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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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We spend this hour with legendary former political prisoner and civil rights icon, famed for her leadership and education work with the Black Panther Party – Ericka Huggins. We’ll discuss her history with the Party, the assassination of her husband and child’s father, and how that led her to continue her political work while raising … Continued
On today’s fund drive special, we explore the world of athlete activism, from Mahmoud Abdul Rauf to Colin Kaepernick, by spending time with a new documentary from progressive sports commentator Dave Zirin, called Behind The Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL. FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Pledge $120 and receive a DVD of Behind The Shield: The Power … Continued
We speak with David F. Walker (@DavidWalker1201) is a writer, filmmaker and graphic artist. Today we speak with him about his book The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave’s Journey from Bondage to Freedom. FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Pledge $100 or more and receive a copy of The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative … Continued
Today is the 58th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X at New York City’s Audubon Ballroom in 1965. We spend the day remembering Malcom’s contributions for our struggle against white supremacy by listening to selections from his famed speech that came to be known as “the Ballot or the Bullet”. He gave that speech … Continued
We spend this hour in conversation with Dorothy Roberts about her latest book, Torn Apart: How The Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—And How Abolition Can Build A Safer World. Dorothy is an internationally acclaimed scholar, activist, and social critic who has written and lectured extensively on the interplay of gender, race, and class in … Continued
We start today’s episode with our weekly State Terror Roundup. Then, we go to Denver to learn about how the FBI infiltrated Black Lives Matter organizing there. Our guest is Trevor Aaronson, journalist and the author of The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism. He is also a contributing writer for The … Continued
On today’s show, your hosts Cat Brooks and Jesse Strauss celebrate 6 months of having this show on KPFA’s airwaves. We’ll hear selections from some of our hardest hitting and some of our favorite interviews in the first 6 months of the show – including the voices of Chesa Boudin, W Kamau Bell, Imani Perry, … Continued
In 2017, Keita O’Neil was killed by San Francisco Police Officer Christopher Samayoa, and former SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin had filed historic manslaughter charges against the officer. Brooke Jenkins, the current SF District Attorney, who replaced Chesa Boudin last August after a controversial successful recall effort, has dropped those charges and stated that they … Continued
Despite a well-established tradition of studying women in war, we tend to focus on their roles as mothers or carers, as peacemakers, or sometimes as revolutionaries. On today’s show, we’re in conversation with Julia Margaret Zulver, a Marie Curie fellow at Oxford university and the Universidad Nacional Autonoma in Mexico, whose latest book refocuses on … Continued
