The news of Derek Chauvin's conviction and the shooting of Ma'Khia Bryant by a police officer in Ohio both hit hard last week; these events have reignited my thinking about how I can take action to improve outcomes for Black and brown and poor people when they encounter police or become ensnared in the justice system. With that in mind, I decided to rebroadcast this interview with Ashley Edwards about why the cash bail system is a worthy place to put our activist attention and how confronting it can keep literally millions of people safer from the abuses of incarceration. It's not abolition, but it's a start. (Original show notes below.)
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Bailout funds have been in the news for weeks now, but how do they fit into the bigger picture of the criminal justice and cash bail systems? Ashley Edwards of MGM Bailout joins Feminist Hotdog this week to talk about the racism inherent in the cash bail system, the predatory lending practices that surround it, how listeners can work to abolish cash bail, and why we should view this as a feminist issue.
Things We Talked About on This Episode
FH S4E14: Looking Forward, Looking Back
FH S4E12: Getting Your Sh*t Together with Cynthia Wright
FH S4E11: Suicide is a Feminist Issue with Sara Scofield
FH S4E10: Abolitionist Socialist Feminism with Zillah Eisenstein
FH S4E9: Women and the Far Right with Heidi Beirich
FH S4E8: Speaking Light Into Abortion with Amanda Star Kingsley
FH S4E7: Calling Each Other In with Loretta J. Ross
FH S4E6: Fifty Feminist Mantras with Amelia Hruby
FH S4E5: The Social Justice Doula with Lutze B. Segu
FH S4E4: Making an LGBTQ Family with Robin Hopkins and Jaimie Kelton
FH S4E3: Radical Magick with Dr. Kate Tomas
FH S4E2: Caring for Your Soul and Mindset with Jocellyn Harvey
FH S4E1: Racism and Recovery with Jessica Hoppe
FH S3E13: Confronting the Cash Bail System with Ashley Edwards
FH S3E12: Feminism and Policing Abolition
FH S3E11: Black Lives Matter
FH S3E10: Period Poverty and Menstrual Equity
FH S3E9: Blast from the Past
FH S3E8: Reading for Liberation
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