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The officer who carried out this attack, Lt. Jenkins, has a long and sordid history of brutality and violence. Jenkins has been promoted several times during his tenure under Commissioner Dunn, showing a pattern of reward for brutality at Donaldson. 

Additionally, there have been multiple lawsuits brought against Donaldson Prison and ADOC on behalf of the men incarcerated there who have been beaten, brutalized, and raped by officers.

Is it a lawless land? Has the constitution been so systemically violated that it's become the supreme joke of the land? Has our rights ever been respected or have they been denied generation after generation? Who violates? Who denies? Who defends? Did biden actually end all private prison contracts? What's going on in Alabama prison with Kinetic Justice? We're going to pow wow with some veteran national slavery abolitionists and answer these questions.

When we pull back the curtain and take a look at what our 'colorblind' society creates without affirmative action, we see a familiar social, political, and economic structure - the structure of racial caste. The entrance into this new caste system can be found at the prison gate.

Michelle Alexander

Our guest will be Professor Robert Chase. author of;

"We Are Not Slaves' State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners' Rights in Postwar America.

“The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.”

Chinua Achebe

Max and Yusuf have been providing educational radio podcast content for the abolitionist movement since 2010. On 1/17/2021 we are joined by our former co-host Yohanan Elijah. We're also being syndicated on the Black Talk Radio Network courtesy of Scotty T Reid. In the midst of a national insurrection by white supremacists, these Veteran Abolitionist Witnesses come together for the first time in years to testify of what they have seen and discuss the bigger picture of then, now, and tomorrow.

Made by, hosted by, and produced by the currently incarcerated.

Sunday, 7 PM EST US on Abolition Today We examine the deadly systemic conditions of the currently enslaved and the daily fight for survival they wage.

We'll be joined by guest Bennu Hannibal Ra-Sun. One of the leaders of the Free Alabama Movement and a core architect of the national prison slave labor work strikes. A member of the GADSDEN 6, Bennu is currently doing a LWOP sentence in Alabama. He has been subject to systemic torture and abuse due to his organizing efforts inside prisons. Successful organizing efforts that have garnered international media/activist attention.

Bennu is currently a host of the weekly podcast sponsored by Abolition Today titled LIVE FROM THE PLANTATION.

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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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The Voices of the ancestors reclaimed. The news, views, and special guests. The compelling narratives and powerful commentary. The 1st hand testimony from activists at the heart of the modern slavery abolitionist movement.

It all returns on 1/3//2021. www.abolitiontoday.org

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I Am We Prison Advocacy Network/Millions for Prisoners Coalition

Jailhouse Lawyers Speak

Paul Cuffee Abolitionist Center

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