abolition is for everybody

On episode 4, Abolition Address Robbery, Adam, Crystal and Ra are joined by community organizer and Success Stories' Transformational Coach and Coach Coordinator, Graham Finochio. Together, they talk about the lineage of harms that led to Graham's own participation in the cycle as someone who was charged with robbery. We also discuss the failures of incarceration as a vehicle for rehabilitation, and the type of insight that was most responsible for creating a new pathway.

In this season of Abolition is for Everybody, we talk about harm–what creates it, what recycles it, and how we can find our way to meaningful means of repair. To do this, we talk to folks who have caused harm, folks who prevent it, folks who experienced it, and we learn a lot about how often harms intersect, or grow from the same root. We're excited to have these conversations with you!

To access episode transcripts, visit: www.InitiateJustice.org/Podcast

In this season of Abolition is for Everybody, we talk about harm–what creates it, what recycles it, and how we can find our way to meaningful means of repair. To do this, we talk to folks who have caused harm, folks who prevent it, folks who experienced it, and we learn a lot about how often harms intersect, or grow from the same root. We're excited to have these conversations with you!

To access episode transcripts, visit: www.InitiateJustice.org/Podcast

On this episode, our hosts dive into different forms of state violence they have witnessed and experienced. They ask our listeners to think about the way violence has been perpetuated in their lives by the state.

In this season of Abolition is for Everybody, we talk about harm–what creates it, what recycles it, and how we can find our way to meaningful means of repair. To do this, we talk to folks who have caused harm, folks who prevent it, folks who experienced it, and we learn a lot about how often harms intersect, or grow from the same root. We're excited to have these conversations with you!

To access episode transcripts, visit: www.InitiateJustice.org/Podcast

On this episode, our new hosts Crystal and Adam, join Ra to discuss the different harms they have experienced throughout their lives and the many things we could have done to prevent them.

In this season of Abolition is for Everybody, we talk about harm–what creates it, what recycles it, and how we can find our way to meaningful means of repair. To do this, we talk to folks who have caused harm, folks who prevent it, folks who experienced it, and we learn a lot about how often harms intersect, or grow from the same root. We're excited to have these conversations with you!

To access episode transcripts, visit: www.InitiateJustice.org/Podcast

On this Minisode: The one where we talk about vaccines, Ra is joined by Initiate Justice's executive director and season 1 co-host, Taina, and Communications Coordinator, Michelle. They discuss how we make abolitionist choices in real life situations, what vaccines have to do with abolition, and how we live our values while doing the work.

To access the transcript for this episode visit, www.InitiateJustice.org/Podcast

On this episode, Lee and Ra are joined by Brian Kaneda from Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) to discuss the need to reduce prison and police budgets, the three prison closures that have been announced in California, and more issues related to moving funds from the prison and police system into community resources. 

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On this episode, Ra, Lee, and Taina discuss into the importance in addressing disability justice towards our goal of abolition.  

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On this episode, Taina and Lee discuss with Professor Oscar F. Soto what the school to prison pipeline is, how it contributes to the carceral system, and ways we can address it as we move towards our goal of prison abolition.

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On this episode, Ra and Taina are joined by author Charlene Carruthers to discuss feminism, patriarchy, and the different ways that gender impacts the abolitionist movement and incarceration.

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On this episode, Ra, Lee, and Taina delve into how the carceral system hinders connections between incarcerated individuals, their families, and community even after they have returned home. 

To access the transcript for this episode, visit our website: www.InitiateJustice.org/Podcast