Channing Martinez in Conversation with Amber-Rose Howard on Closing 10 prisons

Eric Mann on Defending Women's Right to Live; the conversation on Abortion Rights

Aired Tuesday May 10th @3pm pst. on KPFK Pacifica 90.7fm

Today on Voices Radio Channing is in conversation with Amber-Rose, Executive Director of CURB CA (Californians United for a Responsible Budget. Amber-Rose speaks about her own history with the carceral state and how that helped to lead her to the work she’s leading now. CURB has spent years stopping the increase in funding toward prisons and in 2021 launched a campaign to close 10 CA prisons by 2025. More details on this campaign can be found in the People’s Plan for Prison Closure. Governor Gavin Newson has moved to close on institution in 2021; Deuel Vocational Institution.

In the second half of the show Eric begins the conversation on Voices around Women’s Rights. Given the Supreme Court’s “leak” of an upcoming initiative to strike down Roe V Wade there has been an up surge of attention to what’s next for abortions rights. Eric and Channing speak about the Democratic Parties weak organizing around the right for Women to live and control their own bodies. Eric reads from an article detailing updates around this leak. We plan to invite a guest from the frontlines next week to the show to speak about their work on abortion rights for women. Please feel free to reach out with any leads. Email [email protected] or [email protected]