Abolition Today

Bad news. Her Majesté Kpodjito Dòwòti Désir just contacted me. She has to reschedule due to severe illness. My apologies.

Abolition Today will still be airing at 7 PM EST.

We ask that you send The Queen Mother healing energy. 

- Max

"Slavery never ended. Not a solitary day has passed where it but for a single second suddenly ceased. It wasn't solved, it evolved from slaves on plantations to involve caged convicts being leased, Or, warehousing bodies for profit like living slabs of meat. Like the deceased beast you eat at a rich man's feast. Deliberate deceivers. Talking about freedom and peace in a nation where nobody has either." - Max Parthas - Slavery is Abolished ...

This week we are joined by a special guest. Professor Joy James.  

The Ebenezer Fitch Professor of the Humanities at Williams College.

Author of ;

Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics; 

Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals; 

And, Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender and Race in U.S. Culture.

Her edited books include: 

Warfare in the American Homeland; The New Abolitionists:

(Neo) Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings; 

Imprisoned Intellectuals; States of Confinement; 

The Black Feminist Reader (co-edited with TD Sharpley-Whiting);

and The Angela Y. Davis Reader.

James is completing a book on the prosecution of 20th-century interracial rape cases, tentatively titled “Memory, Shame & Rage.” She has contributed articles and book chapters to journals and anthologies addressing feminist and critical race theory, democracy, and social justice.

She is the recipient of grants, fellowships or awards from:

the Fletcher Foundation;

the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities;

the Rockefeller Foundation;

the Bellagio Fellowship;

the Aaron Diamond Foundation/Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;

the Ford Foundation;

and the Gustavus Myers Human Rights Award.

And last but not least, Professor James is partnering with the Abolish Slavery National Network to help develop educational curriculum on post emancipation constitutional slavery.

While everybody is doing the happy dance for Juneteenth being turned into a federal holiday and allegedly marking the end of slavery, this week we've had hearings to actually end slavery in three different states and introduced a joint resolution to end the exception clause of the 13TH amendment. So, if slavery ended as they say it did, then what the hell have we been doing all this time trying to get it out of your state constitutions and the Federal Constitution? Careful, cognitive dissonance might make your head explode.

It's our last episode before Juneteenth, 2021. Last week we broke down the legal definition of slavery. This week we talk about Juneteenth, the upcoming introduction of the 28th amendment, and the committee hearings on slavery abolitionist bills in Ohio, California, and Oregon. All of which are happening this coming week. We'll also discuss all the news, organizations, and people relevant to the ever growing slavery abolitionist movement. Of course we'll have incredible musical mixes, powerful audio quotes, and as always, we bring the ancestors words to life in our Bridging The Gap segment. All that and so much more in this episode of Abolition Today

As a slavery abolitionists it's amazing that after all this time, blood, destruction, and suffering, we still don't know what the most basic terms which define the history of this country mean. Ask ten people to define slavery and see what you get.

Next try it with race/racism. Even the word abolition has been co-opted and redefined.

Normally when you ask someone to define these terms they'll tell you what they think as if guesses (educated or not) are perfectly acceptable because no one agrees on any particular definition. Sirius B?

How can everyone in this country who has ever went to school not know the answer to this immediately? It's only been over 4 hunnit gotdam years of it being the source of our woes right? Right?!

We're going to help with that problem. We've searched the records nationally and internationally to find a detailed definition which is legally accepted nearly worldwide. I've consulted with experts and taken council. June 6th we'll answer the question; What is Slavery?

So you won't have to guess no more.

America portrays itself as the global moral police while openly perpetuating crimes against humanity. Every year more and more nations call out the hypocrisy of our democracy.

In this episode Max and Yusuf point out the systemic human rights violations. We'll highlight the voices of nations and global human rights organizations who are calling out merica on their BS and demanding justice for the oppressed and accountability for the oppressor.

We will also explain how the US's prison for profit model has been adopted worldwide as an economic development program used to generate revenue through systems of slavery portrayed as justice.

Thanks to efforts led by slavery abolitionists, the global for-profit prison company called the GEO Group is near bankruptcy. Will it be slain or make a comeback? We'll discuss it.

As always, the music and poetry alone is worth the price of admission and we will continue to brings the words of the ancestors back to life in our Bridging The Gap segment.

Abolition Today is available for streaming from all your favorite podcast platforms and is simulcast on The Black Talk Radio Network.

This week both Yusuf and Max are back LIVE. We've got tons of updates on the abolition efforts nationwide. We'll be dropping dimes on all the racist AF republican legislators who have shown no shame in either voting to keep slavery constitutionally legal, or killing anti-slavery bills by cunningly refusing to schedule them for committee hearings. 

We'll also talk about the recent ruthless supreme court ruling that threw away over 1,500 lives like they didn't even matter. 

And finally, we want you to know all about the murder and ensuing cover-up of  Ronald Greene. What was done to him by police and politicians is worthy of a revolution all by itself. These are crimes against humanity and you need to know now.

Of course we've got powerful profound music, spoken word, and bombshell audio clips to share. As always, we'll honor our forbears and bring the voices of the ancestors back to life with our Bridging The Gap Segment.

Share this far and wide.

We look in our rear view mirror at 2021 so far. What we've heard, done, and saw.

This is a prerecorded broadcast. We'll be back live on May 23rd.

"Vilomah is a Sanskrit word that means against a natural order. It took years of pondering, research, and discovery for the word vilomah to come into the forefront. It’s used to describe a person whose child has died. It’s a complicated concept wrapped up in a small but powerful word. Its meaning embodies everything that is when a parent has to bury their child. It goes against a natural order. Karla Holloway, a James B. Duke professor of English at Duke University, coined the term after suffering the loss of a child and discovering that there was no word that gave meaning to a parent whose child has died."

- Dr. Alejandra Vasquez, JD, CT

On this Mothers Day 2021, we provide a platform and listen to to the voices of mothers suffering unspeakable tragedy within a system of legalized slavery. Parental warning and trigger warning. Adult language and content.

Neither the issue nor the voices will be censored. 

If you would like to call in to speak with the host our number is (515) 605-9814