We start with 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 to discuss by El Jones is a poet, journalist, academic, and abolitionist who lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. El was the lead author of the 2022 report, Defunding the Police: Defining the Way Forward for Halifax. She was also Halifax’s Poet Laureate from 2013 to 2015.
Then, a New York law allows women in the state to file new types of sexual assault lawsuits. We take a look at how the law is being used to aid women who are incarcerated. Molly Hagan is a writer and photographer in New York, whose latest piece for The Appeal is called New york’s Imprisoned Women Brave Risks to Sue Sexual Abusers Under New Law.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is Randolph Belle.
Check out Randolph Belle’s website: http://www.randolphbelle.com/
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