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Decriminalizing Domestic Violence w/ Leigh Goodmark

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and we’re going to spend some time exploring community responses to domestic or interpersonal violence. Every year nearly 5.3 million incidents of intimate partner violence occurs in the United States among women 18 years and older. Intimate partner violence results in nearly 1,300 death and two million injuries every … Continued


Haiti is in ever-increasing crisis with fuel ports blocked by local gang leaders, escalating levels of violence including the sexual assault of girls, women and, elders and a widespread cholera outbreak. In this episode we discuss the state of things as well as the path forward and why the potential UN/US intervention may not be … Continued


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Oakland PD’s Robotic Shotgun; Plus, October 22 is National Police Brutality Awareness Day

On today’s show, we begin with our weekly State Terror Roundup. Then we transition to a conversation of the Oakland Police Departments brief consideration of acquiring robots that could shoot shotgun rounds. We are joined by the reporter who exposed this news in an article at The Intercept. Sam Biddle is a reporter focusing on … Continued


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Creative Interventions into Interpersonal & Domestic Violence – w/ Mimi Kim

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and we’re going to spend some time throughout the rest of the month exploring community responses to domestic or interpersonal violence. On today’s show we talk with Mimi Kim, founder of Creative Interventions and co-founder of INCITE! She has been a long-time activist, advocate and researcher challenging gender-based violence … Continued


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SF Mayor’s latest scandal; Bay Area officers fail psych evals; New documentary on Fantastic Negrito; and More!

After an internal audit of the Alameda Sheriffs Department revealed that 47 officers had failed a psychological exam that should have prevented them from being hired – the state entity Police Officer Standards and Training or POST is now leading an audit on the psychological exams of hundreds of law enforcement officers in San Francisco. … Continued