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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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56:11

Ancestral Healing from Syria to the Sinai w/ Layla K...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2024/02/21

We’re joined on today’s show by the author of a brand new book that ties cultural survival to earth-based knowledge. In The Land in Our Bones: Plantcestral Herbalism and Healing Cultures from Syria to the Sinai, Lebanese ethnobotanist, sovereignty steward, and cultural worker Layla K Feghali offers a layered history of the healing plants of Cana’an (the Levant) and the Crossroads (“Middle East”) and explores ways we become free from the wounds of colonization and displacement. Recounting vivid

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66:04

Alameda County D4 Candidates Go Back to Back w/ Nate...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2024/02/13

Elections in the Alameda County Board of Supervisor race for District 4 are taking place on March 5th. The Board of Supervisors is made up of five elected non-partisan leaders who work as a regional governing body. The board’s work includes appointing county officials, adopting an annual budget and awarding all public works contracts, among other duties. The District 4 supervisor will represent portions of Pleasanton, Oakland, Castro Valley and various unincorporated areas of the county. We hear

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A New Artifact of the Palestinian Resistance w/ Danya...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2024/02/12

The Palestinian Youth Movement has published the first English edition of Wisam Rafeedie’s novel, “The Trinity of Fundamentals“. The book is an artifact of Palestinian resistance, both in its content and the story of how it came to be. Wisam Rafeedie was a Palestinian political prisoner held in an Israeli prison after being captured by the Israeli Occupation Forces in 1991. In 1993, he wrote the novel during his imprisonment in 1993, by secretly hand-writing and distributing excerpts of it through a

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42:33

Resistance in Residence Artist: Cady Voge

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2024/02/11

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 character-driven vérité storyteller, documentary filmmaker and journalist Cady

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18:22

Government Imprisons South Carolina Protester on...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2024/02/09

In 2020 the country exploded in protest responding to the murder of George Floyd. One of those protests took place in Sumter, South Carolina in May of 2020 where Brittany Martin was a participant. She joined in chanting, harmed no one, and destroyed no property. Now she’s serving a four year prison sentence. Joining us to discuss is her husband Eric Kennedy. —- 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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13:02

Ronald McDonald House Discriminates Against...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2024/02/09

A federal complaint has been filed alleging that the Ronald McDonald House is discriminating against people with sick children who were convicted of certain crimes in the past. The ACLU, among other groups, alleges the rule violates the federal Fair Housing Act. Joining us to discuss is Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, senior reporter for The Appeal, a worker-led nonprofit news organization. She writes on prison and jail conditions, and wrongful convictions. Read Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg’s coverage:

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18:46

State Terror Round Up for the week of February 5th, 2024

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2024/02/08

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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22:00

Georgia Bans Bail Funds w/ Fallon McClure

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2024/02/07

A bill criminalizing bail funds passed through the Georgia state legislature on Tuesday, February 6th. Joining us to discuss is Fallon McClure, Deputy Director for Policy & Advocacy with Georgia’s ACLU. Read Fallon McClure’s op-ed about Georgia’s SB63: https://newsone.com/4981507/georgia-cash-bail-bill/ —- 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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17:49

Hindu Nationalism and Its White Supremacist Ties w/...

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2024/02/07

A brand new report on the state of Hindu nationalism calls out the violence of the Hindu supremacist political movement both within India, but also with a stronghold among conservative Hindus in the US who have built close allied relationships with famed white supremacists like, for example, Steve Bannon, who is an honorary chairman of the Republican Hindu Coalition. That report is called The Global VHP’s Trail of Violence, published by Savera, which is a multiracial, interfaith, anti-caste

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17:54

SF Civil Settlements w/ Eleni Balakrishnan

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2024/02/07

San Francisco has settled multiple of what appear to be scandalous termination lawsuits. First, the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department is set to re-hire a former deputy who lost his job after being found to have forced prisoners into a fight club, who also cost the city $280,000 in settlements. Then, we’ll talk through an $835,000 settlement for a former prosecutor in the San Francisco District Attorney’s office who was fired in 2020. Joining us to discuss is Eleni Balakrishnan, a San Francisco

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65:20

Antisemitic and Racist Roots of Christian Supremacy...

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2024/02/06

Over the past handful of years, white supremacy in the US has reared its head, with vitriolic images like the tiki torch march in Charlottesville in 2017 or the January 6th, 2021, conservative attack on the US capitol. In this episode, we’re in conversation with a professor and n author whose new book places modern white supremacy and American racialization, in a long-term historical context of Christian values and morals. We’re going to go back more than a thousand years to explore how European

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12:25

Federal Judge Rules Against Palestinians w/ Maria LaHood

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2024/02/05

As usual on Mondays, we focus the entirety of our show on the latest developments in Israel’s war on Palestine, and people’s resistance to that aggression. Today, we follow up on the Defense for Children International – Palestine v. Biden court case, where a federal judge dismissed the case but with language that agreed that Israel’s violence seems to equate to a genocide, and urges the government to stop its “unflagging support” of Israel’s war machine. We’re in conversation with Maria LaHood, one

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39:57

Latest on Palestine Truce Deal and US Cuts UNWRA...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2024/02/05

As usual on Mondays, we focus the entirety of our show on the latest developments in Israel’s war on Palestine, and people’s resistance to that aggression. Discussing the latest figures, the status of an in-progress truce deal, and the cutting of UNWRA funding by the US and other wealthy countries, we are joined by Khury Peterson-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he researches US empire, borders, and migration. Follow Khury Peterson-Smith on Twitter:

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41:47

Resistance in Residence Artist: Aya De Leon

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2024/02/04

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 editor, educator, activist, author, mom, and Berkeley’s poet laureate, Aya de

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CA Spends $132,000 Each Year to Imprison a Community...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2024/02/01

A new report from CalMatters shows that California’s averages more than $132,000 in spending for each person kept in prison, per year. That amount is 90% higher than the cost to imprison someone just ten years ago in 2014. Joining us to discuss is Brian Kaneda, the Deputy Director of Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB), which is an organization dedicated to reducing imprisonment in our state by developing deep economic analyses about how it’s actually financially better for all of

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14:26

Protest for a Ceasefire at Richmond’s Chevron...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2024/02/01

Activists in Richmond are planning a protest at the Chevron refinery against support of Israel’s genocide in Gaza as well as the company’s problematic environmentally racist policies here at home. That protest is set for Saturday, February 3rd at noon. We’re joined by Keala Uchoa, a youth organizer with Communities for a Better Environment in Richmond, who is one of the organizers of Saturday’s protest. — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in

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11:37

State Terror Round Up for the week of January 29th, 2024

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2024/02/01

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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22:32

Abortion Bans Lead to Forced Pregnancy After Rape w/...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2024/01/31

In states where abortion has been completely banned, more than sixty-four thousand rapes have resulted in force pregnancy, according to a new report titled ‘Rape-Related Pregnancies in the 14 US States With Total Abortion Bans’. Dr Samuel Dickman is one of the researchers and authors of that report, as well as an abortion provider with Planned Parenthood. He joins us to discuss that research. Read the report here:

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Anti-Zionism on International Holocaust Remembrance...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2024/01/30

Saturday, January 27th, marked the UN-recognized International Holocaust Remembrance Day. For that commemoration, the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) hosted a webinar panel, discussing Israel’s misuse of the Nazi genocide to justify the genocide of Palestinians. Our podcast episode brings audio from that webinar, which featured an international panel of anti-zionist and internationalist activists discussing the urgent need for a remembrance of the Jewish Holocaust that is distinct

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57:27

Palestinian Diaspora and Israel’s Pink- and...

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2024/01/29

We had such a phenomenal time talking with Yaffa A.S. recently that we invited Yaffa back onto the show for an extended discussion. Yaffa A.S. is the Executive Director of the Muslim Alliance for Sexual & Gender Diversity. Yaffa is a trans Muslim and displaced Indigenous Palestinian. In this conversation we talk about their experience growing up in the Palestinian diaspora, gaining a deeper understanding of pink- and purple-washing, and Yaffa’s new book of poetry. Check out the Muslim Alliance for

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