Prison Radio Show

Tonight, we're going to take gender diversity for granted. We're going to say that trans people are real, and we're going to talk about the facts that are behind linear stories. We'll be speaking to transactivists, legal scholars, as well as lawyers who work on this topic, to provide a different perspective than what's being discussed in corporate media. 

On the two-year anniversary of the latest escalation of violence in Gaza, this episode turns its focus to solidarity with the Palestinian people. We open with major breaking news: Israel's naval forces have intercepted a large international humanitarian flotilla — the largest of its kind yet — detaining approximately 3,500 activists from over 40 countries, including high-profile figures like Greta Thunberg and MEP Rima Hassan, as well as two Canadian citizens. A released American activist describes harrowing conditions in Israeli detention. We then move into our feature segment: a roundtable discussion marking the 50th anniversary of the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners.

Today, we'll be airing a radio documentary we made back in May 2019. 
Somehow, the documentary never made it into our archives, and so we wanted to share it here again. The documentary talks about the new prison for migrants that was being built at the time, and the alternatives, the detention program that was being rolled out alongside the prison construction project. It also talks about the resistance to the prison construction that happened in Montreal in Laval in 2018 and 2019. 

Today is the prisoner's justice state episode on prison radio show.  This year we are celebrating 50 years of prisoners Justice Day. We will be airing audio from the prisoners justice day events that took place in Montreal on Prisoners Justice Day on Sunday, August 10th. 

This inaugural episode of a very special series called Prison Radio Internationale. From those of you who may be new listeners, Prison Radio is a bi-weekly show at CKUT that brings you news and stories about people who are incarcerated in prisons and struggling against the greater prison industrial complex. Usually our show focusses on issues based in where our listeners live. 
In Canada and the United States. But this summer, 2 of our members were lucky enough to travel throughout Europe and do some deep dive reporting into the conditions of people facing the violence of prisons, policing, and borders there. We got to interview some amazing people and organizations who are on the front line of resistance against these car social systems in their local communities. 
There is a lot we can learn from their work that can be applied to our situation in Canada. Welcome to Prison Radio International.

This episode is focussing on prisoners justice day. It's the 50th prisoners justice day that just went by on Sunday, August 10th, and we are focussing this episode and highlighting what prisoners justice day is. 

This episode covers a panel discussion on prison labour in Canada. Key points include that prisoner pay has been frozen at a maximum of $6.90/day since 1981, that the work prisoners do is effectively forced labour with real economic value, and that there is an ongoing legal effort to have prisoners recognized as employees with the right to unionize. Panellists include a government investigator, academics, a formerly incarcerated activist, and a labour lawyer, all arguing that the current treatment of prisoner workers is exploitative and in need of reform.

This episode covers the criminalization of Indigenous land defense, provides a news update on Ontario provincial prison conditions, and discusses policies and realities faced by incarcerated trans persons, hearing from lawyers, activists, and scholars working and advocating in this area.

Today we're airing audio from the Final Straw Radio which airs on Asheville FM in North Carolina.  Their show on June 23rd featured 2 interviews one talking about the annual "Shut'em Down Week of Action", called by jailhouse lawyer speak for December of this year and one talking with Monsour Owolabi sharing some perspectives on inside outside collaboration, the role of isolation in prisons as counterinsurgency, and the importance of transitional housing projects.  We will start with the interview about JLS Jailhouse Lawyer Speak's Week of Action this interview features Courtney from the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee as well as Rock a communications bridge for JLS and residential manager at the JLS transition house.  Rock talks about that transition house project in the interview as well.   As always the audio from the previous show bleeds into the start of this one! We are trying to catch up with a year of shows that have been absent in our podcast feed and so we have been downloading directly from the CKUT archives and posting here. The way the archives work, there is often a minute or two of the previous show at the start of the hour.

 Today's episode features a book launch event that took place on April 11th at the Shift Centre.  The book is titled "Defund: Conversations towards abolition" published by Haymarket Books.  The book features the collection of interviews with prison abolitionist organizers and thinkers on how to bridge the divide between reform and abolition.  Calvin John Smiley is the books author; he's also a professor of Sociology at City University in New York.  We will hear today on the show from Calvin John smiley in conversation with Freeman of the Termite Collective you will also hear Kelly Struthers Montford introduced the speakers, but first here's the present radio show news compiled by one of our collective members.   As always the audio from the previous show bleeds into the start of this one! We are trying to catch up with a year of shows that have been absent in our podcast feed and so we have been downloading directly from the CKUT archives and posting here. The way the archives work, there is often a minute or two of the previous show at the start of the hour.

This episode focused on Palestinian prisoners and featured an interview with the Director of the International Committee of the Palestinian Prisoners' Society, Rahid Ahmer, who is based in Nablus in the West Bank.   As always the audio from the previous show bleeds into the start of this one! We are trying to catch up with a year of shows that have been absent in our podcast feed and so we have been downloading directly from the CKUT archives and posting here. The way the archives work, there is often a minute or two of the previous show at the start of the hour.

This show was our funding drive special! We talked to folks on parole and people in prison about why CKUT and the Prison Radio Show matters to them. Then the hosts share a bit about why they care about the show and their motivations for volunteering with the station. 

This episode featured audio from a panel discussion that happened in March 2025 in Montreal. It was part of the Rafales Anarchist Learning Camp, organized by the Revolutionary Anarchist Organization. The panel was on police and prison abolition and featured Mélina from the Comité Autonome du Travail du Sexe, Marquis Bey who is a professor of Black Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and English at Northwestern University, Fallon who once faced terrorism charges and spent a year in jail in Mexico, and Cedar from the Hamilton, Ontario based Barton Prison Solidarity Project. The panel was facilitated by Ted Rutland, a professor at Concordia University in Montreal. Some speakers on the panel spoke in English and some spoke in French. 

This episode features a special interview with Maryam Kashani, an associate professor at the University of Illinois and an organizer with Believers Bail Out, a "community led effort to bailout Muslims in pretrial and immigration incarceration towards abolition". Professor Kashani published the book Medina by the Bay in 2023, which was "an ethnocinematic examination of how multiracial Muslim communities in the San Francisco Bay Area survive within and against racial capitalist, carceral, and imperial logics." https://www.maryamkashani.com

This episode featured audio from organizers with the International Coalition for Palestinian Hostages, including their spokesperson Dr. Mai Hussein. This exclusive Prison Radio Show interview was recorded in August 2024. The audio is taken straight from the CKUT archives and includes a small bit of the show that airs before PRS. 

This episode featured archival and live footage from the New Years Eve Noise Demo in Montreal, an annual event where people gather outside prisons and send holiday greetings to people locked up inside. The event features fireworks, speeches, music, and banners all in support of prisoners.

This episode focused on migrant justice and prisoner justice. We shared audio from a demonstration that took place in November 2024 outside the immigration detention centre in Laval, Quebec. The demonstration was organized by Solidarity Across Borders in solidarity with a Colombian family who was facing deportation at the hands of the Canadian Border Services Agency. We also shared some audio from the archives including an interview from 2014 with an organizer from the End Immigration Detention Network, an organization that was key in supporting migrants who went on hunger strike in the fall of 2013 in protest of their conditions inside the Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay, Ontario.  We then featured more audio from the archives, this time it was Helen Hudson, a Montreal based organizer, who spoke on a panel in 2018 about how prisons are colonial institutions like borders and how migrant justice goes hand in hand with prison abolition.  The episode ends with more audio from the 2024 demonstration outside the migrant prison in Laval. Speeches are in English, Spanish, and French.

This episode featured audio from a conference called Abolitionist Initimicies that happened from June 29-July 1, 2024 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Information on the conference can be found here: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/events/view/abolitionist-intimacies-symposium The panel we aired is the following: Incarcerated Workers and the Labour Movement: Asserting the Fundamental Rights of Prisoners by Asaf Rashid Unionization can alter the power imbalance between prisoners and the administration. As part of a larger push to support captive and precarious worker organizing, the labour movement's involvement in prisoner struggles for labour rights and freedom is crucial. Any such organizing by prisoners can only be achieved with outside support, including from the labour movement. Prisoners' labour conditions are inseparable from their conditions of incarceration, so when prisoners organize as workers, they can address fundamental issues of liberty and decarceration as well. The workshop will discuss strategies for getting incarcerated workers on the labour movement's agenda and supporting ongoing efforts by prisoners to unionize.

This episode featured audio from the Prisoner Justice Day events of August 10, 2024. 

This episode featured an interview with Lauren Aarons. She is one of the authors of a recently released report from Amnesty International entitled Aftermath: Injustice, Torture and Death in Detention in North-East Syria (available here: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/MDE24/7752/2024/en/ ). The report talks about the conditions in the camps and prisons where Islamic State fighters, affiliates, and anyone still living in Baghouz when it fell to the Syrian Democratic Forces in 2019 are all held. The report talks about intense conditions of torture, death, and inhumane treatment of children and while we avoid talking about most of the horrific specific instances detailed in the report, we want to put a content warning on this interview. We talk about distressing situations facing children, and some of the specifics of torture that people in the camps and prisons told the Amnesty International researchers. We also talk about the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the regions where all the camps and detention facilities are based, as well as the United States led coalition and it's role in the camps and detention facilities. 

The episode features a panel discussion from the Asian Prisoner Support Committee and 18 Million Rising about their present campaign to demand a pardon for the APSC4. We hear from the APSC4: Kee, Bun, Maria and Peejay. They are four staff members with the Asian Prisoner Support Committee—and all are at risk of deportation. They talk about the work of the Asian Prisoner Support Committee as well as their personal stories of incarceration and release. As people with precarious immigration status, they face "double punishment." According to Solidarity Across Borders and No One is Illegal Montreal, Double Punishment is the unjust policy used against non-citizens after already being punished by the criminal justice system. The policies surrounding Double Punishment are racist and create a two-tier justice system in which immigrants face far more disastrous consequences for committing crimes than citizens. In the cases of the APSC4, they are asking to be pardoned by the State of California Governor Gavin Newsom so they can stay with their families in community. We also talk briefly at the end of the show about trauma, incarceration, and healing.

This is the first episode of Prison Radio Show's new series on the mass incarceration of Palestinians by Israel into Israeli prisons.  On today's show we feature an interview with Raed Amer, the president of the Palestinian Prisoner Society, / sometimes translated as the Palestinian Prisoner's Club Association is an independent, national, humanitarian, social, and popular association founded on September 27, 1993 that assists Palestinian prisoners inside and their families as well as assists with reintegration into society once those inside are released. The idea of establishing it was crystallized inside Israeli occupation prisons by Palestinian prisoners and is an extension and integral part of the Palestinian prisoner movement. The end of the show featured audio from a prisoner currently incarcerated on the island of Montreal, sharing songs he wrote and a message from the inside. 

This show featured audio from a workshop given by the Termite Collective as part of the Concordia Student Union's teach-in during their three day strike in January 2024. The workshop was about prisoner justice organizing and featured a "True or False" questionnaire about the Canadian prison system. Show also features two Bob Marley song requests from a prisoner in Riviere des Prairies prison. 

This show featured two audio recordings from prisonradio.org that were aired at the top of the show. We then shared audio from the annual New Years Eve Noise Demo which happened in Laval, Quebec on the evening of December 31, 2023 outside of four different carceral institutions - two federal prison for men, one co-ed provincial prison, and one migrant prison. 

This show featured audio from a panel discussion that happened at UQAM in September. The panel was part of a symposium was called Penser les catégories pénales à l'aune des sciences sociales. The panel itself was called Perspective queer et luttes anti-carcérales. We also opened the show commemorating the passing of Ed Mead.

This is our Prisoner Justice Day Special. It features audio from people who would have spoken at the Montreal PJD event, which was cancelled due to weather conditions. You will hear from Wendy Bariteau and Christophe Lewis, who were both scheduled to speak at the Montreal PJD event. Christophe shares audio from a prisoner who talks about a friend of his who was recently killed by guards in a provincial prison in Ontario.  We also share audio from the Prisoner Justice Day TV Broadcast, which was livestreamed at https://www.facebook.com/CPEPgroup.  Again, we are re-posting this directly from the CKUT archives (which are here: https://ckut.ca/playlists/PS) so you will hear a little bit of the show before us at the top of the show. 

This show features a long news section about a recent class-action lawsuit as well as an interview with Rasheed Stanley-Lockheart, the Reentry Director with the Ahimsa Collective. He is one of the authors of the recently released memo called "The Case for People First Reentry" and our interview focused on that memo. Heads up we downloaded the audio from CKUT's archives and so there are 2 minutes of audio from the previous show at the top of the hour. 

Our first ever Tuesday show! Our schedule has now changed to every other Tuesday night from 6-7pm! As we said on the last episode, we don't normally post shows where the majority of the content is a re-broadcast, but this show also included original audio from the inside. We have been getting calls from Joshua, who is currently incarcerated at Riviere des Prairies prison on the island of Montreal. He's having a rough time and wanted some of his story shared on air. If you want to support Joshua, you can write to him! Joshua Rashid, Établissement de détention de Rivière-des-Prairies, 11900, rue Armand-Chaput, Montréal (Québec) H1C 1S7. He would appreciate the support.  This show also featured re-broadcasted audio from The Final Straw Radio's show from July 2, 2023. You can listen to the full episode here: https://thefinalstrawradio.libsyn.com/prisoner-support-dan-baker-mongoose-distro-pushing-down-the-walls We edited it for length on our show.  Finally, we read this essay to share with our inside listeners. https://scalawagmagazine.org/2023/06/mourning-prison/ 

We don't normally post episodes where the majority of the content is re-broadcasts from other shows, but this one includes new audio from inside correspondent Muti Ajamu-Osagboro. It is a short piece from him about experiencing the wildfire smoke from Quebec while imprisoned in Pennsylvania. The rest of the episode is a re-air from CFRC Kingston's Prison Radio episode from September 2022 about Roger Caron - you can listen to their full episode here: https://cfrcprisonradio.wordpress.com/2022/09/07/970/ We edited their episode for length.

This episode featured an interview with Tommy Bassio, who is incarcerated in Archambault prison in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Quebec. He talked to us about a report he co-authored with other prisoners called The Archambault Report 2.0. We also aired an interview with someone from the Barton Prisoner Solidarity Project in Hamilton Ontario about a recent hunger strike in the Barton jail there. We ended the show with audio from an event that was put on at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture by the New York City Public Library's Jail and Prison Services Team. The event was called Sostre at 100 and celebrated the life and work of Martin Sostre. Martin Sostre who was born in 1923 and died in 2015, advocated for prisoners' rights to religious freedom, political expression, and due process regarding prison censorship and solitary confinement. He was also a teacher and mentor, as the owner of the radical Afro-Asian Bookshop in Buffalo, New York, and a community organizer with the Juvenile Education and Awareness Project in New Jersey. 

Today's show focuses on the demands of prisoners in Block 8, organizing against racism and ableism inside Kenora jail. The majority of those incarcerated in Kenora jail come from the surrounding Indigenous communities. We speak with Trish, who through the Prison Project has been supporting and amplifying the voices of those organizing in Block 8. Trish, is an anarchist, abolitionist, formerly incarcerated person, who is a co-lead on the Disability Justice Network of Ontario's – Prison Project, centering and engaging racialized and disabled folks inside jails, prisons, and detention centers all across Ontario.

This episode features audio from a book launch that happened in Montreal on March 14, 2023. The launch was for the book 1312 raisons d'abolir la police by Gwenola Ricordeau. The event was hosted by Étienne Simard from Revue Ouvrage. Gwenola Ricordeau, Jessica Quijano from Defund the SPVM, and Malina May and Adore Goldman from the Comité Autonome du Travail du Sex also spoke. The event took place in French and thus, this episode is mostly in French.

This show featured audio from an interview that Kiteline Radio did with Jarrod Shanahan about his book called Captives: How Riker's Island Took New York City Hostage. We share this audio in part because of a news story in Montreal. In December, newspapers in Montreal announced that the province will be building a new prison for women on the island of Montreal. We then share two interviews about the death of Nicous D'Andre Spring. Nicous died after being pepper sprayed by guards while wearing a spit mask on December 26, 2022. It later came out in the news that he had been granted bail the day before, but was not released. His family held a vigil in Notre Dame de Grace in late December with over 100 people in attendance. We talked to Alain Babineau with the Red Coalition, an organization that held a press conference on January 7th hoping to push for justice for Nicous. We also talked to Amanda from DESTA Black Youth Network about the annual New Years Eve Noise Demonstration, which went to Bordeaux jail where Nicous was killed. Nicous was an aspiring rapper and we share some of his music on the show.

This episode features Gita Madan from Education not Incarceration in Toronto talking about the school to prison pipeline. Gita is a teacher in the Toronto school system. Education Not Incarceration (ENI) is a team of youth, students, parents/ caregivers, educators, researchers, journalists, and community organizers in Toronto who have come together to address the school-to-prison pipeline. They successful campaigned to end the presence of police in TDSB schools by ending the School Resources Officer program.

Decided to put up a show from our archives on the podcast. Enjoy. It's from February 27, 2015. At the time, we would record live and download our episodes from the CKUT archives so there's a bit of the jazz show's tail end at the beginning. Our show starts at 1m16s! This show featured two live interviews – one with Soffiyah Elijah of the Correctional Association of New York about changes to New York State youth justice legislation and one with Ralph from Head & Hands here in Montreal. Ralph talked to us about youth incarceration in Montreal and Project X, a project which helps youth in finding creative ways to survive institutional racism and racial profiling. We also played a song by Peter Collins and included an update about his health. (Peter died in August 2015).

This show features a bunch of new audio from Muti Ajamu-Osagboro that we recorded between August and October 2022. We also air a new podcast from a Montreal org called DESTA Black Community Network. The podcast is called Stories from the Inside Out and you can listen to it directly from DESTA here: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/525c3a8e-ffb5-4c28-9793-da73ea3bca57/id/24545991

Audio from August 10th, 2022 Prisoner Justice Day event in Montreal. Featuring Johanne Wendy Bariteau, Kiyha, audio from the inside, and more!

This episode features a long interview with Ardath Whynacht. Ardath teaches at Mount Allison University and wrote the book Insurgent Love: Abolition and Domestic Homicide. In the interview, we took a deep dive into questions the book brings up such as what is the difference between intimate terrorism and other kinds of intimate partner violence, what role could disarmament play in the fight against both police violence and intimate terrorism, and how does Ardath commemorate Prisoner Justice Day. Content warning: the book and therefore, the interview, are about violence in intimate relationships, including murder and murder-suicide.

Today on the programme, we share with you a book launch event that took place at Ausgang Plaza earlier this month on May 3rd. The book is titled "Delivrez-nous de la prison Leclerc! un temoignage de l'interieur" and is by author Louise Henry, published by Ecosociete. It is about women provincial prisoners who were transferred in 2016 from Maison Tanguay to Leclerc, a former federal penitentiary for men that had been shuttered by the Canadian Government, deemed unfit for men, and now holds women in deplorable conditions. The book launch is a denunciation of the provincial government's shameful incarceration of women in a condemned penitentiary and the event is also a celebration. We will hear the voices of Maria Nengeh Mensah, a professor at UQAM, Catherine Chesnay from CASIFQ or the Coalition d'action et de surveillance sur l'incarceration des femmes du Quebec, we will hear from the book's author Louise Henry, Camille from ecosociete, soeur Marguerite a long-time activist and defender of women prisoners' rights, Nancy, Genevieve, and finally, a song performed by Claudette Plante. Le programme aujourd'hui va être presenté en français.

This show features Matthew, who is currently incarcerated at Riviere des Prairies prison on the island of Montreal. He shared news with us about the situation in RDP two years into the covid 19 pandemic. After that we heard from authors of the book Disarm, Defund, Dismantle: Police Abolition in Canada, which just came out with Between the Lines press. Editor Abby Stadnyk and authors of the chapter called Defund to Abolish spoke to us about what's in the book, what it was like to write it, and why they think you should read it.

Today's interview features Jeri, the coordinator of Open Door, a program run by the Montréal-based group Communitas. Open Door is an independent community integration program, and supports people both during and after incarceration. Jeri shares all about Open Door's 20-year legacy, including about the publication of their anniversary book, and what practices they use to sustainably build community. The interview is also part of CKUT's annual funding drive, so there are several calls for donations sprinkled throughout.

This show featured an interview with Naomi Berlyne who is a founder of the Write On! Project. The group writes letters to prisoners and has recently published data on what they have learned about the prison system from their letters. This show also featured audio from this episode of Kiteline Radio: https://www.kitelineradio.org/podcast/288-when-homes-become-prisons/. Finally, we aired an interview with Sarah from Solidarity Across Borders about a vigil the group planned for Sunday February 13th in honour of a person who died in the migrant prison in Laval.

This show featured audio from three prisoners. First up we featured audio from Muti Ajamu-Osagboro, an inside correspondent from Pennsylvania. He read a speech he gave as part of a one day conference called Freedom: Land & Abolition that happened in November 2021. Then we spoke with Christophe Lewis, whose blog freedomisamust.net has been featured on the show before. Christophe talked to us about the release of a video earlier in the year that showed guards beating him up in 2012. The video release resulted in one of the guards being charged with assault and we talked about how Christophe felt about the situation now. Finally, we shared more audio from Lucas who is currently incarcerated in Bordeaux prison. Lucas shares news about the situation in Bordeaux as of early January 2022.

This was a shout out show for the holidays! Featuring a range of voices from the inside and outside sharing well wishes, poetry, songs, and jokes.

Today we are featuring audio from a talk that happened in Montreal on Sunday December 5th. The talk was called Insurgent Love: Abolition and Domestic Homicide. The talk featured Montreal based Black feminist community organizers and researchers Marlihan Lopez and Nathalie Batraville interviewing white feminist writer and organizer Ardath Whynacht. The call-out for the event described it as follows: How do we deal with dangerous forms of intimate violence in a post-carceral future? How can abolitionist frameworks help us tackle the most dangerous forms of intimate partner and family violence that can lead to homicide? How do we engage in transformative justice in the wake of a homicide? Join Ardath Whynacht, Marlihan Lopez and Nathalie Batraville in a conversation about transformative, community-based and abolitionist approaches to domestic homicide. The prison radio show was there to record the talk. We didn't get our best audio ever, but we hope this is listenable! Obviously a content warning that this talk features in depth conversations about violence, including sexual violence.

This show features an interview with Melissa Munn, an academic and prisoner justice activist who runs the website penalpress.com. The penal press refers to publications made inside prisons, which Munn has been digitalizing and putting online. The show also features a news update about Christophe Lewis, a Black prisoner in Quebec whose blog has been featured on the show before (freedomisamust.net) as well as a couple song requests from the inside.

This show featured the story of Lucas, a prisoner currently incarcerated at Bordeaux Prison on the island of Montreal. Lucas tells us about experiencing constant lockdowns at Bordeaux, filing grievances to figure out why the lockdowns were happening, and then getting roughed up by the guards as a result of his willingness to push back against the situation. We also interviewed Amelia, a NYC resident and volunteer at Rikers Island Prison, who told us about the situation at Rikers, where prisoners currently face ongoing food shortages, lack of medical attention, and an increase in prisoner deaths in the last year. The two stories felt connected through their relation to an ongoing "labour shortage" with the guards, which Amelia reframed as a worker slow down that is part of long standing attempts by guards unions to increase guard pay and benefits.

Today's show features an update from a prisoner in Bordeaux, a provincial prison on the island of Montreal. In the piece, he talks about the situation in his sector, where prisoners have been locked down the majority of the time since March 2021. He reads two responses from the administration to complaints he has made about the lockdowns and the lack of access to air conditioning during the heat waves this summer. We also feature an interview with Prisoner Rights and Justice Advocate, Lindsay Jennings. She has a dynamic approach to the provision of support to prisoners and former prisoners who are striving towards their community integration goals. Her areas of interest include sharing knowledge with individuals who are incarcerated about harm reduction and overdose prevention, and facilitating life-skills workshops with this marginalized population. She is a committed advocate who is passionate about bringing positive changes to those who are involved with the correctional and criminal justice systems by ensuring that substance use, mental health, and basic needs are addressed as immediately as possible once they have been admitted into custody, and throughout their incarceration. She works with the Toronto Prisoners' Rights Project, and in the past, she has worked with PASAN and with the John Howard Society of Toronto's Reintegration Centre, (a trailblazing Etobicoke facility that helps recently released former inmates return to society).

This episode of the Prison Radio Show commemorates the 50 year anniversary of the Attica Prison Rebellion & those who died in this massacre. It opens with a short news piece about the situation in Bordeaux Prison on the island of Montreal then moves into the Attica commemoration. This show pulls texts from the Attica Prison Uprising 101: A Short Primer by Miriam Kaba, Project NIA & from The Brief Podcast, episode 18. The show mentions the following resources: https://project-nia.org/uploads/documents/Educational-Curricula/Attica%20Prison%20Uprising%20101.pdf https://thebriefpodcast.com https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/178182/blood-in-the-water-by-heather-ann-thompson/ https://rozsixties.unl.edu/items/show/468

This show features an interview with Daniel who is currently incarcerated in Bordeaux prison. We also share a short clip featuring Nick Dinardo who is currently incarcerated in Port Cartier. Following that we honour the 50th anniversary of the death of George Jackson with audio from him talking about fascism and audio from James Baldwin talking about Jackson. Both are from the Freedom Archives' 99 Books project (https://99books.freedomarchives.org/). Finally we shared an edited version of an interview done by the Millennials Are Killing Capitalism podcast with Jailhouse Lawyers Speak about their call to action on August 21 and September 9, 2021. You can listen to the whole episode here https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/in-the-spirit-of-abolition-jailhouse-lawyers-speak-calls-for-shut-em-down-demonstrations