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Sprouts: Reports from the Prisoner Resistance Movement
Oct 03, 2017: 3pm - 3:30 pm
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Carnegie Room, Catskill Library | Catskill, NY
Produced by Sprouts.
On the anniversary of the 1971 Attica prison rebellion, a reflection on the intensifying political struggles behind bars by examining two flashpoints: The nationwide prisoner strike of September 9, 2016, and the Millions for Prisoners March on August 19, 2017. Firehawk, of Unstoppable, and Ben Turk, of the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee of the Industrial Workers of the World, discuss strategies developing within the contemporary prisoner resistance movement during The Fire Inside zine tour, while Krystal Rountree of the iamWE Prison Advocacy Network explains the organizing efforts inside and outside that made the August 19 Millions for Prisoners March possible. The episode closes with D, an incarcerated organizer with Jailhouse Lawyers Speak, who tells us about what went down inside in the wake of August 19 and what is next. Co-produced by Rustbelt Abolition Radio, an abolitionist media and movement-building project based in Detroit, MI.