Episodes

  • Immigrant Detention and Deportation

    Immigrant Detention and Deportation
    Nov 22 2021
    On the impact of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) deportation on Maine. With Philip Mantis, Legal Director, Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project, Theresa and Soeun Kim, and Kelly F. Merrill and Reverend Zeb Green from De-ICE Maine.  Learn more about today’s episode at freedomandcaptivity.org.
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  • Confronting Surveillance

    Confronting Surveillance
    Nov 15 2021
    On the Maine Information and Analysis Center (MIAC) and challenging the use of fusion centers, facial recognition technology, and other forms of state surveillance. With Brendan McQuade, Professor of Criminology, University of Southern Maine. Learn more about today’s episode at freedomandcaptivity.org.
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  • Abolition From Within? On abolitionist possibilities within the criminal legal system

    Abolition From Within? On abolitionist possibilities within the criminal legal system
    Nov 8 2021
    With Natasha Irving, District Attorney, District 6, and Tina Nadeau, criminal defense lawyer, Executive Director of Maine Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (MACDL) and moderated by Michael Kebede, Policy Council, ACLU-Maine. Learn more about today’s episode at freedomandcaptivity.org.
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  • “We are the Revolution:” Black P.O.W.E.R’s vision.

    “We are the Revolution:” Black P.O.W.E.R’s vision.
    Nov 1 2021
    On what community-based safety and security should look like. With Mariana Angelo, co-founder of Black Portland Organizers Working to End Racism (known as Black P.O.W.E.R) and moderated by Michael Kebede, Policy Council, ACLU-Maine.
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  • ‘We’re Creating the Next Generation of Broken People’: Parenting and Prison

    ‘We’re Creating the Next Generation of Broken People’: Parenting and Prison
    Oct 25 2021
    On DHHS and how the carceral system impacts families and parenting. With Kayla Kalel, a previously incarcerated person who is currently birthworker with low-income folks who self-identify as being in recovery or using substances, and Wendy Smith, Washington County Community College student, Me-Rap organizer, and naloxone distributor for Maine Access Points in long term recovery from substances and a resident at the Southern Maine Women's Re-entry Center. Moderated by Cait Vaughan, birthworker, childbirth educator, harm reduction organizer, and, with Kayla Kalel, co-founder of the Birth Justice Collective.
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  • ‘Finding Our Courage’: Alternatives to Incarceration for Addressing Harm

    ‘Finding Our Courage’: Alternatives to Incarceration for Addressing Harm
    Oct 18 2021
    With Bruce King, Co-Executive Director, Maine Inside Out, Kels Park, former Policy and Community Advocacy Coordinator, Restorative Justice Institute of Maine, Laura Ligouri, Founder and Executive Director, Mindbridge, and Leo Hylton, Executive Secretary of the Maine State Prison branch of the NAACP and columnist for Mainer. Learn more about today’s episode at freedomandcaptivity.org.
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  • Alternatives to Incarceration: Drug Policy

    Alternatives to Incarceration: Drug Policy
    Oct 11 2021
    On alternatives to incarceration that focus on harm reduction rather than punishment. With Courtney Allen, Policy Director, Maine Recovery Advocacy Project and moderated by Winifred Tate, Professor of Anthropology, Colby College and Director, Maine Drug Policy Lab at Colby College. Learn more about today’s episode at freedomandcaptivity.org.
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  • ‘Why Do We Need To Be Punishing People?’: Abolitionist Feminism and the Last Girl

    ‘Why Do We Need To Be Punishing People?’: Abolitionist Feminism and the Last Girl
    Oct 4 2021
    On the long-term impacts of charges related to sex trafficking. With dee Clarke, Founder, Survivor Speak USA and Samaa Abdurraqib, SUSSA board member and Associate Director, Maine Humanities Council.
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