Law & Disorder – December 15, 2025
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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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 Teresa Wierzbianska.
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Injustice for Steven Taylor with Addie Kitchen, Adante Pointer and Lee Merritt Esq. also Biko Eisen-Martin
On this episode, we speak with Addie Kitchen, the grandmother of Steven Taylor, the man fatally shot by a now-retired San Leandro police officer in a Walmart in April 2020, and she has since emerged as a leading advocate seeking justice and accountability in his case. We also speak with Adanté Pointer, an Oakland‑born civil‑rights attorney … Continued
The Future Is Collective: Effective Workplace Strategies for Building a Culture of Care w/ Niloufar Khonsari — Winter Fund Drive
In this episode, we speak with author Niloufar Khonsari about their new book The Future Is Collective: Effective Workplace Strategies for Building a Culture of Care. Drawing on two decades of experience in community organizing and nonprofit leadership, Khonsari guides us in transforming our workplaces by decentralizing power; implementing collective governance structures; and centering principles … Continued
In Defiance: 20 Abolitionists You Were Never Taught in School w/ Tom Weiner and Amilcar Shabazz
In this episode, we speak with Tom Weiner and Amilcar Shabazz about their new book In Defiance: 20 Abolitionists You Were Never Taught in School. This book brings to light the often-suppressed stories of those who risked everything to end enslavement. Profiling 20 Black and white men and women, the book highlights their courage, activism, and unwavering commitment to freedom. … Continued
Palestine Post with Hatem Bazian
On today’s Palestine Post, we speak with Hatem Bazian, a Palestinian-American academic and activist. He is a teaching professor in the Departments of Near Eastern and Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies at the University of California,Berkeley and co-founder and Professor of Islamic Law and Theology at Zaytuna College, the first accredited Muslim liberal arts … Continued
Police Against The Movement w/ Joshua Clark Davis
On today’s show, we speak with Joshua Clark Davis, author of the book Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back– A bold retelling of the 1960s civil rights struggle through its work against police violence—and a prehistory of both the Black Lives Matter and Blue … Continued
International Revolutionary Day with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr.
International Revolutionary Day, marked each year on December 4th, is a day of remembrance and reflection on the radical struggle for liberation embodied by Fred Hampton and the Black Panther Party. His vision of collective power, rooted in socialism and Black liberation, challenged state violence and poverty, making him a target of government surveillance and … Continued
National Guard Shooting in DC Reactions; Homelessness Law Center on Utah Forced Labor Camp
On today’s show, we’ll speak with Jamal Abdi, the president of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) on the Trump administration’s plans to “rigorously reexamine” the status of every green card holder from nineteen nations, including Iran, and to allow for “negative, country-specific factors to be considered when vetting” nationals of those same nations applying for … Continued
Palestine Post w/ Samer Araabi and the Physicians for Human Rights Israel
On this episode of Palestine Post, we’ll speak with Samer Araabi, organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement on the latest headlines. Next, we’ll go to Oneg Ben-Dror from Physicians for Human Rights Israel prisoners and detainees department. We’ll speak to her about their new report on deaths of Palestinian prisoners. https://www.phr.org.il/en/palestinian-deaths-behind-bars-eng/ Our Resistance in Residence … Continued
El Jones plus Resistance in Residence Artist Danjuma
On today’s show, we’re joined by El Jones, a poet, journalist, academic, and abolitionist who lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She teaches at Mt Saint Vincent University. She was also Halifax’s Poet Laureate from 2013 to 2015. Her work focuses on social justice issues such as feminism, prison abolition, antiracism, and decolonization. Her latest book which … Continued
Prison Imperialism and the Rise of Mass Incarceration w/ Benjamin Weber
In this episode: A four-hundred-year reckoning with the colonial workings of the carceral state and resistance against it. We talk about how the story of American prisons is inextricably linked to the expansion of US power around the globe as well as the power of prison resistance, from the Seminole Indians to Assata Shakur. Our … Continued