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2 episodes with are prisons obsolete
2 episodes with are prisons obsolete
2 episodes with are prisons obsolete
2 episodes with are prisons obsolete
2 episodes with are prisons obsolete
2 episodes with are prisons obsolete
In this episode of The Watchung Booksellers Podcast, Montclair State Professor Lee Behlman and high school English teacher Nick Hernandez talk about their love of literature and teaching it to their students. Lee Behlman is a professor of English at Montclair State University, where he's taught since 2006. He's a scholar of Victorian literature and his most recent publication is a 2023 book from Palgrave-Macmillan called Victorian Verse: The Poetics of Everyday Life, which he co-edited with Olivia Loksing Moy from Lehman College-CUNY. He teaches classes on nineteenth-century poetry and fiction, the Bible as Literature, The Golden Age of Children's Literature, and most recently, on Detective and Crime Fiction. He grew up locally in Queens and has been a dedicated customer of Watchung Booksellers since the moment he moved to New Jersey.Nick Hernandez teaches English at Montclair High School and loves spending his time rock climbing, playing in a band, and reading. His head is usually in the clouds but he still manages to balance a comically small tea cup on his person throughout the day. His favorite class to teach is dedicated to reading Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis, kindly provided by a generous MFEE grant.Resources:The StrandTheatre of the OppressedThe KrakenThe Dakota 38 by Layli Long SoldierHomie by Danez SmithThe AtlanticMontclair Fund for Educational ExcellenceBooks:A full list of the books and authors mentioned in this episode is available here. Register for Upcoming Events.The Watchung Booksellers Podcast is produced by Kathryn Counsell and Marni Jessup and is recorded at Watchung Booksellers in Montclair, NJ. The show is edited by Kathryn Counsell. Original music is composed and performed by Violet Mujica. Art & design and social media by Evelyn Moulton. Research and show notes by Caroline Shurtleff. Thanks to all the staff at Watchung Booksellers and The Kids' Room! If you liked our episode please like, follow, and share! Stay in touch!Email: wbpodcast@watchungbooksellers.comSocial: @watchungbooksellersSign up for our newsletter to get the latest on our shows, events, and book recommendations!
In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Andrew Thomas speaks with folx from LGBT Books to Prisoners and A Room of One's Own bookstore on the Wisconsin Department of Corrections' recently-implemented restrictions on book donations, the condition of prison libraries, and the current state of abolition activism.“On the whole, people tend to take prisons for granted. It is difficult to imagine life without them,” she continues. “At the same time, there is reluctance to face the realities hidden within them, a fear of thinking about what happens inside them. Thus, the prison is present in our lives and, at the same time, it is absent from our lives.” --Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?Joining me for a conversation on this topic is Bryan Davis and Nicholas Leete of LGBT Books to Prisoners and Mira Braneck of A Room of One's Own bookstore.LGBT Books to Prisoners was born out of the Wisconsin Books to Prisoners (WI BtP) in 2007. LGBT Books to Prisoners is a prison abolitionist, volunteer-run project which primarily works to send books requested by queer people in prison in the United States. With me today are two volunteers, Nicholas Leete and Bryan Davis.Bryan Davis is a graduate from UW-Madison's School of Human Ecology with a degree in nonprofit management. He first became involved with LGBT Books to Prisoners as a volunteer in 2016 and eventually joined the board of directors. He also worked in the non-profit sector in fundraising, development, and communications for an organization serving children who experience neglect and teens in the foster care system. He currently serves on the Social Justice Center's board of directors located off of Willy Street which manages the building's operations and programming which includes renting space to numerous nonprofits like LGBT Books to Prisoners.Nicholas Leete has been a volunteer with LGBT Books to Prisoners since 2016, and has been a volunteer organizer with the group for the last few years. Additionally, Nicholas is a WORT volunteer and a worker at Rooted, a local food sovereignty non-profit.A Room of One's Own is a local, independent feminist bookstore, in Madison since 1975, currently on Atwood Avenue. They serve as the official bookseller for all books sent out by LGBT Books to Prisoners and also sponsor us through book donations and publicity.Mira Braneck is the receiving manager and books to prisoners programs coordinator at A Room of One's Own.Additional resources:10/16/24 WORT interview with Tone's Madison's editor in chief Scott Gordon on DOC's updated donation policies10/14/24 TONE article, "Wisconsin prison officials furtively changed a library book donation policy while dodging questions" by Scott Gordon9/25/24 TONE article, "Wisconsin escalates its long tradition of prison book-banning" by Scott Gordon and Dan FitchNB: Since airing, we discovered an inaccuracy in our conversation. Michigan state prisons allow publications purchased from seven internet vendors as well as direct from book publishers. You can read more about this here. Copyright free photo courtesy of Freepik.
Trigger warning: this show includes discussion about violence, drugs, and suicide. On this show we discuss prison abolition, the links to animal rights, and abolitionist alternatives. Links: Angela Y. Davis's book: Are Prisons Obsolete? https://www.akpress.org/areprisonsobsolete.html Clementine Morrigan substack blog: https://www.clementinemorrigan.com/ Clementine Morrigan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clementinemorrigan?igsh=Y2VpM3c3b2QxY2N0 For Harriet interview with Professor Leigh Goldmark. What should happen to abusers if we don't lock them up?https://youtu.be/vmZqyYFudVg?si=mL6j_FiZ1mAIX0kf Leigh Goodmark's book: Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence https://leighgoodmark.com/product/decriminalizing-domestic-violence Blog post 'The Parallels Between Zoos And Prisons' summarising the work of Kelly Struthers Montford: https://faunalytics.org/parallels-zoos-prisons/ Blog post ' Why Vegans should care about Prison Abolition' by Alyse Toulouse https://www.peacefuldumpling.com/opinion-why-vegans-should-care-about-prison-abolition Blog post ' Prison treates me like an animal. I write to reclaim my humanity' by Tony D. Vick https://truthout.org/articles/prison-treats-me-like-an-animal-i-write-to-reclaim-my-humanity/ Previous related Freedom of Species show on prisons and animals, featuring Jess Ison: https://www.3cr.org.au/freedomofspecies/episode-201806031300/jess-ison-%E2%80%93-prisons-and-animals Music we played: The Ungovernable Force by Conflict Letter to the Free by Common featuring Bilal Me time by Stic If the themes of today's show cause distress, please consider accessing support via Lifeline Australia https://www.lifeline.org.au/ Thank you for listening to Freedom of Species. Please contact us with any feedback on our shows at freedomofspecies@gmail.com
In this episode we present excerpts from the recent conversation (June 2024) as part of SAND's “Conversations on Palestine” around the premiere of the film Where Olive Trees Weep hosted by the directors of the film and co-founders of SAND, Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo. You can watch this full conversation and 22 others. SAND has created a program with leading historians, spiritual teachers, trauma therapists, poets and performers to complement the themes explored in the film and provide a larger historical, cultural and social context to the plight of the Palestinian people. In this conversation, legendary activist and scholar Angela Davis and Dr. Gabor Maté, physician and author, explore the intersections between the Palestinian struggle for freedom and broader global movements for justice, equity, and human liberation. Drawing parallels between the oppression faced by Palestinians and the systemic injustice confronting marginalized communities around the world, Angela and Gabor will shed light on the common roots of violence, occupation, and dehumanization. They will examine how trauma, both individual and collective, perpetuates cycles of conflict and how healing these wounds is integral to achieving genuine liberation. Bios Angela Y. Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies Departments at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is an internationally renowned activist, scholar, and writer who has dedicated her life to combating oppression in the U.S. and abroad. With a long-standing commitment to prisoners' rights and a powerful critique of racism in the criminal justice system, Davis is a founding member of Critical Resistance, a national organization working to dismantle the prison industrial complex. She is the author of nine books, including Are Prisons Obsolete? and Women, Race, and Class, and has lectured in all fifty states and across the globe. Despite facing persecution for her activism and membership in the Communist Party, USA, which led to her false imprisonment and a massive “Free Angela Davis” campaign, Davis remains a tireless advocate for social justice and prison abolition. Gabor Maté, M.D. is a specialist on trauma, addiction, stress and childhood development. After 20 years of family practice and palliative care experience, Dr. Maté worked for over a decade in Vancouver's Downtown East Side with patients challenged by drug addiction and mental illness. For his groundbreaking medical work and writing he has been awarded the Order of Canada, his country's highest civilian distinction, and the Civic Merit Award from his hometown, Vancouver. Gabor is also the creator of a psychotherapeutic approach, Compassionate Inquiry, now studied by thousands of therapists, physicians, counselors, and others in over 80 countries. Topics 00:00 – Introduction and Welcome 01:28 – Background on the Conversation 02:10 – Angela Davis and Gabor Mate: Biographies 03:01 – Current Situation in Gaza and the West Bank 04:04 – Global Resistance and Solidarity 04:37 – Personal Reflections and Historical Context 05:42 – The Moral Litmus Test of Palestine 22:09 – The Role of Violence in Liberation Struggles 27:36 – The Impact of Incarceration 31:35 – Unity and Emotional Connection 42:17 – Reflections on Activism and Change 48:55 – Conclusion and Final Thoughts Episode artwork: Wadsworth Jarrell, “Revolutionary” (1972) Support the mission of SAND and the production of this podcast by becoming a SAND Member.
It's the final episode of the season! This week we're talking about the books that have revolutionised us personally in some way and also revolutionary books as a genre. Join us as we discuss whether it's important to read the books that have revolutionised the world and constructed society as we know it today and look out for some recommendations like Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis and How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney!Thank you so much for joining us this season, we've loved sharing these discussions with you
This is a conversation with Karena Avedissian and Anna, and a collaboration with their podcast Obscuristan. The main thread of our conversation was about Armenian-ness and how complicated of an identity it is due to the old and transnational history of Armenians. Some have ancestry in the Ottoman empire and therefore feel closer to the Levant, especially after the genocide which also exiled so many to my part of the world. Others lived under the Russian empire and then the USSR. There are of course those who moved to Europe and North America and elsewhere as well. Karena is of Armenian-Iranian origins and grew up in the US, but lives in Armenia. Anna is from Artsakh and Armenia and is currently in the US. So we inevitably had to also talk about Armenian proximity to Whiteness in the US and why it's important to understand it. We brought up Ukraine a lot as well as Russia's full-scale invasion last year prompted them to launch their podcast which partly seeks to decolonize Russian history and imperialism. We also brought up Azerbaijan's ongoing violence against Armenians in Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh. Also: Lebanon as Beirut has a special place in Armenian history, something I didn't really know until I myself visited Armenia. Also: Gilmore Girls, coz why not. ---- Mentions and Book Recommendations: Karena: The Politics of Exile by Elizabeth Dauphinee Anna: The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition by Thenmozhi Soundararajan (who will be a guest soon as well!) Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis ---- You can support The Fire These Times on patreon.com/firethesetimes with a monthly or yearly donation and get a lot of perks including early access, exclusive videos, monthly hangouts, access to the book club, merch and more. Host: Joey Ayoub Producer: Joey Ayoub Music: Rap and Revenge Main theme design: Wenyi Geng Sound editor: Ibrahim Youssef Episode design: Joey Ayoub ---- You can also follow updates on Mastodon | Twitter | Instagram | TikTok | Website & Mailing List Joey Ayoub can be found on Mastodon | Twitter | Instagram | Website The newsletter is available on Substack
Vâng, tụi tui chính thức lấn sân làm booktuber nè. Booktube Việt Nam hãy coi chừng nhé! Trong tập này, tụi mình trả lời các câu hỏi trong book tag "Mid year freak out book tag" nhưng sửa lại thành cuối năm. Hi vọng là tập này sẽ gợi ý cho các bạn nhiều sách hay để đọc trong thời gian sắp tới. Dạo đầu: 0:00 Book tag: 7: 21 1. Sách hay nhất năm 2022? 7:34 Hư cấu: Quỳnh (Q): Us Against You - Fredrik Backman / Beautiful World Where Are You - Sally Rooney Mai (M): Les Années (The Years) - Annie Ernaux / Un Roi Sans Divertissement - Jean Giono Phi hư cấu: Q: Hood Feminism - Mikki Kendall / Three Women - Lisa Taddeo M: Are Prisons Obsolete? - Angela Davis Tập 82 của JAR về Are Prisons Obsolete? (Phần 1): https://youtu.be/GqUiclUNjE8 Tâp 83 của JAR về Are Prisons Obsolete? (Phần 2): https://youtu.be/5WHdyxEXnRc Sách khác có nhắc đến: The Meaning of Mariah Carey - Mariah Carey / Bossypants - Tina Fey / Anxious People - Backman 2. Sequel (phần tiếp theo) hay nhất? 13:55 Q: Us Against You - Backman M: Un de Baumugnes - Giono 3. Sách mới xuất bản mà bạn muốn đọc nhất trong năm 2023? 15:28 4. Cuốn sách bạn mong đợi đọc trong năm 2023 nhất? 16:02 Q: The Winners - Backman M: Madame Bovary - Flaubert 5. Cuốn sách làm bạn thất vọng nhất năm 2022? 17:42 Q: Alone With You In The Ether - Olivie Blake M: The Will To Change - bell hooks Video của Quỳnh về Alone With You in the Ether: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMx4AQ9YsMs Video của Quỳnh về sách Romance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI6ExtGptrU 6. Bất ngờ lớn nhất năm 2022? 26:06 M: Dora Bruder - Patrick Modiano Q: Never Let Me Go - Ishiguro Review của Mai về Dora Bruder: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3339764766 7. Tác giả yêu thích mới của bạn? 31:59 M: Jean Racine (tác phẩm gợi ý đọc: Phèdre và Andromaque) Q: Naoise Dolan (tác phẩm gợi ý đọc: Exciting time) Review Exciting time của Quỳnh: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4820798433?book_show_action=false 8. Crush hư cấu (fictional crush) mới nhất của bạn? 35:55 9. Nhân vật yêu thích mới nhất của bạn? 35:02 10. Cuốn sách làm bạn khóc? 36:32 Q: A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara / Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin M: Une Femme (A Woman's Story) - Ernaux 11. Cuốn sách làm bạn hạnh phúc? 41:31 12. Sách bìa đẹp nhất bạn mua năm 2022? 41:43 Q: Memorial - Bryan Washington / Panenka - Rónán Hession 13. Cuốn sách nào bạn không đọc hết trong năm 2022? 41:43 M+Q: Người bạn phi thường - Elena Ferrante Q: Small pleasure - Clare Chambers M: India Song - Marguerite Duras 14. Cuốn sách bạn đang đọc? 48:53 M: Stoner - John Williams Q: White Fragility - Robin DiAngelo 15. Một cuốn sách mà mọi người phải đọc trong năm 2023? 51:18 Q: Open Water - Caleb Azumah Nelson M: Are prisons obsolete? - Angela Davis / The Transgender Issue - Shon Faye Review của Mai về The Transgender Issue (ENG): https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4195824618 Goodreads: Mai: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/58013388-mai Quỳnh: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/60151780-quynh-nguyen Insta: @just.another.rant / @maivugon / @phg_q FB: fb.com/justanotherrant Youtube: Just Another Rant Youtube (Quỳnh): https://www.youtube.com/@phg_Q
Vâng, tụi tui chính thức lấn sân làm booktuber nè. Booktube Việt Nam hãy coi chừng nhé! Trong tập này, tụi mình trả lời các câu hỏi trong book tag "Mid year freak out book tag" nhưng sửa lại thành cuối năm. Hi vọng là tập này sẽ gợi ý cho các bạn nhiều sách hay để đọc trong thời gian sắp tới. Dạo đầu: 0:00 Book tag: 7: 21 1. Sách hay nhất năm 2022? 7:34 Hư cấu: Quỳnh (Q): Us Against You - Fredrik Backman / Beautiful World Where Are You - Sally Rooney Mai (M): Les Années (The Years) - Annie Ernaux / Un Roi Sans Divertissement - Jean Giono Phi hư cấu: Q: Hood Feminism - Mikki Kendall / Three Women - Lisa Taddeo M: Are Prisons Obsolete? - Angela Davis Tập 82 của JAR về Are Prisons Obsolete? (Phần 1): https://youtu.be/GqUiclUNjE8 Tâp 83 của JAR về Are Prisons Obsolete? (Phần 2): https://youtu.be/5WHdyxEXnRc Sách khác có nhắc đến: The Meaning of Mariah Carey - Mariah Carey / Bossypants - Tina Fey / Anxious People - Backman 2. Sequel (phần tiếp theo) hay nhất? 13:55 Q: Us Against You - Backman M: Un de Baumugnes - Giono 3. Sách mới xuất bản mà bạn muốn đọc nhất trong năm 2023? 15:28 4. Cuốn sách bạn mong đợi đọc trong năm 2023 nhất? 16:02 Q: The Winners - Backman M: Madame Bovary - Flaubert 5. Cuốn sách làm bạn thất vọng nhất năm 2022? 17:42 Q: Alone With You In The Ether - Olivie Blake M: The Will To Change - bell hooks Video của Quỳnh về Alone With You in the Ether: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMx4AQ9YsMs Video của Quỳnh về sách Romance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI6ExtGptrU 6. Bất ngờ lớn nhất năm 2022? 26:06 M: Dora Bruder - Patrick Modiano Q: Never Let Me Go - Ishiguro Review của Mai về Dora Bruder: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3339764766 7. Tác giả yêu thích mới của bạn? 31:59 M: Jean Racine (tác phẩm gợi ý đọc: Phèdre và Andromaque) Q: Naoise Dolan (tác phẩm gợi ý đọc: Exciting time) Review Exciting time của Quỳnh: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4820798433?book_show_action=false 8. Crush hư cấu (fictional crush) mới nhất của bạn? 35:55 9. Nhân vật yêu thích mới nhất của bạn? 35:02 10. Cuốn sách làm bạn khóc? 36:32 Q: A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara / Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin M: Une Femme (A Woman's Story) - Ernaux 11. Cuốn sách làm bạn hạnh phúc? 41:31 12. Sách bìa đẹp nhất bạn mua năm 2022? 41:43 Q: Memorial - Bryan Washington / Panenka - Rónán Hession 13. Cuốn sách nào bạn không đọc hết trong năm 2022? 41:43 M+Q: Người bạn phi thường - Elena Ferrante Q: Small pleasure - Clare Chambers M: India Song - Marguerite Duras 14. Cuốn sách bạn đang đọc? 48:53 M: Stoner - John Williams Q: White Fragility - Robin DiAngelo 15. Một cuốn sách mà mọi người phải đọc trong năm 2023? 51:18 Q: Open Water - Caleb Azumah Nelson M: Are prisons obsolete? - Angela Davis / The Transgender Issue - Shon Faye Review của Mai về The Transgender Issue (ENG): https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4195824618 Goodreads: Mai: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/58013388-mai Quỳnh: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/60151780-quynh-nguyen Insta: @just.another.rant / @maivugon / @phg_q FB: fb.com/justanotherrant Youtube: Just Another Rant Youtube (Quỳnh): https://www.youtube.com/@phg_Q
Trong tập tuần này, chúng ta tiếp tục nói về cuốn sách "Are Prisons Obsolete?" (Nhà tù có lỗi thời rồi không?) của Angela Davis - một học giả, triết gia, nhà hoạt động xã hội người Mỹ và là khuôn mặt đại diện của phong trào bãi bỏ nhà tù ở Mỹ. Ở tập 82, chúng ta đã đi qua chương 1, 2, 3 và trong tập tuần này chúng ta sẽ tiếp tục với chương 4, 5, 6 và làm rõ tại sao, theo Angela Davis, chúng ta phải bãi bỏ nhà tù. Mốc thời gian: Giới thiệu: 0:00 Chương 4: Giới kết cấu hệ thống nhà tù như thế nào? 3:55 Chương 5: Tổ hợp công nghiệp nhà tù 17:12 Chương 6: Abolitionist Alternatives (Giải pháp thay thế của phong trào bãi bỏ nhà tù) 29:07 Insta: @just.another.rant Fb: fb.com/justanotherrant Tài liệu: Angela Davis. (2003). “Are prisons obsolete?” [Pdf Online]. https://www.feministes-radicales.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Angela-Davis-Are_Prisons_Obsolete.pdf Sách nói, đọc bởi Audio Anarchy (Youtube): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1Blig_Wn1368WsBs6YcWRhmy0USOS-if Nghe lời chia sẻ của một cựu phạm nhân: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVqq20BmnnI
Trong tập tuần này, chúng ta tiếp tục nói về cuốn sách "Are Prisons Obsolete?" (Nhà tù có lỗi thời rồi không?) của Angela Davis - một học giả, triết gia, nhà hoạt động xã hội người Mỹ và là khuôn mặt đại diện của phong trào bãi bỏ nhà tù ở Mỹ. Ở tập 82, chúng ta đã đi qua chương 1, 2, 3 và trong tập tuần này chúng ta sẽ tiếp tục với chương 4, 5, 6 và làm rõ tại sao, theo Angela Davis, chúng ta phải bãi bỏ nhà tù. Mốc thời gian: Giới thiệu: 0:00 Chương 4: Giới kết cấu hệ thống nhà tù như thế nào? 3:55 Chương 5: Tổ hợp công nghiệp nhà tù 17:12 Chương 6: Abolitionist Alternatives (Giải pháp thay thế của phong trào bãi bỏ nhà tù) 29:07 Insta: @just.another.rant Fb: fb.com/justanotherrant Tài liệu: Angela Davis. (2003). “Are prisons obsolete?” [Pdf Online]. https://www.feministes-radicales.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Angela-Davis-Are_Prisons_Obsolete.pdf Sách nói, đọc bởi Audio Anarchy (Youtube): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1Blig_Wn1368WsBs6YcWRhmy0USOS-if Nghe lời chia sẻ của một cựu phạm nhân: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVqq20BmnnI
This is part 2 of Caring for Our Communities featuring the same round of panelists: co-founder of the National Bail Out, Arissa Hall, fitness instructor at ConBody, Peter Roman and Civil Rights Attorney, Blerim Elmazi. In today's episode we pickup with the discussion of citizens rights. What is unique about today's discussion is that we dive deeper into what are ways to navigate an encounter with an officer as well as ways that community members across the country are finding ways to police the police. To further engage with the issues discussed in today's episode I recommend you check out the book Are Prisons Obsolete here. I also ask that in the spirit of giving this season you support Peter's gym, ConBody here. Finally, I'd like to encourage you all to meditate on Zechariah 9:12 (NLT) which reads, “Come back to the place of safety, all you prisoners who still have hope! I promise this very day that I will repay two blessings for each of your troubles.” I believe this verse paints a powerful picture of restoration and holding out for promised blessings even in the face of adversity. Continue to meditate on this verse until the next time! Instagram Website --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
¡Mike Davis, presente! Three longtime allies of Mike Davis (1946–2022) will discuss the life and legacy of the author, geologist, historian, and organizer—and the inspiration we take from his life and work for the struggles ahead. Speakers: Angela Y. Davis is Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies Departments at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Dr. Davis grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, and has been an activist and Marxist-Feminist in the Black Power and abolitionist movements since the late 1960s. In the 1980s, her book Women, Race and Class helped to establish the concept of intersectionality. She also helped to develop the concept of prison abolition, especially in her books Are Prisons Obsolete? and Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire. Recently, Dr. Davis has written about the international movement in solidarity with Palestine in Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement. Her work helped to lay the theoretical groundwork for the #DefundthePolice movement. Davis's memoir was recently published in a new edition by Haymarket Books. Geri Silva, who was born and raised in Los Angeles, has spent the past 40 years in all forms of struggle for human, political, and economic rights. Her activity covers the span from immigration rights to welfare rights to the right to decent housing for all in need. For the past 20-plus years she has fought against the rampant and ongoing abuses in the courts and at the hands of the police. Silva is a founding member of Mothers Reclaiming Our Children (Mothers ROC) in 1992, Families to Amend California's Three Strikes (FACTS) in 1996, Fair Chance Project (FCP) in 2009, California Families Against Solitary Confinement (CFASC) in 2011, and FUEL—Families United to End LWOP (Life Without Parole) in 2017. Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences and Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Co-founder of many grassroots organizations including the California Prison Moratorium Project, Critical Resistance, and the Central California Environmental Justice Network, Gilmore is author of the prize-winning Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (UC Press). Recent publications include “Beyond Bratton” (Policing the Planet, Camp and Heatherton, eds., Verso); “Abolition Geography and the Problem of Innocence” (Futures of Black Radicalism, Lubin and Johnson, eds., Verso); a foreword to Bobby M. Wilson's Birmingham classic America's Johannesburg (U Georgia Press); a foreword to Cedric J. Robinson on Racial Capitalism, Black Internationalism, and Cultures of Resistance (HLT Quan, ed., Pluto); Abolition Geography: Essays Toward Liberation (Verso), and, co-edited with Paul Gilroy, Stuart Hall: Selected Writings on Race and Difference (Duke). Forthcoming projects include Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition (Haymarket). Gilmore has lectured in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. In April 2019 novelist Rachel Kushner profiled Gilmore in The New York Times Magazine. Recent honors include the SUNY-Purchase College Eugene V. Grant Distinguished Scholar Prize for Social and Environmental Justice (2015-16); the American Studies Association Richard A Yarborough Mentorship Award (2017); The Association of American Geographers Lifetime Achievement Award (2020); and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2021). Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/u5xtmUWdWbc Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks
Trong tập tuần này, mình giới thiệu với các bạn cuốn sách "Are Prisons Obsolete?" (Nhà tù có lỗi thời rồi không?) của Angela Davis - một học giả, triết gia, nhà hoạt động xã hội người Mỹ và là khuôn mặt đại diện của phong trào bãi bỏ nhà tù ở Mỹ. Chúng ta sẽ đi qua chương 1, 2, 3 trong tập tuần này và chương 4, 5, 6 trong tập sau và làm rõ tại sao, theo Angela Davis, chúng ta phải bãi bỏ nhà tù. Mốc thời gian: Giới thiệu: 0:00 Đặt vấn đề: 1:05 Giới thiệu tác giả và tác phẩm: 4:35 Chương 1: 7:13 Chương 2: 16:39 Chương 3: 27:13 Insta: @just.another.rant Fb: fb.com/justanotherrant Tài liệu: Angela Davis. (2003). “Are prisons obsolete?” [Pdf Online]. https://www.feministes-radicales.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Angela-Davis-Are_Prisons_Obsolete.pdf Sách nói, đọc bởi Audio Anarchy (Youtube): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1Blig_Wn1368WsBs6YcWRhmy0USOS-if Nghe lời chia sẻ của một cựu phạm nhân: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVqq20BmnnI Chú thích: Chỗ 25:50 về việc trả lương 1 phần. Theo mình tìm hiểu thì Nghị định 133/2020/NĐ-CP Luật thi hành án hình sự ở mục a, khoảng 3, điều 17 về việc sử dụng kết quả lao động của phạm nhân (đại loại là tiền lời từ lao động của phạm nhân sau trừ các chi phí ra) thì sẽ trích 10% trả một phần công lao động cho phạm nhân lao động trực tiếp. Nhưng vì ở đây nói về tiền lời cho nên không nói cho chúng ta biết số tiền lương các doanh nghiệp trả cho họ là bao nhiêu và con số đó thấp hơn so với lao động bình thường là bao nhiêu. Ngoài ra, tháng 6 vừa rồi vừa có thảo luận về việc cho tù nhân làm các công việc tự nguyện ngoài trại giam và nếu làm thì hưởng lương bao nhiêu so với người thường. Nhiều chính trị gia trong Đảng cho rằng không được trả lương cho lao động tù nhân như người bình thường vì đại loại đây là hình phạt (vâng và họ tự gọi mình là Cộng sản trong khi nói những điều phản cách mạng, phản bội giai cấp vô sản như vậy). Hiện tại đã có sự đồng ý cho phép tù nhân lao động ngoài trại giam nhưng đang trong quá trình thử nghiệm thí điểm và dĩ nhiên tù nhân chỉ được trả “một phần công lao động” (mục b, khoảng 3, điều 1, Nghị quyết 54/2022/QH15).
Trong tập tuần này, mình giới thiệu với các bạn cuốn sách "Are Prisons Obsolete?" (Nhà tù có lỗi thời rồi không?) của Angela Davis - một học giả, triết gia, nhà hoạt động xã hội người Mỹ và là khuôn mặt đại diện của phong trào bãi bỏ nhà tù ở Mỹ. Chúng ta sẽ đi qua chương 1, 2, 3 trong tập tuần này và chương 4, 5, 6 trong tập sau và làm rõ tại sao, theo Angela Davis, chúng ta phải bãi bỏ nhà tù. Mốc thời gian: Giới thiệu: 0:00 Đặt vấn đề: 1:05 Giới thiệu tác giả và tác phẩm: 4:35 Chương 1: 7:13 Chương 2: 16:39 Chương 3: 27:13 Insta: @just.another.rant Fb: fb.com/justanotherrant Tài liệu: Angela Davis. (2003). “Are prisons obsolete?” [Pdf Online]. https://www.feministes-radicales.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Angela-Davis-Are_Prisons_Obsolete.pdf Sách nói, đọc bởi Audio Anarchy (Youtube): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1Blig_Wn1368WsBs6YcWRhmy0USOS-if Nghe lời chia sẻ của một cựu phạm nhân: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVqq20BmnnI Chú thích: Chỗ 25:50 về việc trả lương 1 phần. Theo mình tìm hiểu thì Nghị định 133/2020/NĐ-CP Luật thi hành án hình sự ở mục a, khoảng 3, điều 17 về việc sử dụng kết quả lao động của phạm nhân (đại loại là tiền lời từ lao động của phạm nhân sau trừ các chi phí ra) thì sẽ trích 10% trả một phần công lao động cho phạm nhân lao động trực tiếp. Nhưng vì ở đây nói về tiền lời cho nên không nói cho chúng ta biết số tiền lương các doanh nghiệp trả cho họ là bao nhiêu và con số đó thấp hơn so với lao động bình thường là bao nhiêu. Ngoài ra, tháng 6 vừa rồi vừa có thảo luận về việc cho tù nhân làm các công việc tự nguyện ngoài trại giam và nếu làm thì hưởng lương bao nhiêu so với người thường. Nhiều chính trị gia trong Đảng cho rằng không được trả lương cho lao động tù nhân như người bình thường vì đại loại đây là hình phạt (vâng và họ tự gọi mình là Cộng sản trong khi nói những điều phản cách mạng, phản bội giai cấp vô sản như vậy). Hiện tại đã có sự đồng ý cho phép tù nhân lao động ngoài trại giam nhưng đang trong quá trình thử nghiệm thí điểm và dĩ nhiên tù nhân chỉ được trả “một phần công lao động” (mục b, khoảng 3, điều 1, Nghị quyết 54/2022/QH15).
Episode Notes This episode draws connections between the prison industrial complex and environmental justice- Brown Girl Green sits down with Amanda Diaz from Freedom for Immigrants @migrantfreedom on instagram. Here's a petition from the Shut Down Glades Coalition to take action today:https://action.aclu.org/send-message/fl-tell-dhs-shut-down-glades-now The list of books Amanda mentioned plus more if folks are interested: “Are Prisons Obsolete?” by Angela Davis (PDFs can be found here on "The Anarchist Library" and here for a more book like version.) We Do This Till We Free Us by Mariame Kaba Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown "Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement” Edited by Ejeris Dixon and LEah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha “Color of Violence” The INCITE! Anthology edited by INCITE! WOmen of Color Against Violence “Prison By Any Other Name” by Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law "Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect” A Truthout Collection (PDF can be found here on "The Anarchist Library.") Abolition Feminism Now by Angela Davis Other Resources: Let's Talk About Abolition 15 week self-guided community course by Nikita Oliver Short history of immigration detention" infographic (Freedom for Immigrants) Interactive Immigration Detention Timeline (Freedom for Immigrants) Detention 101 (Detention Watch Network Why Abolition? (Freedom for Immigrants) The State of Black Immigrants (Black Alliance for Just Immigration) Detained: How the U.S. Built the World's Largest Immigrant Detention System (The Marshall Project) Immigration Detention Syllabus (Freedom for Immigrants) History of Criminalization Webinars (ICE out of CA) Immigrant Justice Now! Curriculum (Catalyst Project) Dismantling Detention webinar (Immigrant Legal Resource Center) Immigration Detention in the United States by agency (American Immigration Council) Find out more at https://brown-girl-green.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
Happy 1 year anniversary of The Lavender Menace Podcast! We are dedicating our anniversary, season 3 finale, and 2022 Easter episode to answering three listener submitted hot takes, going over all of Taylor Swift's Easter eggs pointing to her being gay, and reflecting on the media recommendations we've given each other in the past year. In discussing being a communist on the day to day, we recommend some beginner level theory: Angela Davis books (Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Women Race and Class, Women Culture and Politics, Are Prisons Obsolete,) Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti, Audre Lorde's Sister Outsider, Lenin's State and Revolution, Gender Accelerationist Manifesto, base and superstructure, Dialectical and Historical Materialism by Stalin, the podcast episodes Stalin was a mensch & Stalin a Marxist Leninist perspective. We also mention The Black Jacobins, Robin DG Kelley's Hammer and Hoe, The Foundations of Lenininism by Stalin, The Castle of Truth and Other Stories by Hermynia Zur Muhlen, and Mao's Combat Liberalism. (Also not mentioned in the episode but other really good theory recommendations: Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Neocolonialism by Kwame Nkrumah, Women's Liberation and he African Freedom Struggle by Thomas Sankara). We respond to a listener facing biphobia allegations and give our thoughts on radical feminism/trans exclusionary radical feminists (aka TERFs) with leads us to talking about attraction and sexual orientation's relationship to one's politics, “monosexuals”, heterosexual women's misogyny, gay men's misogyny, centering and attraction to men, the Bechdel test, and opposing transmisogyny. For another listener submitted hot take, we discuss how “androphobia” isn't real, break down the phenomenon of fetishizing of transmisogyny, and namedrop @butchboyfriend on Tik Tok. Renaissance then leads the conversation into material conditions in response to the gender binary and patriarchy, lesbophobia vs biphobia, visibility vs material conditions, the gender trinary, and trans men/butch history. Finally, we tackle the hot takes around lesbians and ‘genital preferences' and the politics of attraction. For the shared media portion of this episode, Renaissance goes through the timeline of Taylor Swift's queer coded Easter eggs and get into Dianna Agron and RED. Sunny rants about reputation and Lover's gayness and breaks down Cruel Summer which leads to Renaissance bringing up illicit affairs, Karlie Kloss, more Swiftgron, and an emphasis on Taylor's lyricism: “the world was black and white but we were in screaming color” etc. Also, “ME! Out now” on lesbian visibility day. For the final and third section of today's episode, we go through the things we've previously recommended each other on the podcast and have since consumed and enjoyed: Fleabag, Fortune Favors The Dead, Conversations With Friends, Assassination Nation, Professor Marsten and the Wonder Woman, Stella Bomkivist, and of course, the our love lasts so long article. Finally, get excited for our 4/20 bonus episode coming soon on Patreon!!! We get high and talk shit, and get more details on our origin story. Get 2 bonus episodes a month, early access, exclusive merch & more by supporting us on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheLavenderMenaceThanks for joining us for this episode, and you can find us on twitter, instagram, Tik Tok, and letterboxd if you want to connect! Send your hot takes to thelavendermenacepodcast@gmail.com.
Join Kassandra Frederique and Michelle Grier for a conversation centering an abolitionist approach to social work. Taking inspiration from Angela Davis' "Are Prisons Obsolete?", Is Social Work Obsolete? will explore the historical and contemporary harms of the social work profession and ask whether it is capable of transformation, or if it is irreparable and in fact obsolete. This conversation will also explore the need to build systems of care rooted self-determination, liberation and collective wellbeing. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Kassandra Frederique is the executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, a national nonprofit that works to end the war on drugs—which has disproportionately harmed Black, Latinx, Indigenous, immigrant, and LGBTQ communities—and build alternatives grounded in science, compassion, health, and human rights. During her time at DPA, Frederique has built and led innovative campaigns around policing, the overdose crisis, and marijuana legalization—each with a consistent racial justice focus. Her advocacy, and all of the Drug Policy Alliance's work, lies at the intersection of health, equity, autonomy, and justice. Michelle Grier (she/her) is a Black feminist committed to intergenerational advocacy and liberatory healing practices. Grier has over 10 years of experience leading mental health programs and youth-centered programs in schools and nonprofits. She is a member of the NAASW and grateful for the space to foster conversations about abolition and social work. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This event is sponsored by the Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work and Haymarket Books. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/Y1WvSupCSDI Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks
The abolition movement has hit the mainstream, and calls to disarm, defund, and dismantle the system as we know it have never been louder. Rinaldo Walcott, author of "On Property," joins Pippa and Karina to imagine a world without police or prisons, discuss the problem of property, and decode the language of reform. Rinaldo Walcott is the director of the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto and the author of "On Property" (Biblioasis, 2021). If you're interested in reading more on the topic of abolition, Rinaldo's recommended booklist includes, "We Do This 'til We Free Us," by Mariame Kaba; Golden Gulag by Ruth Wilson Gilmore; and "Are Prisons Obsolete?" by Angela Davis. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, I talk about key insights from the second half of Kim Scott's revised edition of Radical Candor: How to Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity.See the four quadrants that undergird Scott's arguments here: https://www.radicalcandor.com/our-approach/And read more about Kim Scott here: https://www.radicalcandor.com/I also share thoughts from Angela Y. Davis's 2003 book, Are Prisons Obsolete? I'm so often reminded of the saying: "hurt people ... hurt people." Unless and until we can break the cycle of trauma and hurt that leads so many to have their lives forever altered by breaking a law, we will never achieve an equitable criminal justice system.Read more about Davis's book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/213837/are-prisons-obsolete-by-angela-y-davis/And consider supporting / researching further with these groups she recommends:http://criticalresistance.org/https://www.hrw.org/https://incite-national.org/http://www.ncianet.org/https://www.prisonactivist.org/https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/http://www.nomoreprisons.org/http://sentencingproject.org/
It's been a long time since my last episode, mostly because COVID sucks and my anxiety has been spiraling for a while. But I'm back! And starting what I hope will become a regular (or semi-regular) Sunday offering -- a short episode each week (ish) recapping what I've been reading that week. This week, I talk about key insights from the first third of Kim Scott's revised edition of Radical Candor: How to Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity.See the four quadrants that undergird Scott's arguments here: https://www.radicalcandor.com/our-approach/And read more about Kim Scott here: https://www.radicalcandor.com/This week, I'm hoping to read more of Scott's book AND I'm eager to dive into Angela Davis's short 2003 book, Are Prisons Obsolete?
Join 2020 Lannan Prize recipients Angela Y. Davis, Mike Davis, and Ruth Wilson Gilmore for a conversation hosted by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. The Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize for 2020 was awarded to Angela Y. Davis for her lifetime achievements as a public intellectual advocating for racial, gender, and economic justice; to Mike Davis for his life's work as a public intellectual who encourages critical analysis of society in the service of constructing an alternative, post-capitalist future in both theory and practice; and Ruth Wilson Gilmore for a lifetime of achievement as a public intellectual working toward the decarceration of California, the United States, and the world. Join all three, along with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for a conversation on abolition, cultural freedom, and liberation. Speakers: Mike Davis, professor emeritus of creative writing at UC Riverside, joined the San Diego chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality in 1962 at age 16 and the struggle for racial and social equality has remained the lodestar of his life. His City of Quartz challenged reigning celebrations of Los Angeles from the perspectives of its lost radical past and insurrectionary future. His wide-ranging work has married science, archival research, personal experience, and creative writing with razor-sharp critiques of empires and ruling classes. He embodies the Lannan vision of working at the intersection of art and social justice. Angela Y. Davis is Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies Departments at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Dr. Davis grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, and has been an activist and Marxist-Feminist in the Black Power and abolitionist movements since the late 1960s. In the 1980s, her book Women, Race and Class helped to establish the concept of intersectionality. She also helped to develop the concept of prison abolition, especially in her books Are Prisons Obsolete? . Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences and Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Co-founder of many grassroots organizations including the California Prison Moratorium Project, Critical Resistance, and the Central California Environmental Justice Network, Gilmore is author of the prize-winning Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California. Recent publications include, co-edited with Paul Gilroy, Stuart Hall: Selected Writings on Race and Difference. Forthcoming projects include Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition; Abolition Geography: Essays Toward Liberation. Gilmore has lectured in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes and speaks on Black politics, social movements, and racial inequality in the United States. She is author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (a Lannan Cultural Freedom Especially Notable Book Award recipient) and editor of How We Get Free. Her third book, Race for Profit was a finalist for a National Book Award for nonfiction, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History. She is a contributing writer at The New Yorker and professor at Princeton University. This event is a partnership between Lannan Foundation and Haymarket Books. Lannan Foundation's Readings & Conversations series features inspired writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as cultural freedom advocates with a social, political, and environmental justice focus. Lannan Foundation is a family foundation dedicated to cultural freedom, diversity, and creativity through projects that support exceptional contemporary artists and writers, inspired Native activists in rural communities, and social justice advocates. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/WLO0UuSnPzU Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks
In this week's episode, Kendra and Jaclyn discuss Incarceration Nations and A Prison By Any Other Name. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books Mentioned Prison By Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms by Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World by Baz Dreisinger Further Reading Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa After Story by Larissa Behrendt Angela Y. Davis body of work (including Freedom Is a Constant Struggle, Are Prisons Obsolete?) The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson We Do This ‘Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba The Pedagogy of Pathologization: Dis/abled Girls of Color in the School-prison Nexus by Subini Ancy Annamma Deaf People in the Criminal Justice System: Selected Topics on Advocacy, Incarceration, and Social Justice edited by Debra Guthmann, Gabriel I. Lomas, Damara Goff Paris, and Gabriel A. “Tony” Martin Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada edited by L. Ben-Moshe, C. Chapman, and A. Carey Further Resources SistersInside & Debbie Kilroy (@debkilroy) #FreeHer #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs Incarceration Nation (@inc_nation_au) documentary airs 29 August 2021 on NITV Article on Incarceration Nation The Dhadjowa Foundation 13th (Netflix) #RaiseTheAge Amy McQuire National Prison Book Program, run by the Australian Prison Foundation (https://alc.org.au) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/17/australia-is-outraged-over-george-floyd-what-about-black-lives-our-shores/ Prison by Any Other Name interview with authors Currently Reading Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy The Smell of Other People's Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us hello@readingwomenpodcast.com. SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Miki Saito with Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ryaihanny Sahrom is a legal professional and a freelance writer with a passion in human rights for marginalised genders. Speaking to PJ Thum and Sean Francis Han, she argues that effectively addressing crime requires a societal shift in how we define justice, moving from retribution towards abolishing the environmental conditions that create it in the first place. This, she argues, is also an Islamic approach to transformative justice. Resources to start your journey on abolitionist politics: http://criticalresistance.org/resources/ Are Prisons Obsolete? Why I Believe Prison Abolition is a Muslim Issue
In this week's episode, Kendra and Jaclyn discuss books around the theme of incarceration. Thanks to Our Sponsors! Go to http://talkspace.com and use the code READINGWOMEN for $100 off your first month. Try MUBI for 30 Days at MUBI.com/ReadingWomen. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books Mentioned Black and Blue: A Memoir of Racism and Resilience by Veronica Gorrie From the Desk of Zoey Washington by Janae Marks Prison By Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms by Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World by Baz Dreisinger Further Reading Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa After Story by Larissa Behrendt Angela Y. Davis body of work (including Freedom Is a Constant Struggle, Are Prisons Obsolete?) The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson We Do This ‘Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba The Pedagogy of Pathologization: Dis/abled Girls of Color in the School-prison Nexus by Subini Ancy Annamma Deaf People in the Criminal Justice System: Selected Topics on Advocacy, Incarceration, and Social Justice edited by Debra Guthmann, Gabriel I. Lomas, Damara Goff Paris, and Gabriel A. “Tony” Martin Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada edited by L. Ben-Moshe, C. Chapman, and A. Carey Further Resources SistersInside & Debbie Kilroy (@debkilroy) #FreeHer #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs Incarceration Nation (@inc_nation_au) documentary airs 29 August 2021 on NITV Article on Incarceration Nation The Dhadjowa Foundation 13th (Netflix) #RaiseTheAge Amy McQuire National Prison Book Program, run by the Australian Prison Foundation (https://alc.org.au) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/17/australia-is-outraged-over-george-floyd-what-about-black-lives-our-shores/ Prison by Any Other Name interview with authors CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us hello@readingwomenpodcast.com. SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Miki Saito with Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Hallo an häerzlech wëllkomm zu enger neier Episode vu "Lauschter mol!", dem Polit Podcast vu Jonker, fir Jonker, an och net sou Jonker. Duerch di rezent Iwwerschwemmungen zu Lëtzebuerg an extrem Wieder Ereignisser an der Welt inspiréiert, schwätze mer haut iwwer Klimawandel, seng Auswierkungen, a wat dat alles mat Kapitalismus ze dinn huet. Instagram: @lauschtermol Musek: Love it if we made it - The 1975 | Man's World - Marina Lies mol! Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis (https://www.feministes-radicales.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Angela-Davis-Are_Prisons_Obsolete.pdf) Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance by Noam Chomsky and Marv Waterstones On Fire by Naomi Klein Revolution für das Leben: Philosophie der neuen Protestformen by Eva von Redecker Kuck mol! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdZfx07GoCk (Naomi Klein explains the Climate Crisis) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfFvLJyPf3o (How Earth's Geography Will Change with Climate Change) Lauschter mol! Revolutionary Left Podcast: Red Hot Take: Our Simmering Present and Our Boiling Future (Episod vum 11. Juli 2021)
Content warning: This episode explores imprisonment, police brutality, homicide, sexual violence and mental illness. Please listen with care. I believe in the abolition of prisons, and while I'm still learning about imagining and building societies that prioritise care, restorative justice, and people over profit-making, I know that we should not be locking people up in cages. Michael Tenneson, Kevin Woodley, Dane “Zealot” Newton, Phillip “Archi” Archuleta, Gilbert “Lefty” Pacheco, Jose “8Bizz” Talamantes and Frankie Domenico are seven men imprisoned at Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility in Canon City, Colorado. They are the musicians, from completely different walks of life and serving differing sentences, who make up the band Territorial. Their new album, TLAXIHUIQUI (Tla-She-Wiki), is the first recorded music to make it outside the forbidding walls of Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility into the free world since it was founded 150 years ago. TLAXIHUIQUI (which translates to “the calling of the spirits” in the Uto-Aztecan language of Nahuatl) takes listeners on a visceral journey through violence and heartache to catharsis and hope. With these deeply personal songs, Territorial shines a light on the enduring human spirit in a divided country – and asks us all to consider whether or not we are prepared to heal the societies in which we so regularly put behind bars and walls those we are unprepared to properly care for. For those who are at the start of their journey in understanding prison abolition, like myself, there are a number of places to start. There's a wonderful TedTalk by Deanna Van Buren called “What a world without prisons could look like”. Ruth Wilson Gilmore, who has long served as a prison abolitionist, is the feature of a profile in the New York Times, “Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind”; and Angela Davis' book Are Prisons Obsolete? is serving as a reference point and learning for my own understanding of abolition. About Die Jim Crow Records Die Jim Crow Records is the first record label in the United States for formerly and currently incarcerated musicians. Their mission is to provide artists with a high-quality platform for their voices to be heard. A special thank you to Royal Young for his help in making this special episode a reality. About Busy Being Black Busy Being Black is the podcast exploring how we live in the fullness of our queer Black lives. Thank you to our partners: UK Black Pride, BlackOut UK, The Tenth, Schools Out and to you the listeners. Remember this, your support doesn't cost any money: retweets, ratings, reviews and shares all help so please keep the support coming. Thank you to our newest funding partner, myGwork – the LGBT+ business community. Thank you to Lazarus Lynch – a queer Black musician and culinary mastermind based in New York City – for the triumphant and ancestral Busy Being Black theme music. The Busy Being Black theme music was mixed and mastered by Joshua Pleeter. Busy Being Black's artwork was photographed by queer Black photographer and filmmaker Dwayne Black. Join the conversation on Twitter and Instagram #busybeingblack Busy Being Black listeners have an exclusive discount at my favourite publisher, Pluto Press. Enter BUSY50 at checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
As police violence continues to surge and mass incarceration plagues our communities, people call for the abolition of police and prisons. Tatiana sits down with Professor Alisa Bierria, a professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California Riverside, to discuss the abolitionist movement. Thank you to Professor Bierria for their time and for providing us with several resources to advance our abolitionist mission! Blake celebrates a newlywed Ariana Grande; Tatiana puts you on to all the new music out this week; Daniel reminds us of PRIDE month's importance and UFOs??? If you're interested in learning more about abolition, check out these works! Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Davis Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea Ritchie The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale If you are in California and would like to schedule a vaccination appointment, please click the following link: My.Turn.CA.Gov The biggest thank you to every listener who is supporting us through Anchor's 'Listener Support!' If you haven't lent yourself to listener support and are interested, the link can be found below. Sponsorship begins at just 99 cents! MENTIONED ON THE POD The Audre Lorde Project | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color community organizing center, focusing on the New York City area Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective | Building Transformative Justice Responses to Child Sexual Abuse Creative Interventions | Resources for Everyday People to End Violence INCITE! | INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence May 17 | The International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia The New York Times | Yes, We Literally Mean Abolish the Police Survived and Punished | Survived and Punished: End the Criminalization of Survival Transform Harm | A Resource Hub About Ending Violence MUSIC ON THE POD Slate of Affairs Introduction | A Boquet of Roses by DJ Quad Category Is | Circuit (Feat. Pryces) by Jeff Kaale Slate of Affairs Outro | Baguette by Dyalla Departing Message | Bon Bon by Dyalla FOLLOW THE POD Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slateofaffairspod/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/aslateofaffairs Website: https://www.slateofaffairs.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/slateofaffairs/support
This week's biography is of abolitionist academic Angela Davis, including her early travels, the Soledad brothers, the People's Park, and more. Reagan accidentally makes UC Berkeley sound super cool. We also look at readings from Women, Race and Class and Are Prisons Obsolete? Check us out on social media: Instagram: @teachmecommunism Twitter: @teachcommunism Gmail: teachmecommunism@gmail.com Patreon: Patreon.com/teachmecommunism And like and subscribe to us at Teach Me Communism on YouTube! Solidarity forever!
It feels like hardly a day goes by that we aren't confronted with another terrible example of how policing in the United States is the worst. Eric and Jackson dig into some of the history of modern policing, talk a bit about police abolition and the Defund the Police Movement, and discuss some of their concerns about the lack of a widely shared alternative to policing and what we need to be thinking about - politically, morally, and policy-wise - to address those concerns.We also talk a bit about the corruption and connections between policing and the U.S. militarism and why the Supreme Court sucks.We didn't mention much reading in the episode itself, but highly recommend folks check out these and other writings:Angela Davis' "Are Prisons Obsolete?"Alex Vitale's "The End of Policing"Class is *clap clap* in session!
Join Rev. Emily E. Ewing (they) and Rev. Kay Rohloff (she) and special guest Elle Dowd (she) to explore new and nerdy connections to the scripture for Easter 4, which falls on April 25th this year, including our deep dive into prison abolition! The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here. Don't forget to check out and pre-order Elle's books, Baptized in Tear Gas: from White Moderate to Abolitionist! We talked about Are Prisons Obsolete? By Angela Davis, The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, and Faith-Rooted Organizing by Rev. Alexia Salvatierra and Peter Heltzel, which you can look for on bookshop.org. Also, if you want to learn more about the organizations Elle's advance is supporting, they are: SOUL, Action STL, Mike Brown's mother's organization, Michael O. D. Brown, Mike Brown's father's organization, Michael Brown Chosen for Change Foundation, and the Chicago Bond fund. CN: Arrest, police brutality, & the carceral system in the Deep Dive Check us out on Facebook & Twitter at @NerdsAtChurch to connect! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nerdsatchurch/message
The potential link between educational ‘failure' and offending is often debated. Discussions frequently focus on the community, cultural or family backgrounds from which the children who ‘fail' come, and/or on more adequate provision for those ‘at risk' of school and social exclusion. These discussions often prioritise the apparent significance of race, class and gender, indicated by the over-representation of poor, male, Black students in punitive school disciplinary processes and a parallel disproportionality in the criminal justice system. However, many of these approaches assume educational systems to be intrinsically good and consider cases of educational failure to be anomalies that require ironing out. This session will consider a different view. Drawing on classic sociological theories of education it will introduce the connections between social control and education. It will also ask us to consider what an exploration of the school-to-prison pipeline can tell us about the entire education system. Readings Bowles, S. and Gintis, H. (2002) Schooling in Capitalist America Revisited. Sociology of Education, 75(1): 1-18. Davis, A. Y. (2003) Are Prisons Obsolete? New York: Seven Stories Press. Foucault, M. (1991) Discipline and Punish. The Birth of the Prison. London: Penguin Books Ltd. Graham, K. (2014) Does school prepare men for prison? City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 18(6): 824-836. Graham, K. (2016) The British School-To-Prison Pipeline. In L.A. Palmer and K Andrews (Eds) Blackness in Britain. London: Routledge. Perera, J. (2020) How Black Working-Class Youth are Criminalised and Excluded in the English School System. A London Case Study. London: Institute of Race Relations. Willis, P. (1977) Learning to Labour. How working class kids get working class jobs. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd. Resources Biopower – Global Social Theory website Changing education paradigms – Sir Ken Robinson RSA Animate on YouTube Does school prepare men for prison? – Centre for Crime and Justice comment piece by Karen Graham Questions for Discussion What is the myth of meritocracy in education and how might it link to wider social inequalities? How and why have ideas around the disruptive pupil deserving of exclusion and the criminal deserving of imprisonment been historically racialised, classed and gendered? What can the school-to-prison pipeline teach us about the wider system of education? What impact might the hidden curriculum of schooling be having on everyone?
Episode 10: Disruptive EducatorIn this week's episode we speak with the lovely Jasmine Ward, an educator that teaches in the Los Angeles County Jail System. She talks to us about how she disrupts the peace by courageously voicing how the injustice of many of our systems have impacted the lives of the incarcerated while emphasizing the dignity and the humanity that is often disregarded when thinking about the incarcerated. Our favorite quote by Jasmine is “Disruptive peacemaking is intentionally working toward systems that provide equality and equity for all.” We know that you will be inspired and informed listening to this episode.Book recommendations: Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela DavisThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderRethinking Incarceration by Dominique DuBois Gilliard
Join me as we dive into the problem with the treatment of women in the prison system. This is a sister episode to "Problem with Prisons" where I broke down Angela Davis's book "Are Prisons Obsolete?" to expose the true history of prisons. Here I discuss the problem with the gendered structure of punishment, how the feminist movement hurt women in prison, and the sexual assault of women in prison. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/problemwithauthoritypod/support
The Study and Struggle program is the first phase of an ongoing project to organize against incarceration and criminalization in Mississippi through four months of political education and community building. Our Critical Conversations webinar series, hosted by Haymarket Books, will cover the themes for the upcoming month. Haymarket Books is an independent, radical, non-profit publisher. The fourth webinar theme is Movement Building and Transnational Freedom Struggles and will be a conversation about how we can build a global movement for abolition, and the types of shared knowledge, strategies, and organizing an internationalist movement to abolish police and prisons will require. For more on Study and Struggle: https://www.studyandstruggle.com/ ————————————————————— Speakers: Angela Y. Davis is a political activist, scholar, author, and speaker. She is an outspoken advocate for the oppressed and exploited, writing on Black liberation, prison abolition, the intersections of race, gender, and class, and international solidarity with Palestine. She is the author of several books, including Women, Race, and Class, Freedom is a Constant Struggle and Are Prisons Obsolete? She is the subject of the acclaimed documentary "Free Angela and All Political Prisoners" and is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Lorgia García Peña is a public facing scholar, activist, and the co-founder of Freedom University Georgia, a non-profit organization that provides college instruction to undocumented students. She is the author of The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nations and Archives of Contradictions and the co-director of Mind the Gap, Archives of Justice. Currently she is an untenured associate professor at Harvard University. Medhin Paolos is a filmmaker, researcher, musician and an activist working for LGBTQ and citizenship rights in Italy. She is the director of the acclaimed documentary film "Asmarina" (2015), the co-founder of the Milano Chapter of Rete G2 (the largest citizenship rights organization in Italy) and the creator of the G2 Lab. Her work with immigrant, refugee and LGBTQ communities in Milan, Italy is internationally recognized. Leti Volpp is a law professor at UC Berkeley who has published multiple pieces on immigration and citizenship law with a particular focus on how law is shaped by ideas about culture and identity. She currently directs the campus-wide Center for Race and Gender. Makani Themba (moderator) is Chief Strategist at Higher Ground Change Strategies based in Jackson, MS. A social justice innovator and pioneer in the field of change communications and narrative strategy, she has spent more than 20 years supporting organizations, coalitions and philanthropic institutions in developing high impact change initiatives. ————————————————————— Order copies of Angela Y. Davis's books: Women, Race, & Class: https://bookshop.org/a/1039/9780394713519 Are Prisons Obsolete?: https://bookshop.org/a/1039/9781583225813 Order The Borders of Dominicanidad: https://bookshop.org/a/1039/9780822362623 Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/58ivOoKv9-E Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks
Justin discusses Angela Davis's "Are Prisons Obsolete?" and the answer is yes. They very much are and any socialist project needs to be rooted to an abolitionist conception of prisons. Just as abolition relies on anti-capitalism. To support the show and everything we do join us on patreon at patreon.com/MillennialReview. Discord Invite: https://discord.gg/VPP9tD85
Join me as I dive into the book “Are Prisons Obsolete?” by Angela Y. Davis. This episode will cover the history of prisons and the prison industrial complex as a racist, capitalist, and sexist institution created to profit off of free labor and the exploitation of humans. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/problemwithauthoritypod/support
‘The prison has become a black hole into which the detritus of contemporary capitalism is deposited. Mass imprisonment generates profits as it devours social wealth, and thus it tends to reproduce the very conditions that lead people to prison.' - Angela Y. Davis In the conclusion to our two-part series on John Carpenter's 1981 dystopia, Escape from New York, we examine the role of privatisation in the development of the modern day prison industrial complex (PIC) and how the profit motive incentivises ever-growing mass incarceration and longer sentences. We also look to the ideological underpinnings of the PIC, its roots in chattel slavery and how the general public have been manipulated by the media and big business into accepting prisons as part of the natural social order. texts: My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard, by Shane Bauer (for Mother Jones), 2016 --> https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/cca-private-prisons-corrections-corporation-inmates-investigation-bauer/ Are Prisons Obsolete?, by Angela Y. Davis, 2003 --> https://www.feministes-radicales.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Angela-Davis-Are_Prisons_Obsolete.pdf My Dinner with Andre, Dir. Louis Malle, 1981 --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWZk24MA7TE [sampled in introduction]
For today’s episode, Tyrell and Daphne explore the topic of anti-racism by interviewing Kenrya Rankin, an award-winning author, journalist, and editor. During the conversation, they discuss the power of writing as a tool for change (32:30), definitions of and misconceptions about white supremacy (35:45), and resistance to anti-racism (38:00). They also have a conversation about her book—Anti-Racism: Powerful Voices, Inspiring Ideas—and what it means to be an anti-racist (42:20). They close the episode by discussing how people can find their unique contribution to the movement (45:10), key takeaways from How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance (48:10), allyship and approaches to building a multi-cultural movement against racism (51:10), and resources to help people enact change (1:01:00). Other Topics Include: 00:30 - Check in with Ty and Daphne 08:10 - BhD “Oh Lawd” News 27:50 - Introduction of the Topic 29:30 - Learn More About Kenrya Rankin 56:10 - Kenrya’s Thoughts on Politics and the Future 1:06:33 - Ty and Daphne Reflect on the Interview Resources Kenrya Rankin website: http://kenrya.com Kenrya’s Social Media Handles: @Kenrya The Turn On Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-turn-on/id1468949359 (Instagram: @theturnonpodcast) Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Davis - https://www.akpress.org/areprisonsobsolete.html Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene A. Carruthers - https://www.charlenecarruthers.com/unapologetic But Some of Are Brave - https://www.feministpress.org/books-a-m/but-some BhD Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/bhdpodcast SisterLove - https://www.sisterlove.org/support-us AMA: Racism is a threat to public health - https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/health-equity/ama-racism-threat-public-health Kenosha shooting suspect Kyle Rittenhouse posts $2 million bail - https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/20/us/kyle-rittenhouse-kenosha-shooting-bail-release/index.html Using Student Data to Identify Future Criminals: A Privacy Debacle http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/DigitalEducation/2020/11/student_data_future_criminals_pasco_privacy.html Georgia secretary of state says Lindsey Graham implied he should try to throw away ballots - https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/16/politics/georgia-secretary-of-state-lindsey-graham-ballots-cnntv/index.html Wisconsin officials: Trump observers obstructing recount - https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-wisconsin-elections-dcb7da95578fc7289122c6d372575a9b
Content Warning: an instance of sexual assault is mentioned. On this episode, BSA members Demetrius, Shenell, LaKase, Tony and Glen discuss how the representation of blackness is emphasized over actual material change for the black community as a whole. Show Notes Biden campaign win (https://www.npr.org/2020/11/07/928803493/biden-wins-presidency-according-to-ap-edging-trump-in-turbulent-race) Vote counting (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-challenges-state-count/2020/11/10/45148fac-2378-11eb-8672-c281c7a2c96e_story.html) Voting lawsuits (https://time.com/5908505/trump-lawsuits-biden-wins/) Food insecurity study (https://www.feedingamerica.org/sites/default/files/2020-04/Brief_Impact%20of%20Covid%20on%20Child%20Food%20Insecurity%204.22.20.pdf) Armenia and Azerbaijan conflict update (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/10/nagorno-karabakh-armenia-pm-signs-deal-to-end-war-with-azerbaijan-and-russia) Peruvian protests (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/why-peru-is-always-just-one-step-away-from-chaos/2020/11/13/12d4b898-2597-11eb-9c4a-0dc6242c4814_story.html) Q-Anon supporting congresswoman (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/03/us/politics/qanon-candidates-marjorie-taylor-greene.html) (https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/17/house-republicans-condemn-gop-candidate-racist-videos-325579) (https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/nov/14/marjorie-taylor-greene-falsely-claims-dc-gyms-clos/) Neo-Nazi congressman (https://www.vice.com/en/article/88aa7k/election-results-youngest-member-congress-republican-madison-cawthorn-hitler-vacation-home-instagram) (https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/madison/2020/08/20/madison-cawthorn-nc-katrina-krulikas-sexual-assault/3394391001/) Million MAGA March (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/krystieyandoli/trump-supporters-million-maga-march-dc) Texas jails Covid-19 article (https://www.vox.com/2020/11/12/21562278/jails-prisons-texas-covid-19-coronavirus-crime-prisoners-death) Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Davis (https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete) Kamala Harris Left Voice article (https://www.leftvoice.org/a-background-check-on-kamala-harris) Kamala Harris Huffington Post article (https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c995789e4b0f7bfa1b57d2e/amp)
Today, we bring you a special on Black and Palestinian solidarity in the face of global systemic racism. In 2019, U.S. police killed 1,099 people, according to Mapping Police Violence, which reports that 24 percent of those murdered (259 people) were Black. Between 2013 and 2019, police killed a total of 7,666 people. Overall, Black people are three times more likely to be killed by police than white people. Other people of color, including Indigenous and Latinx people, are also killed at a much higher percentage. Meanwhile, the United States currently has the largest incarcerated population in the world, with about 2.3 million people in jails and prisons across the country, according to the Prison Policy Initiative. In Occupied Palestine, thousands have been killed or injured resisting Israeli occupation. Also, as a result of poverty and destitution. Israeli police have been arresting and jailing Palestinian activists who resist state-sponsored violence and land grabs. During todays show, you will hear a in-depth discussion from a recent webinar titled Abolition and Liberation on the connections between demands from the Movement for Black Lives to defund the police and abolish the prison industrial complex, and Palestinian calls to tear down Israels apartheid walls and free Palestine. These speakers bring years of on-the-ground experience and strategic thinking to the conversation. Angela Davis has been an activist and liberatory scholar since the 1960s. Her 2003 book Are Prisons Obsolete? laid the strategic groundwork for the current abolition movement, as did the first Critical Resistance Conference, which she co-organized in 1998. She is joined, from Palestine, by Jamal Juma', a leading grassroots organizer since Palestines First Intifada in 1987. A founding member of the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees, Palestine National BDS Committee, Palestinian Association for Cultural Exchange, and Palestinian Environmental NGO Network, Juma' is coordinator of the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign and Stop the Wall. Kristian Davis Bailey, who moderates their conversation, is a co-founder of Black for Palestine and a co-author of the 2015 Black Solidarity with Palestine Statement signed by more than 1,000 Black activists. He was a member of Black Youth Project 100 and Students for Justice in Palestine. Kristian currently works at Palestine Legal and is a member of LeftRoots.
Today, we bring you a special on Black and Palestinian solidarity in the face of global systemic racism. In 2019, U.S. police killed 1,099 people, according to Mapping Police Violence, which reports that 24 percent of those murdered (259 people) were Black. Between 2013 and 2019, police killed a total of 7,666 people. Overall, Black people are three times more likely to be killed by police than white people. Other people of color, including Indigenous and Latinx people, are also killed at a much higher percentage. Meanwhile, the United States currently has the largest incarcerated population in the world, with about 2.3 million people in jails and prisons across the country, according to the Prison Policy Initiative. In Occupied Palestine, thousands have been killed or injured resisting Israeli occupation. Also, as a result of poverty and destitution. Israeli police have been arresting and jailing Palestinian activists who resist state-sponsored violence and land grabs. During todays show, you will hear a in-depth discussion from a recent webinar titled Abolition and Liberation on the connections between demands from the Movement for Black Lives to defund the police and abolish the prison industrial complex, and Palestinian calls to tear down Israels apartheid walls and free Palestine. These speakers bring years of on-the-ground experience and strategic thinking to the conversation. Angela Davis has been an activist and liberatory scholar since the 1960s. Her 2003 book Are Prisons Obsolete? laid the strategic groundwork for the current abolition movement, as did the first Critical Resistance Conference, which she co-organized in 1998. She is joined, from Palestine, by Jamal Juma', a leading grassroots organizer since Palestines First Intifada in 1987. A founding member of the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees, Palestine National BDS Committee, Palestinian Association for Cultural Exchange, and Palestinian Environmental NGO Network, Juma' is coordinator of the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign and Stop the Wall. Kristian Davis Bailey, who moderates their conversation, is a co-founder of Black for Palestine and a co-author of the 2015 Black Solidarity with Palestine Statement signed by more than 1,000 Black activists. He was a member of Black Youth Project 100 and Students for Justice in Palestine. Kristian currently works at Palestine Legal and is a member of LeftRoots.
Today, we bring you a special on Black and Palestinian solidarity in the face of global systemic racism. In 2019, U.S. police killed 1,099 people, according to Mapping Police Violence, which reports that 24 percent of those murdered (259 people) were Black. Between 2013 and 2019, police killed a total of 7,666 people. Overall, Black people are three times more likely to be killed by police than white people. Other people of color, including Indigenous and Latinx people, are also killed at a much higher percentage. Meanwhile, the United States currently has the largest incarcerated population in the world, with about 2.3 million people in jails and prisons across the country, according to the Prison Policy Initiative. In Occupied Palestine, thousands have been killed or injured resisting Israeli occupation. Also, as a result of poverty and destitution. Israeli police have been arresting and jailing Palestinian activists who resist state-sponsored violence and land grabs. During todays show, you will hear a in-depth discussion from a recent webinar titled Abolition and Liberation on the connections between demands from the Movement for Black Lives to defund the police and abolish the prison industrial complex, and Palestinian calls to tear down Israels apartheid walls and free Palestine. These speakers bring years of on-the-ground experience and strategic thinking to the conversation. Angela Davis has been an activist and liberatory scholar since the 1960s. Her 2003 book Are Prisons Obsolete? laid the strategic groundwork for the current abolition movement, as did the first Critical Resistance Conference, which she co-organized in 1998. She is joined, from Palestine, by Jamal Juma', a leading grassroots organizer since Palestines First Intifada in 1987. A founding member of the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees, Palestine National BDS Committee, Palestinian Association for Cultural Exchange, and Palestinian Environmental NGO Network, Juma' is coordinator of the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign and Stop the Wall. Kristian Davis Bailey, who moderates their conversation, is a co-founder of Black for Palestine and a co-author of the 2015 Black Solidarity with Palestine Statement signed by more than 1,000 Black activists. He was a member of Black Youth Project 100 and Students for Justice in Palestine. Kristian currently works at Palestine Legal and is a member of LeftRoots.
Today, we bring you a special on Black and Palestinian solidarity in the face of global systemic racism. In 2019, U.S. police killed 1,099 people, according to Mapping Police Violence, which reports that 24 percent of those murdered (259 people) were Black. Between 2013 and 2019, police killed a total of 7,666 people. Overall, Black people are three times more likely to be killed by police than white people. Other people of color, including Indigenous and Latinx people, are also killed at a much higher percentage. Meanwhile, the United States currently has the largest incarcerated population in the world, with about 2.3 million people in jails and prisons across the country, according to the Prison Policy Initiative. In Occupied Palestine, thousands have been killed or injured resisting Israeli occupation. Also, as a result of poverty and destitution. Israeli police have been arresting and jailing Palestinian activists who resist state-sponsored violence and land grabs. During todays show, you will hear a in-depth discussion from a recent webinar titled Abolition and Liberation on the connections between demands from the Movement for Black Lives to defund the police and abolish the prison industrial complex, and Palestinian calls to tear down Israels apartheid walls and free Palestine. These speakers bring years of on-the-ground experience and strategic thinking to the conversation. Angela Davis has been an activist and liberatory scholar since the 1960s. Her 2003 book Are Prisons Obsolete? laid the strategic groundwork for the current abolition movement, as did the first Critical Resistance Conference, which she co-organized in 1998. She is joined, from Palestine, by Jamal Juma', a leading grassroots organizer since Palestines First Intifada in 1987. A founding member of the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees, Palestine National BDS Committee, Palestinian Association for Cultural Exchange, and Palestinian Environmental NGO Network, Juma' is coordinator of the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign and Stop the Wall. Kristian Davis Bailey, who moderates their conversation, is a co-founder of Black for Palestine and a co-author of the 2015 Black Solidarity with Palestine Statement signed by more than 1,000 Black activists. He was a member of Black Youth Project 100 and Students for Justice in Palestine. Kristian currently works at Palestine Legal and is a member of LeftRoots.
Sam and the MR Crew break down the week's biggest headlines including November's general election, the next stage of COVID, and Trump's personal DOJ. On today's show: Big boats sink small boats in Texas Trump boat parade. Trump says he will return "patriotic education" to nation's schools, says they'll take away your great heroes. Thom Tillis issues apology statement after a staffer is caught on tape saying what Republicans actually believe on healthcare. Study: increased 2018 Dem turnout due to hatred of Trump, concern over healthcare. March 19: Trump says he's downplaying Covid because he doesn't want to create a "panic" (in the markets). Michael Cohen says he thinks if Trump loses, he will resign and have Pence pardon him. On the fun half: Fox and Friends concern troll about voting twice in Georgia and the "red mirage" (where one candidate appears to win on Election Day, but another wins after all votes are tallied). Fox and Friends celebrate Norwegian right wing nationalist nominating Trump to be considered for Noble Peace Prize (again). DoJ replaces Trump’s personal legal team to defend against defamation suit from woman who says he raped her at Macy’s. Sean Hannity and Dave Rubin can't get on the same page about their bit about keyboard warriors in their moms' basements. Trump says he's the greatest environmentalist president since TR, and if he does another bill he'll be better than TR. Fauci says it's more realistic to expect a vaccine by end of 2020 but not by November. Mark Zuckerberg explains that Facebook is not dominated by right-wing media, says it's a space where people can "use their voice." Facebook's top 10 performing posts past 24 hours: Trump, Hannity, etc. Kevin Roose tweet about top performing post on FB, a Qanon story about "save the children" child trafficking conspiracy. Plus, your calls and IMs! Become a member at JoinTheMajorityReport.com Check out the Brand New Majority Report Merch Shop https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ (Merch issues and concerns can be addressed here: majorityreportstore@mirrorimage.com) The AM Quickie is now on YouTube Subscribe to the AM Quickie at https://fans.fm/amquickie Make the AMQ part of your Alexa Flash Briefing too! You can now watch the livestream on Twitch Check out today's sponsor:BetterHelp gives you access to your own fully licensed and accredited therapist via phone, chat, or video. A lot of therapists elsewhere have long waitlists and it can take weeks or months before they can see you… But when you sign up with BetterHelp, they match you with a therapist based on your specific needs, and you’ll be communicating with them in less than 24 hours. BetterHelp is giving our audience 10% off their first month when you go to https://betterhelp.com/majorityreport PlushCare provides primary and urgent healthcare through virtual appointments. If you’re feeling anxious, depressed or stressed about what’s going on in the world, PlushCare doctors are here to help by discussing treatment options and providing prescriptions as needed. With a PlushCare membership, you can see a doctor from the comfort of home; get diagnosed, treated and even have a prescription sent to your local pharmacy within minutes. Go to PlushCare.com/majority to start your FREE 30-day trial. Ring gives you protection at every corner – video doorbells let you answer the door and check-in on your home anytime. Get a special offer on the Ring Welcome Kit when you go to ring.com/majority. Brooklinen: You know Brooklinen as the Internet’s favorite sheets but they’re also home to bedding, loungewear, towels and more with over 50,000+ 5-star reviews and counting. Brooklinen is SO confident in their product that all their sheets, comforters, loungewear and towels come with a lifetime warranty! Go on, make yourself comfortable. Get 10% off your first order and free shipping when you use promo code MAJORITY only at Brooklinen.com Check out the Angela Davis book Jamie mentioned, "Are Prisons Obsolete?" (2003) at The Anarchist Library: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete Subscribe to Discourse Blog, a newsletter and website for progressive essays and related fun partly run by AM Quickie writer Jack Crosbie. https://discourseblog.substack.com/ Subscribe to AM Quickie writer Corey Pein’s newsletter at theend.substack.com Check out The Nomiki Show at patreon.com/thenomikishow Check out Matt’s podcast, Literary Hangover, at Patreon.com/LiteraryHangover, or on iTunes. Check out Jamie’s podcast, The Antifada, at patreon.com/theantifada, on iTunes, or at twitch.tv/theantifada Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @MattLech @NomikiKonst @jamie_elizabeth @BF1nn
C/W: transphobia, biphobia, sexual violence, pedophilia, anti-Black racism. Introducing a podcast that is unafraid to bring you the cold hard tea informed by facts and critical thinking, all the while looking fabulous. In this special edition extended episode Rayshelle Justice, Coco Verdose, and Miss Shea deeBeach talk about scientists attempting to validate sexual orientations via the scientific method, the mess that happens when people try to avoid accountability, and influencers who don't know how to act but very obviously display the inability to address trauma effectively. Acknowledgment resource: @torontosprisonersrightsproject https://www.torontoprisonersrightsproject.org/ Question of the month: What is Coco saying in the theme song? Work of the month: Read Angela Davis' “Are Prisons Obsolete?”. Instagram: @okaywerkpodcast @rayshellejustice @coco_verdose @sheadeebeach Twitter: @okaywerkpodcast
Welcome to Food for the Homies, a podcast where we are delivering food in the form of music, books, and vibes!In this week’s episode we discuss the heavy topic of Black death in an anti-Black society. We also discuss police and prison abolition and pay tribute to those lost at the hands of white supremacy.Content warning: Black death, police brutality, sexual assault (5:55-17:43)Intro/Outro music: Erykah Badu- Appletree (J-Lah edit) by J-LahText links: Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela DavisThis week's playlist links:Spotify Apple MusicSoundcloudFollow us:Instagram: @foodforthehomiesTwitter: @F4THpodcast
Abolish the Police and Defund the Police are two phrases that have gained significant traction in the past few months. But, what exactly do they mean? On this episode Mariah Parker, an Athens-Clarke County Commissioner and abolitionist, talks about the history of police abolition, her journey to becoming an abolitionist and her 50/10 Plan to Reimagine Public Safety budget proposal. We also talk about the difference between police abolition and defunding the police. Mariah also tells us about her own podcast, Waiting on Reparations. This episode's Who's that Lady (from History)? is Simone Weil. Resources: Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?
This is a special episode! Morgan and Shannon invite Andrea J. Ritchie and Kassandra Frederique to chat about prison abolition, policing, and some light reminiscing about our bond as Black female Cornell alum. Andrea J. Ritchie is a Black lesbian immigrant police misconduct attorney and organizer whose writing, litigation, and advocacy has focused on policing and criminalization of women and LGBT people of color for the past two decades. She is currently Researcher in Residence on Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Criminalization at the Barnard Center for Research on Women. She is the author of the acclaimed "Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color," and most recently was interviewed by Ailsa Chang on NPR's All Things Considered in July 2020. Twitter: @dreanyc123 Kassandra Frederique is the incoming executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), an NYC-based national nonprofit that works to end the war on drugs—which has disproportionately harmed Black, Latinx, Indigenous, immigrant, and LGBTQ communities—and build alternatives grounded in science, compassion, health, and human rights. She featured in the "Grass is Greener" documentary that premiered on Netflix in 2019. Twitter: @Kassandra_Fred ABOLITION LINKS: Invisible No More Study Guide http://invisiblenomorebook.com/study-guide/- This study guide was created to accompany Andrea J. Ritchie’s book Invisible No More. This guide walks readers through the history of state violence against Indigenous, Black, and immigrant women of color and ways to imagine how a safer and more supportive environment can be created through abolition. 8toabolition.com 8 to Abolition was created by police and prison abolitionists in response to the #8CantWait police reform campaign that merely seek to reduce, instead of eliminate, continuing police violence against Black people. 8 to Abolition details the 8 steps that must be taken in order to create stronger and safer communities. CriticalResistance.org Critical Resistance is a national grassroots organization that is building a movement to abolish the prison industrial complex. InterruptingCriminalization.com Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action is an initiative at the BCRW Social Justice Institute led by researchers Andrea J. Ritchie, Mariame Kaba, and Woods Ervin. They created the #defundthepolice toolkit provides more detail on #defundpolice demand and why it is a necessary step on the path to abolition. Our guest Kassandra Frederique outlines the ways in which gender has been central to the war on drugs throughout history in this clip from the Criminalizing Webs panel at Invisible No More conference in 2017. http://sfonline.barnard.edu/unraveling-criminalizing-webs-building-police-free-futures/the-war-on-drugs/ Abolitionists to read or listen to: Mariama Kaba (@prisonculture) https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abolish-defund-police.html Ruthie Wilson Gilmore https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/magazine/prison-abolition-ruth-wilson-gilmore.html Angela Davis' "Are Prisons Obsolete?" Recorded Saturday, June 26, 2020.
Feminism Interrupted: Lola talks through the radical and imaginative themes within her latest book, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power Useful links- https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745340067/feminism-interrupted/ https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/A-Fly-Girls-Guide-To-University-by-Odelia-Younge-editor/9781912565146 Reading: W.E.B DuBois, The Souls of White Folk C. Boyce Davis, Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones – A.Davis , Are Prisons Obsolete? C.Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being Listening: KUT Stuart Hall: In Conversations - Episode 7 Rustbelt Abolition Radion: Survival Pending Abolition (Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Amanda Alexander, Kim Wilson) Jackie Wang: Interrupt V - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smCA9UzDNpA *Please note season 9 is recorded entirely via video call during the COVID-19 Global Pandemic. Hosts Chantelle and Tissot and executive producer George pride themselves on ensuring a comfortable and encouraging recording atmosphere but this is clearly difficult to suffice remotely. Bear with us on this*
Feminism Interrupted: Lola talks through the radical and imaginative themes within her latest book, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power Useful links- https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745340067/feminism-interrupted/ https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/A-Fly-Girls-Guide-To-University-by-Odelia-Younge-editor/9781912565146 Reading: W.E.B DuBois, The Souls of White Folk C. Boyce Davis, Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones – A.Davis , Are Prisons Obsolete? C.Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being Listening: KUT Stuart Hall: In Conversations - Episode 7 Rustbelt Abolition Radion: Survival Pending Abolition (Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Amanda Alexander, Kim Wilson) Jackie Wang: Interrupt V - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smCA9UzDNpA *Please note season 9 is recorded entirely via video call during the COVID-19 Global Pandemic. Hosts Chantelle and Tissot and executive producer George pride themselves on ensuring a comfortable and encouraging recording atmosphere but this is clearly difficult to suffice remotely. Bear with us on this*
Oink, oink! This episode discusses Mark 5:1-20, the context from which this Gospel According to Mark emerges, some Marxist-Leninist analysis of the state, and the need for a revolutionary exorcism. ~~~ Recommended Book List: Kelly Brown Douglas, Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God; Mark Lewis Taylor, The Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America (ed. 2); Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation; Alex Vitale, The End of Policing; Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous People's History of the United States; Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?; Vladimir Lenin, State and Revolution ~~~ Subscribe to the Working Class Christianity substack: https://workingclasschristianity.substack.com/ ~ Support Faith and Capital at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/faithandcapital ~ Faith and Capital is on twitter, instagram, facebook! ~ Email: faithandcapital@gmail.com ~ Music by Cotter KoopmanSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/faithandcapital)
At the end of June Keir Starmer said of Black Lives Matter protesters in an interview: “Nobody should be saying anything about defunding the police.” At the same time, the UK government announced four new prisons. Olympic athlete Bianca Williams has said she felt like “being black is a crime” after she was stopped and handcuffed by police while driving in London. And last week it emerged that the Met police carried out 22,000 stop-and-searches on young Black men during lockdown. Some campaigners, especially in the US, are talking about defunding the police. But what does that actually mean? Should campaigners be calling for it in the UK? And do police and prisons really keep us safe? In this episode Ayeisha is joined by Dr. Adam Elliot-Cooper, research associate in sociology at the University of Greenwich and board member of the Monitoring Group. References: Read "Are Prisons Obsolete?" by Angela Y. Davis https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete Find out more about Black Visions Collective https://www.blackvisionsmn.org/ Read the report "Race and Racism in English Secondary Schools" by Dr Remi Joseph-Salisbury https://www.runnymedetrust.org/projects-and-publications/education/racism-in-secondary-schools.html Find out more about United Family and Friends Campaign https://uffcampaign.org/ Visit Community Actions on Prison Expansion's website for more info https://cape-campaign.org/ Go to https://movementforjustice.co.uk/ for more on Movement for Justice You can learn more about JENGbA's work at https://jointenterprise.co/ Cradle Community are fundraising for healing and transformative justice work in the UK. If you donate, you can get an abolitionist package including their new zine "how to be an abolitionist today". More info here https://www.instagram.com/p/CCa1VtVhZXK/?igshid=hgtrn7bhwlc4 ----- Researched by Margaret Welsh. Produced by Becky Malone. Music by Podington Bear, used under Creative Commons licence. Enjoying the show? Tweet us your comments and questions @NEF! The Weekly Economics Podcast is brought to you by the New Economics Foundation. Find out more at www.neweconomics.org
What are the police really for? What does it mean for innocence and guilt to be produced and distributed? What foundational roles have whiteness and theology played in all of this? How do white people get deputized and why should we resist making the victim into an object lesson? Tim Snediker (@TimothySnediker) joins me to discuss all of this in relation to his essay "The Future of Murder: Police and Political Theology". ~~~ Writings that Tim draws upon in the conversation: Frank B. Wilderson III, "We're Trying to Destroy the World"; Saidiya Harman and Frank Wilderson, "The Position of the Unthought"; Steve Martinot and Jared Sexton, "The Avant-Garde of White Supremacy" in Afro-pessimism: An Introduction. ~~~ Here's my recommended Book List: Kelly Brown Douglas, Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God; Mark Lewis Taylor, The Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America (ed. 2); Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation; Alex Vitale, The End of Policing; Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous People's History of the United States; Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?; Vladimir Lenin, State and Revolution ~~~ Subscribe to the Working Class Christianity substack: https://workingclasschristianity.substack.com/ ~ Support Faith and Capital at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/faithandcapital ~ Faith and Capital is on twitter, instagram, facebook! ~ Email: faithandcapital@gmail.com ~ Music by Cotter KoopmanSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/faithandcapital)
This week we have the pleasure to host a conversation with Professor Max Felker-Kanter, author of Policing Los Angeles and professor at Ball State University where he teaches courses in twentieth century American and African American history with a focus on race, politics, and social movements. He is particularly interested in the policies and institutions of urban law enforcement and criminal justice systems since World War II. In the wake of the recent protests, there's been a lot more discussion around what it means to 'defund the police' or in lay terms "BURN IT DOWN!!!" and we saw this as a wonderful opportunity to elevate the importance of restructuring and even destroying systems in order to rebuild more equitable, sustainable ones. In this conversation we explore the history of police brutality in the United States as well as what 'defund' or 'divest' the police really means and what it might look like to do so. Max is a long time practitioner and all around a joy to learn from. We hope you'll enjoy this conversation! Resources shared in this episode: The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander Angela Davis (check out Are Prisons Obsolete?) and the prison abolition movement How to be An Anti-racist by Ibram X. Kendi Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawken
Welcome to Salt Cravings, a podcast where everything is fine. If stuff weren't fine, we would have all these links here and oh god here they come:Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela DavisWhat a world without prisons could look like by Deanna Van BurenPrison Abolition FAQ by K AgbebiyiHot Allostatic Load by PorpentinePhew, sorry, needed to get that out of my system. Okay, so, you've read those links and done what you can? Good. We can get on with the episode description.So, as I was saying, everything is fine here. I mean, all Brianna wants is a good 3D platformer and some cool frame narratives. And Clair? She wants to yell-sing the song stuck in her head, and for trans women to stop being held up on a pedestal by leftist communities. Hm...well, hang on, seems like all may not be fine in the state of Salt Cravings. Alright, alright, come along, guess we all gotta get in...A Lineup for the Scream Box!Wanna throw us a few bucks? Instead, support black trans people hereIntro and Outro Music by Clark PowellSubmit your cravings at: submissions@saltcravings.comEmail: contact@saltcravings.comSocial Media: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube
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**NOTE** We apologize for the audio quality in this episode moving forward it will be fixed. This is Social Report. A weekly series where we cover different social issues in america. This podcast has people from political points on the political spectrum from moderates to leftist. We hope that this allows for critical discussion and clear presentation of ideas that allows viewers to learn about topics and formulate their own ideas. This week Aadi and Alejandro talk about the Black Lives Matter Movement and CHAZ. CHAZ demands- https://en.as.com/en/2020/06/12/other_sports/1591985502_814148.html The New Jim Crow and Are Prisons Obsolete?- https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1a_jbWyfrS_-wB0kY1iu5Rc5NpogkUcVR?usp=sharing Burn it Down: Abolition, Insurgent Political Praxis, and the Destruction of Decency- https://abolitionjournal.org/burn-it-down/
We're in the midst of an international protest movement, sparked by the murder of George Floyd by a member of the Minneapolis police. As a result, it didn’t feel right to put out a new show, so instead we wanted to re-run a show from 2017 during which we talked about race with Reni Eddo-Lodge, the author of Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race and Kishani Widyaratna, an editor at Picador Books in London. In her now best selling book, Reni takes a thorough and passionate look at the UK's long and complicated relationship with structural racism. This show comes with the caveat that we recorded this conversation three years ago. Our thinking has evolved since then as we’ve all continued to read and listen and learn about race. For white people in particular, anti-racist work is an ongoing journey. However, it’s sad and frustrating that most of the issues we were discussing then remain the same. It’s important to point out that we were talking about race generally on this show, whereas the current protests are for Black Lives Matter, focussing on anti-blackness, which is connected but a more specific issue. Recommendations on the theme, race: Octavia: Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/288/288167/citizen/9780141981772.html Kish: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/243/24381/wide-sargasso-sea/9780241951552.html Carrie: The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/190696/the-warmth-of-other-suns-by-isabel-wilkerson/ General Recommendations: Octavia: Mislaid by Nell Zink https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062364777/mislaid/ Kish: Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed https://www.dukeupress.edu/living-a-feminist-life Reni: Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde https://www.silverpress.org/your-silence-will-not-protect-you Carrie: First Love by Gwendoline Riley https://pagesofhackney.co.uk/lockdown/product/first-love-gwendoline-riley/ Further Reading: Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/why-im-no-longer-talking-to-white-people-about-race-9781408870587/ Reni's podcast, About Race: https://www.aboutracepodcast.com/ Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad https://www.meandwhitesupremacybook.com/ White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/566247/white-fragility-by-robin-diangelo/ Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/213837/are-prisons-obsolete-by-angela-y-davis/ So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/ijeoma-oluo/so-you-want-to-talk-about-race/9781541647435/ Email us: litfriction@gmail.com Tweet us & find us on Instagram: @litfriction
No episode this week, but here are the links we mentioned: PODCASTS TO CHECK OUT What’s Eating You https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whats-eating-you/id1476434146 Narcisistas http://narcisistas.com/thepodcast Sibling Rivalry https://www.siblingrivalrypodcast.com Bad Romance https://badromance.libsyn.com PLACES TO DONATE/ORGANIZATIONS TO GET INVOLVED WITH Directory of ways to help: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ Actblue Donation Splitter: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ab_mn?refcode=tweet Mutual Aid Hub: https://www.mutualaidhub.org/ National Bail Fund Network: https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/nbfn-directory POLICE ABOLITION AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE RESOURCES http://criticalresistance.org/abolish-policing/ https://www.themarshallproject.org/ Angela Davis, “Are Prisons Obsolete?” https://collectiveliberation.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Are_Prisons_Obsolete_Angela_Davis.pdf Reading Toward Abolition: Reading List https://www.radicalhistoryreview.org/abusablepast/reading-towards-abolition-a-reading-list-on-policing-rebellion-and-the-criminalization-of-blackness/ The End of Policing (Free Ebook) https://www.versobooks.com/books/2426-the-end-of-policing
Finding Home Episode 7 "T-Mecha Wrecks" The gang finds themselves between a terror robo dinosaur and a hard place. Nkola wants to make a new friend and is willing to risk his old ones to get it. Sanajeh has too easy of a job. Dr. Seth gives Bronco a manicure. Adam Washington is afraid to shoot anything. Extra feels some new feelings. Black Lives Matter! If like us you are interested in educating yourself about the evils of police brutality, and supporting authors and artists of color, then check out these resources mentioned in the midroll. The Richmond Bail Fund: https://rvabailfund.org/ Boston Review, "Abolish the Police": https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/br-political-literary-podcast/id1171581602?mt=2 MPD 150s: https://www.mpd150.com/faq/ "Are Prisons Obsolete" by Angela Davis https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/213837/are-prisons-obsolete-by-angela-y-davis/ Check us out on twitter: @PlayQuestPod Or reach out to us at gm@playquestpod.com Find out more at https://playquest.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-c87ba1 for 40% off for 4 months, and support PlayQuest.
HEARTWARMING: This Chicago police officer just took a knee to motorboat our fucking tits! The girls are back with the man we bring onto our CLOSED SET for "serious episodes," Will Okay! (@okaychicago) This week, we discuss the state of the American race war, and interrogate its most pressing questions: Now that Trump has instilled Jaida Essence Law, how do we organize a legislative long-term plan for police abolition? How has #MeToo ruined the American idea of meaningful protest? And perhaps most importantly-- when will Uber Eats be open past 8PM again???? We attempt to talk about Grindr's removal of the ethnicity filter, but we got too drunk on White Claws and alcoholic freeze pops and end up talking about our childhoods. What it gave, officer?Follow the girls & company on Twitter @VLRTUALBOY, @YOURE2BASIC and @OKAYCHICAGO.Donate to up to 55 community bail funds here! (Sometimes links do not work from the podcast description body-- this link is available in Nick's Twitter bio @VLRTUALBOY as well!)The Thot Topics Foundation has donated to the LGBTQ Freedom Fund and the Chicago Community Bond Fund. We recommend donating to your local community bail fund, or to a protest hotspot most meaningful to you if your area is not currently holding protests that have endured police violence. We'll kiss u thru the pod if u do!!For further reading on police abolition and possible long-term legislative goals, we recommend reading Alex Vitale's "The End of Policing," available for free on the Verso Books website. Angela Davis's "Are Prisons Obsolete?" is also available for free online. The ladies encourage you to do your own research and consider what policies you will unequivocally demand from your elected officials when the social media storm eventually dies down. Love you, mean it, ACAB, Black Lives Matter!
On this week's episode, Carla, Victoria and one of their close friends Alexis (@monalee_g) are coming together to have an open and candid conversation about Black Lives Matter. The girls want to use their voices to help spread awareness. Below are a list of resources in which you can help fight for justice.Petitions and Donations:Ways You Can Help https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/The Innocence Project https://www.innocenceproject.org/george-floyd-minneapolis-police-killing/Official George Floyd Memorial Fund https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd@WaysToTakeAction https://linktr.ee/waystotakeactionBlack Visions Donations https://secure.everyaction.com/4omQDAR0oUiUagTu0EG-Ig2Reclaim the Block https://secure.everyaction.com/zae4prEeKESHBy0MKXTIcQ2North Star Health Collective https://www.northstarhealthcollective.org/donateLouisville Community Bail Fund https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/louisville-community-bail-fund/Books and Movies to Educate:The Color of Law https://www.amazon.com/Color-Law-Forgotten-Government-Segregated/dp/1631492853White Fragility https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/dp/0807047414/ref=nodl_Are Prisons Obsolete? https://www.amazon.com/Are-Prisons-Obsolete-Angela-Davis/dp/1583225811When They See Us https://www.netflix.com/title/80200549Numbers to Call/Text: Text Justice to 668366Leave a message for the numbers below demanding that Derek Chauvin and Tou Thao are arrested for murderCall Minneapolis mayor, Jacob Frey: 612-673-2100District Attorney, Mike Freeman: 612-673-3074Text ENOUGH to 55156Leave a message for Louisville Mayor and demand justice for Breonna Taylor 502-574-2003Reflection Questions: In what ways does my proximity to whiteness afford me privileges that aren’t extended to Black and Brown people?In what ways have I been conditioned to believe in the superiority of whiteness?In what ways have I engaged in rhetoric that promotes othering of stereotyping of Black people?What can I do to better educate myself on the historical context of race in the country and community I exist in?Do you owe anyone an apology?How do you behave when confronted by racist behavior?
In dieser Episode sprechen wir zusammen mit Lex darüber was es bedeutet, Schwarz und queer zu sein. Was sind die Konflikte? Was sind die schönen Seiten? Woher kommt es überhaupt, dass viele Schwarze queere Menschen das Gefühl haben sich entscheiden zu müssen zwischen Schwarz sein oder Queer sein? Was wir in Vorbereitung auf die Episode genutzt haben:Columbus Day, How is this still a Thing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKEwL-10s7EVortrag von Tsepo Bollwinkel http://tsepo-bollwinkel-empowerment.de/vortrag-2/Wettkampf und Geschlecht, Deutschlandfunk https://www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/wettkampf-und-geschlecht-die-schwierige-unterscheidung-von-frau-und-mann The Guardian, If you say, being gay is not African, you don’t know your historyhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/09/being-gay-african-history-homosexuality-christianityDeutsche Welle, Afrikas Anti-Schwulen-Gesetze sind Erbe des Kolonialismus https://www.dw.com/de/ai-afrikas-anti-schwulen-gesetze-sind-erbe-des-kolonialismus/a-16905041The Spread Podcast mit Majic Dyke https://soundcloud.com/karenkazlucas/the-spread-ep-55-kenyan-drag-king-with-majic-dyke Titica, Künstlerin und Transfrau aus Angola https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-17628726 (englisch), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sGSNrVNgsc (ab min. 5:40, deutsch)Pose, Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t4YuPXdLZwParis is Burning, Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVueHRtpBbg Fatima El-Tayeb, Racialized BodiesAngela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?
Following up on last week's episode about Angela Davis's book "Are Prisons Obsolete?" we decided to talk to Jared Ware, a freelance journalist and prison abolitionist covering the prison strike going on right now. Jared is also co-host of the podcast Millennials Are Killing Capitalism (there's a great episode there on the prison strike as well) and a producer for the Beyond Prisons podcast. You can follow him @jaybeware on twitter. For more information and updates on the strike, visit https://incarceratedworkers.org/campaigns/prison-strike-2018. Music by Amaryah Armstrong and theillalogicalspoon★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
In case you haven't heard, there's a massive prison strike going on in the US and in Canada from August 21 to September 9. Prisoners are striking with a list of ten demands (those demands and more info are available here: https://incarceratedworkers.org/campaigns/prison-strike-2018). This week we decided to look at prison abolition with the help of Angela Davis, a former prisoner herself. Her book "Are Prisons Obsolete" is a really accessible and forceful presentation of the history of prisons and their internal conditions, as well as what it would mean to think about alternatives. Solidarity to prisoners! Music by Amaryah Armstrong and theillalogicalspoon.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Josh interviews Jared "Jay" Ware about prison abolitionism. Kathy and I finished our most recent Orange Is the New Black recap (Season 6 Episode 3). Jared "Jay" Ware is a prison abolitionist, freelance writer, co-host of the podcast Millennials Are Killing Capitalism and producer of the Beyond Prisons podcast. His work has been published with Shadowproof.com, The New Inquiry, In These Times, SF Bay View, Worker's World, Off Tha Record, and Hampton Institute. Students for a Democratic Society had a storied and important history in American political activism. Hopefully, most people remember the police and state violence that resulted in the deaths of Mike Brown, Tamie Rice, Eric Garner, and Sandra Brown as well as the situation in Ferguson Missouri. We have talked about Michelle Alexanders book "The New Jim Crow" many times before on this podcast. Angela Y Davis book "Are Prisons Obsolete" is a relatively quick read but very fundamental to understanding prison abolition. The site Critical Resistance is a very good starting place for investigating stories about abolition and resistance to statist power. It is also the home to "The Abolitionist" newspaper. I suspect Jay was referring to Elizabeth Hinton's book "From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime" A good place to start on the thinking of Michelle Foucault is in his book "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison." Bryan Burrough's book "Days of Rage" discusses revolutionary violent groups in the United States. My favorite book about John Brown is "Patriotic Treason" by Evan Carton. W.E.B Dubois scathing critique of popular notions of slavery and of reconstruction was called "Black Reconstruction in America" Jay's interview with prisoners after the Lee Correctional Riot provides an important counter-narrative to the "official story" of what happened in South Carolina a few months ago. It is important to read the full list of demands around the August 21st Strike. We have covered Restorative Justice many times on the podcast, this is the first time we have talked about Transformative Justice. This is a piece from Mariame Kaba from her site Prison Culture. Some of the people Jay shouted out were: Jailhouse Lawyers Speak Kinetic Justice (Free Alabama Movement) Mariame Kaba Frantz Fanon Jackie Wang's book "Carceral Capitalism" I will try and fill in the ones I am missing over time. The DOJ Letter I was referring to was in response to the Federal First Step Act. Elizabeth Warren has been getting blasted by police, prosecutors, and correctional officers for her statement that our criminal justice system is racist (I suspect most of this is political posturing since what she said is factually correct). If you want to know more about why what she said was factually correct, you can listen to all of the early episodes of this podcast or read this overview of the evidence. The National Review article that mentions John Pfaff as an answer to Elizabeth Warren's claim can be found here. John Pfaff's response can be found in this Twitter thread. Tom Cotton's argument about Mass Incarceration was a real thing (can't make this stuff up).
Josh talks with Bianca Tylek and Michael Crowley about prison privatization and private prisons I forgot to mention that Decarceration Nation was mentioned in the online publication Bustle this week. Thanks to Taylor Maples for including us on the list of "7 Criminal Justice Podcasts to Listen to." If you are a long-time fan of Orange Is the New Black, the guide to all of my recaps covers every season to date. If you are just starting to watch Orange Is the New Black, the first recap covers the first episode of Season 6 from the perspective of formerly incarcerated folks. Bianca Tylek is the Director of the Corrections Accountability Project. Michael Crowley worked at the Office of Management budget under both the Bush and Obama Administrations, he currently works at the Brennan Center for Justice. He was written recent articles on funding priorities for criminal justice reform and about model state movements towards criminal justice reform. I asked the most renowned expert in prison abolition that I know the question, "if you could only suggest one book people should read if they wanted to learn more about abolition, what would you suggest?" She quickly responded, "Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Y Davis." I have also recently written a breakdown of my own experiences in Solitary Confinement. Private Prisons are seeing incredible growth in immigration enforcement contracts. Private Prisons are often shielded from FOIA requests. Privatization of public prisons should be an equally large concern as Bianca's research at the Correction Accountability Project has proven. The University of Pennsylvania produced a pretty good study summarizing the problems with medical contracts in prisons. Securus has moved to acquire ICS which will create a near duopoly on telephone communication in the correctional market. New York City just made many phone calls in jail free. Many of the companies who operate in the private prison and prison privatization space are buying up community correction and reentry services to take advantage of the movement towards criminal justice reform. Carl Takei's article addresses the move by private companies into mass supervision and surveillance. Obviously, I disagree with Michael on the First Step Act but I do agree that one of the risks of the legislation is that it widens the net of supervision and surveillance. Meek Mill is a textbook case in how expanded surveillance and supervision can be dangerous. I have covered the evidence behind the question of violence many times, here on the podcast, on Medium, on Medium again, and on Daily Kos. The breakdowns of prison costs were broken down in a Vera Institute of Justice study "The Price of Prisons."
We’re joined by activist and academic Jess Ison who discusses her research challenging the use of prisons and other punitive measures as a way to counter animal abuse. If you’d like to look further into the issues of prisons and prison abolition, Jess recommends the book Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis: https://www.sevenstories.com/books/2907-are-prisons-obsolete Jess Ison is a part of The Institute for Critical Animal Studies (Oceania) collective who are organising a discussion forum for animal activists and academics in Melbourne in August. Connect with ICAS Oceania on Facebook or sign up for email updates to be notified of the details of this forum once they are announced: http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/icas-oceania/
Last week, we began hearing the voices of prisoners on the topic of Angela Davis's book, Are Prisons Obsolete? Up first, we have Anastazia Schmid's response to the book, followed by Angaza Iman Bahar reading his response to us from Miami Correctional Facility.
In this 80 minute episode we talk about Essay Collections! We get into some deep topics this time, talking about precarity, race relations, and cultural differences between Canada and the USA. We also wonder if it’s possible to find books about feminism that blow your mind when you’re already familiar with the idea. Plus! The three kinds of CanLit and knowing what a zine isn’t. You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Books We Read This Month My Conversations with Canadians by Lee Maracle Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids edited by Meghan Daum We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The TED Talk version Beyoncé - ***Flawless ft. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul Rape Culture Is Surveillance Culture Close to the Machine: Technophilia and its Discontents by Ellen Ullman Toy Time!: From Hula Hoops to He-Man to Hungry Hungry Hippos: A Look Back at the Most- Beloved Toys of Decades Past by Christopher Byrne This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race by Naben Ruthnum Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit The original essay Browse: The World in Bookshops edited by Henry Hitchings Other Media and Authors We Mention Hark! RJ’s holiday music podcast Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis Mary Roach The New Kings of Nonfiction In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction David Sedaris So Sad Today: Personal Essays by Melissa Broder Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed Joe Sacco Chainmail Bikini: The Anthology of Women Gamers The Secret Loves of Geek Girls Dave Barry Chuck Klosterman Why I am no Longer Talking to White People About Race (Meghan is talking about this book when she mentions the British conservative politician who thinks people should just get better jobs instead of more affordable housing) Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit Bear by Marian Engel Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System by Sonya Huber Best American Science and Nature Writing Series The State of Play: Creators and Critics on Video Game Culture Rise of the Videogame Zinesters by Anna Anthropy Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate by Zoe Quinn Links, Articles, and Things Book Riot Insiders Forum Hogan's Alley, Vancouver “Hogan's Alley was the first and last neighbourhood in Vancouver with a substantial concentrated black population.” What Is CanLit? by Douglas Coupland “CanLit is when the Canadian government pays you money to write about life in small towns and/or the immigration experience. If the book is written in French, urban life is permitted, but only from a nonbourgeois viewpoint.” Questions What’s the difference between essays and chapters? Is a blog post an essay? How long can an essay be? Is long form journalism an essay? Is a journal issue an essay collection? Do you like it when authors use personal and self-reflective frameworks as part of the essay format? Are you attending ALA in New Orleans? Want to be on this podcast? Get in touch! Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts, follow us on Twitter, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, May 1st when we’ll talk about Separating the Art from the Artist! Then come back on Tuesday, May 15th when we’ll be talking about Comedic/Humourous Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Join historians Bridget Keown and James Robinson, with Sociologist Mia Renauld, as we are joined by Dr. Rashad Shabazz, who stopped by Northeastern University to promote his new book, Spatializing Blackness Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago". We talk about Dr. Shabazz's academic path and making connections between international carceral containments before arriving at racialization of carceral power in Chicago, and how it manifests from slavery to schools. He explores how masculinity is performed in poor black spaces. Rashad Shabazz is an associate professor in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. He received his bachelor’s degree in political science and philosophy from Minnesota State University-Mankato, a master’s degree from the Department of Justice & Social Inquiry at Arizona State University, and a doctorate in the History of Consciousness from the University of California, Santa Cruz. For further reading: "Spatializing Blackness" by Rashad Shabazz https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25404003-spatializing-blackness?ac=1&from_search=true "City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles" by Mike Davis https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/484028.City_of_Quartz Schools Under Surveillance: Cultures of Control in Public Education edited by Torin Monahan and Rodolfo D. Torres https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7048854-schools-under-surveillance?from_search=true "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison" by Michel Foucault https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80369.Discipline_and_Punish?from_search=true "Are Prisons Obsolete?" by Angela Y. Davis https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108428.Are_Prisons_Obsolete_?ac=1&from_search=true "Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California" by Ruth Wilson Gilmore https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111975.Golden_Gulag?ac=1&from_search=true "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" by Michelle Alexander https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6792458-the-new-jim-crow?ac=1&from_search=true "Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary" by Dennis Childs https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23508133-slaves-of-the-state?ac=1&from_search=true "From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America" by Elizabeth Hinton https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27311802-from-the-war-on-poverty-to-the-war-on-crime?ac=1&from_search=true "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/318431.Long_Walk_to_Freedom?from_search=true "Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson" by George Jackson https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/962568.Soledad_Brother?ac=1&from_search=true "Assata: An Autobiography" by Assata Shakur https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100322.Assata?ac=1&from_search=true "Live from Death Row" by Mumia Abu-Jamal https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/449916.Live_from_Death_Row?ac=1&from_search=true Dillon Rodriguez: http://ethnicstudies.ucr.edu/people/faculty/rodriguez/ "Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys" by Victor Rios https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11155862-punished?ac=1&from_search=true The Breaking History podcast is a production of the Northeastern University History Graduate Student Association. Our Producers and Sound Editors are: Matt Bowser and Dan Squizzero Our Theme Music was composed by: Kieran Legg
For the third edition of Knowledge Breaks, I attempt to honor the legendary scholar, teacher, historian, activist, organizer and former political prisoner Angela Davis. As it's Women's History Month, I used only breaks and samples from women artists. It is impossible to encapsulate anyone in a 17-minute mix, but especially someone like Prof. Davis, who has spoken and written on so many critical issues over the past 50+ years, from prison abolition to support for Palestine - and shown how these struggles are all linked to one another. I do want to highlight two books of the many she's written that were important to me: Are Prisons Obsolete? from 2003 and Blues Legacies and Black Feminism from 1998. But everything she's done is highly recommended. I used excerpts from a number of recorded conversations from Youtube for this mix, as well as excerpts from two records I own featuring her voice as well as others speaking in support of her while she was incarcerated. As usual, I encourage everyone to listen to these in full if you're able. Links in my Souncloud.
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