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Making Contact: Reflections from Inside a Michigan Prison Strike
Apr 27, 2018: 3pm - 3:30 pm
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"Specters of Attica": On September 9, 2016, prisoners across the U.S. went on strike. In Michigans low-security Kinross Prison, workers assigned to kitchen duties refused to report for their shifts, while hundreds gathered to protest in the prison yard. The strike spread like a prairie fire. Nationally, 24,000 prisoners participated, making it the largest prisoner labor strike in U.S. history. In this episode of Making Contact, four men who were imprisoned at Kinross report on the unlivable conditions, the moments in which the strike took shape, and the retaliation that rained down on them in its wake. We also hear from outside organizers on why it's important to learn from prison rebellions, and how a persistent force organizing in the spirit of abolition is rattling walls and cages to make prisons obsolete.