Radio Interviews with Chapel Hill Prison Books Collective, Denver ABC and UnmaskNWDC

Interviews recorded at Free Radio Olympia by DJ Questionmark on April 18, 2011

Interview with Monica of the Chapel Hill, NC Prison Books Collective. Monica talks about prison abolition and restorative justice as alternatives to the prison system. She describes the collective's effort to send books and zines to prisoners in the Southeast US, political prisoner writing nights and maintaining a zine catalog of radical literature. The group publishes monthly political prisoner birthday posters for over a year that are free on the internet to download. The posters encourage people to write to political prisoners on their birthday. The collective also actively supports prisoners organizing in North Carolina and reports on solidarity efforts.
Radio Interviews with Chapel Hill Prison Books Collective, Denver ABC and UnmaskNWDC

Interview with Chapel Hill Prison Books Collective

21 mins 20 seconds MP3 (18.5 mb)

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http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2011/04/19/chalephillprisonbooks041811.mp3

Interview with Monica of the Chapel Hill, NC Prison Books Collective. Monica talks about prison abolition and restorative justice as alternatives to the prison system. She describes the collective's effort to send books and zines to prisoners in the Southeast US, political prisoner writing nights and maintaining a zine catalog of radical literature. The group publishes monthly political prisoner birthday posters for over a year that are free on the internet to download. The posters encourage people to write to political prisoners on their birthday. The collective also actively supports prisoners organizing in North Carolina and reports on solidarity efforts.

For more information visit http://prisonbooks.info

Interview with Denver Anarchist Black Cross

12 mins 45 Seconds MP3 audio

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http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2011/04/18/dabc041811.mp3

Interview with Whitney from Denver Anarchist Black Cross about the group, movement defense and the many mutual aid programs they have started. Whitney talks about the updated political prisoner database, the war chest program that raises funds for political prisoner's basic needs, the mutual aid fund where local people get emergency loans for basic needs, the Nurturing Liberation program that provides free childcare, political prisoner writing nights and more.

Whitney elaborates on movement defense by commenting on internal and external repression. How opposing snitch-jacketing and shit talking within the movement is part of fighting government repression and supporting political prisoners and people targeted by the state.

Denver Anarchist Black Cross is organizing a nation-wide conference in August 2011.

Radio Interview on the North West Detention Center

Interview with Francine and Clere about the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma WA. They talk about the private immigration center as a source of revenue for the city and profits for private investors. They also talk about how current immigration policy detains people not convicted of a crime. Resisting the detention center, they explain, is part of a greater struggle to abolish national boundaries and prisons.

A conference called "No Border! No Nation! Stop Deportation!" happens Saturday April 23 in Tacoma.

Visit https://unmasknwdc.wordpress.com for more info.

Download at: http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2011/04/18/nwdc041811ed.mp3

About UnmaskNWDC from the blog:

One of the three largest private immigration detention centers in the United States sits hidden amongst warehouses and parking lots in the port of Tacoma, WA. This Northwest Detention Center, owned and operated by GEO Group, began detaining undocumented people in 2004. This year the NWDC expanded their facility, with the go-ahead from the City of Tacoma, and can now detain 1500 people at any given time. This facility detains your neighbors, co-workers, family members and friends. The large majority of the folks being detained at this facility have never been convicted of a crime. They have come to this country to escape poverty and persecution. They have come here as a means to trying to provide better lives for themselves and their families. The company that owns the Northwest Detention Center, GEO Group, makes a profit off of the detainment and deportation of people. The City of Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington State and the federal government benefit financially off of this facility. This company and these governmental bodies perceive the people being held at the NWDC as commodity. When the motives behind oppressive and exploitative acts are exposed, they can no longer be normalized. We can begin to draw connections and make black and white what was formally gray. No longer can we hope that the government will seize current immigration policies or that the city will shut down the Northwest Detention Center. The hope is that this blog will provide an avenue to unmask these unforgivable truths and shed light on the fact that we cannot sit back and wait for those who oppress to do what we must do ourselves. These matters are in our own hands; it is our responsibility to act.