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Sprouts Radio from the Grassroots is a 30-minute weekly program featuring radio programs produced at community radio stations or by other independent producers from across the country and sometimes around the world.
| A 29-minute Sprouts documentary that highlights the voices of nine steering committee members of the Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted People’s Movement (FICPM). These men and women have experienced the workings of the US criminal justice system from the inside out, and have dedicated themselves to the work of building a new and better future, not only for presently and formerly incarcerated people, but for the entire nation. The FICPM is a nationwide coalition of formerly incarcerated men and women who are holding forth a radical vision for justice and transformation, and who are putting that vision to work in towns and cities across the nation. They are at the forefront of leadership in the struggle to dismantle the US prison-industrial complex and to alleviate its negative consequences. | Daryl Atkinson, Susan Burton, Tina Reynolds, Yusef Bunchy Shakur, Dorsey Nunn, Steve Huerta, Bruce Reilly, Kenneth Glasgow, and Khalid Raheem | |
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| The show includes: A description of the FICPM’s critical analysis, closely mirroring the arguments of Michelle Alexander (author of The New Jim Crow) candid dialogue about race and racism in the contemporary US 14 points of the FICPM’s national platform a blueprint for nationwide grassroots community organizing designed to bring about major structural transformation in the US criminal justice system, and in the US culture itself. Just as the movement for justice and equality drew vision and leadership from key organizations during the 1950s and 60s, such as Dr. Martin Luther King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, today the movement to end mass incarceration finds the Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted People’s Movement at the vanguard of the struggle. These are men and women of legacy re-enunciating a powerful message of freedom and equality during this newest phase of the continuing struggle to bring the United States’ practices into alignment with its core principles. “The Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted People’s Movement: The Struggle for Freedom and Transformation Continues” is the newest installment of the radio documentary series titled Bringing Down the New Jim Crow. Inspired by Michelle Alexander’s groundbreaking book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, this series explores the intersection of the drug war, mass incarceration, and race in the contemporary U.S. It is produced by Chris Moore-Backman and features the music of Stray Theories. |
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