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 Beyond Prisons is a podcast on justice, mass incarceration, and prison abolition. Hosted by @phillyprof03 & @bsonenstein 政治・政府 政治学 社会科学
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  • A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre feat. Garrett Felber

    A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre feat. Garrett Felber
    2025/07/16
    For this episode I sat down with Garrett Felber to talk about their new book, A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre. The book is described by Dr. Orisanmi Burton, author of Tip of the Spear, as “A rigorous examination of Sostre's revolutionary life that offers vital lessons for those seeking to carry on the struggle.” I began our conversation by asking Garret about what motivated them to write the book in the first place. We then focus our discussion on what they learned about Sostre throughout the process. Garrett’s clear writing and insightful analysis offers us a layered and complex understanding of Sostre’s life and work. Our conversation highlights Sostre’s evolving political vision and practice, the relevance of his organizing for our current political moment, and how his skillful use of the courts in the fight for prisoner’s rights is foundational for understanding the broader abolitionist struggle. Garrett Felber is an educator, writer, and organizer. They are the author of Those Who Know Don’t Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State, and coauthor of The Portable Malcolm X Reader, with Manning Marable. Felber is a cofounder of the abolitionist collective Study and Struggle and is currently building a radical mobile library, the Free Society People's Library, in Portland, Oregon. AVAILABLE NOW! A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre, by Garrett Felber Virtual Book Launch hosted by Haymarket and AK Press feat. a conversation between Garrett Felber and Ruth Wilson Gilmore. A Continuous Struggle is a political biography of one of the most important revolutionary figures of the twentieth century in the United States. Martin Sostre (1923–2015) was a Black Puerto Rican from East Harlem who became a politicized prisoner and jailhouse lawyer, winning cases in the early 1960s that helped secure the constitutional rights of incarcerated people. He opened one of the country’s first radical Black bookstores and was scapegoated and framed by police and the FBI following the Buffalo rebellion of 1967. He was sentenced by an all-white jury to thirty-one to forty-one years. Throughout his nine-year imprisonment, Sostre transformed himself and the revolutionary movements he was a part of, eventually identifying as a revolutionary anarchist and laying the foundation for contemporary Black anarchism. During that time, he engaged in principled resistance to strip frisks for which he was beaten eleven times, raising awareness about the routinized sexual assault of imprisoned people. The decade-long Free Martin Sostre movement was one of the greatest and most improbable defense campaign victories of the Black Power era, alongside those to liberate Angela Davis and Huey Newton. Although Sostre receded from public view after his release in 1976, he lived another four decades of committed struggle as a tenant organizer and youth mentor in New York and New Jersey. Throughout his long life, Martin Sostre was a jailhouse lawyer, revolutionary bookseller, yogi, mentor and teacher, anti-rape organizer, housing justice activist, and original political thinker. The variety of strategies he used and terrains on which he struggled emphasize the necessity and possibility of multi-faceted and continuous struggle against all forms of oppression in pursuit of an egalitarian society founded on the principles of “maximum human freedom, spirituality, and love.” LINKS Study and Struggle is a collective concentrated in Mississippi that organizes towards abolition through political education, mutual aid, and community building across prison walls. We believe that study and struggle are necessary, complementary parts of any revolutionary movement, and that dismantling the prison industrial complex (PIC) requires centering criminalized people. Justice for Geraldine and Martin – Martin Sostre and Geraldine (Robinson) Pointer's names should have been cleared after they were framed. Sign the petition to support our effort to make what's been delayed for far too long a reality for these two transformational former political prisoners. Credits Created and hosted by Kim Wilson and Brian Nam-Sonenstein Website & volunteers managed by Victoria Nam Support Beyond Prisons Visit our website at beyond-prisons.com. Support our show by making a tax deductible donation here. Please listen, subscribe, and rate/review our podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and Google Play Join our mailing list for updates on new episodes, events, and more Send tips, comments, and questions to beyondprisonspodcast@gmail.com Kim Wilson is available for speaking engagements and to facilitate workshops. Please contact beyondprisonspodcast@gmail.com for more information Twitter: @Beyond_Prison Facebook:@beyondprisonspodcast Instagram:@beyondprisons
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  • Lessons from the Garden: Circle Keeping and Restorative Justice feat. Jennifer Viets

    Lessons from the Garden: Circle Keeping and Restorative Justice feat. Jennifer Viets
    2025/04/07

    In this episode I sat down with the amazing Jennifer Viets for a conversation about her work as a restorative justice practitioner in Chicago. We begin by talking about Jennifer’s experience with being a grandmother including pushing back against societal expectations, how her work shifted from being individually focused to more community oriented, and we explore some of the lessons she’s learned from being a circle keeper about being in right-relationship with others.

    Jennifer Viets(she/her/hers) has worked as a Restorative Justice Practitioner for the past 15 years. She is currently the Alternative Resolution Pathways Specialist in the Office of Student Protections for Chicago Public Schools and for the previous four years worked as a Restorative Practices Coach in the Office of Social Emotional Learning. Her work in the community involves training community Circle Keepers and supporting restorative processes. She has also worked as a multi-disciplinary teaching artist and arts administrator with children and families for the past 30 years using the arts to reach, teach and heal. This work has included designing programming for children and adults in hospitals as well as other institutional settings. She is also a proud mother and grandmother.
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  • For a Livable Future: Building Movements to Stop War & Save the Planet

    For a Livable Future: Building Movements to Stop War & Save the Planet
    2025/01/02
    Welcome to episode three of “Over the Wall: The Abolitionist Hour with Critical Resistance.” For listeners new to Beyond Prisons or our collaboration with Critical Resistance, this is a new, regular series that premiered in September of 2023. Hosted by members of Critical Resistance’s The Abolitionist Editorial Collective, “Over the Wall” discusses articles and key interventions made by Critical Resistance’s cross-wall, bilingual newspaper, The Abolitionist. This special episode focuses on both issues of the newspaper that Critical Resistance (CR) published in 2024: Issue 41 on ecological justice that printed in June and Issue 42 on anti-war organizing that printed in December. Episode 3 is titled, "For a Livable Future: Building Movements to Stop War and Save the Planet," and Dylan and Molly are back, analyzing the shifting political terrain ahead and what this means for organizing against the prison industrial complex (PIC), against war, warmaking, and militarism, for ecological justice and collective liberation. Together, they discuss key articles within both Issues 41 and 42, which foreground organized resistance to climate change, ecological collapse and crisis, war, genocide and imperialism, alongside policing and imprisonment. This episode includes a few contributing authors of both issues, including Rehana Lerandeau, Eva Dickerson, Judah Schept, Masai Ehehosi (who Issue 42 is dedicated to), Misty Pegram, and Tia Marie. Issue 41 is available for free download on CR’s website, along with some early release articles from Issue 42 while the latest issue is still in print circulation. Check out the newspaper, Issue 41 in full and the Issue 42 sneak peeks, as well as all past issues at: criticalresistance.org/abolitionist. The time is always right to support radical political education! Subscribe today to receive your own copy of each issue and support circulation of the paper to imprisoned people. Every single paid subscription on the outside allows CR to send the paper to thousands of people locked up inside prisons, jails, and detention centers to receive this valuable political education resource FOR FREE! Go to: criticalresistance.org/subscribe-to-the-abolitionist to sign up for a sliding scale subscription to the paper, or to sign up an imprisoned loved one to receive a copy of our next issue. Announcements: Support one of CR’s closest movement partner organizations–The Freedom Archives by giving a donation this year-end or new-year season. The Freedom Archives is an essential movement history resource based in the Bay Area that is celebrating 25 years since its founding. The Freedom Archives contains over 12,000 hours of audio and video recordings as well as print materials dating primarily from the late-1960s to the mid-90s. These collections chronicle the progressive history of the Bay Area, the United States, and international movements for liberation and social justice more broadly. The Freedom Archives have been an ongoing resource for CR’s editorial collective, helping us with research and archiving each of our issues of The Abolitionist. Check out the archives online and donate today: freedomarchives.org. Host Bios: Dylan Brown is a 24-year-old Black organizer and educator based in New York City, and has been a member of Critical Resistance since 2020. As a member of the New York City chapter of Critical Resistance, Dylan is organizing within the Abolish ICE New York/New Jersey Coalition on their current NY Dignity Not Detention campaign, which seeks to build power to end immigrant detention throughout NY State. For the past three years, Dylan has been an editor for The Abolitionist Newspaper. Molly Porzig is a Bay Area based organizer and educator in California with nearly 20 years of organizing experience with Critical Resistance (CR). Molly is currently CR’s National Media & Communications Manager, as well as the organization’s project manager of The Abolitionist. Contributor Bios / Guest Interviews: Eva Dickerson: Starseed eva (they/themme/baby girl) believes in a freer, greener future and is on a journey alongside their world-expanding friends to get there. The apple of their eye is the city of Atlanta, where they live, work, play, and experiment with the people in the city about how we might practice a more compassionate way of being together. Much of their organizing in the city is concentrated within the Ashview Heights, Vine City, West End, Bush Mountain, and now Gresham Park neighborhoods where their abolitionist ideology comes to life by way of childcare collectives, neighborhood farmers markets, community gardens, popular education campaigns, and earth-based projects. Rehana Lerandeau: Rehana is the National Membership Organizer for Critical Resistance (CR). Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Rehana’s roots flow from her hometown of Oakland. A previous member of CR’s Oakland chapter, Rehana supports CR members develop ...
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