Kite Line

About Kite Line

Kite Line is a radio program devoted to prison issues around the Midwest and beyond. Behind the prison walls, a message is called a kite: whispered words, a note passed hand to hand, or a request submitted to the guards for medical care. Illicit or not, sending a kite means trusting that other people will bear it farther along till it reaches its destination. On the show, we hope to pass along words across the prison walls.

Publisher

Kite Line

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Oct 2017

Latest episode

29 Nov 2025

Latest episodes

310 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   29 Nov 2025

   November 7, 2025: The Grassroots Fight Against the Local Jail

   Earlier this fall, the grassroots organization Care Not Cages won a decisive victory against the large new jail proposed for Monroe County.  Ignoring financial warnings and public outcry, county officials were moving forward with selecting a greenfield site northwest of Bloomington for jail construction, until mobilization at a council meeting finally stopped them in their …

2. 

   3 Oct 2025

   October 3, 2025: The Prison Struggle of Martin Sostre

   After decades of neglect, Martin Sostre is finally receiving his due as a pioneer of prisoner organizing and Black anarchism.  Garrett Felber's powerful biography, A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre, excavates his many contributions as well as the work of his support committee in the successful Free Martin Sostre movement. This week, Kite Line  spoke with Garrett about his work on Sostre and its connections to the struggles continuing to our present day.

3. 

   29 Aug 2025

   August 29, 2025: Melting ICE- Organizing Against the Raids in Los Angeles

   This episode focuses on the ICE raids still accelerating across the country, and the resistance spreading in response. We speak with K, an organizer in Los Angeles, who reflects on the ICE invasion and the movement against it, which has become a beacon for struggles across the US. Since Trump's Big Beautiful Bill, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has grown into the largest police force in the country and it's clear that future movements against policing will have to place organizing against ICE, borders, and citizenship at their core.

Who has been a guest on Kite Line

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Orisanmi Burton
• Brett Story
• Loretta Pierre

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

47 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 75 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

93

Social presence

94

YouTube

0

Engagement

92

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Books guests

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