Merced Prisoner Hunger Strikes | Eric King Trial Ends

This week's episode has two segments... Merced County Prisoner Hunger Strikes This week, you'll hear a chat with California-based activist Victoria from Merced Under Construction, who talks to us about the prisoner hunger strikes at Merced County Jail and John Latorraca Center. Over 40 prisoners engaged in hunger strike for 17 days, fighting for issues like protesting black mold, little food, lack of visitation and other issues. The hunger strike ended Saturday, March 28th, despite the disrespect of the jail administration. You can learn more about how to support and keep up on https://linktr.ee/mercedunderconstruction or MIRA's facebook page   You can find coverage of the 2016 Merced Jail protests, check out ItsGoingDown.Org Eric King Trail Ends Then, you'll hear from Josh from the Certain Days Calendar and Mookie from the Civil Liberties Defense Center do an update on a roundup of the recent trial of Eric King. Eric was found innocent on charges of assaulting a Federal Bureau of Prisons Lieutenant, a charge that would have added another 20 years to his time in prison, thankfully. More on his case at SupportEricKing.Org, more on Certain Days at CertainDays.Org and the CLDC at CLDC.org Eric King links: https://linktr.ee/supportericking https://supportericking.org Fedbook: Support Eric King Twitter: https://twitter.com/SupportEricKing Instascam: https://instagram.com/supcldportericking/ Youtube Music Playlist 1: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaYQRsIuV33FyjzDkqPVVXPOzqJ_p3eAS Youtube Music Playlist 2: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaYQRsIuV33GrDdsrvQXyccRSM2KpAi0V CLDC links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CLDC Fedbook: https://www.facebook.com/theCLDC/ Instascam: https://www.instagram.com/the_cldc/ Donate: https://cldc.org/donate/ Store: https://cldc.org/store/ . ... . .. Featured Tracks: Kick Push (instrumental) by Lupe Fiasco from 'Food & Liquor' We Came To Dance by The Gaslight Anthem from 'Sink or Swim'