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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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
Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao has released her first budget plan for the city. Joining us to discuss is Rev. Jeremy J. McCants, a Faith Rooted Organizer for East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE), an organization committed to fighting for equitable and economic power in the Bay Area; as well as a minister at … 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 mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature … 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
Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and … Continued
A San Francisco study shows that the City’s covid-focused policy to house homeless folks in hotels helped those folks access more primary healthcare with fewer emergency room needs, and also helped get access to longer term housing. Our guests are Dr Elizabeth Abbs, one of the authors of the study, who is a primary care … Continued
A new New York law temporarily removes the statute of limitations on sexual assault. Women incarcerated in New York prisons are taking advantage of it to bravely report sexual assault in the state’s prisons. We speak with Molly Hagan, a writer and photographer in New York, whose latest piece for The Appeal is called New York’s … Continued
A new official report from Nova Scotia, commissioned after a 2020 mass shooting, that suggests that police should become “secondary” in some emergency response situations, and that emergency mental healthcare needs to lead the way in the process of defunding the police. We are joined by El Jones is a poet, journalist, academic, and abolitionist … Continued
