Hello everybody and welcome back to Rev Left Radio. On today's episode we have a really

important episode, a sort of call to action episode surrounding the story of the Pendleton

to. We have on as our guest two black who has done a lot of work with the

Pendleton to and a lot of work with the Black Alliance for Peace, the Defense Committee to

free the Pendleton too, and is a poet, puts together documentaries.

We've had them on actually, I think earlier this year, in May of this year with his with his co-author

Rosuwa to talk about their book they released this year called Londering

Black Rage the Washing of Black Death, People, Property, and Profits.

So that interview was really important and I'll link that interview in the show note so you can

go check that out

definitely it was a it was a great episode and while we're on the topic of

political prisoners I just want to remind people that a couple years ago in

2021 we did an interview with Kevin Rashid Johnson of the revolutionary

intercommunalist Black Panther Party from prison who he's still in prison and

we got the first person sort of perspective of what prison is, how the prison guards behave,

the racial dynamics of maximum security prisons, the torture of solitary confinement, so I thought that was an interesting

interview that this one sort of reminded me of as the as the broader critique the

abolitionist and radical revolutionary critique of the racist American political

prison system is advanced in this episode as it wasn't in that one. So it's really

important to just educate yourself about that, help other people educate themselves about that.

I also wanted to make sure I,

and I make this clear throughout the episode,

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