E239 - Prisoner With the Antifa Face Tattoo w/ Eric King

The Antifada

Sean KB and AP Andy

Music, Arts

4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

An interview with Eric King, who was recently released after being incarcerated since 2014, five of those in segregation. He was charged with using an incendiary device to commit arson after throwing a molotov cocktail at an empty Federal Building in Kansas City, Missouri during the uprising in Ferguson. Today he is out on probation and talking with us about his history with the anarchist movement, his time inside and release, and how and why to support prisoners

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Eric King's co-authored book about life in prison: http://rattlingthecages.com

Eric's new gig: bread and roses legal

Anarchist Black Cross Federation

Eric's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/supportericking/

Prisoner support calendar: https://www.certaindays.org/

https://www.gofundme.com/f/release-funds-for-political-prisoner-eric-king

https://theintercept.com/2021/05/28/bop-prison-white-supremacist-anti-fascist/

Song: Motorohead - Stay out of Jail

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0:00.0	So I'm working at the
0:10.0	You're at work where you work in these guys?
0:12.0	So I'm working at the bread and rose is equal center So you're at work, where are you working these guys?
0:13.0	So I'm working at the Breton Roads Legal Center.
0:16.3	It's a civil rights and criminal defense legal center
0:20.9	out here in Denver, Colorado, and they signed me up after ADX, they signed me up to be a paralegal here.
0:29.0	Awesome.
0:30.0	Yeah, it's an amazing job.
0:32.0	You were already doing some stuff like that while you're inside too, right?
0:37.0	Yeah, I had started getting into like fighting against the BOP, judicially, like bringing lawsuits against them
0:46.6	and calling them out on their abuses.
0:48.6	So that's how I met Bread and Roses, actually,
0:51.8	is that they joined in to help me in a lawsuit against the ADX,
0:57.0	the Super Max prison.
0:58.0	And so we became close and became pals
1:01.0	and we had a lot in common and from there just a
1:05.4	relationship developed and they brought me on.
1:08.1	Awesome that's that's fortunate that probably helps out, right, if you have a job.
1:14.0	It helps with every aspect of my entire life.
1:18.0	Nice.
1:20.0	It seems like a good gig too. So just to introduce you, I'm speaking today with Eric King.
1:25.2	He was recently released after being incarcerated since 2014,
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