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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.

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Abolition Today

We (nationwide abolitionists groups) made history over and over again this election season. Abolishing constitutional slavery in 2 states (Nebraska & Utah), returning voting rights to the formerly incarcerated in California, opening up the... more
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?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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Free The 13th is a 4 day virtual discussion, speakers will examine the dynamics of slavery, review the implementation of processes to keep slavery active, and discuss next steps required to abolish slavery and prison profiteering in... more
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This is our next to last broadcast before the November elections. We'll keep our focus on the 3 states that have anti slavery voter initiatives on this election ballots.
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"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
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Abolition Today

After a few weeks in the organizing trenches Max is back to join Yusuf Hassan in another master class of modern slavery abolition.Today we update you on the states with ballot initiatives to end legal slavery. We also drop the people's... more
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??Thus far I had outwitted him, and I triumphed over it. Who can blame slaves for being cunning? They are constantly compelled to resort to it. It is the only weapon of the weak and oppressed against the strength of their tyrants.??... more
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After showing beyond a reasonable doubt that the 6th amendment is a myth which does not exist in reality, we move on toreviewing the primary tool used by prosecutors forcing the minorities and the poor to take plea deals at a 95% rate.... more
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??Thus far I had outwitted him, and I triumphed over it. Who can blame slaves for being cunning? They are constantly compelled to resort to it. It is the only weapon of the weak and oppressed against the strength of their tyrants.??... more
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We will revisit The 13th Amendment Trap Door (Episode 5) and the Myth of the 6th Amendment (Episode 7). Where the 13th Amendment came from, how it's used, the effect it has on the criminal justice system, what opposition it has... more
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