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Cultural Writing. CD. Thirty years ago, America's prisons burned. This 60-minute CD seeks to answer a multitude of questions: How and why did this happen? Who were the Attica brothers? The Soledad Brothers? Why did 1,500 Black, Puerto Rican, and white prisoners seize control of the New York prison? What is the legacy of the prison movement and what do these forgotten histories tell us about prison, repression, and the struggle for freedom today? Through a mixture of archive audio and contemporary interviews, music, and narration by Harry Belafonte, Angela Davis, George Jackson, James Baldwin and more, this in-depth recording introduces and grapples with this history, and its lessons for today and tomorrow.
Synopsis
Who were the Soledad Brothers? Why did they seize control of the prison? And who was George Jackson? And why was the murdered by the prison administration? It all went down 30 years ago; learn about it through archive audio, music and interviews, the voices of the Attica Brothers, Jonathan Jackson Jr., Angela Davis, Amiri Baraka, James Baldwin, and Harry Belafonte.
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Thirty years ago America's prisons burned. Here's how, why, and what happened. Who were the Attica Brothers? Who was George Jackson? And why was he murdered by the prison administration? And what do these forgotten histories tell us about prisons, repression, and the struggle for freedom today? Now, through archive audio, music and interviews, the voices of the Attica Brothers, Jonathan Jackson Jr., Angela Davis, Amiri Baraka, James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte, former Black Panther Chief Of Staff David Hilliard and more, introduce and grapple with this legacy.
Synopsis
30 years ago America's prisons burned. Here's how, why, and what happened.