Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 40.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThree years ago on Kite Line, we aired an episode about the Attica Prison Uprising of 1971. This week, September 9th to September 13th, will mark fifty years between us and the event. We share this piece again today, with updated contributions from its author, analyzing the …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 37.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOur show this week returns with the second part of a conversation between Kite Line’s Micol Seigel and three members of the Carbondale, Illinois community: Chastity, Kim, and Nick. They speak about the ongoing struggle for the use of the Eurma C Hayes Community center. Originally opened …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 33.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreLast week marked the 49th anniversary of the Attica prison rebellion. In this episode of Kite Line, we finish our conversation with Dr. Orisanmi Burton. A professor at American University, Dr. Burton introduces us to the diverse demands of the Attica rebels, as well as misconceptions about …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:22 — 80.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe current uprisings, which are beginning to threaten the status quo of policing in the United States and bringing the demands of abolition into the broad daylight of public debate, have created an unprecedented potential for radical change in the US. But these threats and demands upon …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:28 — 32.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week is an interview with Samantha Johnson, from No New Jails in Brooklyn, New York. As we reported recently, the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn recently was the target of large scale demonstrations, after prisoners expressed to their loved ones on the outside that they were …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:10 — 40.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday, the curious case of Benjamin Lay: Englishman, Quaker, cobbler, sailor, cultural shock firebrand, cave dweller, autodidact, animal liberationist, and outspoken critic of the hypocrisy of slave-owning Quakers in 18th century Pennsylvania. He would become known as one of the last radicals of the English revolution — …
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