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Political prisoners

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Prisoners of conscience

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Free 'Em All Radio with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and the Lady Of Rage 2020-02-26, 2020-02-26

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Abstract Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. opens this episode by playing audio of police officers in Orlando, Florida aggressively arresting a six-year-old girl. He analyzes the contradictions that the interaction reveals. Jared Ball, a professor of communication studies at Morgan State University, joins the livestream on Facebook for a discussion about the power dynamics created by capitalism and colonialism that connect the situations Chairman Fred discusses on the show. Ball and Chairman Fred discuss how...
Dates: 2020-02-26

Free 'Em All Radio with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and the Lady of Rage 2021-01-20, 2021-01-20

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Abstract Chairman Fred and the Lady of Rage discuss the making of the film Judas and the Black Messiah, and how that project connects to saving the Hampton House, Chairman Fred Hampton Sr.’s childhood home. The hosts also cover the limits of electoral strategy in making political change, the impossible choice the Black community has between two evils, the prison industrial complex and C number prisoners in Illinois, the #MeToo movement, and international struggles against U.S. imperialism in places...
Dates: 2021-01-20

Free 'Em All Radio With Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and the Lady of Rage 2021-08-11, 2021-08-11

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This episode covers, Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and the Lady of Rage discussing NYC Governor Andre Cuomo's resignation, two brother's from Chicago charged in fatal shooting of a Chicago police officer, wounding another, and a gas station attendant in Dolton, Il beating a woman who came in wanting to use the restroom. There is discussion around politics and the analysis of it all.

Dates: 2021-08-11