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The Bitchuation Room

Toward Prison Abolition with Jena Friedman & Olayemi Olurin (Ep 160)

The Bitchuation Room

TYT Network

News Commentary, News, Comedy, Government

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Not all progressives agree on police or prison abolition, but the conversation is breaking through to the mainstream. Movement lawyer Olayemi Olurin joins Francesca to discuss the overblown crime narrative and how to begin thinking about both defunding and divesting from the prison industrial complex, and also imagining something different. Also in the room is comedian Jena Friedman, whose new true crime show Indefensible breaks through sensationalized murder stories and with a bit of necessary comedic relief to boot. And Francesca gives her take on the Qatar World Cup in all of its problematic contradictions, plus a BONUS BISH about unprecedented protests in China. Listen/watch here: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom Featuring Jena Friedman, https://twitter.com/JenaFriedman Olayemi Olurin, https://twitter.com/msolurin The Bitchuation Room will be LIVE at SF Sketchfest on Sunday January 22nd and 8pm. Get tickets: https://sfsketchfest2023.sched.com/event/qEKa/the-bitchuation-room The Bitchuation Room Streams LIVE every TUESDAY at 1/4pmEST on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/franifio and Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/franifio Follow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod Get your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com Support The Bitchuation Room by becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchationroom or via Venmo: @TBR-LIVE Cash-App: @TBRLIVE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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the fact that these people are so threatened by defund the police that they need to fight you on it.

0:03.8

Because at the end of the day, if something's not effective, people ignore it.

0:06.5

If it can't pick up traction, if it, if it is, that day would, they would leave it alone.

0:11.4

But the fact that they constantly feel the need to beat us down on it and talk about it and try to discourage people as much as possible if a movement had lost theme for movement was so ineffective they wouldn't talk about it that's just period point point like done. So the fact that there's this

0:24.3

constant effort to quell support or convince people that what they're doing is not worthwhile

0:31.5

tells me that it is. What's going on everybody? Welcome to the Pituation Room Podcast, very live, very here, a little late.

0:55.0

I'll explain why in a bit, but I'm here and super excited to have you guys

1:01.0

so thankful for you to join me in this weekly quest at you know

1:08.0

preserving little space for us just some we time you know what I'm saying? Just to have a little, a few laughs.

1:16.0

Look at how the world's going to hell in a hand basket and then wrap it all up with the game and get the F out of here.

1:23.2

But no, if you are here on YouTube or Twitch, thank you so much for being here,

1:28.0

make sure you are subscribed to this channel and supporting it.

1:30.6

If you are here as a podcast, oh my god, why don't you leave this podcast five stars?

1:35.0

Because we bring you weekly.

1:38.0

Guess like comedian Jenna Friedman who is joining me in a few and Oh, Lyamei O'Luren, who is a movement lawyer, a public defender who's going to be breaking down,

1:49.2

why we should all be prison abolitionists?

1:51.4

Yes, I said it. All right? If this doesn't convert you in the next hour, you lost, you might as well become a cop. No, I kid, but she is so badass when it comes to this topic from her personal experience, from her work, and I'm so, so, so lucky and thankful that she decided to join me today. So remember to like all the like buttons and

2:16.5

click all the click buttons, you know, whatever. And for the bonus, for the patrons, for the Frantifa, I'm going to be doing a solo stream about what's going on in China right now.

2:29.0

There are protests that are breaking out and they are, I believe, arguably very understandable,

2:37.2

but I want to get into it and some of those nuances and some of my thoughts on that.

2:41.6

So make sure you are a patron. Patreon. on that's

2:45.0

so make sure you are a patron.

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