EPISODE · Dec 23, 2010 · 37 MIN
NEWS UPDATE on LYNCHING death of Frederick Jermaine Carter and the PRISONER STRIKE in GA
from Fight The Power · host viva fidel
Listen and Learn as Bro. Jesse Muhhamad staff writer for Final Call newspaper updates us on the recent hanging death of a young man in Mississippi ...The body of Mr. Carter, 26, was found Dec. 3 hanging from an oak tree. ALSO LISTEN and LEARN from Sis. Lynette Taylor about how on December 9, 2010, thousands of Georgia prisoners refused to work, stopped all other activities and locked down in their cells in a peaceful protest for their human rights. The December 9 Strike became the biggest prisoner protest in the history of the United States. Thousands of men, from Augusta, Baldwin, Hancock, Hays, Macon, Smith and Telfair State Prisons, among others, initiated this strike to press the Georgia Department of Corrections (“DOC”) to stop treating them like animals and slaves and institute programs that address their basic human rights.
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