Abolition Today

Premier of Tales From A Plantation Nation. Hosted by Hosted by Samual Nathaniel Brown.

Sam is a activist, artist, and slavery abolitionist with multiple degrees who spent 24 years in California's prison systems.  He is now a leader in the states abolitionist movement and the orginial author of ACA3. The Abolition act which would have ended involuntary servitude in CA prisons. Which he wrote while incarcerated.  He's now advocating for the 2023 Abolition Act ACA 8.

He's joined by guest Aaron SHOWTIME Taylor. Aaron spent 26 years incarcerated. 9 in San Quentin State Prison. Thanks to prop 57 he was released and is living his dreams which include guesting as the PA announcer for Warriors-Rockets game.

This week, the whole episode IS the Bridging The Gap Segment.

We conclude with part 2 of Frederick Douglass's Denouncement Speech of 1888.

In Columbia SC at the capitol building on June 27th, 2015 Thomas Washington, Tribal Raine and Max Parthas recorded the reading of "I Denounce the So-Called Emancipation as a Stupendous Fraud" by Fredrick Douglas (1888) in a 9 part series. They are powerful eye-opening and moving presentations that can be used for education purposes with students, viewing and conversation with friends or family, or just to show someone the truth. On a historical level, the readings were done June 27th at the South Carolina Statehouse. The day after Reverend and state Senator Clementa Pinckney, (one of nine victims in the June 17, 2015, shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, SC), lay in state at the capitol with his body having to pass under the rebel flag. This was the same day and same place Bree Newsome cut the confederate flag down just yards away. The monument we recorded at is one of the few in America dedicated to the history of the African Diaspora. In the center of the display is a marble dais with the 4 stones of the 4 African nations where Enslaved Peoples in SC originated. A direct connection to those ancestral lands. Our intention was to speak to the state and the nation using not our words, but those of a man who was arguably the greatest statesman we have ever know. His words ring true today. A sad truth that most have never heard. Hidden and muted on purpose because it didn't fit the false narrative. The productions include news clips of current events (at the time) which drive all of his points home like a prophet.

During this black history month of 2023, we will play the Denouncement series on Abolition Today for the first time in its entirety.

This week, the whole episode IS the Bridging The Gap Segment.

Welcome to our upcoming show on Wednesday, May 10, 2023, airing at 4pm PST and 7pm EST. This week, we are thrilled to have Dr. Jody Armour as our guest.

Dr. Jody David Armour is the Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law at the University of Southern California. A widely published scholar and popular lecturer, he studies the intersection of race, law, morality, psychology, politics, ordinary language philosophy, and the performing arts. His latest book, N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law (Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2020) looks at America’s criminal justice system – among the deadliest and most racist in the world – through deeply interdisciplinary lenses. His latest free speech article is titled "Law, Language, and Politics," 22 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 1073 (2020). Armour is a Soros Justice Senior Fellow of The Open Society Institute’s Center on Crime, Communities & Culture, and he is on the Board of Directors for LEAP (Law Enforcement Action Partnership), an international 501(c)(3) non-profit of police, prosecutors, judges, corrections officials, and other law enforcement officials advocating for criminal justice reform.

We also bring you the voices of the Incarcerated, the narratives of the formerly incarcerated, and the unsung heroes out here doing good in the world that you may not always hear about.

We'll share history and make history in one night.

In Columbia SC at the capitol building on June 27th, 2015 Thomas Washington, Tribal Raine and Max Parthas recorded the reading of "I Denounce the So-Called Emancipation as a Stupendous Fraud" by Fredrick Douglas (1888) in a 9 part series. They are powerful eye-opening and moving presentations that can be used for education purposes with students, viewing and conversation with friends or family, or just to show someone the truth. On a historical level, the readings were done June 27th at the South Carolina Statehouse. The day after Reverend and state Senator Clementa Pinckney, (one of nine victims in the June 17, 2015, shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, SC), lay in state at the capitol with his body having to pass under the rebel flag. This was the same day and same place Bree Newsome cut the confederate flag down just yards away. The monument we recorded at is one of the few in America dedicated to the history of the African Diaspora. In the center of the display is a marble dais with the 4 stones of the 4 African nations where Enslaved Peoples in SC originated. A direct connection to those ancestral lands. Our intention was to speak to the state and the nation using not our words, but those of a man who was arguably the greatest statesman we have ever know. His words ring true today. A sad truth that most have never heard. Hidden and muted on purpose because it didn't fit the false narrative. The productions include news clips of current events (at the time) which drive all of his points home like a prophet.

During this black history month of 2023, we will play the Denouncement series on Abolition Today for the first time in its entirety.

This week, the whole episode IS the Bridging The Gap Segment.

Premier of Tales From A Plantation Nation. Hosted by Hosted by Samual Nathaniel Brown.

Sam is a activist, artist, and slavery abolitionist with multiple degrees who spent 24 years in California's prison systems.  He is now a leader in the states abolitionist movement and the orginial author of ACA3. The Abolition act which would have ended involuntary servitude in CA prisons. Which he wrote while incarcerated.  He's now advocating for the 2023 Abolition Act ACA 8.

He's joined by guest Jody David Armour. The Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law at the University of Southern California.

And Aaron SHOWTIME Taylor. Aaron spent 26 years incarcerated. 9 in San Quentin State Prison. Thanks to prop 57 he was released and is living his dreams which include guesting as the PA announcer for Warriors-Rockets game.

In advance of the May 5th Press Conference in Baton Rouge, LA, for HB 211, we're joined by Jamilia Land (CA) and Curtis Davis (LA). Both of whom will be on deck.

Jamilia is co-director of state operations for ASNN, a lead advocate for the CA Abolition Act and a board member of the March On Foundation.

Curtis is Executive Director of Decarcerate Louisiana, co-director of state operations for ASNN and author of "Slave State: Evidence of Apartheid in America"

As always, we'll have amazing music mixes and also bring the words of our abolitionist ancestors' back

In advance of the May 5th Press Conference in Baton Rouge, LA, for HB 211, we're joined by Jamilia Land (CA) and Curtis Davis (LA). Both of whom will be on deck.

Jamilia is co-director of state operations for ASNN, a lead advocate for the CA Abolition Act and a board member of the March On Foundation.

Curtis is Executive Director of Decarcerate Louisiana, co-director of state operations for ASNN and author of "Slave State: Evidence of Apartheid in America"

As always, we'll have amazing music mixes and also bring the words of our abolitionist ancestors' back

We dig deeply into the term and practice of involuntary servitude. What it is, how it works, who it appllies to, why it's even legal, and how it's simultaneously ILLEGAL for every other nation in the world except the US.

We'll be joined by slavery abolitionist Samual Nathaniel Brown. Original author of the California abolition act which he wrote while incarcerated. He's one of the lead advocates for ACA8. The 2023 California Abolition Act.  California and North Carolina are the only two states that abolished slavery in their state constitution, but added an exception to protect the practice of involuntary servitude.  As always we ask why, then provide real answers.

We're joined by NJ slavery abolitionists Dennis Febo and Antonne Henshaw to discuss abolitionist efforts in the state with SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION No. 135. 

Antonne Henshaw, is a Rutgers Camden School of Criminal Justice Graduate School Student, The CEO and Founder of Transformative Justice Initiative Creator of “Meet Em at the Gate” one of TJI’s most notable initiatives and a Lead Credible Messenger in New Jersey.

Dennis Febo, MAH, is a speaker, community organizer, artist, abolitionist, and CEO and founder Guazabara Insights, LLC. Dennis also founded the New Jersey Credible Messenger movement and the the Amend the 13th movement in NJ, a lobbying strategy to remove the "exception clause" and add anti-slavery language to the New Jersey constitution. Mr. Febo is also a professor of graduate and undergraduate studies in Health Sciences at New Jersey City University.

As always, we'll also bring the words of our abolitionists ancestors back to life for a new generation in our Bridging The Gap segment.

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