Category: Abolition Today
Abolition today is a weekly online radio program with specific focus on modern slavery as it is practiced through the 13th amendment of the US constitution and by private for-profit prisons worldwide. Airs live Sundays 7PM EST. 4PM PST and 5 Central.
Abolition Today: LIVE FROM THE PLANTATION E23
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Live From The Plantation is a current events news, talk radio program created, produced, and hosted by activists behind the walls.
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Abolition Today: Parts of The Solution S2-E7
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On February 9th, 2021 over zoom, the Abolish Slavery National Network held its 1st Quarterly meeting of the year which was attended by dignitaries and representatives nationwide.
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Abolition Today: LIVE FROM THE PLANTATION E22
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“The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. I could regard them in no other light than a…
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Abolition Today: Taking Liberties S2-E6
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We’re 2 days away from the 2/9/21 Abolish Slavery National Network Quarterly Meeting and one month post confederate insurrection. It’s all interconnected like a time rhyme but in this moment, the Abolitionist are writing the script.
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Abolition Today: LIVE FROM THE PLANTATION E21
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On this episode of Live From The Plantation, the prisoners have an update on Kinetic Justice the incarcerated abolitionist activist, victim of modern slavery and solitary confinement, a co-founder of the prisoner group Free Alabama Movement, a group that seeks to abolish slavery in the state of Alabama. Kinetic Justice was hospitalized after being attacked by staff of a Alabama state prison. The correction officers involved in the attack are currently on leave and prisoners say that an officer who carried out the vicious attack, Lt. Jenkins, has a long and sordid history of brutality and violence. Jenkins has been promoted several times during his tenure under Commissioner Dunn, showing a pattern of reward for brutality at Donaldson.
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Abolition Today: A Lawless Land and The Oath-breakers Who Create it S2-E5
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Is it a lawless land? Has the constitution been so systemically violated that it’s become the supreme joke of the land? Has our rights ever…
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LIVE FROM THE PLANTATION E20
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When we pull back the curtain and take a look at what our ‘colorblind’ society creates without affirmative action, we see a familiar social, political, and economic structure – the structure of racial caste. The entrance into this new caste system can be found at the prison gate.- Michelle Alexander
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Abolition Today: Historians Against Slavery S2-E4
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Our guest will be Professor Robert Chase. author of “We Are Not Slaves’ State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners’ Rights in Postwar America”.
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Abolition Today: LIVE FROM THE PLANTATION E19
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8 PM EST – “The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.” – Chinua Achebe
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Abolition Today: The Abolitionist Witnesses S2-E3
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7:00 PM EST – Max and Yusuf have been providing educational radio podcast content for the abolitionist movement since 2010. On 1/17/2021 we are joined by our former co-host Yohanan Elijah. We’re also being syndicated on the Black Talk Radio Network courtesy of Scotty T Reid. In the midst of a national insurrection by white supremacists, these Veteran Abolitionist Witnesses come together for the first time in years to testify of what they have seen and discuss the bigger picture of then, now, and tomorrow.
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Abolition Today: LIVE FROM THE PLANTATION E18
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Made by, hosted by, and produced by the currently incarcerated.
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Abolition Today: I Know Why The Caged Bird Screams S2 E2
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Sunday, 7 PM EST US on Abolition Today We examine the deadly systemic conditions of the currently enslaved and the daily fight for survival they wage.
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Abolition Today: Badges & Incidents of Slavery S2 E1
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The knowledge and information. The Abolitionist Music/Poetry. The Voices of the ancestors reclaimed. The news, views, and special guests. The compelling narratives and powerful commentary. The 1st hand testimony from activists at the heart of the modern slavery abolitionist movement.
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