Calls to defund the police have moved from the margins to the mainstream. NYC reportedly just cut one BILLION dollars from its police department. Can this happen in the Bay Area, specifically in Berkeley? What does it mean to defund the police? How can this happen in Berkeley and how would it affect women?
Join 1st Monday host Vylma V and her guest, educator and activist Andrea Pritchett co-founder of Berkeley Copwatch for an elucidating conversation about this timely issue. Typical for Vylma V, your questions and comments are welcome during the last half of the show.
If you missed this show on Monday click here to listen now. 59:50 min
Kate Raphael speaks with well know trans activist Miss Major Griffin Gracy and StormMiguel Florez about the new film, MAJOR. This film which is premiering tonight in Piedmont, documents Miss Major's life and work to dismantle the prison industrial complex and support trans women in and out of prison.
Rachel Herzing, co-founder of the prison abolition group Critical Resistance, and former US-held political prisoner Laura Whitehorn, talk about the findings of a unique delegation to Palestine comprising U.S. labor and academic solidarity activists as well as former political prisoners and anti-incarceration activists. This was the first delegation to focus on solidarity between US and Palestinian prisoners.
Recently returned from a ten-day trip to the Israeli-colonized Palestine
At a moment of growing resistance to state violence and injustice the world over, a delegation of nineteen anti-prison, labor and scholar-activists from the United States traveled to Palestine in March 2016. Our delegation included former U.S.-held political prisoners and social prisoners, former Black Panther Party members, prison abolitionists, trade unionists and university professors. We are the first U.S. delegation to Palestine to focus specifically on political imprisonment and solidarity between Palestinian and U.S. prisoners. Our delegation also focused on recent labor struggles in Palestine for bread and dignity, and on the struggles of Palestinian intellectuals to assert the rightful claims of Indigenous Palestinians to their land, culture and history.
On this April 17, the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners, we demand freedom for the 7,000 Palestinian political prisoners currently held in Israeli jails and all those fighting for justice everywhere, including political prisoners in U.S. prisons.
