Chris Hedges: Teaching in Prisons

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with Chris Hedges

TheRealNews on Jul 11, 2022

In a special crossover episode, Chris Hedges joins Mansa Musa on Rattling the Bars to discuss his new book, Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison.

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End Prison Slavery! Prisoners Strike Across the U.S. and into Canada (Mega-post!)

End Prison Slavery! Prisoners Strike Across the U.S. and into Canada

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Dandelion Salad
Sept. 8, 2018

TheRealNews on Aug 23, 2018

Prisoners organized through prison walls to strike, demanding an end to work with no pay, voting rights and for rehabilitation, training, and Education Programs. Pastor Kenneth Glasgow, President of the Ordinary People Society talks about the prison strike.

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US Prisoners Strike To End Prison Slavery by Mattie Boyd

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Updated: Sept. 28, 2016

by Mattie Boyd
workers.org
September 26, 2016

Prison inmates around the country launched the first nationally coordinated work stoppage on Sept. 9. In their own words, these heroic inmates have gone on strike “not only [to] demand the end to prison slavery, [but to] end it ourselves by ceasing to be slaves.” (iwoc.noblogs.org, April 1)

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