Prison Focus Radio

PART 2 with New Afrikan Political Prisoner, Louis Powell. Brotha LP is an author, political analyst, educator, and lover of his People. Because of his political activities he has been held captive for 50 years, 38 years in solitary confinement meant to break his revolutionary mind- it didn’t. Don’t miss being inspired and transformed hearing from these brilliant people from behind the walls.

We spend the hour listening to the prescient, sobering and powerful speech, Beyond Vietnam delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4th, 1967 from Riverside Church, exactly one year from when he would ultimately be assassinated for his radical political beliefs and actions.

We hear Part 2 of the special programming of 24 Hours Palestine with Samidoun, Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network. Prison Focus Radio had the honor of sharing space with Samidoun on the international airwaves, and bringing the voices of two of California’s Political Prisoners and Hunger Strikers- Joka Heshima Jinsai and Zaharibu Kambon (heard last week). Past shows can be heard on SoundCloud...

We hear a special program of Prison Focus Radio. We were invited to be a part of 24 Hours Palestine, a livestream event of radio, podcast and captured live events all in support of Palestinian resistance and solidarity from all over the world. This is part one, as we shared the timeslot with Samidoun, Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, who you will hear next week, April 18, 2024 on our progr...

We spend the hour listening to the prescient, sobering and  powerful speech, Beyond Vietnam delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4th, 1967 from Riverside Church, exactly one year from when he would ultimately be assassinated for his radical political beliefs and actions.

We continue our focus on Women’s Herstory Month with an interview with Anissa Jordan, convicted and sent to prison for a murder, committed by her boyfriend, that occurred during a robbery she was involved in. This interview aired on: “The Experiment”, “The Atlantic’s” podcast about our unfinished country, hosted by Julia Longoria, What makes a murderer? We then hear from Mustafa, a legal slave at...

“Only revolutionary love can save us now.” Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness. Uplift your humanity! Be informed about how our children - and families- are suffering the inhumane, genocidal sentence of LWOP, life without the possibility of parole…when you’re informed and honest, you can act in revolutionary love.

During Women’s Herstory Month, we spend most of the hour listening to Assata Shakur in her own words, and read some of her work; we stay up to date on the various campaigns addressing violations and human rights abuses in our nation’s prisons and what we can do to abolish. Free em All! Free Palestine! All power to the People! 🩵🕊️✊🏽

This week we continue the exposure of the toxic and genocidal conditions within prison as tools of white supremacy, and their negative impacts on all of us inside and out, with Elder Zaharibu Kambon; Next we hear another excerpt from nube’s conversation with New Afrikan Revolutionary Nationalist Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa, recently home after 43 years, 2 months, 5 days; nube reads dedication and prefac...

We continue to get updates on the presence of black mold at SATF State Prison from Elder Zaharibu Kambon, and how we can help expose and remedy this issue; California Political Prisoner and Hunger Striker, Baridi Williamson, shares thoughts on mutual redemption; and Liberate the Caged Voices has its first public event since 2020.

The struggle continues from inside the belly of the beast. Prime Minister Balagoon shares part 1 of his article on Abolition; Elder Political Prisoner Zaharibu Kambon speaks on the toxic environment of prisons; and we have the privilege of hearing the first recorded words from Elder Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa, home after over 43 years legally enslaved…WELCOME HOME, SITAWA!

Happy Black History Month! We will spend the hour reading moments in Black History from Equal Justice Initiative, Black Past and Political Prisoner Abdul Olugbala Shakur. Glorious news!! As of the airing of this episode, our Beloved Brotha, Political Prisoner, (NO MORE) an educated, legalized slave, Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa has come home after 43 years, 2 months, and five days! Welcome home! The worl...

Hear from Elder Cali Political Prisoner, Zaharibu and learn why we must Free all Political Prisoners, and be enraged at their ill treatment at the hands of an unjust, genocidal system. We also read an article from row prisoner, Kevin Cooper. Can’t stop, won’t stop.

Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa, New Afrikan, “Educated slave”, Human Rights activist, principal organizer of the historic California Hunger Strikes and Co-author of the Agreement to End Hostilities, is coming home after 44 years legally enslaved, and 32 years tortured by solitary confinement meant to break him! He remains unbroken! On the first day of Black History Month we hear from New Afrikan Political...

We spend the hour with New Afrikan Revolutionary Nationalist Mwalimu Shakur. We’ll talk about his being home after 20 years, 16 of those years spent in solitary confinement, and application of the learning he received from the Elders inside to the conditions of the community out here.

We get some promising news from Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa regarding one of the irons he has in the fire towards his freedom, and read a powerful, informative article coauthored by him and a PhD student from UCSD; we get the update on the ongoing hunger strike at Red Onion state prison, with prisoner participation growing, and we encourage you to make the calls in support- info at rashidmod.com; lastly...

We are reminded of the radical legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. through his Beyond Vietnam speech which surely set him on a very unpopular but principled trajectory towards true freedom for Black People and all People. We seek to make a connection to our present day circumstances through his legacy and the voices of our legally enslaved community members and loved ones. Joka Heshima Jinsai sends...

This week 1/04/2024, we spend the hour with Elder Historic California Hunger Striker and human rights activist Zaharibu Kambon, who speaks on the painful impact of the lack of mental health care has on prisoners, the need to change that condition and what’s needed from us.

This last week of the 2023, we catch up with our friend Trey Xavier to find out how he’s adjusting to daily life in the “free” world after 27 years of being legally enslaved- the show had to be cut short as we find out that prisoners, including Political Prisoner Kevin Rashid Johnson, founder of the Revolutionary Intercommunal Black Panther Party, go on a hunger strike at notoriously violent Red O...

We hear the latest on Death Row Political Prisoner Kevin Cooper’s case; we spend most of the hour with Darby Aono-Shek, lawyer for Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa, organizer of the Historic  California Hunger Strikes, survivor of 32 years tortured in solitary confinement at the notorious Maximum Security Pelican Bay State Prison SHU (Security Housing Units), legally enslaved for 44 years. See his work at sf...

This week we continue our conversation with Political death row prisoner Kevin Cooper about his pending last appeal to assert his innocence and avoid execution for a crime he didn’t commit, and how the public can help; nube reads a tribute to Ruchell Magee from Prime Minister Balagoon; We take a moment to spotlight Veronza Bowers, 46 years in a North Carolina prison who is looking at a parole hear...

We continue our conversation with death row and political prisoner Kevin Cooper regarding his case being sabotaged by Gov. Newsom; We hear from Prime Minister Balagoon recently released from solitary confinement- he’s a caretaker medical facility in a wheelchair!; and lastly we introduce the Citizen’s Complaint sent to nube by Political Prisoner Baridi Williamson as another strategy to get our peo...

We focus on Kevin Cooper, 40 years on death row. He and his team of lawyers, now including lawyer Lara Bazelon of the SF Innocence Commission, continue the fight to save Kevin’s life in the face of Gov. Newsom’s egregious, racist decision to accept the prosecution’s, Morrison & Foerster, sham investigation findings of guilt; we also get an update on another political prisoner, Kevin Rashid Johnson...

We continue to show our solidarity in resistance with Palestine, and call for a cease fire and an end to the illegal occupation; we link our struggle against genocide to legal slavery aka mass incarceration and indigenous genocide, and point out the failure of the United Nations to address it and other human rights atrocities being committed by apartheid Israel and other fascist governments includ...

Free Free Palestine! In some respects this is not complicated- genocide is genocide and there is a clear definition of what it is. It’s not about numbers, it’s about intent. Go to un.org and see Convention on Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Amerikkka, Inc. is committing genocide against Black, Brown and Indigenous People within its prisons, and practicing slavery. We continue t...