CALLS FROM HOME - Holiday call-in show for prisoners [12/20-21 and 12/27-28 @ 5pm; 12/24-25 @ midnight]
WRFU 104.5-LPFM will be airing CALLS FROM HOME, produced by Thousand Kites and WMMT-FM, this weekend, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and next weekend.
Tune in and read more (from Thousand Kites):
The United States has 2.4 million people behind bars. Thousand Kites wants you to lend your support to a powerful grassroots radio and community project that reaches into our nation's prisons and lets those inside know they are not forgotten.
Thousand Kites is excited to offer community radio stations and individuals the 9th annual national radio program Calls from Home. The program features phone calls from mothers and children, brothers and grandparents, sharing the intimate power of families speaking directly to their incarcerated loved ones. Poets and musicians read and sing across phone lines and prison walls. Calls from Home, produced in the coalfields of central Appalachia, reaches a national network of prisoners, their loved ones and public listeners through community radio in an effort to educate the public about the criminal justice system. Started in 1998 by artists at Appalshop, the program was first a local response to the growing prison industry in their rural community.
Scheduled dates/times on WRFU:
Saturday 12/20 and Sunday 12/21: 5-6pm
Saturday 12/27 and Sunday 12/28: 5-6pm
Wednesday 12/24 and Thursday 12/25: 12-1am
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