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For our episode this week, we share more from Florida Prisoner Solidarity. Recently, they told us about the drastic retaliatory measures prisoners ...
- Added: Dec 21, 2020
- Length: 29:00
This week, share an update sent to us from Michelle Freeman about her husband, Vernell. Michelle’s impassioned plea on behalf of her partner is bot...
- Added: Dec 21, 2020
- Length: 29:00
This week on Kite Line, we share a call from a prisoner located in Seattle, who exposes his facility’s careless treatment of prisoners in the face ...
- Added: Dec 21, 2020
- Length: 29:00
This week, we are airing two kites- the first from a woman advocating for her brother, Billie Allen, who is on death row here in Indiana, despite h...
- Added: Dec 21, 2020
- Length: 29:00
We begin this week with a short piece by WFHB reporter Aaron Comforty, who reports on an alleged instance of attempted suicide in the local jail, a...
- Added: Dec 21, 2020
- Length: 29:00
This week, we hear from Michelle Freeman, who describes the horrifying conditions in which her husband, Vernell Freeman, is being held in Miami Cor...
- Added: Dec 21, 2020
- Length: 29:00
After this week’s news and updates, Kite Line sits down with Keith Malik Washington, who was released from prison last month. We’ve shared many of ...
- Added: Dec 19, 2020
- Length: 29:00
This week, we share important news from around the Midwest and more updates from the struggles in Louisiana’s immigrant detention centers. Kevin ‘...
- Added: Dec 19, 2020
- Length: 29:00
ICE detainees are a week into a hunger strike at Pine Prairie, Louisiana. This week, we broadcast audio of a call between an anonymous Pine Prairi...
- Added: Dec 19, 2020
- Length: 29:00
This week, Bella Bravo speaks to Zhandarka Kurti and Jarrod Shanahan. Kurti is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Tennesee in...
- Added: Dec 19, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Today, August 21st, is the 49th anniversary of George Jackson’s murder by San Quentin guards. Jackson was a leading theorist and militant in the p...
- Added: Dec 19, 2020
- Length: 29:00
This week, we share the voices of three prisoners in Florida. Choosing to speak anonymously due to repression, they told us about horrible conditio...
- Added: Dec 18, 2020
- Length: 29:00
We will continue the final installment of the interview between Kristina Byers and Anastazia Schmid next week, as they talk about barriers to educa...
- Added: Dec 18, 2020
- Length: 29:00
In this episode, we have two updates from prisoners in California on their conditions amidst the COVID-19 crisis. Afterwards, we speak with Max Fel...
- Added: Dec 18, 2020
- Length: 29:00
This week, we share a phone conversation between Kijana Tashiri Askari and C, one of their outside supporters. Askari is incarcerated in the Califo...
- Added: Dec 18, 2020
- Length: 29:00
The whole country is in upheaval as a vast Movement for Black Lives continues to challenge white supremacy and the institutions of policing and pri...
- Added: Dec 18, 2020
- Length: 28:59
In the wake of uprisings across the world in response to the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, this week’s episode shares ...
- Added: Dec 18, 2020
- Length: 29:00
On this episode, we have a letter from a prisoner at Pendleton Correctional Facility about his experiences with COVID-19 there. We share a short PS...
- Added: Dec 18, 2020
- Length: 29:00
The country might be locked down, but struggles inside prisons and out continue to develop chaotically and unexpectedly intersect with the COVID-19...
- Added: Dec 18, 2020
- Length: 29:00
In Charleston, South Carolina and its suburbs questions of environmental justice and wetland protections arise as development encroaches.
- Added: Aug 31, 2020
- Length: 33:46
When one white woman working in Hollywood received a surprise residuals check, she skipped the bank and deposited it straight to Twitter. She offer...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 18, 2020
- Length: 03:56
- Purchases: 3
In his book "Lies My Teacher Told Me," James Loewen writes that "race is the sharpest and deepest division in American life." We recognize the peac...
- Added: Jun 16, 2020
- Length: 29:00
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews:
Minneapolis Police Murder of George Floyd Triggers Nationwide Week of Mass...
Bought by WKPW
- Added: Jun 03, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The Indiana legislature is currently debating SB 449, which would expand the range of situations that would send children to adult court and adult ...
- Added: Mar 12, 2020
- Length: 29:00
This week, we focus on the history of police in the United States, and the concept of community policing. Alex Vitale, author of the new book, “The...
- Added: Mar 12, 2020
- Length: 29:00
