Resistance is a Frequency

Dear

At a time when the state is building bigger cages, wider surveillance nets, and new vocabularies for old repression, Prison Radio is doing what it has always done: breaking the silence.

For more than three decades, Prison Radio has carried the voices the state works hardest to bury. We have broadcast from death row, from the long afterlife of conviction and confinement, from solitary, from prison infirmaries. We have made room for the stolen breath of this country to become heard again. We have helped turn prison walls into transmission towers.



And right now, we need you.

Donate today to help Prison Radio record, protect, and broadcast the voices the state works hardest to silence. Give $25, $50, or $250 now to keep the signal alive and make sure these voices still get through.

Art by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson

The state wants disappearance.

We answer with witness.

The state wants silence.

We answer with connection.

The state wants obedience dressed up as order.

We answer with testimony and insurgent recordings.

Because this is what Prison Radio does: it makes sure people disappeared by the state remain impossible to disappear.

It matters now more than ever.

As protest is criminalized and dissent is recoded as threat, Prison Radio remains one of the clearest frequencies we have. It reminds us that the people most punished by this system are often the ones who understand it best. 

“You ever think about building a house? To begin, you need tools. Think building a movement, tools are needed. Prison Radio is one such tool. Through it, you hear real life stories from the very heart of the prison industrial complex, voices of resistance and accounts of repression, the stuff of which movements are built. This is Mumia Abu-Jamal, thanking you for supporting Prison Radio.”

– Mumia Abu-Jamal

Check out the Mumia audio archive on our website!

Mumia Abu-Jamal and Noelle Hanrahan Esq,

What Prison Radio has built over the course of 35 years is rare and necessary:

an archive of resistance,

a record of state violence,

a living school of political thought,

and a bridge between captivity and collective struggle.

We are asking you to help keep that bridge open.

Give because the voices must get through, the signal must survive, and because every prison is built to disappear people.

Every broadcast we record and produce is a refusal.

Please help us raise the funds to record, edit, transcribe, defend, distribute, and protect the voices that power Prison Radio.

Resistance is a frequency.

Help us keep it on the air.

For the world we deserve,



Director of Political Education, Prison Radio

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