaro Luna Hernandez. Xinachtli spoke to us recently about his views on the white supremacist, colonial system of the so-called USA, the legacy of genocide of indigenous peoples in the southwest of Turtle Island, his jailhouse lawyering and his upcoming parole bid.
From our prior interview intro:
Xinachtli is serving a 50 year sentence since 1996 in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for aggravated assault on a Sheriff in Alpine, Texas. The Sheriff was serving a warrant for Xinachtli’s re-arreast at Xinachtli’s home. When questioned on the nature of the warrant, the Sheriff pulled a gun and Xinachtli was able to disarm him and make an escape without harming the Sheriff significantly.
After a few days of man-hunt, his mothers house was surrounded by numerous local, state and federal law enforcement agencies and the house was beseiged. It was only a 9-1-1 call from Xinacthli made stating that he was not being allowed to surrender that caused the troops to stand down and he allowed himself to be taken into state custody.
The grounds for the arrest warrant have since been overturned, but based on the post-facto word of the Sheriff that Xinachtli had pointed the gun at him, Xinachtli was sentenced to 50 years. He’s been determined to be a political prisoner based on his participation in multiple cases against abuse by prison officials and police, his jailhouse lawyering, advocacy for Latinx and other marginalized people in Texas and his political stance that the US and state governments occupying the Southwest of Turtle Island is a racist and illegitimate regime.
Xinachtli links:
Website: FreeAlvaro.Net
Xinachtli speaking about his life and case up to roughly 2010
A few notes from Xinacthli's Support Team:
Xinachtli’s support team is undergoing a transition and expansion, atm, which is why the ways to donate aren’t more formal.
Per Xinachtli’s request, donations would go to: fundraising materials, commissary, potential podcast (if the institution approves), movement building, some core team needs, jailhouse lawyer work, and for post-release support if he gets out.
If you want to donate a larger amount or have any questions prior to donating, please contact:-2024xinachtlifreedomcampaign ( at) gmail.com (preferred) or via +1 (773) 688-4329
When donating PLEASE write as a message: “X”, “Xinachtli” or an emoji that has some type of “X” in it.
Venmo: https://www.venmo.com/u/martiresmcneil
Paypal: [email protected] (paypal.me/merziado)
CashApp: https://cash.app/$varlam
Zelle: [email protected] ; 210.780.9996
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Part III (AKA Light) Alternative Take by Duke Ellington and Mahalia Jackson from Black, Brown and Beige
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A conversation with Hani Almadhoun
As a mid-week special, we’re releasing a conversation we had last weekend with Hani Almadhoun, a Palestinian-American journalist from Gaza and living in Virginia. Mr Almadhoun is also Director of Philanthropy at UNRWA USA, an independent charity to support the UN organization by the same name. In the chat, he speaks about conditions generally and for his family specifically in Gaza as well as the soup kitchen that his brother founded in north Gaza (https://www.gofundme.com/f/Hot-meals-in-gaza-daily , on Instagram at @GazaSoupKitchen ).
Hani Almadoun on:
X / Twitter: @Hani_Almadhoun
Instagram: @myhanitizer
Facebook: @alkabeer.alhani
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Corvallis Bookfair, Tyumen Case, and Counter-Surveillance
This week, we’re featuring four segments.
First up, you’ll hear a chat with organizers of the 2024 Heart of the Valley Anticapitalist Bookfair which ran its first iteration in Corvallis, Oregon from January 19-21st. A zine of their experiences will appear on that blog soon. [ -> 00:24:18 ]
Then, you’ll hear a brief segment updating listeners on the conspiracy case against six anarchists and antifascists in Russia known as the Tyumen case (for where it initiated). The six anarchists, some of whom barely knew each other, were tortured into confessions of conspiracy to further anarchist ideology and damage the Russian war machine. [ 00:24:34 - 00:32:53 ]
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Following this, we spoke with Aster, a European anarchist involved in the counter-surveillance and anti-repression project known as the No Trace Project which works to share information about known methods and cases of state surveillance. The project does this in order to improve and expand our collective knowledge, tools and abilities at evading state crackdowns as we organize and act. This interview was conducted via encrypted messages and Aster's portion is being read by an unrelated volunteer. [ 00:35:47 - 01:05:18 ]
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If you plan to visit their site, we suggest at least running a VPN (riseup.net has a free one) and using an anonymized browser. One method is to download the tor browser (find your device/operating system at ssd.eff.org for some tips) and visit the NoTrace Project tor address. Their website can also be found at https://NoTrace.How
Finally, you’ll hear Sean Swain’s reading of names of people killed by cops in the USA during October of 2023. [ 01:09:50 ]
Tyumen Links
Tyumen Case Support Crew's Russian-language Telegram: https://t.me/tumenskoedelo
Articles on the case and individuals on Avtonom: https://avtonom.org/en/taxonomy/term/1761
Music by some of the imprisoned men appear in a compilation to fundraise for their legal funds: https://blackploshad.bandcamp.com/album/music-of-antifascist-prisoners-tortured-by-the-police-tyumen-case
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День дизертира ( Deserter's Day) by Rasputin
Меланхолия (Melancholy) by Rocker Balboa
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Extremism, Fascist Voids and Antifascist Hope with Joan Braune
An interview with Joan Braune, author of Understanding and Countering Fascist Movements: From Void to Hope out this year from Routledge. In this chat we talk about understanding fascism and fascists, motivations and deterrents, the framework of “deradicalization”, the role of former fascists in education around fascism and the importance of fostering antifascist movements.
The oft-mentioned interview on the anti-fascist radio show out of so-called Melbourne, Yeah Nah Pasaran
Bundyville podcast season 1 & season 2
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Harm Reduction and Eco-defense in Appalachia
First up, Ian chats with Tasha of Project Mayday, a harm reduction project operating in so-called West Virginia. They discuss harm reduction strategies and the political framework of their approach to mutual aid. The conversation also touches upon co-existing in the public health and non-profit space without compromising their radical values and some of the many ways that drug policy and pharmaceutical marketing affect people who use drugs. Listeners can contact Project Mayday at the links below and should watch those spaces for news about the benefit show coming up on April 28th.
Then, I spoke with Toby from Appalachians Against Pipelines and Madeline Ffitch, an activist recently arrested for locking down to a drill threatening to move the Mountain Valley Pipeline through Peters Mountain at Jefferson National Forest. We talked about the recent days of solidarity, direct actions against the MVP, repression of activists and related topics.
Project Mayday Links
Email: maydayx ( at )proton.me
Website: https://maydayx.net
Instagram: @projectmaydayx
Twitter/X: @projectmaydayx
Facebook: @projectmaydayx
Threadless Web store: https://maydayx.threadless.com/
Bonfire web store: https://www.bonfire.com/store/project-mayday/
Paypal: @freiheit13
Cashapp: $xpmaydayx
Venmo: @maydayx
Appalachians Against Pipelines links
Website: https://aapsolidarity.org
Legal Defense Fund: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/applegaldefense?=2
AAP twitter:: @stopthemvp
AAP instagram and facebok: @AppalachiansAgainstPipelines
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We Roll (instrumental) by Pete Rock from We Roll
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Andrew Lee on Defying Displacement
We’re sharing a recent chat with Andrew Lee (instagram / tiktok), author of the book Defying Displacement: Urban Recomposition and Social War, released by AK Press on February 6th 2024. Andrew and I talk about gentrification, speculation and financialization of houses, the destruction of communities by racial capitalism and the state, and some methods used to fight back and stay put. Andrew shouts out Decolonize Philly as a project to pay attention to.
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Weekly, we work to bring you and our wider audience, including over the radio waves, conversations that you won’t hear many other places. And we operate at a minimal cost, paying for transcription, printing, mailing, web hosting to make sure that information is easier translatable and accessible, including to our comrades behind bars. The most regular way that we fund that is from the patreon.
Our patreon is currently below supporting our monthly operating costs of around $500, so we’re asking folks on the fence of supporting this project who have a patreon account to kick in and help at $3 or more a month. If you don’t have a patreon, we do have a liberapay you can psuedonymously kick us money from or set up a recurring payment from paypal and we also can take money via venmo or stripe.
If you haven’t supported us before or haven’t for a while now and can afford to, we’d really appreciate the help. And if you’re already supporting us or have in the past in various ways, thank you.
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Doin It (instrumental) by LL Cool J
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Free Alex Stokes + Russian Anti-War Saboteur Ruslan Siddiqui
This week on the show, we’re starting out with an interview with Lo and Meghan, two supporters of Jewish independent journalist, artist and antifascist leftist from Albany, NY, Alex Stokes Contompasis. Alex is serving a 20 year sentence for defending himself and 3 other community members attacked by Proud Boys and Oath Keepers at the New York state capital on January 6th, 2021. For the hour, we speak with Lo and Meghan, two friends and supporters of Alex who talk about Alex’s media work, the politically-charged court case and his ongoing appeal. More on his case can be found at FreeAlexStokes.Com, you can order his artwork to support his case there as well. They mentioned getting support and attention from the International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund.
Then, you’ll hear an interview from our comrades at Frequenz-A in so-called Germany with a recent interview of Anya of the grassroots group called Solidarity Zone that offers legal, media and other support to people facing charges for anti-war direct actions inside of Russia to speak about their work and the case of Ruslan Siddiqui, an anarchist who does not deny railway sabotage against the Russian war efforts in Ukraine. This first aired on episode 75 of B(A)D News: Angry Voices From Around The World from the A-Radio Network.
Solidarity Zone Links
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/solidarityzone
Telegram: https://t.me/solidarity_zone
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/solidarity_zone
LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/solidarity_zone
Email: solidarity_zone(at )riseup.net
Finally, you’ll hear Sean Swain reading from an incomplete list of people killed by law enforcement in the USA during the month of April 2023.
Announcements
Red Onion Hunger Strike Phone Zap
The saga at Red Onion continues, with more than 30 participants. Participants are asking supporters to call the Governor and the Virginia Department of Corrections to demand that the Red Onion follows state restrictions on solitary confinement. Kevin "Rashid" Johnson is additionally requesting his treatment for congestive heart failure and prostate cancer that he be moved from Red Onion to a facility like Sussex I or Buckingham that are near to large medical facilities.
You can hear a recent interview we had with a comrade of Rashid and see a roundtable of comrades of Rashid on Black Power Media recently talking about his situation. Here's a social media post with all of the pertinent information: https://kolektiva.social/@BlueRidgeABC/111868911724769356
VADOC Central Administration USPS P.O. Box 26963; Richmond, VA 23261
David Robinson
Phone: 804-887-8078
Email: [email protected]
VADOC Director, Chadwick S Dotson Phone: 804-674-3081
Email: Chadwick. [email protected]
VADOC Central Administration Rose L. Durbin Phone: 804-887-7921
Email: Rose. [email protected]
Beth Cabell, Division of Institutions Phone: 804-834-9967
Email: [email protected]
Governor of Virginia Glenn Youngkin Phone: 804-786-2211
Email: [email protected]
Sample script: I am calling in support of the hunger strikers at Red Onion State Prison. I am concerned about the serious health effects of long-term solitary confinement and other illegal and brutal methods of confinement including sensory deprivation. Please end the use of these practices. I am also seriously concerned for the health of Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson, as he is being prevented from accessing care for his health conditions. Please move him back to Sussex I or to Buckinghm, near a major medical facility, so that he can resume cancer and cardiac treatment. Thank you.
Support Guarani M'Bya in Brazil
from FireFund.Net:
This campaign aims to support two native land in São Paulo south and also, others in state interior and coastal zones.
Our goals is to restore and expand the prayer house (Opy’i) and communal kitchen, plant native trees and subsistence foodsuch as corn, rice, potato and others, distribute water and generate clean energy collected from surrounding rivers, support the cerimonies, and other constructions such as houses and other demands that the comunitie brings to us.
Also carry out the construction of ecological bathrooms and support the school located in the land. These are some of the missions and commitments we have to native people here in São Paulo.
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Get It Together (Buck Wild Instrumental) by The Beastie Boys
High Water Everywhere, Part 2 by Charlie Patton from Complete Recordings 1929-1934
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Mohammad Hureini of Youth of Sumud
This week, we're featuring a conversation with Mohammad Hureini (twitter / instagram), a young activist from Masafer Yatta, an area in the hills south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank in Palestine. Mohammad is a member of a non-violent group called Youth of Sumud that struggles to hold on to the sites and lives of Palestinian villages despite displacement by the Israeli military occupation as well as the illegal zionist settlements (like the neighboring Havat Ma’on) and their routine violence and impunity. For the hour, Mohammad speaks about the work of Youth of Sumud, their recent report co-published with The Good Shepherd on increased settler violence entitled Indigenous Erasure: How the zionist movement is using state sanctioned violence to eliminate the Palestinian communities of the West Bank, the South African genocide case against Israel in the International Court of Justice and other topics. A transcript of this interview will be available soon, a podcast version of this is available at our website.
Al-Addameer's recent publication on prisons and repression of Palestinians since October 7th, 2023: https://addameer.org/media/5262
Organizations Mohammad names doing on the ground support:
Defund Racism (https://defundracism.org/): follows NGO connections to settler projects
recently published a report on Regavim, a pro-settler organization that pulls funding from the US, Canada and elsewhere to displace Palestinians
Operation Dove /Operazione Colomba from Italy (https://www.operazionecolomba.it/)
International Solidarity Movement (https://palsolidarity.org/)
Community Peacemaker Teams (https://cpt.org/)
Recent interviews about the conflict in Palestine
Yuval Dag, Israeli anarchist military refuser
Joey Ayoub on the War in Gaza
Jewish anti-zionist Anarchist in Israel
Announcements
B(A)D News #75 is out!
Check out the January 2024 episode featuring updates on support for antifascists facing charges in Budapest from February 11, 2023; reflections from an Autonomist on the '80s-'90s journal "Radikal"; a portion of our interview with Israeli refuser Yuval Dag; and an interview from Solidarity Zones on the case of accused Russian war sabateur, Ruslan Siddiqui
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Building Steam with a Grain of Salt by DJ Shadow from Entroducing....
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Hunger Strike at Red Onion + Military Refuser in Israel
This week on the show, we’re featuring three segments.
First up, you’ll hear part of an interview with Shupavu wa Kirima, General Secretary of the Revolutionary Intercommunal Black Panther Party, comes on to talk to us about the ongoing hunger strike among prisoners at Red Onion State Prison in Virginia protesting the abuse of solitary confinement and the medical status of hunger striker Kevin “Rashid” Johnson. More at https://RashidMod.Com [00:01:18 - 00:25:47]
Then, Yuval Dag, an Israeli anarchist member of Mesarvot recently imprisoned for publicly refusing conscription, talks about draft refusal, opposing the war on Palestinians and the occupation and undoing zionist ideology. More at https://linktr.ee/meaarvot [00:27:31 - 01:06:13]
Finally, you'll hear Sean Swain reading the names of people killed by US law enforcement during February 2023 [01:06:15 - 01:12:02]
Call-in / Emails For Red Onion Hunger Strikers
Who To Contact:
VADOC~ Central Administration; USPS— P.O. Box 26963 Richmond, VA 23261
David Robinson Phone~ 804-887-8078,
Email: [email protected]
Virginia DOC ~ Director, Chadwick S Dotson,
Phone~ (804) 674-3081
Email: [email protected]
VADOC ~Central Administration Rose L. Durbin, Phone~804-887-7921 Email: [email protected] Beth Cabell, Division of Institutions [email protected] (804)834-9967 Gov. Glenn Youngkin (804)786-2211 [email protected]
Red Onion Hunger Strike Participants last we heard:
Kevin “Rashid” Johnson – #1007485
Jason Barrett – #1092874
Rodney Lester – #1429887
Charles Cousino – #2213403
Eric Thompson – #1208012
Joe Thomas – 1193196
Nguyen Tuan – #1098070
Demetrius Walllace – #1705834
Gregory Binns – #1157265
P. Williams – #2103207
DeQuan Saunders – #1458253
J. Hilliard – #1988319
Ray Galloway – #1407902
Gregory Azeez – #1421616
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One Man Army (instrumental) by Rage Against The Machine
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Sean Swain's 10 Year Radio Anniversary
Sean Swain is an anarchist prisoner who's serving an indeterminate sentence in Ohio for a self-defense killing. Sean has authored 3 books (one co-authored with Travis Washington) and released an album of his music (with collaboration of a number of artists) while behind bars. Sean is also a dear friend and collaborator on The Final Straw for 10 years, now. We’re sharing here a conversation Bursts had with Sean Swain to mark the 10th anniversary of Sean's (mostly) regular segments on the show, You Are The Resistance.
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The show notes will be chock full of links to segments and articles worth checking out, but you can find a full rundown of Sean’s audios on the first link labeled “You Are The Resistance”, our first interview with him about the Army of the 12 Monkeys linked in the first paragraph and a whole bunch more writings and audio at SeanSwain.Org and at our website. You can find contact info there to reach out to Sean if you want to strike up a conversation.
Links to materials as they come up in the conversation:
You Are The Resistance Archive
Sean’s first segment
an interview with Ben Turk
Sean’s writeup about the attempted cell extraction during A12M situation
A12M inerview, Sean's first appearance on TFSR
A12M writeup on Sean’s blog (some broken links)
Sean Swain Run for Governor 2014
A statement on 2014 segment by Sean about his Presidential run for 2016
Sean’s OSP hungerstrike, one segment
The FBI Can Go Fuck Itself
Ohio: The Truth Behind Bob's Lanes online book
LBC isn’t online right now, but apparently a fuller version is in the published edition
Ihsan reading a statement by Sean when Sean was incommunicado
Some background on the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (per A12M as Animal Enterprise) and the Green Scare, our interview with Will Potter
Sean Swain’s folk punk album, Burning Down
Sean Swain’s finger getting cut off
UNHCR testimony information
Swain 2020 election discussion on AnarchistNews.Org
Sean’s post on losing his father
Kevin Rashid Johnson’s website
Our interview with Rashid in 2018
A more recent interview with a comrade of Rashid about his medical neglect
Sean’s Opposing Torture book
Other Interviews with Sean Swain
Political Prisoners channel on YouTube
Sean's Guerrilla Litigation and Re-Imagining Outside Support
PrisonsKill interview with Sean on 12 Monkeys
Celebrities reading Sean Swain’s segments:
John Zerzan
The Stimulator
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Kazi Toure of Boston Jericho on Prisoner Support
This week on the show, you’ll hear Kazi Toure. Kazi is a former political prisoner from the Ohio 7 case and founding member of the Boston chapter of The National Jericho Movement. For the hour, Kazi and I talk about the history of Jericho Movement, supporting political prisoners and support for post-release and aging prisoners. You can find recent updates from the group at @OfficialJerichoBoston on Instagram.
https://traffic.libsyn.com/thefinalstrawradio/tfsrPodcast-20240114-KaziToureJerichoBoston.mp3
Kazi’s appearances here before:
2015 Former Political Prisoner Panel (pt 1 & pt 2)
2016 Former Political Prisoner Panel (pt 1 & pt 2)
Presentation at Burning Books in Buffalo New York
Other Interviews Referenced:
Dhoruba bin Wahad speaking about Police Unions on BPM / ImixWhatILike: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hskjd7MRN_E
Part of this episode was inspired by the call by Shaka Shakur in this episode of Millenials Are Killing Capitalism
Two interviews Kazi's former co-defendant, Ray Luc Levasseur (pt 1 / pt 2)
Then, Sean Swain’s segment begins the annual tradition of reading the names of people killed by the police in the USA during the prior year. Stay tuned mid-week for a release of a 10 year anniversary chat with Sean about his life since he began participating in TFSR [00:55:58]
Announcements
Post-Release Fundraiser for Mwalimu Shakur
Formerly incarcerated New Afrikan revolutionary activist Mwalimu Shakur has been released from prison after 20 years, Mwalimu was featured on this show twice talking about his organizing work. If you’d like to contribute to his post-release fund, consider donating to our paypal or venmo linked at our website or via this cashapp with Mwalimu support in the memo. You can find his former appearances on the show here.
Hunger Strikes Grow More Dire at Red Onion Prison
Several Virginia prisoners began a hunger strike on Tuesday, December 26 at Red Onion State Prison, protesting the continued use of long-term solitary confinement at the institution.
Despite critical concern, outcry from the public and prisoner populations in the state, incarcerated people are still subjected to this brutal practice which has been renamed “restorative housing” since July 1, 2023 when measures were passed to limit its use in the state.
Leading these prisoners in this effort is longtime prison activist, revolutionary writer and artist, Kevin “Rashid” Johnson. Rashid has stated that no one will take any food at all until demands are met. Some of the strike participants have underlying health concerns that make the undertaking of such a demonstration particularly risky.
Rashid, himself, is recovering from multiple rounds of radiation to treat prostate cancer as well as suffering from untreated heart disease/congestive heart failure. This is why the public’s support is especially needed.
We are asking that calls, emails, and letters be sent to the Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) officials as well as Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin’s office voicing support for the strikers and condemnation for the inhumane use of long-term solitary confinement/restorative housing.
PLEASE EVERY DAY THIS WEEK: call and email the following people demanding that the hunger strikers demands be met (end long term solitary confinement) and Rashid receive the medical care he has been denied for months, and that he be transferred immediately. If the latter is not an option, then demand an interstate compact transfer take place immediately.
804-674-3081
804-786-2211
** Demand that the Governor intervene on Rashid’s behalf and that an internal investigation be conducted immediately that would reveal why there were documents removed from his medical jacket and why his referrals to outside medical care were canceled.
Joka Jeupe Mkali, AKA Komrade Shine White, who put out this call to action, said "Death is inevitable, but it mustn't be at the hands of some racist dogs. Rashid walks in shoes that cannot be filled, thus we must keep him walking in them as long as possible."
Thank you for all you do to help prison rebels keep walking!
Red Onion Hunger Strike Participants:
Kevin “Rashid” Johnson – #1007485
Jason Barrett – #1092874
Rodney Lester – #1429887
Charles Cousino – #2213403
Eric Thompson – #1208012
Joe Thomas – 1193196
Nguyen Tuan – #1098070
Demetrius Walllace – #1705834
Gregory Binns – #1157265
P. Williams – #2103207
DeQuan Saunders – #1458253
J. Hilliard – #1988319
Ray Galloway – #1407902
Gregory Azeez – #1421616
Phone Zap for Aaron Isby-Israel at Plainfield CF in Indiana
Aaron Isby has been facing increased harassment Plainfield the last few weeks. Details and the support script are available at IDOCWatch. Here’s who to contact:
Please call Plainfield CF and IDOC HQ, and email the Ombusdan and the Governor and demand that the harassment against Mr. Isby cease immediately and that he be provided full access to the law library in accordance with law and policy!
Call IDOC HQ: (317) 232-5711 ext. 0 ext. 1
Call Plainfield CF: (317) 839-2513 ext. 7 ext. 9
Email the Ombudsman Bureau: [email protected]
Call & Email the Governor: https://www.in.gov/gov/ask-eric/
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Featured Track:
Water Got No Enemy by Fela Kuti from Expensive Shit
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Joey Ayoub on the War in Palestine
We’re joined again by podcaster, writer and activist Joey Ayoub. Joey, who is a Lebanese Palestinian living in Europe, co-hosts a podcast called The Fire These Times which is soon to be a part of the From The Periphery podcast network. For the hour we speak about the Israeli war on Palestinians, US policies in the SWANA region and the possibilities of war expanding to neighboring states, conspiracy thinking in the early days of these massacres, European state approaches to massacres in the Occupied Territories and other subjects.
Writings by Joey at joeyayoub.com
Podcast via TheFireTheseTimes.com
Support the project via patreon.com/thefirethesetimes
Keep an eye out for their new podcasting network coming out as From The Periphery (soon at FromThePeriphery.Com).
Our past interviews on our show with Joey
Announcements
Fundraiser for Daryle Lamont Jenkins
Supporters of antifascist activist Daryle Lamont Jenkins are raising funds for DLJ after a recent visit to the hospital. You can learn more and kick in some funds at GoFund.Me/e40da8b8 or check the link in our show notes.
New Episode of B(A)D News
The latest episode of the monthly podcast from the A-Radio Network is available, featuring stories from:
Kilavo Seme about Quilombos and struggles in Brazil;
A-Radio Berlin on the trials concerning the 2017 G20 protests in Hamburg
Flora Radio in so-called Valparaiso, Chile, on recent repression against Mapuche people claiming their lands
Hunger Strike At Red Onion Expands
The hunger strike that began on December 26th at the infamous Red Onion State Prison in Virginia has doubled in size as of a few days ago with participation of 7 more imprisoned resisters protesting abuse by isolation despite Virginia policy and international human rights law. There is a rundown of the hunger strike and conditions at Red Onion available at RashidMod.Com and supporters are requesting that people call or email VDOC officials to end this cruel and unlawful use of segregation.
Newly joined the strike:
Nguyen Tuan - #1098070
Demetrius Walllace - #1705834
Gregory Binns - #1157265
P. Williams - #2103207
DeQuan Saunders - #1458253
J. Hilliard - #1988319
Ray Galloway - #1407902
Gregory Azeez - #1421616
Who To Contact:
VADOC~ Central Administration; USPS—
P.O. Box 26963
Richmond, VA 23261
David Robinson Phone~ 804-887-8078,
Email: [email protected]
Virginia DOC ~ Director, Chadwick S Dotson,
Phone~ (804) 674-3081
Email: [email protected]
VADOC ~Central Administration
Rose L. Durbin, Phone~804-887-7921
Email: [email protected]
Beth Cabell, Division of Institutions
[email protected]
(804)834-9967
Gov. Glenn Youngkin
(804)786-2211
[email protected]
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Splash Waterfalls (remix) (instrumental) by Ludacris feat. Raphael Saadiq
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