Final Straw: Eric King on Hunger Strike, Mapuche Solidarity

This week Bursts spoke with the wife of vegan, antifascist and anarchist political prisoner, Eric King.

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Eric was was convicted of attempting the September 11, 2014 firebombing of the Kansas City office of a Missouri Democratic Congressman in solidarity with the Ferguson Uprising that kicked off after the killing of Mike Brown in Ferguson, MO. The office was attacked at roughly 3am when it was empty. Eric took a non-cooperating plea agreement for 10 years in Federal prison with no chance of parole. Recently, prison administrators at Florence and later Leavenworth Federal prisons have been abusing, isolating and moving Eric around and his support crew have initiated a call-in campaign, which we mentioned last week. Visit SupportEricKing.org for more details and to keep up on what’s happening.

For a radio clean version of this podcast that is 59 minutes in length, you can visit our collection on archive.org! Follow the link below or under the photo for the podcast version.

Here are a few articles on subjects spoken of in the episode including Daniel McGowan’s recent story published by the ACLU entitled “What the Government Shutdown Really Means for Federal Prisoners”.

Here is a link to the situation unfolding at Florence CI.

And this is a link to Eric’s call in campaign, including all relevant phone numbers and a script!

To write Eric King, you can address letters to:

Eric King # 27090045
USP LEAVENWORTH
U.S. PENITENTIARY
P.O. BOX 1000
LEAVENWORTH, KS  66048