A conversation with Too Black, communications representative for the defense committee to Free the Pendleton 2, Chris “Naeem” Trotter and John “Balagoon” Cole, incarcerated in Indiana who had decades added to their sentences, including decades in solitary confinement, for defending another prisoner from a white supremacist guard officer formation in the Pendleton Prison Uprising, February 1st 1985
Members of the Emergency Committee for Rojava talk about the looming Turkish invasion, Turkish attacks on Kurds and others in Syria and Iraq, ISIS / Daesh / ISIL prisoners and what brought them to support Rojava. Also featuring Greg Curry and Azzurra Cospino speaking about Greg’s hunger strike at Toledo CI in Ohio.
Dunstan Bruce of Chumbawamba speaks on some of the bands 30 year history, their relation as a collective, anarchist band to social justice movements around the world and how they used their fame and money to give back, Dunstan’s recently finished documentary “I Get Knocked Down: The Untold Story of Chumbawamba” and his accompanying one man show “Am I Invisible Yet?”, aging and the battle for relevance, staying involved in politics and more.
A rebroadcast of our 2020 interview with death row prisoner and survivor of the Lucasville Uprising, Keith Lamar (aka Bomani Shakur) talking about his case. Plus, a rebroadcast of True Leap Press speaking with Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin about Martin Sostre, Black Anarchism and prisoner organizing in the 1970’s in North Carolina.
We are sharing a cross-over episode with the Time Talks Podcast (member of the Channel Zero Network alongside TFSR) where Chris “Time” Steel and Bursts share songs about the struggle for abolition and what they like about them.
This week on the show, you’ll hear our conversation with Mwalimu Shakur (also known as Terrence White), a politicized, New Afrikan revolutionary prison organizer incarcerated at Corcoran prison in California.
William and Scott are presenting an interview with Alice and Dolly, two people working toward Disability Justice and Mad Activism, about the prevalence of movement misogyny in antifascist currents, world building as antifascist and as community defense, ways to rethink harmful patterns in movements, and some things we can do to make each other safer.
This week, we feature two conversations. Cora Borradaile and Michele Gretes, folks involved in the Digital Security Project of the Civil Liberties Defense Center, speak about contact tracing apps and surveillance. Then, Se speaks about Tucson Food Share’s grocery distribution program.
This midweek, we’re sharing two segments. First up, Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin talks about attempts in the 1960’s and 70’s at building a prisoners union in the United States and parallels with inside / outside organizing in the USA today. Then we hear from Ohio death row prisoner from the Lucasville Uprising case, Bomani Shakur (aka Keith Lamar) about his struggle to stay alive and call out the injustice in his and so many cases.
This week we feature two portions to this podcast bonus, two abolitionists in North Carolina talk about detention issues during and after Covid-19. Then Grant Gallo of Sudo Mesh talks about community mesh data networks and alternative infrastructure for autonomy.
