WGXC-90.7 FM
Law and Disorder: Attica Prison Uprising
90.7-FM in NY's Upper Hudson Valley and wgxc.org/listen everywhere
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Hosted by attorneys Heidi Boghosian and Marjorie Cohn.
Three of the top progressive lawyers and activists in the fight for civil liberties, civil rights and human rights host this weekly one-hour talk radio show. Produced at WBAI New York. Go to https://lawanddisorder.org/ for more information.
September 9th marks the 50th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising and the subsequent massacre by New York State police and prison guards. The rebellion at Attica prison, a medieval looking place near Buffalo New York, began on September 9, 1971 and ended four days later with governor Nelson Rockefeller, and aspiring presidential candidate, ordering the massacre. It resulted in the most people ever killed in a civil setting in the history of the USA. Guest attorney Michael Deutsch from the Peoples Law Office in Chicago. He along with the late attorney Elizabeth Fink were the main lawyers for the Attica brothers. He represented several Attica brothers in criminal lawsuits and the brothers in a class action civil rights lawsuit which lasted over 20 years and settled in 1999 for $12 million.