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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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This episode features excerpts from an earlier interview with James Kilgore and Vic Liu on their book The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration. FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Pledge $130 and receive a copy of James Kilgore and Vic Liu’s book The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page … Continued
In November, Palestinian Americans with family in Gaza, civil rights and human rights groups filed a lawsuit against President Biden, Secretary of State Blinken and Secretary of Defense Austin claiming that these state actors had violated international law by failing to prevent a genocide in Gaza. A lower court dismissed the case in January. U.S. … Continued
This morning, we turn our attention to proposed legislation that stalled in the Assembly last month. SB 94, the Life Without Parole (LWOP) bill would have granted people serving life sentences in California prisons a chance to petition for their sentences to be re-examined. We examine how the bill failed with Susan Bustamante, a member … Continued
Cat Brooks and Brian Edwards-Tiekert host an election special following Kamala Harris and Donald Trump’s presidential debate. This second hour features guest commentators Yael Schacher, director for the Americas and Europe at Refugees International and Steve Phillips, founder of Democracy in Color. FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Pledge $100 and receive a black zippered sweatshirt celebrating the first year … Continued
Today’s show features Jonathan M. Metzl, the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry and the director of the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society, at Vanderbilt University. Metzl is the award-winning author of seven books including Dying of Whiteness and his latest book What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country … Continued
Defense for Children International Palestine (DCIP) released a report on Monday documenting that, between October 7, 2023, and the end of July of 2024, Israelis killed 141 Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. That is 1 Palestinian child killed every 2 days. Read the report here: https://assets.nationbuilder.com/dcipalestine/pages/5323/attachments/original/1725884141/Targeting_Childhood_report.pdf?1725884141 We discuss this and … Continued
On todays show – how is the recent heatwave impacted unhoused community members – we speak with Talya Husbands-Hankin, known to many as ‘Boots’, founder of Love and Justice in the Streets. Then 16 year old Easter Leafa was killed by Anchorage PD on August 13 – the seventh police shooting this summer – we … Continued
On todays show, the Berkeley Peace and Justice Commission is embroiled in controversy over a Gaza Ceasefire Resolution and Israeli Arms Embargo, we will speak to community organizer Luchi B, with Bay Area Divest, along with the the founder of Yalla Berkeley Noor B, supporting Palestine and working closely with the Berkeley Peace and Justice … Continued
Starting in the 1970s, small groups of feminist activists met regularly to study anatomy, practice pelvic exams on each other, and learn how to safely perform a procedure known as menstrual extraction, which can end a pregnancy, using equipment easily bought and assembled at home. This “self-help” movement grew into a robust national and international … Continued
On today’s show – a timely and powerful conversation with author and activist Shourideh Molavi about her new book Environmental Warfare in Gaza: Colonial Violence and New Landscapes of Resistance which chronicles the legacy of land control, degradation and theft as part of the Zionist war chest. We talk perimeters, environmental warfare and crop control … Continued
