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Your guide to Proposition 6: Ending forced prison labor
LA Times | July 8, 2024
Introducing the 2024 California ballot propositions. Here’s what they would do.
The Sacramento Bee | July 5, 2024
California Legislature OKs ‘End Slavery’ Act Thursday, Voters Will Vote on It in November
The Davis Vanguard | June 28, 2024
Californians will decide — in 2024 — whether to ban slavery. What will the measure do?
CalMatters | June 27, 2024
California Voters to Weigh Proposal to Ban Forced Prison Labor in State Constitution
US News | June 27, 2024
Californians will vote on slavery ban in November
Politico | June 27, 2024
Opinion: End Legal Slavery in the United States
New York Times | June 19, 2024
Inmates challenge motion to dismiss in Alabama forced labor federal lawsuit
Alabama Reflector | June 10, 2024
State senate approves constitutional amendment banning involuntary servitude — except for prisoners
Concord Monitor | May 15, 2024
Bill outlawing slavery gets senate hearing
Manchester Ink Link | March 29, 2024
AI Resurrects Abraham Lincoln To Fight For Criminal Justice Reform
Forbes | February 14, 2024
California reignites efforts to end forced labor in prisons
San Francisco Chronicle | June 12, 2024

Badges & incidents - slavery in practice

Texas’ Plantation Prisons: Inside a 200-year history of forced labor shrouded in secrecy
Texas Observer | July 15, 2024
Press Release: Powerful Evidence of Involuntary Labor in Colorado’s Prisons Comes to Light in Plaintiffs’ Request for Class Certification
Towards Justice | July 11, 2024
Even In Progressive States Like New York, And Even Today, Slavery Is Stylish
NewsOne | July 4, 2024
Judge Orders Changes to Louisiana Prison Labor Program Likened to ’19th Century Slavery’
The Appeal | July 3, 2024
Mississippi’s Lifetime Felony Voting Ban Unconstitutional, Appeals Court Rules
Mississippi Free Press | August 4, 2023
Ferguson, Missouri, Agrees to Pay $4.5 Million to Settle ‘Debtors’ Prison’ Lawsuit
Associated Press | February 27, 2024

Our Blog

Savannah Eldrige in front of the Texas State Capitol and the New Texas African American Monument
Spotlighting Organizers, May 2023
Lead Organizer Savannah Eldrige & Abolish Slavery Virginia Organizer Amber Phelps talk about what got them into this work.
National Coalition Launches to Abolish Constitutional Slavery and Involuntary Servitude in America
The Abolish Slavery National Network (ASNN) today announced the launch of a nationwide effort to remove exceptions for slavery and involuntary servitude...
How Colorado became the first state to abolish slavery AND involuntary servitude
When Colorado became the first state in the union to abolish slavery from its constitution last people were shocked it hadn’t been done sooner. Many weren’t even aware that slavery was still legal.
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Max Parthas, Co-Director of State Operations

Max Parthas is an internationally recognized Spoken Word Artist and American Slavery Abolitionist. In addition to numerous awards for his art, he is the recipient of the Missouri CURE Marc Taylor Activism Award, the Will Bell Humanitarian Award, and the “In The Spirit of Malcom X'' award from MX Media. 

Max is the current Acting Director for the Paul Cuffee Abolitionist Center in Sumpter, SC., Co-Director of State Operations for the Abolish Slavery National Network. Abolishslavery.us. and Co-host/Executive producer of Abolition Today (a unique online modern- slavery abolition episodic master class with an international audience.) abolitiontoday.org