Prison Focus Radio

The Indictment of the State and its Prison Industrial Slave Complex continues with Joka Heshima Jinsai.

Heshima continues to speak on the Indictment of the State and community.

This week we hear from our Beloved Brother Baridi, speaking on behalf of the Prisoner Human Rights class about Black August and the need for continued education and unity with the free world public. We also hear a poem from author Eric Deshawn Holliday.

We continue with part 6 of the "Indictment of the State" with Joka Heshima Jinsai. We also hear from Minister Balagoon Kambon Muhammad on Black August. This series is an incredible Sociopolitical education opportunity.

We continue with Part 5 of our "Master Class" conversation with Joka Heshima Jinsai on his book "Indictment of the State and its Prison Industrial Slave Complex" concept by Abdul Olugbala Shakur. We focus on the need for Institutional Restitution and to bring our revolutionary Brothers and Sisters home. Take action!

We continue, through the lens of Black August, with Part 4 of our "Master Class" with Joka Heshima Jinsai on his book Indictment of the State and its Prison Industrial Slave Complex (concept by Abdul Olugbala Shakur). Book available on amazon.com. More recommended reading: Meditations on Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth: New Afrikan Writings by James Yaki Sayles

We continue with Part 3 of our "Master Class" with Joka Heshima Jinsai on his book Indictment of the State and its Prison Industrial Slave Complex (concept by Abdul Olugbala Shakur)

This is Part 2 of the ongoing "Master Class" on "Indictment of the State and Its Prison Industrial Slave Complex" as we spend the hour with Joka Heshima Jinsai - and bonus commentary on an article about Arizona slavery.

This is Part 1: We spend the hour with Joka Heshima Jinsai, creating a "Master Class" as he speaks on his newly published book "Indictment of the State and its Prison Industrial Slave Complex" by Joka Heshima Jinsai, concept by Abdul Olugbala Shakur.

Slavery to freedom in 2022. We continue our Tribute to Paul Redd; we hear from: historian David Roediger; Andre Tinnon, suffering 12 years in the hole in Wisconsin; Sam Brown of ASAP, and author of ACA3 bill- the End Slavery in California Act- home after 24 years of enslavement in California prisons; and other gems.

We spend the hour with Part 2 of our Tribute to Paul Redd

We pay tribute to Paul Redd, New Afrikan Freedom Fighter, who transitioned to the ancestors this past Sunday, June 19 (Juneteenth 2022).

Part 3 and final of celebrating the release of Sundiata Acoli after almost 50 years.

We will hear Part 2 of our spotlight on Sundiata Acoli, Elder veteran Black Panther Party and BLA member, political prisoner, grandfather, father, son, as of this recording caged almost 50 years awaiting release.

We spend the full hour highlighting Sundiata Acoli, the beloved political prisoner and freedom fighter who will be going home to his loving family and community after almost 50 years at 85 years old.

We hear from Elder freedom fighter and co-author of "The Indictment" Abdul Olugbala Shakur speaking on solitary confinement; Nube reads the last part of The Indictment; we hear from OG Baba Shaka At-Thinnin, freedom fighter and co-founder and keeper of the Black August Organizing Committee archives, who became a beloved ancestor, April 23, 2022.

Approaching the 11-year commemoration of the first of the three historic California Hunger Strikes, we continue reading The Indictment, by Joka Heshima Jinsai and Abdul Olugbala Shakur; and archives from California Prison Focus.

We spend the hour reading the article, "Power concedes nothing: A discussion on CDCr's insidious regulatory semantics and judicial collision in maintenance of SHU torture units," by NCTT-COR-SHU, published in the SF Bay View, March 28, 2014. This continues an ongoing series to reinvigorate and reestablish who the Historic California Hunger Strike heroes are and why we need to help get them free.

We spend the hour focusing on Freedom Fighter Ruchell Magee, longest held political prisoner, now 83 years old, almost 60 years held captive by the state of California, and the implications of the corrupt parole board's authority to deny people their freedom.

We spend the hour talking about the campaign to build a Community Release Board as a humane alternative to the BPH. We'll hear from the co-authors, Zaharibu and Fati, as well as other similarly situated Elder New Afrikans behind CDCr walls fighting for their freedom.

Nube spends the hour in conversation with Yusuf Bey IV, wrongfully convicted of a triple murder for which he is suffering three consecutive life sentences without the possibility of control, and Amin Cooley, nephew of one of the victims, Chauncey Bailey, who is convinced of Bey's innocence.

Nube spends the hour with National Minister of Information Bomani Uhuru Jihad Shakur of the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika.

Nube reads from the most recent publications of young revolutionary, Kwame Shakur, caged-in body only-in an Indiana prison, and Elder revolutionary, Louis Powell, survivor of decades of solitary confinement torture and still caged, in body only. Their books are Prison Lives Matter, journal In the Spirit of Mandela, Spring Vol.1; Chronicles of a Prison Dirty War, respectively.

Nube Brown spends the hour in conversation with 26-year-old Mansa Muta, unjustly captured in Kern Valley State Prison who speaks to us about knowing thyself and the implications of the Willie Lynch letter.

This week we hear from Dr. Dennis Childs speaking on his book "Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary" and then we hear a young (Dr.) Angela Davis making her National television appearance in an exclusive interview with Tony Brown (1972), following her recent acquittal of charges of kidnapping, murder and conspiracy after the San Rafael courtroom shootout...