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abolition is for everybody
by abolition is for everybody
abolition is for everybody is a podcast that tackles the sometimes-difficult conversations around prison abolition. Through friendly chats, and conversations with experts, our system-impacted co-hosts explore the history, futures, obstacles, and joys of abolition.abolition is for everybody is a project of Initiate Justice (www.initiatejustice.org/podcast)
Episodes
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Navigating reentry with Bleu Inkk Watkins and Roberto Ramirez.
On this episode, Crystal and Graham are joined by Bleu Inkk Watkins and Roberto Ramirez. Together, they dive into what it is like navigating reentry after incarceration. - Season 4 is all about the journey of incarceration. From arrests, to sentencing, to family connections, parole hearings, and...
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Navigating Family Connections with Sandra and Jesse Suarez
On this episode, Crystal and Graham are joined by Sandra and Jesse Suarez. Together, they dive into what it is like navigating family connections through incarceration. - Season 4 is all about the journey of incarceration. From arrests, to sentencing, to family connections, parole hearings, and...
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Experiencing a Board of Parole Hearing w/ Juan Gamez.
On this episode, Crystal and Graham are joined byJuan Gamez. Together, they dive into what it is like to experience a Board of Parole hearing. - Season 4 is all about the journey of incarceration. From arrests, to sentencing, to family connections, parole hearings, and reentry. To access the...
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Experiencing a trial with Chris Johnson.
On this episode, Crystal and Graham are joined by Chris Johnson. Together, they dive into all things trials. - Season 4 is all about the journey of incarceration. From arrests, to sentencing, to family connections, parole hearings, and reentry. To access the episode transcript, visit...
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Signing a plea deal with Fernando Delgado.
On this episode, Crystal and Graham are joined by former incarcerated organizer, Fernando Delgado. Together, they dive into all things plea deals. - Season 4 is all about the journey of incarceration. From arrests, to sentencing, to family connections, parole hearings, and reentry. To access the...
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Experiencing arrests with Hugo Gonzalez.
On this episode, Crystal and Graham are joined by Hugo Gonzalez. Together, they dive into what it is like to experience arrests. - Season 4 is all about the journey of incarceration. From arrests, to sentencing, to family connections, parole hearings, and reentry. To access the episode…
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The history of mass incarceration with Antoinette Ratcliffe
On this episode, Crystal and Graham are joined by Antoinette Ratcliffe, Executive Director at Initiate Justice. Together, they kick off Season 4 and dive into the history of mass incarceration. - Season 4 is all about the journey of incarceration. From arrests, to sentencing, to family…
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Let's Talk: Changing the Narrative w/ Rasheeda Jones
On the last episode of Season 3, Graham and Crystal are joined by Rasheeda Jones. Rasheeda is a mental advocate, community organizer, and self-published author of Justice- a children's book about a young boy navigating his feelings through his father's incarceration. Together, they discuss how…
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Let's Talk: Gangs and Immigration in the Media
On this episode, Crystal and Graham are joined by Valerie, a public school teacher and community organizer. Together, they discuss the stories on gangs and immigration that are omitted by the media. - Season 3 is about the media’s involvement in carceral or abolitionist thinking- how it uses...
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Minisode Six: The one where we talk about organizing while incarcerated.
On Minisode Six: The one where we talk about organizing while incarcerated, Adam and Lee discuss Initiate Justice's Inside Organizing department. Together they discuss the barriers incarcerated organizers face and their experience as former incarcerated organizers. To donate to Initiate Justice's...
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Let's Talk: Protests in the Media w/ Alec Karakatsanis
On this episode, Crystal and Graham are joined by Alec Karakatsanis. Together, they discuss the history of protests and how they're represented in the media. Alec is a civil rights lawyer and former public defender, and the founder and executive director of Civil Rights Corps. - Season 3 is about...
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Let's Talk: Houselessness & Drugs in the Media w/ Selena Miranda
On this episode, Crystal and Graham are joined by Selena Miranda. Together, they discuss houselessness, drugs, and their conflation and portrayal in the media. - Season 3 is about the media’s involvement in carceral or abolitionist thinking- how it uses narratives to impact, radicalize, and shift...
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Let's Talk: Mass Shootings w/ Qasim Rashid
On this episode, Crystal and Graham are joined by Qasim Rashid. Together, they discuss mass shootings, how they're represented in the media, and how collectively, we can make a difference in our communities. Qasim Rashid is a lawyer, author, and host of The Qasim Rashid Show on Sirius XM Channel...
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Let's Talk: Copaganda w/ Lewis Wallace
On this episode, Crystal and Ra are joined by Lewis Wallace. Together, they discuss what copaganda is and how it is embedded in our daily lives. Lewis is a journalist, podcaster, and the abolition journalism fellow for Interrupting Criminalization, an organization co-founded by Mariame Kaba and...
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Let's Talk: Media Misdirection
On this episode, Crystal and Graham discuss media misdirection and how the stories we are hearing, celebrating, or being afraid of are not actually complete. - Season 3 is about the media’s involvement in carceral or abolitionist thinking- how it uses narratives to impact, radicalize, and shift...
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Let's Talk: Media Literacy with Ra Avis
Our co-hosts, Crystal and Graham, are joined by Ra Avis, our Season 2 co-host, to discuss what media literacy is and how they can apply learned skills in their day to day lives! -- Season 3 is about the media’s involvement in carceral or abolitionist thinking- how it uses narratives to impact,...
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Let's Talk: Sensationalized & Criminal Entertainment
Welcome to Season 3! This season is about the media’s involvement in carceral or abolitionist thinking- how it uses narratives to impact, radicalize, and shift culture. On this episode, learn about Crystal and our new host, Graham Finochio's, thoughts on sensationalized and criminal…
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Minisode Five: The one where we talk about incarceration and the holiday season.
On Minisode Five: The one where we talk about incarceration and the holiday season, Crystal and Adam are joined by Danielle Macias from True Blue Stationary. Together they discuss the creative ways they stay connected to their incarcerated loved ones during the holiday season, and the barriers…
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Minisode Four: The one where we talk about universal voting rights.
On Minisode Four: The one where we talk about universal voting rights, Graham is joined by Nicole Porter, the Senior Director of Advocacy from The Sentencing Project. Graham and Nicole discuss the movement working towards ending disenfranchised voting in the United States. To access the episode...
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Minisode Three: The one where we talk about prison art.
On this Minisode: The one where we talk about prison art, Ra and Crystal talk about art— how it is made inside prisons despite the barriers incarcerated folks face, and the ways people use art as activism. Crystal shares The ART Gallery, a special event hosted by Initiate Justice, made possible…
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Abolition Addresses How Prisons Perpetuate Violence
On the final episode of Season 2, Adam is joined by former Season 2 guests and community organizers Adrianna Griffith and Graham Finochio to share their experiences with the prison system. Together, they discuss the failures of our system as a vehicle for rehabilitation and safety, and the type…
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Abolition Addresses Violences Against Children
On episode 9, Abolition Addresses Violences Against Children, Abolition is for Everybody’s hosts dive into violences they have experienced as children, as well as ways we all contribute to them. They discuss the failures of society as a vehicle for safety, intervention, and the type of insight…
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A Message for Father's Day
Audio Captioning: We’re so thankful for the Dad’s who fight and heal with us. On this Father’s Day, we’d like to acknowledge the incarcerated fathers around the world who continue to parent through 15-minute phone calls, countless letters, and behind glass doors. We know first-hand how...
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Abolition Addresses Domestic Violence and Family Harm
On episode 8, Abolition Addresses Domestic Violence and Family Harm, Abolition is for Everybody’s co-hosts are joined by former LWOP and DropLWOP advocate, Susan Bustamante. Together, the hosts talk about Susan’s experience with domestic violence and family harm and her perspective after being...
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Abolition Addresses Gun Violence
On episode 7, Abolition Addresses Gun Violence, Adam, Crystal and Ra hear the story of a currently incarcerated individual. Together, the hosts talk about the lineage of harms that led to his own participation in the cycle, as someone who has caused this type of harm. We also discuss the failures...
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Abolition Addresses Sexual Assault
On episode 6, Abolition Addresses Sexual Assault, Abolition is for Everybody’s co-hosts are joined by Initiate Justice’s Outside Organizer and Abolition Corner facilitator, Sarah. Together, the hosts talk about Sarah’s experience with sexual assault and her perspective as an abolitionist who has...
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A message for Mother's Day.
Audio Captioning: We’re so thankful to the moms who fight and heal with us— our Inside Organizer moms, our Inside Member moms, our Outside Organizer moms, our Staff moms, our Volunteer moms, our Outside Member moms, our Ally moms, and everyone — birth givers or not— who hold this work in motherly...
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Abolition Addresses Murder/ Manslaughter
On episode 5, Abolition Addresses Murder/ Manslaughter, Adam, Crystal and Ra hear Dan's story. Dan is a currently incarcerated individual whose actions led to the death of his bestfriend, Jr. Together, the hosts talk about the lineage of harms that led to Dan's own participation in the cycle, as...
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Minisode Two: The one where we talk about solitary confinement.
On this Minisode: The one where we talk about solitary confinement, Ra is joined by season 1 co-host Lee, and Pamila Lew, an attorney in the Investigations Unit at Disability Rights California. Pamila shares the history of solitary confinement, the different ways state facilities refer to it, and...
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Abolition Addresses Robbery
On episode 4, Abolition Address Robbery, Adam, Crystal and Ra are joined by community organizer and Success Stories' Transformational Coach and Coach Coordinator, Graham Finochio. Together, they talk about the lineage of harms that led to Graham's own participation in the cycle as someone who was...
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Abolition Serves Survivors
On episode 3, Abolition Serves Survivors, Crystal and Ra are joined by community organizer Adrianna Griffith. They dive into how abolition centers survivors, and what it looks like now in Stockton California's Women’s Center Youth & Family Services where Adrianna is currently employed. In this...
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Abolition Addresses State Violence
On this episode, our hosts dive into different forms of state violence they have witnessed and experienced. They ask our listeners to think about the way violence has been perpetuated in their lives by the state. In this season of Abolition is for Everybody, we talk about harm–what creates it…
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Abolition Disrupts Cycles of Violence
On this episode, our new hosts Crystal and Adam, join Ra to discuss the different harms they have experienced throughout their lives and the many things we could have done to prevent them. In this season of Abolition is for Everybody, we talk about harm–what creates it, what recycles it, and how…
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Minisode One: The one where we talk about vaccines.
On this Minisode: The one where we talk about vaccines, Ra is joined by Initiate Justice's executive director and season 1 co-host, Taina, and Communications Coordinator, Michelle. They discuss how we make abolitionist choices in real life situations, what vaccines have to do with abolition, and...
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Abolition is Closing Prisons & Defunding the Police with Brian Kaneda
On this episode, Lee and Ra are joined by Brian Kaneda from Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) to discuss the need to reduce prison and police budgets, the three prison closures that have been announced in California, and more issues related to moving funds from the prison and...
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Abolition is Disability Justice
On this episode, Ra, Lee, and Taina discuss into the importance in addressing disability justice towards our goal of abolition. To access the transcript for this episode visit, www.InitiateJustice.org/Podcast
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Abolition is Ending the School to Prison Pipeline + Ending Poverty with Oscar Soto
On this episode, Taina and Lee discuss with Professor Oscar F. Soto what the school to prison pipeline is, how it contributes to the carceral system, and ways we can address it as we move towards our goal of prison abolition. To access the transcript for this episode visit,...
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Abolition is Gender Equity with Charlene Carruthers
On this episode, Ra and Taina are joined by author Charlene Carruthers to discuss feminism, patriarchy, and the different ways that gender impacts the abolitionist movement and incarceration. To access the transcript for this episode visit, www.InitiateJustice.org/Podcast
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Abolition is Community Connections
On this episode, Ra, Lee, and Taina delve into how the carceral system hinders connections between incarcerated individuals, their families, and community even after they have returned home. To access the transcript for this episode, visit our website: www.InitiateJustice.org/Podcast
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Abolition is Decriminalizing Mental Health with Cat Brooks
On this episode, Ra, Lee, and Cat Brooks delve into the topic of mental health inside prisons, mental health stigma, how supporting each other is part of daily abolition work, and more. To access the transcript for this episode, visit our website: www.InitiateJustice.org/Podcast
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Abolition is Decriminalizing Drugs with Eunisses Hernandez
On this episode, Ra, Lee, and Eunisses delve into the topic of drugs, how our current system treats drug use and users of drugs, and what abolition and community care around drugs looks like. To access the transcript for this episode, visit our website: www.InitiateJustice.org/Podcast
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Abolition 101 with Patrisse Cullors
On this episode, Ra, Lee, and Patrisse delve into what abolition is, how their abolitionists journeys began, and struggles they've encountered along the way! To access the transcript for this episode, click here, or visit our website www.InitiateJustice.org/Podcast
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Pilot: Meet your co-hosts Ra, Lee, and Taina!
Welcome to season 1 of Abolition is for Everybody! On this episode, Ra, Lee, and Taina share how their abolitionist journeys began. Stay tuned for more episodes as we will be launching biweekly! To access the transcript for this episode, click here, or visit our website...
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abolition is for everybody is a podcast that tackles the sometimes-difficult conversations around prison abolition. Through friendly chats, and conversations with experts, our system-impacted co-hosts explore the history, futures, obstacles, and joys of abolition.abolition is for everybody is a project of Initiate Justice (www.initiatejustice.org/podcast)
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