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Former intern Evan Lyons from Jefferson University at the Rosa Luxemburg Conference in Berlin. Lyons is now volunteer coordinator at Prison Radio East.
Let us share our current trust exercise.
Noelle bought Jian White’s ticket on her personal credit card on Friday. Prison Radio’s card was too close to the limit and it takes a minute to pay it down, and we had to grab the cheap fare.
Tiny but mighty, we push all our chips in, all the time.
That makes us broke and cash poor. Ah, but we are people rich, love rich, and faith rich.
We are all in. Please join us. We are raising $5500 to cover the travel. We have raised $3300 so far.
An insight from Noelle:
In May of 1992 I was just 27. I was, broke – Pull-over-to-the-side-of-the-road-to-scour-under-the-floor-mats-for-a-handful-of-change-to-get-over-the-Bay-Bridge broke. I was taking a bus to go to house cleaning gigs in the Berkeley Hills and working at the Freight and Salvage coffee house for $5 an hr (music & cupcakes included).
I had just finished KPFA Radio’s renowned 18 month apprenticeship program. A low sweeping bow to Norman Jayo (I-Hotel champion) for teaching me on how to use radio for liberation.
Jennifer Beach and I maxed out our one credit card and flew to the east coast after Linda Evans and Alan Berkman raised Mumia’s name. We were members of Linda and Alan’s West Coast Resistance Conspiracy Defense Committee and Jennifer was a member of Out of Control: Lesbian Committee to Support Women Political Prisoners.
We asked for help. A few folks pitched in.
Our friends in the Puerto Rican independence movement found us housing and hosts in Philadelphia. Mumia had us interview Ramona Africa and her family when we landed.
On July 14th 1992 we drove to Huntingdon State prison and death row.
We were ready.
We had community.
We were trained.
We knew how to use all of the gear, two sets of wireless transmitters, a super cardio headset, cameras with canisters of film, a PMD 221 Marantz.
We got the tape and the photos, and award winning broadcast journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal began to record again, after 11 years of silence.
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