David Olney - Millionaire (Apartment Sessions)

Please consider donating to a bail fund near you https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/nbfn-directory and/or to https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org/ and/or https://www.innocenceproject.org/

If you'd like to learn more about the prison abolition movement, please watch this video by Ruth Wilson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HWqYANmWLY

This video was recorded in October 2019 in front of the Atlanta Penitentiary, a notoriously corrupt federal prison which houses almost 2,000 inmates and detainees.

“Millionaire” speaks hauntingly to the state of rampant inequity that has been endemic to our modern world and our country since their inceptions.

The glorification and celebrity of the ultra-wealthy (see: number-based epithets like “millionaire” and “billionaire” that inherently deify) leads many to simultaneously revile and chase this kind of inflated influence.

This interwoven web of big (often inherited) money, a profit-over-people mindset, and the criminalization of poverty has led to a for-profit carceral system that is extractive, punitive, and particularly harmful to black and brown lives.

An insidious cash bail system further centralizes the issue of wealth, allowing white collar criminals to pay their way out of jail and leaves those who have committed nonviolent survivalist offenses to sit in jail for exorbitant amounts of time awaiting trial.

Prisons as they exist in the U.S. today (and perhaps in all forms) are actively harmful facilitators of recidivism, racism, corruption, and the legacy of slave labor. A massive overhaul of the rehabilitative paradigm is the only way forward.

Season 3, Episode 16 - Millionaire (David Olney)

Music and Lyrics by David Olney
Arranged by Drew Krasner

Liam Lewis - vocals, mandolin

Courtney Swain - vocals
Jessica Kion - vocals
Ethan Crystal - vocals
Luke McGinnis - vocals
Evan Tyor - vocals
Ben Marcus - vocals

Jon Chen - cello
Sam Quiggins - cello

Drew Krasner - tenor sax
Jared Yee - tenor sax
Mike Rilli - trombone

Ben Levin - electric guitar
Ian Anderson - acoustic guitar
Andrea DeMarcus - bass
Kevin Grossman - drums

Engineered by Evan Tyor and Kevin Grossman
Mixed and Mastered by Evan Tyor
Filmed by Liz Maney and Kelvin Alfonso
Video Edited by Liz Maney

Apartment Sessions Logo Animation by Brian Plautz
Session Title Handwriting by Liam Lewis
Penitentiary Illustration by Ben Marcus
Outro Music by Evan Tyor

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Thank you to Dave and Lisa Strohauer, Eric Damn Belt, and everyone at Earthshaking music for the years of support, thanks to Dave Kirslis for the kit, thanks to Taylor Chicoine for the gear.

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Filmed in Atlanta, Georgia in September 2019.

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