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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 Jesse Strauss.
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Roadside Theater is a professional ensemble of storytellers and theater makers hailing from the mountains of central Appalachia. In its decades since its founding in 1975, the ensemble has taken on the task of people’s theater, engaging social issues and abandoning the ‘fourth wall’ concept in order to bring audiences into the process of cultural … Continued
In recent decades, life imprisonment without the possibility of parole (LWOP) has developed into a distinctive penal form in the United States, one firmly entrenched in US policy-making, judicial and prosecutorial decision-making, correctional practice, and public discourse. LWOP is now a routine practice, but how it came to be so remains in question. Fifty years … Continued
On today’s show we’re in conversation with the editors of a book that explores county jails as a key in the broader abolitionist movement, both in building analysis and in building our fight. Jails are now the fastest-growing sector of the US carceral state. As jails grow, they transform the areas around them. If jails … Continued
On today’s show, we listen to audio selections from a KPFA event held on Sunday, December 15th, 2024 at La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley, featuring Weather Underground co-founder Bill Ayers in conversation with our host, Cat Brooks. He discusses the current political moment as well as his latest book, called ‘When Freedom is the … Continued
As we’ve done just about every Monday since October of last year, Law & Disorder returns to our recurring segment – The Palestine Post, discussing the latest news from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and on their border regions, and the efforts that people are taking around the world, to stop it. We’ll start in conversation … Continued
Today our show opens with Cassandra Jaramillo, an investigative journalist and reporter at ProPublica. Her latest story for ProPublica, co-reported with Kavitha Surana, Mariam Elba, Robin Fields and Ziva Branstetter, is titled “Are Abortion Bans Across America Causing Deaths? The States That Passed Them Are Doing Little to Find Out.” Follow Cassandra on social media … Continued
On today’s show, we’ll be in conversation with the author of one of the most anticipated books of the year. The book is called There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension, and it’s a poetic love letter to basketball; also to being rooted in Columbus Ohio, where the author has lived most of his … Continued
The intersection of immigration, border enforcement, new technology and specifically artificial intelligence, is racing toward more intense and more violent border enforcement strategies that are fueled by problematic algorithms, that mostly replicate the social and economic systems of power and exclusion that western societies are rooted in. On today’s show, we’ll explore part of how … Continued
Today’s guests for our weekly Palestine Post segment are: Asa Winstanley is an investigative journalist who writes for the Electronic Intifada, and also an author whose latest book is called Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn. Asa joins us from London. Laila is a Syrian-Palestinian law student and organizer with the … Continued
We start out today’s show with a look at how the Biden Administration is prepping Immigration and Customs Enforcement for a Trump presidency, in conversation with José Olivares, a bilingual investigative journalist and audio producer whose work focuses on immigration, criminal justice, Latin America, and human rights. We’ll in conversation about his latest 2-part series … Continued
