This week on Kite Line, we share a call from a prisoner located in Seattle, who exposes his facility’s careless treatment of prisoners in the face of COVID-19, and how medical isolation and punitive isolation function similarly. Afterwards, we...
We begin this week with a short piece by WFHB reporter Aaron Comforty, who reports on an alleged instance of attempted suicide in the local jail, and one mother’s attempts to find out the status of her son. We also speak with Ted Smith, an Associate...
Brenda Child on AIM, Indigenous Representation, Jingle Dress Dance, Ojibwe Culture, and Boarding Schools When Art Is Medicine by Dr. Brenda Child Music by AwareNess, follow him on Instagram, Bandcamp. Please support the podcast on Patreon: Channel...
This week we had the opportunity to connect with Delee Nikal, who is a Wet’su’weten community member, about updates from the Gidimt’en Camp that was created to block the TransCanada Coastal GasLink pipeline (or CGL) that Canada is trying to push...
As in other places, unhoused people in Victoria face severe challenges in their daily lives ranging from a lack of food, sanitation and medical services to harassment by police and security. One particularly disturbing development are growing...
The post Building Community Autonomy and Resilience in the Face of COVID-19 appeared first on It’s Going Down. On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we present a conversation with two participants in the Woodbine community center...
Last week marked the 49th anniversary of the Attica prison rebellion. In this episode of Kite Line, we finish our conversation with Dr. Orisanmi Burton. A professor at American University, Dr. Burton introduces us to the diverse demands of the...
This week, I am joined by two lovely guests: Soph and Izzy. I wanted to check in with two of the coolest kids I know to get a new perspective on the world. While I obviously think it’s valuable to listen to authors and journalists, musicians and...
From Embers will be collaborating with the Victoria Anarchist Bookfair over the next week to bring you some really great audio content that they’re releasing in lieu of an in-person event. Their real-life bookfair is, like so many events...
This week, we share important news from around the Midwest and more updates from the struggles in Louisiana’s immigrant detention centers. Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson is facing threats on his life inside the Indiana Department of...