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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
Last week marked the 49th anniversary of the Attica prison rebellion. In this episode of Kite Line, we finish our conversation with Dr. Orisanmi Bu...
- Added: Dec 19, 2020
- Length: 29:00
This week marks the 49th anniversary of the Attica Uprising, when 1300 prisoners in New York state overcame physical, social, and political barrier...
- 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
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews:
Urgent Lawsuit Launched to Stop Trump Regime Voter Intimidation; Despite R...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida and WKPW
- Added: Oct 28, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
The centerpiece in today’s program is our talk about the essay “The Suffering of Strangers” which details a visit Sanders took to Charleston, South...
Bought by RADIOLEX
- Added: Oct 27, 2020
- Length: 59:06
- Purchases: 1
If you think poll taxes and literacy tests are voting barriers of the past, think again.
Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WTJU, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more
- Added: Oct 23, 2020
- Length: 53:57
- Purchases: 13
If you think poll taxes and literacy tests are voting barriers of the past, think again.
Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KRDP, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WJCT, Harford Community Radio and more
- Added: Oct 22, 2020
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 10