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Thursday, October 5th, 2023

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Jocelyn Simonson is Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, a former public defender, and the author of Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration. We discuss how certain radical acts of justice challenge the legitimacy of the criminal system and form the underpinning of a new collective legal thought.

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The four pillars of this work comprise of court watching, community bail funds, participatory defense, and people\\u2019s budgets. Bail funds are pulling the rug out from the system\'s justification for what it\'s doing. Defunding the system in this way shows that the combination of carceral and economic forces that we currently use to \\u201cdo justice\\u201d is not inevitable. A big part of the power of these acts of justice is that they\\u2019re done collectively. Abolition has two sides: breaking down and building up. Jocelyn shared that \\u201cwe need to simultaneously decarcerate, stop spending our resources, and start building it out.\\u201d

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Credits:\\xa0

Host: Mila Atmos\\xa0

Guests: Jocelyn Simonson

Executive Producer: Mila Atmos

Producer: Zack Travis