June 17, 2025

Today's episode features a book launch event that took place on April 11th at the Shift Centre. The book is titled "Defund: Conversations towards abolition" published by Haymarket Books. The book features the collection of interviews with prison abolitionist organizers and thinkers on how to bridge the divide between reform and abolition. Calvin John Smiley is the books author; he's also a professor of Sociology at City University in New York. We will hear today on the show from Calvin John smiley in conversation with Freeman of the Termite Collective you will also hear Kelly Struthers Montford introduced the speakers, but first here's the present radio show news compiled by one of our collective members. As always the audio from the previous show bleeds into the start of this one! We are trying to catch up with a year of shows that have been absent in our podcast feed and so we have been downloading directly from the CKUT archives and posting here. The way the archives work, there is often a minute or two of the previous show at the start of the hour.