Ranked #1
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
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29mins
Ranked #2
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
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28mins
Ranked #3
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
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26mins
Ranked #4
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
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23mins
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Ranked #5
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
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29mins
Ranked #6
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
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23mins
Ranked #7
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
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29mins
Ranked #8
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
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26mins
Ranked #9
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
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30mins
Ranked #10
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
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16mins
Ranked #11
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
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31mins
Ranked #12
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
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33mins
Ranked #13
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
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25mins
Ranked #14
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
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28mins
Ranked #15
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
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29mins
Ranked #16
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
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28mins
Ranked #17
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
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11mins
Ranked #18
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
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15mins
Ranked #19
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
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30mins
Ranked #20
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
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31mins
