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Palestine Post w/ Khury Petersen-Smith, the Sumud Resistance Until Liberation mural project, and the Golden Gate 26 fighting felony charges in SF court this week

On today’s show, the latest news and updates on the war on Palestine with Khury Petersen-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he researches U.S. empire, borders, and migration. The Sumud Resistance Until Liberation mural project is a collaboration between artists and activists in the U.S. and Palestine that … Continued


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How Florida prisons are responding to Hurricane Milton; plus Oakland renews gunshot surveillance technology despite opposition

On today’s show: how Florida prisons are responding to Hurricane Milton, with Ethan Corey, The Appeal’s Research & Projects Editor. Despite community opposition, Oakland city council voted to renew OPD’s contract with ShotSpotter through December 2025 for $840,000 per year. The technology is used to detect and locate gunshots throughout the city, but critics, including our … Continued


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Palestine Post w/ Rami Khoury + Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine @ UCSF

We begin today’s Palestine Post with Rami Khoury, Distinguished Public Policy Fellow at the American University of Beirut, and a journalist and author with 50 years of experience covering the Middle East. Rosita, an Indigenous Mapuche woman and registered nurse of 13 years joins us to discuss the ongoing anti-genocide campaign led by faculty and … Continued


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Alexis Pauline Gumbs on the Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

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 … Continued


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Abolitionist Intimacies w/ El Jones; plus Resistance in Residence Artist Jamella Cross

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 … Continued


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Residents Take Action Against Local Institutions Supporting Israel; Two of Three Officers Involved in Mario Gonzalez Killing Avoid Prosecution

On today’s show, we’re joined by organizers Wassim Hage of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center, and Rami Ibrahim of Palestinian Youth Movement to discuss the various direct actions locals have taken in protest of Israel’s expanding war in the Middle East. We’re also joined by Cheryl Rivera, a Brooklyn- based writer and editor of … Continued


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Abolishing Surveillance with Christopher Robé

Christopher Robé, professor in film and media studies at Florida Atlantic University discusses his book Abolishing Surveillance: Digital Media Activism and State Repression. This week’s Resistance in Residence artists are Gabriele Christian and Chibueze Crouch who make up the performance duo OysterKnife. You can learn more about them on their Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_oysterknife_/ — Subscribe to … Continued


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The Prescription to Prison Pipeline with Michelle Smirnova

Michelle Smirnova, Associate Professor of Sociology and affiliate faculty member of Race, Ethnic and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri, Kansas discusses her new book The Prescription to Prison Pipeline. This week’s Resistance in Residence artists are Gabriele Christian and Chibueze Crouch who make up the performance duo OysterKnife. You can learn more about … Continued


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SF Prop D Would Weaken the City’s Oversight Bodies; Plus Oakland Police Threaten to Crack Down on Sex Trafficking

We start our show with Joe Rivano Barros, senior editor at Mission Local who describes the monied interests behind Proposition D and the people who stand to profit from and the November elections should San Franciscans vote in favor of Proposition D. The proposition would slash the total number of oversight commissions, give the mayor … Continued