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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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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: [email protected] 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
Regular listeners of this show know that we frequently explore interpretations and nuances of abolition. When we think of abolition, we often conjure Angela Davis’ articulation, that prisons are a way of disappearing people and the social problems that are associated with those people. From that framing, abolition tells us to rethink the social problems … Continued
As Israel flexed it’s ability to publicly intentionally starve Palestinians in Gaza, this past week marked more than 600 days of the zionist war of ethnic cleansing. Joining us to discuss the latest news and analysis of that violence, is Samer Araabi, a member of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC). Samer also co-hosts the … Continued
We’re joined by Queer Black Troublemaker, Black Feminist Love Evangelist and aspirational cousin to all sentient beings Alexis Pauline Gumbs. She is the author of several works of poetry and of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Animals, which won a Whiting Writers’ Award in 2022. She lives in Durham, North Carolina. We’re discussing her latest book, Survival … Continued
We’ll spend the first portion of our hour today in conversation with Lateefah Simon, the Bay Area congresswoman representing California’s 12th District, which includes the cities of Oakland, Berkeley, Emeryville, Alameda, Albany, Piedmont, and most of San Leandro. We’ll discuss her first 100-plus days as a representative within the current federal political climate, and what she … Continued
