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Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Getting Out the Word: #PrisonsKill
25 Aug 2020
The Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, IWOC, “is committed to the militant organizing of prisoners that takes its leadership and focus from those on the inside,” said Joergen Ostens
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
US Policing Has Nothing to Do With Crime
03 Aug 2020
“The most direct consequence of over-policing is mass incarceration,” said Sergio Hyland, an incarcerated commentator for Prison Radio.
David Bacon
San Quentin Death Sentence
29 Jul 2020
Prisoners’ supporters and loved ones demanded release of half the population and no transfers between prisons or to ICE.
Shaka Shakur
#WE TOO
08 Jul 2020
If there can be no peace without justice, then there can never be peace while the US Prison Gulag exists. “Prison Lives Matter as Black Lives Matter!!!”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Nicole Fleetwood’s “Marking Time”
01 Jul 2020
Incarcerated activists have so many tools and skills to teach about resisting brutal regimes.
Chris Hedges
My Student Comes Home from Prison
01 Jul 2020
In 1990, Lawrence Bell was 14, orphaned and living in an abandoned house when three Camden cops pressured him to sign a confession of murder.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Repaying the Movement for Her Freedom
15 Jun 2020
Bresha Meadows faced long imprisonment in the shooting death of her abusive father when she was 14 years old, but was sentenced to a year in juvenile detention and six months at a
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
The “Carceral State” is the Enemy
08 Jun 2020
The current wave of protest is correctly “targeting the commodification of Blackness by the state,” said Dr Brittany Friedman, a Rutgers University sociology professor at the Progr
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Former Black Panther Political Prisoner Hospitalized for Covid-19
02 Jun 2020
Jalil Muntaqim, incarcerated for his political activities since 1971, contracted the Covid-19 virus and was admitted to the Albany, New York Medical Center, said Jihad Abdulmumit,
Rhondda Robinson Thomas
BAR Book Forum: Symposium on Sarah Haley’s "No Mercy Here"
27 May 2020
In white patriarchy-ruled South Carolina at the turn of the 20th century, manhood sometimes created temporary yet tenuous bonds between Black and white men.