When We Love, We Win
When We Survive, We Win
When We Fight, We Win*
As the dust settles after another election, one truth remains: no president of these United States will save our people behind bars. No national official-regardless of party-has championed the liberation of those trapped within the prison industrial complex. Both sides of the aisle have built a system that disproportionately targets, isolates, and silences poor Black and Brown communities.
As Jalil Muntaquim acknowledges “We will be our own liberators.”
While the country may have voted, those most affected by these policies were shut out from the ballot box. Our loved ones behind bars can’t vote; voices excluded from a conversation that directly affects their lives each and every day. If casting ballots could have freed Mumia, Leonard, or the countless other political prisoners, we would have done it years ago.
It is going to take more than voting to realize the change we want. We are convinced of another way-forward solidarity, collective action, and relentless commitment to abolition. Where the prison system was born, so too has the soil nurtured the abolitionist movement: Pennsylvania. This is ground zero, and here is where, together, the abolitionist movement has built power and can forge change.
For three decades, Prison Radio has brought forward voices that have otherwise been silenced, creating a movement far beyond the ballot box. Each day we push the wheel of abolition upward in efforts to uplift the stories, struggles, and resistance of those living “beneath the mountain.”.
“Prison Radio gave me a form of liberation by allowing me to have a voice in a system that systematically silences its occupants’ voices through purposeful oppression. ” – Kenneth Zamarron, Prison Radio Correspondent
Now more than ever, we need your support to keep these voices loud, clear, and heard. When you stand with Prison Radio, you contribute to so much more than media; you power a movement for justice that refuses to let our incarcerated loved ones be silenced or forgotten.
Join us in building a future beyond the walls.
When We Love, We Win
When We Survive, We Win
When We Fight, We Win
*According to the Washington Post, the Harris campaign adopted When We Fight, We Win after it was used by AgitArte and Papel Machete & Greg Jobin Leeds authors of the best selling New Press book “When We Fight We Win”. The slogan was 0riginally popularized by housing activists in Boston. Prison Radio collaborated to make sure Kevin Rashid Johnson’s voice was included in Greg and AgitArte’s amazing book documenting grassroots resistance and power building.
Noelle and Jennifer