Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 24.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we share the voices of three prisoners in Florida. Choosing to speak anonymously due to repression, they told us about horrible conditions inside the Florida prison system. They explain the racial injustice in the prison system, the importance of letting lifers out, the prevalence of …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 37.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreAcross the country, politicians and businessmen are calling for the economy to reopen, regardless of the consequences. At the exact same time, the corona virus is spreading nearly uncontrolled inside America’s prisons and jails, with concentrations of infections spiking from Rikers Island in NY to the Marion …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:01 — 36.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we interview a participant in Perilous, a new prison history project. Perilous launched its website earlier this year, with a goal of compiling all the grassroots, collective mobilizations that have happened in US prisons since the prisoners’ movement seriously kicked off again in 2010. With …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 9.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe Jury Duty scam is back locally; lawyers in Florida are legally ripping off people and businesses which have websites; and Google is warning about a rash of hackers looking at your security cameras. Better Beware is Produced by Richard Fish, at Community Radio WFHB in Bloomington, …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:30 — 31.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we share two different reflections on time inside, focusing on how prison interrupts life, education, and development. The first is the conclusion of Chantal’s account of her weeks inside a French immigrant retention center after her arrest during Yellow Vest clashes in Paris. She describes …
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Indiana Schools will have another opportunity to receive metal detectors; An Indianapolis resident has died from West Nile Virus; On Saturday, the US Navy will commission Indiana’s 4th namesake ship; The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana announced James Sweeney II as the latest addition to Indiana’s federal bench; The City of Bloomington awarded $75,000 to four …
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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 …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:08 — 5.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreBloomington High School students will walk out of class this Friday, as part of a nation-wide protest aimed at gun reform. The walkouts take place on April 20, the 18th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting. Bloomington High School North student Caleb Poer, an organizer for …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 9:43 — 6.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreMembers of Bloomington Students Against Assault Weapons are pressing for answers, in a quest for solutions to gun violence. The group led a town hall on Saturday, April 7, to which they extended invitations to state and congressional representatives and candidates. “We know this issue runs deeper …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:04 — 27.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week is focused on words from prisoners sent or smuggled from inside. From the jail in Evansville, Indiana, to letters from participants in Operation PUSH- the still-ongoing prison strike across the Florida department of corrections- to a collection of poems from our local jail, prisoners are …
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