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KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks

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. —- 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/

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17:16

SF’s Fight Against ICE Raids w/ Joe Rivano Barros

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2025/06/11

Joe Rivano Barros is a reporter and editor at the independent news site Mission Local who has been covering the anti-ICE protests in San Francisco this week. Check out his reporting at Mission Local https://missionlocal.org/2025/06/video-ice-agents-arrest-people-outside-s-f-courthouse/ — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials

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LA Anti-ICE Uprising w/ Dr. Melina Abdullah

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2025/06/11

Dr. Melina Abdullah in conversation with Cat Brooks about the ongoing resistance in Los Angeles to the Trump Administration’s ICE raid’s this week. Dr. Abdullah is 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. Check out the BLM Grassroots website at https://blmgrassroots.org/ __ Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get

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51:50

Beyond Limits: Understanding Third Trimester Abortion...

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2025/06/10

As we face a government that is active in its efforts to remove people’s ability to make decisions about what happens in their own bodies, Dr. Shelley Sella challenges even the framework that imposing any limits on abortion access means that we are not truly providing the room to choose. Sella is a board certified OB GYN and the first woman to openly practice third trimester abortion care in the U.S

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17:34

New Report Shows African Displacement Crises...

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2025/06/09

Cameroon sits on top of a new list of most neglected displacement crises in the world. In this episode, we turn our attention to the annual report that accounts for this neglect, led by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). We’ll discuss what those primary crises are and how they’ve been neglected politically, economically, and by the press. We’re joined to discuss the report and its findings by Laila Matar, the Communications Director of NRC, an independent humanitarian aid organization working to

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17:42

Palestine Post: Gaza Flotilla Captured by Israeli...

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2025/06/09

As Israel has continued its attacks on starving Palestinians who are seeking aid in Gaza, the humanitarian aid flotilla that had been set to arrive from its journey across the Mediterranean sea bringing a small amount of basic support was captured early this morning by Israeli state piracy forces. The 12 humanitarian activists aboard that vessel from all around the world were kidnapped and brought as hostages to the Israeli port of Ashdod. Well over 600 days, now, of the zionist war of ethnic

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39:23

Resistance in Residence Artist: Nikkolas Smith

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2025/06/08

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.Our Resistance in Residence Artist this week is children’s book creator, artivist, and Hollywood film illustrator and concept

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29:18

Sudan’s Civil War Continues as Famine and Cholera...

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2025/06/05

Two years ago, a fragile but hopeful peace in Sudan was broken when the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) – which are both arms of the Sudanese state – went to war with each other. In the fighting since, more than 150,000 people have been killed and 13 million of a total of a 51 million person population, have been displaced. Famine is currently significant. And there are renewed reports of cholera tearing through the region, which has led to corpses rotting in the nile

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22:25

Abolition in the Classroom: Reflections on...

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2025/06/05

In this episode, we listen to a short story from Alexandrea Henry, reflecting on how carcerality is integrated not only in schools broadly, but even within the 1st grade classroom that she taught. Law & Disorder reached out to Alexandrea to request her contribution after seeing it first published in the recent pilot issue of the renewed Abolition Journal, produced by Philadelphia’s W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction, which is a political education organization for aspiring

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18:32

Oakland’s Non-police Emergency Response Program...

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2025/06/02

Oakland’s non-police emergency response program, MACRO, is looking head-on at a budget shortfall, at the same time that it’s experiencing renewed political attacks. We’re joined this morning by Elliott Jones, the MACRO program coordinator, to discuss the state of the program, how it’s been performing, and the challenges ahead. To seek support from MACRO, call 510-44-MACRO (510-446-2276). For more info, check out their website:

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35:14

Palestine Post: Israel Publicly & Intentionally...

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2025/06/02

As Israel flexed it’s ability to publicly intentionally starve Palestinians in Gaza, this past week marked more than 600 days of the zionist war of ethnic cleansing. Joining us to discuss the latest news and analysis of that violence, is Samer Araabi, a member of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC). Samer also co-hosts the weekly Palestine Solidarity Announcements every Friday at noon. — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch:

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54:19

5 Years Since George Floyd w/ Mary Moriarty, Melina...

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2025/05/27

On today’s show, we spend the hour looking back at the five years of abolitionist and community organizing since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25th, 2020.First, we speak with Mary Moriarty, the Hennepin County Attorney. Hennepin County’s most known city is Minneapolis. Then, we’re 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

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71:27

Schooling and the Construction of American Racism w/...

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2025/05/13

Regular listeners of this show know that we frequently explore interpretations and nuances of abolition. When we think of abolition, we often conjure Angela Davis’ articulation, that prisons are a way of disappearing people and the social problems that are associated with those people. From that framing, abolition tells us to rethink the social problems being disappeared by prisons, in order to address those problems, as a space from which to grow, where no one person, regardless of how exceptional

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57:40

Palestine Post: A Genocide Foretold w/ Chris Hedges

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2025/05/12

On today’s show, we’re in conversation with Chris Hedges about his latest book, A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine. In it, the Pulitzer Prize–winning former Middle East Bureau Chief for The New York Times, explores zionist settler colonialism in Gaza with a powerful emotional depth. A Genocide Foretold confronts the stark realities of life under siege in Gaza and the heroic effort ordinary Palestinians are waging to resist and survive. Weaving together

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20:25

DOGE’s NIH Cuts Hit Science Researchers w/ Dr Nisha...

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2025/05/01

The United States National Institute of Health is the world’s largest funder of biomedical research, but it has cut about half of the more than 1,200 grants that its umbrella agency, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services — now led by long-time vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — said it has terminated. The cuts have hit researchers in Universities across the nation hard. Joining us to discuss their research, the impact and the implications are Dr Nisha Acharya, a UCSF ophthalmology

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21:15

Trump’s Second First 100 Days w/ Guardian’s Kira...

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2025/04/29

Today, we spend the hour walking through the first 100 days of the second Trump presidency. Kicking us off are Kira Lerner, an editor and reporter based in Washington, DC focused on voting rights, criminal justice, and civil rights issues. Kira is the Democracy Editor of the Guardian US, joining us along with Andrew Roth, a global affairs correspondent for the Guardian in Washington DC, whose writing on Trump’s first 100 days of foreign policy is titled, “From cornerstone of the west to unreliable

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51:43

Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future...

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2025/04/29

Despite reform efforts that have grown in scope and intensity over the last two decades, the machine of American mass incarceration continues to flourish. In this hour, we’re joined by formerly incarcerated activist, essayist, and organizer Emile Suotonye DeWeaver, discussing his book Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine, reflecting on his 21 years of incarceration, what it took for him to seek release, and what it means for him to challenge the white supremacy that shows up in parole boards,

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50:21

Palestine Post: Understanding Hamas w/ Rami Khouri

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2025/04/28

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. He is also co-author of a brand new book called Understanding Hamas and why that Matters.— Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials

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Resistance in Residence Artist: Colette Ghunim

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2025/04/27

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. Our Resistance in Residence Artist this week is Mexican-Palestinian-American filmmaker Colette Ghunim, whose upcoming film titled

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19:57

Trump’s ‘War on Children’ w/ Eli Fowler

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2025/04/24

The impact of the second Trump Administration on our most marginalized communities is significant. Today, we explore the Trump Administration’s impact on children. We are joined by Eli Hager, a journalist who focuses on threats to federal social safety net programs as well as systems that lower-income families interact with at the state and local levels. Eli’s latest article for Pro Prublica is titled, “The Trump Administration’s War on Children.” Read that article here:

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29:51

Violence and Threats Against Abortion Providers w/...

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2025/04/24

Today we discuss violent attacks and threats on reproductive freedom rights and how that shows up as violence in our communities, at clinics, and in the lives of abortion providers. We are joined by Melissa Fowler, the Chief Program Officer with the National Abortion Federation. Melissa also oversees the organization’s security team, and was involved in the National Abortion Federation’s 2024 Violence & Disruption Report report published this week. Read the report here:

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