Kite Line
Series produced by WFHB
Kite Line is a radio program devoted to prison issues around the Midwest and beyond.
Behind the prison walls, a message is called a kite: whispered words, a note passed hand to hand, or a request submitted to the guards for medical care. Illicit or not, sending a kite means trusting that other people will bear it farther along till it reaches its destination. On the show, we hope to pass along words across the prison walls.
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Our news this week focuses on the prisoners who are fighting California’s wildfires for as little as a dollar an hour while actually fighting fires...
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- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 29:59
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The phenomenon of mass incarceration has made the United States the world leader in carceral punishment. With only four percent of the world’s popu...
- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 28:58
This week, we have two contributions –one closer to home and one many more miles away- but both aim to describe an unfair relationship of power eac...
- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 29:07
This episode is an interview with Kwame Shakur, who is currently incarcerated at the Pendleton Correctional Institution. On August 11th , Indiana p...
- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 29:29
In this episode, we continue our conversation with Ray Luc Levasseur. He is a former underground combatant with the United Freedom Front, which car...
- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 28:27
Ray Luc Levasseur is a former underground participant in the United Freedom Front, which carried out a campaign of attacks from 1975-1984 against S...
- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 29:00
This week’s story is that of Kara Wild. An anarchist prisoner from Chicago, Kara is a trans woman who has been in a French prison for over a year a...
- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 28:59
We cover a range of news in this week’s episode- from a brief history of Black August and the upcoming August 19th prison demonstrations, to curren...
- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 29:46
We start this episode with a message from Angaza, a prisoner in the IDOC system who describes recent unfair changes in prison correspondence and wh...
- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 29:59
This week, we share a conversation with Ramona Africa, who talks about the MOVE 9 case, the 1985 police bombing of the MOVE house, and the relation...
- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 29:57
In this episode of Kite Line, we cover the recent demonstrations outside the Workhouse in St. Louis, Missouri.
On July 21, police there used peppe...
- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 29:59
Maintaining contact with long-term prisoners is key to both their survival and to ongoing struggles across the prison walls. In this episode, we he...
- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 29:12
We return for our final episode with Mark Cook, former political prisoner and member of the Black Panther Party and the George Jackson Brigade. Aft...
- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 29:22
This week, we return to our interview with Mark Cook. You can hear more about his history in last’s week episode. Now, Mark leads us through severa...
- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 29:00
his week is the first part of our interview with Mark Cook. Mark served 24 years in prison for his participation in a bank robbery and jail break a...
- Added: Jun 30, 2017
- Length: 30:00
This week takes us to Texas, where we hear from Candice Bernd, speaking at the 2nd Fight Toxic Prisons Conference, which took place earlier this mo...
- Added: Jun 30, 2017
- Length: 29:59
This week, we return to the story of Clinton “Boo” Gilkie, who died one year ago- on June 7, 2016- in the Monroe County Jail. We discussed the cir...
- Added: Jun 18, 2017
- Length: 29:38
This week on Kite Line we feature Arianna Staiger, daughter of Marius
Mason, an anarchist prisoner who used to live and organize in
Bloomington. Ar...
- Added: Jun 15, 2017
- Length: 29:55
June 7th marks the one year anniversary of the death of Clinton Gilkie, and so we devote our June 2nd and June 16th episodes of Kite Line to his st...
- Added: Jun 15, 2017
- Length: 29:55
The death penalty is the barest, most explicit aspect of state violence. Relatively few people are sentenced to death, and even fewer are actively,...
- Added: Jun 15, 2017
- Length: 29:58
