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We talk with Madalena, a disabled, chronically ill, autistic, and ADHD PhD candidate at UC Davis who is also a rank and file UAW 2865 member and proud Wildcat striker. She's a 1st generation college student and a police and prison abolitionist, whose work has included organizing and running expungement clinics in the Central Valley. She has also helped formerly incarcerated and system impacted community members work towards pursuing their formal educational goals, such as high school and college degrees

On this episode of NPR, we interview Mia Dawson, a community organizer and scholar based in Sacramento. She is a PhD Candidate in the Geography Graduate Group at the University of California, Davis, with a designated emphasis in African American studies. Her scholarly work focuses on urban human geography and Black social movements, specifically on the contemporary movement for abolition in Sacramento. Mia also works with the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program, collaborating on the development of community-based violence interruption programs and alternative first response systems. As a community organizer, she has led and participated in initiatives against police terror and incarceration in her city with groups including Black Lives Matter and Decarcerate Sacramento. She is a co-ordinating committee member and research partner with Decarcerate.

Welcome to No Police Radio. You can hear us every other week discussing all things abolition, from tuition to the prison-industrial complex — everything that has to go to make way for a free university. We'll feature conversations with guest organizers, abolitionist scholars, and people who have taken part in the university's radical history, all with an eye toward how we get free. (this is the intro we give at the start of every show in case you wanted to include it on the website)

We talk with activist-organizer-community member Kei on the ongoing territorial struggle over defending the Weelaunee Forest in South Atlanta, where the Atlanta Police Department seeks to turn 300 acres of forest into a tactical training compound. Rest in power Tortuguita.