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Greetings!
A Dispatch from Eddie Treadwell on Community Healing:
Mainstream headlines often treat community violence as a spectacle, focusing on “crime waves” while ignoring the root causes. But the most accurate diagnosis of what’s happening on our streets isn’t coming from a newsroom—it’s coming from the front lines, and from those behind the walls.
In his latest dispatch from a Michigan correctional facility, Eddie Treadwell provides an unflinching look at the crisis in our neighborhoods. He uses a heavy word for it: genocide. But his focus isn’t just on external forces. He’s calling on all of us to look inward.
“This particular genocide… It’s one we impose upon ourselves. We destroy ourselves and each other… If we want to change the world, we first must start with changing ourselves.”
Eddie describes a reality many of our children face daily: the constant hum of sirens and the pressure of a predatory economy. He argues that this environment isn’t an accident—it’s the result of decades of divestment. He challenges the “artificial scarcity” that forces our neighbors to compete for basic survival.
“There should be no poor people on this whole earth,” Eddie reminds us. “We have enough resources to support every living being… but we choose not to.”
Click here to learn more about Eddie Treadwell in his own words
Write him here:
Eddie Treadwell, #205017
Alger Correctional Facility
N6141 Industrial Park Dr
Munising, MI 49862
Why His Voice Matters
Eddie is calling on organizers, intellectuals, and neighbors to “get up, get out, and get involved.” He believes we have the power to rebuild our communities so the next generation doesn’t inherit a warzone. To do that, we must listen to those who see the system most clearly.
Listen to all of Eddie Treadwell’s commentaries HERE
Help Us Keep the Lines Open
The prison system makes it incredibly difficult—and expensive—for incarcerated truth-tellers to be heard. Every dollar you donate goes directly toward the high costs of collect calls and communication fees from facilities in Michigan and across the country. Your support ensures that vital journalism from organizers like Eddie can reach the outside world.
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Take Eddie’s final challenge to heart today: “What can you do to change it? Don’t be good. Be good for something.”
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Inside the carceral system, expression is not a right. It is a privilege, rationed and revoked, subject to the moods of policy and power. Prison Radio exists in that gap — between what the system permits and what the human spirit requires. Your ten dollars a month is the infrastructure of that defiance. The microphone. The transmission. The proof that the wall separating us does not silence and erase those inside.
The world doesn’t know what’s happening behind those walls. Not really. Not in the unmediated, unfiltered, first-person way that changes how you understand a system you’ve been told to take for granted. Prison Radio is how the people inside that system speak directly to the people outside it — no translator, no intermediary, no institutional permission. Just the truth, traveling.
If you’ve never given before, now is as good a moment as any to begin. The people inside are already speaking. Help us make sure the world can hear them.
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