Tag Archives: fight toxic prisons

October 6, 2017: Prison and the Press, Part One

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 21:33 — 14.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week is the first episode of several about the intersection between the media and prison struggles. In January of 2015, journalist Barrett Brown was sentenced to 63 months in prison for his role reporting on Anonymous’ hack of Stratfor, a private security and espionage company. Today, …

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June 23, 2017: Toxic in Texas

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:59 — 54.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week takes us to Texas, where we hear from Candice Bernd, speaking at the 2nd Fight Toxic Prisons Conference, which took place earlier this month in Denton, Texas. Candice talks about the intersection between environmental activism and the carceral system. In Texas, prisoners are subjected to …

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August 19, 2016: Prison Ecology

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 53.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn the third episode of Kite Line, we focus on prison ecology. We talk with organizers of the Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons as well as a member of the Letcher Governance Project in Letcher County, Kentucky. We hear from Ramona Africa from the Philadelphia-based organization, MOVE …

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