Under Lock and Key RAIL Radio Program for April 30, 1999

This is Under Lock and Key

South African Poet and Revolutionary Dennis Brutus speaks about the struggle 
against prisons, imperialism and the death penalty

On April 17, South African Poet and Revolutionary Dennis Brutus spoke at a 
teach in on the Criminal Justice System. The teach-in was organized by the 
Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist League. For his work against the apartheid 
regime, Dennis Brutus was exiled from South Africa.  He was a political 
prisoner for a number of years, spending 18 months on Robben Island breaking 
rocks with Nelson Mandela. Brutus remains a revolutionary activist today. 
Today's program will play excepts from his speech.