Abolition Today

We discuss the exploitation and suffering of inmate families and speak with abolitionist congressional candidate Josh Bowden

"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)

We talk about what's happening today in the abolitionist movement and the tactics slavers are using against us.

We've also got some exclusive musical and poetic jewels to drop.

Exercising self determination and controlling our own narratives. 

"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,"  - Fredrick Douglass Boston 1860

This week we examine the human trafficking and warehousing bodies aspects of modern legal slavery.

America has the largest prison population in the world. With only 4% of the worlds population we have 25% of it's prisoners.

Prison and jail overcrowding in some states is as much as 300% capacity. Thousands of prisoners are trafficked across state lines to be placed in states where they were never convicted of a crime. Underlying it all are racial discrepancies where minorities represent the vast majority of prison populations despite being only a fraction of state populations.

As always, we cover the data and show the truth of modern legal slavery under the 13TH amendment of the US constitution.

A conversation with Rep Sandra Hollins and Eve Hurwitz.

Sandra Hollins is a Utah State Representative for the 23rd District and a member of the Abolish Slavery National Network. Eve Hurwitz is a combat veteran, Director of Finance for March On, President of March On Foundation, interfaith minister, and former Maryland State Senate district 33 candidate.

The ASNN (Abolish Slavery National Network) and March On are fiscally sponsored by March On Foundation, a 501 (c)3 organization.

Sandra Hollins and Eve Hurwitz. are two architects behind real national transformation.

Airs LIVE Sunday August 30th.

7 PM EST US, 6 Central, 4 Pacific

2 Days after the Official ASNN Launch

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This week our guests will be Dennis Febo from Amend The 13th NJ and Kamau Waset, lead organizer of the Abolish Slavery National Network which officially launches August 28th 2020. 

Here on Abolition Today we are proud to herald The Birth Of  An Abolitionist Nation.  

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After 23 years behind bars for a crime he never committed, Prysmatic Dreams Author and exonerated free man Ricky Kidd joined the hosts of abolition today in Sumter, SC at the Paul Cuffee Abolitionist center on August 12h during his FREEDOM LAP 2020 TOUR.

Our prerecorded discussion will be aired August 16th.

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We'll be joined by guest  Kyle Lydell Canty who applied for Asylum in Canada because of racial oppression in America. We'll hear his story and more.

A Warning To The American People

From Fredrick Douglass

After 19 weeks of reviewing Ossie Davis Reads Fredrick Douglass in our Bridging The Gap segment, we come to the conclusion of the great abolitionist orators story with his final summations and warnings post emancipation. We'll discuss all of that and more.

Abolition Today Sunday, August 2nd, 2020

7 PM EST US, 6 Central, 4 Pacific abolitiontoday.org