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Is ‘convict labor’ a form of slavery? Five states face ballot vote.
The Christian Science Moniter | October 25, 2022
States are voting to eradicate slavery under any terms, but what about prison work?
NPR | October 25, 2022
Voters in five states have the chance to wipe slavery and indentured servitude off the books
CNN | October 23, 2022
Slavery is on the ballot for voters in 5 US states
AP News | October 22, 2022
Where slavery is on the ballot this November
Axios | October 21, 2022
Five States Are Voting Whether to Outlaw Slavery (Yep, You Read That Right)
Capital B News | October 20, 2022
Vermont voters to decide on closing old slavery loopholes in state constitution
NBC 5 | October 7, 2022
Vermont voters to decide on closing old slavery loopholes in state constitution
NECN - NBC | October 6, 2022
November Brings New Opportunities for Five States to Outlaw Slavery
Glitter Magazine | September 26, 2022
‘It’s an exhaustion of our humanity’: New report details forced prison labor in Texas
Texas Standard | July 6, 2022
“They Force You to Work”
Bolts | June 17, 2022
Prisoners allege forced labor violates Colorado’s anti-slavery law
Colorado Public Radio | February 12, 2022

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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