June 17, 2025
Prison Radio Show
Today's episode features a book launch event that took place on April 11th at the Shift Centre. The book is titled “Defund: Conversations towards abolition” published by Haymarket Books. The book features the collection of interviews with prison abolitionist organizers and thinkers on how to bridge the divide between reform and abolition. Calvin John Smiley is the books author; he's also a professor of Sociology at City University in New York. We will hear today on the show from Calvin John smiley in conversation with Freeman of the Termite Collective you will...
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May 20, 2025
Prison Radio Show
This episode focused on Palestinian prisoners and featured an interview with the Director of the International Committee of the Palestinian Prisoners' Society, Rahid Ahmer, who is based in Nablus in the West Bank. As always the audio from the previous show bleeds into the start of this one! We are trying to catch up with a year of shows that have been absent in our podcast feed and so we have been downloading directly from the CKUT archives and posting here. The way the archives work, there is often a minute or two of the previous show at the start of the hour.
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May 6, 2025
Prison Radio Show
This show was our funding drive special! We talked to folks on parole and people in prison about why CKUT and the Prison Radio Show matters to them. Then the hosts share a bit about why they care about the show and their motivations for volunteering with the station.
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April 8, 2025
Prison Radio Show
This episode featured audio from a panel discussion that happened in March 2025 in Montreal. It was part of the Rafales Anarchist Learning Camp, organized by the Revolutionary Anarchist Organization. The panel was on police and prison abolition and featured Mélina from the Comité Autonome du Travail du Sexe, Marquis Bey who is a professor of Black Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and English at Northwestern University, Fallon who once faced terrorism charges and spent a year in jail in Mexico, and Cedar from the Hamilton, Ontario based Barton Prison Solidarity Project. The panel was...
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March 25, 2025
Prison Radio Show
This episode features a special interview with Maryam Kashani, an associate professor at the University of Illinois and an organizer with Believers Bail Out, a "community led effort to bailout Muslims in pretrial and immigration incarceration towards abolition". Professor Kashani published the book Medina by the Bay in 2023, which was "an ethnocinematic examination of how multiracial Muslim communities in the San Francisco Bay Area survive within and against racial capitalist, carceral, and imperial logics." https://www.maryamkashani.com
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February 11, 2025
Prison Radio Show
This episode featured audio from organizers with the International Coalition for Palestinian Hostages, including their spokesperson Dr. Mai Hussein. This exclusive Prison Radio Show interview was recorded in August 2024. The audio is taken straight from the CKUT archives and includes a small bit of the show that airs before PRS.
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December 31, 2024
Prison Radio Show
This episode featured archival and live footage from the New Years Eve Noise Demo in Montreal, an annual event where people gather outside prisons and send holiday greetings to people locked up inside. The event features fireworks, speeches, music, and banners all in support of prisoners.
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December 17, 2024
Prison Radio Show
This episode focused on migrant justice and prisoner justice. We shared audio from a demonstration that took place in November 2024 outside the immigration detention centre in Laval, Quebec. The demonstration was organized by Solidarity Across Borders in solidarity with a Colombian family who was facing deportation at the hands of the Canadian Border Services Agency. We also shared some audio from the archives including an interview from 2014 with an organizer from the End Immigration Detention Network, an organization that was key in supporting migrants who went on hunger strike in the fall...
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September 24, 2024
Prison Radio Show
This episode featured audio from a conference called Abolitionist Initimicies that happened from June 29-July 1, 2024 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Information on the conference can be found here: The panel we aired is the following: Incarcerated Workers and the Labour Movement: Asserting the Fundamental Rights of Prisoners by Unionization can alter the power imbalance between prisoners and the administration. As part of a larger push to support captive and precarious worker organizing, the labour movement's involvement in prisoner struggles for labour rights and freedom is crucial. Any such...
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August 13, 2024
Prison Radio Show
This episode featured audio from the Prisoner Justice Day events of August 10, 2024.
info_outlineThis show features a long news section about a recent class-action lawsuit as well as an interview with Rasheed Stanley-Lockheart, the Reentry Director with the Ahimsa Collective. He is one of the authors of the recently released memo called "The Case for People First Reentry" and our interview focused on that memo. Heads up we downloaded the audio from CKUT's archives and so there are 2 minutes of audio from the previous show at the top of the hour.