Rebel Speak: A Justice Movement Mixtape

A literarymixtape of transformative dialogues on justice with a cast of visionary rebel activists, organizers, artists, culture workers, thought leaders, and movement builders. Rebel Speak sounds the alarm for a global movement to end systemic injustice led by people doing the day-to-day rebel work in the prison capital of the world. Prison activist, artist, and scholarBryonnRolly Bain brings us transformativeoral history ciphers, rooted in the tradition of call-and-response, to lay bare the struggle and sacrifice on the front lines of the fight to abolish the prison industrial complex.

Rebel Speak investigates themotives that inspire and sustain movements for visionary change. Sparked by a life-changing interview with working-class heroes Dolores Huerta and Harry Belafonte, Bryonninvites us to join conversationswith change-makers whose diverse critical perspectives and firsthand accounts expose the crisis of prisons and policing in our communities.Through dialogues with activists including Albert Woodfox, founder of the firstBlack Panther Partyprison chapter, and Susan Burton, founder of Los Angeles'sA New Way of Life Reentry Project; a conversation with a warden pushing beyond traditions at Sing Sing Correctional Facility; and an intimate exchange with his brother returning from prison, Bryonnreveals countless unseen spaces of the movement to end human caging. Sampling his provocative sessions with influential artists and culture workers, likePublic Enemyleader Chuck D and radical feminist MC Maya Jupiter, Bryonnopens up and guides discussions about the power of art and activism to build solidarity across disciplines and demand justice.

With raw insight and radical introspection, Rebel Speak embodies the growing call for "credible messengers"on prisons, policing, racial justice, abolitionist politics, and transformative organizing.Reimagining the role of the writer and scholar as a DJ and MC, Bryonnmoves the crowd with this unforgettable mix of those working within the belly of the beast to change the world. This is a new century's sound of movement-building and Rebel Speak.