Jessica Rodriquez, a member of Take Back The Bronx and works with Root & Branch Collective NYC, will join us in a discussion concerning obtaining accurate information from inside jails and prisons about the horrors of prison slavery. To that end, another group has emerged called Eyes On You NYC that is taking up some of these issues.

I am a mother and a grandmother who has a son who has been through the system his whole teenage life and adult life. All my children and grandchildren's fathers have been held captive at one point or another in these cages they call jail/ prison.

As part of the Eyes on you Committee, it is our goal to push our way into these cages to directly speak with the people who are suffering there. We want to be the eyes and ears to deliver accurate and true information about the horrors that go on inside, we want it to be told directly from those suffering. We want people released. Cages kill, we know this. They kill not only the spirits of our people but their physical bodies as well. - Jessica Rodriquez

Jamal has been a Take Back The Bronx Member since 2019, a writer, political organizer born and raised in the Bronx.

Recent press release from Eyes On You NYC about these issues:
https://cryptpad.fr/file/#/3/file/8894ed3d8cc38024931953e50c05932981c2aab1639d90d9/

 

In the Spirit of Mandela is holding its 4th Webinar ahead of October's Tribunal called 'Fulfilling Our Mission: Youth Against Genocide'. There will be a panel discussion w/ organizers focused on youth, spoken word poetry, film, music, and Q&A.

Guests: Emok & Kevin

Site: spiritofmandela.org 
Registration: tinyurl.com/ISMwebinar4
Video: https://vimeo.com/581690920
Fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-the-in-the-spirit-of-mandela-tribunal?qid=81bb4f674ea3fddad0d1a277acd7a888

Social Media:


https://www.instagram.com/SpiritOfMandela/

https://www.facebook.com/Spirit-Of-Mandela-105492791756066/?ref=page_internal

https://twitter.com/inthespiritt

Join Tag and Scotty as they speak with Max Parthas, a former co-host of New Abolitionist Radio and the current executive producer and co-host of the Abolition Today radio show and podcast. We will be talking with Max about the latest developments in the New Abolitionists Movement to abolish slavery first by removing language from individual state constitutions and the US Constitution's exception for slavery and involuntary servitude, which allow both practices in the United States in federal, state and private prisons.

Max Parthas's Bio:

Max Parthas is a multi-published, multi-recorded, Spoken Word Artist, Slavery Abolitionist, and Social justice Activist.  Mentored by poetic activist legends Abiodun Oyewole of The Last Poets, and the leader of the Black Arts movement Amiri Baraka, Max comes from a proud lineage of artistic social changemakers. In addition to being named national Poet of The Year twice, he is the recipient of the Missouri CURE Marc Taylor Activism Award, the Will Bell Humanitarian Award, and the “In The Spirit of Malcolm X” award from MX Media for his abolitionist activism.

His decades-long volunteer work includes being the current Acting Director for the Paul Cuffee Abolitionist Center in Sumpter, SC. A State Operations Co-Director for the Abolish Slavery National Network. Abolishslavery.us. and Co-host/Executive producer of Abolition Today (a unique online modern-slavery abolition episodic podcast with an international audience.) abolitiontoday.org

In the past 5 years, Max Parthas was instrumental in organizing two of the largest prison slavery work strikes in US history. (2017/2018) where he also spoke as a keynote speaker.  He directly assisted in removing slavery exception clauses from the state constitutions of Colorado (2018), Utah, and Nebraska (2020). And aided in divestment campaigns that have cost private prison industries over 15 billion dollars to date, and according to recent speculations, left one of the largest privately owned corporations on earth (The GEO Group) near bankruptcy. 48% chance.

Max has also been key to organizing over 30 states under the ASNN objective of ending constitutional slavery. Tennessee and Oregon are already ballot items for 2022 and over a dozen others states presently have similar anti-slavery legislation making its way through bill processes.

We spoke with Prakash & Max about the struggle to get charges dropped against Prakash who, at the age of 15, was convicted of murder based on a coerced confession.



The Free Prakash Alliance are holding a rally in front of the Queens criminal courthouse, Wednesday July 14 @ 1pm EST.

For more info on how to support:

https://linktr.ee/freeprakashalliance

https://www.gofundme.com/f/freeprakashchuraman

https://www.facebook.com/freeprakashchuraman/

https://www.instagram.com/freeprakashalliance/

https://soundcloud.com/prisonskill/stuck-in-a-maze-the-story-of-prakash-churaman

Tonight on New Abolitionists Radio, several guests will join us for a discussion on the upcoming fundraiser and panel discussion related to the police raids in New York City. View the live stream on our New Abolitionists Radio Facebook page. Make sure to like and follow the page.

Guests:

Sis Basir Sirajuddin is an area activist who currently has a son in prison slavery due to a wrongful arrest and prosecution.

-Yodaa Kreep is a rapper from the Bronx, who was taken from his community during the Boston Secor gang raids in 2017. Yodaa came home from prison in 2020 and is one of the participants in this year's We Home event from the Stop the Raids coalition.

-Max is an outside organizer with the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee-NYC and a member of the Stop the Raids coalition. Outside of organizing activities, Max is a teacher and researcher.

Calls from those currently experiencing prison slavery in the United States of America.
Sirajuddin Qadir
Pendleton Correctional Facility, Indiana
Sirajuddin Fundraiser: https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/8kkHX4pukS
More Info on Sirajuddin’s Case: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Az0YAknpE8IxW1VtrXOVbeztvhSJekRO/view

The Pendleton Correctional Facility, formerly known as the Indiana Reformatory, is a state prison located in Fall Creek Township, Madison County, near Pendleton and about 25 miles northeast of Indianapolis. Wikipedia

Address: 4490 W Reformatory Rd, Pendleton, IN 46064
Phone: (765) 778-2107
Capacity: 1,650
Opened: 1923

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjwONYSYbnQ

In this episode of New Abolitionists Radio, Scotty reports on shocking Democracy Now report about the federal jail MDC in Brooklyn destroying prisoner's medical records. We also spoke to activist Eve Mitchell who lives in the area and NyAsia Williams who has a loved incarcerated in the MDC as he awaits trial instead of being released.



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In this episode of New Abolitionist Radio, Scotty and Maxwell take a look at reports out of New Jersey that show dire circumstances for prisoners, staff, and the serious threat being posed to communities in New Jersey by COVID 19 and the state's handling of the crisis. Maxwell also shared unexpected news related to the Die Jim Crow project being allowed to provide some masks for prisoners.
Die Jim Crow  launched a crowdfunding campaign for PPE (personal protective equipment) going towards the prisons we have a community in. You can get more information and donate via the GoFundMe account set up for this project to help prisoners. Link here.

Be sure to check out Die Jim Crow online.



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In this episode of New Abolitionists Radio, Tag and Scotty spoke with Deja, the fiance of Ramsey Orta. Deja gave us an update on Ramsey's case, the continued mistreatment by prison guards who write him up for imagined and minor infractions resulting in torture by way of solitary confinement. Deja shared with us the mental toll the ordeal has taken on Ramsey and his family since the fateful day he filmed the manslaughter of Eric Garner by NYPD officers.
Ramsey is at Collins Correctional Facility Inmate Mailing Address: Ramsey Orta 16A4200 Collins Correctional Middle Rd P.o box 340 Collins, NY 14034,
You can donate to Ramsey directly through Ramsey's Paypal at officialramseyorta@gmail.com.

Official Facebook Page: Support Ramsey Orta



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In this episode of New Abolitionists Radio, Tag connects from the field with other activists participating in protests at three different jails in New York City. The protests were in coordination and solidarity with Palestinian prisoners with April 17th being designated Palestinian Prisoners Day.

Tag spoke with Johanna Fernandez of The Campaign To Bring Mumia Home, Grace and Bailey of IWOC NYC over the phone from each of their protest locations. Abolitionists worldwide including those in New York, engaged in an all-day phone, fax & social media zaps to pressure officials administrating legalized slavery in the midst of the global pandemic.

Palestinian Prisoners have a central yet simple message that says from "From the River to the Sea, All the Prisoners Must Be Freed' and it is in that spirit that New Abolitionists join them in solidarity on the global issue of legalized prison slavery. During the episode, we will also hear calls from prisoners trapped behind bars during a global pandemic courtesy "It's Up to Us to End Mass Incarceration"
Online Resources


The Campaign To Bring Mumia Home


NYC IWOC




It's Up to Us to End Mass Incarceration

Tatiana #letThemGo




Palestinian Prisoners' Day of Action: https://samidoun.net/2020/04/take-action-phone-zap-for-incarcerated-new-yorkers-on-palestinian-prisoners-day/

 



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In this episode of New Abolitionists Radio, we will continue to focus on the most vulnerable population in the United States during this COVID 19 pandemic as prisoners all over the nation make the same claim that prison administrators are facilitating the spread of the virus and there is a recent Supreme Court of The United States ruling that gives cops even more leeway to make stops.



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In this episode of New Abolitionists Radio, Tag leads us in an interview with Sirajuddin Qadir and his mother Sis Basir to give us an update and some of the details of his wrongful conviction on an attempted murder charge in a bench trial where the guilty verdict was in direct contradiction to the evidence and testimony given by various law enforcement officers including video evidence from a body camera worn by one of the arresting officers. Sirajuddin Qadir also gave a troubling but not uncommon report about Pendleton Correctional Facility in Indiana in relation to the prison's response to the COVID 19 pandemic. This is followed up with information from Bailey of the New York City chapter of Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee which has been organizing actions on behalf of prisoners seeking relief for them during this pandemic in New York.
Links

Sirajuddin Fundraiser: https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/8kkHX4pukS
More Info on Sirajuddin's Case: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Az0YAknpE8IxW1VtrXOVbeztvhSJekRO/view

iwoc-nyc: iwoc.nyc@riseup.net
fb: https://www.facebook.com/iwocnyc/ ig: https://www.instagram.com/iwoc_nyc/

Free Them All 4 Public Health: https://freethemall4publichealth.org/

Week of Action into Palestinian Prisoners' Day: https://samidoun.net/2020/04/palestinian-prisoners-day-2020-week-of-action-for-palestinian-liberation/ 

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Join the New Abolitionists Radio panel (Tag, Scotty & Maxwell Melvins) as we discuss prison slavery amidst a global Covid 19 pandemic with the United States becoming the world's leader in confirmed cases of the deadly virus which according to the most recent but incomplete data due to a lack of testing, showing Covid 19 is 35 times more deadly than the 2009 H1N1 flu that claimed over 12,000 lives in the United States over the course of a year.

Special guest panelist: JayRene joins us again, she is the co-founder of Hip Hop Humanisms which began in April of 2017. They showcase independent and unsigned artists that have a positive message that is trying to help the people in their community, instead of hurt them with the glorification of drugs, alcohol, and sex which can lead some down the path to prison slavery.








Jay Rene issued a video concerning police needing escalation of force procedures and real consequences for violating procedures.

In The News...

In 2009, a new strain of H1N1 influenza emerged. It did not cause anywhere near the disruption that Covid-19 has, and for good reason.

H1N1 did infect as much as 24% of the world’s population. The overall fatality rate was quite low, at about 0.02% of estimated cases — five times lower than the 0.1% average fatality rate for the seasonal flu — but that’s mainly because H1N1 had little effect on the demographic usually hit hardest by influenza: those 65 and older...Covid-19 is near the beginning of its spread in the U.S., and thus cannot be compared with H1N1’s effect over a full year. If the U.S. death toll from Covid-19 is only 12,469 a year from now, that will likely be counted as a great success...South Korea, which has done the best job of keeping up with the spread of the virus through testing, the fatality rate so far is about 0.7%. But even that is 35 times worse than H1N1 in 2009 and 2010. Multiply 12,469 by 35 and you get 436,415 — which would amount to the biggest U.S. infectious-disease death toll since the 1918 flu. Hospitalization rates are also many times higher for Covid-19, meaning that if it spread as widely as H1N1 it would overwhelm the U.S. health-care system.

Rikers Island Rate Of Coronavirus Infection 7 Times Higher Than Citywide


21 Inmates, 17 Employees Test Positive for COVID-19 on Rikers Island...

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The system of prisons both federal and state have always constituted cruel and inhumane punishment no matter the alleged crime but with a global Covid 19 pandemic blowing up across the United States, not enough prisoners are being released and no one is being pardoned or charges dropped even as courthouses across the country close. Obviously you can not practice social distancing inside of prisons and as we know, prisons are not the most sanitary facilities and in some cases, they don't have soap provided that is provided to prisoners free of charge.

Tonight we are joined on the broadcast by "Sheila" who is a community organizer in the New York area whose son is caged at the municipal jail widely known as "The Tombs" (metropolitan detention complex) in Manhattan. While MDC Manhattan officials have been virtually silent on the issue, reports from the inside say that captives and overseers being infected with COVID-19 have rapidly increased in recent days. Positive confirmations stand at 38 throughout the incarcerated population inside NYC, but given the close quarters and unsanitary conditions in facilities like The Tombs, many are concerned that this number is bound to grow. Loved ones & concerned individuals are engaged in ongoing phone zaps to demand their release before the outbreak spreads even further.

Update Concerning The Tombs

From NYC chapter of the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee.


 

 

 



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Federal and most state prisons are banning visits to protect inmates from coronavirus 

The country's 122 federal prisons and many of the 1,700-plus state prisons have banned visitors and volunteers, hoping to prevent potentially disastrous coronavirus outbreaks among prisoners and staff in close quarters where disease can easily spread. read more...

Pritzker should release elderly, ailing prisoners from state jails amid coronavirus outbreak, activists say

“We’ve all been told to socially distance ourselves to prevent the spread of the virus. Well, there’s no such thing as social distancing in prison,” said Alan Mills, executive director of the Uptown
People’s Law Center and one of around 1,600 co-signers of the letter sent to Pritzker. read more...

Guest Panelist

Special Guests tonight include Tia "Mz Konnoisseur" Hamilton, publisher of State Vs. US magazine. State Vs. Us was Nominated for 2018 & 2019 Titan Arts Award for Magazine Of The Year and 2019 Publisher Of The Year in Middle River, MD. The online & print publication spotlights high profile cases, corruption in prisons, police depts, government, wrongful convictions, true stories of men & women in prison, and success stories of formerly incarcerated individuals.

Joining us also will be Jay Rene founder of an organization with Dana Dane called Hip Hop Humanisms which began in April of 2017. They showcase independent and unsigned artists that have a positive message that is trying to help the people in their community, instead of hurt them with the glorification of drugs, alcohol, and sex. In 2019 they began to have the opportunity to be on the radio through WMSKONLINERADIO.com. Here we extend our promotion of unsigned positive Hip Hop Artist. We also talk about Urban issues, achievements and ways to make us better as people.

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Nathaniel Woods & Death Penalty

Despite evidence and knowing that Nathaniel Woods did not shoot 3 Birmingham cops serving an arrest warrant on an apartment Woods shared with a roommate, the state of Alabama murdered Woods after the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) failed to stop the execution. The United States has yet to unite with modern nations who have abolished the death penalty and continues to use capital punishment putting it into a coalition of nations like China, Saudia Arabia, Iran, North Korea to name a few.

Kerry Spencer was Woods's roommate in 2004 and admitting to being the person who fatally shot Carlos Owen, Harley Chisolm, and Charles Bennett in 2004. The state of Alabama still charged Woods with the capital offense of killing cops in the USA and argued that Woods "conspired" with Spencer to kill the officers. In the real world and using the dictionary definition of "conspire", it seems it would have been impossible two people to conspire to kill cops that they did not know were coming to serve a warrant. In this case, there was only one person firing the gun that killed the three cops.
conspire
intransitive verb

-·spired′, -·spir′ing
to plan and act together secretly, esp. in order to commit a crime
to combine or work together for any purpose or toward any effect: events conspired to ruin him
Biden Vs Bernie On Death Penalty

The US is obviously in political season where a new president will be elected or one Donald J. Trump may prevail and avoid be labeled a one-term POTUS. It seems likely that the person Trump will face will be either Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden. With healthcare being the top issue most citizens say concerns them the most, the death penalty is a top issue for many or at least makes their top ten issues that would they like to see some transformative change.

Donald J. Trump is a staunch supporter of the death penalty and he and Biden have a lot of common ground on the issue. Trump wants to expand the death penalty to cover people convicted of selling drugs. Joe Biden successfully pushed for the creation of a "Drug Czar" to help coordinate agencies who fight the so-called War on Drugs and Biden did expand the death penalty in the Biden Crime Bill.

Mississippi Prison Update

Sanders's tweeted out public support and solidarity with activists and prisoners concerning the rash of murders and deplorable inhumane conditions in the Mississippi prison slavery system. Sanders has always been opposed to capital punishment and believes the United States should abolish the Death Penalty.

Our system of mass incarceration is racist and must end. In Mississippi prisons there have been 24 deaths in 67 days, overcrowding, medical neglect and inhumane conditions. I stand with the incarcerated, their families and the MS Prison Reform Coalition. #MSPrisonReformNow
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) March 7, 2020


Join Scotty, Tag, Kevin and Sophia for a panel discussion on the death penalty and the inhumanity of the prison slavery system in the United States.



The 13th Amendment of the US Constitution did not end slavery when it carved out the exception clause that led directly to Jim Crow laws across ...

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Tonight New Abolitionists Radio will discuss two measures signed into law in New Jersey by Gov. Phil Murphy that make it easier for those convicted of low-level drug offenses to expunge their records and another that allows citizens on parole or probation to vote. New Jersey native and prison slavery abolitionists Maxwell Melvins who helped to push the bills is with us tonight to discuss these measures.

Advocates for Prisoner's Human Rights are calling on the community to start organizing solidarity events from August 21st - September 9th to amplify calls for human rights for prisoners.

We must point out that concerning prisoner human rights demands that came out of the 2018 national prisoner strike, many of those demands are part of Bernie Sander's Justice and Safety For All platform titled "Prisoner Bill of Rights". After victories in Iowa and New Hampshire, Sanders heads towards Super Tuesday as a front runner. No other candidate nor President Donald Trump has a plan to restore the human rights and constitutional rights of prisoners in the United States, and strangely, not many prisoner advocacy groups are organizing prisoner families to turn out to vote for Sanders to advance the most comprehensive reforms ever proposed by a presidential candidate for the US prison system.

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Joining us in conversation tonight will be Sis Shannon who is co-founder of Bronxites for NYPD Accountability (Why Accountability). She will discuss ongoing FTP activities, predatory "gang raids" & related issues. You can support this organization by donating to their Go Fund Me campaign.

Recent News:

NYPD Commissioner without evidence attempts to link protests against police brutality as the cause of two NYPD cops getting shot in the Bronx

Federal investigation into Mississippi prisons has advocates hopeful, anxious

3 Texas inmates have died at the hands of prison officers as use of force continues to rise



New Abolitionists Radio is an award-winning podcast that started in 2012 to bring awareness to legalized slavery and human trafficking in the United States preserved by the 13th Amendment of the US Constitution. This issue is often inadequately referred to as "mass incarceration". Legalized slavery through prisons, jails and detention facilities and the mistreatment of those incarcerated in them constitute severe Human Rights violations per The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, especially its prohibition on all forms of slavery.

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Tonight we will be joined in conversation by Kendra who will be on to discuss the loathsome conditions of the NYC jail system under prison slavery. Her fiance, Al-Fatah has been back & forth between jail facilities for well over a year now on wrongful charges facing brutal repression. He is currently in solitary. Fundraising page.

Tag will bring us up to date on protests against the subway slave catchers of NYC.

New Abolitionists Radio is an award-winning podcast that started in 2012 to bring awareness to legalized slavery and human trafficking in the United States preserved by the 13th Amendment of the US Constitution. This issue is often inadequately referred to as "mass incarceration". Legalized slavery through prisons, jails and detention facilities and the mistreatment of those incarcerated in them constitute severe Human Rights violations per The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, especially its prohibition on all forms of slavery.
“No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.”
This continuation of a form of slavery is in violation of the prohibition of all forms of slavery as stated in the 1948 UN resolution 217 at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, France. New Abolitionists Radio is an award-winning weekly radio broadcast and podcast that started in 2012 to bring awareness to legalized slavery and human trafficking in the United States preserved by the 13th Amendment of the US Constitution.

New Abolitionists Radio is an award-winning podcast that started in 2012 to bring awareness to legalized slavery and human trafficking in the United States preserved by the 13th Amendment of the US Constitution. This issue is often inadequately referred to as "mass incarceration". Legalized slavery through prisons, jails and detention facilities and the mistreatment of those incarcerated in them constitute severe Human Rights violations per The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, especially its prohibition on all forms of slavery.
“No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.”

This continuation of a form of slavery is in violation of the prohibition of all forms of slavery as stated in the 1948 UN resolution 217 at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, France. New Abolitionists Radio is an award-winning weekly radio broadcast and podcast that started in 2012 to bring awareness to legalized slavery and human trafficking in the United States preserved by the 13th Amendment of the US Constitution.