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Episode 33: Prisoner Support And Solidarity Organizing With IWOC's Brooke Terpstra
Episode 33: Prisoner Support And Solidarity Organizing With IWOC's Brooke Terpstra
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65 minutes
Released:
Apr 29, 2019
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Podcast episode
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In this episode we interview Brooke Terpstra, Oaklander forever, movement veteran, and IWOC worker. Brooke is an organizer with the Oakland chapter of IWOC, and was a member of the IWOC national media committee for the 2018 prison strike. In this episode we talk about the origins IWOC and its relationship to the IWW or the Wobblies. We talk about the lesson they learned supporting the 2016 and 2018 national prison strikes. We talk about building a local chapter and the work that IWOC members do in Oakland. And we talk about base building and regional coalition building for prisoner support and solidarity work.
Released:
Apr 29, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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