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Episode 31: (LIVE Taping) Victories from Inside Out: Dismantling the Prison-Industrial Complex
Speak Out with Tim Wise
English - April 17, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 56.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 313 ratingsPolitics News racism economics inequality news liberal (left) Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
On today's episode, Tim sits in conversation with two of the nation’s most inspiring criminal justice and prison reform activists, Taina Vargas-Edmond and Dorsey Nunn, during the first-ever recording of the show in front of a live audience.
Vargas-Edmond is the Executive Director and co-Founder of Initiate Justice and Dorsey Nunn is the Executive Director of Legal Services for Prisoners With Children/All of Us or None. In this public dialogue — a fundraiser for their respective groups sponsored by Bay Area SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice) — they discuss a number of critical issues, including:
-- The devastating impact of incarceration on families and communities;
-- The importance of seeing the incarcerated as multi-dimensional human beings rather than broken and dangerous individuals incapable of restoration;
-- Why it’s so important to involve the incarcerated and their families directly in advocacy work and to have them actually leading those efforts;
-- The importance of some recent successes in California and elsewhere when it comes to criminal justice reform; and finally, the work that remains to be done to create a more just society for all.