Abolition Today

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.

Harriet Ann Jacobs - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

We'll discuss the human cost of modern lynchings under a system of constitutional slavery.

The raid & warrant industrial complex. The judge, jury, executioner mentality of police. The death penalty, LWOP, and the systemic oppression of race/class based incarceration.

We'll also go into detail on why terms like mass incarceration, prison for profit, and policing for profit help the oppressor and not the oppressed.

“No right was deemed by the fathers of the Government more sacred than the right of speech. It was in their eyes, as in the eyes of all thoughtful men, the great moral renovator of society and government. Daniel Webster called it a homebred right, a fireside privilege. Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thought and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power. Thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers, founded in injustice and wrong, are sure to tremble, if men are allowed to reason of righteousness, temperance, and of a judgment to come in their presence. Slavery cannot tolerate free speech. Five years of its exercise would banish the auction block and break every chain in the South. They will have none of it there, for they have the power. But shall it be so here?”

Fredrick Douglass 1860 - THE FIRST AMENDMENT ENCYCLOPEDIA

On this last day of Black History Month, our guest is Mark Hughes. The activist behind Vermont's campaign to end constitutional slavery in their state. (PROPOSAL 2) Mark is the Executive Director of Vermont Racial Justice Alliance, and Justice For All. He is also a state operations representative for the Abolish Slavery National Network.   

As always, we'll have music, poetry, a master class on modern constitutional slavery abolition, updates on the national movement, and we'll bring the ancestors words to life with our Bridging The Gap Segment.

Voices from the inside.

Kenneth B Morris Jr is the Direct Descendant of Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington.

He's also the co founder of The Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives (FDFI).

The FDFI exists to honor and preserve the legacy of Frederick Douglass and to create awareness about modern-day slavery in an effort to expedite its demise.

On the 126th anniversary of his passing, Kenneth will join Max and Yusuf Sunday February the 21st on Abolition Today for a discussion on the modern abolitionist movement. We'll also hear from Jamilia Land of California's ACA3 bill to abolish slavery, and Spoken Word Icon Cola Rum.

These Are Generations of Abolitionists.

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On February 9th, 2021 over zoom, the Abolish Slavery National Network held its 1st Quarterly meeting of the year which was attended by dignitaries and representatives nationwide. It was an epic and historic moment in US history that indicated a coming paradigm shift.

This Sunday on Abolition Today we'll share highlights from the event. With abolitionist speeches by Oregon State Senator Jeff Merkley, CA Assemblymember Sydney Kamlager, and Majesté Kpodjito Dòwòti Désir (HM Queen Mother Dòwóti) representing the United Nations.

As always we bring the voices of our ancestors back to life. This week the Spoken Word OG, Cola Rum Author, Poet, and SWG Lifetime Achievement Award honoree, will lend his voice in part one of "(1860) FREDERICK DOUGLASS, “THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES: IS IT PRO-SLAVERY OR ANTI-SLAVERY?”

“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 reduced us to slavery. I loathed them as being the meanest as well as the most wicked of men.”

Frederick Douglass - ― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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 quarterly preceded the abolition of slavery in Utah and Nebraska and everything we touched turned to gold. Helping abolitionist amendments pass in 6 states.  3 months later we're about to top that and make US history.   Forewarned is forearmed. Hear it first at Abolition Today.