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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.

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August 21 is the start of the 2018 National Prison Strike. Anticipated to be the largest in U.S. History, this strike comes after many years of various strikes, work stoppages, boycotts, and other forms of rebellion.

In this episode, we hear about the intended transfer of 3,200 Puerto Rican prisoners to Arizona, listen to a strike statement from Red Wolf, who was featured on Kite Line in March of 2018, and hear the demands laid out for the upcoming prisoner strike, as stated by Jailhouse Lawyers Speak.

We then hear a brief synopsis of previous prison strikes and their aftermath from a talk given by Ben Turk in Milwaukee.  We will continue to cover the current strike, as well as reflect on prisoner rebellions from the past decades throughout the upcoming weeks.

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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.

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