On this episode, we speak with Ricardo Garcia Acosta  and Omar Farmer, the outgoing chair and alternate chairs of the Oakland Police Commission. The Oakland City Council rejected their reappointments to the Police Commission last month. — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: [email protected] Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/

Flock Surveillance refers to the camera and data systems developed by Flock Safety, a private technology company that provides automated license plate recognition  and vehicle-tracking networks to police departments, homeowners’ associations, and private businesses across the U.S. This system enables mass tracking of drivers and data sharing across police and private networks without sufficient oversight, … Continued

British Muslim journalist and political commentator Sami Hamdi was detained at San Francisco International Airport last week by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. We speak with Zahra Billoo from the Council on Arab Islamic Relations (CAIR). — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: [email protected] Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/

This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is Tiny aka “PovertySkola,” a formerly unhoused, incarcerated, revolutionary journalist, lecturer, poet, visionary, teacher and the co-founder of POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE/PoorNewsNetwork. Tiny is releasing a new film that will debut this week.  Crushing Wheelchairs is a powerful new social justice film that follows a group of poor people living … Continued

Sudan’s brutal two-year war has entered a new phase. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has seized control of the entire Darfur region, ousting the Sudanese army from its last stronghold. The conflict has killed over 40,000 people and displaced more than 14 million, creating a humanitarian crisis. The capture of el-Fasher, North Darfur’s capital, raises … Continued

Hurricane Melissa is set to pummel Jamaica as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, the strongest to lash Jamaica since recordkeeping began 174 years ago. Forecasters said the storm is expected to make landfall early Tuesday and slice diagonally across the island, entering near St. Elizabeth parish in the south and exiting around St. Ann parish … Continued

Hurricane Melissa is set to pummel Jamaica as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, the strongest to lash Jamaica since recordkeeping began 174 years ago. Forecasters said the storm is expected to make landfall early Tuesday and slice diagonally across the island, entering near St. Elizabeth parish in the south and exiting around St. Ann parish … Continued

On today’s Palestine Post, we speak with Tariq Habash.  Tariq is co-founder of A New Policy. He resigned from the U.S. Department of Education in January, 2024 due to the Biden Administration’s policy on Gaza and its unrestricted support for Israel’s aggression against Palestinians. __ Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: [email protected] Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; … Continued