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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 — all through an Oakland-based abolitionist lens that centers Black experience, movement-building and art. Hosted by Cat Brooks. Produced by Jesse Strauss.
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Salvadorean President Nayib Bukele has offered to house people who’ve been convicted of violent crimes in the United States after meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a new Salvadorean megaprison called Cecot. The offer came alongside an invitation to receive deportees from the US.
We’re joined to discuss this news and to frame Bukele’s background by Ana Piquer, Amnesty International’s Americas Director.
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On today’s show – cleaning up white supremacy sounds odd, but some white supremacists are pushing wellness and health while continuing to pedal hate. Joining us to discuss is Mark Hay, a freelance journalist based in New York. He covers conspiracy and far right movements among other topics. His recent article that we’re discussing today is titled, “Soap to supremacy: The rise of white wellness.”
Read Mark Hay’s story that we discuss in today’s episode: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2025/2/2/how-white-nationalists-infiltrated-the-wellness-movement
Check out Mark Hay’s website: https://markehay.com/
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A 2019 report showed that police violence is a leading cost of death for young Black men in the United States. About one in every 1,000 Black men can expect to be killed by the police, with the highest risk amongst all ethnic groups and genders between the ages of 20 and 35 years old. Police violence has been identified as a public health issue among public health experts as well as advocates and activists. What role, then, do doctors and pediatricians have in preparing patients and their families to be aware of this public health risk?
On today’s show, we’re in conversation with two pediatricians who led the research of a recent peer-reviewed research letter, titled “Pediatrician Perspectives on Incorporating Discussion of Police Encounters Into Anticipatory Guidance for Black Youth and Their Caregivers“.
Dr Jeffrey Eugene is a pediatrician and adolescent medicine specialist, working with the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia as well as Philadelphia FIGHT Community Health Centers. His clinical expertise is in adolescent and young adult primary care, gender affirming medical care, sexual and reproductive health, medical care for youth living with HIV, and eating disorders.
Dr George Dalembert, is a pediatrician at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine. Additionally, he serves on the Governance as well as Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committees of the Pennsylvania chapter of American Academy of Pediatrics. He is also an author on the report that we’re discussing today.
Read their research here: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2829145
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence artist is poet, playwrite, freelance director, new play developer and assistant professor Lisa Marie Rollins.
Follow Lisa Marie Rollins on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lisamarie_9/
Check out Lisa Marie Rollins’ project the Iris Lab on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/irislabarts/
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The UC San Francisco administration has continued to retaliate against professors, students, and medical staff who have identified themselves publicly as pro-Palestinian. Intimidation, suspensions, threats and a culture of fear are some of the collateral damage the institution has created one could almost say or say in defense of a genocide. We’re joined by one of UCSF’s medical staff who has experienced retaliation for her political speech, Dr Rupa Marya, a doctor and Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF, as well as an activist, musician and writer, whose book is called, “Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice.”
Check out a petition on behalf of Dr Rupa Marya: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/reinstate-dr-rupa-marya
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State Terror is a primary theme on this show – often emphasizing the myriad things that go wrong when cops enter a situation they are not built for, trained for, or even wanting to engage in. One of those situations is mental health crisis. Around fifty percent of all folks murdered by law enforcement are physically disabled or experience mental health issues. When those issues intersect with Black bodies – as we saw with the police killing of Sonia Massey for example – the encounters are too often fatal. A new report shows that, beyond the incidents in which policing leads to the death of individuals dealing with mental health crises, use-of-force experiences are extremely high among people interacting with police while experiencing a mental health issue, and that number is significantly higher for Black men in particular. Our guests today are two of the journalists behind that new report. Josh McGhee is an investigative reporter covering the intersection of criminal justice and mental health with an emphasis on public records and data reporting. He is the Chicago Bureau Chief for MindSite News, a nonprofit journalism organization focused on mental health. Audrey Azzo is a project manager, researcher and investigative reporter, focused on data driven reporting on human rights abuses.
You can read the MindSight report here: https://mindsitenews.org/2025/01/31/police-use-of-force-mental-health/
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On today’s show, Alameda County Supervisor Nikki Fortunato-Bas discusses her efforts to prevent negative impacts of the Trump presidency at the county level, including on Bay Area immigrant and trans communities.
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For four days in September of 1971, prisoners revolted, taking over the institution that incarcerated them in upstate New York. By the time the dust settled in Attica, 33 prisoners and 10 guards or staff had been killed – notably all but one guard and three prisoners were killed by law enforcement gunfire when the state violently retook control of the prison. While the Attica rebellion has become fairly widely known, our guest has written a powerful book that reframes that rebellion not as a singular uprising, but as one important piece that contextualizes a series of rebellions by prisoners, engaging in tactics that include counter-violence, against the violence of the white supremacist capitalist framing of our society itself, asserting that US prisons are literal sites of war. Our guest is Orisanmi Burton, a Professor of Anthropology at American University, who describes this framing in his book as the Long Attica Revolt, or in description, “revolutionary struggle for decolonization and abolition at the site of the US prison”. His book is called “Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, prison repression, and the long attica revolt.” Prisoners in, at least New York, Florida, Michigan, and California, have been banned from reading it under fears that it may itself incite rebellion. That’s a claim that our guest rejects.
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence artist is Palestinian playwright, author, and screenwriter Betty Shamieh, who has a new novel out called Too Soon.
Check out Betty Shemieh’s website: https://www.bettyshamieh.com/
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Leonard Peltier, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and the longest-serving Native political prisoner in U.S. history is coming home! Joining us to discuss are Summer Aubrey, an attorney with the Water Protector Legal Collective as well as International Indian Treaty Council who has worked on international legal advocacy for Leonard Peltier’s freedom, along with Natalie Sagovya, the Executive Director of the Water Protector Legal Collective, who has worked together with Summer on the international legal case for Leonard Peltier’s freedom.
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A transgender prisoner has sued the Trump Administration over the constitutionality of one of his earliest executive orders that the lawsuit claims will put transgender prisoners at risk. We’ll speak with Shannon Minter, Legal Director at the National Center for Lesbian Rights and part of the legal team representing the plaintiff in Maria Moe v Donald Trump.
Read the Maria Moe v Donald Trump lawsuit: https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/klpyqyxqbpg/01272025moe.pdf
Learn more about the National Center for Lesbian Rights: https://www.nclrights.org/
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On today’s show, we explore electronic surveillance and privacy concerns under the new Trump presidency. We’ll be in conversation with India McKinney, the Director of Federal Affairs with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world.
Read the EFF’s memo to the federal government outlining technology and surveillance concerns: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-sends-transition-memo-digital-policy-priorities-new-administration-and-congress
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On today’s show, we return to our weekly Monday segment The Palestine Post.
We start in conversation with Khury Petersen-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he researches U.S. empire, borders, and migration. Then, we’re joined by Rami, an organizer with the Bay Area chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement, a transnational, grassroots independent movement of Arab and Palestinian youth struggling for the liberation of their homeland, from the Bay to Palestine.
This week’s Resistance in Residence artist is journalist, advocate, DJ, hip hop historian, professor, historian and host of KPFA’s Hard Knock Radio, Davey D.Follow Davey D on X: https://x.com/mrdaveyd—
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Fifty executive orders were signed on Trump’s first day in his second presidential administration, many attacking trans folks, immigrants and diversity-and-inclusion provisions. We start today’s show walking through many of the orders and what they mean with Shawn Musgrave, a media law attorney and reporter based in New York, who also reports for The Intercept. His recent articles include “The War on Immigrants: The pregnant immigrants fighting Trumps bid to end birthright citizenship” and “Trump’s executive orders are full of deadlines and we are tracking them”.
Follow Shawn Musgrave’s latest reporting for The Intercept: https://theintercept.com/staff/shawnmusgrave/
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence artist is journalist, advocate, DJ, hip hop historian, professor, historian and host of KPFA’s Hard Knock Radio, Davey D.Follow Davey D on X: https://x.com/mrdaveyd—
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On today’s show, we discuss the newly inaugurated President Trump’s impact on immigration policy through the executive orders that have already been signed as well as his policy plans.
Our first conversation from Wednesday, January 22nd is with Nana Gyamfi, Executive Director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), speaking about the implications of Trump’s immigration and deportation policies on Black immigrants living in the United States, as well BAJI’s rejection of Congress’ Laken Riley Act, which they call “a pipeline to mass detention and deportation.”
Read more on BAJI’s analysis of the Laken Riley Act: https://baji.org/the-laken-riley-act-is-anti-black-a-pipeline-to-mass-detention-and-deportation/
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Incarcerated people work for penny wages, and, in several states, for nothing at all. Many of us outside of prisons rely on their labor in areas like repairing roads, fighting wildfires, or clearing debris after hurricanes. Prisoners manufacture products like office furniture, mattresses, license plates, dentures, glasses, traffic signs, garbage cans, athletic equipment, and uniforms. That’s just a portion of the work that incarcerated workers make.
On today’s show, we talk to authors of a new book that explores these labor practices called Abolition Labor , which draws connections between the labor forced on prisoners who hustle to survive on the inside and our precarious economy on the outside. The book argues that, far from being quarantined from society, prisons and their forced work regime have a sizable impact on the economic and social lives of millions of American households.
Our guests are two of the authors of that book, Andrew Ross and Tommaso Bardelli. Andrew Ross is a Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU, where he also directs the Prison Research Lab. Tommaso Bardelli is a Research Fellow at the NYU Prison Education Program Research Lab, where he conducts research on mass incarceration, financial debt, and their intersections.
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On today’s show, we explore the undercounted death toll in Gaza and how the Lancet’s research team has developed a system to evaluate a more realistic toll. We’re in conversation with Francesco Checchi, an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine who supervised and worked on statistical analysis for the Lancet’s recently published study, called “Traumatic injury mortality in the Gaza Strip from Oct 7, 2023, to June 30, 2024: a capture–recapture analysis”.
Read the Lancet study here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)02678-3/fulltext
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On today’s show we start in conversation about the ceasefire deal announced on Wednesday after political negotiations between Hamas and Israel. We’ll speak with Ziad Abbas as well as Samer Araabi. Ziad Abbas is the executive director of the Middle East Children’s Alliance, a Berkeley-based international aid organization whose work includes providing food, medicine, medical supplies, and installs water purification units in schools and preschools throughout Gaza. Ziad is himself a Palestinian refugee. Samer Araabi is a member of the Arab Resource and Organizing Committee (AROC) and co-hosts their weekly Palestine Solidarity Announcements every Friday at noon.
Learn more about MECA: https://mecaforpeace.org/
Learn more about AROC: https://www.araborganizing.org/
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On today’s show, we return to our weekly Monday segment The Palestine Post, focusing this conversation on a recent report studying the psychological impacts of Israel’s genocide on the children in Gaza. We’re in conversation with Kim McCall, the Executive Director for Children in Conflict, whose UK-based partner organization called War Child recently published the report.
Read the report here: https://www.warchild.org.uk/news/war-child-shares-first-study-psychological-impact-war-vulnerable-children-gaza
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On today’s show, we’re joined by Terria Smith, the director of Heydey’s Berkeley Roundhouse Program and editor of News from Native California Magazine.
Check out the News from Native California Magazine: https://newsfromnativecalifornia.com/
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On today’s show we’ll speak with Kanahus Manuel, founder of the Tiny House Warrior Movement, speaking about the Alberta Tar Sands and the recent Justin Trudeau resignation.
Learn more about the Tiny House Warrior Movement here: https://www.ip3action.org/tiny-house-warriors-for-the-homelands/
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A long-term substitute teacher in Clovis, California, threatened to cut a third grade indigenous student’s hair. We’re joined by Natalie Deanda, the mother of that child, joins us from Clovis, CA, to discuss her experience of the threats and the importance of long hair amongst boys in her community.
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The US Justice Department has reached an agreement with the Antioch Police Department following a series of scandals including a racist text messaging circuit amongst officers.
In this episode we discuss the Department of Justice’s oversight ruling on the Antioch Police Department with Antioch City Councilmember Tamisha Torres-Walker.
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On today’s episode we speak with Alexandra Cock, a lawyer representing Chief Doug Stankewitz, the US’ longest-held death row prisoner, whose latest appeal in late December was denied after more than 40 years of incarceration.
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On today’s show we speak with Marisa Almor with East Bay Sanctuary Covenant about what their organization is doing to support immigrants as we move into another US Trump presidency, anticipating anti-immigrant legislation and deportation regime.
Marisa Almor speaks about two upcoming events at La Peña Cultural Center – the first on January 12, arming allies with reliable information about how to protect sanctuary communities from federal targeting. Then, on January 15th, East Bay Sanctuary Covenant will be leading a discussion and a few days later on January 19th, a workshop, aimed at immigrant community members who need assistance in clarifying their immigration status (there will be legal consultation available in different languages).
Learn more about East Bay Sanctuary Covenant: https://eastbaysanctuary.org/
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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.
Our Palestine Post guests this morning are Phyllis Bennis from the Institute for Policy Studies and Samer Araabi from the Arab Resource and Organizing Center.
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence artist is pianist, trumpeter, composer, and music producer who dabbles on the borders of jazz and hip hop, Javier Santiago.
Check out Javier Santiago’s website: https://www.javiersantiagomusic.com/
Check out Javier’s new album Warrior Energy here: https://javiersantiago.bandcamp.com/album/warrior-energy
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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.
In this episode, we explore the latest developments on the ground as Israel expands its reign of violence to another Gaza hospital, into the border regions of Lebanon and Syria, and into an internationally protected area of the West Bank. We’re joined by Samer Araabi, a member of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) and a co-host of AROC’s weekly Palestine Solidarity Announcements which takes place every Friday at noon.
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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.
In this episode we’re in conversation with two healthcare workers who’ve been on medical missions to Gaza, one of whom also recently returned from a medical mission to Lebanon after Israel’s bombing campaign there. We’re joined by Bridget Rochios, a registered nurse and women’s health nurse practitioner and nurse midwife in the Bay Area. Bridget traveled to Gaza in May to volunteer at a maternity hospital. Since then, she’s faced consequences at her local job for wearing a pin depicting a watermelon. We’re also joined by Dr. Mohammad Subeh, a Palestinian American emergency room doctor at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View. He recently returned home from Lebanon in his third medical mission to the region in the past year, to provide emergency medical care amid Israel’s various bombardments.
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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 exclusionary and violent border policies have been aided by artificial intelligence, not just in the US but around the world, and how, because policies are slower to develop than technology, artificial intelligence industries move these practices forward without regulation and in global concert among the world’s wealthier states.
We’re joined by Petra Molnar, a lawyer and anthropologist specializing on the impacts of migration technologies. She co-runs the Refugee Law Lab at York University and the Migration and Technology Monitor, which funds community grounded projects on border tech. She’s also the author of the book that we’ll be discussing today, called “The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”
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Laila is a Syrian-Palestinian law student and organizer with the Bay Area chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement: a transnational grassroots organization of Palestinian and Arab Youth in the diaspora which fights Zionism and other forms of imperialism.
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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.
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence artist is MC, lyricist, producer, community educator and lifelong student, Chris Burger.
Find out more about Chris Burger here: https://www.luvphenomena.com/
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On today’s episode: A look at how the Biden Administration is prepping Immigration and Customs Enforcement ahead of 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’re in conversation about his latest 2-part series published by the Guardian. Those headlines are: “Revealed: Biden lays groundwork to expand immigration jails as Trump readies for office”; and “Biden extended contracts to private immigration jails despite reports of ‘horrific’ conditions.”
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On today’s segment, we develop our ongoing coverage of the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria and what Syria’s regime collapse says about the Arab region moving forward, in conversation with Rami Khouri, a Distinguished Public Policy Fellow at the American University of Beirut, and a journalist and author with 50 years of experience covering the Middle East.
Read Rami Khouri’s latest op-ed in Al Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/12/8/what-the-collapse-of-the-syrian-regime-says-about-the-arab-region
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In this Palestine Post segment, we are joined by Tiffany Willoughby-Herard is a tenured professor of African-American Studies at UC Irvine. She was arrested in a May pro-Palestinian demonstration on campus along with about 50 others and faced court in the case.
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In this Palestine Post segment, we explore the Hezbollah/Israel truce as well as the downfall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad with Samer Araabi, a member of AROC and co-hosts the weekly Palestine Solidarity Announcements every Friday at noon.
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On today’s show we speak with Nikki Fortunato-Bas, the Alameda County District 5 Supervisor-Elect, and outgoing Oakland City Council president representing District 2. As outgoing Oakland City Council member, Fortunato-Bas will become interim Oakland mayor after the recall of Sheng Thao, however, that interim position will only last until Fortunado-Bas transitions to the new Supervisor position.
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On today’s show we’re joined by Congresswoman-elect Lateefah Simon, our newest house representative, on her way to being inaugurated for California’s 12th District, which includes the cities of Oakland, Berkeley, Emeryville, Alameda, Albany, Piedmont, and most of San Leandro. The congresswoman-elect will be replacing long-time rep Barbara Lee next month.
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In this recurring Palestine Post segment, we discuss the firing by Oakland high school Bishop O’Dowd of a teacher for wearing a pin that read “Free Palestine”. Joining us to discuss is Erin Donevan, the high school teacher fired for wearing that pin.
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On today’s recurring Palestine Post segment, we explore the Israel/Lebanon Ceasefire agreement.
We start the conversation with Khury Petersen-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he researches U.S. empire, borders, and migration.Then, we speak with Rami is an organizer with the Bay Area chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement, a transnational, grassroots independent movement of Arab and Palestinian youth struggling for the liberation of their homeland, from the Bay to Palestine.
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence artist is Oakland-based DJ and co-founder of Soulovely, DJ LadyRyan.
Find out more about DJ LadyRyan here: https://www.african-americanshakes.org/l-peter-callender/
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On today’s show, we’re joined by Bill Ayers, co-founder of the Weather Underground, professor, author, organizer and activist. He has a new book out called When Freedom is the Question – Abolition is the Answer: Reflections on Collective Liberation – a series of essays, poems and prompts to help us chart a path to liberation. It’s a fire conversation with a movement legend.
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence artist is L. Peter Callender, actor, writer, director, who for fifteen years was also the artistic director of the African American Shakespeare Company.
Find out more about L. Peter Callender’s work here: https://www.african-americanshakes.org/l-peter-callender/
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On today’s show, we spend the hour diving into the Oakland election cycle, the money and players that bought a new political landscape and what it means for the “most progressive city” in the country, with Ali Winston is an independent reporter covering criminal justice, privacy, and surveillance. Along with Darwin BondGraham, he’s the co-author of The Riders Come Out At Night: Brutality, Corruption and Cover-Up in Oakland (Atria Books, 2023), a history of policing in Oakland. You can read more of his work at bleeding-edge.ghost.io
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This week, our Resistance in Residence artist is Leigh Rondon-Davis (they/them), a performer, dramaturg, director, and producer; in addition to their creative work, Leigh is on staff as part of the shared leadership team of the Crowded Fire Theater in San Francisco, as the Leader of Artistic Curation & Marketing, where they are also a Resident Artist. Additionally, they are an Artistic Company Member at Shotgun Players, Casting Director with the Casting Collective, and Producing Director with The Forum Collective. Leigh has had the immense pleasure of working at dozens of local companies, including A.C.T., Aurora Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Curran, Magic Theatre and others. For more on their work, check out https://www.crowdedfire.org/leigh-rondon-davis/
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Last week, the Jailhouse Lawyer Initiative convened a conference called Flashlights: Jailhouse Lawyers, Legal Empowerment and Building a Just World Together,” a historic convening of jailhouse lawyers in dialogue with justice allies that “illuminates the power and promise of legal empowerment to advance justice from the inside out.” We’re joined by Jhody Polk, the founder of the Jailhouse Lawyer Initiative which is currently housed at the Bernstein Institute for Human Rights at NYU School of Law.
Who are jailhouse lawyers? Jailhouse lawyers are incarcerated individuals who generally have no formal legal training, but teach themselves the law to advocate for themselves and the rights of their peers. They conduct legal writing, research, and analysis on a host of legal issues from civil rights actions to habeas corpus petitions, administrative grievances, parole/probation, and family law matters, among others. Because of their justice work, these advocates are often retaliated against and silenced by the very institutions they attempt to hold to account. They continue to toil without recognition of their personal growth and rehabilitation, without their names being attached to the legal victories they fought for, and without connection to others doing the work or those standing in solidarity with them on the outside. JLI believes that breaking the cycle of incarceration requires building bridges between inside and out communities. Jailhouse lawyers are an essential part of reforming and abolishing the broken carceral system, and are seen as incarcerated advocates who are THE bridge builders.
The Jailhouse Lawyers Initiative can be reached at:
Tyler Walton, Esq.Jailhouse Lawyer InitiativeBernstein Institute of Human Rights-NYU Law139 MacDougal St, B23New York, NY 10012The website is jailhouselawyers.orgJhody Polk’s email is Jhody@leahforjustice.com—-
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Tonight, Oct 23 is the Oakland premiere of the The Strike documentary about the Pelican Bay hunger strikes against solitary confinement, a historic coordinated effort and the largest hunger strike in US history, told by those who lived it. It’ll be tonight Wednesday Oct 23 at 6pm at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland. For more information, visit thestrikefilm.com.
We’re joined by co-directors and producers Lucas Guilkey and JoeBill Muñoz. Dolores Canales, one of the film protagonist, is founder of CA Families Against Solitary Confinement, organizer on behalf of her son who was in solitary confinement during the hunger strikes Jack Morris is one of the film’s protagonists, he spent over 30 years in solitary confinement, and participated in the hunger strikes.
For more information, visit thestrikefilm.com.
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On today’s show, we discuss the intensification of Israel’s siege on northern Gaza, plans for resettlement, continued backing by the US, and expansion of its assault on Lebanon. We’re joined by Rami Khouri, a Distinguished Public Policy Fellow at the American University of Beirut, and a journalist and author with 50 years of experience covering the Middle East. Among many things, we discuss his latest piece in Al-Jazeera “What Sinwar’s death reveals about war and peacemaking in Palestine.”
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October 22 is National Stop Police Terror Day, and across the country Stop Cop Nation actions are taking place to resist the carceral state. We dive into the nitty gritty of Abolition with someone whose been on the frontlines of abolitionist efforts for many years. Our guest is Andrea J Ritchie, whose latest book is No More Police – the Case for Abolition, which she co-authored along with Mariame Kaba.
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We begin today’s Palestine Post with Rami Khoury, Distinguished Public Policy Fellow at the American University of Beirut, and a journalist and author with 50 years of experience covering the Middle East.
Rosita, an Indigenous Mapuche woman and registered nurse of 13 years joins us to discuss the ongoing anti-genocide campaign led by faculty and staff at UCSF.
Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine (FSJP) at UCSF have drafted an open letter to UCSF Chancellor Sam Hawgood alleging the administration has taken numerous repressive actions against faculty and staff who oppose the institution’s complicity in Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinian people.
Access that letter here: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/join-us-in-solidarity-against-ucsf-repression/
Among FSJP’s demands is the reinstatement of Denise Caramagno, a therapist who they allege was fired for defending her colleague who spoke out against the genocide of Palestinians and harmful impacts of Zionism in medical institutions.
Here is their petition to reinstate Denise Caramagno:
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/reinstate-denise-caramagno-former-ucsf-care-director/
As Rosita mentioned at the end of this episode, another petition has started to circulate in support of Professor Tiffany Willoughby Herald, a global studies professor at UC Irvine who was arrested while trying to protect students at an encampment protest and is now facing misdemeanor charges.Here’s the petition for Professor Herald:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfA9E4LNCyL0niMwCbmzzlqkokTYqDNj5I8DRMRlML8GAtR3A/viewformThe post Palestine Post w/ Rami Khoury + Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine @ UCSF appeared first on KPFA.
We’re joined by Queer Black Troublemaker, Black Feminist Love Evangelist and aspirational cousin to all sentient beings Alexis Pauline Gumbs. She is the author of several works of poetry and of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Animals, which won a Whiting Writers’ Award in 2022. She lives in Durham, North Carolina. We’re discussing her latest book, Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is in the Bay Area this week.
See the various events listed below:
https://events.berkeley.edu/events/event/270794-reading-of-survival-is-a-promise-the-eternal-life
https://www.eastsideartsalliance.org/calendar/litanies-a-ritual-reading-for-audre-lorde
https://www.eastsideartsalliance.org/calendar/sister-hold-on-reclaiming-third-world-lesbian-imaginaries-organized-by-bay-area-lesbian-archive-n6cg7
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On today’s show, we’re joined by organizers Wassim Hage of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center, and Rami Ibrahim of Palestinian Youth Movement to discuss the various direct actions locals have taken in protest of Israel’s expanding war in the Middle East.
We’re also joined by Cheryl Rivera, a Brooklyn- based writer and editor of Lux Magazine who works on the New York War Crimes project.
Learn more about that campaign here: https://newyorkwarcrimes.com/
Two of the three officers involved in the killing of Mario Gonzalez recently had their manslaughter charges dropped on a technicality. Judge Scott Patton ruled on Monday that the District Attorney failed to file arrest warrants against the two officers, James Fisher and Cameron Leahy, within the three-year statute of limitations.
Jerry Gonzalez, brother of Mario Gonzalez and Edith Arenales, mother of Mario Gonzalez join us to speak about the case against the third officer, Eric McKinley. The next hearing is set to take place tomorrow.
Gonzalez’s family and supporters are packing the court and rallying outside the Alameda County Superior Courthouse tomorrow—Friday, October 11 at 8 AM, 661 Washington St, Oakland, CA 94607.
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Christopher Robé, professor in film and media studies at Florida Atlantic University discusses his book Abolishing Surveillance: Digital Media Activism and State Repression.
This week’s Resistance in Residence artists are Gabriele Christian and Chibueze Crouch who make up the performance duo OysterKnife.
You can learn more about them on their Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_oysterknife_/
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The mission of Law & Disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence artists are Gabriele Christian and Chibueze Crouch who make up the performance duo OysterKnife.
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Michelle Smirnova, Associate Professor of Sociology and affiliate faculty member of Race, Ethnic and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri, Kansas discusses her new book The Prescription to Prison Pipeline.
This week’s Resistance in Residence artists are Gabriele Christian and Chibueze Crouch who make up the performance duo OysterKnife.
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Today marks one year since the Hamas attack on October 7th, 2023.We are joined once again by Khury Petersen-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he researches U.S. empire, borders, and migrationThe U.S. continues to openly endorse Israel’s expansionist foreign policy, moving more U.S. military assets into the region as Israel escalates its attacks in Syria, Yemen, Lebanon and the West Bank. The devastation in Gaza and Lebanon is incomparable to what has taken place in prior wars, yet western media continues to diminish Israel’s indiscriminate killing of civilians or report on other evidence of war crimes.The U.S. was not simply led by Israel into this war, but willfully joined in. Internal emails recently obtained by Reuters reveal that the Biden Administration knew as far back as October 13, 2023 that the weapons they provided to Israel were being used to target civilians in violation of international law. Brett Murphy, who reports for ProPublica’s national desk, found that members of the Biden Administration worked overtime to expedite weapons transfers to Israel despite the concerns of White House officials that displacing Palestinian civilians en masse would lead to a humanitarian disaster. His reporting also exposes the outsized influence that defense industry lobbyists have on U.S. foreign policy.See Brett Murphy’s reporting here: https://www.propublica.org/article/israel-gaza-america-biden-administration-weapons-bombs-state-departmentIn the wake of this news, CAIR—The Council on American-Islamic Relations is now renewing its calls to dismiss Secretary of State Antony Blinken and administration official Brett McGurk. Edward Ahmed Mitchell, national deputy director of CAIR joins us to explain the political thrust of those demands.This week’s Resistance in Residence artists are Gabriele Christian and Chibueze Crouch who make up the performance duo OysterKnife.
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We start our show with Joe Rivano Barros, senior editor at Mission Local who describes the monied interests behind Proposition D and the people who stand to profit from and the November elections should San Franciscans vote in favor of Proposition D. The proposition would slash the total number of oversight commissions, give the mayor more authority over those commissions and specifically weaken the police commission, giving the police chief ultimate authority to regulate officer conduct. Internal documents obtained by the Phoenix Project reveals the four year plan on Together SF, the nonprofit backed by tech billionaire Michael Moritz.
Read more about that at Mission Local: https://missionlocal.org/2024/09/togethersf-wants-structural-change-in-city-hall-internal-doc-shows-its-just-beginning/
The Oakland Police are threatening to crack down on sex trafficking, but how exactly they plan to do that remains to be seen. Jennifer Lyle, Executive Director of MISSEY, an Oakland based organization which was founded to respond to sexual exploitation describes the criminalization of sex trafficking victims as an attack on poor people. Lyle details what could instead be done to protect vulnerable young women and gender expansive people from falling prey to violence and sex trafficking.
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On Monday, the UN voted unanimously to extend the security mission in Haiti for another year. Dahoud André, a Haitian community activist based in New York and a member of the Committee to Mobilize Against Dictatorship in Haiti contextualizes this latest development inside of what he describes as a decades long political operation to exert control over over Haiti by the U.S.
It is well documented that coastal black communities have historically recovered poorly after hurricanes, and FEMA announced a 7 billion dollar shortfall in hurricane relief this year as big swaths of the south are being devastated by Hurricane Helene. Adam Mahoney, the climate and environment reporter at Capital B compares the magnitude of devastation caused by of Hurricane Helene to the havoc wreaked by Hurricane Katrina.
Shiva Rajbhandari, a student organizer in North Carolina and a spokesperson for Sunrise Movement faults the climate crisis that fuels these hurricanes on the fossil fuel industry. He recently returned from Tampa Bay, Florida where he supported mutual aid efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.
This week’s Resistance in Residence artist is multi-hyphenated Hawaii based musician, sound engineer and filmmaker Randy DeVol.
Check out Randy DeVol’s website at randydevol.com
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Reporter Nico Lang has been a recurring guest on this show as we continue to cover the dizzying and dangerous demagoguery and legislating against the bodily autonomy of trans youth. They join us today to share about some of the people they met in small town America, trans kids and their families directly impacted by the policies enjoined by conservatives in power. Lang spent two years traveling around the US to write their book, American Teenager: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era.This week’s Resistance in Residence artist is multi-hyphenated Hawaii based musician, sound engineer and filmmaker Randy DeVol.
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Human Rights Watch investigations have documented war crimes against journalists and civilians in Southern Lebanon, including Israel’s widespread use of white phosphorus and other weapons supplied by the US. Israel’s use of booby trapped pagers and recent aerial bombardments targeting medical workers and civilian infrastructure in Lebanon have also raised alarm from human rights advocates like Ramzi Kaiss, a researcher in the Middle East and North Africa Division at Human Rights Watch investigating human rights abuses in Lebanon.
Read Human Rights Watch earlier report on Israel’s illegal use of white phosphorus here: https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/06/05/lebanon-israels-white-phosphorous-use-risks-civilian-harm
Lebanon’s prime minister Najib Mikati estimates that as many as one million people have been internally displaced as a result of Israel’s bombardment, which is straining the country’s infrastructure according to Kaiss.
Shortly after US and European countries tried to broker a ceasefire deal between Israel and Lebanon while Prime Minister Netanyahu attended the UN General assembly in New York last week, Israeli missiles struck the Lebanese capital, Beirut—killing Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. We discuss this latest attack with Khury Petersen-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he researches U.S. empire, borders, and migration.
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The mission of Law & Disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence artist is multi-hyphenated Hawaii based musician, sound engineer and filmmaker Randy DeVol.
Check out Randy DeVol’s website at randydevol.com
This podcast episode features the following songs written and performed by Randy DeVol:
“Me and My Lonely”
Randy DeVol: vocal & guitar
Gary Grant : trumpet
Dan Higgins: sax, baritone sax, flute& bass flute
George Doring: guitar & bass
Alex Acuña: percussion
“Friends”
Randy DeVol: vocal & guitar
Gary Grant : trumpet
Dan Higgins: sax, baritone sax, flute & bass flute
George Doring: guitar & bass
Vinnie Colaiuta: drums
“All I Ever Wanted”
Randy DeVol: vocal & guitar
Gary Grant : trumpet
Dan Higgins: sax, baritone sax, flute & bass flute
George Doring: guitar & bass
Vinnie Colaiuta: drums
“Starseed”
Randy DeVol: vocal & guitar
Gary Grant : trumpet
Dan Higgins: sax, baritone sax, flute & bass flute
George Doring: guitar & bass
Vinnie Colaiuta: drums
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The courthouse is an important part of every story of mass incarceration in America and, too often, it is a place of powerlessness for those facing criminal charges, their families, and their communities. But the courthouse can also be an important site of resistance, a place where Americans affected by incarceration can become agents of change—even though they are not lawyers or judges. Our guest is author of a new book by Silicon Valley De-bug co-founder Raj Jayadev. We talk about his story and the primary subject matter in his book – participatory defense, the incredibly effective community organizing model that leads to better outcomes for criminal cases, shifting power in courtrooms along the way.
Buy the book: https://thenewpress.com/books/protect-your-people
Check out the Silicon Valley De-Bug website: https://www.siliconvalleydebug.org/
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After more than 300 days of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and following a report from Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem on treatment of Palestinian prisoners by the zionist state called “Welcome to Hell” we speak with Linda Sarsour, a Brooklyn-born Palestinian Muslim American activist, author, and community organizer. She is the author of her memoir We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders. We’re also joined by Sahar Francis, is the General Director of Ramallah-based Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, a Palestinian organization providing legal and advocacy support to Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli and Palestinian prisons. She is also an attorney.
Learn more about the ‘Welcome to Hell‘ report: https://www.btselem.org/publications/202408_welcome_to_hell
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On today’s Palestine Post, we begin in conversation with Wassim Hage about the San Francisco District Attorney’s decision to level charges against 26 Bay Area pro-Palestine protesters who blocked the Golden Gate Bridge on April 15th of this year, charging eight of them with significant felonies including conspiracy and false imprisonment. Those protesters turned themselves in on Monday, with all released on their own recognizance. Their legal team is prepared to fight those charges.
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence artist is Bay Area playwright Star Finch.
Check out Star Finch’s website: https://www.starfinchplays.com/
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A wink and a nod from the supreme court with the Grants Pass ruling has paved the way for San Francisco to agressively clear encampments that serve as homes and communities for the unhoused. Now, Mayor London Breed has asked city officials to pick up the pace by offering free bus tickets out of town as incentive. Joining us to discuss is Jennifer Friedenbach, Executive Director of the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness.
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We have been following the scandal and abuse at the now shuttered women’s federal prison in Dublin, California. The First Report by the Special Master is out, which mostly corroborates what the women have been saying for years, but also contains some additional troubling information. Joining us to discuss are Lisa Fernandez, a veteran journalist working at KTVU Channel 2 in the Bay Area who has been covering the sexual abuse scandal at the all-women’s FCI Dublin prison, in-custody deaths at Santa Rita Jail, and federal oversight over the Oakland Police Department. We’re also joined by Kendra Drysdale, who is formerly incarcerated at FCI Dublin and is now an advocate with Dublin Prison Solidarity Coalition and the California Coalition for Women Prisoners. Kendra was released from FCI Dublin on April 19th, during the week that the prison was closed. Kendra also testified in evidentiary hearings in January which led to the assigning of the Special Master and eventual closure of the prison.
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Those targeted for incarceration do not simply submit to a monochromatic existence behind bars. Mass incarceration is a lived, sensory experience. On today’s episode we speak with the authors of a new visual primer on mass incarceration. The Warehouse brings to life the histories and means of daily survival of the marginalized people ensnared in this racist, ableist system of class-based oppression. The book elegantly weaves together the most insightful activist scholarship with vivid testimonials by incarcerated people as they fight back against oppression and imagine freedom. Our guests are author James Kilgore and information artist/illustrator Vic Liu.
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In this episode we explore the greenhouse gas emission implications of Israel’s attacks on Gaza, in conversation with two of the academic researchers who published a paper entitled “A Multitemporal Snapshot of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the Israel-Gaza Conflict”. Our guests are Patrick Bigger and Benjamin Neimark. Patrick Bigger is the Research Director at the Climate and Community Project (CCP). His academic research focuses on the creation and regulation of new financial mechanisms by governments, financiers, and NGOs that try to reconcile capitalism’s environmental and economic contradictions. Benjamin Neimark is a human geographer, political ecologist, and professor at Queen Mary University of London, whose current research looks at the US military as a global climate actor and, more broadly, the environment footprints of the world’s militaries.
Read their paper here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4855947
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We start our recurring Monday Palestine coverage discussing the latest news from the region with Phyllis Bennis, a Middle East analyst who directs the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. Her book Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer was recently re-published in its 7th edition.
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence artist is dancer, choreographer, pilates instructor and founder and director of Grown Women Dance Tonya Marie Amos.
Check out the website for Grown Women Dance: https://www.grownwomendance.org/
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On June 20th the FBI raided of the homes of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao as well as both David and Andy Duong, owners of California Waste Solutions, the city’s recycling contractor. Since that time bits and pieces of why have trickled out over news headlines and social media posts. The Oaklandside has been a primary source of coverage for the Bay Area on this unfolding drama. We are joined today by Darwin BondGraham is the news editor at the nonprofit newsroom The Oaklandside.
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A San Francisco Supervisor has resigned from the city’s Rules Committee over the city’s budget crisis, and particularly a plan that could raise police pay for veteran cops to a half million dollars. We’re joined by that Supervisor, Hillary Ronen, who represents San Francisco’s District 9, which includes the Mission, Bernal, and Portola areas of the city.
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On today’s show we explore gun reform as a matter of public health. But how do we reckon with the long history of distrust of public health and the social, ideological, historical, racial, and political forces that allow mass shootings to occur on a near daily basis in America? Our guest today is Jonathan Metzl, whose book What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms explores what happens to the soul of a nation as well as the meanings of safety and community when we normalize violence as an acceptable trade-off for freedom.
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The city of Los Angeles is considering funding a private security firm that hires former Israeli soldiers, in the wake of a sale of Palestinian land for zionist settlement construction which took place in June at a Los Angeles synagogue, and protests outside were labeled “anti-semitic”. We speak with Jonah Valdez, a journalist and poet based in Los Angeles whose recent piece for the Intercept is called “LA City Council Considers Paying Former IDF Soldiers to Patrol its Streets.”
Read the Jonah Valdez’s article here: https://theintercept.com/2024/07/18/los-angeles-city-council-idf-magen-am/
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In this segment we address the police killing of Sonya Massey with Sydney Kesler, a Queer Black Feminist Healing Arts Practitioner and the Rapid response organizer and campaign strategist with the In Our Names Network.
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Well over nine months into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, many of the Palestinians throughout the area who survive Israel’s attacks have been disabled by either direct blasts or by the fallout from crumbling buildings. Meanwhile, access to medical care is severely limited, and over the weekend reports came out that polio had made its return to Gaza, where vaccines are generally inaccessible except to Israeli soldiers. Our guest in this segment is a Bay Area emergency doctor who just returned from his second trip to Gaza since October, providing emergency medical care amid the ongoing genocide. Dr Mohammad Subeh is a Palestinian American ER doctor who normally works at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View.
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We spend this segment in Washington DC, where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is visiting for a series of diplomatic meetings starting Wednesday, with an address to congress, a meeting scheduled with President Joe Biden on Thursday, and then with former president Donald Trump this Friday in Mar-a-Lago. He’s also expected to meet with Vice President Kamala Harris during his trip. We’re first joined by Maria LaHood, the Deputy Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights who has worked on legal projects related to justice in Palestine for decades, including on the Rachel Corrie legal case nearly 20 years ago. The Center for Constitutional Rights has urged the US Department of Justice to open a federal criminal investigation into the Israeli Prime Minister during his visit to the US, for his responsibility for genocide, war crimes, and torture, saying there is “overwhelming evidence” that, under Netanyahu, Israeli forces have committed these crimes against Palestinians during the nearly 10-month assault on Gaza.
Read CCR’s complaint: https://ccrjustice.org/home/press-center/press-releases/ahead-netanyahu-visit-dc-center-constitutional-rights-calls-doj
We stay in Washington DC, to bring on a Bay Area activist who’s traveled to the capital in order to protest the Israeli Prime Minister’s visit. Our guest is Reem Assil, an activist and chef, and owner of the Bay Area restaurant Reem’s California. Reem is a longtime member of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center or AROC.
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Prior to Israel’s current genocide in Gaza, that area was often referred since 2007 as an open air prison due to Israel’s complete control. Our first guest this morning argues that if we explore the violence of zionism – that is, not just Gaza but zionist control more broadly – as a prison, then an abolitionist challenge to it, can come into view. Our guest is Fathi Nemer, a researcher and writer who published a piece in Scalawag Magazine called “Imprisoning Palestine: Zionist colonialism through an abolitionist lens”, in which he and his co-author argue that Israel’s siege on Gaza is not the only carceral structure that zionism has imposed, but rather that the entirety of Palestinian life under zionism is a process of imprisonment.
Read the article here: https://scalawagmagazine.org/2023/06/abolitionist-palestine/
Check out Fathi Nemer’s website here: https://decolonizepalestine.com/
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More than nine months of Israel’s genocidal onslaught on Gaza also means more than nine months of a movement against zionist aggression, which has developed more engagement than ever before in the movement for Palestinian lives and dignity. That organizing work is complex and doesn’t come without internal nuance and disagreement. For example, what does it mean for one group of people to take on leadership and accept funds for the liberation of another people? In this segment, we’ll be talking about anti-zionist Jewish organizing, and what it could look like for Jewish people interested in the liberation of Palestine to de-center themselves. Our guest is Anna Rajagopal, a Jewish anti-zionist organizer who lives and organizes in Houston. Her latest piece for Mondoweiss is titled, “No need for ‘Jewish values’ in the fight for Palestine”.
Read Anna Rajagopal’s piece here: https://mondoweiss.net/2024/06/no-need-for-jewish-values-in-the-fight-for-palestine/
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence artist is muralist, social art practitioner, educator, and clinical psychologist Susan Greene. Susan is also the founder of Art Forces – a global political mural project largely focused on Palestine.
Check out the fundraiser that Susan mentions in the interview: https://www.gofundme.com/f/sumud-mural
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A new investigation into police use of tasers follows how they’ve been used specifically in response to 911 mental health calls. The research shows that they can cause death as well as long term harm, and also that they are deployed disproportionately against Black people. The investigation was done by MindSite News, a nonprofit journalism site dedicated to reporting on mental health in the U.S., exposing rampant policy failures and spotlighting efforts to solve them. MindSite did this research in collaboration with the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
Joining me to discuss are researcher and journalist Sela Breen along with Josh McGhee, MindSite’s Chicago Bureau Chief who focuses on the intersections of criminal justice & mental health.
See their investigation here: https://mindsitenews.org/2024/06/27/tasers-can-kill-when-they-dont-they-can-still-do-lasting-damage/
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In San Francisco, police are now forced to minimize pretextual traffic stops despite the police union’s now-failed attempt to maintain them. This is after the San Francisco Police Commission in February committed the department to minimize police ability to pull people over for minor violations.
Meanwhile, San Francisco’s police watchdog agency, the Department of Police Accountability, is apparently a hostile work environment according to Nine of the department’s 13 investigators. Joining us to discuss San Francisco’s policing issues is Jonah Owen Lamb, a senior reporter with the San Francisco Standard who covers criminal justice.Check out Jonah Lamb’s latest reporting in the SF Standard: https://sfstandard.com/author/jonah-owen-lamb/—
This episode featured music by Kofy Brown.
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In Oakland, homeless residents at Toll Beach Plaza pursued a legal strategy using support from the Americans with Disabilities Act to delay a city-led eviction plan, but a federal judge has allowed Oakland to move forward with the eviction despite lawyers saying that the encampment with violate the residents’ rights. Our guest is Andrea Henson, a civil rights attorney for the plaintiffs in this case.
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As Kenyan troops landed in Haiti with U.S. and multinational backing on June 25, protests exploded in Nairobi as young people rose up against an unpopular national finance bill that would impose further taxes on the Kenyan population in order to pay down the country’s extraordinary foreign debt obligations.
It is estimated that in the first 2 weeks of the uprisings in Nairobi, 40 civilians were killed by Kenyan forces as the police violently suppressed the protests.
Meanwhile, this week, a second UN-backed contingent of Kenyan police arrived in Haiti. In the coming months, thousands of additional military personnel will arrive to the country from the Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Benin, Chad and Jamaica.
According to reporting by our guest today, Widlore Mérancourt, editor-in-chief of the independent Haitian Creole-French-English news organization AyiboPost, the Kenyan population widely condemns the deployment of Kenyan police forces to Haiti. We discuss the widespread political unrest in Haiti as its government struggles to maintain power against the network of gangs that took control of 80 percent of the capital Port-au-prince, according to U.N. estimates.
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Then, in Oakland, the crime is up! Or is it? A San Francisco Chronicle investigation is raising questions about how crime statistics are reported in Oakland, and claims that the statistics released by police “inevitably, and at all times, create the impression that Oakland’s crime trends — up or down — are better than reality.” The investigation is titled “Oakland has been publishing misleading crime data for years”, and it is written by our guest, breaking news and enterprise reporter for the SF Chronicle, Rachel Swan.
Read the story here: https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/oakland-police-data-reports-19545681.php
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A new investigation by ProPublica has uncovered a shadowy non-profit organization that problematically, and probably illegally, is pushing a hyper conservative right wing agenda in this country that very specifically aims to center the church in all parts of society. The group describes its membership as a “private, confidential, invitation-only community of high-net-worth Christian families” with a minimum net worth of $25 million. The organization is called Ziklag, which itself is a biblical reference. Our guest is Andy Kroll, a reporter for ProPublica covering voting, elections and other democracy issues. He is one of the reporters on this shocking story, which is titled, “Inside Ziklag, the Secret Organization of Wealthy Christians Trying to Sway the Election and Change the Country.”
Read the story here: https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ziklag-secret-christian-charity-2024-election
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On today’s episode we get a report from four Bay Area activists who just returned from the West Bank doing protective presence work with the International Solidarity Movement, an attempt to deter Israel’s continued colonial land grabs in the area, where the zionist state has taken more Palestinian land in the past 9 months than in any similar time period since the early 1990s.
The International Solidarity Movement, or ISM, brings in volunteers from around the world to offer what they call a protective presence, that is, to spend time in endangered Palestinian areas, with a hope that the international presence could prevent zionist attacks.
The ISM is building up its protective presence now in the West Bank, and a group of Bay Area activists have just returned from doing that work in the West Bank areas of Massafer Yatta, and in the Jordan Valley.
That group joins us this morning, using pseudonyms or first names only, because being identified as ISM activists risks being prevented from continuing the work.
Our guests are Bella, Ossa, Nina and Maria.
Check out the International Solidarity Movement’s website: https://palsolidarity.org/
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence artist is Bay Area Nicaraguan emcee, and the frontman of the hip hop Cumbia group Bang Data, Deuce Eclipse.
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A recent Federal Appeals Court ruling allows students to sue the U.S. government for luring them to Farmington University, a fake institution that Immigration and Customs Enforcement incorporated in 2016, apparently to entrap international students who arrived legally in the U.S. on F-1 visas in an illegal “pay-to-stay” scheme. In the process, after collecting around six million dollars of student tuition, federal agents arrested at least 250 of the students who had enrolled at the fake university, which had a real campus as well as real accreditation obtained wrongfully. We review the legal case with Anna Nathanson, Associate Attorney with the Norris Law Group who represented the students who sued the U.S. along with Niraj Warikoo, a reporter for the Detroit Free Press who has been covering this story since he broke it in 2019.
See Niraj Warikoo’s latest piece here: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2024/07/03/court-students-at-fake-michigan-university-set-up-by-ice-can-sue/74228675007/
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Over the past two months, the city of Vallejo has paid out $672,000 in settlements to victims of excessive force lawsuits filed against Vallejo police Officer Robert DeMarco. According to the Vallejo Sun, the lawsuits stem from two incidents in 2017 and 2018 where Officer DeMarco struck two men with his baton while they were lying on the ground. Journalist Scott Morris joins us to describe these events. Morris covers policing, protest, civil rights, and far-right extremism for the Vallejo Sun.
Read Morris story here: https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-police-officer-robert-demarcos-costly-baton/
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Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1,200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder we do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build.
This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of July 8th, 2024.
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Today, we discuss the case of a woman who dropped dead at the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) in Chowchilla, apparently due to heatstroke. Last year, the Sacramento Bee reported that the prison’s cooling systems had failed during a heat wave. According to prisoners, temperatures inside the facility had topped 80 degrees. Our guest Elizabeth “Leesa” Nomura was formerly incarcerated at Chowchilla. She is a longtime prisoner advocate and Membership Organizer for the California Coalition of Women’s Prisoners. The organization is calling for a public health investigation into the death at CCWF.In our conversation, Leesa described this Crisis to Care Report authored by Human Impact Partners, CURB and other partner orgs: https://humanimpact.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/HIP-From-Crisis-to-Care-02-2023.pdf—-
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The International Solidarity Movement or ISM, which was an active protective presence in Palestine for many years in the earlier 2000s has returned. The perhaps-best known activist from that earlier round of International Solidarity Movement protective work was Rachel Corrie, a name many of our listeners are familiar with, because while putting her body in between an Israeli bulldozer at the home of a Palestinian family she was staying with in Rafah, the bulldozer drove over her, crushing her to death. Now, international activists are returning to provide a protective presence, with the same group – the International Solidarity Movement, now in the West Bank. A delegation from the Bay Area just returned from that protective presence work. We’ll hear more from them later in the week, but today, we hear a brief reflection from one of those Bay Area activists who just returned, Maria Lewis. —-
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As Israel continues into its now more than 9 month violent onslaught on Gaza, some of the Palestinians who’ve been displaced from their homes are seeking refuge elsewhere, but leaving Gaza is no simple or cheap task, and fundraising is particularly hard when your access to electricity, internet, and ultimately, community, is not reliable. Our guest today previously worked as a journalist in Ramallah in the West Bank, reporting on life under occupation. Since her time there, she has visited Palestine regularly, and is now working from within the US to help a family in Gaza find their way out. Renee Lewis joins us from Washington State.More on the fundraising campaign here:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-help-six-brothers-and-sisters-evacuate-gaza
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This week marks 9 full months of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. As we’ve done just about every Monday since October, we’ll turn back today to our recurring segment – The Palestine Post, talking about the latest news from Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and the efforts that people are taking from across the world to stop it.
We spend an extended hour (far too long to air on our slot on KPFA’s radio airwaves) in conversation with Nora Barrows-Friedman, a staff writer and editor at The Electronic Intifada, and also a former KPFA host and producer.
We’ll discuss a new report by the Lancet on the projected direct and indirect death toll in Gaza to be in the area of 170,000. Then we’ll talk about Haaretz’ report that Israel used the ‘Hannibal Directive’ on October 7th, which the Electronic Intifada previously reported just a few days after the Al Aqsa Flood and were lambasted for their coverage by mainstream media. We close with a discussion on the potential for ceasefire talks as representatives for Hamas and Israel meet in Cairo and Doha as well as a new commitment from the Presbyterian Church to divest from Israel bonds.
To read the Lancet report: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence artist is rhythm guitarist, orchestrator, composer, and producer, Ella Rae Feingold, who has toured and recorded with the whose-who of modern Black music including Queen Latifah, Erykah Badu, The Roots, Jay Z, Corrine Bailey Rae, Eric Benet, Silk Sonic (which is Anderson Paak and Bruno Mars), and many more.
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On this week’s Palestine Post, we speak with Rami Khouri, a Distinguished Public Policy Fellow at the American University of Beirut, and a journalist and author with 50 years of experience covering the Middle East.
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As the summer continues to heat up, legislators in Sacramento are finally moving forward with protections for workers who work in overheated indoor conditions across the state. The rules have been caught up in limbo following the state prison system’s concern that it would simply be too expensive to renovate their facilities to make it cool enough for safe working conditions. The rules have now moved forward through the State’s Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board for all hot indoor workplaces in the state except for in California prisons.
Joining us to discuss are Rachel van Geenhoven and Brian Kaneda. Rachel is communications director with WorkSafe, a California organization that uses policy advocacy, legal services, and movement building, to promote and protect the basic right of all people to a safe and healthy workplace. Brian is deputy director of Californians United for a Responsible Budget, or CURB, which is an organization dedicated to reducing imprisonment in our state by developing economic analyses about how it’s actually financially better for all of us, to reduce prisons.
Check out WorkSafe’s website: https://worksafe.org/
Check out CURB’s website: https://www.curbprisonspending.org/
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We turn our attention to San Francisco, exploring systemic problems with the City and County’s jail system with Mission Local editor Joe Eskanazi, whose latest piece is titled, “San Francisco Doesn’t Give a Damn What Goes on in its Jails.”
Read Joe Eskinazi’s piece here: https://missionlocal.org/2024/06/san-francisco-jail/
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On this week’s Palestine Post, we speak with James Smith who recently returned to London following two months of performing emergency medical care in Gaza. We speak with him alongside Zahra Billoo, the Executive Director of the Bay Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
CAIR Press release calling on Biden Admin to condemn torture of Palestinian detainees by Israeli forces: https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-calls-on-biden-admin-to-condemn-torture-of-palestinian-detainees-by-israeli-forces/
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is native Hawaiian poet and playwright Noa Gardner.
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Today is the national holiday of Juneteenth, and so we’ll spend the hour in conversation with Annette Gordon Reed, an author and Harvard professor from Texas, descending from slaves who were directly impacted by the actual events of Juneteenth. We’ll be talking about her book On Juneteenth, which is both an essential account and a stark reminder that the fight for equality under the law is exigent and ongoing.
Explore the book further: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/677854/on-juneteenth-by-annette-gordon-reed/9781631498831
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In this episode of the Palestine Post, we discuss repression against US-based pro-Palestine demonstrators with guest Dylan Saba, a staff attorney at Palestine Legal and the lead drafter of a new report entitled “Reverberations of October 7” that documents and analyzes the reports of repression against pro-Palestine activism in the US between Oct 7th and Dec 31, 2023, with the high volume of reports continuing into 2024.
Check out the report here: https://palestinelegal.org/news/2024/5/23/new-report-analyzes-crackdown-on-palestine-solidarity-in-the-usnbsp
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We speak on the latest news and analysis from Israel’s aggression in Palestine with guest Khury Petersen-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he researches U.S. empire, borders, and migration.
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is artist, organizer and social justice activist Favianna Rodriguez.
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is Bay Area multi-hyphenated artist Ashley Smiley.
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We encourage our brothers and sisters on the other side of the wall to write in to our show. Occasionally we read those letters on the air. This letter comes to us from San Quentin State Prison.
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Governor Gavin Newsom has signed legislation that allows Arizona abortion providers and their patients to cross state lines and perform procedures here in Cali. Joining us to discuss is Imani Gandy is Editor-at-Large for Rewire News Group. She also co-hosts the podcast Boom! Lawyered.
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Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1,200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder we do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build.
This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of June 3rd, 2024.
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On today’s episode, activist, author and somatics professional Abigail Rose Clarke joins us to discuss her new book Returning Home to Our Bodies which reminds us that truly meaningful embodiment practice nurtures our relationships among self, nature, and community. With methods honed over decades of inquiry, teaching, and practice, Returning Home to Our Bodies provides a lucid, body-based model of healing and restoration—one that imagines a world beyond systems of domination, marginalization, and isolation to nurture embodied, whole-community liberation.
Check out Abigail Rose Clarke’s website: https://www.abigailroseclarke.com/
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is playwright, actor, and multi-disciplinary artist Biko Eisen-Martin.
Check out Biko’s website: https://www.bikoeisenmartin.com/
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is Bay Area writer, musician, activist, author and founder of Krip Hop Nation, Leroy Moore.
Check out Leroy’s website: https://kriphopinstitute.com/
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Today is the 230th day of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. Here on KPFA, we’ve been covering that violence itself as well as the US’s apparent unending blank check for Israel’s war machine that comes across in weapons transfers, cash, and political support. But even within the Biden Administration, distress in our country’s support for the genocide is growing. For the first time, last week, a Jewish person appointed by US President Joe Biden resigned from the administration in protest of the President’s support for Israel’s aggression in Gaza. Lily Greenberg Call is that former Biden appointee, and she joins us this morning to discuss her resignation as well as the reckoning she’s had to do as a Jewish person, with the violence of zionism.
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As we do most Mondays, we spend today’s show on the ongoing genocide that Israel is waging against Palestinians. Today we’re in conversation with Linda Sarsour, a Brooklyn-born Palestinian Muslim American activist, author, and community organizer. She is the author of her memoir We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders. We’re also joined by Sahar Francis, is the General Director of Ramallah-based Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, a Palestinian organization providing legal and advocacy support to Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli and Palestinian prisons. She is also an attorney by training.
At the end of the hour we’re also joined by Liz Arias, a student in her senior year at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, where the student encampment protest negotiated a successful divestment commitment from the school’s administration last week.
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The Intercept has uncovered new details about a small family business in Connecticut identified as having sold a lethal drug to the Federal Bureau of Prisons for use in the Trump administration’s unprecedented execution spree. Joining us to discuss are Lauren Gill is a New York-based journalist whose work focuses on criminal legal system, and specifically the death penalty, prisons, and jails, and voting rights alongside freelance journalist Daniel Moritz-Rabson who investigates the criminal legal system.
Read the article: https://theintercept.com/2024/04/25/absolute-standards-execution-drug-pentobarbital/
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Across the country thousands of university students have erected hundreds of encampments as part of the fight and demand to liberate Palestine. Within the past week we’ve seen universities push back with repression and arrest. Joining us to discuss are Meg O’Connor is an award-winning Senior Reporter for The Appeal, covering police, prosecutors, and the criminal legal system and Ethan Corey is The Appeal’s Research & Projects Editor.
Read their article: https://theappeal.org/prosecutors-charges-protesters-arrested-gaza-colleges-april/
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Before becoming a national leader in efforts to improve conditions for prisoners as well as people who’ve been recently released, Dorsey Nunn spent a decade behind bars. That experience spurred his fifty powerful years of political and legal battles for freedom and human rights, including as the founder of All of Us or None and the longtime Executive Director of Legal Services for Prisoners With Children. Nunn recently published his memoir, called What Kind of Bird Can’t Fly: A Memoir of Resilience and Resurrection, and he joins us to discuss it.
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As we do most Monday’s on Law & Disorder, we spend this episode focused on the genocide waged by Israel in Gaza. Our guest today is Rami Khouri is a Distinguished Public Policy Fellow at the American University of Beirut, and a journalist and author with 50 years of experience covering the Middle East.
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is multitalented Danish performance artist Annika Lewis, whose piece “The Soul Catcher: Unmasking the Modern Predator” will open the 2024 San Francisco Interntional Arts Festival.
Check out Annika Lewis‘ website: http://www.annikalewis.dk/english/
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KPFA listeners get an exclusive discount code* for tickets to Annika Lewis’ performance and for passes to the entire festival. Enter the code KPFA20** to receive 20% off on your tickets, and you can find tickets at the 2024 San Francisco International Arts Festival website: www.sfiaf.org
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We invited movement elder and longtime educator Rick Ayers to contribute a commentary for Law & Disorder, originally written for his blog. It is titled, “Echoes of the American War in Vietnam, Part 2,” as a follow up to a part 1 which was also featured on Law & Disorder.
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Anyone who has supported a loved one in prison knows that commissary prices for basic necessities and food to supplement the poor and scant provided meals inside are high. But how high? Our friends at The Appeal have recently published Locked In, Priced Out, a project that includes a first-of-its-kind database of prison commissary lists from 46 states. To discuss, we are joined by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, senior reporter for The Appeal, a worker-led nonprofit news organization. She writes on prison and jail conditions, and wrongful convictions.
Read Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg’s reporting: https://theappeal.org/locked-in-priced-out-how-much-prison-commissary-prices/
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Bay Area activists have joined hundreds of others from around the world to set sail on a humanitarian aid flotilla headed to Gaza. We are joined from Istanbul by Maria Lewis and Carlos Michaud, two Bay Area activists participating in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, seeking to deliver 5,500 tons of aid by sea, to Gaza.
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Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1,200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder we do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build.
This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of April 22nd, 2024.
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Gathering an array of recognized names as well as new discoveries, our guest today Janet Dewart Bell, in her new book curates two centuries of stirring public addresses by Black women, from Harriet Tubman and Ella Baker to Barbara Lee and Barbara Jordan. These speakers explore ethics, morality, courage, authenticity, and leadership, highlighting Black women speaking truth to power in service of freedom and justice. The book is called Blackbirds Singing: Inspiring Black Women’s Speeches from the Civil War to the Twenty-first Century.
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On todays show – a conversation with Maya Wind, a scholar of Israeli expertise and militarism. Her new book is Towers of Ivory & Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom. As this book shows, Israeli universities serve as pillars of Israel’s system of oppression against Palestinians. Towers of Ivory and Steel is a powerful exposé of Israeli academia’s ongoing and active complicity in Israel’s settler-colonial project.
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Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1,200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder we do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build.
This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of April 15th, 2024.
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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 are everywhere, resistance is too. The book is called The Jail is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration, and our guests are editors Jack Norton and Judah Schept.
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is award winning and multi-nominated, Los Angeles-based actress, playwright and author, Robin Riker.
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The Playwrights Foundation 46th Playwrights Festival is beginning at the Magic Theater at the Fort Mason in San Francisco, from April 12th to April 21st. The centerpiece of the festival are readings from four resident playwrights with the Playwrights Foundation along with workshops, parties and a meet and greet as well as a bit of reading with the new Playwrights Foundation Resident Playwright Cohort – which includes our host Cat Brooks.
Joining us to discuss are Jason Tseng, a queer, non-binary Chinese-American playwright with roots in New York City and Washington D.C. Their play with the Playwrights Festival is called Fear & Wonder, a play in which two boys of color navigate a Christian summer camp together in the early 2000s. Also joining us is Aidaa Peerzada, a writer and performer whose background as the descendant of two artists from different cultural traditions – an African American and First Generation American Pakistani – is at the heart of her artistic practice. Her play with the Playwrights Festival is called Children of the Wise, in which the main character visits her familial homeland, now Pakistan, and confronts the legacy of her grandfather’s anti-colonial activism during the British-ruled subcontinent a century earlier.
Check out the Playwrights Foundation’s website: http://playwrights.org/
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On Wednesday, April 10th, residents from Oakland’s Wood Streets Common and their organizational allies held a press conference announcing a month of Housing is a Human Right organizing and actions. Joining us to discuss are Talya Husbands-Hankin, the founder of Love and Justice in the Streets along with John Janosko, former Wood street encampment resident.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is Bay Area theater director and producer as well as the Artistic Director of the Playwrights Foundation, Jessica Bird Beza.
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Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1,200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder we do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build.
This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of April 8th, 2024.
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The Sagorea Te’ Land Trust has rematriated the West Berkeley Shellmound through a long community organizing struggle, a partnership with the City of Berkeley, and a generous donation. We’re joined by the chair and spokesperson for the Confederated Villages of Lisjan as well as co-founder and co-director of The Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, Corrina Gould.
Check out the Sagorea Te´Land Trust’s website: https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/
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In the midst of a national legislative and social attack on the transgender community, a new report addresses the experiences of trans people living behind bars. The report is called Advancing Transgender Justice: Illuminating Trans Lives Behind and Beyond Bars, and it was written by the Vera Institute for Justice with support from Black and Pink. Joining us to discuss are Kelsie Chesnut, a senior researcher with the Vera Institute for Justice, and a lead researcher and co-author of the new report along with Kenna Barnes, the Advocacy Manager with Black and Pink, an abolitionist organization supporting LGBTQ and HIV-positive prisoners.
Read the report: https://www.vera.org/advancing-transgender-justice
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This week marks six months of Israel’s genocide on Gaza. We spend most of the show today reflecting on the past half year of colonial destruction in conversation with Muhannad Ayyash, a policy analyst for Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network and a professor of Sociology at Mount Royal University in Calgary. He was born and raised in Palestine under Israeli occupation. Muhannad joins us from South Africa.
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is Bay Area theater director and producer as well as the Artistic Director of the Playwrights Foundation, Jessica Bird Beza.
Check out Jessica Bird Beza’s website: https://www.jessicabird.net/
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A new wave of legislation around the country functions to “legally erase” trans people. We’re joined by Nico Lang, an award-winning reporter, editor and author of the forthcoming book, American Teenager: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era. They also curate a daily news roundup on Instagram – you can follow Nico there @QueerNewsDaily. Nico’s latest article, published by THEM, is called “Here’s How a New Wave of Legislation Aims to “Legally Erase” Trans People”.Read the article here: https://www.them.us/story/anti-trans-legislation-legally-erase-trans-peopleFollow Nico Lang on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/queernewsdaily/—
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Baltimore is planning a $1bn jail construction project, the most expensive state-funded project in Maryland ever. They’re using a consent decree for terrible jail conditions as justification for building a “better” jail. We’re joined by David Fathi, the Director of the American Civil Liberties Union National Prison Project, which brings challenges to conditions of confinement in prisons, jails, and other detention facilities, and works to end the policies that have given the United States the highest incarceration rate in the world. David is also involved in a more-than 30-year old lawsuit about conditions in Baltimore jails called Duvall v Hogan which is being problematically used to justify the new $1 billion jail construction plan.
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We dedicate today’s show to covering the latest impacts and experiences of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. We’re joined by Phyllis Bennis, a Middle East analyst and directs the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. Her book Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer was recently re-published in its 7th edition.
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is French-Caribbean, singer, bandleader, and bassist, Adi Oasis, whose music brings out the sounds of vintage soul, funk and disco, with a modern vibe.
Check out Adi Oasis live at the Independent in SF on Thurs, April 4th: http://theindependentsf.com/event/13875908/adi-oasis/
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On today’s episode, 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 life, and to the idea and experience of enemies. It’s written by MacArthur Genius Hanif Abdurraqib, who is a poet, writer, music and cultural critic, as well as a sneakerhead and a dog parent. We talk about Hanif’s new book, which uses basketball as a vehicle for engaging the nuances of social life, from pride in a team city and following dreams that can be just out of reach, to a relationship with urban abandonment, police violence, jails, and rebellion, all alongside nuances of love and grief. We also talk about Israel’s genocide in Gaza as well as the sacrifices of Ramadan.
Hanif Abdurraqib will be appearing in San Francisco on his book tour for an event co-sponsored by SF City Arts and Lectures as well as Marcus Books on April 3rd at 7:30pm at they Sydney Goldstein Theater. More info here: https://cityarts.net/
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As we do each Monday, this episode focuses on the latest news from Palestine.
Just a few minutes before recording this episode, the UN Security Council voted in support of a binding resolution for a “lasting and sustainable ceasefire” – note, not a permanent ceasefire – in Gaza. We spend the entire hour with immediate reactions to the vote by Nora Barrows-Friedman, an editor at The Electronic Intifada, and also a former KPFA host and producer; along with Nadya Tannous a researcher, writer and veteran organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement.
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is long-time Oakland writer, punk, musician, dancer, director, and underground legend, Brontez Purnell, who released a new book of poetry in February called Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt: A Memoir in Verse.
Check out Brontez Purnell’s new poetry book: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374612702/tenbridgesiveburnt
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According to a recent investigation by the New Jersey Office of the State Comptroller, law enforcement officers being trained by the for-profit training company Street Cop were “taught unconstitutional policing tactics, glorified violence, denigrated women and minorities, and likely violated a myriad of state laws and policies.” Street Cop does business with law enforcement agencies in 46 different states. Shirley LaVarco, an attorney at Civil Rights Corps joins us to unpack the failures of police training, especially in the unregulated environment in which these private companies operate. Her analysis, laid out in The Appeal, argues that more police training will not make people safer, reducing unnecessary police encounters will. LaVarco writes “While banning pretextual traffic stops won’t fully transform the culture of racism and misogyny permeating American policing, it is a common-sense first step.”
Read LaVarco’s piece in The Appeal: https://theappeal.org/police-training-violent-racist-ban-pretextual-traffic-stops/
The RISE Houston campaign seeks to end pretexutal stops, end the city’s contract with ineffective surveillance technology like Shotspotter, freeze police spending and invest in evidence-based solutions that actually make communities safer. Joining us is one of the visionaries behind this campaign—Joy Davis, a community organizer with Pure Justice.
Learn more about RISE Houston here: https://risehouston.org/
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A recent report by Disability Rights California reveals widespread neglect and abuse of people in Los Angeles County held under mental health conservatorship. In LA County last year, over 800 people were held in jail or locked in psychiatric units longer than they needed to be. According to Michelle Kotval, senior staff attorney at Disability Rights California, this issue is especially harmful for people placed in LPS (mental health) conservatorships by the County because their right to make decisions about their own lives are taken from them.
Read the report here: https://www.disabilityrightsca.org/report/stuck-los-angeles-countys-abuse-and-neglect-of-people-on-mental-health-conservatorships
What could have stopped the police from killing of Ryan Gainer, the autistic Black 15-year-old who was fatally shot outside his home by a San Bernardino Sheriff deputy? We present the case to Aisha Novasky, senior staff attorney at Disability Rights California.
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After taking a trip out of the country, leaving his home in Portland, Oregon, to visit Sudan in 2010, Yonas Fikre was approached by FBI agents who tried to recruit him as a government informant. Most likely because he refused the FBI’s advances, he was arrested, tortured, and interrogated, and then placed on a No Fly list. He was stuck outside the US for 6-or-so years. That story is itself appalling, and we’ll hear it in more depth in just a moment, but, on Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled with a full consensus – a 9-to-0 decision, that the government must allow Yonas Fikre to pursue a court case in which he claims that being on the official No Fly list caused him reputational harm and violated his due process. The FBI argued that since they took him off the list, the case was moot. Essentially, the Supreme Court ruling admits that the FBI’s No Fly list can continue to be interrogated in court.
Joining us to discuss the case is Justin Sadowsky, a trial attorney with the Council on American-Islamic Relations or CAIR. CAIR is the organization that brought Fikre’s lawsuit and successfully argued it in the Supreme Court. Justin, our guest, co-wrote many of the briefs in that case.
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We have a dramatic lack of affordable housing options, but for decades, federal policymakers have stripped away public resources. One problematic result is a privatized, market-driven orientation to affordable housing through what are called Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Properties. A new report says that policymakers must act to rein in corporate profiteers by increasing accountability that ensures affordable housing, with dignity for all. That report is called The Failure of For-Profit Affordable Housing — and How Tenants Are Organizing for Change, and it was written together by Urban Habitat and the East Bay Community Law Center. We’re joined by Michael Trujillo, a staff attorney at the East Bay Community Law Center and a lead researcher on the new report.
Read the report: https://urbanhabitat.org/resource/the-failure-of-for-profit-affordable-housing-and-how-tenants-are-organizing-for-change/
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Returning to our ongoing coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, we take a look now at one of the ways we may be feeling the impact of that war here in the U.S. According to FBI statements, they are investigating thousands of threats that have to do with radicalization in the US as a result of the genocide. It could be part of a rhetorical build up to continue to over-fund national security agencies. Joining us to discuss is Daniel Boguslaw, a Washington DC-based investigative reporter for The Intercept focusing on U.S. politics and corporate greed. His latest piece is titled FBI Warns Gaza War Will Stoke Domestic Radicalization ‘For Years to Come’.
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The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating the Phoenix Police Department for potential civil rights violations, following widespread issues in the department as well as the police killing of Jacob Harris. This is is a case that we’ve covered a handful of times on Law & Disorder, but in the latest round of issues, community members say that Phoenix city officials are actively getting in the way of the Department of Justice inquiry, and they’ve had enough. Joining us to discuss is Meg O’Connor, an award-winning Senior Reporter for The Appeal, covering police, prosecutors, and the criminal legal system. Her latest piece is called Phoenix Police Victims Want City to Stop Interfering with Federal Probe.
Read Meg O’Connor’s latest article here: https://theappeal.org/phoenix-police-victims-want-city-to-stop-fighting-federal-probe/
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As we do each Monday, today’s show focuses on the latest from Palestine. We’re joined by Khury Petersen-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, along with Rehab Nazzal, a Palestinian artist and author who lives as a refugee in Toronto and currently in Bethlehem, Palestine. Her latest book is called Driving in Palestine.
Check out Rehab Nazzal’s latest book: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/driving-in-palestine-dfbd-aj-ad37jf
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is playwright, filmmaker, dramaturg, and film director and producer Reginald Edmund.
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In this episode, we work to understand Los Angeles’ police gangs as a former LA undersheriff admits he had a deputy gang tattoo. After two years of fighting a subpoena issued by the Los Angeles County Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission, former undersheriff Timothy Murakami has testified that he received the tattoo of the Cavemen deputy gang while he was a deputy at the East LA station in the 1980s.
We are joined by Cerise Castle, a Los Angeles-based journalist and equity reporter for Capitol and Main. She wrote the first history of deputy gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department in 2021, and has covered the aftermath of the revelations closely.
Read her latest coverage here: https://lapublicpress.org/2024/03/former-la-undersheriff-admits-he-had-a-deputy-gang-tattoo/
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Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1,200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder we do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build.
This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of March 11th, 2024.
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On today’s show, we discuss the extent to which FBI informants and agents were central in instigating the plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
Trevor Aaronson is a journalist and the author of The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism. He is also a contributing writer for The Intercept and the host of a podcast called Alphabet Boys – which reveals secret investigations of the FBI, DEA, ATF, and other agencies, and includes secret undercover recordings that the government never wanted the public to hear. Eric VanDussen is a Michigan-based journalist and videographer, and contributor to The Intercept. He’s covered the Governor Whitmer kidnapping plot and subsequent prosecutions closely for the last 3 years, including lawsuits under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to bring the details about the case and FBI operations into the public spotlight.
They join us to discuss their latest investigations for The Intercept, “The FBI’s Double Informant” detailing how the FBI informant and operations at the heart of the plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020.
Read the article here: https://theintercept.com/2024/03/06/gretchen-whitmer-kidnapping-informant/
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Is the US culpable of the war crimes being committed by Israel against the Palestinian people?
Khury Petersen-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies says, “If the US actually said, ‘We’re going to stop the flow of weapons to Israel,’ that is the one thing that I think could lead to an Israeli deescalation across the board—in Gaza, in Lebanon and in Jerusalem. Short of that, I think that they essentially have the green light in Washington to do whatever they want.”
Khury Petersen-Smith is a recurring guest on Law and Disorder’s Palestine Post. He researches US empire, borders, and migration.
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is a multi-hyphenate performance artist, scholar, educator, and activist whose work centers the decolonization of the theatrical canon, the black avant-garde, and queer political performance practice, AeJay Marquis Mitchell.
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When #BlackLivesMatter emerged in 2013, it animated the most consequential Black-led mobilization since the civil rights and Black power era. Today, the hashtag-turned rallying cry is but one expression of a radical reorientation toward Black politics, protest, and political thought. We’re joined today by the author of a book about the past 10 years of political movement, Christopher Paul Harris. His book To Build a Black Future examines the spirit and significance of this insurgency, offering a revelatory account of a new political culture—responsive to pain, suffused with joy, and premised on care—emerging from the centuries-long arc of Black rebellion, a tradition that traces back to the Black slave.
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On February 15th, a group of eight artists whose pieces were featured in a Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) exhibition protested the organizations attempt to silence political conversation on Palestine by altering their own exhibited works, adding pro-Palestine messages to their pieces. Since the protest, the YBCA gallery has remained closed. Eight artists participated in the protest, and we have two of them joining us in conversation. Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in Oakland, and Sholeh Asgary is an Iranian-born interdisciplinary sound artist.
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On today’s show, we’re joined by the author of a new uplifting collection of speeches by African American women called Blackbirds Singing: Inspiring Black Women’s Speeches from the Civil War to the Twenty-first Century. Our guest and the book’s curator is civil and human rights activist, scholar, and author Janet Dewart Bell. Gathering an array of recognized names as well as new discoveries, our guest discusses the speeches and legacies of two centuries of stirring public addresses by Black women, from Harriet Tubman and Ella Baker to Barbara Lee and Barbara Jordan. These magnificent speakers explore ethics, morality, courage, authenticity, and leadership, highlighting Black women speaking truth to power in service of freedom and justice.
Check out Janet Dewart Bell’s website: https://janetdewartbell.com/
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We’re joined on today’s show by the author of a brand new 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 the Crossroads (“Middle East”) and explores ways we become free from the wounds of colonization and displacement. Recounting vivid stories, Feghali shares lineages of folk healing and eco-cultural stewardship — including those passed down by matriarchs, plants and practices of prenatal and postpartum care, mystical traditions for spiritual healing, earth-based practices for emotional wellness, plant tending for bioregional regeneration, medicinal plants and herbal protocols, cultural remedies and recipes, and more.
Check out Layla K Feghali’s website: https://www.riverroseremembrance.com/
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Elections in the Alameda County Board of Supervisor race for District 4 are taking place on March 5th. The Board of Supervisors is made up of five elected non-partisan leaders who work as a regional governing body. The board’s work includes appointing county officials, adopting an annual budget and awarding all public works contracts, among other duties. The District 4 supervisor will represent portions of Pleasanton, Oakland, Castro Valley and various unincorporated areas of the county. We hear from the two candidates in the race starting with the incumbent Nate Miley who was first elected to the seat in 2000.
Running against Nate Miley is Jennifer Esteen, a psychiatric nurse, single mother and community activist.
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The Palestinian Youth Movement has published the first English edition of Wisam Rafeedie’s novel, “The Trinity of Fundamentals“. The book is an artifact of Palestinian resistance, both in its content and the story of how it came to be. Wisam Rafeedie was a Palestinian political prisoner held in an Israeli prison after being captured by the Israeli Occupation Forces in 1991. In 1993, he wrote the novel during his imprisonment in 1993, by secretly hand-writing and distributing excerpts of it through a clandestine system of circulation established by the prisoners, which moved materials and information across cells. Various sections were transferred via pieces of bread dough or pill capsules that were thrown across cells. Eventually, his attempts to smuggle his novel out of the prison through this method was thwarted by the interception of the prison guards who subsequently confiscated it the year it was completed – or so he thought. Later, Rafeedie found that pieces of his book had been assembled by Palestinian resistance organizers and distributed to some Palestinian communities.
After a years-long of effort to bring the book to an English speaking Palestinian diasporic audience, the Palestinian Youth Movement and 1804 Books have published the book in English. We are joined to discuss the book and its story by Danya Al-Saleh, a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement based in Seattle, and an editor of the English translation of the book “The Trinity of Fundamentals“.
Order your copy here: https://1804books.com/products/the-trinity-of-fundamentals
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is character-driven vérité storyteller, documentary filmmaker and journalist Cady Voge.
Cady Voge’s brand new documentary All We Carry will celebrate a Bay Area premier on February 25th in San Francisco. More info here: https://jfi.org/year-round/calendar/all-we-carry-wf24
Check out Cady Voge’s website: https://www.cadyvoge.com/
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In 2020 the country exploded in protest responding to the murder of George Floyd. One of those protests took place in Sumter, South Carolina in May of 2020 where Brittany Martin was a participant. She joined in chanting, harmed no one, and destroyed no property. Now she’s serving a four year prison sentence. Joining us to discuss is her husband Eric Kennedy.
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A federal complaint has been filed alleging that the Ronald McDonald House is discriminating against people with sick children who were convicted of certain crimes in the past. The ACLU, among other groups, alleges the rule violates the federal Fair Housing Act. Joining us to discuss is Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, senior reporter for The Appeal, a worker-led nonprofit news organization. She writes on prison and jail conditions, and wrongful convictions.
Read Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg’s coverage: https://theappeal.org/ronald-mcdonald-house-criminal-records-discrimination/
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Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1,200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder we do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build.
This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of February 5th, 2024.
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A bill criminalizing bail funds passed through the Georgia state legislature on Tuesday, February 6th. Joining us to discuss is Fallon McClure, Deputy Director for Policy & Advocacy with Georgia’s ACLU.
Read Fallon McClure’s op-ed about Georgia’s SB63: https://newsone.com/4981507/georgia-cash-bail-bill/
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A brand new report on the state of Hindu nationalism calls out the violence of the Hindu supremacist political movement both within India, but also with a stronghold among conservative Hindus in the US who have built close allied relationships with famed white supremacists like, for example, Steve Bannon, who is an honorary chairman of the Republican Hindu Coalition. That report is called The Global VHP’s Trail of Violence, published by Savera, which is a multiracial, interfaith, anti-caste coalition of Indian Americans and partners, standing together in the fight against the rise of the transnational far right. Today we’re in conversation with the editor of that report, Safa Ahmed, who is the Associate Director of Media & Communications with the Indian American Muslim Council.
Take a look at the Savera report: https://www.wearesavera.org/resources/reports/
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San Francisco has settled multiple of what appear to be scandalous termination lawsuits. First, the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department is set to re-hire a former deputy who lost his job after being found to have forced prisoners into a fight club, who also cost the city $280,000 in settlements. Then, we’ll talk through an $835,000 settlement for a former prosecutor in the San Francisco District Attorney’s office who was fired in 2020. Joining us to discuss is Eleni Balakrishnan, a San Francisco reporter focused on policing, with non-profit newsroom Mission Local.
Read Eleni Balakrishnan’s coverage of the re-hired ‘fight club’ deputy: https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/sf-rehire-ex-sheriffs-deputy-fight-club-scandal/
Read Eleni Balakrishnan’s coverage of the former prosecutor settlement: https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/sf-investigator-fired-chesa-boudin-835k-settlement/
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Over the past handful of years, white supremacy in the US has reared its head, with vitriolic images like the tiki torch march in Charlottesville in 2017 or the January 6th, 2021, conservative attack on the US capitol. In this episode, we’re in conversation with a professor and n author whose new book places modern white supremacy and American racialization, in a long-term historical context of Christian values and morals. We’re going to go back more than a thousand years to explore how European Christianity, defined itself, for centuries, through anti-semitism. That logic eventually became secularized but maintained a Christian compass, a north star that led the colonization of the Americas, and the social creation of race – and anti-Black racism – as we know it. This exchange between anti-semitic and anti-Black logics, continue to interplay through – of course – American slavery, jumping forward to the Jewish holocaust in Europe, then the US Civil Rights act, and finally back to the present, where we are terribly aware of white supremacist gatherings that chant things like – and these are quotes – “the Jews will not replace us” and “the South will rise again”.
We’re joined in this episode by Magda Teter, a Professor of History and the Shvidler Chair of Judaic Studies at Fordham University, as well as President of the American Academy of Jewish Research. Today we’ll be talking about her book, Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism.
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As usual on Mondays, we focus the entirety of our show on the latest developments in Israel’s war on Palestine, and people’s resistance to that aggression.
Today, we follow up on the Defense for Children International – Palestine v. Biden court case, where a federal judge dismissed the case but with language that agreed that Israel’s violence seems to equate to a genocide, and urges the government to stop its “unflagging support” of Israel’s war machine. We’re in conversation with Maria LaHood, one of the lawyers with the Center for Constitutional Rights who is working on thiscourt case. Maria has championed this work for decades, having been involved in the Rachel Corrie legal case in the mid 2000s.
Follow up with the Center for Constitutional Rights: https://ccrjustice.org/
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As usual on Mondays, we focus the entirety of our show on the latest developments in Israel’s war on Palestine, and people’s resistance to that aggression.
Discussing the latest figures, the status of an in-progress truce deal, and the cutting of UNWRA funding by the US and other wealthy countries, we are joined by Khury Peterson-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he researches US empire, borders, and migration.
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is editor, educator, activist, author, mom, and Berkeley’s poet laureate, Aya de Leon.
Check out Aya’s website: https://ayadeleon.wordpress.com/
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A new report from CalMatters shows that California’s averages more than $132,000 in spending for each person kept in prison, per year. That amount is 90% higher than the cost to imprison someone just ten years ago in 2014. Joining us to discuss is Brian Kaneda, the Deputy Director of Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB), which is an organization dedicated to reducing imprisonment in our state by developing deep economic analyses about how it’s actually financially better for all of us, to reduce prisons.
Read the CalMatters report here: https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/01/california-prison-cost-per-inmate/
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Activists in Richmond are planning a protest at the Chevron refinery against support of Israel’s genocide in Gaza as well as the company’s problematic environmentally racist policies here at home. That protest is set for Saturday, February 3rd at noon. We’re joined by Keala Uchoa, a youth organizer with Communities for a Better Environment in Richmond, who is one of the organizers of Saturday’s protest.
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Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1,200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder we do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build.
This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of January 29th, 2024.
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In states where abortion has been completely banned, more than sixty-four thousand rapes have resulted in force pregnancy, according to a new report titled ‘Rape-Related Pregnancies in the 14 US States With Total Abortion Bans’. Dr Samuel Dickman is one of the researchers and authors of that report, as well as an abortion provider with Planned Parenthood. He joins us to discuss that research.
Read the report here: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2814274
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Saturday, January 27th, marked the UN-recognized International Holocaust Remembrance Day. For that commemoration, the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) hosted a webinar panel, discussing Israel’s misuse of the Nazi genocide to justify the genocide of Palestinians. Our podcast episode brings audio from that webinar, which featured an international panel of anti-zionist and internationalist activists discussing the urgent need for a remembrance of the Jewish Holocaust that is distinct from Israel’s settler colonial project, and how Israel’s weaponization of that history impacts their communities. The panel is co-moderated by our Law & Disorder co-host Jesse Strauss along with David Comedi from the Argentinian chapter of IJAN, with the following guests:
- Monadel Herzallah, a Palestinian with the US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) and a plaintiff in the US-based Defense for Children International – Palestine v. Biden court case
- Phethani Madzivhandila from the Walter Rodney Library in Azania (South Africa)
- Sara Kershnar, a co-founder of IJAN and member of the U.S. chapter of IJAN
- A clip from Hajo Meyer, Auschwitz survivor and IJAN ancestor who inspired and participated in the 2010 Never Again for Anyone speaking tour
- Kali Akuno from Cooperation Jackson
- Maria LaHood from the Center for Constitutional Rights
- Sam Weinstein from the UK chapter of IJAN
Watch the full webinar in English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3abPNRrP0I
Mira el webinar completo en Español: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf83sRVDWy4
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We had such a phenomenal time talking with Yaffa A.S. recently that we invited Yaffa back onto the show for an extended discussion. Yaffa A.S. is the Executive Director of the Muslim Alliance for Sexual & Gender Diversity. Yaffa is a trans Muslim and displaced Indigenous Palestinian. In this conversation we talk about their experience growing up in the Palestinian diaspora, gaining a deeper understanding of pink- and purple-washing, and Yaffa’s new book of poetry.
Check out the Muslim Alliance for Sexual & Gender Diversity’s website: https://www.themasgd.org/
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is composer, pianist, vocalist, interdisciplinary artist, and sur-realist, Samora Pinderhughes.
Check out Samora’s website: https://www.samorapinderhughes.com/
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In Oakland, the city has been examining the potential for reintroducing a former police program called Operation Ceasefire. It’s a carrot and stick program, where the Police Department identifies people they believe to be violent, offer them social services and support structures while also threatening them with significant criminal enhancements like state and federal charges in the case that they are arrested for any crime. It turns out that the carrot portion of Operation Ceasefire had a positive impact. Joining us to discuss are George Galvis, the co-founder and executive director of Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice, along with James Burch, Deputy Director for the Anti Police-Terror Project, an organization that seeks to end police violence in Black and Brown communities.
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Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1,200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder we do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build.
This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of January 22nd, 2024.
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Starting in the 1970s, small groups of feminist activists met regularly to study anatomy, practice pelvic exams on each other, and learn how to safely perform a procedure known as menstrual extraction, which can end a pregnancy, using equipment easily bought and assembled at home. This “self-help” movement grew into a robust national and international collaboration of activists determined to ensure access to reproductive healthcare, including abortion, at all costs—to the point of learning how to do the necessary steps themselves.
Our guest today is Angela Hume, a feminist historian, author, literary critic, and poet, discussing her latest book that tells the history of the Bay Area’s leadership in the “self-help” abortion access movement. The book is called Deep Care: The Radical Activists Who Provided Abortions, Defied the Law, and Fought to Keep Clinics Open.
Learn more about the book at AK Press: https://www.akpress.org/deep-care.html
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For years, in driving around the Bay Area it’s been common to spot pink billboards from a company called JewBelong, with pro-Jewish statements ranging from “Jewish Mothers: The original Yelp” to “All jews welcome. Refreshments and guilt to follow”. More recently, those billboards have become a strange and sinister zionist platform, recently printing statements like “Hamas is your problem too” or “keep calling me a zionist – nothing makes me prouder”. JewBelong posted on its instagram a particularly inflammatory image, saying, “Trust me. If Israel wanted to commit genocide in Gaza, it could.”
Joining us today, to give us some background about JewBelong, is Michael Schirtzer, LA-based co-host of the Palestine Pod podcast, as well as an actor and comedian who has written for NBC Sports, The Young Turks, and our Pacifica sister station in LA – KPFK.
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is actor and director Elizabeth Carter.
Check out Elizabeth Carter’s website: https://www.elizabethcarterarts.com/
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State funding for public defenders is being scrapped by Governor Gavin Newsom, who ran for office on a platform of reforming the criminal legal system. While over-funding an already-inflated policing budget over false claims of a retail theft crisis – to the tune of $300 million – the Governor has announced $40 million in cuts to public defense funds that were intended to support reducing the state’s prison population. Joining us to discuss is Brendon Woods, the first Black Chief Public Defender of Alameda County who has also served as the president of the California Public Defenders Association.
Follow Brendon Woods on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrendonWoodsPD
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In San Francisco, police issues at the city level seem to be ever-increasing, from Mayor London Breed planning to increase spending on police, to the force violating their own high speed chase policy, and a repressive response to drug users while politicians – including the police chief – say that they support non-law-enforcement alternatives while refusing to fund those programs. We’re joined by Tim Redmond, the founder of 48hills. He has been a political and investigative reporter in San Francisco for more than 30 years and spent much of that time as executive editor of the Bay Guardian.
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California’s wildfire suppression planning leaves a lot to be desired. On today’s show, we’ll learn how our neighboring native communities are rejecting the state’s militaristic approaches of fighting fire, by stewarding a relationship with it. Our guests today – Deniss J Martinez and Tony Marks-Block – are researchers and two of the co-authors of a new article called “Indigenous Fire Futures – Anticolonial Approaches to Shifting Fire Relations in California”.
Deniss J Martinez is a research administrator in the Native American Studies Department at UC Davis where she researches collaborative governance, Indigenous environmental justice, and fire management. She is a descendant of Tutunaku people, and grew up in Shasta and Karuk homelands in colonized Northern California.
Tony Marks-Block is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Geography and Environmental Studies at Cal State East Bay in Hayward, on unceded Chochenyo Ohlone territory. Tony’s research is focused on the socio-ecology of small-scale subsistence practices, including prescribed and cultural fire.
Read the article here: https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/environment-and-society/14/1/ares140109.xml
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is dancer, choreographer and healer, Amara Tabor Smith.
Check out Amara Tabor Smith’s dance company website: https://www.deepwatersdance.com/
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We have been devastated to see intentional attacks on Gaza’s medical infrastructure by Israel and even more mortified to see western medical communities response of indifference and even in some cases support for what zionists say is Israel’s right to defend itself. Not all medical professionals however have taken that stance. Joining us to discuss is Dr Jess Ghannam, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Global Health Sciences in the School of Medicine at UCSF. His research areas include evaluating the long-term health consequences of war on displaced communities.
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On Monday, the world will honor the birthday of one of the greatest leaders of all time – Dr Martin Luther King Jr. For many, the legacy people celebrate is white washed and sanitized. King was a revolutionary, who believed in interrupting business as usual and had the courage to stand up to white supremacy no matter the cost. He told the world that America was the greatest purveyor of violence on the planet, and for it, he was assassinated. Today we’ll discuss King’s radical legacy with guests Malkia Devich-Cyril and Walter Riley. Malkia Devic-Cyril is an activist, writer and public speaker on issues of digital rights, narrative power, Black liberation and collective grief. Devich-Cyril is also the founding and former Executive Director of MediaJustice. Walter Riley is an activist, civil rights lawyer and chair of the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund. His political organizing work goes back to the civil rights movement in the Jim Crow south, originally from North Carolina.
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The Black Panther Party’s Oakland Community School is turning 50 this Saturday and theres an event to celebrate it. We are joined this morning by Fredrika Newton – the Co-founder of the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation, former Black Panther Party member, and widow of Dr. Minister Huey P. Newton, as well as Gregory Lewis – a former student and alumni of the Oakland Community School.
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On today’s show, first – a recall effort against Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao has begun. This comes alongside the ongoing recall efforts of Alameda County’s District Attorney Pamela Price and is reflective of right wing efforts across the country to draw progressive cities to the right and build a voting base ahead of the 2024 election cycle. Joining us to discuss is Saabir Lockett, founder and executive director of Pathways 2 Peace as well as lead organizer of the 4 Peace Coalition. We are also joined by Pastor Jeremy McCants, an activist and independent faith leader.
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Deaths resulting from interactions with the US criminal legal system are a public health emergency, but the scope of this issue is intentionally ignored by the very systems that are supposed to be tracking these fatalities. We don’t know how many people die in custody each year, whether in an encounter with police on the street, during transport, or while in jails, prisons, or detention centers. In order to make a real difference and address this human rights problem, researchers and policy makers need reliable data.
Our guest in this episode is one of the authors of Death in Custody: How America Ignores the Truth and What We Can Do About It. Dr. Roger Mitchell Jr is a professor and chair of pathology at the Howard University College of Medicine. He is a forensic pathologist who previously served as the Chief Medical Examiner and Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and Justice in Washington DC.
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Pinkwashing and purplewashing are tools of Israeli propaganda that build a narrative around the Jewish state as a haven for women and queer people. The zionist arguments for these themes include statements like: Hamas would kill queer people or trans people, and that on the far opposite side Israel’s legal system protects those groups. It’s a framework that pits queer folks and women against Palestine, and in support of Israel. But activists say pink- and purple-washing are part of a false propaganda machine. Joining us to discuss Israel’s pinkwashing and purplewashing campaigns, is Yaffa A.S., the Executive Director of the Muslim Alliance for Sexual & Gender Diversity. Yaffa is a trans Muslim and displaced Indigenous Palestinian.
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Israel has killed at least 22,600 people in Gaza and 57,910 have been wounded, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, since early October. Thousands more are feared dead under the rubble left behind by airstrikes. In Israel, the death toll from Hamas’ attack stands at 1,139.
Today we start on the latest events, Israel’s expansion of warfare into Lebanon and more broadly in the region, and analysis of US media coverage of the bombardments, with guest Rami Khouri, a Distinguished Public Policy Fellow at the American University of Beirut, and a journalist and author with 50 years of experience covering the Middle East.
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is arts organizer, screen printer, banner maker, anti-war activist, direct action organizer and author, David Solnit.
Check out David Solnit’s Ceasefire Art Kit to make your own protest art for a free Palestine: https://bit.ly/ceasefireart
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A two-year Marshall Project investigation examined 12 years of New York State Department of Corrections disciplinary records. The investigation found that a staggering three out of four prison guards who were once fired for prisoner abuse, were later reinstated through the arbitration process. Joseph Neff, staff reporter for The Marshall Project, joins us. His piece, co-authored with Alysia Santo titled, ‘A Crazy System’: How Arbitration Returns Abusive Guards to New York Prisons was co-published by the New York Times and The Marshall Project.
Read the article here: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/12/14/new-york-prison-correctional-officer-abuse-arbitration
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New elements of California’s Racial Justice Act for All went into effect on January 1st of this year. The new state law could have tremendous impact on the criminal justice system by empowering individuals serving felony convictions in the state to challenge racist conduct against them in criminal court proceedings. To discuss, we’re joined by Chesa Boudin as well as Morgan Zamora. Chesa is the Executive Director of UC Berkeley’s new Criminal Law & Justice Center, as well as the former District Attorney of San Francisco. Morgan is the Prison Advocacy Coordinator at the Ella Baker Center says in-prison and community education on the Racial Justice for All Act are some of the ways that advocates like herself are helping defendants access the relief promised by the new law.
The Ella Baker Center has also produced this free guide in English and Spanish, which the organization plans to continue updating: https://ellabakercenter.org/rja-info/
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Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1,200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder we do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build.
This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of January 1st, 2024.
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According to a recent investigation by Anna Clark a Detroit-based reporter for ProPublica, the state of Michigan is failing to compensate people who are found to be erroneously convicted despite a state statute which can provide $50,000 per year of wrongful incarceration. Anna’s report is titled They Were Wrongfully Convicted. Now They’re Denied Compensation Despite Michigan Law.
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One of the many laws going into effect this week will roll out in San Francisco and Oakland, two of six pilot cities which will start enforcing speeding violations with automated surveillance cameras that send tickets out on their own, in an effort to prevent traffic accidents and pedestrian deaths. Joining us to discuss the specifics is Brian Hofer, Executive Director of Secure Justice a non-profit that advocates against state abuse of power and for reduction in government and corporate overreach. Hofer is also Chair of Oakland’s Privacy Advisory Commission, which opposed the legislation before it was signed into law.
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On today’s episode we explore the racialized, gendered, sexualized, and overarchingly monetized, tension of that music, and its relationship to normative socials and economics of whiteness – all through the lens of one of the legendary creators and original influencers of music that became known as rock and roll. That’s someone who is popularly, although not popularly enough, known as Big Mama Thornton – not famous enough for penning songs that white artists made a killing from, like Elvis’ version of Hound Dog and Janis Joplin’s version of Ball n Chain. We spend the hour discussing a biography that begins by rejecting even the name that she was marketed with. The book is called Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters, and our guest is the author of that book, Lynnée Denise, who is an academic, an author and a global practitioner of sound, language, and Black Atlantic thought, who coined the term “DJ Scholarship”, which shifts the role of the DJ from a party purveyor to an archivist and cultural worker. Her research contends with how iterations of sound system culture construct a living archive and refuge for a Black queer diaspora.
Check out Lynnée Denise‘ website: https://www.djlynneedenise.com/
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is poet, poverty scholar, activist, author, organizer, daughter of Dee, and a co-founder of both Poor Poets and homefulness, Lisa Tiny Gray Garcia.
Check out Tiny’s website: https://www.lisatinygraygarcia.com/
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A Washington Post investigation shows that law enforcement agencies have been accessing patient prescription records from pharmacies without warrants, a congressional investigation has found. Consumers are often unaware their private information is being handed over to authorities. Lawmakers surveyed eight major pharmacy chains — CVS Health, Walgreens Boots Alliance, Cigna, Optum Rx, Walmart Stores Inc., The Kroger Co. and Rite Aid Corp. along with Amazon Pharmacy. Only Amazon Pharmacy said it had a policy of informing customers when law enforcement requested their records. None of the companies said it requires a warrant before providing pharmacy records to law enforcement agencies. To discuss what this could mean specifically for women and girls post the Dobbs decision, we’re joined by Imani Gandi, Editor-at-Large for Rewire News Group. She also co-hosts the podcast Boom! Lawyered.
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What can actually be done about bad actors in law enforcement? A recent law may have an impact – that’s California’s Senate Bill 2, also known as the Kenneth Ross Jr. Police Decertification Act which was fought for and won by a statewide coalition that included BLM Grassroots, the Anti-Police Terror Project, Alliance for Boys and Men of Color and others including the ACLU of Northern California. Joining us to discuss is Marshal Arnwine, an advocate for the Criminal Justice Program at the ACLU of Northern California. In this capacity, he helps lead and organize efforts to reform police policies for 48 Northern California counties.
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Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder we do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build.
This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of December 18th, 2023.
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Most of us have a constant relationship to technology – tools that are constantly being developed and improved from an innovation standpoint, without a consistent understanding of how those tools function. How can the technology that we rely on the most be used to track us and share our personal information? Whether you are an activist, a reporter or the target of a stalker, there can be myriad reasons to better understand how our devices work and how to keep ourselves safe.
Today we speak with two reporters who break down phone safety for us. Monique Madan investigates tech at the intersection of criminal justice, social justice, government accountability and immigration, and Wesley Callow supports The Markup’s staff product and tech needs, keeping equipment and software up to date and secure. Together they’ve published a two-part series called Without a Trace: How to Take Your Phone Off the Grid and How to Keep Your Phone Off the Grid. The Markup is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates how powerful institutions are using technology to change our society.
Check out the articles:
1. How to Take Your Phone Off the Grid: https://themarkup.org/levelup/2023/10/25/without-a-trace-how-to-take-your-phone-off-the-grid 2. How to Keep Your Phone Off the Grid: https://themarkup.org/levelup/2023/12/13/without-a-trace-how-to-keep-your-phone-off-the-grid
Check out Monique Madan’s website: https://moniqueomadan.com/
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The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010 was a debilitating event that followed decades of political, social, and financial issues. Leaving over 250,000 people dead, 300,000 injured, and 1.5 million people homeless, the earthquake has had lasting repercussions on a struggling nation. We’re in conversation with Myriam Chancy about her book Harvesting Haiti: Reflections on Unnatural Disasters, encouraging us to examine the historical and present structures that have resulted in Haiti’s post-earthquake conditions.
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It has been almost ten weeks since Israel launched its massive attacks on Palestine. Over the weekend, the Ministry of Health announced that the death toll has amassed to at least 19,088, with over 54,450 individuals wounded. We continue our ongoing coverage in conversation with Khury Petersen-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he researches US empire, borders, and migration. We are also joined by Zahra Billoo, Executive Director of the Bay Area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is multi-disciplinary artist, choreographer, dancer and co-founder of Naka Dance Theater Debby Kajiyama.
Check out the website for Debby’s dance company Naka: http://nakadancetheater.com/
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Continuing our coverage of the protest against Atlanta’s Cop City project, we get updates on the RICO case and new information about the states tactics to prosecute activists while smearing the name of a person they killed. We are joined by Aja Arnold, an Atlanta-based journalist and founding editor of local outlet Mainline. Her reporting on Atlanta’s Cop City project has been featured in The Intercept, Vice, and The Appeal. Her latest is titled, Prosecutors Smearing Dead ‘Cop City’ Activist by Publicizing Their Diary, Organizers Say.
Read the story here: https://www.mainlinezine.com/manuel-tortuguita-teran-diary-cop-city/
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In an open air prison for migrants near San Diego at the US-Mexico border, migrants find themselves detained and forced to try to survive the elements as their population has doubled in just three months. Joining us to discuss is Melissa Gomez, a Metro reporter for the Los Angeles Times, whose latest reporting addresses treatment of migrants by US border patrol near San Diego at the US-Mexico border. The piece is called, Migrants struggle against the elements in San Diego’s open-air desert camps.
Read the story here: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-11-28/migrants-struggle-against-elements-san-diego-desert-camp
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Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder we do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build.
This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of November 27th, 2023.
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In ProPublica’s latest investigation into the forensic junk science, we learn about some medical examiners’ use of ‘lung float tests’, which use questionable-at-best practices to determine whether a baby who has died was born as a stillbirth. The test has been used to convict women who’ve birthed stillborn babies of murdering their child.
Our guest is Duaa Eldeib, a reporter at ProPublica whose reporting has sparked legislative hearings and government reform and has led to the release of young men incarcerated as juveniles then later sent to adult prison for “minor” offenses. Her latest reporting is on a forensic analysis tool that experts have likened to a witch trial, to convict women who’ve had stillbirths at home, of murder. As a result of her reporting on this topic, new investigations are underway to examine that the validity – or not – of the forensic junk science. Her latest piece in ProPublica is titled, “Experts to Examine a Controversial Forensic Test That Has Helped Convict Women of Murder”.
Check out Duaa Eldeib’s reporting for ProPublica: https://www.propublica.org/people/duaa-eldeib
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In this episode we look at the dramatic impact of the lifting of the pandemic policy of an eviction moratorium in Alameda County. We discuss the dramatic increase in evictions now in Alameda County compared to pre-pandemic levels with our guest Leah Simon-Weisberg, Legal Director of The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) Action.
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Today we’re met with a reminder that taking breaks is not only important to our physical health, it’s also important to the health of political movements. We’re joined by performance artist, writer, activist, theologian, daydreamer and founder of the Nap Ministry, Tricia Hersey, to discuss her labor of love to move the work of Black liberation forward by encouraging the sustainability of organizing work – and by that she means, taking more naps! We’ll talk about Tricia’s book Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto, which is rooted in spiritual energy and centered in Black liberation, womanism, somatics, and Afrofuturism. Rest Is Resistance is a call to action, a battle cry, a field guide, and a manifesto for all of us who are sleep deprived, searching for justice, and longing to be liberated from the oppressive grip of grind culture.
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We’ll spend this hour with voices and reflections on Israel’s bombardment of Gaza with some of the powerful voices in our communities. We’ll start with Nadya Tannous, who has been organizing to stop Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, as a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement. She is a passionate community organizer and writer, born and raised in the Bay Area. Nadya is also the Deputy Director of Honor The Earth, an Indigenous-led Environmental Justice organization tackling climate disaster at its root causes. This reflection was recorded at an event at Berkeley’s La Peña cultural center on November 19th, called Thangs Taken: Rethinking Thanksgiving. You’ll hear Nadya draw connections between indigenous movements here in the colonized united states and in Palestine.
Check out the Palestinian Youth Movement’s website: https://palestinianyouthmovement.com/
Then, we go to longtime Bay Area activist and educator Rick Ayers. Rick publishes writing on a personal blog every once in a while. We saw his most recent post about the Israeli bombardment of Gaza, called Echoes of the American War in Vietnam, and so, we invited him to contribute it as a commentary to Law & Disorder.
Check out Rick Ayers‘ blog: https://rick-ayers.medium.com/
Then, we move to Oakland rapper, musician, and fillmaker Boots Riley, from a speech given during the Jewish anti-zionist occupation of the Oakland federal building that took place on November 20th.
Finally, our co-host and producer Jesse Strauss will close out the hour with his own commentary.
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is poet, playwrite, essayist, organizer, and one of the founders of the Black Arts Movement, Marvin X..
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In today’s episode we hear audio from an event called Thangs Taken: Rethinking Thanksgiving, that took place at La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley on Sunday, November 19th, 2023. As we approach the Thanksgiving Holiday, the purpose of the event, was to challenge colonial narratives, support our native communities, and to reflect on our relationship to the colonized lands that we occupy.
Before the pandemic, Thangs Taken was an annual event, and for the first time since the pandemic, it has returned, and to a sold out audience. It’s a political and a community space, and it is also where the Shuumi Land Tax was launched, eight years ago this week.
The voices we’ll hear from the event are Krea Gomez, George Galvis, Brook Thompson, Desirae Harp, Ariel Luckey, and Mapuche Lonko Juanita Millal.
Check out the Sagorea Te Land Trust and pay your Shuumi land tax: https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/
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On today’s live show we preempted all of our normal coverage to go straight to the San Francisco Bay Bridge where protesters blocked all traffic in the westbound direction, demanding that no business continues as usual as long as Israel continues to bomb Gaza. We spend the hour with protesters blocking all lanes of traffic, aided by reporter Salima Hamirani.
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We’re just about a week ahead of the national colonial holiday Thanksgiving, so we’ll spend the morning with a member of the tribe that is depicted in the Pilgrim and Indian mythology of Thanksgiving. Hartman Deetz is a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe and has been a cultural steward of his people through language, material and performing arts. I’ll talk with him about the meaning of Thanksgiving to the Wampanoag people, and we’ll get his re-telling of the Thanksgiving story.
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In this short story by our co-host Jesse Strauss, Thanksgiving in the year 2223 in Israel celebrates the colonial promise of the complete settling of the land of Palestine.
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As we do each Monday since October 7th, we spend today’s show on the ongoing violence Israel is waging against Palestinians. Today we’re in conversation with Linda Sarsour, a Brooklyn-born Palestinian Muslim American activist, author, and community organizer. She is the author of her memoir We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders.
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In this episode: A four-hundred-year reckoning with the colonial workings of the carceral state and resistance against it. We talk about how the story of American prisons is inextricably linked to the expansion of US power around the globe as well as the power of prison resistance, from the Seminole Indians to Assata Shakur. Our guest is Benjamin Weber, professor of African American Studies at UC Davis and author of the brand new book American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of Mass Incarceration.
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is rapper, barber, fashion designer, documentary filmmaker, podcast host, professor, and mother, Tiffani Marie. She is the band leader of Artelia Green & The Bandanas.
Check out Artelia Green & The Bandanas: https://www.arteliagreen.com/
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Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder we do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build.
This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of October 30th, 2023.
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We continue our coverage of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza as the death toll for Palestinian men, women and children has risen past 13,000. We start in conversation with Randa Wahbe, former staff member at Addameer, a Palestinian non-governmental, civil institution that has worked to support Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli and Palestinian prisons since 1991. Randa is a Harvard PhD candidate whose research examines how Israel uses and exploits Palestinian dead bodies to surveil, control and continuously dispossess and incarcerate the Palestinian population. We’re also joined by Khury Petersen-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he researches US empire, borders, and migration.
Then, we explore the Bay Area’s organizing in solidarity with Palestine with guest Lara Kiswani, the Executive Director of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center, which organizes for racial and economic justice and the dignity and liberation of our Arab, and Muslim communities here in the Bay Area. Lara is also Palestinian.
Check out the website for the Arab Resource and Organizing Center: https://www.araborganizing.org/
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The latest in Palestine, where over the weekend, Israel entered a “second phase” of war on Gaza. We discuss developments over the weekend, and also explore the impact on the West Bank, where more than 120 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli military and settlers. We also discuss the 5,000-plus additional Palestinian hostages taken prisoner by Israeli forces in the past few weeks and the potential for a prisoner exchange.
Joining us are Al Jazeera digital correspondent Zena Tahhan in Jerusalem, along with Muhannad Ayyash, policy analyst for Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network.
Follow Zena Tahhan’s stories on Al Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/author/zena_tahhan_160505115436507
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is multi-disciplinary artist and dancer José Navarrete.
Check out the website for Javier’s dance company Naka: http://nakadancetheater.com/
Check out the website for the Eastside Arts Alliance: https://www.eastsideartsalliance.org/
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Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder we do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build.
This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of October 23th, 2023.
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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 be that our communities can see the humanity of the Palestinian people through it.
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The Oakland Police Commission is hailed as one of the strongest in the nation, but right now they are in chaos. Joining us to break it all down is Eli Wolfe, a journalist who has been covering this issue for Oaklandside.
Check out Eli Wolfe’s latest reporting for Oaklandside: https://oaklandside.org/author/eli-wolfe/
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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 Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he researches U.S. empire, borders, and migration. We are also joined by Zahra Billoo, Executive Director of the Bay Area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist Bay Area rapper and hip hop journalist Rocky Rivera whose album Gangster of Love celebrates a 10 year anniversary this week.
Info for the Gangster Of Love 10th anniversary event and special edition vinyl: https://www.thestacksrecordshop.com/
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Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder we do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build.
This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of October 16th, 2023.
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In this episode we kick off Oakland Fashion Week in conversation with event producers Jeff Perlstein, co-director of Oakland Style Lab, a nonprofit fashion incubator connecting existing, emerging, & aspiring designers to boost their creativity, technical skills & business opportunities for success in the growing creative workforce; along with Teju Adisa-Farrar, an environmental equity consultant, researcher, and facilitator whose work focuses on regenerative fiber and fashion systems, climate justice and adaptation, mapping Black relationships to our environment, supporting farmers of the global majority, and culturally responsive economic alternatives.
Learn more about Reimagine Fashion and the events this weekend: https://www.instagram.com/ReimagineFashionOakland
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Mayor Sheng Thao gave her first state of the city address about Oakland. Joining us for reaction is George Galvis, Co-founder and executive director of Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice (CURYJ).
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We continue our conversation about what is unfolding in Palestine with Rehab Nazzal, a Palestinian artist and author who lives as a refugee in Toronto but is currently in Bethlehem, Palestine. Her latest book is called Driving in Palestine. We’re also joined by Rana Nazzal Hamadeh, a Palestinian artist and filmmaker living between Ramallah and Ottawa on unceded Anishinaabe territory.
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October is National Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention Month.
On today’s show, we’ll be in conversation with Tracy McCarter, a nurse and grandmother who was jailed after her husband died of a stab wound that was inflicted while Tracy was defending herself from a violent attack. Her story is chronicled in a new book called Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Incarceration. That book is by our second guest, Jocelyn Simonson, a Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School. She writes and teaches about criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence, and social change. Her scholarship explores ways in which the public participates in the criminal process and in the institutions of local governance that control policing and punishment. In particular, she studies bottom-up interventions in the criminal legal system, such as bail funds, copwatching, courtwatching, and participatory defense, asking how these real-life interventions should inform our conceptions of the design of institutions in the criminal legal system, the discourse of constitutional rights, and the meaning of democratic justice.
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On today’s episode, the latest in Palestine and the ramifications of islamophobia and anti-Arab racism in the US, in conversation with Khury Peterson-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he researches US empire, borders, and migration.
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is multi-disciplinary artist, actress, poet, scholar and daughter of California, Mimi Tempestt.
Follow Mimi Tempestt on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mimi.tempestt/
Buy Mimi Tempestt’s latest book: https://citylights.com/general-poetry/delicacy-of-emracing-spirals/
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During the past seven decades, Palestine has been sealed from the Arab world and shattered into fragmented and coded areas: 1948 area, 1967 area, Jerusalem, West Bank, Gaza, and A, B and C areas within the West Bank. Each area is ruled by different laws, including different roads and permits that control the mobility of Palestinians and privilege Jewish settlers.
Today we’re be in conversation with Rehab Nazzal, a Palestinian-born multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto, whose latest book, Driving in Palestine, is a research-creation project by acclaimed artist Rehab Nazzal, who explores the visible indices of the politics of mobility that she encountered firsthand while traversing the occupied West Bank between 2010 and 2020. This photography book consists of 160 black and white photographs, hand-drawn maps and critical essays in Arabic and English by Palestinian and Canadian scholars and artists.
The photographs were all captured from moving vehicles on the roads of the West Bank. They focus on Israel’s architecture of movement restrictions and surveillance structures that proliferate in the West Bank, including the Apartheid Wall, segregation walls surrounding illegal colonies, gates, fences, watchtowers, roadblocks and military checkpoints among other obstacles to freedom of movement.
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In this episode, in light of the renewed battle for land in Palestine, we feature a poem from Bay Area Palestinian activist Lubna, called In The Absence of Homeland.
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Early on Saturday Morning, Hamas led a militant raid on Israeli settlements around the outskirts of the Gaza Strip, flying over border fences In paraglides, bulldozing Israeli border fences, and assaulting Israeli colonial settlements just outside the fiercely controlled Gaza Strip. In the days since, Israel has declared war on gaza, has killed many Palestinians, has leveled buildings in Gaza, and has called on its military reserves to prepare for a ground war. Meanwhile, Palestinian liberation fighters have continued to fight back, breaking through more border fences, taking control over land and apparently trying to build a land bridge between the Gaza strip and the west bank. This is a new chapter in a many decades-long struggle for land.
Continuing our conversation about the renewed war for land in Palestine, we bring the conversation home to the Bay Area, in conversation with Suzanne Ali, from the local chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement, a transnational, independent, grassroots movement of young Palestinians dedicated to the liberation of our homeland and people; along with Lara Kiswani, the Executive Director of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center, which organizes for racial and economic justice and the dignity and liberation of our Arab, and Muslim communities here in the Bay Area. She is also Palestinian.
Check out the Palestinian Youth Movement’s website: https://palestinianyouthmovement.com/
Check out the Arab Resource and Organizing Center’s website: https://araborganizing.org/
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is motorcycle-riding multidisciplinary performing artist, transsexual, dyke, and tattoo artist, Annie Danger.
Check out Annie Danger’s tattoo work on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danger_tattoos/
Check out Annie Danger’s show The Hands That Feed You at CounterPulse in San Francisco on October 13th or October 15th: https://counterpulse.org/
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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 the face of a propaganda machine that doesn’t bring this country’s war mongering into media consumption every day, what does it mean to build an anti-war movement? Our guest today is Norman Solomon, a journalist, media critic, activist and author of more than a dozen books. His latest book is called War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine.
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Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder we do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build.
This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of September 18th, 2023.
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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 his books, but is perhaps best known for the #1 New York Times bestseller, Go The Fuck To Sleep.
The Golem of Brooklyn will be released on September 26th.
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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 a heritage of racism and a disdain for poverty. We are joined by Jane Spinak, the Edward Ross Aranow Clinical Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where she was the founding board chair of the Center for Family Representation. Her latest book is titled, The End of Family Court.
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Twelve years ago, Oakland native Pierre Rushing was arrested, tried and convicted for a murder he claims he did not commit. Since then, there has been an ongoing campaign to bring him home. Those chances were slim to none with the former DA Nancy O’Malley but now with a new progressive in the seat who has promised to right the wrongs of the criminal legal system, could that mean Pierre is coming home? Joining us to discuss is Pierre’s attorney Jordan Grtozinger. Sign a petition for Pierre Rushing: https://www.change.org/p/department-of-justice-justice-for-pierre-rushing-wrongfully-convicted —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Challenging a Murder Conviction in Alameda County w/ Jordan Grotzinger appeared first on KPFA.
Fifty-two Bay Area schools are facing lawsuits from former students who say they were sexually abused by a teacher and the school administration and district did nothing to protect them. We are joined by Sophia Bollag, a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, who published three investigative pieces this week, uncovering the depth of sexual abuse scandals in Bay Area schools. Read Sophia Bollag’s coverage here: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/schools-sexual-abuse-lawsuits-17885043.php Follow Sophia Bollag on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SophiaBollag —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Journalist Uncovers Rampant Sexual Abuse in Bay Area Schools w/ Sophia Bollag appeared first on KPFA.
A federal judge has ordered Louisiana officials to move kids out of a former death row unit at Angola, one of the nation’s most notorious prisons. The ruling found that authorities at the facility had locked children up in cells for days at a time as a form of punishment, punished detained youth with the use of handcuffs, mace, and denial of family visits, and failed to provide appropriate educational and social services and mental health treatment. We are joined to discuss by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, a senior reporter for The Appeal, who has consistently investigated the treatment of child prisoners held at Angola. Elizabeth writes on prison and jail conditions, and wrongful convictions. Read Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg’s coverage: https://theappeal.org/louisiana-judge-ruling-angola-prison-children/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Judge: Vacate Lousiana’s Angola Prison of Children w/ Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg appeared first on KPFA.
San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston has introduced legislation that would push the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing to fill half of its 1,002 vacant supportive housing units and remain at a vacancy below five percent moving forward. We’re joined by Supervisor Preston, who represents District 5, which includes the Tenderloin, the Haight, the Fillmore, Japantown, Civic Center and the Western Addition. —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post SF Proposal to Immediately House 500 Houseless People w/ Supervisor Dean Preston appeared first on KPFA.
The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world. This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is culturally innovative artist and filmmaker Shaka Jamal. Follow Shaka Jamal on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shakajamal/ — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Resistance in Residence Artist: Shaka Jamal appeared first on KPFA.
In this episode we go to Atlanta, where 61 people have been indicted under RICO organized crime charges for alleged participation in Stop Cop City organizing and anarchist political affiliation. Our guests are Keyanna Jones, a Stop Cop City organizer for Community Movement Builders in Atlanta; as well as Steven Hardge, a member of the Atlanta chapter of the Black Alliance for Peace (or BAP). He’s also a part of a broader coalition of individuals and orgs fighting back against Atlanta’s Cop City plan.
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Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder we do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build.
This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of September 4th, 2023.
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The US Supreme court has made abortion access much harder by overturning Roe v Wade. Today, we turn to Canada, where persistent threats to reproductive justice include: sexual violence, gun violence, homophobia and transphobia, criminalization of sex work, reproductive oppression of Indigenous women and girls, privatization of fertility health services, and the racism and colonialism of policing and the prison system. I’ll be in conversation with Martha Paynter, whose new book is called Abortion to Abolition: Reproductive Health and Justice in Canada. She reveals how prison abolition is key to the path forward. Check out Martha Paynter’s website: https://marthapaynter.ca/ Check out Martha Paynter’s book Abortion to Abolition: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/abortion-to-abolition —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Abortion, Bodily Autonomy, and Abolition in Canada w/ Martha Paynter appeared first on KPFA.
The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is Oakland comedian Jerry Law.
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In this episode we go to Columbus, Ohio, where the community has been in uproar over the police killing of Ta’Kiya Young, who was shot by officers while driving after being accused of stealing alcohol from a grocery store. She was pregnant at the time she was killed, and she leaves behind two children. We speak with Ramon Obey, Executive Director of Justice, Unity, & Social Transformation (or JUST) in Columbus, Ohio, and lead organizer of the People’s Justice Project. Check out the JUST website: https://justcbus.org/ Donate to the fundraiser in honor of Ta’Kiya Young: https://www.gofundme.com/f/takiya-young — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Columbus, Ohio Mourns Ta’Kiya Young w/ Ramon Obey appeared first on KPFA.
Today, we share Diamonds and Bullets, an all vocal theatrical experience produced by Oakland-based arts and consulting company Edutainment for Equity, to provoke greater understanding and empathy for the statement “Black Lives Matter”. It features music of Bay Area Hip Hop Vocal Ensemble Antique Naked Soul, headed by songwriter and activist Candice Antique Davis and Grammy Award Winning Artist MC Soulati aka Tommy Shepherd. The script was written by scholar, artist and activist Hodari Davis, and our own host of Law and Disorder Cat Brooks. The play features Cat and Candice in lead roles as Diamond, and actor Michael Houston as her lover, friend and inspiration. This musical theater experience was created with support from the City of Oakland Office of Cultural Affairs and the Zellerbach Family Foundation. For more information you can visit edutainmentforequity.com. — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Radio Theater: Diamonds and Bullets appeared first on KPFA.
For years now, local developer Phil Tagami has been embattled in a lawsuit with the city over a lease granted to him by the City of Oakland at the West Gateway on the waterfront of West Oakland – to build the Oakland Global Trade and Logistics Center. It is here he that wants to orchestrate the shipping of coal from Utah right through West Oakland. Not only has Tagami been embroiled in a battle with the city – he has been embroiled in a battle with Oaklanders who don’t want coal pollutants running through their community. We’re joined by Sejal Choksi-Chugh, Executive Director of SF Baykeeper since 2015, along with Ryan Nicole, a grammy-nominated rapper and an Oakland artist, actress, athlete and activist, who recently released an environmental anthem called Small but Mighty. Learn more about SF Baykeeper: https://baykeeper.org/ Check out Ryan Nicole’s website: https://www.msryannicole.com/ Watch the music video for Ryan Nicole’s Small but Mighty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tQf89bhrg4 — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post No Coal in Oakland w/ Sejal Choksi-Chugh & Ryan Nicole appeared first on KPFA.
In this episode we focus on the local environmental impact of West Oakland’s Schnitzer Steel Factory, which has poured chemicals into the areas airways for many years. Earlier in August, the factory experienced a significant toxic fire. Joining us to discuss is Ms. Margaret Gordon, co-founder and co-director of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project (WOEIP). and a lifetime local community activist who has been collaborating with neighborhood organizations, physicians, researchers, and public officials to ensure West Oakland residents enjoy a clean environment. Check out the WOEIP website: https://woeip.org/ — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post West Oakland’s Schnitzer Steel Burns Again w/ Margaret Gordon appeared first on KPFA.
The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world. This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is playwright Leelee Jackson, who writes postmodern narratives of the African diaspora. Her play Comb Your Hair (Or You’ll Look Like a Slave) was featured earlier this month at BAMBDFEST. Check out Leelee Jackson’s website: https://writewithleelee.wixsite.com/website — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Resistance in Residence Artist: Leelee Jackson appeared first on KPFA.
Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder we do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build. This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of August 21st, 2023. —- This episode featured music by Kofy Brown. Check out her website: https://www.kofybrown.com/ Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post State Terror Round Up for the week of August 21st, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
On March 26, 2018, rescue workers discovered a crumpled SUV and the bodies of two women and multiple children at the bottom of a cliff along the California coastline. The crash was a murder-suicide: a white lesbian couple had adopted six Black children, with a paper-trail of child abuse and neglect that had been ignored by the child welfare system. We’re in conversation with Roxana Asgarian, a journalist whose focus on the story developed into an incredible book – a deeply reported indictment of a system that continues to fail America’s most vulnerable children, while upending the lives of their families. The book is called We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America. This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is dancer, artist, choreographer, consultant and founder of Destiny Arts Center, Sarah Crowell. Learn more about Destiny Arts Center: https://destinyarts.org/ — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Family Ties and Child Removal in America w/ Roxana Asgarian appeared first on KPFA.
The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world. This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is dancer, artist, choreographer, consultant and founder of Destiny Arts Center, Sarah Crowell. Learn more about Destiny Arts Center: https://destinyarts.org/ — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Resistance in Residence Artist: Sarah Crowell appeared first on KPFA.
Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder we do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build. This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of August 14th, 2023. —- This episode featured music by Kofy Brown. Check out her website: https://www.kofybrown.com/ Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post State Terror Round Up for the week of August 14th, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
August is when many of us commemorate Black August and so Law & Disorder is bringing you more Black August resistance programming. We are joined this morning by Kalonji Jama Changa is an organizer, founder of the FTP Movement, and the co-chair of the Urban Survival and Preparedness Institute and is co-founder of Black Power Media. He is also author of the bestselling book, “How to Build a People’s Army” and co-producer of the documentary “Organizing is the New Cool”. — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Commemorating Black August w/ Kalonji Jama Changa appeared first on KPFA.
Governor Gavin Newsom has committed $1.2 million for automated license plate readers in Oakland. Joining us to discuss is Brian Hofer is the Executive Director of Secure Justice, a non-profit that advocates against state abuse of power, and for reduction in government and corporate over-reach. He has also been the Chair of Oakland’s Privacy Advisory Commission since 2016. — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post CA Sends $1.2m to Oakland for License Plate Readers w/ Brian Hofer appeared first on KPFA.
The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world. This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is writer, singer, and organizer for Black freedom and the freedom of political prisoners, YahNé Ndgo. Check out YahNé Ndgo’s website: http://yahnendgo.com/ — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Resistance in Residence Artist: YahNé Ndgo appeared first on KPFA.
Hip Hop is turning 50 and several Bay Area folks are being inducted into the Bay Area Hip Hop Archives. We are joined by three of the people being honored at the celebration event for the Archives, which will take place on Friday, August 11th at the Oakland Museum of California. Our guests are Davey D, a multi-media journalist, professor, hip-hop historian, dj, activist, speaker, and commentator with a long history of playing and reporting on hip hop. He is the veteran host of KPFA’s very own Hard Knock Radio. We’re also joined by Anita Johnson, a nationally-recognized, award-winning broadcast journalist, and veteran executive producer of KPFA’s very own Hard Knock Radio. Lastly, we’re joined by Jennifer Johns, a powerhouse, vocalist, songwriter, producer, activist, and entrepreneur who creates sounds, experiences, and products that are sure to stir your soul, inspire your mind and move your body. Learn more about the celebration event on Friday, August 11th: https://museumca.org/event/friday-nights-at-omca-a-celebration-of-hip-hop-culture/ — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Celebrating Bay Area Hip Hop at 50 w/ Davey D, Anita Johnson & Jennifer Johns appeared first on KPFA.
On August 13 1955, a Black WW1 war veteran named Lamar Smith was murdered on the steps of the Brookhaven MS courthouse in front of many witnesses as he tried to register Black people to vote. No one was ever brought to justice. Joining us to discuss is Roy L Smith, a nephew of Lamar Smith. Their family is planning an event in Lamar Smith’s honor on August 14th. — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Remembering the Black Veteran Murdered While Registering Voters w/ Roy L Smith appeared first on KPFA.
We spend this hour in conversation with Mama Ayanna Mashana about what it means to celebrate Black August – the history of Black rebellion, the political prisoners who the US holds hostage from the Black Liberation Movement, and the customs that we use to celebrate the month. My guest Mama Ayana is also the former partner of Baba Shaka At-Thinnin who, as a former political prisoner, co-founded the Black August Organizing Committee and the Black August movement. Learn more about Black August: https://freethelandmxgm.org/ — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Commemorating Black August w/ Mama Ayanna Mashana appeared first on KPFA.
A new report by the UC Berkeley Labor called “The State of Working East Bay” analyzes living and working conditions among workers in the East Bay before the pandemic – from 2015-2019 – which demonstrates that many workers and their families struggled to make ends meet even before COVID hit. Joining me to discuss are Dr Savannah Hunter, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow who studies work and inequality. She was the lead researcher for the report we’re discussing today, which follows up a 2012 report of the same name published by East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy – that’s EBASE. We’re also joined by Kate O’Hara the executive director of EBASE. Read the report here: https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/state-of-working-east-bay-2015-2019/ Check out EBASE’s website: https://workingeastbay.org/ — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post East Bay Wages Too Low for More Than Half of Workers to Support a Family w/ Dr Savannah Hunter & Kate O’Hara appeared first on KPFA.
Diving into the FBI’s role in protest movements since the 2020 uprisings, we take a deep dive in conversation with Mike German, a fellow with the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty & National Security Program. He is also a former special agent with the FBI, and author of the book Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide: How the New FBI Damages Democracy. — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post FBI’s Role in Protest Movement Since 2020 Uprisings w/ Mike German appeared first on KPFA.
The ACLU has sued the City of Colorado Springs, members of the Colorado Springs Police Department, and the FBI, for aggressive overreach and repression during the Colorado Springs 2020 protest movement. We’re joined this morning by the primary plaintiff in the lawsuit, Jacqueline Armendariz Unzueta, along with Tim Macdonald, the Legal Director of the ACLU of Colorado and the lead attorney for the lawsuit we’re discussing today. We’re also joined by Trevor Aaronson, a journalist and the author of The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism. He is a contributing writer for The Intercept and the host of a podcast which documented the FBI’s role in Colorado’s 2020 protest movement called Alphabet Boys. — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post FBI Sued by ACLU for Overreach in 2020 Colorado Protests appeared first on KPFA.
The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world. This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is actor, comedian, radio host, director, playwrite and social justice warrior, Donald Lacy. Learn more about Donald Lacy’s current play Josephine’s Feast: https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/theater/josephines-feast-magic-theatre-black-mother-18258593 Follow Donald Lacy on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/donaldlacyjr/ Check out Donald Lacy’s organization LoveLife Foundation: https://www.lovelifefoundation.org/ — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Resistance in Residence Artist: Donald Lacy appeared first on KPFA.
Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder we do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build. This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of July 31st, 2023. —- This episode featured music by Kofy Brown. Check out her website: https://www.kofybrown.com/ Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post State Terror Round Up for the week of July 31st, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
We spend this episode with San Francisco Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin and Culture Clash Co-Founder Ric Salinas, honoring the life and legacy of poet Diane di Prima, ahead of the memorial service this Sunday, August 6th at the Castro Theater in SF. Memorial event info here: https://centerforthehumanities.org/programming/celebrating-the-life-and-legacy-of-diane-di-prima-presented-by-her-family —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Honoring Diane di Prima w/ Tongo Eisen-Martin & Ric Salinas appeared first on KPFA.
A new CalMatters report shows that opioid deaths in California have increased by more than 120% in the past three years alone. We’re joined by Ana B. Ibarra, a health reporter for non-profit newsroom CalMatters. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today and other state and national news outlets. Ana is the lead reporter on CalMatters’ latest in-depth report on the opioid crisis in our state, called: “California’s opioid deaths increased by 121% in 3 years. What’s driving the crisis?” Read the article: https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-opioid-crisis/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Deadly Impact of California’s Opioid Crisis w/ Ana B Ibarra appeared first on KPFA.
On July 26th, in broad daylight, the San Francisco Police Department shot and killed Ryant Bluford in front of his Bayview-Hunters Point community amidst pleas from bystanders not to shoot. Joining us to discuss is his first cousin L’Oréal Earle. —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post SFPD Guns Down Resident Ryant Bluford w/ 1st Cousin L’Oréal Earle appeared first on KPFA.
California’s lack of mental health infrastructure is leaving some of our neediest people on the streets or to languish in jails and prisons which simply exacerbate their conditions. James Ramsey, who had repeated issues with mental health and problematic run-ins with law enforcement, received advocacy for long-term care by the Anti-Police Terror Project for years to no avail, as a result of over-crowded social support systems. Without that material and ongoing support, James Ramsey ended up on the streets, and his name appeared in the newspaper for having assaulted an Asian elder. Joining us this morning to discuss the lack of services and infrastructure in California to take care of our community members with high needs – especially those with criminal convictions – is Emily Hoeven, an Opinion columnist at The Chronicle. She previously wrote for non-profit newsroom CalMatters on California politics and policy. —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post CA’s Lack of Support for Poor Mentally Ill Residents w/ Emily Hoeven appeared first on KPFA.
Understanding the history of prisons in Canada in their relationship to settler colonialism and anti-Black racism, El Jones observes how intimacy becomes tied up in state violence at carceral sites through mechanisms such as prison visits, strip searches and managing community contact with incarcerated people. On today’s show, we’re in conversation with El Jones discussing her book Abolitionist Intimacies, where she argues that intimacy is integral to the struggles of prisoners for justice and liberation. Check out the book Abolitionist Intimacies: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/abolitionist-intimacies/9781773635521 —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Abolitionist Intimacies w/ El Jones appeared first on KPFA.
We encourage our brothers and sisters on the other side of the wall to write in to our show. Occasionally we read those letters on the air. This letter comes to us from San Quentin State Prison. —- Letters from the Inside features music by Michael Louis. Follow him on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tigers_view Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Letters from the Inside – from San Quentin State Prison appeared first on KPFA.
Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder we do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build. This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of July 17th, 2023. —- This episode featured music by Kofy Brown. Check out her website: https://www.kofybrown.com/ Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post State Terror Round Up for the week of July 17th, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show we look at rebellions in France following the murder of a French-Algerian teenager by French police. Teenager Nahel was driving his vehicle when two police officers tried to pull him over for – what they say – were traffic violations. As Nahel tried to drive away, one of those officers shot into the vehicle, killing him. Multiple nights of unrest followed on the streets of France, and thirteen-hundred people voicing their anger were arrested in the process. We talk about the history of the violence of french policing and the current movement to end state terror in France with Alison Hird, the co-host and producer of Spotlight on France – a podcast on French society and history, as well as a journalist for Radio France Internationale. Check out Alison Hird’s podcast episode about the uprising for RFI: https://www.rfi.fr/en/podcasts/spotlight-on-france/20230713-podcast-a-deeper-look-at-france-s-urban-riots-and-police-violence-nahel-l%C3%A9o-ferr%C3%A9 — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Anti-Police Protests in France w/ Alison Hird appeared first on KPFA.
The San Francisco Mime Troupe has launched its 64th season with a satirical piece that takes place in the Tenderloin of San Francisco, called Breakdown. We are joined this morning by Michael Gene Sullivan, the head writer for the San Francisco Mime Troupe Collective where he has been involved in writing over 25 plays, and has performed with all four of the Bay Area’s Tony award-winning theaters: American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Theatreworks, and the San Francisco Mime Troupe. We are also joined by Kina Kantor, an actor with the SF Mime Troupe, who has worked extensively throughout the Bay Area’s theater spaces. Check out the SF Mime Troupe’s website: https://www.sfmt.org/ — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post SF Mime Troupe Satirizes the City w/ Michael Gene Sullivan & Kina Kantor appeared first on KPFA.
On July 6, freedom fighter and Black liberation activist Dr. Mutulu Shakur, transitioned. Here to discuss his life and legacy is Kalonji Jama Changa, an organizer, founder of the FTP Movement, and the co-chair of the Urban Survival and Preparedness Institute. Kalonji is also the co-founder of Black Power Media, author of the bestselling book, “How to Build a People’s Army” and co-producer of the documentary “Organizing is the New Cool”. Follow Kalonji Changa on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Kalonjichanga — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post RIP Mutulu Shakur w/ Kalonji Jama Changa appeared first on KPFA.
The ACLU has brought a lawsuit against the District of Colombia related to how they respond to mental health emergencies. The lawsuit states that it is mental health professionals and not law enforcement that should be the primary responders – that there should be parity between how 911 respond to physical health emergencies with medical professionals, and how it responds to mental health emergencies with mental health professionals. Joining us to discuss are Michael Perloff, a staff attorney with the ACLU-DC who is lead counsel on the lawsuit, referred to as Bread for the City v District of Columbia; we’re also joined by Charnal Chaney, a trauma-informed yoga instructor, and founder of Bold Yoga, in Washington, DC, who also works with at-risk and underrepresented groups to offer and promote health and healing. Charnal has lived experience with mental health emergencies. Read the ACLU’s press release on the lawsuit: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/lawsuit-challenges-unequal-response-to-mental-health-emergencies-in-washington-dc — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post ACLU Sues Washington DC on 911 Response to Mental Health Crises w/ Michael Perloff & Charnal Chaney appeared first on KPFA.
SFPD cracked down on a group of teenage skateboarders last week resulting in 113 arrests and dozens of teenagers placed in zip ties and detained until they could be released to their parents. The actions of the SFPD has resulted in outrage and outcry from SF officials and community members. We are joined to discuss the situation by Joe Rivano Barros, a Senior Editor at Mission Local, along with SF Supervisor Dean Preston, who represents District 5, which includes the Tenderloin, the Haight, the Fillmore, Japantown, Civic Center and the Western Addition. Check out some of Mission Local’s coverage of the issue: https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/teens-commissioners-blast-sfpd-dolores-hill-bomb/ — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post SFPD Overreacts to Skateboarders w/ SF Sup Dean Preston & Joe Rivano Barros appeared first on KPFA.
Despite survivor-affirming awareness around sexual violence, child sexual abuse, most notably when it’s a family member or friend, is still a very taboo topic. There are approximately 42 million child sexual abuse survivors in the U.S. and millions of bystanders who look the other way as the abuse occurs and cover for the harm-doers with no accountability. I’ll be in conversation on today’s show with documentary filmmaker and survivor of child sexual abuse, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, who’s book Love WITH Accountability invites diasporic Black people to join her in transformative storytelling that envisions a world that ends child sexual abuse without relying on the criminal legal system. — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Accountability for Sexual Violence Away from the Criminal Legal System w/ Aishah Simmons appeared first on KPFA.
San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has dropped the 3rd and final police killing case in San Francisco – this time in the murder of Sean Moore by Officer Kenneth Cha. Joining us to discuss are Lateef Gray, a former Assistant District Attorney in San Francisco, who worked there while Chesa Boudin led the DA’s office. Lateef Gray was the head of the unit that investigated police shootings, the unit that brought the charges against SFPD Officer Kenneth Cha in the shooting death of Sean Moore, the most recent case against an SFPD officer that’s been dropped by San Francisco’s current District Attorney. Also joining us is Joe Rivano Barros is a Senior Editor at Mission Local. Then we take a look back on Black Lives Matter as it celebrates its 10th anniversary. We’re joined by Dr. Melina Abdullah, a co-founder of the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter and co-founder of Black Lives Matter Grassroots. Our Resistance in Residence Artist this week is keyboard player, composer, and producer, with a brand new album called Shapes and Shades, Michael Louis Aaberg. Check out Michael Louis‘ new album: https://michaellouis.bandcamp.com/album/shapes-shades — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post 10 Years of BLM w/ Dr Melina Abdullah appeared first on KPFA.
San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has dropped the 3rd and final police killing case in San Francisco – this time in the murder of Sean Moore by Officer Kenneth Cha. Joining us to discuss are Lateef Gray, a former Assistant District Attorney in San Francisco, who worked there while Chesa Boudin led the DA’s office. Lateef Gray was the head of the unit that investigated police shootings, the unit that brought the charges against SFPD Officer Kenneth Cha in the shooting death of Sean Moore, the most recent case against an SFPD officer that’s been dropped by San Francisco’s current District Attorney. Also joining us is Joe Rivano Barros is a Senior Editor at Mission Local. — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post SFDA Drops Final Boudin Charges Against an Officer w/ Former ADA Lateef Gray and Joe Rivano Barros appeared first on KPFA.
The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world. This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is keyboard player, composer, and producer, with a brand new album called Shapes and Shades, Michael Louis Aaberg. Check out Michael Louis‘ new album: https://michaellouis.bandcamp.com/album/shapes-shades — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Resistance in Residence Artist: Michael Louis appeared first on KPFA.
The pandemic eviction moratorium has come to an end. How is tech being used to support landlords and alternatively, what tech tools exist that can support tenants? We’re joined by Erin McElroy, a founder of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and also an Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. They are also an author of the forthcoming book: Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times. Check out the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project’s website: https://antievictionmap.com/ — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Tenants Use Tech to Defend Rights w/ Erin McElry appeared first on KPFA.
In this episode we look at how surveillance technology is and could be used to aid and enforce anti-trans legislation around the country. We’ll be in conversation with René Kladzyk, an investigative reporter at POGO – the Project On Governmental Oversite, whose reporting has been published in TIME Magazine, Teen Vogue, the Texas Observer, the El Paso Times, and more. Read René Kladzyk’s piece on surveillance tech and transphobic legislation here: https://www.pogo.org/investigation/2023/06/policing-gender-how-surveillance-tech-aids-enforcement-of-anti-trans-laws — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Anti-Trans Laws Supported by Technology w/ René Kladzyk appeared first on KPFA.
Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder we do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build. This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of July 3rd, 2023. —- This episode featured music by Kofy Brown. Check out her website: https://www.kofybrown.com/ Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post State Terror Round Up for the week of July 3rd, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
We spend this hour with Palestinian author and publisher Hannah Moushabeck. She discusses her debut autobiographical children’s book called Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine. Buy the book: https://www.chroniclebooks.com/products/homeland Follow Hannah Moushabeck on IG:https://www.instagram.com/hannahmoushabeck/ — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post A Love Letter to Palestine w/ Hannah Moushabeck appeared first on KPFA.
The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world. This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is rapper and member of Oakland hip hop crew Living Legends, creator and curator of West Oakland’s now-gone Spirithaus Gallery, and multi-media visual artist, Josh Whitaker, also known as Bicasso. — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Resistance in Residence Artist: Josh Whitaker AKA Bicasso appeared first on KPFA.
June 24th marked one year since the Dobbs decision overturned Roe v Wade. What has followed has been an avalanche of bills and laws across the country making abortion access impossible for some and severely limiting access to reproductive healthcare for thousands of people with wombs. We are joined by Imani Gandy, Senior Editor of Law and Policy for Rewire News Group and co-host of the podcast #BoomLawyered. — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Anniversary of the Overturning of Roe v Wade w/ Imani Gandy appeared first on KPFA.
A focus here on Vallejo, California, where a domestic violence organization has been investigated for unethically housing a non profit executive rather than provide rooms to survivors in need. We talk with Scott Morris, a journalist with the Vallejo Sun who covers policing, protest, civil rights, and far-right extremism. Read the investigation at https://www.vallejosun.com/solano-nonprofit-executive-lived-in-domestic-violence-safe-house-rented-from-city-of-fairfield/ — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Vallejo Non-Profit Exec Misuses Domestic Violence Resources w/ Scott Morris appeared first on KPFA.
A new Ella Baker Center-led survey of more than 500 people incarcerated in California state prisons warns that large numbers of people have been subjected to extreme heat, dangerous cold, flooding, and wildfires. The report is called Hidden Hazards: The Impacts of Climate Change on Incarcerated People in California State Prisons. The report was produced by Master of Public Policy Graduate Students from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs on behalf of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. We’re joined by Emily Harris, Co-Director of Programs at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights along with Maura O’Neill, one of the researchers and co-authors of the Hidden Hazards report and a UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Graduate. Check out the report: https://ellabakercenter.org/reports/hiddenhazards/ Check out Ella Baker Center for Human Rights website: ellabakercenter.org —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Climate Change’s Impact on Incarcerated people w/ Emily Harris and Maura O’Neill appeared first on KPFA.
There is a large and looming backlog of court cases keeping San Franciscans in jail for years without seeing a trial. We’re in conversation with SF Public Defender Mano Raju to discussing how overdue misdemeanor cases are keeping people in pre-trial detention despite the District Attorney announcing that her office will only seek cash bail in limited misdemeanor cases because it unfairly penalizes those with less financial means and disproportionately affects defendants of color. Read up on this situation: https://48hills.org/2023/06/hundreds-who-are-by-law-innocent-sit-in-sf-jail-because-of-court-backlog/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post People languishing in pretrial detention in SF w/ Mano Raju SF’s Public Defender appeared first on KPFA.
We encourage our brothers and sisters on the other side of the wall to write in to our show. Occasionally we read those letters on the air. This letter comes to us from California’s Death Row. —- Letters from the Inside features music by Michael Louis. Follow him on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tigers_view Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Letters from the Inside – from Death Row appeared first on KPFA.
It is pride month, and we’re spending intentional time this month – as we do every month – tracking movement for queer liberation and the legislative processes that try to muzzle the rights of our queer families. On today’s show, our host Jesse Strauss visited the Berkeley Free Clinic to sit down with three volunteer members of the Gay Mens Health Collective – one of the many groups providing healthcare resources within the Clinic. The Gay Mens health collective was formed in the mid-70s to provide non-judgmental sexual health care to men in the context where the all-volunteer group providing those services were also men who had sex with men. This conversation is also personal. Our host, Jesse, spent time in the clinic as a kid while his dad volunteered in the clinic, and was a co-founder of the Gay Mens Health Collective almost 50 years ago. Our guests are GMHC volunteers Cam Breslin, Scott Carroll, and John Day. Check out the Berkeley Free Clinic website: https://www.berkeleyfreeclinic.org/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Visiting Berkeley’s Gay Men’s Health Collective w/ Cam Breslin, Scott Carroll, and John Day. appeared first on KPFA.
Born in 1946 in Mansfield, Louisiana, our guest today came of age against the backdrop of the civil rights movement. His close-knit family watched as the country grappled with desegregation; as the Klan targeted the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama; and as systemic racism struck across the nation and in their hometown. We are joined today by Wade Hudson, whose childhood experience which led him to fighting for change by confronting racist laws is documented in his memoir, Defiant. Follow Wade Hudson on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hudsonwade —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post From Segregated Childhood to a Life Dedicated to Justice w/ Wade Hudson appeared first on KPFA.
The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world. This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is conductor, composer, arranger, and music educator, Kaitlin Bove, who works as the Director of Bands at Diablo Valley College. Check out Kaitlin Bove’s website: https://kaitlinbove.com/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Resistance in Residence Artist: Kaitlin Bove appeared first on KPFA.
Today, we’re in conversation with award-winning filmmaker, rapper and all around Oakland legend, Boots Riley, about his new TV show called “I’m a Virgo,” a show being released on Amazon Prime whose plot builds around a 13-foot tall Black man living in Oakland – and it gets weirder, more engaging, and fun, from there. Boots has been a supporter of labor movements and strikes for decades – but now for the first time he’s a part of a union on strike – we dive deep into the ongoing Writers Guild of America strike, which is paralyzing Hollywood. Watch the trailer for I’m a Virgo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSyKhFwEo7c Donate to support actors impacted by the WGA strike: https://secure2.convio.net/afa/site/Donation2 —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Boots Riley is On Strike As He Releases New Show, “I’m A Virgo” appeared first on KPFA.
Last week, the Supreme Court upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act, which is a landmark 1978 legislation aimed at preventing Native foster children and adoptees from being separated from their families and tribes. Last week’s ruling represents a victory for Native tribes, who argued that the case threatened the basic tenets of Native sovereignty. It’s also a blow to the plaintiffs in the case – the state of Texas, along with three non-Native couples who wanted to adopt Native children – they tried to overturn the law, saying that it discriminated based on race, and that the federal government was overly intrusive. Joining us to discuss is Nancy Marie Spears is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation and the Indigenous children and families reporter for The Imprint – an independent daily news outlet focused on the nation’s child welfare and youth justice systems. Her latest article is titled, Indian Child Welfare Act Stands, Native Families Empowered. Follow Nancy Marie Spears‘ coverage on The Imprint: https://imprintnews.org/author/nancy-marie-spears Check out Nancy Marie Spears’ website: https://nancymariespears.weebly.com/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post SCOTUS Upholds ICWA in Victory for Native Families w/ Nancy Marie Spears appeared first on KPFA.
Montana is one of the states in our country signing anti-queer and anti-transgender laws – among the rash of laws signed just this year, since January, in Montana, are laws that allow healthcare providers to refuse patients based on conscience, that define biological sex as only male or female, that prevent gender-affirming medical care for transgender kids, and that prohibit drag shows and drag story hours if there are minors present. These new laws will hurt Montana’s transgender residents – and that’s essentially their intention. Our guest today is raising a more specific concern, and says that Montana’s anti-transgender laws will hurt Indigenous peoples’ religious expression. Rosalyn LaPier, is an indigenous writer, environmental historian, ethnobotanist, and a professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Rosalyn is an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana and Métis. Read Rosalyn LaPier’s latest publication: https://theconversation.com/new-anti-transgender-laws-will-hurt-indigenous-peoples-rights-and-religious-expression-205742 Check out Rosalyn LaPier’s website: https://www.rosalynlapier.com/ Follow Rosalyn LaPier on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rozlapier —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Montana’s Attacks on Trans Rights Infringe on Native Sovereignty w/ Rosalyn LaPier appeared first on KPFA.
Mississippi is the poorest state in the US, with the highest percentage of Black people and a history of heinous racial terror. But in the heart of the state capitol, Cooperation Jackson develops Black self-determination by building solidarity economies and cooperatives, developing land into community land trusts, and an eco-socialist framework that has inspired partnership and emulation across the globe. On today’s show, we explore the model that Cooperation Jackson has been building in Jackson, Mississippi, with Kali Akuno, Matt Meyer, and Saki Hall, editors of the new book Jackson Rising Redux: Lessons on Building the Future in the Present. Check out Cooperation Jackson’s website: https://cooperationjackson.org/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Self-Determination, Solidarity Economies and Eco-Socialism in Jackson, MS appeared first on KPFA.
The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world. This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is cellist, composer, and vocalist Mia Pixley. Check out Mia Pixley’s website: https://miapixley.com/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Resistance in Residence Artist: Mia Pixley appeared first on KPFA.
The Cop City project has become a national flashpoint for the struggle against police excesses and the underfunding of social programs and organizations. In this episode we go deeper into some of the background behind Cop City, and what it means for the city of Atlanta to make these funding choices, at the expense of defunding social programs. Our guest is Ariana Brazier, a Black queer feminist mom who wrote her doctoral dissertation on the intersections of housing insecurity and the ways that Black children and families play – in Atlanta. We’ll be talking about Ariana’s piece for Scalawag Magazine that draws a direct line from the 2017 closure of the region’s largest homeless shelter Peachtree-Pine, and plans for creating Cop City. The piece is called: “The Taking of Peachtree-Pine and the Dawning of Cop City: The same rhetoric about safety surrounding Atlanta’s increased criminalization of homelessness and closure of the biggest shelter in the Southeast is being used to defend Cop City.” Read Ariana Brazier’s piece on Peachtree-Pine: https://scalawagmagazine.org/2023/05/peachtree-pine-cop-city/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Atlanta Defunds Shelters While Bankrolling Cop City w/ Ariana Blazier appeared first on KPFA.
Local non-profit news site Mission Local has published a 2-part investigative report this week on civil settlements involving San Francisco law enforcement that has cost taxpayers roughly $70 million dollars since 2010. We’re joined by Will Jarret, Mission Local’s data reporter and lead investigator on the two-part series titled: “$70 million dollars in SF law enforcement settlements” and ‘Some SFPD cops appear in civil court again and again.” Follow Mission Local’s reporting on SF’s civil payouts: https://missionlocal.org/2023/06/sfpd-civil-lawsuits-settlements-police-officers-deputies-misconduct/ Follow Will Jarrett on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WillJarrettData —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post SF Paid $70m for Police-Related Civil Settlements w/ Will Jarrett appeared first on KPFA.
Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder we do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build. This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of June 12th, 2023. —- This episode featured music by Kofy Brown. Check out her website: https://www.kofybrown.com/ Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post State Terror Round Up for the week of June 12th, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
It is pride month, and we’re spending intentional time this month – as we do every month – tracking movement for queer liberation and the processes that try to muzzle the rights of our queer families. In this episode we look at a homophobic legislative process going on in Uganda, a country where the law has leaned increasingly conservative. Most recently, in a law backed by the Ugandan president that went into effect last month, people who are convicted of homosexual acts could be executed or imprisoned for life. Gay sex was already illegal in Uganda. But this new law makes things harsher – people having gay sex can receive sentences of life in prison, “Promoting homosexuality” – whatever that means – can come with a 20 year prison sentence; and if someone is convicted of “aggravated homosexuality” – this is a reference to HIV-positive people who have gay sex – they can be sentenced to death. Here to help us understand the story and its context is Justine Balya, Director of the Access to Justice Programme at Uganda’s Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum, a local non-governmental organization. She joins us from Kampala, Uganda. Learn more about Uganda’s Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum: https://hrapf.org/
—- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Uganda’s Extreme Homophobic Law Includes Death Penalty for ‘Aggravated Homosexuality’ and Jail Time for ‘Promoting Homosexuality’ appeared first on KPFA.
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 production. Roadside Theater reflects Appalachian culture, but it has also worked over decades to build theater in solidarity with social struggles across social constructs, including in close connection with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and their associated theater troupes, Free Southern Theater and Junebug Productions. On today’s show, we’re joined by editors and contributors to a new book that documents that history, called Art In A Democracy. We’re joined by the book’s editor, Ben Fink, who worked with Roadside Theater from 2015 until 2020, and co-founded the East Kentucky–Western Massachusetts cross-partisan dialogue project Hands Across the Hills. We’re also joined by Donna Porterfield, the Managing Director of Roadside Theater from 1979 to 2019, with oversight responsibility for all of the theater’s personnel and financial matters; as well as AB Spellman, a poet and essayist as well as a jazz critic and enthusiast, and a figure in the Black Arts Movement who worked for about 30 years at the National Endowment of the Arts. Learn more about Roadside Theater and Art in a Democracy: https://www.artinademocracy.org/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Appalachian Roadside Theater Tackles Democracy Without a ‘Fourth Wall’ appeared first on KPFA.
Criminalization of gender-based violence was meant to protect victims of violence. But greater state intervention in cases of intimate partner violence, rape, sexual assault, and trafficking has led to the arrest, prosecution, conviction, and incarceration of those victims—the criminalization of survival. Victims of violence are regularly punished by the criminal legal system. Our guest, Leigh Goodmark, argues that only dismantling the system will bring that punishment to an end. Leigh Goodmark is the Marjorie Cook Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Frances King Carey School of Law. She co-directs the Clinical Law Program, teaches Family Law, Gender and the Law, and Gender Violence and the Law, and directs the Gender Violence Clinic, a clinic providing direct representation in matters involving intimate partner abuse, sexual assault, trafficking, and other forms of gender violence. Goodmark has been questioning the criminal legal system’s response to gender-based violence for more than twenty years. Her latest book is called Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism.
Follow Leigh Goodmark on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LeighGoodmark Check out Leigh Goodmark’s website: https://leighgoodmark.com/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Imperfect Victims: Criminalization of Survivors of Gender Violence w/ Leigh Goodmark appeared first on KPFA.
The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world. This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is Rapper, Hip hop scientist, performer, teacher, and creator of Hip Learning, Naru Kwina. Listen to our full length interview with Naru on our podcast (link below). Learn more about Naru’s project Hip Learning: http://hiplearning.com/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Resistance in Residence Artist: Naru Kwina appeared first on KPFA.
Almost 11 months ago, the phone number 988 launched as a new crisis number, available to all US landline and cell phone users, that accesses over 200 local and state funded crisis centers. The number is meant to be an easy-to-remember way to access mental health support. It also wraps in the former 10-digit role of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. With a shorter and easier-to-remember phone number, call volume has increased dramatically as compared to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, but as a corollary, so have forced psychiatric holds. The call centers are boldly advertised as confidential, but call centers actually sometimes share peoples information with 911 and police agencies. We explore the relationship between force, emergency mental healthcare, and the new 988 crisis hotline, with Rob Wipond, a journalist who writes frequently on the interfaces between psychiatry, civil rights, policing, surveillance and privacy. He’s also the author of a new book, Your Consent Is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships. Rob has been writing about the new 988 hotline for the web magazine Mad in America. Check out Rob Wipond’s latest piece for Mad in America: https://www.madinamerica.com/2023/05/psychiatric-detentions-rise-988/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Forced Psychiatric Detention Grows Alongside 988 w/ Rob Wipond appeared first on KPFA.
Over the past week, dozens of people seeking asylum, who reached US in the southern area of Texas, were flown to Sacramento, in what critics – including Gavin Newsom – have called a political stunt, led by Florida governor Ron DeSantis, as the latter tries to build energy into his Republican presidential campaign. Florida’s Division of Emergency Management has stated that they were involved in the transfer of asylum seekers – it’s an interesting role to play, given that these people were in Texas, with no apparent connection to Florida whatsoever. In response, Newsom has thrown himself into political posturing, threatening – through Twitter – kidnapping charges on behalf of the recently arrived asylum seekers. But what really happens for these recent arrivals in particular, and asylum seekers in general in California? We are joined by Sarah Dar, Director of Health & Public Benefits Policy for the California Immigrant Policy Center. Learn more about the California Immigrant Policy Center: https://caimmigrant.org/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Asylum Seekers Need Better Supports as Texas Traffics Migrants to Sacramento w/ Sarah Dar appeared first on KPFA.
Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder we do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build. This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of June 5th, 2023. —- This episode featured music by Kofy Brown. Check out her website: https://www.kofybrown.com/ Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post State Terror Round Up for the week of June 5th, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
This segment is part of a special this week on the crisis of missing and murdered Black women and girls Minnesota has created the first of-its-kind Office of Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls. We’ll speak with Representative Ruth Richardson, is the Minnesota State Representative who authored the initial bill to create the state’s “Office of Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls”. We’re also joined by Lakeisha Lee, an advocate in Minnesota for missing and murdered Black women and girls – a role she has taken seriously since her own sister went missing, and was found murdered, just over a decade ago. —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Minnesota’s Office of Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls w/ Rep Ruth Richardson and Lakeisha Lee appeared first on KPFA.
This segment is part of a special this week on the crisis of missing and murdered Black women and girls In this episode, we bring our focus on missing and murdered Black women and girls home to Oakland, in conversation with Selena Wilson, the executive director of the East Oakland Youth Development Center, whose mission is to develop the social and leadership capacities of youth and young adults (ages 5-24) so that they achieve excellence in education, career, and service to their communities. We’ll discuss the prevalence of the sex trafficking industry on the youth at EOYDC, including one terrifying recent story of a youth who fought off an attempted kidnapping. Then we’re joined by Jennifer Lyle, Executive Director of MISSSEY, an Oakland-based organization working to prevent girls and gender-expansive youth from entering circumstances of sexual exploitation and violence. They also support young people who are experiencing exploitation to transition into a more self-determined life. Learn more about the East Oakland Youth Development Center: https://eoydc.org/ Learn more about MISSSEY: https://misssey.org/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Kidnapping of Black Girls in Oakland for the Trafficking Industry w/ Selena Wilson and Jennifer Lyle appeared first on KPFA.
This segment is part of a special this week on the crisis of missing and murdered Black women and girls Legislation is moving through the California legislature to create an “Ebony Alert”. With a similar concept to the Amber Alert, an Ebony Alert gives particular emergency focus to the disproportionate disappearances of Black women and girls in the state. We’re joined by Aisha Wahab, the California state senator representing the 10th District, which runs from Hayward and Union City south to Sunnyvale and Santa Clara. She is one of the three State Senators who has sponsored Senate Bill 673 to create an emergency alert system – referred to as an “Ebony Alert,” with respect to Black youth, including young women and girls, who are reported missing under unexplained or suspicious circumstances. —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post ‘Ebony Alert’ Bill Aims for Defense of Missing Black Women & Girls w/ State Sen Aisha Wahab appeared first on KPFA.
In Atlanta, the FBI has raided and arrested the folks involved in doing solidarity fundraising for people arrested in the Stop Cop City protests. Our guest is Aja Arnold, an Atlanta-based journalist and founding editor of local outlet Mainline. Her reporting on Atlanta’s Cop City project has been featured in The Intercept, Vice, and The Appeal – where her latest is titled: Atlanta Police Target Bail Fund Organizers in Latest Crackdown on ‘Stop Cop City’ Movement. Read it here: https://theappeal.org/cop-city-bail-fund-arrests-atlanta-solidarity-fund/ Check out Mainline: https://www.mainlinezine.com/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post FBI Raids Stop-Cop-City Supporters in Atlanta w/ Aja Arnold appeared first on KPFA.
It’s graduation season, and so we spend the next segment of our show answering your questions about how best to support your kids in this next phase of their lives. We are joined by Wendy Snyder, a college and career counselor at the Oakland School of the Arts, where she monitors student progress and works closely in the college application process with students and families as they approach graduation. The resources mentioned by Wendy are listed below.
Resources for High School graduates:
- Oakland Promise College Access Hub – contact them for help with financial aid and scholarships: https://oaklandpromise.org/resources/college-access-hub/
- Girls Inc Alameda County – one on one support for college applications: https://girlsinc-alameda.org/programs/
- Posse Bay Area, your school needs to get in touch with them in order to nominate you. And, you have to want to attend their partner schools (see in the link): https://www.possefoundation.org/sites/bay-area
- College Track Oakland – one on one support for high school students who are first generation to attend college: https://collegetrack.org/communities/oakland-ca/
- 826 Valencia, In San Francisco – college readiness programs and also a Black Student initiative: https://826valencia.org/
- Black College Expo – hosts events/college fairs all over the US and have scholarship money: thecollegeexpo.org
- College Essay Guy Free Resources – free guidance on building a college list and writing essays. He also has courses that are “pay what you can”: https://www.collegeessayguy.com/college-essay-resources
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President Joe Biden signed a bill over the weekend that suspends the US government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling with a package he says prevents the financial sky from falling but progressive democrats say weight of the plan falls heavily on the shoulders of americas most vulnerable populations and the planet. We are joined by John Nichols, National Affairs Correspondent for the Nation, who has been focused on the debt ceiling conversation – his latest piece is Here’s Why Principled Progressives Opposed a Cruel and Destructive Debt Ceiling Deal. Read it here: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/progressives-debt-ceiling-deal/
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is actor, director, and intimacy choreographer Jeuneé Simon. Listen to our full length interview with Jeuneé on our podcast (link below). Learn more about Jeuneé Simon: https://www.jeuneesimon.com/
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We continue to lift up the case of Jacob Harris who was murdered by the Phoenix Police Department four years ago at age 19, as he ran away from them. But Jacob and his family were not the only victims in this tragedy. Jacob’s friends, Johnny Reed and Jeremiah Triplett were in the car with him, witnessed their friend being killed by the police, and then were arrested, charged, and convicted for the murder of their friend under a Felony Murder law, which gives prosecutors the ability to charge people completely uninvolved in a murder as long as they had committed a crime together. In this case, a small robbery led to the killing by police of Jacob Harris, and Jacob’s friends were charged with Jacob’s murder even without any allegations that they participated in violence of any kind. We are joined by Shawanna Chambers, the mother of Johnny Reed, a 14 year old who was sentenced to 15 years in prison in connection to the murder of Jacob Harris, along with Theresa Greene, the mother of Jeremiah Triplet, another of the friends of Jacob Harris who has been sentenced in connection to that murder.
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Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge David Goldstein ruled on May 23rd that prosecutors have disproportionately charged Black defendants with sentencing enhancements that unfairly target them for life in prison without parole – at about a 40% greater likelihood than non-Black defendants. This court case legally acknowledges what we’ve long-known – that Black people are given heavier charges than others. Joining us to discuss is Evan Kuluk, a deputy public defender with the Contra Contra Costa County Public Defender’s Office. He was the lead attorney on the racial dynamic of a court judgment that pokes serious holes in the county’s disproportionate charges against Black people.
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Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build.
This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of May 29th, 2023.
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We take a deep dive into the mayor of Oakland’s proposed budget, a day after the Oakland City Council had its first meeting about the current budget cycle. The city is facing a $300 million dollar deficit and every department has been cut – except for the police. We are joined by Ayodele Nzinga, Oakland’s poet laureate and a multi-hyphenated artist, actress, producing director, playwright, poet, dramaturg, performance consultant, educator, and community advocate; we’re also joined by James Burch, Deputy Director for the Anti Police-Terror Project, an organization that seeks to end police violence in Black and Brown communities; and lastly, we speak with Kijani Edwards, the Oakland Director of The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) Action, a grassroots, member-led, statewide community organization working with more than 15,000 members across California. All three are members of the People’s Budget Coalition. Then we go to the US South to get updates from regional grassroots organizer Marquell Bridges on the latest in killings by police officers throughout the region. Our Resistance in Residence Artist this week is writer, poet, educator, and Executive Director of Youth Speaks, Michelle “Mush” Lee. Learn more about Youth Speaks: https://youthspeaks.org/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Oakland Mayor’s Budget Maintains Police Funding Amid Major Deficit w/ Ayodele Nzinga, James Burch & Kijani Edwards appeared first on KPFA.
San Francisco continues to reel after a Walgreens security guard attacked, shot and killed Banko Brown after the latter allegedly attempted to steal $14-worth of snacks. The city’s District Attorney has declined to file charges, and community organizations have called on the California Attorney General to pursue charges in the killing. Brown’s family has also announced a lawsuit against Walgreens. We speak with Julia Arroyo, co-executive director of the Young Women’s Freedom Center, where Brown had worked on-and-off for many years.
Learn more about the Young Women’s Freedom Center: https://youngwomenfree.org/
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New York where community organizers are moving forward legislation that would require the family policing system to inform families of their rights as the system removes children from the home. The legislation would guarantee families a Miranda-like access to their rights so they are able to move forward as informed as possible while navigating that system. We’re joined by Sarah Duggan, the Manager of Communications and Storytelling with JMACforFamilies, a New York-based non-profit working to dismantle the family policing system while simultaneously investing in community support that keeps families together. We’re also joined by Desseray Wright, an impacted parent and advocate at the Bronx Defenders, which is an organization that is radically transforming how low-income people in the Bronx are represented in the justice system and, in doing so, is transforming the system itself.
Learn more about JMAC for Families: https://jmacforfamilies.org/
Learn more about the Bronx Defenders: https://www.bronxdefenders.org/
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Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price joins us for this hour to reflect on her first 100 days in office, and then to take questions from listener call-ins.
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In this episode we go to Mississippi to talk with D’Monterrio Gibson, a 24-year old Black FedEx driver who was chased and shot by a white father and son in January of 2022 in Brookhaven, Mississippi, about 55 miles south of Jackson. The shooters have a court date on Monday, May 8th. We’re also joined by D’Monterrio Gibson’s mother, Sharon McClendon.
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The Oakland Education Association – Oakland’s teachers union – is on strike as of Thursday, May 4th. We speak with two Oakland teachers from the picket lines about why they’re striking, what they need in their contract, and how the strike might impact families, along with a parent activist whose children are OUSD students. Joining us to discuss are Sayuri Valenza is 19-year veteran teacher who has taught in the Special Ed department at Oakland’s Brett Harte Middle School for 10 years, and Pecolia Manigo, an OUSD parent and organizer of the Reparations for Black Students Campaign.
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Twenty-five years ago, in 1998, abolitionist organizers held a conference at UC Berkeley called Critical Resistance to 25-years since the founding of Critical Resistance, an event that led to the creation of the seminal abolitionist movement organization. We’re joined by Mohamed Shehk, National Campaigns & Projects Director with Critical Resistance, to discuss the organization’s history and give us a peak into their 25th anniverary celebration event on Friday, May 5th.
More info on Critical Resistance’s 25th Anniversary event: https://criticalresistance.org/event/cr-25/
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Last week in San Francisco, a Walgreens security guard shot and killed 24-year-old Black trans-man Banko Brown over allegations of stealing. San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has decided against pressing charges in the killing. Brown was a long-time member of the Young Women’s Freedom Center – we’re joined by Julia Arroyo, Co-Executive Director of YMFC.
Check out the Young Women’s Freedom Center website: https://youngwomenfree.org/
Link to the fundraiser for Banko Brown’s family: https://www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-and-support-for-banko-brown
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A new report from the National Association of Counsel for Children (NACC) finds that kids in the child welfare system aren’t guaranteed legal representation in a dozen states. We are joined by Kim Dvorchak, Executive Director of NACC, and a former defense attorney who represented children in the foster system. Kim joins us from Denver.
Check out NACC’s report: https://counselforkids.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/C4K-PolicyPaper-FINAL-DIGITAL-2.pdf
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In San Francisco, a city official has on numerous occasions attacked homeless people, and the story only came out after one of the people he attacked hit back in self defense. Joining us to discuss is Jennifer Friedenbach, Executive Director of the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness.
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Sierra snowmelt is threatening significant floods in a Central Valley county that houses a prison and massive agricultural industry, which are all at risk from the flood threat. The current levee system in Corcoran is not up to par, and unease is setting in as fears of flooding could bring intense impacts to communities. Joining us to discuss is Kurtis Alexander, a reporter for The San Francisco Chronicle, where he frequently writes about water, impacts of drought, threats to public lands and wildlife, and the nation’s widening rural-urban divide. Also joining us is Dorsey Nunn, is the executive director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children and founder of that organization’s policy advocacy arm All Of Us Or None.
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Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao has released her first budget plan for the city. Joining us to discuss is Rev. Jeremy J. McCants, a Faith Rooted Organizer for East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE), an organization committed to fighting for equitable and economic power in the Bay Area; as well as a minister at the historic Allen Temple Baptist Church in Oakland. Also joining the conversation is James Burch, Policy Director for the Anti Police-Terror Project, an organization that seeks to end police violence in Black and Brown communities.
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On today’s show, we’re in conversation with award winning author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah about his brand new book Chain Gang All Stars, a novel imagining a near-future where the prison industrial complex has developed a gruesome and widely popular reality show where prisoners are pitted against each other in gladiator death matches. We talk about the story, but also about how readers can use it to imagine an abolitionist future. Chain Gang All Stars will be released on May 2nd.
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah will be in San Francisco for a Bay Area book release event on May 17th at the Chapel in San Francisco. More details here: https://www.seetickets.us/event/Nana-KwameAdjei-Brenyah/541480
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is Stockton Poet Laureate Tama Brisbane.
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The complicated legal areas of marijuana legal enforcement in California – we speak with Kate Mishkin, a Los Angeles-based audio producer, journalist, and writer, about her latest piece, published by The Appeal: How California Cops Exploit Legal Gray Areas to Continue Their War on Cannabis.
Read Kate Mishkin’s latest article: https://theappeal.org/california-marijuana-cannabis-enforcement-policing/
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A new report highlights the experiences those sentenced to death by incarceration in Pennsylvania’s women’s prisons. Joining to discuss her article about it as well as a previous recent report on the ways in which prisons use menstruation as a form of punishment, is Victoria Law, is a freelance journalist and the author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women (2012) and “Prisons Make Us Safer”: And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration (2021). She also co-authored the book Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms (2020).
Read Victoria Law’s latest piece: These Women Face Death by Incarceration, But They’re Organizing for Their Lives: https://truthout.org/articles/these-women-face-death-by-incarceration-but-theyre-organizing-for-their-lives/
Read Victoria Law’s previous piece: Prisons Use Menstruation as a Form of Punishment: https://time.com/6265653/prison-menstruation-punishment/
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Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build.
This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of April 24th, 2023.
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A San Francisco study shows that the City’s covid-focused policy to house homeless folks in hotels helped those folks access more primary healthcare with fewer emergency room needs, and also helped get access to longer term housing. Our guests are Dr Elizabeth Abbs, one of the authors of the study, who is a primary care doctor at Tom Waddell Urban Health Center in the Tenderloin; along with Chuqin Jiang, is a data reporter with San Francisco-based independent newsroom Mission Local.
Read Chuqin Jiang’s story for Mission Local here: https://missionlocal.org/2023/04/hotels-for-the-homeless-reduced-emergency-room-visits-study-shows/
Read the entire report here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11524-022-00705-8
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A new New York law temporarily removes the statute of limitations on sexual assault. Women incarcerated in New York prisons are taking advantage of it to bravely report sexual assault in the state’s prisons. We speak with Molly Hagan, a writer and photographer in New York, whose latest piece for The Appeal is called New York’s Imprisoned Women Brave Risks to Sue Sexual Abusers Under New Law.
Read the report for The Appeal here: https://theappeal.org/new-york-adult-survivors-act-women-prisons/
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A new official report from Nova Scotia, commissioned after a 2020 mass shooting, that suggests that police should become “secondary” in some emergency response situations, and that emergency mental healthcare needs to lead the way in the process of defunding the police. We are joined by El Jones is a poet, journalist, academic, and abolitionist who lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. El was the lead author of the 2022 report, Defunding the Police: Defining the Way Forward for Halifax. She was also Halifax’s Poet Laureate from 2013 to 2015.
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is Randolph Bell.
Check out Randolph Belle’s website: http://www.randolphbelle.com/
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In this episode we turn our attention to Kalamazoo, Michigan, where a movement organizer is headed to trial for defending the people. We are joined this morning by Monica Washington-Padula, an Afro-Native (Ojibwe), and movement organizer mobilizing in Black and Native communities. She is a mother of five and a professional multi-instrumentalist musician. Monica is being charged with 4 felonies and a misdemeanor for what police describe as assaulting two officers.
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In Kansas City, Black 16-year old Ralph Yarl was shot twice by a white homeowner last week, through a glass door, after ringing the doorbell at the wrong address while trying to pick up his younger siblings. After stalling on the part of prosecutors, the white and elderly shooter was arrested after an eruption of protest in Kansas City streets. Joining us to discuss is Justice Gatson, founder and director of the Reale Justice Network in Kansas City, Missouri. She is also a writer, organizer, advocate, social justice doula, and an IPV survivor.
Check out the Reale Justice Network’s website: https://realejusticenetwork.org/
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Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build.
This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of April 17th, 2023.
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An Ella Baker Center for Human Rights’ 2020 study found that people of color accounted for 99% of the youth under probation supervision in Alameda County. Youth who become entangled in the criminal legal system often find themselves stuck in a web of carceral violence for the rest of their lives. That report also found that Black youth in Oakland were 113 times more likely than white youth to be criminalized and arrested. Joining us to discuss some of those efforts are Jasmine Frye the Director of Young Women’s Freedom Center – Oakland, along with Tae Thomas, a 17 year old Community Organizing Intern with the Young Women’s Freedom Center. She is herself a system-impacted young woman. She’s from SF and lives in Richmond.
Check out the Young Women’s Freedom Center website: https://youngwomenfree.org/
Continuing our conversation about closing youth jails – we are joined by Dr. Frankie Free Ramos – the Director of Campaigns and Organizing of Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice (CURYJ) to talk about their latest efforts with the grassroots Dreams Beyond Bars campaign and the legislative effort of the PROMYSE Act.
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This week, Oakland teachers are voting on a strike authorization amid stalled contract negotiations. Joining us to discuss is Kampala Taiz-Rancifer, is the Vice President of the Oakland Education Association and a founding member of the Black Women’s Caucus. The Oakland Education Association represents nearly 3,000 K-12 teachers, Counselors, Psychologists, Social Workers, Speech Pathologists, Early Childhood Educators, Nurses, Adult Education Teachers, and Teacher Substitutes.
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On Tuesday evening, April 18th, the plan to phase out the COVID 19 eviction moratorium will be presented to Oakland’s City Council. The proposal is being put forth by Councilmember Nikki Fortunado-Bas and Councilmember Dan Kalb, and it went to the Community and Economic Development Committee last week where, despite a very raucous meeting, it garnered enough committee member votes to move forward – with some amendments. Joining us to discuss are Councilmember Nikki Fortunado-Bas who represents Oakland’s District 2, along with Leah Simon-Weisberg, Legal Director of The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) Action.
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Three AAPI led organizations here in the bay area have launched a new campaign tackling hate against the AAPI community. We are joined by Tony D., Executive Director of Youth Together; along with Mike Cheng, Deputy Director of Asian Prisoner Support Committee; and Nicole Lee, Executive Director of Urban Peace Movement.
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The Antioch police texting scandal just gets worse and worse – what started off as 17 police officers in the 90-person department being accused of sending racist and homophobic messages has now surged to upwards of 50 officers – or 40% of the department – said to have been involved. Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe, a Black man, has called for an audit of the departments internal affairs department, as well as a review of the hiring and promotion policies in the department. We speak with KPFA Correspondent Frank Sterling.
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is educator, entrepreneur, poet, and filmmaker Hodari Davis.
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Louisiana has for the first time ever filed charges against police for killing someone – in this case, that’s Ronald Greene. We are joined by Mona Hardin, the mother of Ronald Greene. She has been fighting to unearth truth and for justice in the name of her son since 2019. She just made it back to her home in Orlando, Florida after an 11 hour drive from Farmerville, Louisiana, where she was present for the arraignment of the 5 Louisiana state troopers responsible for the death of her son, Ronald Greene. We’re also joined by John Belton, District Attorney for Louisiana’s Third Judicial District which represents the Lincoln Parish and Union Parish in that state. And finally, we’re joined by Marquell Bridges, a grassroots organizer for justice for Ronald Greene.
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Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build.
This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of April 10th, 2023.
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SF Mayor London Breed has gone all in on funding the cops, asking for many millions for more police overtime, for significant raises, benefits and bonuses, and is now under fire for minimizing the funds that she’s asking for from the SF Board of Supervisors for policing – a situation where she vocally requested $82 million, but her if approved that paperwork would give $166 million over three years. We speak with Tim Redmond, founder of San Francisco-focused independent news site 48hills. Tim Redmond has been a political and investigative reporter in San Francisco for more than 30 years. He spent much of that time as executive editor of the Bay Guardian.
Check out 48hills: https://48hills.org/
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In San Francisco, London Breed flip flops again – when non-carceral response to mental health crisis was dominating the headlines she vowed the city would lead with such programming, but now while at the same time fighting for more police funding, she is refusing to support alternative responses to community crisis. Joining us to discuss is Jennifer Friedenbach, Executive Director of the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness.
Check out the Coalition on Homelessness‘ website: https://www.cohsf.org/
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We start today’s show in Los Angeles, where the City and its police department are upset that a police watchdog group called Stop LAPD Spying Coalition has released public records of individual LAPD officers including their headshots and salaries, and are now suing even though they are the ones who initially released the photos. Joining us is Hamid Khan, Coordinator and Organizer with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition.
Check out the public records discussed: https://watchthewatchers.net/
Check out the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition website: https://stoplapdspying.org/
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On Monday (April 10th), Wood Street residents in Oakland, with the help of allies, started yet another campaign to defend their home from an eviction by the city of Oakland. Joining us to discuss is Talya Husbands-Hankin, known to many as ‘Boots’, is the founder of Love and Justice in the Streets, along with Brigitte Nicoletti, a staff attorney with the East Bay Community Law Center.
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We kick off today’s show with the Progressive political upset in Chicago. The Windy City has a new mayor, Brandon Johnson, and he’s a labor candidate. One of his primary campaign platforms was Reimagine Public Safety. Here to talk about Mayor Johnson, his campaign, and what this may mean for Chicago is Tiffany Walden, Editor-In-Chief of The Tribe, an independent digital media platform based in Chicago.
Read Tiffany Waldon’s latest for The Tribe: https://thetriibe.com/2023/04/as-mayor-brandon-johnson-is-inviting-you-to-reimagine-safety-in-chicago/
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In today’s episode, we discuss the new state law passed in Idaho last week, which restricts travel for minors seeking abortion. The legislation creates a new crime of “abortion trafficking,” which carries a felony offense punishable by up to 5 years in prison. Our guest is Jessica Mason Pieklo, Senior Vice President and Executive Editor of Rewire News Group. She also co-hosts the podcast Boom! Lawyered, which covered an earlier version of the legislation when it was poised to pass.
“When we criminalize healthcare, as conservatives are trying to do when they criminalize abortion—that becomes a family separation policy. We are then putting families into a criminal justice system, simply by trying to access reproductive healthcare.” – Jessica Mason Pieklo
Watch to Boom! Lawyered‘s latest episode on the competing court rulings in Texas and Washington, which could affect access to the widely used abortion pill mifepristone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-VtxW0zBVQ
Check out Rewire News Group’s website: https://rewirenewsgroup.com/
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is filmmaker, writer and storyteller Adamu Chan. His film, What These Walls Won’t Hold, will be featured at the San Francisco International Film Festival on this Saturday and Sunday – that’s April 15th and 16th. For more info on the SF Film Festival: https://sffilm.org/
Check out Adamu Chan’s website: https://www.adamuchan.com/
Check out the website for What These Walls Won’t Hold: https://www.whatthesewallswonthold.com/
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The Black Power movement, often associated with its iconic spokesmen, derived much of its energy from the work of people whose stories have never been told. Stayed On Freedom brings into focus two unheralded Black Power activists who dedicated their lives to the fight for freedom. Zoharah Simmons and Michael Simmons fell in love while organizing tenants and workers in the South. Their commitment to each other and to social change took them on a decades-long journey that traversed first the country and then the world. Their story is now documented in a new book called Stayed On Freedom: The Long History of Black Power through One Family’s Journey.
In this episode, we are in conversation with the author, Dan Berger, along Zoharah Simmons and Michael Simmons themselves.
Learn more about the book: https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/dan-berger/stayed-on-freedom/9781541675360/
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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 included religious and ethnic partitions and borders – with Palestine on the one side and Pakistan and the Kashmir on the other. They have also built powerful military partnerships and share a growing military-industrial relationship. We are joined by Azad Essa, a South African journalist who covers US foreign policy, Islamophobia and race in the US for Middle East Eye. His new book, just out on Pluto Press, is called Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel.
Learn more about Hostile Homelands and buy it direct from publisher: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745345017/hostile-homelands/
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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, who recently released a new book along with Stephen Shames: Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party. “This stunning collection of historical photographs, complimented by contemporary conversations with women members of the Black Panther Party, reminds us that women were literally the heart of this new political approach to Black freedom.” That’s from the book’s forward by Angela Davis. We’ll discuss Ericka’s 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 her child – including a portion of time when she was wrongly incarcerated.
Check out the book Comrade Sisters: https://citylights.com/art/sister-comrade/
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Thousands of people languish in solitary confinement every day around this country. In today’s episode, we’re in conversation with the authors of a new book: Way Down in the Hole: Race, Intimacy, and the Reproduction of Racial Ideologies in Solitary Confinement, by Angela J Hattery and Earl Smith.
Learn more about the book: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/way-down-in-the-hole/9781978823785
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist this week is educator, entrepreneur and musician Candice Wicks-Davis.
Learn more about Candice Wicks-Davis: http://edutainmentforequity.com/team
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In today’s episode, we go to London, where a new report commissioned by the government has exposed deeply entrenched misogyny, racism and homophobia in the Metropolitan Police Force. The report was spawned from the conviction of an officer for the rape and murder of a 33-year old woman, and the report shows horrendous failures of public safety, from careless treatment of evidence in rape cases, to officers neglecting to file reports because they don’t believe their own reporting system work. A muslim officer found bacon shoved in his boots, and a sikh officer’s beard was cut by other officers. Our guest is James Brownsell, a freelance journalist and former managing editor of The New Arab and an editor at Al Jazeera English. His latest piece is an op-ed for the Middle East Eye, headlined: London’s Metropolitan Police must be disbanded.
Read James Brownsell’s latest op-ed here: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/london-metropolitan-police-must-be-disbanded
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Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build.
This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of March 27th, 2023.
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In this episode we take a look at how the latest Bay Area storms are impacting our unhoused neighbors with Talya Husbands-Hankin, who is known to many as ‘Boots’ and is the founder of Love and Justice in the Streets.
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In this episode, we focus on our neighbors without secure housing as covid-oriented eviction protections begin to dissolve. Our guest is Leah Simon-Weisberg, Legal Director of The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) Action. ACCE is a grassroots, member-led, statewide community organization working with more than 15,000 members across California.
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Oak Flat is a sacred Apache site in the land now known as Arizona, where President Joe Biden’s team has used courts to move forward a mining plan on the sacred site that would obliterate it. We’re joined by Dr Wendsler Nosie Sr, the former Apache tribal chairman and founder of activist organization Apache Stronghold in Arizona. Apache Stronghold is an organization dedicated to battling continued colonization, to defend Holy sites and indigenous freedom of religion, and dedicated to building a better community through neighborhood programs and civic engagement.
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A new bill could make California the first state to outlaw caste-based bias, a safeguard for people of South Asian descent, to build protection from discrimination in areas like housing and education. We’re joined by the sponsor of the bill, Aisha Wahab, the California state senator representing the 10th District, which runs from Hayward and Union City south to Sunnyvale and Santa Clara. We’re also joined by Thenmozhi Soundararajan, a Dalit rights activist who’s book The Trauma of Caste, exposes caste oppression in the South Asian subcontinent and the United States.
Check out Thenmozhi Soundararajan’s website: https://dalitdiva.com/
Check out State Sen Aisha Wahab’s website: https://sd10.senate.ca.gov/
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Four hundred and eighty-three anti-trans bills have been introduced in legislatures across the country in an attempt to restrict medical access and public expression in what some advocates say is an attempt to erase trans existence from public life. We start this hour with a round up the legislative attacks on our transgender community members around the nation with Adam Rhodes, a queer, first-generation Cuban American journalist whose journalism focuses on public policy, the justice system, and our nation’s most vulnerable people. His latest piece for the Appeal is called Anti-Trans Bills Flood States in ‘Centrally Coordinated’ Attack on Transgender Existence. We’re also joined by Imani Gandy, who says the anti-trans legislative movement is taking its cues straight out of the anti-abortion movement, and to give us a round up of anti-abortion legislation in our post-Roe country. Imani Gandy is Senior Editor of Law and Policy for Rewire News Group. She also co-hosts the podcast Boom! Lawyered.
Read the article here: https://theappeal.org/new-jersey-transgender-prisoner-policy-demi-minor/
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is award-winning scholar, music educator and activist Angela Wellman. Angela is also the founder of the Oakland Public Conservatory of Music.
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We go to Modesto, where families impacted by killings by police are organizing together. We’re joined by Darlene Ruiz, the mother of Trevor Seever who was killed by Modesto police on December 29, 2020. We’re also joined by Brittoni Estrella-Chavez, wife of Paul Chavez Jr who was killed by Modesto police on July 14, 2022.
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In this episode, we go to Phoenix, where, after Jacob Harris was killed by police, his friends were charged with his murder. We’re joined by Roland Harris, Jacob’s father, along with Meg O’Connor, an award-winning Senior Reporter for The Appeal, covering police, prosecutors, and the criminal legal system. Her latest piece is titled: Police Killed his Son – Prosecutors Charged the Teen’s Friends with his Murder.
Read The Appeal article here: https://theappeal.org/phoenix-police-killed-jacob-harris-felony-murder-arizona/
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Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build.
This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of March 20th, 2023.
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In this episode we go to Los Angeles, where school staff are striking and schools are shut down. The Service Employees International Union, Local 99, which represents about 30,000 teachers’ aides, special education assistants, bus drivers, custodians, cafeteria workers, special education assistants and other support staff, walked out amid stalled contract talks on Tuesday, March 21st, for a 3-day strike. SEIU Local 99 members voted overwhelmingly (96% in favor) to authorize a strike last month. During the strike vote and contract bargaining process, the district subjected workers to surveillance, intimidation, and harassment. LA’s teachers’ union has joined the labor action, refusing to cross their colleagues’ picket line, essentially leaving the second-largest school district in the US closed for business until the strike is over. We’re joined by Bryant Odega, a substitute teacher at the HArts academy, housed in Narbonne High School – a school in the LA Unified School District. Bryant is a member of the LA teachers’ union (United Teachers of LA or UTLA). He joins us from the picket line outside his workplace.
Staying on theme, we move back to Oakland, where contract negotiations between the teachers union and the district went from a double-digit raise down to a 3.5% raise, and even that low number’s funding would come from cuts to other staff, like SEIU and AFSCME classified staff who do things like special ed support, and food prep. On Friday, March 24th, school workers and teachers are planning a walkout as a wildcat strike action. We’re joined by one of the teachers impacted – Marika Iyer is an English and Ethnic Studies Teacher at Oakland High School.
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A new legislative session is upon us in California, so, we spend some time walking through just a few of the more progressive bills folks will be pushing. Joining me to discuss is Eric Morrison-Smith, the Executive Director for the Alliance for Boys and Men of Color, a national network of community and advocacy organizations coming together to advance race and gender justice by transforming policies that are failing boys and men of color, their families and communities.
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San Francisco police response times have been getting slower and slower since 2016. We talk with Will Jarrett, the data reporter from Mission Local about the article he collaborated with to identify the police department’s slow down, which claims that the police “staffing crisis (is) just the beginning” of the department’s woes.
Read the Mission Local piece here: https://missionlocal.org/2023/03/police-staffing-crisis-san-francisco/
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California Governor Gavin Newsom has announced that San Quentin State Prison will transition into a “rehabilitation” center for the California prison system, transitioning to a service-oriented site that focuses on prisoners who are spending their final time incarcerated before being freed. Meanwhile, current long term prisoners there will be transferred away to other prisons – likely sites that have fewer services for the people living in their cages. We speak with Tim Kornegay, the Director of the Live Free California Coalition.
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We encourage our brothers and sisters on the other side of the wall to write in to our show. Occasionally we read those letters on the air. This letter comes to us from Orange County Theo Lacy Jail.
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is community organizer, youth development professional, and installation artist Mizan Alkebulan-Abakah.
Learn more about Mizan at her website: https://www.spearitwurx.com/
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In this episode we look at a new policy in San Mateo County Jail that restricts prisoner access to letters other than digital scans that they cannot have at their bedside – it’s a policy justified by an overplayed outcry that prisoners are receiving drugs through mail while in reality, the majority of drugs inside jails are trafficked there by guards themselves. Along with other justice-minded organizations, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is vocally opposing the policy. We’re joined by Hannah Zhao, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation focusing on criminal justice and privacy issues, with prior experience representing criminal defendants on appeal in state and federal courts in New York, Illinois, and Missouri.
Read the Electronic Frontier Foundation statement here: https://supporters.eff.org/civicrm/mailing/view?reset=1&id=11813
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In this episode we go back to Atlanta to discuss the movement to stop Cop City, including the latest developments of an independent autopsy that shows police shot and killed a forest defender in the head while they had their hands up, as well as the latest with protests and terrorism charges filed against protesters. We’re joined by Tunde Osazua, a member of the Atlanta chapter of the Black Alliance for Peace (or BAP), and is also a member of BAP’s national coordinating committee. He’s also a part of a broader coalition of individuals and orgs fighting back against Atlanta’s Cop City plan.
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Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build.
This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of March 13th, 2023.
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After far too much time without him, we are joined by the one and only Mitch Jeserich – host of KPFA’s Letters and Politics which airs weekdays from 10-11am on KPFA. We chat about the latest shenanigans in national politics, including the end of federal COVID aid programs, Tucker Carlson’s revisionist video of the January 6th siege of the Capitol, and Matthew Taibbi’s Twitter testimony to Congress.
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One of the first very public decisions by newly elected Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao was also very controversial. She first put then-Oakland police chief LeRonne Armstrong on leave and then fired him, as a result of his breaking of the rules. He engaged in conduct that continued the legacy of the blue wall of silence which in police departments across the country covers up, excuses and allows for bad behavior by law enforcement. But rather than hail her decision as bold and courageous some groups including some Black-led groups, organized rallies and protests to defend the scandal-embroiled chief. Our guest in this episode is Justin Phillips, a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, whose recent column blasts the NAACP saying: “The organization is validating concerns that it might be out of touch”.
Read Justin Phillips‘ column: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/justinphillips/article/oakland-naacp-armstrong-police-17809410.php
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On today’s episode we’ll take a deep dive into the history of electoral recall efforts, and then explore current recall efforts both locally and nationally. We’ll start with a conversation with Kathryn Olmsted, a history professor at UC Davis who studies anti-communist efforts and the roots of modern conservatism. She is the author of four books, with her most recent titled: Right Out of California: The 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism. Kathryn has also been published in the New York Times discussing the recall effort against Gavin Newsom in 2021.
Then, we speak with Joshua Spivak, author of Recall Elections: From Alexander Hamilton to Gavin Newsom. Joshua tracks recall efforts globally on his blog: recallelections.blogspot.com.
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We speak with 3Girls Theatre, currently presenting a New Works Festival. We’re joined by Jeunée Simon, an actor, director, and intimacy choreographer based in the Bay Area. Jeunée is currently starring in the 3Girls Theater presentation of Tasha at San Francisco’s Z Space until March 18th. We’re also joined by Tina D’Elia, a mixed-race Mexican, lesbian/queer- identified feminist artist, performance coach, acting instructor, SAG-AFTRA actor, and award-winning solo performer, casting director, executive producer, and co-screenwriter.
Check out the 3Girls Theatre Company website: https://www.3girlstheatre.org/
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On today’s show, a conversation about California’s current campaigns to remove certain responsibilities from police officers in the latest organizing to defund. That includes a statewide campaign to remove police from traffic stops as well as the recent transition in Oakland to remove police from dealing with abandoned vehicles. We’re joined by James Burch, Policy Director for the Anti Police-Terror Project, an organization that seeks to end police violence in Black and Brown communities.
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence artist is low impact painter and climate optimist Joelle Provost. Her works have been featured in the Zhou B Art Center in Chicago, Good Mother Gallery in Oakland, ROOM art gallery in Mill Valley, & Spacewomb Gallery in Manhattan. Joelle holds an MFA in Studio Art and Integrated Media from Brooklyn College. She has dedicated herself to using her art as a means for communicating issues of Environmental degradation and other problems of our modern world.
Joelle is collaborating to plan a Regenerative Gala coming up on April 1st, 2023, which includes a sustainable fashion show and regenerative art sale. Learn more by checking out their website: www.WeAreTheGeneralPublic.com.
Check out Joelle Provost’s website: https://www.joelleprovost.com/
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We encourage our brothers and sisters on the other side of the wall to write in to our show. Occasionally we read those letters on the air. This letter comes to us from San Quentin State Prison.
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In this episode we go to Paterson, New Jersey, on March 3rd, police killed violence interruptor Najee Seabrooks. Seabrooks was in his own apartment and allegedly having a mental health crisis – he himself worked with an organization called the Paterson Healing Collective, and he called his colleagues – who work as community-based violence interruptors – for support. Despite showing up and requesting from police to be able to intervene, police did not let members of the Healing Collective do so, and instead eventually stormed Seabrooks’ apartment in a raid that led to Seabrooks’ death. Our guests are Dr Liza Chowdhury, Executive Director of the Paterson Healing Collective along with Teddie Martinez, one of the Healing Collective members who was outside the apartment and attempting to intervene with his colleague in order to save his life from the police.
Learn more about Najee Seabrooks, w/ links to a petition and to donate: https://www.justice4najee.com/
Learn more about the Paterson Healing Collective: https://patersonhealingcollective.org/
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Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build.
This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of March 6th, 2023.
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In this episode we’re joined by Lateefah Simon, who just announced her election campaign for the 12th Congressional District seat that is being vacated by Barbara Lee. Lateefah Simon is a 25-year veteran organizer and nationally recognized advocate for civil rights and social justice. In 2016 – driven into politics by the tragic murder of Oscar Grant – Lateefah was elected to the BART Board of Directors, and has served there since. She was also appointed in 2020 as a senior advisor on police reform for California Governor Gavin Newsom.
Learn more about Lateefah Simon at her website: https://www.lateefahsimon.com/
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In this episode 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 Intercept and the host of a podcast called Alphabet Boys – which reveals secret investigations of the FBI, DEA, ATF, and other agencies, and includes secret undercover recordings that the government never wanted the public to hear. Alphabet Boys, the podcast, is rolling out its first season with new episodes weekly, and this season as well as Trevor’s latest piece for The Intercept is focused on FBI infiltration into Black Lives Matter organizing in Denver.
Check out Trevor Aaronson’s website: https://trevoraaronson.com/
Listen to Alphabet Boys: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alphabet-boys/id1668980612
Read The Intercept coverage: https://theintercept.com/2023/02/07/fbi-denver-racial-justice-protests-informant/
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This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of February 13th, 2023.
A different take this week, with our host Cat Brooks giving her own commentary on the firing of Oakland Police Chief Leronne Armstrong by Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao.
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Next week is Black Solidarity Week in the Bay Area. We speak with organizer Turha AK, a movement strategist and security expert. He is the founder of Community Ready Corps and a co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project.
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The city of San Francisco has paid out over $20 million in police settlements since 2019. Here to discuss is Tim Redmond – founder and editor of 48 hills who has been a political and investigative reporter in San Francisco for more than 30 years. He spent much of that time as executive editor of the Bay Guardian.
Read Tim Redmond’s piece on SF Police settlements: https://48hills.org/2023/02/legal-settlements-for-police-abuse-have-cost-sf-more-than-20-million-since-2019/
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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 were filed for political reasons. We are joined by former SF DA Chesa Boudin along with April Green, Keita O’Neil’s aunt and advocate.
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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 women’s experience in conflict. High-Risk Feminism in Colombia: Women’s Mobilization in Violent Contexts documents the experiences of grassroots women’s organizations that united to demand gender justice during and in the aftermath of Colombia’s armed conflict. In doing so, it illustrates a little-studied phenomenon: women whose experiences with violence catalyze them to mobilize and resist as feminists, even in the face of grave danger. This book explains the gendered underpinnings of why women engage in feminist mobilization, even when this takes place in a ‘domain of losses’ that exposes them to high levels of risk. It follows four women’s organizations who break with traditional gender norms and defy armed groups’ social and territorial control, exposing them to retributive punishment. It provides rich evidence to document how women are able to surmount the barriers to mobilization when they frame their actions in terms of resistance, rather than fear.
Check out Julia Margaret Zulver’s website: https://www.juliazulver.com/
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We encourage our brothers and sisters on the other side of the wall to write in to our show. Occasionally we read those letters on the air. This letter comes to us from San Quentin State Prison.
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In the first few days of 2023, the Los Angeles Police Department murdered three people in two days: Takar Smith, Oscar Sanchez and Keenan Anderson. Takar Smith was in the middle of a mental episode when his wife called the non emergency line for help. She was not looking for law enforcement intervention. She most certainly was not looking for her husband to be murdered. Unfortunately and tragically, both of those things took place. Adding insult to injury – the Police Protective League released a statement to the Los Angeles City Council defending the actions of police officers in all three murders. Joining us to discuss is Dr Melina Abdullah, a professor at UCLA and co-founder of the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter as well as co-founder of Black Lives Matter Grassroots. We also speak with her about the controversial recent reinstatement of LA Police Chief Michael More and the new LA Mayor Karen Bass.
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Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build.
This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of February 6th, 2023.
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We spend this show on the legacies of the peculiar institution of chattel slavery that have led to the social and economic structures we live in and under. We’re in conversation with Saidiya Hartman, an American writer and academic focusing on African-American studies, who just re-released her seminal 1997 book for its 25th anniversary, Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America. She is currently a University Professor at Columbia University.
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House Bill 1467, signed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in March of last year, states that schools must be transparent in their selection of instructional, library, and reading materials. In theory this simply means that parents have the right to know what their students are reading and a means to view those materials. The bill language states that all materials must be free of pornography, gender identity issues (for students in Kindergarten through third grade), as well as any books relating to discrimination based on race, color, sex, or national origin. The books must also be approved by a certificated media specialist – something most public schools are too broke to afford. The bill does not name specific books to ban, nor a system in which to vet the books. It does, however, come with a threat of a class three felony, which means teachers could lose both their teaching certificate and their right to vote.
The bill is basically a book ban of anything and everything conservatives don’t like – including Black peoples words, thoughts and histories – and it has the potential to undo decades of work and struggle to ensure young Black children have access to reading materials that reflect back to them the beauty that they are. Our guest today is Daphne Muse, is a writer, social commentator and cultural broker, who is currently the Elder-in-Residence at the Black Studies Collaboratory in Abolitionist Democracy in the Department of African American and Diaspora Studies at UC Berkeley. She is the Author/Editor of Children of Africa, The New Press Guide to Multicultural Children’s Literature, and Prejudice: Stories About Hate, Ignorance, Revelation, and Transformation.
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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 ago, imprisonment of a person until death was an extraordinary punishment; today, it accounts for the sentences of an increasing number of prisoners in the United States. We speak with Christopher Seeds, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine, whose latest book is called Death By Prison: The Emergence of Life without Parole and Perpetual Confinement.
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence artist is educator, radical healer and mentor Sizwe or Spear Of The Nation, who utilizes his skills as a performer to build awareness, connection, and opens doors to self mastery.
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In this episode we continue the conversation about police involvement in traffic stops, this time in LA, where a city councilmember has proposed that armed officers do not get involved in traffic stops. We speak with Marqueece Harris Dawson, a Los Angeles Councilmember representing the City’s District 8, which covers most of South LA. He became an elected official after taking over the Executive Director role at LA’s Community Coalition from now-LA Mayor Karen Bass.
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We go to Memphis, where talk with Amber Sherman about the recent police killing of Tyre Nichols, a young Black man who was pulled from his car for allegedly driving recklessly, and beaten for three full minutes by five officers. He was hospitalized on January 7th and succumbed to his injuries three days later. The five officers have been fired and the community is calling for criminal charges to be filed and the body camera footage to be released. Amber Sherman is an organizer with Decarcerate Memphis and a member of Black Lives Matter Memphis. She is a native Memphian and a nationally known political strategist, activist, organizer, and host of her own podcast called The Law According to Amber.
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Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build.
This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of January 30th, 2023.
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In the wake of the horrifying police killing of Tyre Nichols, we spend the hour in conversation about the history of policing with Professor Nikki Jones. Nikki Jones is Professor of African American Studies at UC-Berkeley. Her work examines the experiences of Black women, men, and youth with the criminal legal system, policing, and violence. Her research is focused on the systematic analysis of video records that document routine encounters between police and civilians, with a focus on encounters that involve the police and Black youth in high-surveillance neighborhoods. Professor Jones is the author of Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner-City Violence (2010) and The Chosen Ones: Black Men and the Politics of Redemption (2018).
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Indictments have come down for members of the Uhuru Movement following FBI raids of their homes. We speak with Akilé Anai, the Director of Media and Communications for the Uhuru Movement as well as the Editor in Chief of the Burning Spear newspaper.
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Multiple civil rights and disability groups are challenging Governor Newsom’s CARE Courts measure, which would force some folks with mental health and substance abuse issues into facilities for treatment. We speak with Sarah Gregory, Senior Attorney at Disability Rights California, along with Nubyaan Scott, Staff Attorney in the Civil Rights Practice Group at Disability Rights California.
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We speak with two members of Moms 4 Housing – Dominique Walker and Sharena Thomas – who are back on the front lines fighting for the continuance of eviction protections.Check out Moms 4 Housing’s website: https://moms4housing.org/—-
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence artist is Raul Perales – Bassist, Composer, Arranger, and Associate Professor in the Jazz and Popular Music department of the University of Arts and Science in Chiapas, Mexico. Raul is also the bandleader of Futuristic Funk band Mojarras Fritas. He’s been in Chiapas for some years now, but was a local gigging musician in the Bay Area for many years before his move to Mexico.
Check out Las Mojarras Fritas on Bandcamp: https://lasmojarrasfritas.bandcamp.com/album/las-mojarras-fritas
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After failing to make it through the legislative process this past fall, California State Assemblymember Chris Holden has reintroduced the Mandela Act – a legislative act that would severely limit California’s prison system from using solitary confinement as punishment. Holden represents Southern California’s District 41. It’s worth noting that if passed, the Mandela Act would not only impact the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation prisons, but also immigrant detention centers, where rules around punishment are even less regulated than in CDCR. This act, essentially exactly the same, has gone through the state assembly and state senate previously, including in this past fall, but Governor Newsom rejected the bill. In addition to Assemblymember Holden, we are joined by Jack Morris, who spent 40 years in prison in California, the majority of that time in Security Housing Units – which is the technical term our state’s prison system uses for solitary confinement. He was a part of the historic prisoner hunger strikes in 2013 that led to a federal class action lawsuit on behalf of prisoners held in solitary confinement at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison. The case charges that prolonged solitary confinement violates the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, and that the absence of meaningful review for SHU placement violates the prisoners’ rights to due process. He’s now advocating alongside State Assemblymember Holden for the Mandela Act.—-
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We go to Los Angeles to speak with Harold Welton, a member of the Coalition to Free Ruchell Magee. Harold has been fighting for the liberation of Black people and all people for many decades, since being a member of the Southern California chapters of SNCC and then the Black Panther Party. Ruchell Magee is one of the longest held political prisoner in the country. He was first captured in 1963 on trumped-up charges related to a marijuana deal, and later became implicated as the lesser-known co-defendent in the same case that made Angela Davis famous, related to the Marin County Courthouse rebellion led by Jonathan Jackson. Ruchell is now 83 years old, and the coalition is trying to get him free. You can find ways to support the Coalition to Free Ruchell Magee, including petitions and phone numbers for legislators, on their website below.
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In this episode we speak with with Amber Sherman about the recent police killing of Tyre Nichols, a young Black man who was pulled from his car for allegedly driving recklessly, and beaten for three full minutes by five officers. He was hospitalized on January 7th and succumbed to his injuries three days later. The five officers have been fired and the community is calling for criminal charges to be filed and the body camera footage to be released. Amber Sherman is an organizer with Decarcerate Memphis and a member of Black Lives Matter Memphis. She is a native Memphian and a nationally known political strategist, activist, organizer, and host of her own podcast called The Law According to Amber.
Check out Amber Sherman’s website: https://www.ambersherman.com/
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Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build.
This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of January 23rd, 2023.
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On Wednesday, January 18 26-year-old activist Tortuga was shot and killed by Atlanta police while protesting the construction of the planned $90 million Atlanta Public Safety Training Center (or ‘Cop City’), an 85-acre police training facility in the South River Forest. But what is Cop City? Why is it being built? What has the organizing looked like even prior to the violent and deadly repression organizers and activists experienced at the hands of law enforcement? We are joined by Tunde Osazua, a member of the Atlanta chapter of the Black Alliance for Peace (or BAP), who is also a member of BAP’s national coordinating committee. He’s also a part of a broader coalition of individuals and orgs fighting back against Atlanta’s Cop City plan.
Read BAP-Atlanta’s statement on Cop City: https://blackallianceforpeace.com/bapstatements/bapatlantaonstaterepression
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New Jersey is rolling back rights for trans prisoners making it even more difficult for them to be incarcerated at institutions that align with their gender identity. We speak with Adam Rhodes, a queer, first-generation Cuban American journalist whose journalism focuses on public policy, the justice system, and our nation’s most vulnerable people. His latest piece for the Appeal is called New Jersey Rolls Back Protections for Trans Prisoners.
Read the article here: https://theappeal.org/new-jersey-transgender-prisoner-policy-demi-minor/
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Cat gives her reactions and analysis about the suspension of Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong amid scandalous non-accountability, as his community makes public their demand of reinstatement.
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For ten years, the Black Organizing Project (BOP) fought to remove police from Oakland schools. Developed from BOP’s Peoples’ Plan for Police Free Schools (2019) and an accumulation of a 9 year organizing campaign launched in 2011, the George Floyd Resolution (GFR) was passed June 24, 2020 making Oakland Unified School District the first district in the country to eliminate an entire school police department.
In 2020 they won that fight and the George Floyd Resolution was passed. But that was just the beginning of the work and the state is still pushing back – desperate to hang on to the status quo. BOP has released the peoples budget – a road map – and how much it will cost to stop criminalizing our children. We are joined by Ebony Johnson, the Black Sanctuary Organizer with the Black Organizing Project. She leads most of the Black Organizing Project’s work surrounding the George Floyd Resolution and the People’s Budget.
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The Oakland Police Chief, Leronne Armstrong has been placed on paid administrative leave by Mayor Sheng Thao after he made the news for neglecting to follow through on punishments for an officer who violated policy and law multiple times – including a hit-and-run car accident while driving a city-owned vehicle and discharging his firearm in an elevator. Yesterday, Chief Leronne Armstrong teamed up with Public relations consultant Sam Singer – the same crisis communications manager that worked with terminated police chief Anne Kirkpatrick in her lawsuit against the city – and fired back demanding he be immediately reinstated and taking aim at the federal monitor Robert Warshaw. We speak with James Burch, the Deputy Director of the Anti-Police Terror Project to address the situation, and also to discuss the latest work of APTP, including the opening of a new building called The People’s House. At the end of the conversation, we’re joined by April Green, aunt of Keita O’Neil who was killed by San Francisco police officers in 2017.
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Last week, Oakland City Councilmember Carroll Fife went public with some of the voicemails and threats she has been receiving as a result of the public work she does as an activist and councilmember. While the threats were shocking to some degree, Black women who do work in the public space often live with these kinds of threats, hateful e-mails and attacks. We speak with Carroll Fife, a longtime community organizer and an Oakland City Council Member, representing District 3, elected in 2020. We are also joined by Melina Abdullah, a professor and the chair of pan-African studies at Cal State Los Angeles, as well as the co-founder of the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter and co-founder of Black Lives Matter Grassroots.
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence artist is a whole family of artists – we speak with Tommy Shepard, Lil Tommy, and Anna Maria Luera.
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence artist is rapper, cultural architect and entrepreneur Damon Turner, who creates sounds, experiences and initiatives that envision and build a world fit for thriving.
Check out Damon Turner’s website: https://www.iamdamonturner.com/
Check out Damon’s Trap Heal’s website: https://trapheals.com/
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MISSSEY is an Oakland-based organization working to prevent girls and gender-expansive youth from entering circumstances of sexual exploitation and violence. They also support young people who are experiencing exploitation, to transition into a more self-determined life. We are joined by MISSSEY’s Executive Director, Jennifer Lyle, discussing the work of MISSSEY and their upcoming event on Tuesday, January 24th from 2-4pm at the Oakland Museum of California. The event is: An Afternoon In Conversation with Leila Mottley & Chinaka Hodge, during Human Trafficking Month.
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UNAC rally – united national anti war coalition
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Oakland’s most recent school board election from November of 2022 appears rife with error. We speak with Mike Hutchinson, the Oakland school board representative for District 5. Due to redistricting from the city, he ran in our last election cycle for the open seat for Oakland’s District 4 school board position. The initial count said he lost the election, but when the voting registrar ran the numbers more recently, it appears that there was a major counting error, and Mike Hutchinson did actually win. He has since filed a petition with the Alameda County Superior Court to assert him as winner.
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Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build.
This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of January 16th, 2023.
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In the first 10 days of 2023, three people have been killed at the hands of the Los Angeles Police Department. The LA chapter of Black Lives Matter Grassroots is organizing in solidarity with the families directly impacted. We speak to Baba Greg Akili, who is a core team member of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles, and the Director of the Fannie Lou Hamer Institute. He is also an Instructor at the UCLA Labor Studies Department.
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Following up on a story we covered when it first broke, the state of Louisiana is sending children to Angola prison – one of the most notoriously violent prisons in the country – where the children prisoners are being tortured. We speak with Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, Senior Reporter for The Appeal, a worker-led nonprofit news organization. She writes on prison and jail conditions, and wrongful convictions, and her latest article in the Appeal is called Louisiana Imprisons Children in a Former Death Row Unit: The Kids Say it Haunts Them.
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We explore dive into the nitty gritty of Abolition with someone whose been on the frontlines of abolitionist efforts for many years. Our guest is Andrea J Ritchie, whose latest book is No More Police – the Case for Abolition, which she co-authored along with Mariame Kaba.
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We take a deep dive into healing through art – not just any art but art that intersects with movements – helping to pave the path toward liberation. Our guest is Ashara Ekundayo, who among many other roles, is the Curator and Cultural Theologian behind Artist as First Responder – Engaging & Supporting Artists whose creative practices Heal Communities and Save Lives.
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We speak with Terri E. Givens, a Professor of Political Science at McGill University and the author of books and articles on immigration policy, anti-discrimination politics, and comparative race politics. In her book, The Roots of Racism – The Politics of White Supremacy in the US and Europe, Terri E. Givens examines the connections between immigration policy and racism that have contributed to the rise of anti-immigrant, radical-right parties in Europe, the rise of Trumpism in the US, and the Brexit vote in the UK.
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On today’s episode, Laura Jedeed joins us to discuss her experience embedding with a right-wing “Constitutional Defense” and handgun training camp in Texas, about which she recently wrote an article for The New Republic. Laura Jedeed is an investigative and features journalist based in New York City. She often writes about housing justice, military interventionism, and the American far right.
Check out the article discussed in today’s episode: https://newrepublic.com/article/169563/patriot-academy-right-wing-constitutional-defense-training-camp
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On today’s show, we examine the upsurge in violence against the transgender community. Insider spent 18 months investigating the murders of 175 transgender people over the span of five years, resulting in a published series called “Deaths in the Family.” They found that that murders of trans people have doubled over the last three years, that only three of the murders they investigated were charged as hate crimes, and that only 28 cases resulted in murder convictions.
We speak with the editorial consultant on Insider’s recent investigative series on anti-trans violence, Diamond Stylz. Diamond is a Black trans activist and the Executive Director of Black Trans Women Inc, a national nonprofit that is led by Black trans women focused on social advocacy, positive visibility, and building strong leadership among Black trans advocates, activists, and their allies. She also produces a podcast called “Marsha’s Plate,” which is hosted by three Black trans people exploring pop culture and current events from a Black trans feminist lens. She was the editorial consultant
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On today’s show, we examine the upsurge in violence against the transgender community. Insider spent 18 months investigating the murders of 175 transgender people over the span of five years, resulting in a published series called “Deaths in the Family.” They found that that murders of trans people have doubled over the last three years, that only three of the murders they investigated were charged as hate crimes, and that only 28 cases resulted in murder convictions. Matt Drange joins us to discuss his contribution to the series, which is focused on killings of trans people by police officers. Matt Drange is a senior correspondent based out of Insider‘s San Francisco bureau. His work has been published by ProPublica, The Guardian, Salon.com, the San Francisco Chronicle, Pacific Standard and elsewhere.
Check out the Matt Drange’s article: https://www.insider.com/police-deaths-transgender-people-officer-killings-mental-health-crisis-2022-11
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Between 2005 and 2013, California sterilized over 850 people in women’s prisons either without their consent, and in some cases without even their knowledge. A state program, in theory is trying to locate these women to pay them reparations to the tune of $15,000 a year, but with just a year left before the program shuts down, only 51 women have received checks. We are joined by Hafsah Al-Amin, program coordinator with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners who has been working on the sterilization reparations program for years, along with Moonlight Pulido, who is a survivor of forced sterilization while incarcerated at Valley State Prison in Stockton in 2005. She has received reparations funds and is working to get access for that to other survivors.
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Between 2005 and 2013, California sterilized over 850 people in women’s prisons either without their consent or in some cases without even their knowledge. A state program, in theory is trying to locate these women to pay them reparations compensation, but with just a year left before the program shuts down, only 51 women have received checks out of a reported 805 forced historectomies. We are joined this morning by Hafsah Al-Amin, program coordinator with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners who has been working on the sterilization reparations program for years, along with Moonlight Pulido, a survivor of forced sterilization while incarcerated at Valley State Prison in Stockton in 2005. She has received reparations funds and is working to get access for that to other survivors.
If you know underwent forced sterilization in a California women’s prison and would like to explore reparations, you are invited to contact CCWP at info@womenprisoners.org.
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Exploring the junk science of 911 call analysis, we speak with Brett Murphy, an investigative journalist with ProPublica whose latest long-form piece traces the fallacy of 911 call analysis through the justice system, from Quantico to the courtroom.
Read the ProPublica piece here: https://www.propublica.org/article/911-call-analysis-fbi-police-courts
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In this episode, we explore the pending January 9th eviction of Oakland’s Wood Street encampment – the largest of its kind in the city. At the same time, encampment residents are preparing for historic rainfall and potential flooding in the coming days and weeks. We’re joined by Wood Street resident John Janosko as well as Talya Hunsbands-Hankin, founder of Love and Justice in the Streets.
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We’re joined by with Lenore Anderson, the co-founder and President of Alliance for Safety and Justice, and founder of Californians for Safety and Justice, who worked for the City of Oakland under Mayor Ron Dellums and later as an attorney in Kamala Harris’ office when the Vice President was San Francisco’s District Attorney’s office. We discuss Lenore’s new book In Their Names: The Untold Story of Victims’ Rights, Mass Incarceration, and the Future of Public Safety. The book offers a close look at how the political call to help victims in the 1980s morphed into a demand for bigger bureaucracies and more incarceration, and cemented the long- standing chasm that exists between most victims and the justice system. Lenore argues that the powerful myth that mass incarceration benefits victims obscures recognition of what most victims actually need, including addressing their trauma, which is a leading cause of subsequent violent crime.
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence artist is singer, songwriter, and longtime East Bay justice activist Andrea Prichett. Andrea is also musically known for being one third of the nationally recognized folk trio “rebecca riots”, but she’s preparing now for the release party for her long-awaited solo album, called the Frame. The album’s release event is on Thursday, January 5th, at the Freight and Salvage in Berkeley.
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Our guest this episode is Oakland’s young rising star author Leila Mottley, who at just 20 years old published a bestselling novel called Nightcrawling, whose story is grounded in a trafficking and rape scandal by the Oakland Police department. Just a few years ago our guest was Oakland’s youth poet laureate, and catapulting into the spotlight, she’s now become the youngest author to ever be selected for Oprah’s book club.
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is Tina D’Elia, a mixed-race Mexican, lesbian/queer-identified feminist artist, performance coach, acting instructor, actor, and award-winning solo performer.
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Black Panther and Cuban exile Assata Shakur has inspired generations of radical protest, including the contemporary movement for Black lives. Our guest in this episode is Donna Murch, author of Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives. Drawing its title from one of America’s foremost revolutionaries, this collection of thought-provoking essays by award-winning Panther scholar Donna Murch explores how social protest is challenging our current system of state violence and mass incarceration. Murch frames the contemporary movement in relation to earlier struggles for Black Liberation, while excavating the origins of mass incarceration and the political economy that drives it.
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We talk with Treva B. Lindsey about violence against Black women and girls, and the reverberation of this violence on every facet of our social and community fabrics. That’s the focus of her new book America Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and The Struggle for Justice (University of California Press). Treva is a Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University and the co-founder of Black Feminist Night School at Zora’s House. Her research and teaching interests include African American women’s history, Black popular and expressive culture, Black feminism(s), hip hop studies, critical race and gender theory, and sexual politics.
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is Bay Area-born and raised rapper, vocalist, songwriter, producer, and cultural organizer, Coco Peila.
Learn more about her on her website: https://www.cocopeila.com/
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Most Americans believe that the jury trial is the backbone of our criminal justice system. But in fact, the vast majority of cases never make it to trial: almost all criminal convictions are the result of a plea bargain, a deal made entirely out of the public eye.
Our guest today is Dan Canon, author of Pleading Out: How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal Class. Dan Canon is a civil rights lawyer, teacher, writer, and educator based primarily in Indiana and Kentucky. He is a professor of law at the Louis D Brandeis School of Law, and served as lead counsel for the Kentucky plaintiffs in the landmark Supreme Court case of Obergefell v. Hodges. He focuses his lawyering work on defending the rights of incarcerated people, and challenging wrongful convictions, abuse and overreach by law enforcement.
In his book, Dan Canon argues that plea bargaining may swiftly dispose of cases, but it also fuels an unjust system. This practice produces a massive underclass of people who are restricted from voting, working, and otherwise participating in society. And while innocent people plead guilty to crimes they did not commit in exchange for lesser sentences, the truly guilty can get away with murder.
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As the Soviet Union came crashing down, Francis Fukuyama declared what he called the end of history in 1994, imagining that capitalism had won out – socialism had failed – and that global governing formations would sit within capitalist democratic values from there on. This “end of history” theory has been challenged by many, including Fukuyama himself much more recently.
Our guest today is a historian and a scholar who thinks of history – not in linear form, not in cyclical form, and certainly not in a form that has an ending. He says that history zigs and zags, where we consider failed historic movements as experiments that didn’t quite go right, as opposed to failures. More important than failure or success, the point here is that the struggle itself is a learning process and a humanizing one.
For that reason, the book that we’ll be discussing is called Struggle Makes Us Human with historian, author, and Executive Director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, Vijay Prashad.
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Linda Ronstadt joins us in this exclusive conversation about her musical upbringing and dedication to her home in the Sonoran Desert. She reflects on conditions for people trying to cross the border and the hypocrisy of the border patrol, and discusses her brand new book Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands. Growing up the granddaughter of Mexican immigrants and a descendant of Spanish settlers near northern Sonora, Ronstadt’s new memoir celebrates her rich musical heritage.
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California has announced it will begin the process of closing Chuckwalla Prison in Riverside County, and plans are in the works for cutbacks at six more prisons – the closures and cutbacks will save the state $1.5 billion each year. We speak with Brian Kaneda, deputy director of Californians United for a Responsible Budget, or CURB, which is an organization dedicated to reducing imprisonment in our state by developing deep economic analyses about how it’s actually financially better for all of us, to reduce prisons.
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We turn our attention to Vallejo where a new report about Vallejo Police Lieutenant Steve Darden – a member of what some advocates call the “Fatal 14” – uncovers brutal policing practices. We speak with Scott Morris, a journalist with the Vallejo Sun who covers policing, protest, civil rights, and far-right extremism. His article in the Vallejo Sun is ‘Out of control’: Vallejo police Lt. Steve Darden’s reputation for unchecked anger.
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Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build.
This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of December 5th, 2022
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.
This week’s Artist Resistance in Residence West Oakland native, vocalist, and culture-education-wellness advocate Rashida Chase. Rashida is a member of house music vocal ensemble Moon Candy, and a part of the KPFA family.
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George McCalman is an artist and creative director based in San Francisco, who recently published The Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen. He joins us to discuss the process he went through to narrow his list of historical figures from 500 to 145, his artistic process, and what it meant for him to orient himself around Black history in the US as a young Grenadian immigrant. Among the figures featured in the book are James Baldwin, Madeline Anderson, Colin Kaepernick, and the first Black person to travel into space, Guion S. Bluford.
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On today’s show, some very good news: the Anti-Police Terror Project redistributed $3.5 million to Black-led community organizations and families impacted by state violence – we speak with the folks that helped make it happen. Rahel Mekdim Tekaand Asia Almanare community organizers and project managers of the Radical Redistribution Fund.
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San Francisco Board of Supervisors are set for a final vote on whether to authorize SFPD to use killer robots on Tuesday. We’re joined by Dean Preston, San Francisco Supervisor for District 5 to discuss the policy that would authorize lethal force, why it would be needed, the risks to the community – especially Black and Brown residents of San Francisco – and how funding and maintenance of military weapons for SFPD could be better spent on measures for public safety. Opponents are urging the Board of Supervisors not to approve the reckless policy at its next meeting at 2 p.m. Tuesday December 6.
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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.This week’s Artist Resistance in Residence is Lisbet Tellefsen, a Black archivist, collector and curator, who is one of the contributors to the current Angela Davis exhibit at the Oakland Museum of California. She is also a UC Berkeley Black collaboratory fellow.Learn about the Angela Davis exhibit at the OMCA: https://museumca.org/on-view/angela-davis-seize-the-time/—-Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=pageGet in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.orgFollow us on socials @LawAndDis:https://twitter.com/LawAndDis;https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/The post Artist Resistance in Residence: Lisbet Tellefsen appeared first on KPFA.
Friday, December 2nd is Mario Woods Angelversary. We speak with Gwen Woods, Mario Woods mother. Mario was killed by SFPD on December 2nd, 2015 in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco. He was 26 years old when he was shot by as many as 15 rounds fired by five officers. His murder ignited massive protests, including a hunger strike, and unity among police accountability activists on both sides of the Bay bridge who routinely shut down BOS, police commission meetings and engaged in direct actions like “waking up former Police Chief Greg Suhr” who we ultimately succeeded in getting removed from office.—-Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=pageGet in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.orgFollow us on socials @LawAndDis:https://twitter.com/LawAndDis;https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/The post Angelversary of Mario Woods, killed by SFPD in 2015 w/ his mother Gwen Woods appeared first on KPFA.
We turn our attention to Gulfport, Mississippi where on October 6th, 2022 police murdered 15 year old Jaheim McMillan in front of his four friends in the parking lot of a Dollar Tree Store. Activists are headed to Gulfport the first weekend in December, from across the country to demand the police release the footage of the shooting. We will be joined by Melina Abdullah, co-founder of the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter and co-founder of Black Lives Matter Grassroots. Andrew Joseph, Jr is the father of Andrew Joseph III, who was killed after being struck by a vehicle after being improperly ejected by sheriff deputies from the Florida State Fair in 2014. Elayjiah Wooley, an activist from Oakland who founded Free My People – a social media platform to spread mass awareness about police brutality and racial discrimination for impacted communities. And Leo Carney is a freelance journalist in Mississippi, as well as an organizer with the ADOS foundation which uses data-driven advocacy to inform and affirm the need for a federal reparations program and a transformative Black agenda. We also hear from Jaheim McMillan’s aunt, Natasha Boyd, describing her nephew Jahiem.Follow Melina Abdullah on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DocMellyMelFollow Elayhiah Wooley on Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/elaayjiahFollow Leo Carney on Twitter: https://twitter.com/chefcarney—-Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=pageGet in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.orgFollow us on socials @LawAndDis:https://twitter.com/LawAndDis;https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/The post Justice for Jahiem McMillan – police shooting of Gulfport MS teenager appeared first on KPFA.
Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build.This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of November 28th, 2022—-This episode featured music by Kofy Brown.Check out her website: https://www.kofybrown.com/Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=pageGet in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.orgFollow us on socials @LawAndDis:https://twitter.com/LawAndDis;https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/The post State Terror Round Up for the week of November 28th, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
Musical prodigy Christopher Lovell Jones was just 17 years old when he was gunned down on his mothers porch on New Years Eve 2010 in a tragic episode of street violence. We are joined by his mother, Brenda Grisham, who has been fighting for justice for her son and peace on Oakland’s streets since her son was killed. For the last two years she has hosted a conference for families impacted by community violence. The conference, called The Xperience Conference, is an event for families to come and heal from traumatic events in their lives, and will take place on Saturday, December 3rd, 2022 in San Leandro. Learn more about the Xperience Conference: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-xperience-conference-2022-tickets-417235250867 —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post The Xperience Conference in honor of Christopher Lovell Jones w/ Brenda Grisham appeared first on KPFA.
For three years in Sacramento, the sheriff has been trying to expand their local jail but the community has been pushing back against the jail expansion. In this episode we speak with the co-authors of a statement published in the Sacramento Bee: “Sacramento County wants to expand its troubled downtown jail. That’s a terrible idea.” Our guests are Katie Valenzuela, the Sacramento City councilmember for District 4, which includes Downtown Sacramento, as well as Flojaune Cofer, the Senior Director of Policy at Public Health Advocates. She is an epidemiologist who is focused on public health prevention and restorative justice initiatives in California. Read the op-ed in the Sacramento Bee: https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/article269100612.html Follow Katie Valenzuela on Twitter: https://twitter.com/katie4council Follow Flojaune Cofer on Twitter: https://twitter.com/flojaune —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Opposition to Sacramento’s jail expansion plan w/ Katie Valenzuela & Flojaune Cofer appeared first on KPFA.
Continuing our coverage of Oakland’s election outcomes, we are in conversation with Oakland City Councilmember-Elect for District 4, Janani Ramachandran, who is one of two new progressives who will take their city council seats come January. Janani Ramachandran is a public interest attorney, activist, and artist. She will be replacing outgoing Councilmember Sheng Thao, who was just elected as Oakland’s mayor. Follow Janani Ramachandran on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Janani4Oakland —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Oakland’s new District 4 councilmember: Janani Ramachandran appeared first on KPFA.
Today, the Ohlone community in the East Bay has no land base. They are not federally recognized and have been politically and economically marginalized. The Sogorea Te’ Land Trust cultivates rematriation. Sogorea Te’ calls on us all to heal and transform the legacies of colonization, genocide, and patriarchy and to do the work our ancestors and future generations are calling us to do. In this episode, we explore the Shuumi Land Tax with Araceli Nuñez Lee, program coordinator with the Sagorea Te Land Trust. Araceli is an undocumented resident on Ohlone land where she’s lived for about 20 years. Check out the Sagorea Te Land Trust’s website: https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/ Pay your Shuumi Land Tax: https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/pay-the-shuumi-land-tax/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Shuumi Land Tax – Supporting our native community w/ Araceli Nuñez Lee appeared first on KPFA.
Sheng Thao has been declared Oakland’s next mayor following a long ranked-choice voting process that eliminated all other candidates. She will be Oakland’s first Hmong mayor and the first Hmong mayor of any major US city; and at 37-years old Sheng Thao will be the youngest mayor of Oakland in about 75 years. Follow Sheng Thao on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShengForOakland —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Oakland’s Next Mayor: Sheng Thao appeared first on KPFA.
A professional athlete, choosing to not participate in the fanfare of the national anthem, on a national sports stage. Is it a familiar story? Can you picture it? In 2016, Colin Kaepernick, then a quarterback with the SF 49ers, built up a now-well-known protest against police killings of Black people by taking a knee while the anthem was playing. His quiet, but visible protest gained traction and spread to more players, more teams, and even into other sports outside of football. If you’re a listener of this show, you’re probably somewhat familiar with that situation, and probably aware that Kaepernick was essentially blacklisted and lost the ability to play football at the professional level – punished for leading a protest. 20 years earlier, a professional basketball player did virtually the same thing. He sat out the national anthem for religious and political reasons, and when a media circus zeroed in on him for it, he too, was suspended and eventually forced out of the league. Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf was a young NBA star playing for the Denver Nuggets, with impressive skills – he’s sometimes compared to an earlier version of Steph Curry. And he’s far from a household name. But with a brand new autobiography called In The Blink Of An Eye, just published under Colin Kaepernick’s publishing imprint, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf’s story is being memorialized in a much more accessible way. Follow Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf on Twitter: https://twitter.com/raufmahmoud Buy the book: https://www.kaepernickpublishing.com/in-the-blink-of-an-eye In this episode, we also welcome guest-host journalist and poet Raphael Cohen. In 2016, Raphael published Rebel Elegant, a chapbook and solo performance, blending poetry and biography, basketball history and social commentary, to honor Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf’s journey. —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Athlete Activism w/ Blacklisted NBA Player Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf appeared first on KPFA.
Diving into the modern abolitionist movement, we spend this hour with abolitionist activist and scholar Ruth Wilson Gilmore, discussing her latest collection of writing called Abolition Geography: Essays Toward Liberation. We get into some of the history of the modern abolitionist movement, and explore what it could mean to rely on community rather than the prison industrial complex to feel safe. Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a geographer and professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, and American Studies, and the director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the City University of New York. She’s also the co-founder of many grassroots organizations including the California Prison Moratorium Project, Critical Resistance, and the Central California Environmental Justice Network. Buy the book: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3785-abolition-geography —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Abolition Geography w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore appeared first on KPFA.
The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world. This week’s Artist Resistance in Residence is Oakland native, hip hop artist, community advocate, and owner of the brand and Oakland store Dope Era, Stanley Cox, also known as Stan Pablo, also known as Fabby Davis Jr, also known as F.A.B., but most commonly known as Mistah FAB. This episode also features a short feature with 7-year-old rapper and dancer Brooklyn Ivy Follow Mistah FAB on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MistahFAB Follow Mistah FAB on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fabbydavisjr1/ Follow Brooklyn Ivy on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brooklyn_ivy_/ —- This episode featured Mistah FAB‘s song Power from his album Amerikkka Don’t Love Us. Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Artist Resistance in Residence: Mistah FAB appeared first on KPFA.
Our guest in this episode is Caleb Gayle, an award-winning journalist who writes about race and identity and a professor at Northeastern University, a senior fellow at the Burnes Center for Social Change, and a visiting scholar at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He is the author of the book We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power, which offers a narrative account of how many Black Native Americans were divided and marginalized by white supremacy in America. Gayle’s writing has been featured in the New York Times, the Guardian, the ThreePenny Review, the Harvard Review, Pacific Standard, the New Republic, the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Review of Books, the Root, the Daily Beast, and more. Buy the book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665539/we-refuse-to-forget-by-caleb-gayle/ Follow Caleb Gayle on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gaylecaleb —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post We Refuse to Forget – Exploring the intersections of Black and American Indigenous identities w/ Caleb Gayle appeared first on KPFA.
We were devastated to learn this weekend about another mass shooting that targeted a queer nightclub, this time in Colorado Springs, at a club called Club Q. Tragically, five people were killed and at least 17 others were wounded by gunfire, while trying to enjoy themselves in one of few designated queer spaces in Colorado Springs, and all on the eve of the Trans Day of Remembrance – an annual observance on November 20th that honors the memory of transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence. In a July 2020 interview, one of the co-owners of Club Q said: “The whole idea of this place is to have a safe place – to get a permanent one in the city.” Unfortunately, this mass shooting has violated that community’s ability to have a self-determined space for joy. Queer bars have long-been spaces of joy, but also the target of vicious violence, from the police riot at New York’s Stonewall bar in 1969 to the 2016 shooting at Pulse – an Orlando queer club – to the shooting this weekend at Club Q in Colorado. This weekend’s attacker, Anderson Lee Aldrich, who is now facing murder and hate crime charges, is the grandson of MAGA-supporting California State Assemblyman Randy Voepel who has vocalized his support of the January 6th insurrection. This is one of those times when the fear-mongering of politicians and everyday conservatives in this country intersect to leave our communities devastated. And this intersection is unfortunately very present here in the Bay Area – we are reminded of the attack by proud boys last June at the San Lorenzo library, against a drag queen story hour, where luckily, no one was physically injured. From stories inside Club Q, we’ve learned that the shooting was stopped by everyday people – first an army veteran tackled and held the shooter and then a trans woman used her heels to stomp and hold him, saving the lives of many other people there. Immediately after the attack, police cuffed the veteran and held him in the back of a police car while he begged to find out if his wife and daughter, who were at the club with him, were safe. He later found out that his daughter’s boyfriend was one of the people who were killed. It’s a tragic reminder of something we say often on this show: The police structures don’t prevent violence. We keep us safe. This episode features a poem from queer abolitionist activist and poet Christopher Soto, called All the Dead Boys Look Like Us, from his book Diaries of a Terrorist. The poem is Soto’s response to the 2016 mass shooting at Orlando’s queer club, called Pulse, where 50 people were killed for trying to experience the joy of self-determined queer space. Our full length interview with him is available as another episode on our podcast. Follow Christopher Soto on Twitter: https://twitter.com/loma_poetry Check out Christopher Soto’s website: https://christophersoto-poet.com/ Buy Christopher Soto’s book: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/diaries-of-a-terrorist-by-christopher-soto/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Mass shooting at queer club in Colorado – a reflection appeared first on KPFA.
A new investigative report shows that prisoners in a Georgia jail are literally wasting away from malnourishment as jail administration operates with disregard for the health and lives of folks inside of the Fulton County Jail Facility in Atlanta. Our guest in this episode is the journalist who detailed that investigative report, Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, who is the senior reporter for The Appeal, a worker-led nonprofit news organization. She writes on prison and jail conditions, and wrongful convictions. Her investigation we discuss is called Internal Report Details Severely Malnourished Detainees at Atlanta-Area Jail, where the facility’s medical provider described people with mental illness wasting away in a unit overrun by an outbreak of lice and scabies. Read the article here: https://theappeal.org/fulton-county-jail-report-malnourished-detainees/ Follow Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg on Twitter: https://twitter.com/elizabethweill —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Prisoners waste away from malnourishment at GA jail lw/ Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg appeared first on KPFA.
New research from non-profit newsroom CalMatters shows that the California prison system on average moves people with significant mental health diagnoses 5 times during the same time period that people in the general prison population were transferred just 1.5 times. The article, titled, Mentally ill prisoners in California are three times likelier to get shuffled around, is the latest in a 6-part investigative series on mental healthcare in the state. We speak with Byrhonda Lyons, one of the contributors to the series about the transfers and their impact both on prisoners themselves as well as their families, including the tragic suicides of some prisoners. Read the CalMatters article here: https://calmatters.org/justice/2022/11/california-mentally-ill-prisoner-transfers/ Follow Byrhonda Lyons on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ByrhondaLyons —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post CA prisons egregiously transfer mentally ill prisoners w/ Byrhonda Lyons appeared first on KPFA.
In this episode, we explore the role of poetry in the movement for abolition with Christopher Soto, whose new poetry book – Diaries of a Terrorist – is out now. Christopher Soto is a Los Angeles-based poet, co-founder of the Undocu-poets campaign and of Writers for Migrant Justice. He’s just out with his first published book of poetry. Follow Christopher Soto on Twitter: https://twitter.com/loma_poetry Check out Christopher Soto’s website: https://christophersoto-poet.com/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Diaries of a Terrorist – abolitionist poetry w/ Christopher Soto appeared first on KPFA.
The murder of George Floyd by Derrik Chauvin in Minneapolis in 2020 ignited a wave of uprisings around the globe, and the city made several bold attempts at reimagining the way they do public safety, like a ballot measure that would have replaced their police department with a department of public safety (that measure failed but 43% of the electorate voted in favor of it, showing that many in Minneapolis are clear that something needs to change). Perhaps another clear indicator of the change coming is the election in the county that includes Minneapolis giving a clear victory to Mary Moriarty as the incoming Hennepin County Attorney (the “County Attorney” title is Minnesota’s equivalent to California’s “District Attorney”). Moriarity has previously worked as a public defender as well as a journalist, and joins us to discuss what’s to come from Minneapolis. —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Minneapolis progressive wins top prosecutor seat in election w/ Mary Moriarty appeared first on KPFA.
In a progressive victory in Alameda County’s election, Pamela Price has been declared the winner of the District Attorney’s race, in a race against opponent Terry Wiley. Pamela Price will be the county’s first African-American and second woman to hold that office, and speaks in this episode about her plans to address public safety, prosecute abusive police, end cash bail, and fight human trafficking. —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Electoral victory for Alameda Co’s progressive DA candidate w/ Pamela Price appeared first on KPFA.
In this episode, we focus on local elections in Oakland, where City Councilmember and Council President Nikki Fortunado-Bas has held on to her seat representing our city’s District 2, after receiving a large majority of votes against challenger Harold Lowe. We discuss the race and what she expects the next four years to hold in Oakland, from the Council to the mayor’s office. —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Oakland election: District 2 incumbent retains seat on Council w/ Nikki Fortunato-Bas appeared first on KPFA.
The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world. This week’s Artist Resistance in Residence is poet, spoken word artist, visual artist, registered nurse, activist, organizer and mother, Asantewaa Boykin. Follow Asantewaa Boykin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/asantewaarn Check out Asantewaa’s website: https://www.asantewaaboykin.com/ Buy Asantewaa’s book Love, Lyric, and Liberation: https://www.nomadicpress.org/store/p/lovelyricandliberation —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Artist Resistance in Residence: Asantewaa Boykin appeared first on KPFA.
The Berkeley Police Department is embroiled in scandal from text messages released that show Sergeant Darren Kacalek instructed officers to arrest 100 homeless people each week, essentially creating an arrest quota, which is illegal in California and against Berkeley police policy. His messages also instructed officers to “Kick ass, arrest people, and have fun” in order to receive blanket overtime. Since the leak of messages, Kacalek has resigned as president of the Berkeley Police union. And that’s only the tip of the iceberg for Berkeley PD’s ongoing drama, which includes allegations by the Alameda County Public Defender’s Office that Berkeley police are not respecting laws regarding Miranda Rights for juveniles. We speak with Andrea Pritchett, longtime Bay Area activist and co-founder of Berkeley Copwatch. Check out Berkeley Copwatch’s website: https://www.berkeleycopwatch.org/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Berkeley PD embroiled in scandal appeared first on KPFA.
in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder, and the national uprising that ensued, California’s legislature passed a bill that would create automatic oversight by the state’s department of justice when unarmed people are shot by police. A new investigation from non-profit newsroom CalMatters shows that the oversight built into that law is, at best, slow to come; and at worst, it may be seriously dysfunctional. We speak with the journalist leading that investigation, Nigel Duara, a reporter for CalMatters, who covers poverty and inequality issues. His piece is called Fatal shootings: California’s bid, to police its police is lagging. Read the interactive article here: https://calmatters.org/justice/2022/11/california-police-shootings-unarmed-civilians/ Follow Nigel Duara on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nigelduara —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post CA lagging in investigations into police shootings of unarmed people w/ Nigel Duara appeared first on KPFA.
Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build. This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of November 14th, 2022 —- This episode featured music by Kofy Brown. Check out her website: https://www.kofybrown.com/ Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post State Terror Round Up for the week of November 14th, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
Warning: this episode includes discussion of suicide by youth while incarcerated. If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts, please consider calling or texting 988. 988 is the new Lifeline phone number where trained counselors are available 24 hours a day. — Today we speak with two journalists who published a deep dive for the New York Times on the stories of people who’ve lived, and in some cases died, in Ware Juvenile Detention Center in Louisiana. The research that led to the recent publication was a part of an investigative documentary called 8 Days At Ware. Based in Oakland, Megan Shutzer is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist. Rachel Lauren Mueller is a Minneapolis-based documentary director and cinematographer with a background in investigative journalism. Our two guests co-authored the New York Times piece, Dying Inside: Chaos and Cruelty in Louisiana Juvenile Detention. Read the NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/29/us/juvenile-detention-abuses-louisiana.html Learn more about the documentary: https://www.8daysatware.com/ Follow Megan Shutzer on Twitter: https://twitter.com/megshutzer Check out Megan Shutzer’s website: https://www.megshutzer.com/ Follow Rachel Lauren Mueller on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rachel_muel Check out Rachel Lauren Mueller’s website: https://www.rachellaurenmueller.com/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Extreme abuse at Louisiana juvenile detention center appeared first on KPFA.
We’re only a few years into the Biden Administration, but federal immigration policy under his leadership is impacting communities heavily. In this episode, we focus on two stories about how the US is wielding immigration policy – First, a real plan on the table to house detained and undocumented migrants in the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison. Then we’ll talk about a specific policy called Temporary Protective Status, that is being seen in court after the Trump Administration basically threw it out. Our guest is Gaby Del Valle, a freelance immigration journalist who has reported for the Nation, VICE, and the Daily Beast among others; Gaby co-authors an illuminating weekly newsletter about immigration policy called BORDER/LINES. Follow Gaby Del Valle on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gabydvj Subscribe to BORDER/LINES: https://borderlines.substack.com/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Border Policy: Biden Admin considering sending Haitians to Guantanamo & more w/ Gaby Del Valle appeared first on KPFA.
The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world. This week’s Artist Resistance in Residence is actor, hip hop artist, filmmaker, member of the Community Ready Corps security team Denmark Peoples, who has just released a single called We Keep Us Safe. Check out Denmark Peoples’ music and follow him on socials: https://beacons.ai/denmarkpeoples —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Artist Resistance in Residence: Denmark Peoples appeared first on KPFA.
In this episode, we take a look at what happens to people held in prison who are violated and harmed there – what resources they can turn to, how do those resources actually work, if at all, and what does it mean for us a society that once people are locked away, their well-being is, in many cases, ignored. We’ll take a deep dive, into the way New York state has handled cases of sexual assault of prisoners by guards. A note for listeners – we do not use graphic descriptions of sexual violence in this show, but we will refer to some of those experiences in order to understand how the prison system functions to essentially cover up its violence against prisoners. Our guest is Victoria Law, a freelance journalist who focuses on the intersections of incarceration, gender and resistance. She’s also the author of “Prisons Make Us Safer”: And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration (2021) and the co-author of Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms (2020). Her latest article published by the Intercept is, BLIND SPOTS – Sexual Assault Allegation Exposes Self-Policing Prison System. Follow Victoria Law on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LVikkiml Read Victoria Law’s article here: https://www.nysfocus.com/2022/11/03/prison-sexual-assault-investigation-new-york/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post No Accountability for NY Prison Guards After Sexual Assault Allegations w/ Victoria Law appeared first on KPFA.
Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build. This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of November 7th, 2022 —- This episode featured music by Kofy Brown. Check out her website: https://www.kofybrown.com/ Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post State Terror Round Up for the week of November 7th, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s episode we dive into the returns thus far on the Tuesday, November 8th, election, with a particular focus on the races that impact policing along with other parts of the local ballots. We’ll start in San Francisco, and then move to the East Bay. Note that the conversation was recorded on the morning of November 9th, so more recent ballot counting may have changed some of the results since this recording. We start in San Francisco, where it appears London Breed has victories across the board, with guest Joe Eskinazi, themanaging editor and columnist at Mission Local, who was named the 2019 Journalist of the Year by the Northern California branch of the Society of Professional Journalists. Follow Joe Eskinazi on Twitter: www.twitter.com/EskSF Then we cross the bridge to Oakland where we discuss the mayoral outcome as well as walk through the ballot measures with City Council Member Carroll Fife, alongside public health and policy professional Tonya Love and Oakland Progressive Alliance member Bobbi Lopez-Cade. Follow Carroll Fife on Twitter: www.twitter.com/carroll_fife Follow Tonya Love on Twitter: www.twitter.com/tdlove5 Follow Bobbi Lopez-Cade on Twitter: www.twitter.com/BobbiLopezOak —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post SF & East Bay Election Wrap Up appeared first on KPFA.
If you’re Black in America, chances are you have been in foster care, a family member was in foster care, your home was visited at some point by “Child Protective Services” or that these agencies touched your life in some way. The Department of Family and Child Protective Services is as common as liquor stores and churches, and yet precious little is happening in exploring the damage these agencies do. On today’s episode, we address the impact of CPS with Dorothy Roberts, an internationally acclaimed scholar, activist, and social critic, she has written and lectured extensively on the interplay of gender, race, and class in legal issues concerning reproduction, bioethics, and child welfare. She is also a professor of Law & Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her latest book is Torn Apart: How the child welfare system destroys black families—and how abolition can build a safer world. Buy the book: https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/dorothy-roberts/torn-apart/9781541675445/ Check out Dorothy Roberts‘ website: https://www.dorothyeroberts.com/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Abolition and the child welfare system w/ Dorothy Roberts appeared first on KPFA.
A supermajority of employees at Glide Memorial Church have joined together to form a union under the name Glide United, with the OPEIU local 29. Employees at Compass Family Services are slightly further along in the unionization process, entering the same local. We are joined by Mario Lemos, an organizing committee member of Glide United, and works for Glide Foundation. Glide is a nationally recognized center for social justice, dedicated to fighting systemic injustices, creating pathways out of poverty and crisis, and transforming lives. We are also joined by Juliana Dunn, an organizing committee member of Better Compass For All with OPEIU L-29. They have worked for Compass Family Services— a prominent social services agency in San Francisco serving families facing houselessness and housing insecurity— for about two years and currently work as a Bilingual Case Manager and Bilingual Afterschool Coordinator for Compass’s transitional housing site, Clara House. Follow Better Compass For All on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bettercompass Follow the OPEIU on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OPEIU —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post SF Non-profits Glide & Compass Unionize – w/ Mario Lemos and Juliana Dunn appeared first on KPFA.
Redevelopment is afoot in East Oakland with proposals that could further gentrification. Both Eastmont Mall and Mills College are historic spaces that are being targeted for market rate condos and retail. In this episode, we spoke with Leah Simon-Weisberg, Legal Director of The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) Action as well as Shay Franco-Clausen, a Mills alumni who has been part of a lawsuit students filed against the school for issues related to its closure. Follow Leah Simon-Weisberg on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Leahfsw Check out Shay Franco-Clausen’s website: https://www.shayfrancoclausen.com/about —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Condo Development in East Oakland w/ Leah Simon-Weisberg & Shay Franco-Clausen appeared first on KPFA.
The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world. This week’s Artist Resistance in Residence is Margo Hall, actor, director, activist, educator, and Artistic Director of the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre. Follow Margo Hall on Twitter: https://twitter.com/saltyandsmart Check out Margo Hall’s website: https://www.margohall.com/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Artist Resistance in Residence: Margo Hall appeared first on KPFA.
It is election time and while Santa Clara Sheriff Laurie Smith was not running for re-election – she and her tenure – are front and center in conversations about who her successor will be. Smith was the first sheriff elected in the state of California almost 50 years and she may likely have served a few more had it not been for the reveal that she had engaged in several schemes including – but not limited to – pay-to-play for concealed carry permits and evasion of gift-reporting laws. She resigned this week with a one sentence email to the Board of Supervisors – some say as a ploy to shut down her trial proceedings. We speak with Jose Valle, a community organizer from Silicon Valley De-bug who focuses his work on the human rights of prisoners. Silicon Valley De-Bug is a community organizing, advocacy, and multimedia storytelling organization based out of San José. Follow Silicon Valley De-Bug on Twitter: https://twitter.com/svdebug —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Santa Clara County Sheriff Scandal w/ Jose Valle appeared first on KPFA.
October was Domestic Violence Awareness Month and we spent time on this show exploring alternative responses to domestic violence. We continue that conversation today with Colsaria Henderson, a member of the board of directors of the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence, which is hosting their Shifting the Lens – Statewide Domestic Violence Conference beginning on Monday, November 7th. Colsaria Henderson began working in the field of anti-gender based violence in the 1990s. She is focused on the intersections between anti-violence, racial justice, community level advocacy and prevention, and transformative justice. Learn more about/register for the conference: https://www.cpedv.org/policy-event/shifting-lens-statewide-domestic-violence-conference Follow the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cpedvcoalition —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Shifting the Lens: California’s Partnership to End Domestic Violence w/ Colsaria Henderson appeared first on KPFA.
Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build. This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of October 31st, 2022 —- This episode featured music by Kofy Brown. Check out her website: https://www.kofybrown.com/ Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post State Terror Round Up for the week of October 31st, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
We all think we know the South. Even those who have never lived there can rattle off a list of signifiers: the Civil War, Gone with the Wind, the Ku Klux Klan, plantations, football, Jim Crow, slavery. But the idiosyncrasies, dispositions, and habits of the region are stranger and more complex than much of the country tends to acknowledge. Today’s guest is Imani Perry, discussing her latest book South To America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon Line. Perry is a scholar of law, literary and cultural studies, and an author of creative nonfiction. She is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and a faculty associate with the Programs in Law and Public Affairs, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Jazz Studies. In South To America Imani Perry shows that the meaning of ‘American’ is inextricably linked with the South, and that our understanding of its history and culture is the key to understanding the nation as a whole. South to America offers an assertion that if we want to build a more humane future for the United States, we must center our concern below the Mason-Dixon Line. Follow Imani Perry on Twitter: https://twitter.com/imaniperry Buy the book: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/south-to-america-imani-perry —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post A Journey South of the Mason-Dixon Line w/ Imani Perry appeared first on KPFA.
On November 3rd the United Nations is set to vote on ending the US blockade against Cuba, and local solidarity activists are demanding Nancy Pelosi join in the calls to end the embargo. On Thursday, November 3rd at 4:30 pm a broad coalition of Bay Area groups will rally at the SF Federal Building (7th St. near Mission) to call on Speaker Nancy Pelosi to “Let Cuba Live!” The rally will take place on the day that the United Nations General Assembly is expected to overwhelmingly condemn, for the 30th year in a row, the illegal economic, commercial and financial blockade that the US imposes against Cuba. People will then march to UN Plaza to spotlight the significance of the UN vote. We speak with Diana Block, an anti-imperialist, abolitionist, feminist who works with the Bay Area – Cuba Saving Lives Committee. She also is also a founding and active member of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners, and a co-founder of San Francisco Women Against Rape. Check out Diana Block’s website: https://dianablock.com/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post UN to vote on US-Cuba blockade w/ Diana Block appeared first on KPFA.
In this episode, we talk about Black cowboys in California, with a conversation featuring the creative mind behind a new photography book of California Black cowboys, Gabriela Hasbun, alongside one of the cowboys featured in the book – Prince Damons. Recording artist & cowboy Prince Damons tends his horse Jesse James. | Gabriela Hasbun w/ permission A powerful symbol of self-reliance, strength, and determination, the Black cowboy is a figure commonly overlooked in the histories of the American West. Held annually in cities across the United States, the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo honors the historic accomplishments of Black cowboys and fosters a vibrant community dedicated to continuing that legacy. Bay Area photographer Gabriela Hasbun has spent more than a decade photographing this beloved event in the Oakland hills. Her images capture the joy and excitement of performers and audience members, showcasing the daring feats, spectacular outfits, and welcoming atmosphere that make the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo an unmissable experience. In addition to Hasbun’s photographs, The New Black West features quotes and stories from the cowboys themselves and a foreword from the Oakland rodeo’s regional manager, Jeff Douvel. Prince Damons, aside from being a seasoned, veteran recording artist, producer & songwriter, is also revered as one of Los Angeles’ most skilled horsemen. Hailing from Mississippi, Prince has been riding and training horses since the age of seven. As one of the team leads for the growing, equestrian conglomerate “The Horse Whisperers”, he masterfully divides his schedule between live performances, creative time recording in the studio and at his ranch saddling up one of his beautiful horses. Prince, who now resides in sunny California, is also expanding his resume as an actor as well. So be on the lookout for “The Mississippi Cowboy” as he is affectionately called by many!! Buy The New Black West here: https://www.chroniclebooks.com/products/the-new-black-west-hc Follow Gabriela Hasbun on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gabrielahasbun/ Find out more about Prince Damons at his website: www.PrinceDamons.com Follow Prince Damons on Twitter: https://twitter.com/princedamons —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Celebrating Black cowboys in California w/ Gabriela Hasbun & Prince Damons appeared first on KPFA.
Protests in Iran continued over the weekend sparked by the murder of 22 year old Mahsa Amini who was arrested a few weeks ago by the Guidance Patrol, the religious morality police of Iran’s government who arrested Amini for not wearing the hijab. The most recent protests were met with a brutal response from the Revolutionary Guards who have promised even tougher crackdowns in response to people taking the street. We are joined by Wendy DeSouza, adjunct professor of Iranian studies in the Middle East South Asia program at UC Davis, who teaches courses on women and gender in Iran. She is also author of the 2019 book Unveiling Men: Modern Masculinities in Twentieth-Century Iran. We are also joined by Khury Peterson-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he researches US empire, borders, and migration. Follow Khury Peterson-Smith on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kpyes/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Exploring Iran’s Feminist Protest Movements w/ Wendy Desouza & Khury Peterson-Smith appeared first on KPFA.
The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world. This week’s Artist Resistance in Residence is composer and pianist Kev Choice, who has toured extensively around the world with artists from Lauryn Hill to Zion I and Michael Franti & Spearhead. He also performs his own music, teaches at the Oakland School of the Arts, and has been recently memorialized on a North Oakland mural where he shares a wall with the late Michael Morgan, conductor of the Oakland symphony. Follow Kev Choice on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kevchoice/ Listen to & purchase Kev Choice’s music: https://kevchoice.bandcamp.com/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Artist Resistance in Residence: Kev Choice appeared first on KPFA.
We encourage our brothers and sisters on the other side of the wall to write in to our show. Occasionally we read those letters on the air. This is our fourth segment of Letters from the Inside. —- This episode features music by Michael Louis: https://www.instagram.com/tigers_view Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Letters from the Inside – from San Quentin State Prison – Oct 26th, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and we’re going to spend some time exploring community responses to domestic or interpersonal violence. Every year nearly 5.3 million incidents of intimate partner violence occurs in the United States among women 18 years and older. Intimate partner violence results in nearly 1,300 death and two million injuries every single year. If we are ever going to end or even reduce this epidemic, we have got to do something different.
Our guest in this episode is Leigh Goodmark, the Marjorie Cook Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Frances King Carey School of Law. Professor Goodmark co-directs the Clinical Law Program, teaches Family Law, Gender and the Law, and Gender Violence and the Law, and directs the Gender Violence Clinic, a clinic providing direct representation in matters involving intimate partner abuse, sexual assault, trafficking, and other forms of gender violence. Goodmark has been questioning the criminal legal system’s response to gender-based violence for more than twenty years. In her books, articles, and media appearances Professor Goodmark has argued that the criminal legal system fails to decrease or deter gender-based violence and punishes the victims of that violence. Professor Goodmark’s critique of the criminal legal system is grounded in her twenty-five years of representing people abused by their partners and incarcerated survivors of violence abused by the state. Today, we discuss her 2018 book, Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence.
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Haiti is in ever-increasing crisis with fuel ports blocked by local gang leaders, escalating levels of violence including the sexual assault of girls, women and, elders and a widespread cholera outbreak. In this episode we discuss the state of things as well as the path forward and why the potential UN/US intervention may not be the way to go … again. We are joined by Mamyrah Dougé-Prosper, professor of global and international studies at University of California, Irvine. She specializes in research on social movements in the Caribbean and Latin America – particularly Black and Haitian social movements. She is also the International Coordinator for the Pan-African Solidarity Network with Community Movement Builders in the United States. We are also joined by Frantz Jerome, a long time Haitian human rights activist, living in Florida. —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Potential for armed intervention in Haiti w/ Mamyrah Dougé-Prosper & Frantz Jerome appeared first on KPFA.
The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world. This week’s Artist Resistance in Residence is Oakland-based poet and author Lauren Wheeler. Lauren has a new book of poetry out on Nomadic Press called In Between Places. In Between Places lyrically explores family mythology and the fallibility of memory. The poems act as mile markers in a Black woman’s literal and figurative journey across decades and across the country, in a search for home in different cities—and people. From a sense of longing and displacement, the collection arrives in a place of stability, resilience, and triumph. Follow Lauren Wheeler on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fightingwords Purchase In Between Places from Nomadic Press: https://www.nomadicpress.org/store/p/inbetweenplaces —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Artist Resistance in Residence: Lauren Wheeler appeared first on KPFA.
Saturday, October 22 is National Police Brutality Awareness Day so we are highlighting three local Bay Area families who have lost loved ones to police violence, who are using their grief as fuel to organize for a safer communities. We start with Taun Hall, mother of Miles Hall who was shot and killed by the Walnut Creek Police Department in the middle of a mental health crisis in 2019. Then we move to Michelle and Ashley Monterosa, sisters of then-22-year-old Sean Monterosa who was shot and killed by the Vallejo Police Department on June 2, 2020. Finally, we speak with Jeralyn Blueford, mother of then-18 year old Alan Blueford who was shot and killed by former Oakland Police Officer Miguel Masso on May 6, 2013. —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Oct 22nd is National Police Brutality Awareness Day appeared first on KPFA.
The Oakland Police Department was outed earlier this week for requesting to acquire a robot armed with a shotgun – a weapon that they said would generally be loaded with blank ammunition, but that they would consider using with regular shotgun shells should they desire. Since the story was covered by The Intercept, the Oakland Police Department has said that they are no longer pursuing the acquisition at this time, but the reporter who covered the story initially has worries about the department’s future intentions and how these robotic systems are used by law enforcement nationally. We are joined in this episode by that reporter – Sam Biddle focuses on malfeasance and misused power in technology for The Intercept, and has published stories for Gawker, Gizmodo, GQ, Vice, and The Awl. Follow Sam Biddle on Twitter: https://twitter.com/samfbiddle Follow Sam Biddle’s stories on The Intercept: https://theintercept.com/staff/sambiddle/ Check out Sam Biddle’s website: https://www.sambiddle.com/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Oakland PD’s potential shotgun-armed robot w/ Sam Biddle appeared first on KPFA.
Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build. This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of October 17th, 2022 —- This episode featured music by Kofy Brown. Check out her website: https://www.kofybrown.com/ Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post State Terror Round Up for the week of October 17th, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
We spend this episode talking Los Angeles politics with Dr. Melina Abdullah, professor and chair of pan-African studies at Cal State Los Angeles, and founder and director of BLM Grassroots – not to be confused with the BLM Global Foundation. They are dealing with the fallout from racist comments made by sitting city council members, a heated mayoral race, a sheriff who has condoned gangs in his agency and an ongoing lawsuit. Follow Dr Melina Abdullah on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DocMellyMel —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Focus on LA politics – racism at the city council and upcoming elections w/ Dr Melina Abdullah appeared first on KPFA.
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and we’re going to spend some time throughout the rest of the month exploring community responses to domestic or interpersonal violence.
On today’s episode we talk with Mimi Kim, founder of Creative Interventions and co-founder of INCITE! She has been a long-time activist, advocate and researcher challenging gender-based violence at its intersection with state violence and creating community accountability, transformative justice and other community-based alternatives to criminalization. As a second generation Korean American, she locates her political work in global solidarity with feminist anti-imperialist struggles, seeking not only the end of oppression but of the creation of liberation here and now. Mimi is also an Associate Professor of social work at California State University, Long Beach.
Creative Interventions has just released the Creative Interventions Workbook: Practical Tools to Stop Interpersonal Violence, which is a companion workbook to last year’s Creative Interventions Toolkit. The 100 page workbook features key tools, worksheets, and ideas. You can purchase a paperback version of the book from AK Press, or download it for free at the links below.
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It is election time and the mayoral race in Oakland is full of folks hopeful to lead the city. We spend this episode taking a look at the platforms of the candidates with two of The Town’s most forward-facing activists and advocates. We’re joined by Walter Riley, a Civil Rights activist since the civil rights movement, who worked alongside Malcolm X and others before moving to the Bay Area in 1965, where he supported the Third World Liberation strikes at SF State in 1968 that led to the beginning of ethnic studies. More recently, he’s an active criminal defense and civil rights attorney based in Oakland who is deeply involved with local politics. We’re also joined by policy expert James Burch, who is Deputy Director for the Anti Police-Terror Project, an organization that seeks to end police violence in Black and Brown communities. Follow Walter Riley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/walterphillip Follow James Burch’s organization APTP on Twitter: https://twitter.com/APTPaction —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Oakland’s Mayoral Race w/ Walter Riley + James Burch appeared first on KPFA.
The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world. This week’s Artist Resistance in Residence is lighting designer and mixed-media artist Stephanie Anne Johnson. Check out Stephanie’s website: https://www.lightessencedesign.com/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Artist Resistance in Residence: Stephanie Johnson appeared first on KPFA.
There is a new film out about Oakland’s own – the legendary Fantastic Negrito; and you can check it out this weekend in Berkeley or Marin as part of the film’s premiere in the Mill Valley Film Festival. Were joined by the films co-director Yvan Iturriaga. Yvan Iturriaga is an Oakland-based director and writer who spent his childhood border crossing through Latin America, living in the extended Chilean exile community. He co-founded Offsides production company and filmed the original web series The North Pole. “Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?” is a window into Fantastic Negrito’s rollercoaster life story and the intersection of mental health, race, and the blues. Breaking the stigmas associated with mental illness, the story invites us to look at the social injustices behind our individual traumas – from domestic violence and mass shootings to toxic masculinity and 500 years of institutional racism. Featuring Negrito’s award-winning music that has taken him from the streets of West Oakland to packed concert halls around the world, the documentary shows us how we can transform our pain into power and possibility. Attend the Bay Area film screenings on Saturday, October 15 or Sunday, October 16: https://www.mvff.com/events/fantastic-negrito-have-you-lost-your-mind-yet/ Watch the trailer for Have You Lost Your Mind Yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z0Vm4HjUtY Check out Offsides Productions: https://www.offsidesproductions.org/ Follow Yvan Iturriaga on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iskracine/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post New documentary on Fantastic Negrito w/ director Yvan Iturriaga appeared first on KPFA.
We take a look at San Francisco’s ongoing political scandal, where Mayor London Breed’s office has apparently forced appointees in all kinds of positions to submit undated resignation letters at the time of their appointment. We speak with Tim Redmond, founder of 48 hills (https://48hills.org/). Tim has been a political and investigative reporter in San Francisco for more than 30 years. He spent much of that time as executive editor of the Bay Guardian. We also speak with Tim Redmond about the recent death of legendary San Francisco-based police accountability activist John Crew. Follow Tim Redmond on Twitter: https://twitter.com/timredmondsf Follow 48 Hills’ reporting: https://48hills.org/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post SF Mayor’s Latest Scandal w/ Journalist Tim Redmond + Tribute to Recently Departed John Crew appeared first on KPFA.
After an internal audit of the Alameda Sheriffs Department revealed that 47 officers had failed a psychological exam that should have prevented them from being hired – the state entity Police Officer Standards and Training or POST is now leading an audit on the psychological exams of hundreds of law enforcement officers in San Francisco. We speak with Jonah Owen Lamb, Senior Reporter at the San Francisco Standard Follow Jonah Owen Lamb on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jonahowenlamb Follow Jonah Owen Lamb’s reporting at the SF Standard: https://sfstandard.com/author/jonah-lamb/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Bay Area officers under investigation for failed psych exams w/ Jonah Lamb from the SF Standard appeared first on KPFA.
Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build. This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of October 10th, 2022 —- This episode featured music by Kofy Brown. Check out her website: https://www.kofybrown.com/ Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post State Terror Round Up for the week of October 10th, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
In this episode, we take a direct look at one of the most important elections coming up in Alameda County this November 8th – We’ll be in conversation with the two candidates running for the District Attorneys office – that’s Terry Wiley and Pamela Price – who are vying in a runoff election for a position that has an incredible power to impact how laws are enforced and who is charged and imprisoned for breaking them. Law & Disorder is not endorsing any candidate. We have both candidates on as guests, back-to-back, to respond to the same challenging questions. Check out Terry Wiley’s website: https://terrywileyforda.com/ Follow Terry Wiley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wileyforda Check out Pamela Price’s website: https://www.pamelaprice4da.com/ Follow Pamela Price on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PPriceCares —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Alameda Co DA Candidates – w/ Terry Wiley and Pamela Price appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s episode – a bit of politics, a tinge of history, a dab of fiction, and a whole lot of love. We’re in conversation with actor, producer, and bestselling author James Brandon about his new book The Edge of Being – a story about being young, queer, and searching for the role of fathers and identity. The book is a tender and heartfelt queer young adult novel about the multiplicities of grief, deeply held family secrets, and finding new love – within the political context of San Francisco’s Compton’s Cafeteria Riots, a queer rebellious event that occurred on the West Coast prior to New York’s Stonewall rebellions. Brandon also produced and played the central role in the internationally acclaimed tour of Terrence McNally’s Corpus Cristi for over a decade. He is co-director of the documentary film based on that journey. He is the co-founder the I AM Love Campaign and currently serves on the Board for Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAITS) in San Francisco. Order James Brandon’s new book, The Edge of Being: https://www.justbejb.com/being Check out James Brandon’s website: https://www.justbejb.com/ Follow James Brandon on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JBJustBE Follow James Brandon on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jamesbrandon108/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Exploring The Edge of Being w/ author and actor James Brandon appeared first on KPFA.
Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build. This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of October 3rd, 2022 —- This episode featured music by Kofy Brown. Check out her website: https://www.kofybrown.com/ Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post State Terror Round Up for the week of October 3rd, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
On this episode, we speak with Nyanyika Banda, the cook and creative mind behind The Wakanda Cookbook – a cookbook for the Marvel universe that builds out of expertise in culinary traditions from all over the African continent. Nyanyika is a Malawian-American chef, writer, and entrepreneur. She designed her history and writing degrees around African Foodways and has been a scholar of the topic ever since. Nyanyika Banda teaches Culinary Arts at Holyoke Community College and continues to freelance, contributing to Food52, Thrillist, Saveur, and RESY; she also contributed an essay to the book Knives and Ink. And of course, the focus of today’s episode is her latest: Marvel’s Black Panther: The Official Wakanda Cookbook. Follow Nyanyika Banda on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nyanyikab —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post African Foodways and The Wakanda Cookbook w/ Nyanyika Banda appeared first on KPFA.
We encourage our brothers and sisters on the other side of the wall to write in to our show. Occasionally we read those letters on the air. This is our third segment of Letters from the Inside. —- This episode features music by Michael Louis: https://www.instagram.com/tigers_view Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Letters from the Inside – Sept 30, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
Six people were shot at Sojournor Truth Independent Study high school in East Oakland on Wednesday, September 28th. As of this reporting, two of the victims are reportedly in critical condition at Highland Hospital, and the other four are in stable condition. When intense violence happens in our neighborhoods, we can’t just pass it by. Yesterday, 6 people were shot at an East Oakland high school campus. Our guest in this episode is Jose Garcia, the Safety Specialist at Rudsdale High School and the program manager of the newcomer success and safety initiative there. Rudsdale shares a campus with Sojournor Truth school, where the shooting took place. —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post School shooting in Oakland w/ school safety specialist Jose Garcia appeared first on KPFA.
Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build. This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of September 26th, 2022 —- This episode featured music by Kofy Brown. Check out her website: https://www.kofybrown.com/ Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post State Terror Round Up for the week of September 26th, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
In this episode, we dive into this week’s breaking local story about the violence of the Alameda County Sheriff Department – this is the department that oversees Santa Rita County Jail as well as a variety of other policing activities in the county. Forty-seven Alameda County sheriff deputies have been relieved of their duties after an internal audit revealed they had failed psychological exams required to be an officer. Some of the deputies had failed as far back as 2016 but were allowed to continue working. This revelation comes as a result of an investigation into a sheriff deputy murdering a couple in their home the previous week – that deputy was allegedly having an affair with a woman in that couple. We are joined by James Burch of the Anti-Police Terror Project and then by Jose Bernal with the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights to discuss. Follow the Anti-Police Terror Project on Twitter: https://twitter.com/APTPaction Check out the Anti-Police Terror Project’s website: https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/ Follow the Ella Baker Center on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ellabakercenter Check out the Ella Baker Center’s website: https://ellabakercenter.org/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post 47 Alameda Co Sheriff Deputies On Leave For Failed Psych Evals w/ James Burch from APTP & Jose Bernal from the Ella Baker Center appeared first on KPFA.
Scientists in California have long been trying to prepare and warn us in California for when the next big earthquake comes. We are joined by Dr Jennifer Strauss, external relations officer for the UC Berkeley Seismological Lab, product manager for the MyShake App, and the media coordinator for Earthquake County Alliance Bay Area. We talk about earthquake preparedness, and how the new Shake Alert system that can give emergency response just enough notice to begin preparing to respond. Follow the UC Berkeley Seismology Lab on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BerkeleySeismo Check out the UC Berkeley Seismology Lab’s website: https://seismo.berkeley.edu/ Download the MyShake App: https://myshake.berkeley.edu/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Shake Alert: Earthquake preparedness w/ Dr Jennifer Strauss from the UC Berkeley Seismology Lab appeared first on KPFA.
If you live in California you’ve likely felt one in recent days. We’re talking about earthquake science and preparedness in this episode. Our guest is Andrew Alden, science writer and founder of a weekly blog on the geology of Oakland. He previously worked as the technical editor. Check out Andrew Alden’s website: https://oaklandgeology.com/ Follow Andrew Alden on Twitter: https://twitter.com/andrewalden —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Earthquake science and preparedness with Andrew Alden appeared first on KPFA.
In today’s episode, Patrisse Cullors discusses her experience as co-founder of Black Lives Matter after her departure from the BLM Global Foundation. We also take a deep dive into her book, An Abolitionist’s Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World. Follow Patrisse Cullors on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/osopepatrisse/ Buy her book: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250272973/anabolitionistshandbook Check out the official Black Lives Matter website: https://blacklivesmatter.com/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post An Abolitionist Handbook w/ Patrisse Cullors appeared first on KPFA.
The United Kingdom’s Queen Elizabeth II, head of the British monarchy for more than 70 years, died on September 8th. Elizabeth became the Queen in February of 1952, and in the ensuing 70+ years of her life, ruled over a worldwide colonial monarchy. In today’s episode, we explore the colonial impact of the 70+ years that Elizabeth was queen, and the movements around the world that fought for – and in some cases are still working toward – independence from the UK. We speak with one of the world’s experts on decolonization movements in the past century. Vijay Prashad is a historian and writer, and the executive director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Follow Vijay Prashad on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vijayprashad Follow the Tricontinental on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tri_continental Check out the Tricontinental website: https://thetricontinental.org/ Check out Vijay Prashad’s books: https://www.amazon.com/Vijay-Prashad/e/B001HQ5GFA —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Colonial legacy of Queen Elizabeth II w/ Vijay Prashad appeared first on KPFA.
We encourage our brothers and sisters on the other side of the wall to write in to our show. Occasionally we read those letters on the air. This is our second segment of Letters from the Inside. This letter comes from San Quentin State Prison. —- This episode features music by Michael Louis: https://www.instagram.com/tigers_view Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Letters from the Inside – from San Quentin State Prison – Sept 22, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build. This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of September 19th, 2022 —- This episode featured music by Kofy Brown. Check out her website: https://www.kofybrown.com/ Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post State Terror Round Up for the week of September 19th, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
SFPD is collaborating with the Northern California Fusion Center without any written agreement about boundaries of the surveillance. We’re joined by Dave Maass, Investigations Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation based in SF, and has been with the organization since 2013. Follow Dave Maass on Twitter: https://twitter.com/maassive Follow the Electronic Frontier Foundation on Twitter: https://twitter.com/EFF Check out the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s website: https://www.eff.org/ —- Subscribe to our podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post SFPD’s off-the-books relationship w/ fusion center surveillance feat. Dave Maass from the Electronic Frontier Foundation appeared first on KPFA.
Five years ago, a woman only being referred to as Jane Doe – went to the San Francisco Police Department for help. She had been raped. A rape kit was conducted and her DNA was collected. She had no idea that that DNA would later be used to arrest her in connection with an unrelated property crime. Now, she has filed a federal lawsuit against the city. Were joined this morning by her legal counsel Adante Pointer, a civil rights attorney and partner with Pointer & Buelna LLP. Follow Adante Pointer on Twitter: https://twitter.com/adanteesq —- Subscribe to our podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post SFPD uses DNA from rape kit to charge victim w/ theft w/ civil rights lawyer Adante Pointer appeared first on KPFA.
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against Los Angeles County and the Sheriffs Department alleging inhumane treatment and overcrowding at the la county jails booking center. We speak to Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, a senior reporter for The Appeal, a worker-led nonprofit news organization. Elizabeth writes on prison and jail conditions, and wrongful convictions. Her recent article in The Appeal is LA County’s Jail Booking Center Has Become A ‘Living Hell,’ Detainees say in Court Filing.
Follow Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg on Twitter: https://twitter.com/elizabethweill Check out her publications on The Appeal: https://theappeal.org/authors/elizabeth-weill-greenberg/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post ACLU calls out LA Co jails for terrible conditions w/ Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg from The Appeal appeared first on KPFA.
The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world. This week’s Artist Resistance in Residence is Jennifer Johns. Check out Jennifer’s website: https://jennjohns.com/ Follow Jenn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aquariusjohns/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Artist Resistance in Residence: Jennifer Johns appeared first on KPFA.
In this episode we talk with Brian Hofer about a San Francisco proposal, backed by the Mayor’s office, that would allow police to monitor private security camera systems, including Amazon’s Ring Doorbells. Brian Hofer is the Executive Director of Secure Justice, a non-profit that advocates against state abuse of power, and for reduction in government and corporate over-reach. Brian has also been the Chair of Oakland’s Privacy Advisory Commission since 2016. Follow Brian Hofer on Twitter: https://twitter.com/b_haddy Check out the Secure Justice website: https://secure-justice.org/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post SFPD may use private surveillance cameras w/ Brian Hofer from Secure Justice appeared first on KPFA.
In this episode, we explore how the US Department of Homeland Security is using surveillance techniques on US citizens. Our guest, Gaby Del Valle is a freelance immigration reporter and a cofounder of BORDER/LINES, a weekly newsletter about immigration policy. She has reported for VICE news, The Daily Beast, and other publications. Her latest piece for the Nation is called DHS Surveillance Increasingly Targets US Citizens: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/homeland-security-surveillance/ Follow Gaby Del Valle on Twitter: http://twitter.com/gabydvj Check out BORDER/LINES: https://borderlines.substack.com/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post DHS surveilling US citizens w/ Gaby Del Valle appeared first on KPFA.
In this episode, we speak with April Green, the aunt of Keita O’Neil, a young man who was killed by San Francisco Police in 2017. We’ll learn the latest in the disastrous court drama, reflecting incompetence on the part of San Francisco’s appointed District Attorney Brooke Jenkins. —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post SF DA’s incompetence in police murder of Keita O’Neil w/ his aunt April Green appeared first on KPFA.
Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build. This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of September 12th, 2022 —- This episode featured music by Kofy Brown. Check out her website: https://www.kofybrown.com/ Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post State Terror Round Up for the week of September 12th, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
A prison in Susanville – a small town in one of the farthest reaches of the state, just east of the Lassen National Forest and by the Northern California-Nevada border, was signed off to be closed by early this past summer, but some locals, concerned with an economic hit to the community, were able to get a court to put a hold on that closure. Big news though last week: A judge has removed that injunction, meaning that the prison is going to be closed imminently. We speak with by Brian Kaneda, the deputy director of Californians United for a Responsible Budget, or CURB, which is an organization dedicated to reducing imprisonment in our state by developing deep economic analyses about how it’s actually financially better for all of us, to reduce prisons. Follow Brian Kaneda on Twitter: https://twitter.com/briankaneda Check out CURB’s website: https://curbprisonspending.org/ Follow CURB on Twitter: https://twitter.com/curbprisons Follow up on The People’s Plan for Prison Closures: https://curbprisonspending.org/advocacy/prison-closures/ —- Subscribe to our podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post The economic benefit to prison closure as CA closes facility in Susanville w/ Brian Kaneda of CURB appeared first on KPFA.
On todays show – a look at the realities of newly appointed SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins. She’s fulfilling her promises to arrest more people, criminalize mental health and substance abuse and be “tougher on crime” much to the devastation of San Francisco’s most vulnerable populations. She has also been outed as being paid to support the recall effort of democratically elected former SF DA Chesa Boudin. We talk about Jenkins’ current tenure, past transgressions and the reversal of progressive policies that were investing in the actual safety of San Franciscans with two former staff people from the office of Chesa Boudin. We’ll be joined by Rachel Marshall, formerly Communications Director and Policy Advisor for Chesa Boudin; and Lexa Grayner, attorney who resigned from her position in the DA’s office after being demoted by Jenkins from her work litigating the ghost gun program in San Francisco. Follow Lexa Grayner on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LexaGrayner Follow Rachel Marshall on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RachelRMarshall —- Subscribe to our podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Former SF District Attorney staff speak on appointed DA’s impact appeared first on KPFA.
Black Lives Matter is a global movement whose impact on the struggle for Black liberation cannot be overstated. Like iwth any movement, it has had its share of struggle and controversy – much of that due to state’s interference and deliberate attempts to destroy organizing in Black communities. There is a lot of misinformation and confusion about what’s happening – so on today’s show we clear some things up and set the record straight with Dr Melina Abdullah, a professor and chair of pan-African studies at Cal State Los Angeles, as well as the co-founder of the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter and co-founder of Black Lives Matter Grassroots. Follow Dr Melina Abdullah on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DocMellyMel Follow Dr Melina Abdullah on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/docmellymel/ —- Subscribe to our podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post #BlackLivesMatter: Melina Abdullah sets the record straight on financial and organizational controversy appeared first on KPFA.
The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world. This week’s Artist Resistance in Residence is Eli Maliwan also know as Saxreligious. Eli is a transgender Asian-American performing musician, composer, producer, and educator who was born and raised in the Bay Area. He performs, records, and tours with multiple local projects including his own, playing instruments from flute, clarinet and EWI (Electronic Wind Instrument), to keyboards, electric bass, and voice. Eli’s debut album, Elysia Marginata was written as a self care love letter during a time of historic anti-trans legislation and escalation of covid related anti-Asian violence all over the country. The music is inspired by lo fi hip hop, retro video game music, and jazz. Follow Eli Maliwan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/saxreligious Buy Eli’s music and tickets to his album release show in Oakland on Friday, September 9th: https://saxreligious.bandcamp.com/ Check out Eli’s website: https://www.saxreligious.com/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Artist Resistance in Residence: Eli Maliwan appeared first on KPFA.
In this episode we bring our attention to policing in Antioch, California. First we speak with the family of Angelo Quinto who was murdered by police during a mental health crisis in 2020. The Contra Costa District Attorney just last week ruled his homicide justified but now Attorney General Rob Bonta has stepped in and said he would review the case. We’ll speak with Angelo Quinto’s sister, Bella Quinto, as well as his mother, Cassandra Quinto-Collins. In our second interview, we stay in Antioch for a conversation with City Councilmember Tamisha Torres-Walker, who just had charges dropped by the same Contra Costra District Attorney’s office. Those charges stem from October 2021, where the councilmember was charged with interfering with an investigation after engaging with police during a shooting investigation near her home. As a result of the charges, Antioch’s mayor pushed her to resign as Chair of the Police Oversight Committee. All this in the midst of a new police scandal where the FBI and local DA’s office have collaborated to put 10% of Antioch’s police department on leave for “crimes of moral turpitude”. Three of those officers now on leave were directly involved in Torres-Walker’s case in October 2021 Follow Tamisha Torres-Walker on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tamisha_walker —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Charges dropped for cops who killed Angelo Quinto; Plus, Antioch Councilmember Tamisha Torres-Walker appeared first on KPFA.
Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build. This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of September 5th, 2022 —- This episode featured music by Kofy Brown. Check out her website: https://www.kofybrown.com/ Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post State Terror Round Up for the week of September 5th, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
And a spotlight on California’s Assembly Bill 503, which would limit the amount of time a minor could be placed on probation and remove the authority of the court to order minors to pay a fine or participate in an uncompensated work program in lieu of restitution. We’re joined by Analisa Ruiz, Policy Director at the Young Women’s Freedom Center, one of the organizations taking the lead in pushing Assembly Bill 503. Follow Young Women’s Freedom Center on Twitter: https://twitter.com/YoungWomenFree Check out the Young Women’s Freedom Center’s website: https://youngwomenfree.org/ Read the text of AB503: https://openstates.org/ca/bills/20212022/AB503/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post AB503 could limit youth probation in California – w/ Analisa Ruiz from the Young Women’s Freedom Center appeared first on KPFA.
Kaiser mental healthcare workers – members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) – in the Bay Area, are on strike, in a labor action that started more than three weeks ago. We are joined by Jessica Dominguez, Founder and Lead Clinician of La Clínica in Richmond a program that provides culturally sensitive mental health care to Spanish speakers. It is the only program Kaiser offers that is targeted to Spanish speakers. Follow the NUHW on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NUHW/ Check out the NUHW’s website: https://nuhw.org/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Bay Area Kaiser mental healthcare workers on strike w/ NUHW member Jessica Dominguez appeared first on KPFA.
Today’s episode goes deep into the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, where water is no longer running from taps as a result of racist infrastructural failure. Our guest is Joshua Dedmond of Cooperation Jackson who is involved in coordinating emergency water response for residents. Follow Cooperation Jackson on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CooperationJXN Check out Cooperation Jackson’s website: https://cooperationjackson.org/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Water crisis in Jackson, MS w/ Joshua Dedmond from Cooperation Jackson appeared first on KPFA.
From the 70s or 80s into the earlier 2000s, we saw the numbers of people locked up in prisons and jails increase, around the country. But since the first decade of the 2000s, the numbers of people being locked up have actually decreased nationally and also locally. One of the results is that prisons themselves have started to close nationwide, as they have more and more empty beds, empty cells. On today’s show, we take a look at what it means for imprisonment facilities to close – the impact on social systems, the impact on local economies, and especially, what happens to the actual buildings that once held people in cages. Our guest on this episode is Nicole Porter, the Senior Director of Advocacy for the Washington DC-based Sentencing Project. Nicole was the lead researcher on a report released in August called Repurposing Correctional Facilities to Strengthen Communities. Follow Nicole Porter on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nicoleporter Follow the Sentencing Project on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SentencingProj Read the report: https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/repurposing-correctional-facilities-to-strengthen-communities/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Repurposing closed prisons and jails w/ Nicole Porter from The Sentencing Project appeared first on KPFA.
We spend this episode with Robert Jones Jr, who recently retired his well-known social media handle Son of Baldwin. He discusses his debut novel, The Prophets, which is about two men who are in love, enslaved on the same Mississippi plantation. We talk about how the relationship between colonialism, Western imperialism, and christian hegemony built up an intersectional anti-Black racist and homophobic culture that has been maintained until today. We also explore his Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis, how it impacts Robert’s professional life and social media presence, and how the legacies of violence embedded in slavery impact his ability to access good medical care today. Buy the book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/622773/the-prophets-by-robert-jones-jr/ Check out Robert Jones Jr’s website: https://www.sonofbaldwin.com/ — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Colonial legacies of homophobia and racism w/ Robert Jones Jr AKA Son of Baldwin on his book The Prophets appeared first on KPFA.
The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world. This week’s Artist Resistance in Residence is San Francisco Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin. Follow Tongo Eisen-Martin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_tongogara_ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Artist Resistance in Residence: Tongo Eisen-Martin appeared first on KPFA.
On July 29th, our guest Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party, was targeted in a multi-city FBI raid on several homes and offices of the Uhuru Movement. On September 13th, Yeshitela will return to the Uhuru House in Oakland for the first time since the pandemic, to speak at the “Days of Reparations to African People” event. Yeshitela leads the Uhuru Movement with active branches and black community economic development institutions throughout the US, in Africa and in Europe. Follow Omali Yeshitela on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OmaliYeshitela Find info on the FBI raid: http://www.handsoffuhuru.org —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post FBI raids the Uhuru Movement – our guest is Uhuru Chairman Omali Yeshitela appeared first on KPFA.
Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder we are going to do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build. This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of August 29th, 2022 —- This episode featured music by Kofy Brown. Check out her website: https://www.kofybrown.com/ Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post State Terror Round Up for the week of August 29th, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.