On this episode of "By Any Means Necessary" host Eugene Puryear is joined by Professor James Kilgore, activist, writer and educator based in Urbana, Illinois to talk about private prisons in America, the long legacy of the Clinton’s neo-liberalism and its discriminatory effect on people of color, and how we can truly address America's disgusting practice of mass incarceration.
James Kilgore's forthcoming novel (September 1, 2016) is Sister Mercy's Revenge, a crime fiction piece set in a California prison. He is also the author of Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time and three other novels.
And later in the show host Eugene Puryear is joined by Alyssa Greene and Ian Bradley-Perrin, Graduate Workers of Columbia University, talk about the recent court ruling that allows for student workers at the University to form unions.
