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Beatrice speaks with Dan Berger about the RICO charges against Stop Cop City activists and the long history of RICO being used as a tool of repression against left movements.
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Links to media and resources mentioned in this episode:
Read the full indictment against Stop Cop City activists here: https://www.fultonclerk.org/DocumentCenter/View/2156/CRIMINAL-INDICTMENT
Raymond Luc Levasseur, "Until All Are Free": https://archive.org/details/sparrowsnest-4710
Raymond Luc Levasseur, "RICO Expanded By Supreme Court" in Prison Legal Review, 1994. https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/1994/jun/15/rico-expanded-by-supreme-court/
Our episode with Jessica Phoenix Sylvia from last year, "Press and the Prison": https://soundcloud.com/deathpanel/press-and-the-prison-w-jessica-phoenix-sylvia-111022
James Baldwin, "An Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davis," 1971. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1971/01/07/an-open-letter-to-my-sister-miss-angela-davis/