This episode features updates on various prisoner situations, followed by recent post-punk, punk and deathrock from around the world.
Firstly, we give an update on Albert Woodfox (last living, incarcerated member of the Angola 3) who's almost reached his 43rd year (!) in solitary confinement in the state of Louisiana. In addition to this update, we feature a segment of Robert King speaking about his experience in Angola prison and an interview by Noah of The Prison Radio Show with Tory Pegram. The interview aired CKUT, Montreal on Feb 10th, 2015. Albert (aka Shaka Cinque), alongside Herman Wallace and Robert King were convicted by a white jury and based on the inconsistent testimonies of prison snitches of the murder of a white prison guard. The reality is that they were convicted because they've been organizing a chapter of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in Angola Prison. For our conversation with Malik Rahim (cofounder of the International Committee to Free The Angola 3), check out: http://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2014/01/14/court-dates-nato3-announcement-malik-rahim-on-angola3/ Albert Woodfox has a bail hearing on March 2nd, 2015 in Baton Rouge. Details and how to attend can be found here: http://angola3news.blogspot.com/2015/02/a3-newsletter-bail-hearing-for-albert.html Amnesty Intl's revamped campaign around Albert Woodfox: http://blog.amnestyusa.org/tag/angola-3/ Episode list for CKUT's The Prison Radio Show: http://ckut.ca/c/index.php?q=en%2Foldgrid%2F2%2C17%3A00
We also give an update to the work strike announced to begin today, March 1st, at St. Clair Correctional in Alabama. St. Clair has been one of the hotbeds of organizing for the Free Alabama Movement and Melvin Ray is incarcerated there. On Friday, Warden Davenport called in the Riot Squads against this threat of non-violent non-participation but because of outside pressure they were withdrawn. FAM & Free Mississippi movement are struggling to clearly and non-violently organize resistance to the carceral state that has extended slavery of forced labor without pay onto (disproportionately) black and brown bodies throughout the U.S. More at http://www.alabamaprisonwatch.org/ & http://freealabamamovement.com For our conversation with Melvin Ray and others from the FAM&M, check out: http://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2015/02/09/free-alabama-mississippi-movements-in-prisons-updates-on-sean-swain/
We also update listeners to what's been going on with Sean Swain's property access at SOCF, Lucasville, INCLUDING that the administrators destroyed his Qur'an & Taurat. More at http://seanswain.org/socf-staff-fascist-fuckweasels-or-inept-morons-you-decide/
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