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Author: Kite Line
About Kite Line
Kite Line is a radio program devoted to prison issues around the Midwest and beyond. Behind the prison walls, a message is called a kite: whispered words, a note passed hand to hand, or a request submitted to the guards for medical care. Illicit or not, sending a kite means trusting that other people will bear it farther along till it reaches its destination. On the show, we hope to pass along words across the prison walls.
Aug 27, 18
Kite Line: The Real Dragon – George Jackson’s Legacy and the National Prison Strike
Long running anti-prison podcast and radio show Kite Line presents on the legacy of George Jackson and his impact on the ongoing... Read Full Article
Aug 20, 18
Kite Line: What Prisoners Want – Recent Movements and Current Demands
Anti-prison podcast and radio show Kite Line offers up another episode on the current prison strike happening across the US. Listen and... Read Full Article
Aug 13, 18
Kite Line: Strike Season Part II
Long running anti-prison radio and podcast show, Kite Line, presents its second installment on the prison strike. Listen and Download Here As... Read Full Article
Aug 7, 18
Kite Line: Strike Season
Anti-prison radio show and podcast, Kite Line returns with an episode on the upcoming Prison Strike, set to kick off on August... Read Full Article
Jul 21, 18
Kite Line: Tear Down the Inner Prisons
Anti-prison pipeline Kite Line returns with a brand new episode and radio show. Listen and Download HERE This week, Johdy Polk, from... Read Full Article
Jul 16, 18
Kite Line: Anti-Detention Occupations from Australia to America, Part Two
Anti-prison radio and podcast show Kite Lines continues with coverage of ongoing occupations of deportation facilities. Listen and Download HERE Last week,... Read Full Article
Jul 9, 18
Kite Line: Anti-Detention Occupations from Australia to America
Long running anti-prison podcast Kite Line returns with a new episode on anti-detention occupations happening around the world. Listen and Download HERE... Read Full Article
Jul 2, 18
Kite Line: They’re Not Detention Centers, They’re Prisons
The latest episode of Kite Line, a long running anti-prison podcast out of Bloomington, Indiana. Listen and Download HERE For this episode,... Read Full Article
Jun 22, 18
Kite Line: The Stakes of #SurroundICE
Long running anti-prison podcast Kite Line discusses immigrant detention and beyond. Listen and Download HERE This week, we will focus on a... Read Full Article
Jun 14, 18
Kite Line: Summer of Kites
Long running anti-prison radio show, Kite Line, returns with a new episode. Listen and Download HERE This week’s episode is packed with... Read Full Article
May 14, 18
Kite Line: Michelle Jones on the Collateral Consequences of Incarceration
Long running anti-prison podcast from the Midwest returns with a brand new episode. Listen and Download Here This week, we share a... Read Full Article
Mar 25, 18
Kite Line: Carceral Repression Vs. Community Resilience
Kite Line is an anti-prison radio and podcast program from Bloomington, Indiana. Listen and Download Here This week, we are airing selections... Read Full Article
Mar 18, 18
Kite Line: Women’s Resistance Behind Bars
Kite Line is a anti-prison radio and podcast show out of Bloomington, Indiana. In this episode, they talk with Victoria Law. Listen... Read Full Article
Mar 10, 18
Kite Line: State Women Against Women of Color
Kite Line is a long-running anti-prison radio show and podcast from Bloomington, Indiana. Listen and Download Here This week, we share a... Read Full Article
Mar 3, 18
Kite Line: Reflections in Defiance: Kites From Florida, Indiana, and Greece
Kite Line is an ongoing anti-prison radio program produced out of Bloomington, Indiana. Listen and Download Here This week is focused on... Read Full Article
Feb 23, 18
Kite Line: Conscious in Confinement
Kite Line is a long running anti-prison podcast and radio show produced in Bloomington, Indiana. Download and Listen Here In this episode,... Read Full Article
Feb 19, 18
Kite Line: The Long History of Black Radicalism on the Inside, Part Two
Kite Line is a long running anti-prison radio show out of Bloomington, Indiana. Listen and Download Here This week, we return to... Read Full Article
Feb 13, 18
Kite Line: The Long History of Black Radicalism on the Inside, Part One
Kite Line is an ongoing anti-prison podcast and radio show broadcast from Bloomington, Indiana. Listen and Download Here This week, we are... Read Full Article
Feb 2, 18
Kite Line: The Past Isn’t Passed: Cycles of Violence and Exploitation
Listen and Download Here This episode, we start out with a statement from Anastazia Schmid, a prisoner in the Indiana Women’s Prison. She... Read Full Article
Jan 31, 18
Kite Line: More Insights from the Local Jail
Download and Listen Here In this episode, we start with updates from Operation PUSH. After that, we continue hearing from Craig, who... Read Full Article
Jan 19, 18
Kite Line: Inside the Local Jail
Listen and Download Here First off, we include an update from outside supporters of Operation PUSH, the strike in Florida prisons that is... Read Full Article
Jan 12, 18
Kite Line: Shine A Light – Tensions Spreading in the Prisons
Listen and Download Here This week, we feature two snapshots from fast-developing situations inside the prison system. First, we share an anonymized statement... Read Full Article
Jan 8, 18
Kite Line: #OperationPUSH
Listen and Download Here In this week’s episode, we speak with Karen Smith in Florida, who gives us insights into Operation PUSH.... Read Full Article
Dec 23, 17
Kite Line: Naomi Paik on Rightlessness
Listen and Download Here This week we speak with Naomi Paik about her 2016 book, Rightlessness. Her work addresses the most pressing contemporary... Read Full Article
Dec 17, 17
Kite Line: PREA, Part Two
Listen and Download Here This week features our second segment on PREA- the Prison Rape Elimination Act. Last week, we heard from Irene,... Read Full Article
Dec 1, 17
Kite Line: Feminist Organizing in Prison
Listen and Download Here This week, we share part of a talk from two women organizing with prisoners. They speak candidly about the... Read Full Article
Nov 25, 17
Kite Line: Transitions to the Outside
Listen and Download Here In this episode we give follow-up information about the hunger strike at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility. Then, we... Read Full Article
Nov 17, 17
Kite Line: Two Weeks Into the Hunger Strike at Wabash Valley
Listen and Download Here In Wabash Valley, Shaka Shakur is maintaining his hunger strike, demanding an end to guard abuses and the... Read Full Article
Nov 10, 17
Kite Line: 23 Hours In & One Hour Out, The View From Menard
Listen and Download Here This week, we share the words and experiences of Salomon X, a former prisoner in Illinois. In the first... Read Full Article
Nov 3, 17
Kite Line: Appalachian Prison Resistance
Listen and Download Here This week, we speak with Lill, a resident of Whitesburg, Kentucky. Whitesburg is located in Letcher County the proposed... Read Full Article
Oct 30, 17
Kite Line: Fighting the Mail Ban
Listen and Download Here Last April, the Indiana Department of Corrections banned all correspondence to it’s 25,000 prisoners, except that which is handwritten... Read Full Article
Oct 20, 17
Kite Line: The Rise of Mass Incarceration, Part Two
Listen and Download Here Our news this week focuses on the prisoners who are fighting California’s wildfires for as little as a dollar... Read Full Article
Oct 13, 17
Kite Line: The Rise of Mass Incarceration, Part One
Listen and Download Here This week we share the first part of a lecture by Elizabeth Hinton delivered at IU on October 12. ... Read Full Article
Oct 10, 17
Kite Line: Prison and the Press, Part One
Listen and Download Here This week is the first episode of several about the intersection between the media and prison struggles. In January... Read Full Article
Jul 29, 17
Kite Line on the Frontlines of the STL Workhouse Revolt
Listen and Download Here This episode of Kite Line, an ongoing anti-prison podcast in the Midwest, talks with participants in the struggle to... Read Full Article
Jul 7, 17
Kite Line Radio Episodes #47-49
Kite Line #47: Toxic in Texas Listen and Download Here This week takes us to Texas, where we hear from Candice Bernd, speaking at... Read Full Article
Jun 19, 17
Kite Line #46: Memories of Boo
Listen and Download Here This week, we return to the story of Clinton “Boo” Gilkie, who died one year ago – on... Read Full Article
Jun 13, 17
Kite Line #45: Ongoing Support for Marius Mason and His Family on June 11th
Listen and Download Here This week on Kite Line we feature Arianna Staiger, daughter of Marius Mason, an anarchist prisoner who used to... Read Full Article
Jun 5, 17
Kite Line #44: The Premature Death of Boo Gilkie
Download and Listen Here June 7th marks the one year anniversary of the death of Clinton Gilkie, and so we devote our June... Read Full Article
Jun 4, 17
Kite Line #43: The Death Penalty
Listen and Download Here The death penalty is the barest, most explicit aspect of state violence. Relatively few people are sentenced to... Read Full Article