Prisons

By Anonymous (not verified), 22 February, 2012
Author
WSQT Direct Action Radio 90.5 FM in DC

Here is the playlist from our Feb 22 broadcast:

Pirate Radio Song
Station ID
Palestine Today for Feb 22
War Update:26 shot at protests over burned Korans found in Bagram Air Base garbage
GOP Primaries turn sectarian as Santorum denounces Obama's faith
Station ID
Protesters shut down demolition site where DC Wal-Mart planned
Protest at the DC Jail against mass incarceration and abuse of prisoners
Intermix in Georgetown gets fur protest

By Anonymous (not verified), 14 September, 2011
Author
Michael Slate

Carl Dix, Revolutionary Communist Party and James "The Doctor" Benjamin, Attica Brother/participant in the Attica Rebellion, speak about the Attica Rebellion - what happened, the significance of the rebellion and why it should be upheld today.
Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party (recorded excerpt of speech), speaks about War and Terrorism in the aftermath of 9/11.

By Anonymous (not verified), 31 August, 2011
Author
Michael Slate

"Convicting the Innocent & Robo War in Gaza"
Brandon L. Garrett, author of "Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong," and Professor at the University of Virginia Law School, talks about the cases of 250 people who were exonerated by DNA evidence after spending an average of 13 years in prison, including 17 who were on Death Row. Garrett reveals that these wrongful convictions were not exceptions but the result of practices that the courts rely on every day.

By Anonymous (not verified), 13 July, 2011
Author
Michael Slate

"The Importance of Using Facts to the Truth & the Stigma of Abortion, Chain of Torture Chambers across the US and Update on the Hunger Strike in the SHU at Pelican Bay State Prison in California"

Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check, talks about the importance of using facts to take on and expose the extremism of the anti-abortion movement.

Lance Tapley, Journalist and Author, talks about the nature of the Super-Max prisons that the torture inside their walls.

By Anonymous (not verified), 12 May, 2010
Author
Michael Slate, host and producer

Raymond Lotta, communist political economist, digs into the Gulf oil
spill and reveals how it is a capitalist oil spill in every
conceivable way and points to how a socialist society would do
things differently.

Army veteran Matthis Chiroux talks about the nationwide "We Are Not
Your Soldiers" tour of resister vets and The World Can't Wait
organization, talking to high school students and organizing
resistance to military recruiters signing students up to carry out war crimes around the world.

Langston Hughes on the importance of Dreams.