Reclaiming Safety (with Angela Burton)
Season 3, Episode 1 of The upEND Podcast
Welcome to Season 3 of The upEND Podcast where we’ll be answering all of your burning questions about family policing abolition.
If we get rid of the child welfare system, what will happen when children are harmed? Are abolitionists saying that child abuse is okay?
Reclaiming Safety is upEND’s new anthology series answering important, frequently asked questions and proposing effective, humane responses to crises that occur in our communities. To introduce the series, we talk to the editor of Reclaiming Safety, Angela Burton.
About Our Guest:
Angela Burton is a renowned community lawyer, scholar, and public servant with over thirty years of experience advocating for the rights of parents and children in the family policing system, commonly known as the child welfare system. Her commitment to social justice is driven by a deep understanding of the systemic inequities faced by vulnerable families. Angela has consistently fought to protect the human, constitutional, and civil rights of marginalized individuals, ensuring their voices are heard, their experiences valued, and their expertise centered in catalyzing and implementing change.
Really compelling conversation about reimagining safety outside punitive systems. Burton's focus on community-driven crisis response definitley challenges how we've been conditioned to think about protection. I've seen communitys rally around families in ways that formal systems never could, which makes the abolitionist framework feel alot more practicle than people realize.