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Hosts Anna & Chris sit down with Jayna Ahsaf & Jonathan Elwell of FreeHerVT. This show is Part II of our look at Vermont and prisons - from the historical context of VT carceral systems to today's campaign to stop new prison construction. Jayna Ahsaf is the lead field organizer for FreeHerVT and Jonathan an organizer. We talk with them about the FreeHerVT campaign, women in prison, criminalization of certain populations, & abolition.

You can find Part I here:
https://on.soundcloud.com/oT6SmwM8e6F6iPhJ8

Songs:
1) Loretta Lynn "Women's Prison"
2) Wanda Jackson "Tennessee Women's Prison"
3) Lightnin Hopkins "Jailhouse Blues"

Show notes:
- National website: https://www.nationalcouncil.us

- FreeHer Zine: drive.google.com/file/d/11hILxjEc…qg9zTc-8ut3/view

- VT’s website: https://www.nationalcouncil.us/vermont

- VT Landing page (more info & links):
http://the-council.us/freehervt

- Jonathan's article: https://www.rakevt.org/2024/01/04/behind-the-smoke-and-mirrors-the-true-story-of-prin/

- Mariame Kaba’s zine:
https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/what-about-the-rapists

Part I of a two-part show on Vermont and incarceration. Hosts Chris and Anna spend the hour with Jonathan Elwell, organizer with the FreeHerVT campaign. In Part I, Jonathan speaks with us about the purpose of prisons, the history of incarceration and surveillance in Vermont, and the criminalization of the poor.
Part II will air next week and will focus on the FreeHerVT campaign with Jayna Ahsaf and Jonathan.
Songs:
1) Tom Waits: "Fish in the Jailhouse"
2) Warren Zevon: "Prison Grove"
3) Felice Brothers: "Rockafeller Drug Laws"
4) Public Enemy: "Black Steel"
Photo: VT State Prison, Windsor 1907
show notes:

FreeHer: https://www.freehercampaign.org/vermont
FreeHer zine
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11hILxjEcUBBU8KcjJOqxIqg9zTc-8ut3/view

Books:
Tip of the Spear - Orisanmi Burton
Golden Gulag - Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Host Anna sits down with Emory University students Bella and Zach Hammond, two leading organizers with Students for Socialism @ Emory. Bella and Zach talk about what influences shaped their political thoughts, organizing at Emory (and beyond!), media role, and hopes they have.

Info on GILEE
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania-khalek/atlanta-mayor-rejects-demand-end-israel-police-training

Songs:
1) "Change Tomorrow" by DAM
2) "Yama" by Gitkin
3) "Me Gustan Los Estudiantes" by Mercedes Sosa

In a recent interview on Democracy Now, director of “Unseen” Set Hernandez quoted Ursula Le Guin: “Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now. … We’ll need writers who can remember freedom — poets, visionaries — realists of a larger reality.” In this episode we invited Emily and Nora Khilfeh, two Palestinian students: Emily is graduate student of writing at Arizona State University and she shares her poetry in our show today, Nora is a student at Edmonds College in Seattle. Both students share their experiences as Palestinian college students, their visits to their family home in Palestine, and poetry that speaks truth to power.

Song #1: Lowkey - Long Live Palestine ft Frankie Boyle, Maverick Sabre (Part 3) [Music Video] | GRM Daily (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhEFrv-Xwtw)

Song #2: Ramallah Underground - Sijen ib Sijen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlRVdbMZSJk)

Listen to high school students in Vermont share their thoughts about what is happening in Gaza. C

On Sunday, March 10th ATLradicalart held a rally outside the High Museum in Atlanta, GA. Their rally was to say No Artwashing Israeli Apartheid! They ask: "How does Empire use Art against the people and to cover up complicity in genocide?" Listen to the voices from outside on the streets!
Songs/Speakers in order:
1) Song and chant - Priscilla Gay Smith
2) Opening with Rozina Shivaz Gilani
3) Umaymah Mohammad
4) Song by Emmanuel Lockett
5) Andrea Ornelas - Gaza Monologue
6) Nushrat Nur
7) Poem by Keara Skates
8) Gaza Monologue
9) Cristy York
10) Libre Sankara - Gaza Monologue
11) Song by Divina Salam