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Mumia Abu-Jamal, b. April 24, 1954 / 2026
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Mumia Abu-Jamal, b. April 24, 1954 / 2026
Prisoners’ Justice Day is coming up on Wednesday, August 10, 2022. As usual, the Prison Radio collective at CFRC 101.9 FM - Queen’s University Radio will be taking over the airwaves at 101.9 FM and CJAI 92.1 FM on Amherst Island (near Millhaven Institution) from 4-10PM to talk about the day and to honour and remember those we have lost inside Canadian prisons and jails since the first PJD in 1975.
Along with our special content, we’ll be playing song requests and messages of love and solidarity from friends and supporters going out to local prisoners, many of whom will be fasting and refusing work to mark PJD.
Our signal reaches Collins Bay Penitentiary, Joyceville Institution, Millhaven Institution, Bath Institution, the Quinte Detention Centre and across Lake Ontario to the prison in Cape Vincent, New York.
Send a message or song request by writing to:
427 Princess Street Suite 409 Kingston, Ontario K7L 5S9 By e-mail: [email protected] Phone: 613-417-3359 Social media: @cprkingston
‘Incarceration IS the Pandemic’
PrisonRadio.org
Hi folks. As many of you know, I work for an organization called Prison Radio, which works to elevate the voices of imprisoned people in journalism and public debate. This year we have recorded and broadcasted over 150 radio commentaries from incarcerated people, giving us a first hand account of COVID-19 behind bars, insight into police and prison guard brutality, and analysis of the current social unrest.
Prison Radio’s fall fundraising campaign ends tomorrow (October 14), and we badly need your help to make our campaign goal of $35K. Right now—with 31 hours to go—we’re $5500 short.
Prison Radio is a small and scrappy organization and we run entirely on donations. Because we’re an openly abolitionist organization, and because we refuse to censor our incarcerated correspondents’ journalism to fit anyone else’s agenda, we almost never get grants from major foundations. Prison Radio exists because every year, thousands of people like you—people who believe that incarcerated voices must be heard—open their wallets and give whatever they can.
[Image description: a watercolor drawing of a police car overrun by vines against a lush green background. Vibrant tree trunks burst through the car’s shattered windows and brown roots extend from underneath. Underneath the image is the caption “When we Fight, we Win!” in large, looping handwriting. The drawing is signed by Liam Ashbrook. Under the signature is the web address prisonradio.org. /end description.]
I’m asking you to give what you can today. We have about 31 hours left to raise another $5,556. That comes out to about $180 every hour. Our best chance of making our goal is if as many people contribute as possible, including people new to our work.
For three decades, Prison Radio’s broadcasts from inside have sparked radical discussions of the prison-industrial complex, and that’s a tradition that we will continue as long as we are still here to pick up the phone. Please help us keep that phone on.
Help us keep the fight alive. Help us keep our people’s stories on the air. Help us crank up the volume so that our leader’s voices will be heard.
Another world is possible—but we need leadership from our most marginalized community members in order to build that world. We need to hear insight from people inside the prisons. And for that, we need your support. Please make a donation today if you can, and please share the contents of this post with your friends and family. A donation of any size builds momentum. If you want to learn more about Prison Radio’s work, here are links to our website, our Facebook page, our Instagram, and our Twitter. The commentaries we broadcast are available on the Audio Listings page of the website and on iTunes. They’ll come up on the iTunes store if you search “Prison Radio.” All of our commentaries are available for free.
Frantz Fanon, b. July 20, 1925 / 2025 – 100
Mumia Abu-Jamal, Frantz Fanon, 100 Years, (audio, text), Prison Radio, July 14, 2025
Mumia Abu-Jamal, (2004, 2008), We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party, Introduction by Kathleen Cleaver, Common Notions, Brooklyn, NY, 2016, New Edition