Law & Disorder exposes the cracks in our system, agitates for resistance and collectively builds a new world where all of us thrive — all through an Oakland-based abolitionist lens that centers Black experience, movement-building and art. Hosted by Cat Brooks. Produced by Jesse Strauss.
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ICE has arrested and detained US citizens as part of the agency’s militarized sweeps to capture undocumented immigrants. Sam Levin, correspondent for The Guardian and Sergio Perez, executive director of the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Affairs join today’s show. You can read Sam’s article for the Guardian here https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/05/us-citizens-jailed-ice-los-angeles — Subscribe to this … Continued
We speak with Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, Oakland’s Poet Laureate, cultural architect, and an advocate for the arts as a tool for social transformation. Known as the “wordslanger,” Dr. Nzinga has spent decades building spaces where Black creativity thrives and where the stories, struggles, and triumphs of the community are given voice. In this conversation, Dr. … Continued
Despite over a hundred deadly acts by far-right militants since the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, and the far right’s attempts to obstruct transfer of power to a duly elected president on January 6, the FBI continues to deprioritize investigations into white supremacist violence, instead targeting marginalized groups such as environmentalists and Black … Continued
During the past seven decades, Palestine has been sealed from the Arab world and shattered into fragmented and coded areas: 1948 area, 1967 area, Jerusalem, West Bank, Gaza, and A, B and C areas within the West Bank. Each area is ruled by different laws, including different roads and permits that control the mobility of … Continued
Our Resistance in Residence artist this week is Candace Johnson, a multi-hyphenated artist and creator of the solo show Scat-ter Brain, The Music of ADHD, playing July 19 – September 13 at San Francisco’s Marsh Theater as part of their POC Mental Health Awareness series. You can get tickets to see Candace’s show Scat-ter Brain … Continued
On today’s show, we hear selections from Pulitzer-prize winning author Chris Hedges in celebration of the release of his most recent book, A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine at the First Congregational Church of Oakland on Thursday, May 29th with host Cat Brooks. FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Pledge $120 and receive Chris Hedges new book, A … Continued
Today we speak with Eliana Rubin who is an anti-Zionist organizer, somatic practitioner, full spectrum doula and author of the book Taking the State out of the Body: A Guide to Embodied Resistance to Zionism. Fund Drive Special! For a pledge of $110 you’ll receive a copy of Taking the State out of the Body: A … Continued
We also speak with Rehab Nazzal, a Palestinian artist and author who lives as a refugee in Toronto. Her latest book is called Driving in Palestine. Fund Drive Special — Pledge a $300 donation and receive: Driving in Palestine is a research-creation project by artist Rehab Nazzal, who explores the politics of mobility she encountered … Continued
On today’s Palestine Post, we speak with Raed Jarrar. Raed is an Arab-American political advocate based in Washington, DC. He is currently the advocacy director for the organization Democracy in the Arab World Now – or DAWN — 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/
Despite reform efforts that have grown in scope and intensity over the last two decades, the machine of American mass incarceration continues to flourish. In this hour, we’re joined by formerly incarcerated activist, essayist, and organizer Emile Suotonye DeWeaver, discussing his book Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine, reflecting on his 21 years of incarceration, what it … Continued
