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Hosted by Max Parthas and Yusuf Hassan, 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. abolitiontoday.org

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Host Samual Nathaniel Brown is joined by guest Jose Zapata and Victor Forte. Jose went to prison as a teenager. In April he was released. He served 13.5 years. After 31 years, Victor Forte, also a youth offender, has returned and he joins Jose to discuss what it was like entering prison as a youth and the challenges he has faced upon his release. Join us. Tune in, Tell a Friend, Things will never be the same again. Tales From the Plantation Nation Podcast Every Wednesday 4pm Pacific and 7 pm Eastern. Abolitiontoday.org
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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. The last... more

The officer who carried out this 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... more

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 been respected or have they been denied generation after generation? Who violates?... more

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... more

Our guest will be Professor Robert Chase. author of; "We Are Not Slaves' State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners' Rights in Postwar America.

?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... more

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... more

Made by, hosted by, and produced by the currently incarcerated.

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. We'll be joined by guest Bennu Hannibal Ra-Sun. One of the leaders of... more

?Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.? Harriet Tubman

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