Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:09 — 39.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we air the first of two episodes tracking the rise of police racism and militarization in Los Angeles, from the Watts Uprising of 1965 to the 1992 L.A. Riots after Rodney King’s beating. Max Felker-Kantor, author of the book, Policing Los Angeles, walks us through …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 36.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn the past months, the California prison system, or CDRC, has been convulsed by hunger strikes and a series of so-called “gladiator” or “dog fights,” in which guards pit prisoners against each other. Brook, an organizer with the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee in Oakland, spoke with us …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:01 — 38.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreSince the Ferguson uprising in 2014, the Black Lives Matter movement has shone a light on a range of American institutions, revealing their white supremacist origins and functions. In addition to police and the discriminatory mortgage market, cash bail is one of the most important of these …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 135.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOn tonight’s show, we re-air a broadcast from August 6. This extended interview features Bring It On Anchors William Hosea and Jim Sims, who are joined by Daniel Baron, Jordan Shifriss, Maria Hamilton-Abegunde, and Pamela Jackson – members of the Bloomington Noah’s Ark design team. They joined …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:01 — 20.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | More A new movement of refugees fleeing violence and starvation in Central America began to reach Tijuana last month, in the hopes of applying for asylum in the United States. Comprised of multiple, self-organized caravans, the refugees passed through incredible hardship and risk before thousands were temporarily …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:45 — 40.7MB) Subscribe: RSS | More This week, we are continuing our talk with Leon Benson, who speaks to us from inside Pendleton Correctional Facility here in Indiana. He’s been inside since 1998, for a murder conviction and he has been trying to clear his name and win his freedom ever …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:07 — 37.5MB) Subscribe: RSS | More Today, we are sharing the next part of an interview with Talila Lewis and Dustin Gibson, two organizers and researchers addressing the intersection of disability and incarceration. You heard their interview about the impact of prison on the Deaf community, and the organization they work …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:27 — 37.9MB) Subscribe: RSS | More Today, we are sharing an interview with Talila Lewis and Dustin Gibson, two organizers and researchers addressing the intersection of disability and incarceration. After TL describes the high stakes of being deaf in prison, they move on to sketch out the ways that children of …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:04 — 43.3MB) Subscribe: RSS | More In this interview, Elizabeth Hinton sketches the relationship between the civil rights movement, urban uprisings and the beginning of the “War on Crime,” with a focus on the Harlem Riot of 1964, and the1 965 Watts Rebellion, which was triggered by police brutality and became …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:44 — 46.8MB) Subscribe: RSS | More This week, we hear from Curtis Ray Davis II, who talks about the racist history of Angola Prison- the Louisiana State Penitentiary. After we read a statement from hunger striking prisoners in Orange County, we then hear a moving account from Davis. He talks about …
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