Mass Incarceration. Archives

07.28.25 - 4:00pm

The People’s Court: Exposing Katrina’s Unpunished Crimes Featuring ACLU Attorney King Downing In this historic 2007 session of the People’s Court, ACLU lawyer King Downing delivers a searing indictment of the U.S. government’s role in the human rights violations following Hurricane Katrina. Survivors, advocates, and witnesses offer devastating testimony—detailing state abandonment, police brutality, mass incarceration, … Continued

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ICC files war crimes charges against Russia’s President Vladimir Putin; California Governor Gavin Newsom transforms San Quentin’s Death Row; Family of Angelo Quinto, killed by Antioch police, seeks homicide as cause of death in new litigation — Pacifica Evening News March 17 2023

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03.17.23 - 6:00pm

International Criminal Court files war crimes charges against Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and another high ranking official for child abductions from Ukraine Slovakia says it will join Poland in sending fighter jets to Ukraine. President Joe Biden calls for tougher penalties on executives of failed banks. California Governor Gavin Newsom pledges to transform San Quentin’s … Continued

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In Conversation with Chesa Boudin and The Healing Project

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02.15.23 - 4:00pm

Davey D speaks with the former district attorney of San Francisco Chesa Boudin about legal happenings in San Francisco and the current leadership. Later we bring you to The Healing Project, a multimedia installation that shares stories from incarcerated people about how the trauma of imprisonment has impacted their lives and families.

Against the Grain

Coerced Work

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04.28.20 - 12:00pm

What do college athletes, prison laborers, welfare recipients, and graduate students in the sciences have in common? According to sociologist Erin Hatton, they’re all workers who face a particular form of coercion. She discusses what these workers’ circumstances tell us about work under contemporary capitalism. She’ll also consider the situation of prisoners pressured into dangerous … Continued

Against the Grain

American Capitalism and Class Conflict

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03.24.20 - 12:00pm

While entrepreneurship figures into most histories of the US, the centrality of capitalism and class struggle tend to be missing. Hence as a population, we often have no idea about the enormous conflicts that have taken place in this country. Historian Steve Fraser discusses the glaring absences in histories of the US without class struggle. … Continued

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Black August: The Birth of the Prison Resistance Movement

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08.28.19 - 4:00pm

Some might argue that the direct line between, when the first ship with 20 plus enslaved Africans arrived on the shores of Virginia, in August 1619; to the start of Black August movement; and the current call for action within the prisons are all interconnected. For 400 years, the African American struggle has been constant. … Continued

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Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, a conversation with Marc Lamont Hill, Michelle Alexander and Vonya Quarles (Encore)

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12.26.18 - 4:00pm

On today’s show we hear an in depth panel discussion on mass incarceration moderated by and featuring Michelle Alexander, Marc Lamont Hill, Vonya Quarrels. photo credit @LSPC

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Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, a conversation with Marc Lamont Hill, Michelle Alexander and Vonya Quarles

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12.12.18 - 4:00pm

Legal Services for Prisoners with Children 40th Anniversary Gala featuring a conversation with Children, a conversation with Michelle Alexander, Marc Lamont Hill, and Vonya Quarles. Presented by All of Us or None and Legal Services for Prisoners with Children. A Celebration of Freedom & the Movement

Against the Grain

Fear Itself

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11.28.18 - 12:00pm

Fear is a central part of American life — and has been so at least since the early Cold War, according to historian Elaine Tyler May. She argues that while there are many things that Americans should be deeply concerned about, including climate change and vast wealth inequality, we are obsessed with threats like crime, … Continued

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All Of Us Or None

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10.19.18 - 4:00pm

On today’s show we hear an in depth panel discussion on mass incarceration moderated by Davey D and featuring Michelle Alexander, Marc Lamont Hill, Vonya Quarrels

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Fund Drive Special: Voices from the Katrina Tribunal: Romell Madison, and King Downing

ICC files war crimes charges against Russia’s President Vladimir Putin; California Governor Gavin Newsom transforms San Quentin’s Death Row; Family of Angelo Quinto, killed by Antioch police, seeks homicide as cause of death in new litigation — Pacifica Evening News March 17 2023

In Conversation with Chesa Boudin and The Healing Project

Coerced Work

American Capitalism and Class Conflict

Black August: The Birth of the Prison Resistance Movement

Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, a conversation with Marc Lamont Hill, Michelle Alexander and Vonya Quarles (Encore)

Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, a conversation with Marc Lamont Hill, Michelle Alexander and Vonya Quarles

Fear Itself

All Of Us Or None

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