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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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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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The Intersection Between ‘Wellness’ and White...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

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...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

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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37:07

Resistance in Residence Artist: Lisa Marie Rollins

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

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...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

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...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

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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28:11

Preventing Negative Impacts of Trump in Alameda...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2025/02/05

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.— 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 Preventing Negative Impacts of Trump in Alameda County w/ Supervisor

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The Long Attica Revolt w/ Orisanmi Burton

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2025/02/04

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

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Resistance in Residence Artist: Betty Shamieh

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2025/02/02

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

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Leonard Peltier Granted Clemency w/ Summer Aubrey &...

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2025/01/29

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

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13:57

Prisoner Lawsuit Against Transphobic Executive Order...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2025/01/28

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

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28:23

Digital Security Concerns Under Trump w/ EFF’s India...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2025/01/28

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:

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53:06

Palestine Post w/ Khury Petersen-Smith and PYM’s Rami

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2025/01/27

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

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37:04

First Raft of Problematic Executive Orders w/ Shawn...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2025/01/24

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

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Resistance in Residence Artist: Davey D

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2025/01/24

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

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25:46

Executive Order Border Impact w/ the Black Alliance...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2025/01/22

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

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54:32

Prison Labor and the Fight to End It w/ Andrew Ross &...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2025/01/21

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

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Gaza’s Death Toll Undercounted w/ Lancet Researcher...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2025/01/16

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

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32:10

Framing the Ceasefire in Gaza w/ Ziad Abbas & Samer...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2025/01/16

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

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30:07

Palestine Post: Impacts of Israel’s Aggression on...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2025/01/13

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:

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