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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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34:05

Palestine Post: Harvard in Trump Admin’s Crosshairs...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2025/04/21

On today’s Palestine Post, we speak with Harvard law student and KPFA correspondent Ariel Boone as well as Dr Lara Jirmanus, a Palestinian-Lebanese-American physician and a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School about Harvard’s targeting by the Trump Administration as well as its broader commitment to zionism — 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: Martin Lynch

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2025/04/20

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 playwright and theatre director as well as a leading advocate for the community arts

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42:02

Oakland Mayor, Council, and Measure A Election...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2025/04/17

Oakland had a special election this week. We spend today’s hour speaking about the results of the three items on the ballot: A new mayor, a new District 2 City Councilmember, and Measure A. We’ll speak with Nikki Fortunato-Bas, the Alameda County District 5 Supervisor and a former District 2 Oakland City Councilmember, as well as Chaney Turner, the Integrated Voter Engagement Director with Oakland Rising Action, and Saabir Lockett, the Deputy Director of Civic Engagement at EBASE and East Bay

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13:45

State Terror Round Up for the Week of April 14th, 2025

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2025/04/17

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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15:10

Jury Hung in FCI Dublin Prison Guard Sexual Assault...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2025/04/16

We turn our attention to the rape scandal and subsequent trials related to the closure of the federal women’s prison FCI Dublin. A number of guards at the prison have been charged and convicted for involvement in sexual assault against prisoners, and the last and final of those trials went to jury last week. The case has resulted in a surprising hung jury. Joining us to discuss is Lisa Fernandez, a veteran journalist working at KTVU Channel 2 in the Bay Area, who has been covering the sexual abuse

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37:21

Border Patrol Sued Over Violating Bakersfield...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2025/04/16

In January – just one day after Trump was certified as the next president by Congress, a massive Border Patrol raid took place in Bakersfiled, California. Seventy-eight migrant workers were detained under the guise of a crack down on criminals, but when the dust settled the data revealed that only one out of the 78 people detained had any criminal record. Joining us to discuss are Bree Bernwanger, a senior staff attorney with the ACLU of Northern California and lead attorney on United Farm Workers

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48:37

Palestine Post w/ Phyllis Bennis & Samer Araabi

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2025/04/14

On today’s episode of our weekly Monday segment, The Palestine Post, we’re joined by 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. We’re also joined by Samer Araabi, a member of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center who also co-hosts the weekly Palestine Solidarity Announcements every Friday at noon.—- Subscribe to this podcast:

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Resistance in Residence Artist: Shaun Blaney

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2025/04/13

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 Northern Irish actor Shaun Blaney. Shaun portrays Gerry Conlan in the production of

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11:34

New Exhibit on Border and Immigration at Angel Island...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2025/04/10

A new exhibit at the Angel Island Immigration Station encourages visitors to consider the past and present of US border policy and border technology. The exhibit was curated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). We speak with Dave Maass, the Director of Investigations at the EFF.You can plan your visit to the exhibit here: https://www.aiisf.org/planyourvisit —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on

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23:03

Cops Use Artificial Panic to Buy Gear w/ Joey Scott

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2025/04/10

Police around the country have been using the panic around inflamed and artificial shoplifting fears to buy new equipment. We’re joined by Joey Scott, an LA-based investigative journalist and documentary photographer covering policing, surveillance, protests, prisons, and inequality, whose latest article on The Appeal is titled “Cops Used the Shoplifting Panic to Buy Tons of New Equipment.” Read his article here:

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ICE Uses Private Charter Jets for Deportations w/...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2025/04/10

In this episode we explore Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s contracts with private charter airlines used for deportations. We speak with McKenzie Funk, a journalist with ProPublica who focuses on the business of immigration enforcement. His latest piece is titled ‘Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time.”’ Read that piece here: https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ice-air-deportation-flights —- Subscribe to this

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26:52

Oakland’s ‘Astroturf Network’ w/ Pecolia Manigo,...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2025/04/09

We turn our attention to what has been dubbed the ‘Oakland Astroturf Network’ and the billionaires funding Oakland’s more conservative political campaigns and recalls. Joining us to discuss are Pecolia Manigo, Executive Director of Oakland Rising Action; Jeremy Mack, the Executive Director of the Phoenix Project; and Chaney Turner, the Integrated Voter Engagement Director with Oakland Rising Action. —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in

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28:57

Oakland Interim Mayor Fires Most Staff w/ Brandon Harami

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2025/04/09

Earlier this week, Oakland Interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins announced the firing of former Mayor Sheng Thao’s city hall staff, starting with the canning of Leigh Hanson over an allegedly problematic note-taking issue, and followed by the rest of the staff that had been hired by Sheng Thao. Joining us is Brandon Harami, one of the staffers who was fired this week, who has also experienced homophobic threats and harassment online which lead to a legal settlement, which is disregarded as null and void now

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80:42

Earth Doula w/ Queen Hollins

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2025/04/08

We spend today’s hour in conversation with elder queer Black Indigenous healer and the Founder and Director of the Earthlodge Center for Transformation (the Earthlodge), Queen Hollins, in conversation about her new book called Earth Doula. It’s an illustrated guide for Earth medicine, stewardship, and healing. At a time when so many have forgotten or been disconnected from sustaining life, Queen Hollins immerses us in Black Indigenous wisdom, practices, and rituals to grow resilience as a thriving

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38:50

Resistance in Residence Artist: Ben Noble

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2025/04/06

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 queer, disabled Australian actor, writer and creative producer Ben Noble. Ben Noble’s

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73:35

Contextualizing Angela Davis w/ Joy James

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2025/04/01

Black abolitionist philosopher Joy James joins us to discuss her book Contextualizing Angela Davis: The Agency and Identity of an Icon.—- 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 Contextualizing Angela Davis w/ Joy James appeared first on KPFA.

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58:54

Venezuelan Migrants Trafficked from U.S. to El...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2025/03/27

Our return guest Ana Piquer, Americas Director at Amnesty International talks about the Venezuelan migrants who are being detained by U.S. immigration enforcement and trafficked to Cecot Prison in El Salvador via Honduras.Yesterday was the 5 year anniversary of the police killing of Steven Taylor. Cat Brooks chronicles that history on the State Terror Round Up. We also discuss the upcoming Walk to End All Hostilities on March 29 with organizers Minister King X Pyeface, Director of California Prison

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63:43

What’s at Stake in the Oakland Mayor’s Race?; Plus...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2025/03/26

We look at the key players influencing the Oakland Mayor’s race with Walter Riley, civil rights lawyer, activist and chair of the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund. Then, as some cities move to restrict surveillance, law enforcement takes to the sky. Fixed wing aircraft can stay up in the air for hours at a time and are often used in tandem with high definition cameras, heat sensors and cell-site simulation technology by law enforcement agencies. Does this type of aerial surveillance pose a risk to civil

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63:38

Palestine Post w/ Khury Petersen-Smith

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2025/03/24

On our weekly installment of The Palestine Post, we’re joined again by Khury Petersen-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he researches U.S. empire, borders, and migration. — 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 Palestine Post w/ Khury Petersen-Smith appeared first on

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Resistance in Residence Artist: Duane Forrest

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2025/03/23

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 Toronto-based professional playwright, singer-songwriter and multimedia artist,

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