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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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33:01

Jewish Biden Appointee Lily Greenberg Call Resigns in...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2024/05/23

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

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62:39

Palestine Post w/ Linda Sarsour, Sahar Francis & Liz...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2024/05/06

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

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23:17

New Details Surrounding Federal Execution Drug w/...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2024/05/03

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

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14:48

Police Crack Down on University Protests w/ Meg...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2024/05/03

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:

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59:22

From Prisoner to Reform Movement Leader w/ Dorsey Nunn

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2024/04/30

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

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43:35

Palestine Post: The Latest w/ Rami Khouri

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2024/04/29

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. — 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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31:28

Resistance in Residence Artist: Annika Lewis

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2024/04/28

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:

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9:05

Echoes of the American War in Vietnam, Part 2 –...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2024/04/26

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. Check out Rick Ayers‘ blog: https://rick-ayers.medium.com/ — 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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16:21

The High Cost of Prison Commissary w/ Elizabeth...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2024/04/25

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

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13:25

Bay Area Activists Ready to Set Sail on Gaza Freedom...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2024/04/25

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.Follow Bay Area activists on the flotilla: @Bay2Gaza on Instagram, Twitter, and Tik Tok — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in

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14:58

State Terror Round Up for the week of April 22nd, 2024

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2024/04/25

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

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56:22

Inspiring Black Women’s Speeches from the Civil War...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2024/04/24

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

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60:59

Israeli Academia’s Complicity in Israel’s...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2024/04/23

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. Check out Maya Wind’s website:

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15:42

State Terror Round Up for the week of April 15th, 2024

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2024/04/19

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

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59:04

County Jails in the Movement for Abolition w/ Jack...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2024/04/15

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

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40:52

Resistance in Residence Artist: Robin Riker

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2024/04/14

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,

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22:02

Playwrights Festival Begins in SF w/ Aidaa Peerzada...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2024/04/11

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

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16:50

Month of Action for Housing as a Human Right w/ Talya...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2024/04/11

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

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18:14

State Terror Round Up for the week of April 8th, 2024

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2024/04/11

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

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22:53

Ohlone Land Trust Rematriates West Berkeley...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2024/04/10

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

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