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Cindy Milstein, part one

<a href="http://cbmilstein.wordpress.com">Cindy Milstein</a> is an anarchist, activist and author who was a touring few months back with <a href="https://www.akpress.org/rebellious-mourning.html">Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief</a>, 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, <a href="https://www.akpress.org/takingsides.html">Taking Sides</a> (AK Press, 2015); the process of making Rebellious Mourning and creating “brave spaces” for engaging with hard topics; prefiguration during the anarchist summer camp they help organize called the “<a href="https://advancedtroublemaking.wordpress.com/">Institute for Advanced Troublemaking</a>”; and multi-generational

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 at <a href="https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/">https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org</a> in this 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, <a href="https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/category/error451/">Error451</a>. So, stay tuned for the voice of someone engaged in spreading tools of encryption for free to help you to protect your

You can check out Cindy’s writings on <a href="https://cbmilstein.wordpress.com/">their blog</a> and you can find many of their

Before Cindy speaks,

New Broadcast, KFUG-LP!

First, we happy to announce that we’ll should be airing this Sunday at 1pm 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