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‘Cops Aren’t Workers’: The Truth About the NY Prison Guards’ Walkout

Hiram Rivera, founding director of the Community Resource Hub for Safety & Accountability, joins the show to discuss the recent wildcat strike by New York prison guards.

The strike, which lasted three weeks, began just as murder charges were announced against six guards for the brutal beating death of handcuffed inmate Robert Brooks.

Rivera argues that the strike, which forced lockdowns and denied inmates basic rights, was a calculated ploy to justify decades of abuse by blaming poor conditions.

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Rania Khalek

Rania Khalek is an award-winning Lebanese-American journalist and host of Dispatches on Breakthrough News, where she investigates the global consequences of imperialism, war, and systemic oppression. With over a decade of frontline reporting from conflict zones and marginalized communities, her work has been featured in The Nation, The Intercept, Al Jazeera, FAIR, and The Electronic Intifada, where she served on the editorial board.

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