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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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On today’s show, we start with Tiny Gray Garcia, co-founder of POOR Magazine as well as The Homefulness Project – a landless peoples, self-determined land liberation movement in the Ohlone/Lisjan/Huchuin territory known as Deep East Oakland. We’ll be in conversation about a protest action planned by Homefulness. Then, we’re in conversation with Santi Elijah Holley, … Continued
Today, we hear from a powerful group of guests, discussing the ongoing genocide that Israel is waging on Gaza, and organizing strategies in the bay area and nationally, to stop that violence. These speeches are selections from an event last week, supported by Haymarket Books and led by Critical Resistance, called Abolition and the Liberation … Continued
On today’s show, we’ll start with our weekly Thursday segment, the State Terror Roundup. Then, to San Francisco, where the Sheriff’s department is re-opening a jail facility that it closed in 2010 after a top-down systemic drug scandal. The sheriffs department wants to reopen because the city is locking up dramatically increasing numbers of people. … Continued
Growing conservatism among religious nationalist movements is threatening people without political power across borders. On today’s episode, we look at the colonial, military and political connections between India and its conservative Hindutva movement, and Israel’s zionist movement. The lands of both these countries were British colonies, and their political development since formal colonial times have … Continued
September 11th, 2001 led to a new era of the American war machine, certainly in Afghanistan and Iraq, but also with military actions in at least 20 other countries since. As the years have passed, we seem to be less and less aware of ongoing and active US military actions. Why is that? And in … Continued
On today’s show, we go back to Palestine, where – over the weekend – Israel entered a new phase of war on Gaza. We discuss developments over the weekend in Gaza, and also explore the impact on the West Bank, where more than 100 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli military and settlers. We’ll discuss … Continued
We start out today’s show with our weekly State Terror Roundup. Then, the “Brave Caves” of Baton Rouge, Louisiana’s Police Department. Joining us to discuss are Amber Sherman, the Rapid Response Organizer with the In Our Names network, which is a national network of organizations, campaigns and individuals working to end police violence against Black … Continued
Our producer, Jesse Strauss, shares a reflection on the shared grief experience of learning of the death and destruction in Gaza as the bombardments continue, connecting dots between shared Jewish grief of the holocaust, lessons we can learn from abolitionist organizing in the US, and a hope that one outcome of the collective grief process will … Continued
On today’s show, we spend the hour with Palestinian author and publisher Hannah Moushabeck. She discusses her debut autobiographical children’s book called Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine, in which three young Palestinians in the diaspora love to hear their father’s stories of home. They feel love for a place they have never been, a … Continued
Mainstream media’s one-sided narrative is doing little more than fueling a unfolding genocide in Gaza. As one of our guests today told us last week – it hasn’t happened yet – and it is our voices, bodies and actions that can help stop it. To that end, we are joined by Khury Petersen-Smith, Michael Ratner … Continued
