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Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

5. Keep Your Community Safe, Abolish Your Local Prison

Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts

Society & Culture

4.8783 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Madeline and Kenna talk about prison abolition, the 13th amendment, and who profits off of our fear!

PATREON:

https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared

SOURCES:

https://tinyurl.com/4wym9hep

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/scans/e199912.htm

https://www.history.com/news/bacons-rebellion-jamestown-colonial-america

https://www.nps.gov/articles/quakerpetition.htm

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https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/black-codes

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https://tinyurl.com/mn5tudxp

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https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/csj-sjc/jsp-sjp/rp01_1-dr01_1/p5.html

FURTHER READING:

https://www.akpress.org/areprisonsobsolete.html

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1664-we-do-this-til-we-free-us

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeQmVpnRMYE

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2426-the-end-of-policing


Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast. I'm your host, Madeline. And I'm your co-host, Kenna.

0:29.3

Kenna, today I wanted to start by asking you, what's your favorite article of clothing right now?

0:34.0

My favorite article of clothing right now? Oh my gosh, now I am drawing a major blank.

0:42.3

Oh my goodness, because it changes just so much from day to day.

0:49.3

I go through phases where I'll have one t-shirt that is like my absolute favorite and then

0:55.4

it'll be like a you know goate-mesh shirt I got years ago and then it'll be um terrible new metal

1:04.5

shirt and then it'll be some sort of I don't know like weird skirt with like a cargo pocket. Oh, wait. Lately, it's been this

1:13.5

Miss 60 skirt from like 2005 that just has everything from 2005 that's like the button is too big.

1:20.9

The pockets are too low. Like, it's like next level. Okay. So if I were to steal that skirt from you that skirt you love so much

1:32.4

for all of its 2005ness would you say an appropriate response would be for me to spend the next

1:38.6

six months of my life being tortured and abused every day in inhumane conditions with little

1:42.6

to no contact the the outside world?

1:46.2

No, because I've had my favorite articles of clothing stolen or had to sell them for money,

1:52.9

and I've recovered. Right. Okay. What if I got like mad at you and then I just like punched you

1:59.0

in the face right now. Would you

2:00.8

want me to spend the next three years of my life being tortured and abused every day in

2:05.4

humane conditions with little to no contact to the outside world? Uh, no, but you're asking

2:09.4

the wrong person because I'd be like, I probably deserve being punched in the face. You don't.

2:13.7

I would have probably actually, like, apologize. apologize and be like, I'm sorry.

2:18.3

No.

2:19.9

Well,

2:20.5

the point I'm getting at,

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