Law & Disorder – July 16, 2024
Law & Disorder exposes the cracks in our system, agitates for resistance and collectively builds a new world where all of us thrive. Hosted by Cat Brooks. Produced by Jesse Strauss.
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Palestine Post: West Bank International Solidarity Movement Activists Return to Bay Area; Plus Resistance in Residence Artist Deuce Eclipse
On today’s show we get a report from four Bay Area activists who just returned from the West Bank doing protective presence work with the International Solidarity Movement, an attempt to deter Israel’s continued colonial land grabs in the area, where the zionist state has taken more Palestinian land in the past 9 months than … Continued
The Price of One Vallejo Police Officer’s Baton; Undercover ICE Operation Entrapped Students at Fake University
Over the past two months, the city of Vallejo has paid out $672,000 in settlements to victims of excessive force lawsuits filed against Vallejo police Officer Robert DeMarco. According to the Vallejo Sun, the lawsuits stem from two incidents in 2017 and 2018 where Officer DeMarco struck two men with his baton while they were … Continued
Rekindling Indigenous Fire Practices in California; Plus Resistance in Residence Artist Ella Rae Feingold
California’s wildfire suppression planning leaves a lot to be desired. On today’s show, we’ll learn how our neighboring native communities are rejecting the state’s militaristic approaches of fighting fire, by stewarding a relationship with it. Our guests today – Deniss J Martinez and Tony Marks-Block – are researchers and two of the co-authors of a … Continued
Prisoner Drops Dead from Heatstroke at California Women’s Prison; Bay Area Activists Return from Protective Work in the West Bank
Today, we discuss the case of a woman who dropped dead at the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) in Chowchilla, apparently due to heatstroke. Last year, the Sacramento Bee reported that the prison’s cooling systems had failed during a heat wave. According to prisoners, temperatures inside the facility had topped 80 degrees. Our guest Elizabeth … Continued
Palestine Post: Latest News and Developments
This week marks 9 full months of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. As we’ve done just about every Monday since October, we’ll turn back today to our recurring segment – The Palestine Post, talking about the latest news from Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and the efforts that people are taking from across the world to … Continued
Colonial legacies of homophobia and racism w/ Robert Jones Jr AKA Son of Baldwin; Plus Resistance in Residence Artist Mia Pixley
We spend the hour with Robert Jones Jr, who recently retired his well-known social media handle Son of Baldwin. He discusses his debut novel, The Prophets, which is about two men who are in love, enslaved on the same Mississippi plantation. We talk about how the relationship between colonialism, Western imperialism, and christian hegemony built up … Continued
Appalachian Roadside Theater in Appalachia
Roadside Theater is a professional ensemble of storytellers and theater makers hailing from the mountains of central Appalachia. In its decades since its founding in 1975, the ensemble has taken on the task of people’s theater, engaging social issues and abandoning the ‘fourth wall’ concept in order to bring audiences into the process of cultural … Continued
Resistance in Residence: Lauren Wheeler, then Mia Pixley, in Full!
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
Palestine Post: Addressing the Lebanese Border & Report from the West Bank
On this week’s Palestine Post, we speak with Rami Khouri,a Distinguished Public Policy Fellow at the American University of Beirut, and a journalist and author with 50 years of experience covering the Middle East; we also speak with Brendan Maslauskas-Dunn, an independent reporter who recently returned to the US from the West Bank. This week’s Resistance … Continued
Law & Disorder – June 27, 2024
Law & Disorder exposes the cracks in our system, agitates for resistance and collectively builds a new world where all of us thrive. Hosted by Cat Brooks. Produced by Jesse Strauss.