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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In this episode we’re joined by Lateefah Simon, who just announced her election campaign for the 12th Congressional District seat that is being vacated by Barbara Lee. Lateefah Simon is a 25-year veteran organizer and nationally recognized advocate for civil rights and social justice. In 2016 – driven into politics by the tragic murder of … Continued
In this episode we go to Denver to learn about how the FBI infiltrated Black Lives Matter organizing there. Our guest is Trevor Aaronson, journalist and the author of The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism. He is also a contributing writer for The Intercept and the host of a podcast called … Continued
This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of February 13th, 2023. A different take this week, with our host Cat Brooks giving her own commentary on the firing of Oakland Police Chief Leronne Armstrong by Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao. —- This episode featured music by Kofy Brown. Check out her website: https://www.kofybrown.com/ … Continued
Next week is Black Solidarity Week in the Bay Area. We speak with organizer Turha AK, a movement strategist and security expert. He is the founder of Community Ready Corps and a co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project. Check out the Black Solidarity Week website: https://blacksolidarity.org/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org … Continued
The city of San Francisco has paid out over $20 million in police settlements since 2019. Here to discuss is Tim Redmond – founder and editor of 48 hills who has been a political and investigative reporter in San Francisco for more than 30 years. He spent much of that time as executive editor of the … Continued
In 2017, Keita O’Neil was killed by San Francisco Police Officer Christopher Samayoa, and former SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin had filed historic manslaughter charges against the officer. Brooke Jenkins, the current SF District Attorney, who replaced Chesa Boudin last August after a controversial successful recall effort, has dropped those charges and stated that they … Continued
Despite a well-established tradition of studying women in war, we tend to focus on their roles as mothers or carers, as peacemakers, or sometimes as revolutionaries. On today’s show, we’re in conversation with Julia Margaret Zulver, a Marie Curie fellow at Oxford university and the Universidad Nacional Autonoma in Mexico, whose latest book refocuses on … Continued
We encourage our brothers and sisters on the other side of the wall to write in to our show. Occasionally we read those letters on the air. This letter comes to us from San Quentin State Prison. —- Letters from the Inside features music by Michael Louis. Follow him on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tigers_view Subscribe to this … Continued
In the first few days of 2023, the Los Angeles Police Department murdered three people in two days: Takar Smith, Oscar Sanchez and Keenan Anderson. Takar Smith was in the middle of a mental episode when his wife called the non emergency line for help. She was not looking for law enforcement intervention. She most … 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
