Kite Line

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:34 — 21.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn light of the ongoing struggles across the country against deportations, family separations, and ICE detention centers, we are sharing an interview we did last year about struggles in Australia against refugee prison camps. In 2002, imprisoned refugees inside Australia’s remote Woomera immigration prison coordinated protests with …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:18 — 39.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFor this episode, we are returning to the conditions in immigrant detention centers. Alejandra spoke at the Fight Toxic Prisons conference in Pittsburgh, which was held earlier this month. Growing up in California, she was the only child in her family to be undocumented. As an adult …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:10 — 38.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we will focus on a specific story about an immigrant detention case in Pittsburgh- and hear firsthand from family impacted by these harsh repercussions for undocumented immigrants. Martin Esquivel-Hernandez was detained after a traffic stop, held by ICE, and eventually deported, leaving his family behind …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:33 — 34.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFirst, we hear part of a panel from the recent Fight Toxic Prisons conference, which was held last week in Pittsburgh. Saleem Holbrook shares his experiences after doing nearly three decades inside, with a focus on what it’s like to organize behind the walls. Coming into the …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:05 — 28.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week’s episode is packed with news of struggles and repression. We start with coverage of Indiana prisons and two prisoners who need outside support right now. More information on these requests for help from Indiana prisoners can be found on our website, https://kitelineradio.noblogs.org/ Then we get updates …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:42 — 31.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we are returning to the topic of Carceral Capitalism. We interviewed the poet and author Jackie Wang in episodes 89 and 90 of Kite Line. You can access those on our website, kitelineradio.noblogs.org. There, Wang discusses the relationship between the growth of municipal debt and …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:38 — 26.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this episode, we hear from Timothy Stewart-Winter, an Associate Professor at Rutgers University with a background studying sexuality and incarceration. Stewart-Winter wrote the book “Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics” and co-directs the Queer Newark Oral History Project. In this episode, they speak …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:03 — 26.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we share the first part of a conversation we had with “Joe”. After doing ten years in prison for a sex offense conviction, Joe is now outside and navigating the difficult tightrope that many people convicted of such crimes must walk. A difficult topic to …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:25 — 26.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we share a moving keynote speech recently given at the University of Michigan by Michelle Jones. Jones has been featured on multiple episodes of Kite Line, who shared some of her experiences at the Indiana Women’s Prison, particularly issues of mental and physical health on …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:03 — 20.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreLast week, we began hearing the voices of prisoners on the topic of Angela Davis’s book, Are Prisons Obsolete? Up first, we have Anastazia Schmid’s response to the book, followed by Angaza Iman Bahar reading his response to us from Miami Correctional Facility.