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EPISODE 1: June’s episode of The Thread featured interviews with Kinetik Justice, the leader of the Free Alabama Movement and the recent Alabama prison strike, and Cheri Honkala, the founder of the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign and former Vice Presidential candidate.

Kinetik Justice is currently incarcerated at Holman Correctional Facility, and because of his involvement with the prison strike, is being held in solitary confinement. For more information about Kinetik Justice and the Free Alabama Movement, check out their homepage. You can also read their Freedom Bill that Kinetik mentions in his interview. You can also see Kinetik in the news.

Cheri Honkala continues to fight for the rights of people living in poverty across the nation. You can see more of the work she does on the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign homepage. Cheri continues to be on Front Line USA’s danger list for her work as a human rights activist. You can read about Front Line’s work with Cheri and other human rights defenders, click here. Cheri and her running mate in the 2012 election, Jill Stein, are currently suing the Commission on Presidential Debates. If you want to read more about their arrest, click here. If you want to read more about her lawsuit, click here.