“Regal’s Color” by Harold TM Smith III
Harold was one of our 2023 ART Gallery featured artists 🥳 We are so honored to have collaborated with him on this project!
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Thank you to our Board Member Jonathyn B. for narrating Harold’s letter.
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We like to have fun at the office sometimes!
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“But the amount of shame that goes into that process from court, all the way through for the person, almost negates the opportunity of healing.”
“It’s just a tooth”.
Hear more of this conversation on episode 2: Abolition Addresses State Violence, available on all platforms!
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On episode 2 we address state violence, have you listened?
Now available on all platforms 🤗
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Hear more of this conversation on Abolition is for Everybody’s Season 2, Episode 1: Abolition Disrupts Cycles of Violence. Available everywhere you get your podcasts! #Prison #Abolition #AIFE #AbolitionIsPodcast #Incarceration
Hear more of this conversation on Abolition is for Everybody’s Season 2, Episode 1: Abolition Disrupts Cycles of Violence.Available everywhere you get your podcasts!#Prison #Abolition #AIFE #AbolitionIsPodcast #Incarceration
Sneak peak of our intro with our new hosts! 🤭
Excited for y’all to listen to our first episode of season 2 on March 1st!
Who’s excited?👋🏽
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Here are some of our favorite abolition books! What are yours?🤔
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When did your abolitionist journey begin?
Snippet from Season 1, Episode 8.
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From Episode 8: Closing Prisons & Defunding the Police with Brian Kaneda from Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB)
To listen to the rest of the episode, directly search “Abolition is for Everybody” on your preferred listening platform!
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Episode 7: Abolition is Disability Justice
“It’s disheartening to know that just being disabled makes you more likely to be in the system again.”
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Initiate Justice is turning 5! 🎉
Join us for our virtual birthday party on Saturday, September 18th at 5:00pm for music, games, and a raffle in honor of our 5th year in the fight to end mass incarceration!
RSVP by visiting: Tinyurl.com/IJTurns5
We hope to see you there!
From Episode 6: Abolition is Ending the School to Prison Pipeline and Poverrty
What was your schooling experience?
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From Episode 6: Abolition is Ending the School to Prison Pipeline & Poverty
Listen to UC Santa Barbara / CSU San Marcos professor Oscar Fabian Soto discuss the school to prison pipeline and poverty in our latest episode!
Now streaming everywhere you get your podcasts!
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“Isn’t comfort a kind of medicine, too?” - Ninga Odé
In AIFE, we're trying to bring stories about the system into the light. Join us every other Friday as we delve into the topic of abolition.
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A sneak peak from Episode 3: Abolition is Decriminalizing Mental Health featuring Cat Brooks co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project!
Episode 3 will air on Friday, July 23rd, everywhere you get your podcasts!
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From Episode 2: Abolition is Decriminalizing Drugs with Eunisses Hernandez!
Episode 2 will air on Friday, June 9th everywhere you get your podcasts!
Eunisses: Right now, the way that the system exists, let's say you get caught for whatever case, you go to jail. You have a problematic substance use disorder. You generally have to plead guilty in order to get access to services, which puts you in jail for a while, puts a conviction on you, and then, when you get out, you get forced into these programs that are like 12-step programs. They are coercive programs that force you into sobriety. Those don't work for everybody. I’ve worked at facilities that are reentry facilities for men and women coming out of prison and jail. They were 12-step programs, and folks were just falling through the cracks because they weren't being met where they were at, you know? They were forced into staying in places where you're locked up for 30 days and you can't go anywhere, we're going to strip search you even in this residential facility, and drug test you. That doesn't do anything for people. Decrim really means not criminalizing folks for drug possession, drug use, and supporting them with support systems that are harm reduction based.
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A sneak peak from Episode 2: Abolition is Decriminalizing Drugs!
Lee: “When we have the position of power and we have people that are making these decisions, they're like, I think they're coming up with solutions that were tried, you know, many years ago. They haven't been effective and they're not effective now.And so again, this is so important that as we continue to develop pathways to solutions to the issues that we're currently faced with, that we have everybody and we have a collective voice at the table and making sure that everybody is, like, heard. And I really love the point where if we're going to have to go back for somebody, then it wasn't the correct solution in the first place. Right? And so, if we can come up with ways to tweak the solution that we've just come up with, then that's not the solution that we want.”
Episode 2 will air on Friday, July 9th everywhere you get your podcasts!
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