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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 Abolition Today is currently on hiatus for 2024. In his capacity as national campaign coordinator for the Abolish Slavery National network, our host, Max Parthas is currently assisting 18 states and DC with their campaigns to abolish slavery in their constitutions. Please follow him on social media for updates @MaxParthas. We will return as soon as time allows. Meanwhile enjoy our incredibly rich and educational archives.

On-Demand Episodes

While Max and Yusuf are away preparing for Season 2, we revisit the intro tracks from the premiere broadcast up until Episode 19. Season 2 returns on Sunday, January 3rd.

I consider involuntary slavery a never-failing fountain of the grossest immorality, and one of the deepest sources of human misery; it hangs like the mantle of night over our republic, and shrouds its rising glories. I sincerely pity the man who... more

While we are on break between seasons we'll replay all 19 segments of Ossie Reads Fredrick along with the amazing music it was paired with. Tonight is part two of 2 featuring the incredible "Final Word" by Fredrick Douglass. Hear his... more

"They would not call it slavery, but some other name. Slavery has been fruitful in giving herself names ... and it will call itself by yet another name; and you and I and all of us had better wait and see what new form this old monster... more

While we are on break between seasons we'll replay all 19 segments of Ossie Reads Fredrick along with the amazing music it was paired with. Today you'll hear parts 1 through 10.

?It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity... more

It's our season finale. We'll be joined by Samual N. Brown calling from a Ca. prison and ASNN Member Jamilia Land.

?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 band of successful robbers, who had left their homes, and gone to Africa, and stolen us from our homes, and in a strange land... more

Slavery Abolitionists Max & Yusuf are joined by artist, mathematician, and international media news contributor John Sims

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst! James Connolly

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