Friday - The Michael Slate Show - Carl Dix, Justice For Laquan McDonald! Plus Fall Fund Drive - Break the Ban on "Blood in the Water" for Prisoners

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Carl Dix, Justice For Laquan McDonald!  Carl Dix is in Chicago carrying out revolutionary work around the trial of the cop who murdered Laquan McDonald. He recently wrote: "The trial of the Chicago cop who gunned down 17-year-old Laquan McDonald four years ago is nearing the end. The cop’s lawyers have been allowed to parade witness after witness on the stand to testify about Laquan’s previous run-ins with police and any other conflicts with authority figures. The court is treating it like Laquan is the criminal who faces charges and not the murdering pig who shot Laquan 16 times as he walked away with his hands at his side. "This trial is looking more and more like preparation to justify letting another killer cop walk free. Everybody who is tired of seeing this—cops who have stolen the lives of Black and Brown people walking free—happen again and again needs to prepare to respond to the jury’s verdict." Carl Dix is a representative of the Revolutionary Communist Party. For more on the trial, go to revcom.us Support The Michael Slate Show and keep it on the air -- KPFK Fall Fund Drive This is a critical time for humanity, a time that shows even more why The Michael Slate Show is crucial to the future. Call 818-985-5735 during the show. Share this on social media. Tell your friends. For this first show of the fund drive, we're featuring Blood in the Water, the first definitive history of the 1971 Attica Prison Uprising, the state's savage response, and the prisoners' decades-long struggle for justice. This book is in high demand among the 2.3 Million prisoners of America -- and the authorities in one state, Illinois, have responded by banning the book from prisons. And we're giving you the chance to Break the Ban, to get this book into the hands of prisoners at a time when incarcerated people have just staged one of the largest prison strikes in US history. On September 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 prisoners took over the Attica Prison in New York. Holding guards and civilian employees hostage, the prisoners negotiated for improved conditions. But on September 13, the state sent hundreds of heavily armed troopers and correction officers into the prison. They killed thirty-nine men - hostages as well as prisoners - and severely wounded more than a hundred. Blood in the Water breaks through 50 years of state cover-up -- the lies of brutal, murdering prisoners that have been used to justify greater and greater horrors. FOR A CONTRIBUTION OF $100 OR MORE, YOU CAN REQUEST A COPY OFBLOOD IN THE WATER, BY HEATHER ANN THOMPSON. FOR A CONTRIBUTION OF $150 OR MORE, YOU CAN REQUEST BLOOD IN THE WATER FOR YOURSELF -- AND ANOTHER COPY TO BE SENT TO A PRISONER.