This week, two segments. The full version, with slightly more from Bernard Jemison plus Sean Swain’s segment can be found at our website.

Don Bosco Park Defense in Bologna

First up, an interview submitted by audio comrades in Italy about the struggle against the cementization of the city of Bologna and the defense of Don Bosco park from the expansion of a university, highways… the whole urban landscape without the input of the residents so the city can move a school rather than renovate it. This struggle, including the occupation and defense of the park, represents an innovation in urban struggles in Italy which consciously takes inspiration from the struggle to Stop Cop City in so-called Atlanta and the activities of the park defenders has forced the left-leaning municipal government and mayor to temporarily suspend the cutting of trees.

Bernard Jemison on Conditions and Resistance in AL Prisons

Then, you’ll hear Bernard Jemison, an incarcerated activist held in Holman prison in Alabama talking about conditions inside the ADOC recent calls for prisoner strikes in the state by the Free Alabama Movement and their outside supporters, as well as his views on the demands being made.

The demands that we mention are the following:

1. BILL TO REPEAL THE HABITUAL OFFENDER ACT ON THE TABLE
2. CIVIL CLASS ACTION LITIGATION FOR PAROLE ALREADY FILED. EVERYONE NEEDS TO SIGN UP.
3. PAROLE BILL ON THE TABLE
4. WE NEED TO ABOLISH LWOP AND CREATE AN AVENUE FOR JUVENILE OFFENDERS.
5. NO MORE NITROGEN GAS EXECUTIONS..
6. STOP SELLING OUR ORGANS.

A few articles on the subjects worth reading include:

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/death-rate-alabama-prisons-five-091450767.html
• https://www.alabamasmartjustice.org/reports/hfoa
• https://www.al.com/news/montgomery/2024/03/alabama-legislature-seeks-to-solve-missing-organ-issue.html
• https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/crime/2024/03/15/death-rate-in-alabama-prisons-is-five-times-the-us-average/72936145007/
• Statement of support by CCR for a strike called for by Free Alabama Movement: https://ccrjustice.org/home/press-center/press-releases/center-constitutional-rights-stands-solidarity-mass-prison-strike

Social media accounts Bernard thinks are doing a good job covering these issues:

• @Hopedealersprisonreform is Bernard on TikTok
• @truthbehindbars is a private facebook Bernard contributes to
• @prison_toks on TikTok

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Featured Track:

• On Point (instrumental) by House of Pain

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Crime, Corruption, and Community Based Liberation in the U.S./Mexico Neoliberal Military Political Economy

This week, you’ll hear our chat with Simón Sedillo, author of Weapons, Drugs & Money: Crime, Corruption, and Community Based Liberation in the U.S./Mexico Neoliberal Military Political Economy. Simón talks a little about his early days in media near the start of the Indymedia world, his documentary that became the news website El Enemigo Común (which translates to “the common enemy”) which covered grassroots, indigenous led movements in southern so-called Mexico, and about his book with a focus on intervention and integration from capitalist and military powers in the US, multinational banking and big pharma and the violence against and resilience of indigenous communities under that nation-state. The full interview can be found at our website.

Check out the website https://www.weaponsdrugsandmoney.org/ for more info on how to order a copy, and the chapters are being posted and translated into castellano at https://elenemigocomun.net/ , where you can find two decades + of really interesting content. Simón suggests people follow Avispa Mídia https://avispa.org/ as a project following in the legacy of El Enemigo Común.

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Josh Hart of Feather River Action! in Plumas county joined me to speak about US Forest Service plans for an emergency thinning of forests in this north east part of so-called California and which is threatened to be reproduced in other Federal and private lands in the name of fire prevention around the country. We talk about the claims, motivations and alternative proposals of activists, scientists and community members and the upcoming Lost Sierra Forest-Climate Action Camp happening in the area at the end of May 23-29th.

Here’s another group working on the issue:

• http://johnmuirproject.org/

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Jeremy White on the “San Diego Antifa” Case

A recent chat with Jeremy White, film-maker, activist, and street medic who’s facing prison time in what has been dubbed the “San Diego Antifa” case. You’ll hear Jeremy talk about what happened on January 9^th, 2021 at the Stop The Steal rally, how the police interacted with members of American Guard and Proud Boys as they assaulted passers by, the conspiracy-theory driven DA Sommers Stephan and where the case was before it resumed on March 18th, after we recorded this chat. Jeremy also worked on a horror-comedy film called “Bitch Ass“.

• Transcription

Fundraising on the case:

• Give Butter to benefit two defendants in the case: http://givebutter.com/protest-defense-sandiego
• Instagram: @SuperPowerToThePeople

Fundraising for Tallcan, former defendant:

• Benefit concert Saturday, May 18th 2024 @Birdcage Comics
  165 W Hospitality Lane,
  Suite 17
  San Bernadino, CA 92408
  Doors @ 6pm / ALLAGES
  $8 Suggested donation / (no one will be turned away for lack of funds)
  The proceeds from this show will go to legal funds and family support.
  FEATURING LIVE PERFORMANCES BY:
  SEXETTE / GLORBO / THE HAIL MARIAS / DOVE / LOW SWEEP
• Venmo: @PUSHINGDOWNTHEWALLS
  Cashapp: $PUSHINGDOWNTHEWALLS
  Please put “TC” in the notes.

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Featured Track:

• Comrades by Bambu from Party Worker

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SCI Rockview is a prison in central Pennsylvania where incarcerated comrades have been facing repression for demanding justice in the face of impunity by racist COs and following a year of prisoner deaths due to institutional toxicity and guard violence. We speak to an outside supporter about the situation at Rockview, the reactions of administration, inside / outside relationships and solidarity that have flared up. We hope that this conversation contributes to increased and thickened ties between folks on both sides of the walls. You can read some recent posts about this situation at AbolitionistStudy.com and PHLAntiCap.NoBlogs.org and you can find audio from the wives of prisoners at SCI Rockview on In The Mix Prisoner Podcast. A few other sites of interest include StudyAndStruggle.com and In The Belly Journal.

This conversation was conducted via encrypted messages and recorded by a comrade Golem and Ash from the MolotovNow! Podcast, so a big thanks is due to them. The full episode, including a transcript is available at our website.

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Featured Track:

• Ba Teaches Yoga by Four Tet from Beautiful Rewind

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