Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we speak with Dan from Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity. MAPS is an exemplary grassroots abolitionist group, which arose out of the 2016 National Prison Strike and, specifically, the Kinross uprising in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Dan lays out this history, and gives us …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we air an interview with WFYI reporters Lauren Bavis and Jake Harper in Indianapolis. They co-host the podcast called Sick, the second season of which focuses on health care issues in the Indiana Women’s Prison. As they share on the show, the arrival of the …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe explosive spread of the Omicron variant has brought our focus back to the COVID-vulnerability the prison system imposes on its captives. This week, we speak to two people — one outside and one inside the walls — dealing with the effects of COVID on California prisoners.. …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday’s show is a repeat from June 2, 2020. In the introduction we state that Louisiana had the highest rate of mortality from COVID-19 in the United States. That is no longer the case. Louisiana is now 7th on that list with the following states now having …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 38.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOn today’s episode, we share two perspectives on the role of study, as practiced in the face of repression and directly against repression. First, we complete our interview with Garrett Felber, with a focus on his termination by the University of Mississippi in retaliation for his outspoken …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we share the second part of a conversation between Garrett Felber and Micol Seigel. Felber has been on the show before, discussing the Nation of Islam and its relationship to the origins of the modern prisoners’ movement. His new book, Those Who Know Don’t Say: …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 39.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | More En este programa nuestra locutora Minerva Sosa habla con un panel de hombres miembros de la comunidad de Bloomington para hablarnos sobre la pandemia covid19, sus experiencias y opinión pública sobre la vacuna contra el covid19. Invitados Jorge Gaitán, Israel Ruz, y Carlos Bakota nos dicen …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 43.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we are trying something new so that we can cover the full range of increased prisoner struggles. We will be teaming up with Perilous Chronicle at the beginning of each month to give you headlines tracking disturbances in prisons, jails, and detention centers. Perilous is …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 36.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we share audio in support of Dan Baker and Loren Reed, and from Panagioti Tsolkas, who tells us about the important #CagingCOVID campaign and their upcoming February 1st day of action. As we’ve previously documented on Kite Line, facilities across the country have systematically failed …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 37.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHosts, Carlos Bakota and Josefa Madrigal, speak with Professor Dr. Francisco Vázquez about a variety of topics and historical movements that have helped shaped our Latino community. Professor Vázquez also discusses the impact of the current COVID-19 pandemic on Latinx/Hispanic community and steps that can be taken …
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