Episode Details

This week on The Final Straw we have 4 whopping segments, tidbits in length but whopping in importance.

• Transcripts
  • ABQ Heater Bloc
  • Chicago Heater Bloc
  • Certain Days Calendar
• Heater Bloc PDF (Unimposed PDF)
• Heater Bloc Zine (Imposed PDF)

First up, you'll hear from Zachariah Jazz (@BlackariahJazz161 on twitter), who distributes alcohol jet heaters with ABQHeaterBloc in so-called Albuquerque, NM, to talk about their efforts to help keep folks living on the streets safer from the elements through mutual aid. [ 00:02:08 - 00:18:56 ]

• ABQ Heater Bloc Instagram, donate funds via venmo @abqheaterbloc
• It's Controversial!! youtube channel or facebook page
• Hope 4 Tha Hood facebook or amazon wishlist

Then, Tom of Heater Bloc Chicago talks about the construction of these devices, based on shared design. [ 00:20:03 - 00:37:20 ]

After that, you'll hear Josh of the Certain Days Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar collective to talk about this year's edition and briefly update listeners on the situations of Oso Blanco & Eric King, two anarchist political prisoners Josh does support work for and works on projects with. [ 00:37:42 - 00:50:28 ]

Finally, Sean Swain's weekly segment! [ 00:51:31 - 00:58:09 ]

We'll be sharing a recent conversation with antifascist researcher and activist, Matthew Lyons, author of the 2015 PM Press & Kersplebedeb book, Insurgent Supremacists, and contributor to the Three Way Fight blog to speak about Christian Nationalist tendencies and their relationship to distinctly racist elements of the far right in the so-called USA, approaches to understanding their approach of Christian Patriarchy as regards axes of gender, sexuality, abortion and bodily autonomy, as well as a call for antifascists to understand and more actively oppose these tendencies. More of Matthews thoughts at his blog,