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From paintings to prints, from wood work to writing, there is no limit to what you can find at the Winona Art Walk. Hosted across the city of Winon...
- Added: Oct 20, 2023
- Length: 24:50
We revisit my 2016 episode about Octavia Butler in honor of the 75th anniversary of her birth. And we hear a new reading from one of Butler’s class...
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- Added: Dec 21, 2022
- Length: 35:18
- Purchases: 1
Our show this week returns with the second part of a conversation between Kite Line’s Micol Seigel and three members of the Carbondale, Illinois co...
- Added: Apr 19, 2021
- Length: 01:27:00
This week, we share the first part of a conversation between Garrett Felber and Micol Seigel. Felber has been on the show before, discussing the Na...
- Added: Apr 19, 2021
- Length: 29:00
This week, we followup on the COVID-19 conditions at Corcoran Prison in California and share news from the uprising in the St. Louis Jail.
Afterwa...
- Added: Feb 14, 2021
- 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
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
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
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
This week’s episode ends our series of conversations with Valrice “Whop” Cooper. Whop is the legendary cornerman who learned his craft training pri...
- Added: Mar 12, 2020
- Length: 29:00
This week continues our set of conversations with Valrice “Whop” Cooper, the legendary cornerman who learned his craft training prisoners in the Lo...
- Added: Mar 12, 2020
- Length: 29:00
The Federal government rolled out the weed and seed program in the early 1990s in response to a new wave of urban uprisings. It placed social servi...
- Added: Mar 12, 2020
- Length: 29:33
Our episode this week is a conversation between Rojas and Cyrus, two advocates with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners. CCWP is an organ...
- Added: Mar 12, 2020
- Length: 28:40
On our show this week, we hear from Dennis Boatright, a co-organizer with MAPS- Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Support. Boatright presents ‘From C...
- Added: Mar 12, 2020
- Length: 29:00
After hearing statements of solidarity with striking South Carolina prisoners, we share stories and reflections from Willis X, a former prisoner of...
- Added: Mar 12, 2020
- Length: 29:00
For this week’s episode, we share a conversation between Melanie D. Newport and Anne Gray Fisher. They talk about the history of Cook County Jail- ...
- Added: Mar 10, 2020
- Length: 29:00
This week, we hear reflections from members of the MOVE Organization. Speaking at the 2019 Fight Toxic Prisons convergence, they give their thought...
- Added: Mar 09, 2020
- Length: 29:06
This week, we air part of a conversation with Brandon Ackerson, a 36-year-old survivor of an 18 year prison sentence in the Indiana prison system. ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2020
- Length: 29:04
Kevin Steel speaks to us about being sentenced to twelve years in prison at the age of 17. Speaking to us from the 4th annual Fight Toxic Prisons ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2020
- Length: 29:19
This week, we return to our conversation with Zolo Agona Azania, who was recently released after surviving decades on Indiana’s death row. In the ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2020
- Length: 29:08
We recently sat down with Zolo Agona Azania, who was recently released after surviving decades on Indiana’s death row. In this first section of th...
- Added: Mar 09, 2020
- Length: 29:01
This week, we finish our conversation between Toussaint Losier and Micol Seigel. This is part three of a series in which we hear Losier, author of ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2020
- Length: 29:42
This is part two of a series in which we hear Losier, author of Rethinking the American Prison Movement, speak to Seigel about his research while w...
- Added: Mar 09, 2020
- Length: 29:14
This week, we have a conversation between Toussaint Losier and Micol Seigel.
This is part one of a series in which we hear Losier, author of Rethi...
- Added: Mar 09, 2020
- Length: 29:21
