Trailer: CHOICES Podcast

Welcome to CHOICES Media, a prisoner-led podcast for liberation based in Washington state. Our host, Ralph Dunuan, has been incarcerated for over twenty years. In this podcast, you'll hear about how the criminal punishment system works, and what inside/outside organizers are doing to change it.

To learn about calls to action during the 2025 Washington State Legislative session, follow us on Instagram, @choicesmediapodcast

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Transcript

Ralph Dunuan: Welcome to the CHOICES Media podcast. I am your host and organizer in solidarity, Ralph Dunuan. I am coming to you from the Washington Corrections Center in Washington state. I've been incarcerated for the last 26 years. And during that time I have the opportunity to learn from our work with the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Awareness Group, or APICAG, and Tribal Sons, the Native American Circle at the WCC. We aim to help both communities impacted by the system and listeners in solidarity learn how the Washington criminal punishment system works and what inside outside organizing can do to change it. We'll be hearing from directly impacted people sharing their lived experiences. We'll also share some of the work by community organizations and educators in the struggle for real liberation. At CHOICES Media, we know that liberation happens outside, within and beyond the settler state because we are grounded in Indigenous and BIPOC experiences of incarceration. In our first season, we examine the Washington State Legislative session as one of many ways to support abolitionist reforms to bring people home without reproducing harmful narratives that cages are necessary. We'll also look at how organizing from the inside out is gaining momentum toward the kind of changes our communities need and how the inside is working in community and solidarity with and for the communities we are ultimately returning to. We hope you will listen in and help us build knowledge about how Indigenous and communities of color are working for positive change in communities that are over-policed and under-resourced.