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Polarizing debates over the meaning behind Confederate monuments have intensified lately. There are legal battles to remove them. Legislative maneu...
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- Added: Apr 20, 2021
- Length: 29:01
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In this episode, we share information about the recent disturbances in St. Louis. Afterwards, we have the second part of a conversation with Balago...
- Added: Apr 19, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Up first, we have a comprehensive overview of prisoner protests compiled by Perilous Chronicle, who are collecting information about the many priso...
- Added: Apr 19, 2021
- Length: 29:00
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
Our show is about William Monroe Trotter, owner and editor of the Boston Guardian from 1901 to 1934, and a radical race-first political agitator. K...
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- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 59:01
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“What I recall most is the way that she grabbed my wrist and, shaking a bit, she said over and over again, ‘If it happens, run. Don’t let that happ...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 33:08
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Biden’s Infrastructure Plan a Good Start, but Lacks Capacity to Address Cl...
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- Added: Apr 07, 2021
- Length: 29:00
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Long time GJ member Jonquilyn Hill speaks with us about her new podcast Through the Cracks.
- Added: Mar 01, 2021
- Length: 58:18
Our show is about the great Paul Robeson. Our guests are Sharon Rudahl about her new graphic biography Ballad of an America published by (Rutgers U...
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- Added: Feb 23, 2021
- Length: 58:59
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Mwalimu Shakur, who spoke in last week’s episode about COVID-19 protocols in his facility, returns this week to share more reflections. He shares f...
- Added: Feb 22, 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
Black students with dyslexia carry a heavy burden in public schools. This program centers around a grandmother who fought for years to get her gran...
- Added: Feb 12, 2021
- Length: 29:00
This week, we share audio in support of Dan Baker and Loren Reed, and from Panagioti Tsolkas, who tells us about the important #CagingCOVID campaig...
- Added: Jan 30, 2021
- Length: 29:00
On Kite Line this week, we share two interviews with advocates working on the physical well-being of those locked inside. The first conversation we...
- Added: Jan 24, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Today, a divided nation experiences one of the most tumultuous presidential transitions in US history. Leaders from marginalized communities across...
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 29:00
This week, we share an urgent statement from the Free Alabama Movement about their ongoing hunger strike and economic blackout. Afterwards, we spea...
- Added: Jan 08, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Happy New Year! This week, we broadcast kites from Strawberry Hampton in Illinois and Daniel Dawson in Saskatchewan, who both called in this week t...
- Added: Jan 04, 2021
- Length: 29:00
This year on making contact, instead of our normal end of year show commemorating movement leaders we've lost, and highlighting their work, we reme...
- Added: Dec 29, 2020
- Length: 29:59
Today, we broadcast Part 2 of our series on Compassionate Release. Compassionate Release is the principle that sentences should be adjusted given “...
- Added: Dec 25, 2020
- Length: 29:00
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