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5/13/16

Alabama Prison Strike Organizer Speaks from Behind Bars: We Are Engaged in a Struggle for Our Lives


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http://bit.ly/1z8zDMO - We go behind bars to get an update on the end of a 10-day strike by Alabama prisoners to protest severe overcrowding, poor living conditions and the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which bans slavery and servitude “except as a punishment for crime,” thus sanctioning the legality of forced, unpaid prison labor. "These strikes are our methods of challenging mass incarceration, as we understand the prison system is a continuation of the slave system, which is an economic system," says Kinetik Justice, who joins us by phone from solitary confinement in Holman Correctional Facility. He is co-founder of the Free Alabama Movement and one of the organizers of the strike. He says organizers tried petitioning their conditions via the courts and lawmakers, but when they were unsuccessful, "we understood our incarceration was pretty much about our labor and the money that was being generated from the prison system, therefore we began organizing around our labor and used it as a means and a method to bring about reform in the Alabama prison system." Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs weekdays on nearly 1,400 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream 8-9AM ET: http://bit.ly/1z8zDMO Please consider supporting independent media by making a donation to Democracy Now! today: http://bit.ly/1Ld9TB8 FOLLOW DEMOCRACY NOW! ONLINE: Facebook: http://bit.ly/1JFyMme Twitter: https://twitter.com/democracynow YouTube: http://youtube.com/democracynow SoundCloud: http://bit.ly/1z8zE34 Daily Email: http://bit.ly/1JFyKuy Google+: http://bit.ly/1eO011E Instagram: http://bit.ly/1dhTTNI Tumblr: http://bit.ly/1dhTVFz Pinterest: http://bit.ly/1JFyKuH iTunes: http://apple.co/1z8zE35 TuneIn: http://bit.ly/1z8zE3a Stitcher Radio: http://bit.ly/1JFyMCO


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