California Prisoner Hunger Strike and the Legal Lynching of Trayvon Martin
Weekly Program
Sarah Shourd (former prisoner, writer and anti solitary confinement activist); Steve Czifra (Former Pelican Bay Shu Prisoner & UC Berkeley Student); Carl Dix (Revolutionary Communist Party & Stop Mass Incarceration Network);
Shourd on her prolonged solitary confinement in an Iranian prison: a disturbing picture of inhuman torture so common in the US. Czifra on being in solitary for 8 years, and the rolling fast at UC Berkeley in solidarity with the California prison hubnger strike. Dix on the legal lynching of Trayvon Martin concentrated in the acquittal of killer George Zimmerman and the protests everywhere in response. He also looks at the California Prison Hunger Strike & how it relates to the Zimmerman verdict.
Michael Slate - Host and Producer Henry Carson - Assistant Producer Jeff Pryor - Intern, production assistant Federico Garcia - Engineer
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