Episodes
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...
Published 09/09/21
Published 09/09/21
  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:...
Published 08/16/21
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,...
Published 08/09/21
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 @ 1.30pm EST. For more info on how to...
Published 07/14/21
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...
Published 07/30/20
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...
Published 05/11/20
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. Black Talk Media Project desperately needs your help to continue BTRN's 2020 media operation so please...
Published 05/09/20
https://youtu.be/ELq9idQ5Jb8 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...
Published 05/08/20
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...
Published 05/04/20
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...
Published 04/18/20
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. Subscribe To New Abolitionists Radio For Future Podcasts
Published 04/13/20
In this episode of New Abolitionists Radio, Tag leads us in an interview with Sirajuddin Basir 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 Basir also gave a troubling but not...
Published 04/13/20
Make Tax-deductible Donations To Black Talk Media Project 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...
Published 03/29/20
;new advadsCfpAd( 35245 ); 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...
Published 03/23/20
  Make Tax-deductible Donations To Black Talk Media Project . 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...
Published 03/15/20
;new advadsCfpAd( 35245 ); 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...
Published 03/09/20
;new advadsCfpAd( 35245 ); 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...
Published 02/16/20
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...
Published 02/09/20
;new advadsCfpAd( 35245 ); 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...
Published 02/03/20
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,...
Published 01/27/20
;new advadsCfpAd( 35245 ); Tonight on New Abolitionists Radio, the first broadcast of 2020, we have an information pack program including a criminal justice case we would like to once again bring to your attention. This podcast was founded as a public awareness tool around the 13th Amendment and how it does not abolish slavery outright but has a provision that creates prison slavery. While the corporate media pundits on CNN is distracting its viewers with he said / she said conversation...
Published 01/19/20
Prison abolitionists are seizing on the aggrieved words of Brandt Jean, 18 yr old brother of Botham Jean who was murdered by former cop Amber Guyger, to push for the abolition of prisons and go as far as to say Guyger should not go to prison. Tune in for live programming and pre-recorded content distributed by the Black Talk Radio Network. All programming is supported in part by your donations to the non-profit new media organization Black Talk Media Project and is tax-deductible. The...
Published 10/07/19
Former Dallas Police Officer aka Slave Catcher Amber Guyger is now a convicted murderer and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. While most have been distracted by public spectacles of forgiveness by Botham Jean's little brother in a moment of emotionality and grief, there are some serious issues connected to this case and its apparent to me that the Dallas PD history is harboring racists and violent slave catchers. I would argue that the actions of some of the Black cops connected to the...
Published 10/03/19
Police oppression in the USA is not an individual racism thing unless a lot of these Black cops are anti-black but it is more of an institutional problem connected to 21 st Century Slavery and Human Trafficking. Program Notes. New Abolitionists Radio is an award-winning podcast 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...
Published 09/26/19