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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:06 — 31.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week we are honoring the anniversary of the Attica Prison Uprising of 1971. The current National Prison Strike began on August 21st, the anniversary of George Jackson’s assassination, and is slated to end in two days, on September 9th. We have updates on the prison facilities …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:53 — 25.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe National Prison Strike is on its second week. Shutdowns have been confirmed in five Florida prisons, with new strike activity in Georgia, California, and Maryland. Although information is slow to come in, we know of a hunger strike in Indiana, commissary boycotts in South Carolina, and …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:59 — 22.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we’re sharing selections from an historic interview with George Jackson, whose assassination on August 21, 1971, at the hands of San Quentin prison guards, remains a reference point for the US prisoners’ movement.  Indeed, Jailhouse Lawyers Speak called for the 2018 strike to begin on …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:38 — 34.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreNext week, on August 21, is the start of the 2018 National Prison Strike. Anticipated to be the largest in U.S. History, this strike comes after many years of various strikes, work stoppages, boycotts, and other forms of rebellion.  In this episode, we hear about the intended …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:57 — 20.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreAs we approach the August 21st launch of the national prison strike, Kite Line is focusing on the historic and recent precedents for the current prisoners’ movement.  This strike, called by Jailhouse Lawyers Speak along with a growing coalition of grassroots prisoners’ groups, is grounded in four …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:56 — 28.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn last week’s episode, we introduced Johdy Polk, who spoke to us about her time behind the prison walls, and urged audiences to see the other ways that people are confined by society.  Now, we continue to hear more of Johdy’s story- about the relationships she built …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:14 — 33.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, Johdy Polk, from Gainesville, Florida, describes her time inside a women’s prison, while sharing cutting observations on growing up as a black woman in a white supremacist society. She also makes an urgent call to tear down our inner prisons, a call that we think …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:23 — 67.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWelcome to the YIMBY episode: Yes In My Backyard. We focus on some positive projects in our area that affect those experiencing incarceration, addiction, and poverty. We have updates on the National Prison Strike, read a letter from an inmate in the Monroe County Jail, and hear …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 22:20 — 20.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this episode, we focus on the September 9th National Prison Strike. We hear the Free Alabama Movement’s initial call for the strike, learn a bit about prison labor and Whole Foods, get an update on Siddique Hasan’s ongoing hunger strike, and talk with people involved in …