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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 Jesse Strauss.
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On today’s show, we’re in conversation with Chris Hedges about his latest book, A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine. Our Resistance in Residence Artist this week is poet Zouhair Mussa. Zouhair is a Sudanese/Nubian-American community organizer and multi-disciplinary artist from West Oakland. His art is based on the life he has lived and …
Today is the national holiday of Juneteenth, and so we’ll spend the hour in conversation with Annette Gordon Reed, an author and Harvard professor from Texas, descending from slaves who were directly impacted by the actual events of Juneteenth. We’ll be talking about her book On Juneteenth, which is both an essential account and a stark reminder … Continued
We’ll speak with Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson who is a long-time activist and has worked in movements fighting for workers, reproductive justice, LGBTQUIA+ justice, environmental justice and more. She is the first Black woman to serve as Co-Executive Director of Highlander Research & Education Center and is a member of several leadership teams in the Movement … Continued
We’ll speak with Ronica Mukerjee and Carlos Martinez, editors of All This Safety Is Killing Us: Health and Justice Beyond Prisons, Police and Borders — Abolitionist Frameworks and Practices from Clinicians, Organizers and Incarcerated Activists– A multi-discipline, multimedia guide to abolition through the lens of healthcare and medicine – featuring writings and artwork from … Continued
On today’s Palestine Post, we’ll speak with Khury Petersen-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he researches U.S. empire, borders and migration. Next, we go to Laila who is a Syrian-Palestinian law student and organizer with the Bay Area chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement: a transnational, grassroots organization … Continued
We start today’s show discussing the Trump Administration’s cuts to arts funding and those cuts’ impact on communities, as well as reactions to the ongoing national uprising against ICE detentions. We’re joined by W. Kamau Bell, a stand-up comic, commentator, performer and former host of CNN’s United Shades of America. He is kicking off his Who’s … Continued
We’ll talk with Dr. Melina Abdullah about the ongoing resistance in Los Angeles to the Trump Administration’s ICE raid’s this week. Dr. Abdullah is a professor and the chair of pan-African studies at Cal State Los Angeles, as well as the co-founder of the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter and co-founder of Black … Continued
As we face a government that is active in its efforts to remove people’s ability to make decisions about what happens in their own bodies, Dr. Shelley Sella challenges even the framework that imposing any limits on abortion access means that we are not truly providing the room to choose. Sella is a board certified OB GYN and the first woman to openly practice third trimester abortion care in the U.S. She recently retired from that work and compiled some of her deeply humanizing experiences, stories, reflections and hopes into a brand new book called Beyond Limits Stories of Third Trimester Abortion Care. Our Resistance in Residence Artist this week is children’s book creator, artivist, and Hollywood film illustrator and concept artist, Nikkolas Smith, whose newest hand-painted children’s book is titled The History of We. Check out Nikkolas Smith’s website: https://www.nikkolas.art — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow … Continued
We start our weekly Palestine Post segment in conversation with Nora Barrows-Friedman, editor of the Electronic Intifada and former KPFA host and producer. Check out the Electronic Intifada here: https://electronicintifada.net/ Then, we speak with the Norwegian Refugee Council about their new report on the most neglected crises in the world. Cameroon sits on top of that … Continued
Two years ago, a fragile but hopeful peace in Sudan was broken when the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) – which are both arms of the Sudanese state – went to war with each other. In the fighting since, more than 150,000 people have been killed and 13 million of … Continued
We start today’s show in conversation about the aid flotilla headed to Gaza. We’re joined by Ann Wright, a retired US Army colonel and retired State Department official. She was a passenger on the 2010 Gaza Freedom Flotilla, at the time when Israel boarded and assassinated a number of the flotilla activists. Then, the San Francisco … Continued
