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Earlier this fall, the grassroots organization Care Not Cages won a decisive victory against the large new jail proposed for Monroe County.  Ignoring financial warnings and public outcry, county officials were moving forward with selecting a greenfield site northwest of Bloomington for jail construction, until mobilization at a council meeting finally stopped them in their tracks.  In... The post 374 | The Grassroots Fight Against the Local Jail first appeared on Kite Line Radio.

After decades of neglect, Martin Sostre is finally receiving his due as a pioneer of prisoner organizing and Black anarchism.  Garrett Felber’s powerful biography, A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre, excavates his many contributions as well as the work of his support committee in the successful Free Martin Sostre movement. This week, Kite... The post 373 | The Prison Struggle of Martin Sostre first appeared on Kite Line Radio.

This episode focuses on the ICE raids still accelerating across the country, and the resistance spreading in response. We speak with K, an organizer in Los Angeles, who reflects on the ICE invasion and the movement against it, which has become a beacon for struggles across the US. Since Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, Immigration and... The post 372 | Melting ICE- Organizing Against the Raids in Los Angeles first appeared on Kite Line Radio.

This week, we interview Orisanmi Burton on his book Tip of the Spear- Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt. The Attica prison uprising was a monumental rupture emerging out of the movements for black liberation of the 60s. Burton reflects on his conversations with people who took part in the revolt, new prison repression... The post 371 | Tip of the Spear with Orisanmi Burton first appeared on Kite Line Radio.

This week we return to the Pittsburgh Anti-Repression Convergence. From this unprecedented cop city RICO indictment to the nation-wide retaliation against students and others protesting the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the repression of social movements has become a shared experience for activists across North America. In this context, the Pittsburgh Anti-Repression Convergence (or, PARC) was... The post 370 | More From the Pittsburgh Anti-Repression Convergence first appeared on Kite Line Radio.