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Rustbelt Abolition Radio

Rustbelt Abolition Radio (RAR) is an abolitionist movement-building media project. Full episode transcripts are available on our website.

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Beyond Policing

Beyond Policing

In this episode we take a critical look at the liberal discourse of police reform, which has increasingly gained promine... Read more

9 Oct 2017

29mins

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Native Resistance and the Carceral State

Native Resistance and the Carceral State

Nick Estes identifies the anti-Indian origins of the carceral state within the U.S. settler colonial project and argues ... Read more

11 Jul 2018

28mins

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On Carceral Capitalism

On Carceral Capitalism

This episode features Jackie Wang and her recently released collection of essays titled “Carceral Capitalism.” She provi... Read more

11 Apr 2018

26mins

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Abolitionist Study with Steve Wilson

Abolitionist Study with Steve Wilson

Black and queer abolitionist writer Stevie Wilson, held captive by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, was recen... Read more

22 Nov 2019

23mins

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The Riots Will Continue

The Riots Will Continue

In this episode we examine the expansion of the carceral state as a response to anti-racist movements and urban rebellio... Read more

13 Mar 2017

29mins

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Carceral Ableism and Disability Justice

Carceral Ableism and Disability Justice

In this episode: Carceral Ableism and Disability Justice, we explore the ways in which the framework of “carceral ableis... Read more

10 Jan 2018

23mins

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State Repression and Movement Defense

State Repression and Movement Defense

This episode turns to questions of political repression, movement defense, and solidarity with political prisoners - que... Read more

13 Nov 2017

29mins

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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments Feat. Saidiyah Hartman

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments Feat. Saidiyah Hartman

Saidiya Hartman speaks about her latest book, Wayward Lives: Beautiful Experiments Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval... Read more

24 Apr 2019

26mins

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Abolishing Electronic Incarceration

Abolishing Electronic Incarceration

In this episode, “Abolishing Electronic Incarceration”, co-producer a Maria speaks with Myaisha Hayes and James Kilgore ... Read more

13 Jun 2018

30mins

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Bonus: Education, Fascism, and Abolition: A conversation with George Ciccariello Maher

Bonus: Education, Fascism, and Abolition: A conversation with George Ciccariello Maher

In this bonus episode, we speak with Dr. George Ciccariello-Maher, Associate Professor of Politics and Global Studies at... Read more

7 Nov 2017

16mins

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The Death Penalty, Sovereignty, and Abolition

The Death Penalty, Sovereignty, and Abolition

Lisa Guenther, currently a professor of philosophy at Queen’s University in so-called Ontario, Canada, deconstructs the ... Read more

29 May 2019

31mins

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Abolish Risk Assessment

Abolish Risk Assessment

"Predictive" instruments are common currency within the carceral reform movement. In this episode we speak with three ab... Read more

28 Feb 2019

33mins

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Riots, Crisis, and Prisons

Riots, Crisis, and Prisons

In this episode, we speak with Joshua Clover, author of Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings and professor of li... Read more

14 Nov 2018

25mins

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Prison Labor and Industrial Penology

Prison Labor and Industrial Penology

Charlie Bright speaks about the re-articulations of carceral narratives: from the era of Fordism through discourses on m... Read more

26 Jun 2019

28mins

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Border as Method

Border as Method

In this episode we speak with Sandro Mezzadra, who has written extensively about borders and migration, such as in a boo... Read more

9 May 2018

29mins

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Out but not free: Surviving after Women’s Prison

Out but not free: Surviving after Women’s Prison

This episode features Karmyn, a writer and artist who was discharged from Michigan’s Women's Huron Valley Correctional F... Read more

14 Mar 2018

28mins

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Bonus: From Attica to Kinross - An extended interview with Heather Ann Thompson

Bonus: From Attica to Kinross - An extended interview with Heather Ann Thompson

In this special bonus segment of Rustbelt Abolition Radio, we return to renowned historian Heather Ann Thompson as she e... Read more

3 Apr 2017

11mins

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Ohio Prisoners Speak! A Year After the 2018 Nationwide Prison Strike

Ohio Prisoners Speak! A Year After the 2018 Nationwide Prison Strike

In this special bonus episode, released on the anniversary of the 2018 nationwide prison strike, we speak with two Ohio ... Read more

9 Sep 2019

15mins

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Pill or Punishment: Involuntary Medication at a Michigan's Women's Prison

Pill or Punishment: Involuntary Medication at a Michigan's Women's Prison

On January 2019, more than two thousand women confined at Michigan’s only women’s prison were put in quarantine. The qua... Read more

27 Mar 2019

30mins

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Anti-Fascism and Carceral State feat. Lorenzo Ervin and JoNina Abron-Ervin

Anti-Fascism and Carceral State feat. Lorenzo Ervin and JoNina Abron-Ervin

In this special bonus episode, we present a conversation between True Leap Press and Lorenzo Ervin and JoNina Abron-Ervi... Read more

17 Oct 2018

31mins

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