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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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26:44

Some CA Homeless Shelters Deadlier Than Jails w/...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2025/03/19

Non-profit newsroom CalMatters has uncovered scandals and abuses pushing California’s homeless population out of shelters, finding that some of the state’s emergency shelters are deadlier than jails. We’re joined by CalMatters journalist Lauren Hepler.Read the Lauren Hepler’s story here: https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/02/california-homeless-shelters-purgatory/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on

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26:47

Nine NY Prisoners Dead During Guard Wildcat Strike w/...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2025/03/19

In the past month, around 13,500 New York prison guards went on a wildcat strike. The New York Governor responded by sending National Guard troops to work as prison guards in the states prisons. Before prison guards ended their strike, reports of at least nine prisoners dying during the time of the strike hit the news. When the strike ended, 2,000 guards who remained on strike were fired by the state. We’re joined by Chris Gelardi, a reporter for New York Focus investigating the state’s

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56:20

Far-Right Extremism & White Supremacy w/ Mike German

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2025/03/18

Despite over a hundred deadly acts by far-right militants since the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, and the far right’s attempts to obstruct transfer of power to a duly elected president on January 6, the FBI continues to deprioritize investigations into white supremacist violence, instead targeting marginalized groups such as environmentalists and Black Lives Matter. In 2005, for example, the FBI labeled eco-terrorists as the top domestic threat, despite not a single fatal attack in

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53:09

Palestine Post: Linda Sarsour & Samer Araabi

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2025/03/17

On this week’s Palestine Post, we speak first with Linda Sarsour, a Brooklyn-born Palestinian Muslim American activist, author, and community organizer. Then, we’re joined by Samer Araabi, a member of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center who 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: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on

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28:08

Resistance in Residence Artist: Janesta Edmonds

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2025/03/16

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 Janesta Edmonds, a Black nonbinary multi-discplinary artist whose work includes

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20:36

Criminalization Not Solving SF’s Drug Dealing w/ Tim...

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2025/03/14

In this episode, we go to San Francisco where the county’s Board of Supervisors are exploring three different competing responses to drug dealing in that city. We speak with the founder of 48 Hills and long-time political and investigative reporter in San Francisco for more than 30 years, Tim Redmond. Read Tim Redmond’s article here: https://48hills.org/2025/03/how-is-sf-going-to-approach-drug-dealing-there-are-very-different-proposals/ —- Subscribe to this

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State Terror Round Up for the Week of March 10th, 2025

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2025/03/14

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

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19:58

ICE Disappears Pro-Palestine Activist Mahmoud Khalil...

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2025/03/13

Colombia University student Mahmoud Khalil is the first pro-Palestinain activist to be disappeared by the Trump administration; with the President making good on his promise to target people supportive of a free Palestine. Some folks in congress have piped up – but many have not. joining us to discuss is National Affairs Correspondent for the Nation John Nichols. His latest article is titled, “14 House Dems Demanded Mahmoud Khalil’s Release. Where Are the Others?” Read the article here:

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29:27

Former Alameda Co DA Pamela Price Reflects Post-Recall

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2025/03/13

Pamela Prices became the first Black woman to be elected to the seat of Alameda County District Attorney, but before the ballots were even counted, a conservative block funded by billionaires and law enforcement agencies across the country, began planning a recall. That recall was successful. Joining us to discuss that recall as well as thoughts on the current sitting DA is former Alameda County District Attorney, Pamela Price. —- Subscribe to this

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25:50

Oakland Struggles with Measure C Funding w/ Clarissa...

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2025/03/12

In 2020, Oakland voters voted to increase taxes in order to generate approximately $150 million annually for expanding access to early childhood education and care, but a lawsuit by the County Tax Payers Association has held up the funds. Now, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors has tentatively approved the first disbursement. Joining us to discuss is Clarissa Doutherd, the Executive Director of Parent Voices Oakland. —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in

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57:15

Carceral Apartheid w/ Brittany Friedman

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2025/03/11

What is the legacy of white supremacy and white supremacists in American prisons? How did the Black Power movement spur an evolution in the violence of the US carceral system and its agents. Those are some of the questions asked and answered by our guest today, Brittany Friedman, in her book Carceral Apartheid: How Lies & White Supremacists Run Our Prisons. Friedman is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Southern California and the co-founder of the captive money

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44:51

Palestine Post w/ Samer Araabi & Rehab Nazzal

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2025/03/03

On today’s episode of our weekly Monday segment, The Palestine Post, we’re joined by Samer Araabi, a member of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center who co-hosts the weekly Palestine Solidarity Announcements every Friday at noon; as well as Rehab Nazzal, a Palestinian artist and author who was born and raised in Jenin, joining live from Jenin in the occupied West Bank. She’s also the author of a book called Driving in Palestine. —- Subscribe to this podcast:

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46:44

Palestine Post: Understanding Palestine w/ Phyllis...

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2025/02/24

On today’s episode of our weekly Monday segment, The Palestine Post, we discuss the latest in Palestine including the teetering on the edge of brinksmanship of the first phase of the Hamas-Israel ceasefire deal, as well as some of the history of zionism, with Phyllis Bennis, a Middle East analyst and director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. She is the author of a brand new book, Understanding Palestine & Israel.—- Subscribe to this podcast:

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28:37

Lifeline for Trans Community Amid Anti-Trans Backlash...

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2025/02/20

On today’s show, we explore the human impact of increasing transphobia on our transgender family and community members, in conversation with kai alviar horton, the Executive Director of Trans Lifeline, a peer support and crisis hotline offering phone support to transgender people. It is the first transgender crisis hotline to exist in the United States as well as Canada, and the only suicide hotline whose operators are all transgender. Trans Lifeline has a policy against nonconsensual active rescue,

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27:45

El Salvador Invites Trafficking of US Prisoners w/...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2025/02/13

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. — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in

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55:00

The Intersection Between ‘Wellness’ and White...

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2025/02/12

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:

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50:42

The Public Health Risk of Police Violence and...

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2025/02/11

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

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Resistance in Residence Artist: Lisa Marie Rollins

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2025/02/09

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

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17:02

UCSF Retaliates Against Pro-Palestine Staff w/ Dr...

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2025/02/07

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

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27:43

Tracking Police Use-of-Force in Mental Health Calls...

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2025/02/06

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

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