#JusticeIsNotForSale Act w/ activist attorney Nekima Levy-Pounds

Sept 30, 2015 - We have a special guest joining us tonight to provide an analysis on the historic Justice Is Not For Sale Act submitted by Bernie Sanders on September 18th.

Our guest is Nekima Levy-Pounds. The Abolitionist Attorney. An award-winning professor of law, civil rights attorney, and a nationally recognized expert on a range of civil rights and social justice issues at the intersections of race, public policy, economic justice, public education, juvenile justice, and the criminal justice system.

Professor Levy-Pounds also serves as a consultant to various civil rights groups, business entities, public policy organizations, academic institutions, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations.

She also serves as the chair of the Minnesota State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and is the co-chair of Everybody In, a regional collaboration of over 40 stakeholders across different sectors working to close the racial unemployment gaps in the region by 2020.

Professor Levy-Pounds is active in the local community, serving on the boards of the Minneapolis Foundation, Catholic Charities, the African American Museum, and Growth & Justice. She is also the author of numerous scholarly articles and essays on structural and systemic issues that impact poor communities of color. She is one of the leading voices in #BlackLivesMatter Minneapolis, and in May of 2015 was elected as president of the Minneapolis chapter of the NAACP

• We’ve helped expose this crime and today we report a victory. Whole Foods has announced it will stop using their prison labor program after multiple protests around the country and a barrage of negative media coverage from national news outlets.

• In a constant miscarriage of justice In 2014 there were 700,993 arrests for marijuana in the United States. That's one every 45 seconds. That's also 7,000 more than the last year, with nearly 90 percent of those arrests for simple possession.

• This week it was announced that Oregon will be expunging the old records of marijuana offenders, along with their new legalization plan. It’s a tricky deal and we’ll tell you how.

• Members of the Florida Republican Party conducted a secret meeting to lay out a plan to unseat Congresswoman Corrine Brown through redistricting. The plan – spearheaded by Florida State Rep. Janet Adkins – would pack inmates/felons who are ineligible to vote into the 5th Congressional District. As lawmakers and GOP activists in the meeting were secretly plotting against Brown, they were also secretly being recorded. We’ll play it for you tonight.

• Today on New Abolitionists Radio we examine the state that inspired our investigations and studies. A state that has been charged with gross constitutional violations and unlawful acts by its courts, governing body and police departments. Where the extortion is so blatant that the city asked the police to increase revenues and 33,000 outstanding arrest warrants, or an astonishing 26 per resident are issued in one city alone.A state proven to be racist and discriminatory up to and including murdering unarmed civilians in cold blood. Like Mike Brown and Kajeme Powell. THE STATE which brought out national guards, tanks and tear gas on civilians protesting their violated rights as human beings. THE STATE which was so egregious that it started a series of national movements. Today we take it home and show you that this state is truly represented by the uncovered nightmares of a key city Missouri is #Ferguson

• This week’s Rider of the 21st Century Underground Railroad is Reginald “Reggie” Griffin, 53, was sentenced to death for the July 12, 1983 stabbing of James Bausley in a yard at the Moberly Correctional Center (then known as the Missouri Training Center for Men). In August 2011, the Missouri Supreme Court vacated Griffin’s conviction after finding the state had withheld evidence related to another prisoner who was likely involved in the murder. The charges were dropped in October 2013 after prosecutors indicated they did not have sufficient evidence to convict him.

• Our Abolitionist in profile is Frederick Starr Jr. (1826-1867),

Are “Americans” Comfortable With Prisons For Profits & Modern Slavery?

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On the anniversary of the passing of The Fugitive Slave Laws, Senator Bernie Sanders released legislation to ban private for profit prisons from the US. The “Justice Is Not For Sale” Act. The 1st presidential candidate or sitting president to have done so since the birth of privately owned corporate prisons some 45 years ago and the 1st to try and legislatively end the practice of selling people on the open market since Abraham Lincoln. We consider this a major victory in our efforts to end modern slavery in America. You’ll hear about to hear it word for word in a moment.

• We have a clip from an interview with Noam Chomsky that we want you to hear. It helps explain why we need such legislation and we need it now.

• Similar to the Annie Duhkan case Hundreds of criminal cases in Oregon are being reevaluated after accusations that forensic analyst Nika Larsen of the Oregon State Police Laboratory stole drugs she tested. We’ll give you the info.

• A car chase turned deadly in Northern San Bernardino on Friday, when police shot and killed an unarmed man from a chopper. Yes. Like Mutual of Omaha. Like a big game hunter. We’ll share the story later.

• In what we consider another abolitionist victory, a delegation of the human-rights arm of the Organization of American States received an earful Monday from alleged victims of police abuse in Miami-Dade County, during the first leg of a fact-finding mission into racial discrimination and police violence in the U.S.

• A panel of activists, researchers, community members, and other volunteers on Monday unveiled a new report with 189 “calls to action” to address the scourge of racial inequity in and around St. Louis, Missouri, illuminated by a year of protests following the police shooting death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown last August. Yohanan has the details

• We skipped it last week so let me ask again. What state did not actually ratify the flawed 13th amendment until 2013? What states longest running commissioner of prisons facing prison himself for using the entire states corrections system as his own personal money maker? What state has had federal judges call their juvenile detention centers “Cesspools of unconstitutional violations?” Where were the very last plantation chattel slaves in America freed from? The answer is Mississippi. Tonight we show that Mississippi is #Ferguson.

• This week’s Rider of the 21st Century Underground Railroad is Michelle Dawn Murphy who was 17 years old when she was convicted of first degree murder involving her own child in November 1995. She was freed in May 2014 based on DNA evidence and was exonerated four months later when Harris declined to retry her because of insufficient evidence.

• Our Abolitionist in profile is Anna Murray Douglass (1813-1882) who is best known as the first wife of black abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Expect all of that and more tonight on New Abolitionists Radio.

Modern Abolitionism w/ Muhiyyidin D’baha & Christopher Irvin

We have a special program tonight featuring two incredibly active and powerful voices from guests who also happen to be New Abolitionists.

Muhiyyidin D’baha will be on shortly. He is a lead organizer in the Charleston, SC chapter of BLM, a social activists and an abolitionist. He’s on the ground and on location across America’s rebellion hot spots. He’ll be featured in an upcoming PBS documentary which tapes this weekend. Muhiyyidin and I have had some incredibly memorable experiences together over the past year and tonight he shares his insights with us and you.

Our second guest will be Christopher Irvin. Abolitionist, Social activist, human rights advocate, a lobbyist on behalf of post sentence prisoners’ rights and a City Council candidate in Baltimore. MD.

• We’ve also got a few big stories on our list and if time allows we’ll try and squeeze them in. Be sure to follow us in real time on our facebook page for links to the articles we’ll discuss.

• Here’s a few questions. What state did not even bother to ratify the flawed 13th amendment until 2013? What states longest running commissioner of prisons is in prison himself for using the entire states prison system as his own personal money maker? What state has had federal judges call their juvenile detention centers “Cesspools of unconstitutional violations?” The answer is Mississippi. Tonight we show that Mississippi is #Ferguson.

• This week’s Rider of the 21st Century Underground Railroad is 34-year-old Jarrett Adams who was incarcerated after a rape conviction in Wisconsin at 17. With help from the Wisconsin Innocence Project, Adams was exonerated after 10 years in prison.

• Our Abolitionist in profile is Anna Murray Douglass (1813-1882) who is best known as the first wife of black abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

If you are convinced that slavery was never abolished in the USA and you want to join with other abolitionists, join the group Move To Abolish 21st Century Slavery & Human Trafficking.

NYPD punishes cops who will not practice racism on the job

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Tune in for two hours of news, information and commentary on 21st Century Slavery and human trafficking. September 9th 2015:

• More than two years after a class action lawsuit exposed the quota policy behind the NYPD’s rampant use of stop-and-frisk, new lawsuits filed this week allege the system requiring officers to make a certain number of arrests and issue a specified number of tickets and summons, is still in effect. And officers of color are threatened and punished for speaking out against it.

• More than 2,000 criminal cases in Baltimore could be thrown out as a result of a retrial motion accusing the state’s attorney’s office and police of “deliberate and willful misrepresentation” of their methods of evidence collection—and attorneys say there may be many more such cases.

• Baltimore officials have reached a $6.4 million settlement with the family of Freddie Gray, an agreement they say is the right step for a city still recovering from riots and demonstrations sparked by the 25-year-old’s death from an injury suffered in police custody.

• If you’re looking to make some money, try locking up toddlers. One for-profit prison company has found that incarcerating infants, toddlers, children, and mothers—as long as they’re undocumented immigrants—is a great way to boost their revenue by upward of $49 million over the previous year..

• Black men have been killed by police in California at eight times the rate of other residents over the past decade, according to records released under the first in a series of new state initiatives to disclose data on the use of deadly force by law enforcement.

• A two billion dollar DOC budget with over 15 thousand employees. More than 100,000 people in jails, prisons and under DOJ supervision. In our Ferguson is America series, Tonight we show how Michigan is #Ferguson.

• This week’s Rider of the 21st Century Underground Railroad is Bobby Johnson. A 16 year old boy with an IQ of 69 against a homicide detective who claimed a 100% success rate framed him and forced him into a confession. In July 2007, Johnson pled guilty to murder and was sentenced to 38 years in prison. On September 2, 2015, New Haven State’s Attorney Michael Dearington filed a motion to vacate Johnson’s conviction after it was found that critical evidence had been supressed. On September 4, 2015, the motion was granted, the charge against Johnson was dismissed and he was released.

• Our Abolitionist in profile is Reverend James William Charles Pennington. 1807 – 1870. Educator, clergyman, orator, author, and abolitionist. New Abolitionists Radio seeks to educate listeners to the glaring fact that slavery was never abolished and is still practiced by the state and federal governments constituting the United States of America along with multi-national corporations.

COINTELPRO Media Attacks on BLM

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September 2nd 2015:

 • The Black Lives Matter movement is facing a string of concentrated ad hominem attacks. We’ll question why this is so from an historical and abolitionists perspective and offer our opinions.

 • Brooklyn’s own freedom fighter Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson is at it again. The Brooklyn district attorney’s office has found a smoking-gun email that blows up a senior prosecutor’s sworn claim that for years she couldn’t find a key piece of evidence in a murder conviction that was being appealed. Because that Ruddy Quezada, who has served more than 23 years in prison may gain his freedom.

 • Jamycheal Mitchell, arrested by police in Portsmouth, Virginia, has been found dead in jail after spending almost four months behind bars without bail for stealing groceries worth $5. We’ll talk about the details.

 • In a new article Ring Of Fire Radio said: "For the tycoons who have invested in the prison industry, it has been like finding a pot of gold. They don’t have to worry about strikes or paying unemployment insurance, vacations or comp time. All of their workers are full-time, and never arrive late or are absent because of family problems; moreover, if they don’t like the pay of 25 cents an hour and refuse to work, they are locked up in isolation cells." The new abolitionists will expand on this phenomenon of prison slave labor.

 • As of late we’ve seen right wing racist media parade out their champion slavecatcher Sheriff David A. Clarke, Jr of Milwaukee, Wisconsin as an “expert” and a mouthpiece for white supremacy. We’ve had to do this before and we’ll do it again. Let’s talk about Sheriff “black lies matter” and his city of Milwaukee.

 • As you know every week we do our research on a state and it's connection to the Prisons (private and federal), DOC budgets, Parole, Probation, Juvenile detention, Population by race, and State Rates of Incarceration By Race and Ethnicity. We call it the America is ‪#‎Ferguson‬ Series. Tonight on New Abolitionists Radio we expose the truth behind the state of Wisconsin. What they are doing, who they are doing it to and why. You will not believe your eyes or ears. Wisconsin is #Ferguson

 • This week’s Rider of the 21st Century Underground Railroad is Jeff Mizanskey of Jefferson City, MO. After 21 years behind bars for a marijuana-related crime, Jeff became a free man Tuesday.

 • Our Abolitionist in profile is Osborne Perry Anderson (1830–1871). An African-American abolitionist and the only surviving African-American member of John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry,

Expect all of that and more tonight on New Abolitionists Radio. New Abolitionists Radio seeks to educate listeners to the glaring fact that slavery was never abolished and is still practiced by the state and federal governments constituting the United States of America along with multi-national corporations.

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