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Eric King is an anarchist prisoner who was arrested in September 2014 after he carried out a solidarity action to support the Ferguson Uprising.  We speak again today with his lawyer, Lauren Regan, about the harsh violence and repression he has faced in prison, culminating in trumped-up charges of assaulting a guard, charges which he just defeated in court.  In …

This week, we share Isaiah Willoughby’s story. He’s been on the show before, talking about his incarceration due to actions on behalf on the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020. Today, he walks us through the events leading up to and after his arrest, including the police murder of his neighbor in Seattle and his participation in the Capitol Hill …

We begin this episode with our monthly round up of prison disturbances, generously compiled by Perilous Chronicle. Afterwards, we share a piece by IU graduate student Kayan Tara about the death of Malik Ali Malik, who died during a police chase in Bloomington last spring. Then, we return to the topic of long-term prisoner Leonard Peltier. Leonard Peltier is an …

In this episode, we share information about the recent disturbances in St. Louis. Afterwards, we have the second part of a conversation with Balagoon, an Indiana political prisoner who has been locked up for almost 43 years, 31 of those in isolation. In this episode, he first describes the context of the 1985 uprising in the Indiana reformatory, now called …

Today’s edition of Bring It On! is divided into two parts. In Part 1, hosts Clarence Boone and William Hosea share their hosting duties with Vernon William, who is a playwright and organizer of the Onyx Fest, a festival for Black playwrights. They welcome Professor Ansley Valentine, Associate Professor of Theater, Drama, and Contemporary Dance at Indiana University, to discuss …

It’s Election Day, Tuesday, November 3, 2020, and you’re listening to Interchange on WFHB. Okay, so, this is a repeat airing of a program that appeared BTD or Before The Donald, in what seems decades ago, August of 2015. Tonight, while we chew our nails and continually refresh our favorite likely partisan election results site on our phones, we can …

Hosts William Hosea and Cornelius Wright welcome back Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, the co-executive director of the Highlander Research & Education Center, a social justice leadership training school and cultural center founded in 1932. She uses her expertise to discuss the structures of U.S. democracy and the state of its operations, focusing on the rights of citizens to vote as the …

This week, we share a phone conversation between Kijana Tashiri Askari and C, one of their outside supporters. Askari is incarcerated in the California Medical Facility- a male-only state carceral medical institution.The recorded this conversation earlier this week, about the conditions Kijana and others are facing, including improper COVID-19 protocol on the part of the prison, retaliatory cell searches, secret …

We are proud to announce that Bring It On! was notified by the Indiana Society of Professional Journalists that we earned a 3rd place “Best in Journalism” award under the category of Radio Documentary or Special. Our congratulations to our crew and especially to our Bring It On! contributors that we have convened today for a special two-part interview entitled …

The country might be locked down, but struggles inside prisons and out continue to develop chaotically and unexpectedly intersect with the COVID-19 crisis.  Prisoners in Stateville in Illinois report that they continue to suffer from a full lockdown, restricting their programming and access to phones.  Yet, guards are patting them down without washing their hands between each person, making transmission …