Abolition Today

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.

"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 will assume, in what new skin this old snake will come forth."

Frederick Douglas

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 elbow on some of these pro-slavery arguments. We revisit episode 13 when we explained how The Revolution Will Be Criminalized. That is happening as we speak. We'll update you on the issue.

Of course we've got amazing new music to share and we'll honor the ancestors with our Bridging The Gap segment.

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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.””

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

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. The 8th amendment. Another constitutional protection and right that has become so perverted it no longer has any meaning. We covered the Death Penalty aspect of 8th Amendment Violations, its history, flawed evidence, racial disparity in sentencing, exonerations, and State-sponsored killing. If the 6th amendment is a myth, the 8th amendment is blood money. The blood money that drives mass incarceration through unreasonable fines and fees. Or more simply put. The racially biased extortionist schemes of an enslavers debtors prisons.

Abolition Today is a weekly online radio program with a specific focus on modern slavery as it is practiced through the 13th amendment of the US constitution and by for-profit prisons worldwide. Airs LIVE Sundays 7 PM EST US

““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 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 encountered, and how repealing and replacing the 13th amendment can make a difference within American society and law. We will also look into the myth of the 6th amendment. The fact that it does not exist in reality is one of the pillars of modern legal slavery. We’re going to break this issue down for you like a molecular biologist explaining covid.

"The only difference between slavery and convict leasing Is that with convicts so plentiful, they were seen as disposable."

Matthew J. Mancini - One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866-1928

While Max takes a few weeks to catch up on other projects, Yusuf will review episodes 1-4. You are invited to call in and share your stories or comments on legalized slavery.

“The second reason our race furnishes so large a share of the convicts is that the judges, juries and other officials of the courts are white men who share these prejudices. They also make the laws. It is wholly in their power to extend clemency to white criminals and mete severe punishment to black criminals for the same or lesser crimes. The Negro criminals are mostly ignorant, poor and friendless. Possessing neither money to employ lawyers nor influential friends, they are sentenced in large numbers to long terms of imprisonment for petty crimes. The People's Advocate, a Negro journal, of Atlanta, Georgia, has the following observation on the prison showing of that state for 1892. "It is an astounding fact that 90 per cent of the state's convicts are colored; 194 white males and 2 white females; 1,710 colored males and 44 colored females. Is it possible that Georgia is so color prejudiced that she won't convict her white law-breakers. Yes, it is just so, but we hope for a better day.”

Ida B. Wells - The Convict Lease System