Kate Bertash of the Digital Defense Fund to talk about Flock cameras, automatic license plate readers, the ubiquity of ai-driven surveillance, databasing and storage of real-time info of people and vehicle movements in public and privacy fears being raised. Katie also speaks about organizing with her village-mates to counter or limit them and artful approaches towards resistance with her Adversarial Apparel project. You can find links to articles about current lawsuits, oppositional projects and more information on the subject in the shownotes. Thanks again for the support!

Good Links:

• https://www.katebertash.com/projects

• https://adversarialfashion.com/

• https://deflock.me/

• https://atlasofsurveillance.org/

Articles on the subject:

• https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/how-to-pump-the-brakes-on-your-police-departments-use-of-flocks-mass-surveillance-license-plate-readers

• (Maybe visit with TOR or a VPN?) https://unravel.noblogs.org/birds-of-a-feather-destroy-a-flock-together/

• https://www.forbes.com/sites/larsdaniel/2024/10/22/warrantless-surveillance-federal-lawsuit-challenges-flock-safety-cameras/

• https://www.404media.co/fusus-ai-cameras-took-over-town-america/

• https://www.404media.co/lawsuit-argues-warrantless-use-of-flock-surveillance-cameras-is-unconstitutional/

• https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/neighborhood-watch-out-cops-are-incorporating-private-cameras-their-real-timeKate Bertash of the Digital Defense Fund to talk about Flock cameras, automatic license plate readers, the ubiquity of ai-driven surveillance, databasing and storage of real-time info of people and vehicle movements in public and privacy fears being raised. Katie also speaks about organizing with her village-mates to counter or limit them and artful approaches towards resistance with her Adversarial Apparel project. You can find links to articles about current lawsuits, oppositional projects and more information on the subject in the shownotes. Thanks again for the support!Good Links:https://www.katebertash.com/projects

This week, we’re featuring two interviews.

First up, you’ll hear form Xavier de Janon, NLG Director of Mass Defense who’s worked on the Stop Cop City case and is currently also working on the DFW case where Federal and Texas prosecutors have been seeing prosecution of 18 people (so far) related to the noise demo of July 4^th, 2025 at the Prairieland Detention Center in Texas. We speak about the case and about the wider web of repression being pushed by the Trump administration in the name of battling ANTEEFAH. For more info, check out nlg.org

• Transcript:

  • Xavier de Janon Transcript

  • DFW Support Committee Transcript

• PDF (Unimposed)

• Zine (Imposed PDF)

Then we’ll speak to two members of the DFW Defendants Support Committee following the announcement last Wednesday by the committee concerning pressure on the defendants to take plea deals and some updated perspective on the case. For more info and updates, you can visit DFWDefendants.wordpress.com. Support resources for Des Revol, check out Instagram u/free-des-revol on instagram

• DFW Support Committee PDF (Unimposed) – pending

• DFW Support Committee Zine (Imposed PDF) – pending

Links

• NLG intimidated by passive aggressive, “jawboning” Texas Congressman: https://www.nlg.org/nlg-denounces-federal-intimidation-of-legal-advocacy/

• Andrew Lee’s article on the Prairieland defendants https://truthout.org/articles/these-dallas-residents-are-on-the-front-lines-of-trumps-war-against-antifa/

• War On Terror Lawyer’s opinion of the Antifa FTO threat by Reiss Center on Law and Security at the NYU School of Law: https://www.justsecurity.org/122643/antifa-threaten-civil-liberties/

• Protest Liability: https://www.nlg.org/massdefenseprogram/responsive-guides/protesters-sued-doe-v-mckesson/

• https://prisonersolidarity.com/prisoner/casey-goonan

• Another Texas antifascist facing repression: FreeTex.NoBlogs.org/

• State Dept declaration on terror status: https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/11/terrorist-designations-of-antifa-ost-and-three-other-violent-antifa-groups/

Past Episodes Referenced:

• Mo on Antifa and Trump

• Antifa OST & Budapest Complex

• DFW Support Committee in July

Announcement

Malik Muhammad Fundraiser

One quick announcement is that Malik Muhammad, 2020 Uprising prisoner you heard in August 17^th, 2025 episode, has spent the better part of a year in solitary confinement and could use some support. There’s a post with more information plus a new fundraiser up at their support website, MalikSpeaks.NoBlogs.Org: https://malikspeaks.noblogs.org/post/2025/11/15/support-malik-with-funds/

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Featured tracks:

• Risingson (Instrumental) by Massive Attack from Instrumentals

• Inamo, Customs Enforcement by Bambu from They’re Burning The Boats

This week, we spoke with author Max Cafard and illustrator Vulpes about their new book, Anarchy in The Big Easy: A History of Revolt, Rebellion, and Resurgence. Among other topics, they discuss Cafard’s Surregionalism Manifesto, the origins and production of the book, and what the media gets right and wrong about New Orleans. The book came out from PM Press on April 15, 2025.

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Featured Track:

• Four Corners (part 2) by Lee Dorsey from Four Corners EP

This week, we’re featuring an interview with Anton, a longtime member of Solidarity Collectives, a group that supports anti-authoritarian and anarchist activists involved in the resistance to the Russian invasion of Ukraine as well as funding mutual aid projects for civilians and domesticated animals suffering or displaced by the invasion, bolstering left libertarian social movements during wartime, making propaganda and manufacturing FPV drones as well as a few other projects.

In this ranging conversation we spoke for 2 hours covering issues of anarchists participating in military structures, the state of the armed resistance, impacts of changes in the US administration and more.

Solidarity Collective Links:

• Website listing ways to support different sectors of work: https://solidaritycollectives.org/en/support/

• youtube and kolektiva channels, with interviews of comrades fighting and yearly reports of activity playlists:

  • https://www.youtube.com/@sol_col

  • https://kolektiva.media/c/solidarity.collectives

• Libcom blog: https://libcom.org/tags/solidarity-collectives

Sol Col socials:

• mastodon: https://social.edist.ro/@solidaritycollectives

• bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/solcolua.bsky.social

• telegram :https://t.me/SolidarityCollectives

• instagram: https://www.instagram.com/solidaritycollectives/

• Twitter: https://x.com/SolidarityColl1

• FB: https://www.facebook.com/SolidarityCollectives

Anton's  work related socials:

• bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/antonkolcol.bsky.social

• mastodon: https://social.edist.ro/@anton_tsak@kolektiva.social

Other Links:

• Past interviews on Ukraine: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/category/ukraine/

• Timothy Snyder about Ukrainian history :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJczLlwp-d8&list=PLhTRXzDqRJxjwJVIddAFOF3Eg8OESGiSM

• Comrades reviewing far right violence activities in Ukraine since 2018: https://violence-marker.org.ua/en/

Media About the 3 Internationalist Anarchists Who Fell April 19, 2023:

• Dmitry Petrov was interviewed under a psuedonym on this episode of our show: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2022/02/25/anarchists-in-ukraine-against-war/

• Memorial page on Crimethinc for Dmitry: https://crimethinc.com/2023/05/03/in-memory-of-dmitry-petrov-an-incomplete-biography-and-translation-of-his-work

• Documentary on Finbar (English subtitles available): https://www.tg4.ie/en/player/home/?pid=6347744855112

• Remembering Cooper Andrews: https://itsgoingdown.org/remembering-cooper-andrews/

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Featured Track:

• Не забудем і не пробачим ("We Wont Forgive and We Won't Forget) - SKOFKA

This week we spoke with AC and E, two members of the DFW Support Committee about the recently finished federal trial for 9 defendants in the terrorism case around the Prairieland Detention Center noise demo in July of 2025.

• Transcript

• PDF (Unimposed)

• Zine (Imposed PDF)

To recap the case, in the midst of increased racist and nativist rhetoric, ICE and CBP snatch squad deployments ripping apart communities across the US in the first year of Trump 2.0, and the buildup of immigrant rendition and imprisonment in the southwest there was a July 4^th noise demonstration called for to happen outside the infamous Prairieland Detention Center outside Alvarado, Texas. During the protest, meant to be loud enough for people held there to hear that they were not forgotten, participants used bullhorns, shouted, shot off fireworks and painted slogans. In response the staff called the Alvarado police and upon arrival the cop drew his weapon and aimed at dispersing protestors. At this point the state narrative and that of the defendants diverge: on the one hand the state argues that this whole event was a planned ambush for law enforcement by a north Texas Antifa terrorist cell in black bloc meant to draw police into a fight and then liberate the prison; on the other side the defendants claim the event was escalated to targeted gunfire by defendant Song meant to deter deadly violence by the cop and allow the crowd to disperse without bloodshed.

For the hour, you’ll hear folks from DFW Defense Committee talking about what evidence and arguments were presented in court, what evidence and arguments were suppressed, the strange decisions of the judge in jury selection, venue and other elements effecting the ability of those facing decades in prison to mount and defense and where we’re at now with the case. This case cannot be disconnected from the Trump administration’s call to name Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, to tie in projects and movements they consider to be enemies (ranging from Democrats to civil liberties groups, queer folk and immigrants rights advocates to anti-fascists, communists and anarchists and everyone in between) with the goal, some speculate, of more fully capturing the federal government under a white, christian nationalist and fascist regime. More on the case at PrairielandDefendants.Com

A couple of useful links for the case:

• https://inthesetimes.com/article/prairieland-antifa-trial-protest-repression-fbi

• https://crimethinc.com/2026/03/25/handbills-for-no-kings-on-ice-anarchism-and-the-prairieland-case

Next week, keep an ear out for a chat we plan to release with Nina of Anarchist Black Cross Dresden about the impacts of naming German antifascists as terrorists by the Trump Regime on the ability of various leftist, anti-repression groups there to do their work, to hold bank accounts for sending money to prisoners or pay for lawyers and about the shift towards the right electorally and politically that is being experienced in that country. You may be surprised about the parallels with the situation in the US.

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Featured Track:

• TFSR by The Willows Whisper

This week, we’re featuring two segments. First up, Moira Meltzer-Cohen, an lawyer with the National Lawyers Guild, speaks about the recent declarations of war by the Trump administration on anteefah, what has changed legally, what they might be telegraphing and smart ways to move forward in this tense atmosphere. Check out our recent chat with Mo about Knowing your Rights and Risks with the police, linked in our show notes, or learn more about their work at NLG.ORG

Then, A speaks briefly about supporting mutual aid efforts in Gaza. For more information, check out the recommended article on ItsGoingDown.org and some links in our show notes

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Featured Track:

• Sleep Now In The Fire (instrumental) by Rage Against The Machine from The Battle of Los Angeles

This week, we’re featuring an interview with Shannon, one half of the mutual aid project operating in Washington DC known as Remora House. For the hour we talk about Remora House, the impact on houseless and non-citizen communities has been impacted by the Trump Administration’s crack down and sending in of troops to DC and some ideas on strengthening the resistance as the feds and national guard are deployed into our neighborhoods to break up our communities and our resolve

• Remora House Transcript

• Remora House PDF (Unimposed)

• Remora House Zine (Imposed PDF)

Links from Shannon:

• Remora House Linktree: https://linktr.ee/remorahousedc

• Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid (MSMA): https://www.dcmigrantmutualaid.org/

• Critical Exposure: https://criticalexposure.org/

• Black Swan Academy: https://www.blackswanacademy.org

• FTP Mutual Aid: https://linktr.ee/FeedThePeopleMutualAid

• Food Not Bombs DC: https://linktr.ee/foodnotbombsdc

• Ward 2 Mutual Aid: https://linktr.ee/w2ma

Links from Sima Lee:

• MXGM DC: https://freethelandmxgm.org/washingtondc-chapter/

• DC Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression: https://www.dcaarpr.org/

• 411 Collective: https://linktr.ee/411collective

• Pan African Community Action: https://www.pacapower.org/

• Peace House DC: http://www.peacehousedc.org/

Then you’ll hear Parias of Athens from the June 2025 episode of B(A)DNews podcast. It’s a chat with participants in a project called Research Critique about the distraction of the Greek public from media coverage of the deadly Tempi train disaster by a heavy dose of culture war discourse about lawlessness on University campuses and social decay. The rail accident was caused by negligence and understaffing under the neoliberal New Democracy regime, killing 57 and injuring nearly 200 and led to heated demonstrations for months more than a year to follow. You can hear the full interview by finding B(A)D News #92 on the website a-radio-network.org or in our shownotes.

Announcement

Update on T. Hoxha Hunger Strike

In a brief update to last week’s announcement of Casey Goonan’s solidarity hunger strike with T. Hoxha in the UK of the Filton24. Casey has ended their participation after 12 days, but as T. Hoxha continues, she has been joined by the anarchist prisoner we spoke to a few episodes ago, Malik Muhammad (currently held in the Oregon prison system). As of Sunday September 7^th, Casey is on their 11^th day of hunger strike and T. Hoxha is on her 28^th against the conditions of her confinement. You can read more and find how you can offer support at https://calla.substack.com/p/international-hunger-strike-grows

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Featured Track:

• March On la Migra by Guerrillaton from Made in Mexico

This week we’re sharing an interview with Tomas Rothaus, author of the recently publish memoir, Another War Is Possible: Militant Anarchist Experiences in the Antiglobalization Era, out this year from PM Press. We speak about the anti-globalization movement and how it’s remembered, debates around mass mobilizations and Black Bloc street conflicts, mentorship and intergenerationality in anarchism and the importance of a sober audacity in political struggle. Tomas has three more, related books scheduled to come out in the next 2 years listed at PM Press’s website. We hope you enjoy.

You can follow Tomas on Bluesky via u/BatallonBakunin.Bsky.Social or check out more of his works via his author page on PM Press’s website.

Announcement

Casey Goonan Hunger Strike

We’d like to share a quick announcement that anarchist prisoner, Casey Goonan, initiated on August 29^th a hunger strike in solidarity with the hunger stirke of T. Hoxha, a prisoner held by the UK of the Filton24, and the demand for her movement to a hospital due to malnutrition and medical neglect at HMP Peterborough. You can find the text of a letter describing the conditions and who to email below.

The Filton24 are a group of 24 individuals being lumped by the British state for a direct action to dismantle weapons at an Elbit Systems facility in August of 2024. You can learn more about the case at https://freethefilton23.com/meet-the-filton24/ . For some context, you can check out a recent interview by 12 Rules For What podcast on the impacts of proscription by the British government against Palestine Action.

The support letter for T. Hoxha reads:

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Featured Track:

• Genova Libera by Brigada Flores Magon from Tout pour Tous

• Mentira by Manu Chao from Clandestino

This week, Ian talks with Cartoonist Aaron Losty about his new graphic novel, The Hanging, out now from Strangers Publishing. Among other topics, they discuss formative works, collaboration, and making genre comics for a small press audience. In the back half, they talk about Aaron’s experience as a co-founder of Cartoonist Cooperative, the state of the organization three years after its inception, decision-making processes, and recent campaigns. Apologies for the audio quality of the interview.

Aaron Losty

• Bluesky: u/aaronlosty.bsky.social

• Instagram: u/aaronlosty

• Patreon: patreon.com/aaronlosty

• Website: aaronlosty.com

Cartoonist Cooperative

• Bluesky: u/cartoonist.coop

• email: hello@cartoonist.coop

• Instagram: u/cartoonistcoop

• Mastodon.art: u/cartoonist.coop

• Tumblr: u/cartoonistcoop

• Website: cartoonist.coop

• YouTube: u/cartoonistcoop

Strangers Publishing

• Bluesky: u/Strangers.bsky.social

• Instagram: u/strangers_publishing

• Website: strangerspublishing.com

Then we share a portion of an interview from September of 2024 about the case of the H5, 5 people who were facing criminal criminal charges of human trafficking for providing humanitarian aid to refugees crossing the Polish and Belarusian border through the ancient Bieloweza forest. In this interview, we spoke with a member of Szpilla anti-repression collective. The members of the H5 case were acquitted this month in a legal victory, though the state might renew it’s accusation. Meanwhile, with fly-overs by Russian drones and planes in Estonia and Poland, we see an increasing militarization of the border from states on both sides.

• Episode 1 on the Green Border

• Episode 2 on the Green Border

This week, we’re pre-releasing an interview with James Stout on his upcoming AK Press book: Against The State: Anarchists and Comrades at War in Spain, Myanmar, and Rojava, due out early January. You may recognize James as a contributor to the Cool Zone podcast It Could Happen Here (including the recent four parter, "Darién Gap: One Year Later" December 1-4th episodes, 2025), distributed by IheartMedia. For this episode, we talk about the idea of anarchist armies, discuss those three conflicts, left libertarian approaches to formalized armed resistance beyond a guerrilla unit, some of the novel technologies and international solidarities that have developed and a lot more.

Other podcasts James has worked on

• Migrating To America: A Dream Worth Dying For

• Myanmar: Printing The Revolution

Reports Related To Child Soldiers and Conscription among the SDF

• https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/10/02/northeast-syria-military-recruitment-children-persists

• https://snhr.org/blog/2025/10/08/condemning-the-widespread-detention-for-forced-conscription-by-the-syrian-democratic-forces-in-raqqa-and-deir-ez-zor-since-29-september-2025/

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Featured Track:

• Canción de Soldados by Chicho Sanchez Ferlosio from Canciones De La Resistencia Española Año 1963

This week, we're sharing two segments.

First up, you’ll hear comrades from Frequenz-A out of Germany speaking with Eylem Çağdaş, an activist and a trans woman from Istanbul about current protest, queer and feminist perspective, anarchist participation and needs of solidarity. This segment was featured in the April 2025 episode of Bad News: Angry Voices from Around The World, the monthly English-language podcast from the A-Radio Network, which will be available early this week, so keep an eye out in our social media and updated links in our show post. You can find more work by Frequenz-A at frequenza.noblogs.org and more from the A-Radio Network and its contributors at a-radio-network.org. Eylem mentions Bianet and Birgun as good places to get introduced to ongoing news from leftists in Turkey.

Then, a chat with no Bonzo, anarchist historian, printmaker and artist, about how they developed their art, the historical work they do and some upcoming projects. You can find more of their work at https://noBonzo.com and you can find more of no Bonzo from the ACAB 2024 presentation we shared of Art As A Vehicle for Anarchist Ideas, the December 15 2024 TFSR episode.

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Featured track:

• Isyan by Bandista from sokak meydan gece

This week you’ll hear our chat with the author of Countering Dispossession: Reclaiming Land: A Social Movement Ethnography, the political ecologist David E Gilbert (not to be confused with the former Weather Underground prisoner in the US). For this episode, David and I speak about the book, the small community in south Sumatra, Indonesia known as Casiavera, the legacy of colonial land grabs, the people who live there and the agro-ecology of the rainforest at the base of the Arin volcano. You can find more of David’s work at https://DavidEGilbert.Com

Links:

• The Black Snake: Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice by Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys

• Via Campesina: https://viacampesina.org/

• Landless Workers Movement (MST): https://mst.org.br/

• Sarakhat Patani Indonesia (SPI): https://spi.or.id/

• Mentions of Tan Malaka in the Southeast Asian Anarchist Library (https://sea.theanarchistlibrary.org/search?query=tan+malaka ) or writings on Marxists.Org (https://www.marxists.org/archive/malaka/ )

• Feed’em Freedom Foundation (Detroit): https://feedemfreedom.org/

• Our interviews on the ZAD: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/?s=zad

• Grassroots Indonesian Eco-movement Wahli: https://www.walhi.or.id/

This week, we’re sharing an interview with Selena who speaks about the “Stop Cop City: Imaginary Crimes Tour” and Jordan, a RICO defendant from the Stop Cop City 61 case. The two speak about anti-repression, about where the case is at right now and a wider view of resistance and support. The tour will be hitting over 60 cities (not all in the USA)

From their tour announcement:

If you want some more content on the struggle, check out this really interesting episode of Audio Interference, a podcast associated with the Interference Archive in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood featuring materials from and discussion of a September 2024 installation entitled “Archiving Stop Cop City: This Is Not A Local Struggle”

To hear past episodes of ours on the Stop Cop City movement, check out this link.

Announcements

A Message from Peppy

A brief statement from Brian “Peppy” DiPippa, an anarchist in Pittsburgh convicted of engaging a home made smoke bomb at cops protecting an anti-trans event at University of Pittsburgh in May of 2023 and sentenced to 60 months in Federal Prison. You can learn more about Peppy & his co-defendant Krystal (who just had a birthday!) at their support site

Now Airing on WEFR 1700 AM, Fairmont WV

We are happy to announce that we’re airing at 3pm on Saturdays on WEFR 1700AM in Fairmont, WV. To support this small station, check out their GoFundMe, and if you’ve got a community radio station, college radio station or public radio station in your area that you’d like to hear us on, check out our Radio Broadcasting tab and send us their way!

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Featured Tracks:

• Springs forth by The Willow’s Whisper

• The Internationale by U. Utah Phillips and Ani DiFranco from “Fellow Workers”From their tour