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The Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care & Safety – Fall Fund Drive Special

We’ve spoken many times on Law & Disorder about the importance of Healing Justice. On today’s show, we speak with co-editors Cara Page and Erica Woodland about their new book, anti-capitalist, Black feminist, and abolitionist book, Healing Justice Lineages. The book is a profound and urgent call to embrace community and survivor-led care strategies as models that push beyond commodified self-care, the … Continued


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The Shakurs and the Nation They Created w/ Santi Elijah Holley – Fund Drive Special

For over fifty years, the Shakurs have inspired generations of activists, scholars, and music fans. Many people are only familiar with Assata Shakur, the popular author and thinker, living for three decades in Cuban exile; or the late rapper Tupac. But the branches of the Shakur family tree extend widely, and the roots reach into … Continued


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The Lineages of Healing Justice – Fall Fund Drive Special

We’ve spoken many times on Law & Disorder about the importance of Healing Justice. On today’s show, we speak with co-editors Cara Page and Erica Woodland about their new book, anti-capitalist, Black feminist, and abolitionist book, Healing Justice Lineages. The book is a profound and urgent call to embrace community and survivor-led care strategies as models … Continued


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Oakland Public Library Historian Dorothy Lazard’s New Memoir – Fund Drive Special

A librarian for forty years, local Bay Area treasure Dorothy Lazard joined the staff of the Oakland Public Library in 2000. From 2009 until her retirement in 2021, she was the head librarian of the Oakland Public Library Oakland History Center, where she encouraged people of all ages and backgrounds to explore local history. On … Continued


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Conservative Conspiracy Theories and the Doppelganger Effect – Fall Fund Drive Special

On today’s show, we hear from Naomi Klein, speaking from the Socialism 2023 conference about her new book, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, where she discuses the ways that conservatives have taken shortfalls of left movements and turned them against us in the form of conspiracies. We’ll learn that the real conspiracy is capitalism. … Continued


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The Golem of Brooklyn: Battling Anti-Semitism and White Supremacy with a Jewish Mystical Avenger

On today’s show, we spend the hour with famed writer Adam Mansbach, whose latest novel draws on Jewish mysticism to fight anti-semitism and modern white supremacy. The Golem of Brooklyn offers a serious take, but is written in a long legacy of Jewish self-deprecating and laugh-out loud humor. Adam Mansbach, has won awards for many of … Continued


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The Violence of ‘Family Court’; Plus, Resistance in Residence Artist Shaka Jamal

When juvenile courts were first created more than 100 years ago, they were imagined as a therapeutic space where specially-trained public servants and a friendly, caring judge would help children and families. Our guest today illustrates how that vision never came to pass, and how the procedures and policies of family court are based in … Continued