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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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14:39

State Terror Round Up for the week of November 27th,...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/11/30

Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 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 we

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21:41

Forensic Junk Science Incarcerates Mothers of...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/11/29

In ProPublica’s latest investigation into the forensic junk science, we learn about some medical examiners’ use of ‘lung float tests’, which use questionable-at-best practices to determine whether a baby who has died was born as a stillbirth. The test has been used to convict women who’ve birthed stillborn babies of murdering their child. Our guest is Duaa Eldeib, a reporter at ProPublica whose reporting has sparked legislative hearings and government reform and has led to the release of young men

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32:36

Alameda County Evictions Soar w Leah Simon-Weisberg

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/11/29

In this episode we look at the dramatic impact of the lifting of the pandemic policy of an eviction moratorium in Alameda County. We discuss the dramatic increase in evictions now in Alameda County compared to pre-pandemic levels with our guest Leah Simon-Weisberg, Legal Director of The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) Action. —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on

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58:57

Rest is Resistance for Political Organizing w/ Tricia...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/11/28

Today we’re met with a reminder that taking breaks is not only important to our physical health, it’s also important to the health of political movements. We’re joined by performance artist, writer, activist, theologian, daydreamer and founder of the Nap Ministry, Tricia Hersey, to discuss her labor of love to move the work of Black liberation forward by encouraging the sustainability of organizing work – and by that she means, taking more naps! We’ll talk about Tricia’s book Rest Is Resistance: A

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58:12

Palestine Post: Activist Reflections w/ Nadya...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/11/27

We’ll spend this hour with voices and reflections on Israel’s bombardment of Gaza with some of the powerful voices in our communities. We’ll start with Nadya Tannous, who has been organizing to stop Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, as a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement. She is a passionate community organizer and writer, born and raised in the Bay Area. Nadya is also the Deputy Director of Honor The Earth, an Indigenous-led Environmental Justice organization tackling climate disaster at

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29:25

Resistance in Residence Artist: Marvin X

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/11/26

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, essayist, organizer, and one of the founders of the Black Arts

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55:15

Thangs Taken: Rethinking Thanksgiving

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/11/22

In today’s episode we hear audio from an event called Thangs Taken: Rethinking Thanksgiving, that took place at La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley on Sunday, November 19th, 2023. As we approach the Thanksgiving Holiday, the purpose of the event, was to challenge colonial narratives, support our native communities, and to reflect on our relationship to the colonized lands that we occupy. Before the pandemic, Thangs Taken was an annual event, and for the first time since the pandemic, it has

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57:31

Palestine Protesters Shut Down Bay Bridge – Live from...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/11/16

On today’s live show we preempted all of our normal coverage to go straight to the San Francisco Bay Bridge where protesters blocked all traffic in the westbound direction, demanding that no business continues as usual as long as Israel continues to bomb Gaza. We spend the hour with protesters blocking all lanes of traffic, aided by reporter Salima Hamirani. —- 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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52:00

Wampanoag Thanksgiving w/ Hartman Deetz

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/11/15

We’re just about a week ahead of the national colonial holiday Thanksgiving, so we’ll spend the morning with a member of the tribe that is depicted in the Pilgrim and Indian mythology of Thanksgiving. Hartman Deetz is a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe and has been a cultural steward of his people through language, material and performing arts. I’ll talk with him about the meaning of Thanksgiving to the Wampanoag people, and we’ll get his re-telling of the Thanksgiving story. —- Subscribe to

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5:27

A Thanksgiving Story: Israel in the Year 2223 –...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/11/15

In this short story by our co-host Jesse Strauss, Thanksgiving in the year 2223 in Israel celebrates the colonial promise of the complete settling of the land of Palestine. —- 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 A Thanksgiving Story: Israel in the Year 2223 – Commentary w/ Jesse Strauss appeared first on KPFA.

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49:50

War on Gaza from the Palestinian Diaspora in the US...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/11/13

As we do each Monday since October 7th, we spend today’s show on the ongoing violence 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. Follow Linda Sarsour on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lsarsour —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow

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51:19

Prison Imperialism and the Rise of Mass Incarceration...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/11/08

In this episode: A four-hundred-year reckoning with the colonial workings of the carceral state and resistance against it. We talk about how the story of American prisons is inextricably linked to the expansion of US power around the globe as well as the power of prison resistance, from the Seminole Indians to Assata Shakur. Our guest is Benjamin Weber, professor of African American Studies at UC Davis and author of the brand new book American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of Mass

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37:47

Resistance in Residence Artist: Tiffani Marie

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/11/05

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 rapper, barber, fashion designer, documentary filmmaker, podcast host, professor, and

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11:12

State Terror Round Up for the week of October 30th, 2023

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/11/02

Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 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 we

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55:31

Palestine Post: Israel’s Prisoners as Toll Climbs...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/11/01

We continue our coverage of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza as the death toll for Palestinian men, women and children has risen past 13,000. We start in conversation with Randa Wahbe, former staff member at Addameer, a Palestinian non-governmental, civil institution that has worked to support Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli and Palestinian prisons since 1991. Randa is a Harvard PhD candidate whose research examines how Israel uses and exploits Palestinian dead bodies to surveil, control

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53:40

Israel Kills More Than 8,000 in Gaza, Arrests More...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/10/30

The latest in Palestine, where over the weekend, Israel entered a “second phase” of war on Gaza. We discuss developments over the weekend, and also explore the impact on the West Bank, where more than 120 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli military and settlers. We also discuss the 5,000-plus additional Palestinian hostages taken prisoner by Israeli forces in the past few weeks and the potential for a prisoner exchange. Joining us are Al Jazeera digital correspondent Zena Tahhan in Jerusalem,

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32:19

Resistance in Residence Artist: Jose Navarrete

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/10/29

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 multi-disciplinary artist and dancer José Navarrete. Check out the website for Javier’s

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12:39

State Terror Round Up for the week of October 23th, 2023

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/10/26

Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 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 we

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19:21

On Gaza and Grief: A Commentary w/ Jesse Strauss

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/10/25

Our producer, Jesse Strauss, shares a reflection on the shared grief experience of learning of the death and destruction in Gaza as the bombardments continue, connecting dots between shared Jewish grief of the holocaust, lessons we can learn from abolitionist organizing in the US, and a hope that one outcome of the collective grief process will be that our communities can see the humanity of the Palestinian people through it. — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get

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21:29

An Unstable Oakland Police Commission w/ Eli Wolfe

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/10/25

The Oakland Police Commission is hailed as one of the strongest in the nation, but right now they are in chaos. Joining us to break it all down is Eli Wolfe, a journalist who has been covering this issue for Oaklandside. Check out Eli Wolfe’s latest reporting for Oaklandside: https://oaklandside.org/author/eli-wolfe/ — 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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