Claude Marks of the Freedom Archives and “The Mayor of DC Hip-Hop” Head-Roc joined us this week to discuss this weekend’s upcoming events in support of The Cuban 5, Marshall “Eddie” Conway and all political prisoners! Check out the show and join us this weekend and beyond in supporting liberation for those who fight for the rest of us!
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Today we discussed the euphemisms of “mass incarceration,” “new slavery,” “new Jim Crow,” “prison industrial complex,” and others with Dominque Stevenson, Yusef Bunchy Shakur and members of the Friend of A Friend prison program. We also heard from Theresa Shoatz about her father and political prisoner Russell “Maroon” Shoatz and his new book edited by…
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Kevin “Rashid” Johnson’s book has some calling him “this generation’s George Jackson,” the Black Panther and “Soledad Brother” assassinated in prison in 1971. Johnson, like Jackson, became a revolutionary behind bars, where he has spent over a decade in solitary confinement. Johnson presents “a powerful commentary on the failure of that which poses as political…
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