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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 Diana Martinez.
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We’re joined today by the author of a book that ties cultural survival to earth-based knowledge. In The Land in Our Bones: Plantcestral Herbalism and Healing Cultures from Syria to the Sinai, Lebanese ethnobotanist, sovereignty steward, and cultural worker Layla K. Feghali offers a layered history of the healing plants of Cana’an (the Levant) and … Continued
Dr. Jess Ghannam, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Global Health Sciences in the School of Medicine at UCSF is one the faculty who have accused the UC system of suppressing pro-Palestine speech on its campuses. The charge evolved from an earlier complaint filed on behalf of students and faculty at UCLA who were violently assaulted … Continued
Brian Edwards-Tiekert subs in this hour. This episode features excerpts from an interview with Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia. His most recent book is The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance. FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Pledge $100 and receive a copy of Rashid Khalidi’s Duval’s book The … Continued
Brian Edwards-Tiekert subs in this hour. This episode features excerpts from an interview with Kathleen Duval, professor of history of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, author most recently of Native Nations: A Millennium in North America. FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Pledge $190 and receive a copy of Kathleen Duval’s book Native Nations: A … Continued
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
