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Episode 31: (LIVE Taping) Victories from Inside Out: Dismantling the Prison-Industrial Complex

Episode 31: (LIVE Taping) Victories from Inside Out: Dismantling the Prison-Industrial Complex

FromSpeak Out with Tim Wise


Episode 31: (LIVE Taping) Victories from Inside Out: Dismantling the Prison-Industrial Complex

FromSpeak Out with Tim Wise

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Length:
62 minutes
Released:
Apr 17, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

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.
Released:
Apr 17, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (61)

Speak Out with Tim Wise is an informative and entertaining podcast aimed at promoting multiracial democracy and justice in dangerous times. The show features the biting, factual, and humorous commentary of its host, alongside dialogue with some of the nation's leading scholars, artists and activists, as well as grassroots community leaders whose voices are often ignored in the dominant media.