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The episode features a panel discussion from the Asian Prisoner Support Committee and 18 Million Rising about their present campaign to demand a pardon for the APSC4. We hear from the APSC4: Kee, Bun, Maria and Peejay. They are four staff members with the Asian Prisoner Support Committee—and all are at risk of deportation. They talk about the work of the Asian Prisoner Support Committee as well as their personal stories of incarceration and release. As people with precarious immigration status, they face “double punishment.”
According to Solidarity Across Borders and No One is Illegal Montreal, Double Punishment is the unjust policy used against non-citizens after already being punished by the criminal justice system. The policies surrounding Double Punishment are racist and create a two-tier justice system in which immigrants face far more disastrous consequences for committing crimes than citizens.
In the cases of the APSC4, they are asking to be pardoned by the State of California Governor Gavin Newsom so they can stay with their families in community.
We also talk briefly at the end of the show about trauma, incarceration, and healing.
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This is the first episode of Prison Radio Show’s new series on the mass incarceration of Palestinians by Israel into Israeli prisons.
On today’s show we feature an interview with Raed Amer, the president of the Palestinian Prisoner Society, / sometimes translated as the Palestinian Prisoner’s Club Association is an independent, national, humanitarian, social, and popular association founded on September 27, 1993 that assists Palestinian prisoners inside and their families as well as assists with reintegration into society once those inside are released. The idea of establishing it was crystallized inside Israeli occupation prisons by Palestinian prisoners and is an extension and integral part of the Palestinian prisoner movement.
The end of the show featured audio from a prisoner currently incarcerated on the island of Montreal, sharing songs he wrote and a message from the inside.
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This show featured audio from a workshop given by the Termite Collective as part of the Concordia Student Union's teach-in during their three day strike in January 2024. The workshop was about prisoner justice organizing and featured a "True or False" questionnaire about the Canadian prison system. Show also features two Bob Marley song requests from a prisoner in Riviere des Prairies prison.
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This show featured two audio recordings from prisonradio.org that were aired at the top of the show. We then shared audio from the annual New Years Eve Noise Demo which happened in Laval, Quebec on the evening of December 31, 2023 outside of four different carceral institutions - two federal prison for men, one co-ed provincial prison, and one migrant prison.
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This show featured audio from a panel discussion that happened at UQAM in September. The panel was part of a symposium was called Penser les catégories pénales à l’aune des sciences sociales. The panel itself was called Perspective queer et luttes anti-carcérales.
We also opened the show commemorating the passing of Ed Mead.
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This is our Prisoner Justice Day Special. It features audio from people who would have spoken at the Montreal PJD event, which was cancelled due to weather conditions. You will hear from Wendy Bariteau and Christophe Lewis, who were both scheduled to speak at the Montreal PJD event. Christophe shares audio from a prisoner who talks about a friend of his who was recently killed by guards in a provincial prison in Ontario.
We also share audio from the Prisoner Justice Day TV Broadcast, which was livestreamed at https://www.facebook.com/CPEPgroup.
Again, we are re-posting this directly from the CKUT archives (which are here: https://ckut.ca/playlists/PS) so you will hear a little bit of the show before us at the top of the show.
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This show features a long news section about a recent class-action lawsuit as well as an interview with Rasheed Stanley-Lockheart, the Reentry Director with the Ahimsa Collective. He is one of the authors of the recently released memo called "The Case for People First Reentry" and our interview focused on that memo. Heads up we downloaded the audio from CKUT's archives and so there are 2 minutes of audio from the previous show at the top of the hour.
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Our first ever Tuesday show! Our schedule has now changed to every other Tuesday night from 6-7pm! As we said on the last episode, we don't normally post shows where the majority of the content is a re-broadcast, but this show also included original audio from the inside. We have been getting calls from Joshua, who is currently incarcerated at Riviere des Prairies prison on the island of Montreal. He's having a rough time and wanted some of his story shared on air. If you want to support Joshua, you can write to him! Joshua Rashid, Établissement de détention de Rivière-des-Prairies, 11900, rue Armand-Chaput, Montréal (Québec) H1C 1S7. He would appreciate the support.
This show also featured re-broadcasted audio from The Final Straw Radio's show from July 2, 2023. You can listen to the full episode here: https://thefinalstrawradio.libsyn.com/prisoner-support-dan-baker-mongoose-distro-pushing-down-the-walls We edited it for length on our show.
Finally, we read this essay to share with our inside listeners. https://scalawagmagazine.org/2023/06/mourning-prison/
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We don't normally post episodes where the majority of the content is re-broadcasts from other shows, but this one includes new audio from inside correspondent Muti Ajamu-Osagboro. It is a short piece from him about experiencing the wildfire smoke from Quebec while imprisoned in Pennsylvania. The rest of the episode is a re-air from CFRC Kingston's Prison Radio episode from September 2022 about Roger Caron - you can listen to their full episode here: https://cfrcprisonradio.wordpress.com/2022/09/07/970/ We edited their episode for length.
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This episode featured an interview with Tommy Bassio, who is incarcerated in Archambault prison in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Quebec. He talked to us about a report he co-authored with other prisoners called The Archambault Report 2.0. We also aired an interview with someone from the Barton Prisoner Solidarity Project in Hamilton Ontario about a recent hunger strike in the Barton jail there. We ended the show with audio from an event that was put on at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture by the New York City Public Library’s Jail and Prison Services Team. The event was called Sostre at 100 and celebrated the life and work of Martin Sostre. Martin Sostre who was born in 1923 and died in 2015, advocated for prisoners’ rights to religious freedom, political expression, and due process regarding prison censorship and solitary confinement. He was also a teacher and mentor, as the owner of the radical Afro-Asian Bookshop in Buffalo, New York, and a community organizer with the Juvenile Education and Awareness Project in New Jersey.
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Today’s show focuses on the demands of prisoners in Block 8, organizing against racism and ableism inside Kenora jail. The majority of those incarcerated in Kenora jail come from the surrounding Indigenous communities. We speak with Trish, who through the Prison Project has been supporting and amplifying the voices of those organizing in Block 8. Trish, is an anarchist, abolitionist, formerly incarcerated person, who is a co-lead on the Disability Justice Network of Ontario’s – Prison Project, centering and engaging racialized and disabled folks inside jails, prisons, and detention centers all across Ontario.
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This episode features audio from a book launch that happened in Montreal on March 14, 2023. The launch was for the book 1312 raisons d'abolir la police by Gwenola Ricordeau. The event was hosted by Étienne Simard from Revue Ouvrage. Gwenola Ricordeau, Jessica Quijano from Defund the SPVM, and Malina May and Adore Goldman from the Comité Autonome du Travail du Sex also spoke. The event took place in French and thus, this episode is mostly in French.
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This show featured audio from an interview that Kiteline Radio did with Jarrod Shanahan about his book called Captives: How Riker's Island Took New York City Hostage. We share this audio in part because of a news story in Montreal. In December, newspapers in Montreal announced that the province will be building a new prison for women on the island of Montreal.
We then share two interviews about the death of Nicous D’Andre Spring. Nicous died after being pepper sprayed by guards while wearing a spit mask on December 26, 2022. It later came out in the news that he had been granted bail the day before, but was not released. His family held a vigil in Notre Dame de Grace in late December with over 100 people in attendance. We talked to Alain Babineau with the Red Coalition, an organization that held a press conference on January 7th hoping to push for justice for Nicous. We also talked to Amanda from DESTA Black Youth Network about the annual New Years Eve Noise Demonstration, which went to Bordeaux jail where Nicous was killed. Nicous was an aspiring rapper and we share some of his music on the show.
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This episode features Gita Madan from Education not Incarceration in Toronto talking about the school to prison pipeline. Gita is a teacher in the Toronto school system. Education Not Incarceration (ENI) is a team of youth, students, parents/ caregivers, educators, researchers, journalists, and community organizers in Toronto who have come together to address the school-to-prison pipeline. They successful campaigned to end the presence of police in TDSB schools by ending the School Resources Officer program.
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Decided to put up a show from our archives on the podcast. Enjoy. It's from February 27, 2015. At the time, we would record live and download our episodes from the CKUT archives so there's a bit of the jazz show's tail end at the beginning. Our show starts at 1m16s!
This show featured two live interviews – one with Soffiyah Elijah of the Correctional Association of New York about changes to New York State youth justice legislation and one with Ralph from Head & Hands here in Montreal. Ralph talked to us about youth incarceration in Montreal and Project X, a project which helps youth in finding creative ways to survive institutional racism and racial profiling. We also played a song by Peter Collins and included an update about his health. (Peter died in August 2015).
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This show features a bunch of new audio from Muti Ajamu-Osagboro that we recorded between August and October 2022. We also air a new podcast from a Montreal org called DESTA Black Community Network. The podcast is called Stories from the Inside Out and you can listen to it directly from DESTA here: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/525c3a8e-ffb5-4c28-9793-da73ea3bca57/id/24545991
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Audio from August 10th, 2022 Prisoner Justice Day event in Montreal. Featuring Johanne Wendy Bariteau, Kiyha, audio from the inside, and more!
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This episode features a long interview with Ardath Whynacht. Ardath teaches at Mount Allison University and wrote the book Insurgent Love: Abolition and Domestic Homicide. In the interview, we took a deep dive into questions the book brings up such as what is the difference between intimate terrorism and other kinds of intimate partner violence, what role could disarmament play in the fight against both police violence and intimate terrorism, and how does Ardath commemorate Prisoner Justice Day. Content warning: the book and therefore, the interview, are about violence in intimate relationships, including murder and murder-suicide.
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Today on the programme, we share with you a book launch event that took place at Ausgang Plaza earlier this month on May 3rd. The book is titled “Delivrez-nous de la prison Leclerc! un temoignage de l'interieur” and is by author Louise Henry, published by Ecosociete. It is about women provincial prisoners who were transferred in 2016 from Maison Tanguay to Leclerc, a former federal penitentiary for men that had been shuttered by the Canadian Government, deemed unfit for men, and now holds women in deplorable conditions. The book launch is a denunciation of the provincial government's shameful incarceration of women in a condemned penitentiary and the event is also a celebration.
We will hear the voices of Maria Nengeh Mensah, a professor at UQAM, Catherine Chesnay from CASIFQ or the Coalition d'action et de surveillance sur l'incarceration des femmes du Quebec, we will hear from the book's author Louise Henry, Camille from ecosociete, soeur Marguerite a long-time activist and defender of women prisoners' rights, Nancy, Genevieve, and finally, a song performed by Claudette Plante. Le programme aujourd'hui va être presenté en français.
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This show features Matthew, who is currently incarcerated at Riviere des Prairies prison on the island of Montreal. He shared news with us about the situation in RDP two years into the covid 19 pandemic. After that we heard from authors of the book Disarm, Defund, Dismantle: Police Abolition in Canada, which just came out with Between the Lines press. Editor Abby Stadnyk and authors of the chapter called Defund to Abolish spoke to us about what’s in the book, what it was like to write it, and why they think you should read it.
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