America's unacknowledged political prisoners speak w/Eric King | Rattling the Bars

From Assata Shakur to Leonard Peltier, social movements have lifted up political prisoners as revolutionary examples and fought protracted, often decades-long campaigns to secure their release. Now, a new collection from AK Press, Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners, gathers the experience and wisdom of some 30 political prisoners in one place for the first time. Eric King and Josh Davidson, the editors of the project, join Rattling the Bars to discuss their new book and the urgency of the fight to free political prisoners.
Josh Davidson is an abolitionist who is involved in numerous projects, including the Certain Days Collective, which publishes the annual Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar, and the Children’s Art Project with political prisoner Oso Blanco. Josh also works in communications with the Zinn Education Project.
Eric King is a father, poet, author, and activist. He is a political prisoner serving a 10-year federal sentence for an act of protest over the police murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014. He is scheduled to be released in 2024. He has been held in solitary confinement for years on end and has been assaulted by both guards and white supremacists. King has published three zines: Battle Tested, Antifa in Prison, and Pacing in My Cell.
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[@dieselforwethepeoplenews6612]

Get rid of that Patriot act

[@mardbalasy6671]

Thank you, Obama! Snowden, Assange... lock them up.

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Free Leonard Peltier!!!!

[@annebarr9314]

3 very special people who shine a light and shine with light.

[@mahlataban686]

Thank you for yoir acts of solidarity ❤❤

[@cheri238]

What an enormous contribution all of you are doing to keep exposing how corrupt our prison system has been corrupted for years. Thank you, Masa Musa, for your news program. Education for humanity is important, and reading and activism with a moral compass. ❤❤❤

[@WarrenHolly]

Yes! 👏🏾🤓

[@chiefsinner1680]

God Bless My Brothers and Sisters!

[@jerrypoitras-dx4uf]

Release Leonard Pelletier. ⚡🙏⚡🦅⚡

[@paulgibby6932]

Got the book (thanks to this show) and started reading. Thanks to all of you so much!

[@vinozarazzi5633]

"The powers that shouldn't be..."

[@WarrenHolly]

Sounds about right 👍🏾😏

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Really excellent and most worthy contributions. Thank you very much.

[@allyngharbi641]

Excellant report

[@kg4tri]

Thank you for this video , It Just so happens I just finished reading this book a couple of weeks ago . Good Video and Good book.

[@WarrenHolly]

Great show. Salute to the host💪🏾 I'd bet my last dollars he's from DC. Zhout out to the panel 🙏🏾 I have to share this one with all of my friends ✊🏾

[@mahlataban686]

Please share with us if you have social media pages so we can promote❤

[@mahlataban686]

Omg that you for speaking on this❤❤❤❤

[@bertbaker7067]

Great episode, thanks for sharing your interview with 2 solid brothers. I did 7 years in VA doc, and started getting radicalized while in prison. It wasn't until after I was released and had access to more information that I fully embraced communism. I'm not perfect and my personal struggles led me back to jail for a couple months recently and while I was there I tried to tell guys about solidarity, class consciousness, not being bootlickers, and doing nothing that makes it easier to keep another person locked up, like kitchen work or trustee. I've been sending them information myself, but are there any organizations I could sign them up for that has like a weekly/monthly newsletter or pamphlet I could print out and send? Stay strong, solidarity forever 🇵🇸✊

[@WarrenHolly]

Excellent work! Keep plugging away ✊🏾

[@WarrenHolly]

My third grade teacher dropped a jewel on me she said whenever you feel hungry grab a good book and it will fill you and amazingly I found it to be physically true. Now a good book is one that touches your soul it should inspire you. Respect!🙏🏾

[@WarrenHolly]

I remember Laura Whitehorn. Yeah 🤓👏🏾

[@SixOneNiner23]

50 cop cities quietly opening up across the country right now and crickets from the media. Be safe, it’s gonna get crazy quick.

[@WarrenHolly]

And quite a few corrupt police chiefs headed to court as we speak

[@tyfromuzi5871]

well spoke, thank you~

[@tneppard]

#FREESCHAFFERCOX

[@Jamieyomama]

My first thought. I was acquainted with and voted for him. A REAL political prisoner.

[@dieselforwethepeoplenews6612]

Love him or hate him it's political without a climate in his 300 million case no victim no crime

[@WarrenHolly]

Where can I get that George Jackson T. Brother?

[@tyfromuzi5871]

dam mac said mol'd the fbuildin your solidarity is recongized bro~

[@WarrenHolly]

That's the sad reality. Their plantation is flourishing at this time and we run around in there like we are comfortable. Some men believe that they are living their best life inside. Now that's sad. Stay out of those plantations I mean prisons.🙏🏾

[@johnferguson2721]

Land of the Free?, from a Continent away, hahahahahahaha.

[@RealityAudits]

it's not right to hold people when politicians are not held accountable at all. J6 or ukraine, all the same

[@vincentdavis1926]

No God No problem. Jews came from Ukraine 5000 years ago...Noahs ark was racism

[@derekalan79]

This is the craziest crap ever. I love freedom of speech. And I love that I somehow stumbled upon this. The people in this video are legends in their own mind. Throwing Molotov cocktails in buildings isn’t “civil disobedience” it is crazy dangerous and stupid. That Aaron guy uses tons of words to say absolutely nothing and thinks he’s making some profound point. It seems like mental illness but I’m no expert. This video is hilarious and kind of scary at the same time. Hoping you all don’t go out and commit more crimes. And in fairness the author didn’t sound too nuts, but dumb move for being on a video with the other two.

[@phillyphlip1925]

"Uses tons of words to say absolutely nothing" yes you did.

[@JamminClemmons]

@@phillyphlip1925 Interesting conversations attract interesting people *and* ...conversations. Echo-chambers silence all but the most holy, whom eventually self-suffocate from the lack of dialogue. In YOUR CASE; Silence is golden, duct tape is silver......

[@sabujones2508]

I did time for political crimes in 1971. I beat my case after 2-1/2yrs in Fed prison. I was arrested in Calif ,for supposely, steal weapons from and Armory and attempt to destroy the building.The case was in Washington DC. I met bros from all over the world ,who were dedicated revolutionaries. I realize how much time I could have served if I hadnt beat the case in appeals court.Thanks for this program.

[@ericrobinson7184]

Interesting...I think their should be some kind of movement to communicate en mass with people in prison, like getting college and high school and elderly folks to pen pal with them, and or visit them to discuss social and political processes.

[@MentallyRetardedHamilton]

No mention of the parents who commit their children to the system because they say things that make sense? Let me clue you in. They're masters of fashion and have lots of friends. Their community rewards them for having a child that is one of "them." You love the them that's us.