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Kitestringing: The Prison Literature Project Benefit

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Kitestringing: The Prison Literature Project Benefit --- 2003

Each month the PLP sends out nearly 2,000 books to prisoners nationwide. Why send books to prisoners? The answer is simple: access to knowledge should be a basic human right. Now, motivated by a dedication to social justice, twenty bands, two radical spokesmen and one respected artist have joined to raise money and draw attention to The Prison Literature Project, an invaluable San Francisco Bay Area group that sends thousands of books each month to prisoners nationwide. KITESTRINGING, a term adopted from prison jargon that means passing notes between cells via string, features 22 tracks from hardworking bands and activists who understand that access to knowledge is a basic human right.