Episode 30: Mass Incarceration, Part One

HEY YALL ~~~ SOTB is back for EPISODE THIRTY and it is a GOOD ONE, folks. This week we r talkin **mass incarceration** with some of the most exciting guests in this show's H I S T O R Y . Buckle up bc we're talking abt the cooptation of incarcerated folks' labor, the ties between environmental degradation and ICE and the prison industrial complex, and the ways that a capitalist bail industry keeps innocent people behind bars for months or even years at a time. SO PUT THOSE HEADPHONES IN UR EARHOLES AND LETS GET TO IT !!!! About our guests: Bypolar is a longtime activist who currently works with the Northwest Community Bail Fund in Seattle. They are in the midst of a legal battle over an unjust prosecution. If u are looking for a CONCRETE WAY to fight the effects of mass incarceration, help them out by calling Seattle prosecutor Pete Holmes at 206-684-8200 and asking him to drop all charges against Matthew Erickson (Bypolar's legal name) and to end the persecution against Seattle's black activist community. Read more at https://stoplegallynching.wordpress.com/ and check out NCBF here: https://www.nwcombailfund.org/ May also works with the Northwest Community Bail Fund and has recently led seminars on the intersection of climate and criminal justice with Bypolar. You can learn more about their work on climate justice at https://fighttoxicprisons.wordpress.com/ and check out the Queer Ecojustice Project as well! (That's at http://queerecoproject.wixsite.com/qollective.) May is also passionate about a new project called Bloc the Juvi, an artist collective organizing against construction of a juvenile detention center in Seattle. Find them on facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/BloctheJuvi/. Nellie is a teacher in El Paso, Texas. She is also a member of the Detained Migrant Solidarity Committee there! Read more about them here: https://dmscelpaso.wixsite.com/dmscelpaso Shaina is a law student at NYU, who has worked with the Orleans Defenders, a public defense law group in Louisiana, and the Petey Greene Program, which seeks to expand educational opportunities for incarcerated folks. Find out more about the Orleans Defenders here: http://www.opdla.org/ and the Petey Greene Program project here: http://www.peteygreene.org/ ps---if u wish this convo would NEVER END ur in luck because this is a TWO WEEK SPECIAL! U MAY HAVE NOTICED THAT BC WE END AT A WEIRD MOMENT LMAO ITS ALL GOOD YALL U JUST HAVE 2 WAIT 7 MORE BEAUTIFUL DAYS FOR THE REST pps May provided us with a list of EVEN MORE RESOURCES for u to check out & educate urself. thanks May!!!!! here they are: Northwest Detention Center Resistance http://www.nwdcresistance.org/ Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity https://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/ Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee https://incarceratedworkers.org/campaigns/operation-push-florida-prison-strike Prison Ecology Project https://nationinside.org/campaign/prison-ecology/ Prison Legal News https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/ Prison Radio http://www.prisonradio.org/about Books to Prisoners http://www.bookstoprisoners.net/ theme music as always by Brandon Payton-Carrillo