Prison Focus Radio

Continuing the commemoration of the historic California Hunger Strikes, Nube reads "The Call" by Mutope Duguma; BBC News article 2011; L.A. Times article; news clip audio from Inside Out TV; audio clip of court hearing by the 4 main reps. of the PBSP-SHU short corridor and others.

In our ongoing commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the historic California Hunger Strikes that ended the torture of decades of solitary confinement, Nube reads the Formal Complaint and the Five Core Demands that defined the Hunger Strike; we also hear from Mwalimu, one of the New. Afrikan hunger strikers at Corcoran on the conditions there and thoughts on the historic Hunger Strikes.

Nube's interview with Paul Redd and Ruben Jitu Williams: two of hundreds of California Hunger Strikers who spent decades being tortured inside Pelican Bay State Prison's security housing units (SHU) that was meant to break them. All month long we will continue commemoration, honoring and educating ourselves about these men.

This week, and throughout the month of July, we focus on the 10th anniversary of the first of 3 historic California Hunger Strikes and the heroic men that made it happen.

We hear an excerpt of a speech from Angela Davis on The Fallacy of Prison Reform; Nube reads a letter from one of the California Hunger strikers and Political Prisoner, Yafeo Iyepo; we hear an excerpt of a conversation with Ifoma Modibo Kambon; a poem "Lost & Profound" by Michael Manjeet Singh, T-22165, CMF, P.O. Box 2000, Vacaville, CA 95696; Eva Contreraz, Trans woman lifer who spent time in Pel...

Samuel Brown, caged in Lancaster and his wife, Jamilia Land. They speak about ACA 3, legislation to remove language from the state constitution that allows for slavery as punishment for a crime.

We hear from David Easley in a Toledo, Ohio prison speak on the medical abuse of both him and his friend Mark Hinkston (Mustafa); Please donate to help with legal fees: https//gofund.me/54d0f1cb; Follow him at: decarcerateohio_33; Nube reads Pt five of "The Evil Dehumanizing Practice of the Short Corridor Torture Chamber" by Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa and Mutope

We hear from Abdul Olugbala Shakur on what it means to be a revolutionary for the people; Nube reads the third part of The Evil Dehumanizing Practice within the Short Corridor Torture Chamber, by Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa and Mutope Duguma.

We hear powerful speeches from Malcolm X; PT. 2 of The Evil Dehumanizing Practice within the Short Corridor Torture Chamber, by Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa and Mutope Duguma; Nube reads and Mother's Day letter from an imprisoned soon to his mother, and we read her comments; we hear the latest from our New Afrikan comrade, Mwalimu; Nube reads and beautiful and moving letter from our beloved friend Zah, a...

Nube is in conversation with William Palmer II, sentenced to a life sentence as a youth. Now home, he speaks on Life After Next, his recent endeavor. Nube begins again "The Evil Dehumanizing Practice Within the Short Corridor Torture Chamber" by Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa to celebrate these extraordinary men of the historic California Hunger Strikes

This week we air Radio Teco Podcast episode #9 The Fight Against Forced Sterilization, gifted to us by Alexis Terrazas, editor of El Tecolote, Spanish/English newspaper in the mission. Eltecolote.org

This week Nube spends most of the hour with Minister King X, Co-Director of California Prison Focus/KageUniversal speaking on the California Hunger Strike Elders. Nube also reads from the booklet The Evil Dehumanizing Practice within the Short Corridor Torture Chamber, by Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa.

Nube spends the hour with Jalil Muntaqim, former political prisoner, released after 49 years. Jalil is a former Black Panther and Black Liberation Army member and author of five books including, "We Are Our Own Liberators" and "Escaping the Prism...Fade to Black."

Nube reads a letter from inside; Phillip Pitney, a lifer in a California prison tasks about his business Bands Before Riches that he built with his family from the inside; always asking to call the Governor at 916-445-2841 to release our Elders

Nube reads from PF newspaper issues #36 and #37 in preparation for the 10 yr commemoration of the first Hunger strike in July of 2011; we hear from Joka Heshima Jinsai on Strategic Release; and a poem from James Baridi Williamson

Nube speaks with Yolanda Huang, criminal defense lawyer about the class action lawsuit denying sunlight to prisoners in SF County jails; we hear from Mwalimu out of Corcoran commenting on the attacks on Asians; Nube reads and cry for help letter from David Easley an Ohio prisoner; Nube reads a statement from Romaine Chip Fitzgerald who passed on to the ancestors, Monday March 29, 2021. Liberate Ou...

We hear from transgender women speaking from men's prisons; Nube reads an imprisoned woman's story from the book: Inside This Place, Not Of It- narratives from women's prisons; We hear from two women from the Cameo House program; lastly, updates and actions to take.

Nube shares her thoughts on being the partner of an almost formerly incarcerated person, Malik Washington; on Ruchell Magee, 82 years old and caged 58 years; and we hear excerpts from the Free Malik rally March 7, 2021

Nube speaks with Melody Fountila and Rebecca Jackson of Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ) about the unique, transformative justice program at Cameo House, serving system impacted women and their children as alternative to incarceration.

Nube speaks with familiar guest and friend London Croudy; we listen to an excerpt of a lecture with Fania Davis - Restorative Justice, a Relational, Healing and Radical Practice

Nube speaks with Daniel Green author of the article, Find the nigger guilty. Daniel is serving a life sentence for the murder of James Jordan, father of Michael Jordan- a crime for which he is innocent.

Nube speaks with recently returned community member Charles Talib Brooks, who's at the halfway house in the Tenderloin where he resides, about his work on the streets and his educational coloring book.

We hear from Ikemba on the retaliation he's experiencing, reminiscent of Cali's prison guards' treatment of prisoners; Nube reads part 1 and some of part 2 of an article written by Hunger Strike Elder and AEH signer Louis Powell, who is the current focus of the Liberate Our Caged Elders campaign.

Nube Brown speaks with Amirra Rose who gives an account of the brutal assault on three prisoners by Donaldson Correctional Facility guards in Alabama, sending two to emergency rooms with their lives hanging in the balance. We give the contact information to reach out to the governor and warden.

This week we hear from Human Rights Pen Pals speaking on their deep friendships with Hunger Strike Elders still caged; Nube reads an excerpt of a letter from Richard Johnson, the next Liberate Our Caged Elders focus and a letter written to him by famed activist Yuri Kochiyama; finally we hear from our beloved Zah in his own words.