Twenty-five years ago, in 1998, abolitionist organizers held a conference at UC Berkeley called Critical Resistance to 25-years since the founding of Critical Resistance, an event that led to the creation of the seminal abolitionist movement organization. We’re joined by Mohamed Shehk, National Campaigns & Projects Director with Critical Resistance, to discuss the organization’s history … Continued

Last week in San Francisco, a Walgreens security guard shot and killed 24-year-old Black trans-man Banko Brown over allegations of stealing. San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has decided against pressing charges in the killing. Brown was a long-time member of the Young Women’s Freedom Center – we’re joined by Julia Arroyo, Co-Executive Director of … Continued

A new report from the National Association of Counsel for Children (NACC) finds that kids in the child welfare system aren’t guaranteed legal representation in a dozen states. We are joined by Kim Dvorchak, Executive Director of NACC, and a former defense attorney who represented children in the foster system. Kim joins us from Denver. … Continued

In San Francisco, a city official has on numerous occasions attacked homeless people, and the story only came out after one of the people he attacked hit back in self defense. Joining us to discuss is Jennifer Friedenbach, Executive Director of the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness. —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in … Continued

Sierra snowmelt is threatening significant floods in a Central Valley county that houses a prison and massive agricultural industry, which are all at risk from the flood threat. The current levee system in Corcoran is not up to par, and unease is setting in as fears of flooding could bring intense impacts to communities. Joining … Continued

On today’s show, we’re in conversation with award winning author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah about his brand new book Chain Gang All Stars, a novel imagining a near-future where the prison industrial complex has developed a gruesome and widely popular reality show where prisoners are pitted against each other in gladiator death matches. We talk about … Continued

The complicated legal areas of marijuana legal enforcement in California – we speak with Kate Mishkin, a Los Angeles-based audio producer, journalist, and writer, about her latest piece, published by The Appeal: How California Cops Exploit Legal Gray Areas to Continue Their War on Cannabis. Read Kate Mishkin’s latest article: https://theappeal.org/california-marijuana-cannabis-enforcement-policing/ Check out Kate Mishkin’s … Continued

A new report highlights the experiences those sentenced to death by incarceration in Pennsylvania’s women’s prisons. Joining to discuss her article about it as well as a previous recent report on the ways in which prisons use menstruation as a form of punishment, is Victoria Law, is a freelance journalist and the author of Resistance … Continued