Final Straw: RAM-NYC on Community Abolitionist Bail Fund

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This week we spoke with members of The Base, which is an anarchist space in New York City, about the newly formed Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement NYC Community Bail Fund. In this episode we talk about the concept of bail and its origins, what folks have happen to them from the moment of arrest to the moment bail is set, what it means to have an explicitly abolitionist bail fund, the intricacies of the corporate bail bond system, and many many other topics! We end with a surprise follow up question to our previous interview about Burn Down the American Plantation, a text which our guests authored and put out earlier in 2017. To hear that previous interview, you can go to our blogpost about it and listen for free!

RAM-NYC is proud to announce the launch of our community bail fund with the successful release of one person. We intend to release one person a month & begin laying revolutionary infrastructure that meets peoples needs.

To help us continue donate here:https://t.co/gksLKzaJly pic.twitter.com/5ilOMvoOxg

— RevAbolitionMov (@RevAbolitionist) December 5, 2017

To support this initiative and for more information, you can go to fundedjustice.com.

To connect with our guests, you can email them at [email protected] or search that name on any of the social media platforms commonly in use (Twitter: @RevAbolitionNYC , Facebook: RevAbolitionistNYC )

Further reading on our current bail system is as follows:

From the New York Times

From The Nation