Free 'Em All Radio with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and the Lady of Rage 2020-01-15, 2020-01-15

00:00:00 -- Intro music: “Never” by Scarface

00:04:42 -- Music: “The Lyrikal Murda/Bonus Track” by 2Pac & Makaveli The Don aka 2Pac Feat. The Lady Of Rage

00:09:54 -- Unknown song, possibly titled “Free ‘Em All”

00:13:29 -- Unknown song

00:16:24 -- Music: “Everything They Owe” by 2Pac

00:19:47 -- Broadcast begins, Lady of Rage invites Chairman Fred Hampton, Jr. to start the episode; Chairman Fred invites callers to call in

00:21:13 -- Chairman Fred discusses Tashonna Ward, a 25 year old woman in Milwaukee, Wisconsin who died after spending hours waiting for care a hospital, which he calls “we-don’t-care healthcare”; Connects her case to negligent healthcare for the Black community after Hurricane Katrina

00:26:25 -- Chairman Fred runs through a roll call of people in the building

00:28:00 -- Chairman Fred talks about how Black communities are deprived of access to high quality healthcare

00:30:22 -- Loud tapping sounds

00:32:19 -- Silence

00:33:50 -- Broadcast resumes; Chairman describes Tashonna Ward’s death as murder; talks about the “trickle-down impacts” of poor healthcare and housing insecurity

00:36:40 -- Milwaukee activist named Vaun Mayes calls in, discusses “medical redlining” in Milwaukee, activism around the closing of a hospital called St. Joseph’s in the inner city, and how the Red Cross refused to help in predominantly Black zip codes

00:40:50 -- Mayes explains that long wait times in the emergency room and medical professionals ignoring serious symptoms are common in underfunded hospitals

00:44:40 -- Mayes talks about how hotels around the city won’t rent rooms to people from Milwaukee or will overcharge them; Describes how hard it can be to find places to stay for people facing homelessness

00:47:10 -- Chairman Fred talks about how hospitals and universities have used Black people to test experimental treatments and to train medical students

00:49:03 -- Mayes describes inadequate access to medical care for gunshot victims in the city and how Milwaukee is one of the most segregated cities in the US

00:51:30 -- Chairman tells a story about how the singer Sam Cooke nearly died after a car accident because he couldn’t find adequate care; Mentions other contradictions including poor healthcare in Mississippi prisons; Henrietta Lacks’ stem cells being used in medical research; Vaun Mayes signs off

00:57:10 -- Lady of Rage introduces next caller in the queue; an indigenous activist named Kanahus Manuel involved with the Secwepemc Women's Warrior Society and the Tiny House Lawyers in British Columbia, Canada; She explains the goal of building tiny houses on wheels to combat housing insecurity and to protest the building of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion; She explains how to support the group; explains that self-determination is one of the goals of the movement and sheltering people who would otherwise die from hypothermia and poor housing

01:03:50 -- Manuel describes how the Alberta Tar Sands harm indigenous communities; calls funding for the Teck Mine “blood money”; mentions a report on murdered and missing indigenous women and girls in Canada which called it “race-based genocide”; explains the dispossession of indigenous people through residential schools and reservations, as well as how impacts of colonization are still felt

01:08:13 -- Chairman Fred comments on how the issues she discussed relate to other struggles like housing insecurity in Oakland and lack of access to healthcare in Milwaukee

01:10:20 -- Manuel talks about the common struggle of housing as a human right and how colonization separates people from their homelands; She stresses the need to decolonize and reestablish themselves as mighty nations

01:13:18 -- Manuel talks about mass incarceration and the wrongful conviction of her husband Orlando Watley; she explains she is searching for a DNA specialists who could analyze evidence that could free Watley, William Richards, and Kevin Cooper, who were framed by a corrupt cop; explains how to connect with her organizations

01:18:55 -- Chairman Fred invites other callers to call in; Talks about the previous week’s episode about contradictions related to prison gangs and prison as a microcosm of society

01:20:55 -- A man joins the Chairman in the studio; He talks about the prison system, a time when his car broke down and the tow company towed his car; how the system preys on people with a fixed income; describes being racially profiled and pulled over by a state trooper

01:24:00 -- Caller talks about legal trouble in Kankakee, Illinois and how a friend’s son died while in custody at Kankakee County Jail; Chairman asks for his thoughts on deaths in Mississippi state prisons; Chairman talks about organizing to free people; Guest talks about teaching children to avoid prison

01:34:47 -- Caller talks about supporting people in prison; gives his testimony about what God has done for him

01:40:40 -- Chairman summarizes topics and callers from the episode

01:42:03 -- Caller joins, a woman called Elder Mama Kandi [?]; Discusses how Belize outlawed corporate franchises; Mentions the recent death of Comrade Seth Hayes, an early organizer of the Black Panthers; mentioned that one of the mayors in Oklahoma conducted a land study and found mass graves of Black people

01:45:01 -- Mentions that a collective she is part of is searching for a fabric that is bulletproof; mentions the news in Milwaukee, which reminds her of a story of two sisters whose children were taken from them; mentions elders in her community whose homes were foreclosed upon

01:48:17 -- Caller mentions a Black real estate agent who gave up her business after FBI agents pressured her not to sell homes to Black people and a surgical nurse who quit because of how badly Black patients were being treated; Talks about how systemic these issues are; Mentions how Bill Cosby fought a company that tried to run pipes under his home; Talks about how CIA agents sit in on classes at historically Black colleges and universities because the schools are struggling financially; Chairman begins to wrap up broadcast

01:54:50 -- A woman calls from prison; mentions the “inhabitable living conditions”; asks listeners to go to ParoleIllinois.org to ask representatives to implement parole for youth retroactively; asks listeners to call their representatives to vote to repeal House Bill 1615, the “felony murder rule” and about extending Senate Bill 2054, the “truth in sentencing” law; explains how she was sentenced for a crime she did not commit

02:02:22 -- Chairman Fred and caller sign off

02:03:45 -- Music: unknown song, possibly titled “Free ‘Em All”