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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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13:55

SF Proposal to Immediately House 500 Houseless People...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/09/11

San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston has introduced legislation that would push the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing to fill half of its 1,002 vacant supportive housing units and remain at a vacancy below five percent moving forward. We’re joined by Supervisor Preston, who represents District 5, which includes the Tenderloin, the Haight, the Fillmore, Japantown, Civic Center and the Western Addition. —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in

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Resistance in Residence Artist: Shaka Jamal

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/09/11

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 culturally innovative artist and filmmaker Shaka Jamal. Follow Shaka Jamal on

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29:33

RICO Charges Against Stop Cop City Organizers w/...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/09/07

In this episode we go to Atlanta, where 61 people have been indicted under RICO organized crime charges for alleged participation in Stop Cop City organizing and anarchist political affiliation. Our guests are Keyanna Jones, a Stop Cop City organizer for Community Movement Builders in Atlanta; as well as Steven Hardge, a member of the Atlanta chapter of the Black Alliance for Peace (or BAP). He’s also a part of a broader coalition of individuals and orgs fighting back against Atlanta’s Cop City

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13:42

State Terror Round Up for the week of September 4th,...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/09/07

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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55:09

Abortion, Bodily Autonomy, and Abolition in Canada w/...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/09/05

The US Supreme court has made abortion access much harder by overturning Roe v Wade. Today, we turn to Canada, where persistent threats to reproductive justice include: sexual violence, gun violence, homophobia and transphobia, criminalization of sex work, reproductive oppression of Indigenous women and girls, privatization of fertility health services, and the racism and colonialism of policing and the prison system. I’ll be in conversation with Martha Paynter, whose new book is called Abortion to

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34:27

Resistance in Residence Artist: Jerry Law

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/09/03

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 Oakland comedian Jerry Law. Follow Jerry Law on Instagram:

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23:14

Columbus, Ohio Mourns Ta’Kiya Young w/ Ramon Obey

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/08/30

In this episode we go to Columbus, Ohio, where the community has been in uproar over the police killing of Ta’Kiya Young, who was shot by officers while driving after being accused of stealing alcohol from a grocery store. She was pregnant at the time she was killed, and she leaves behind two children. We speak with Ramon Obey, Executive Director of Justice, Unity, & Social Transformation (or JUST) in Columbus, Ohio, and lead organizer of the People’s Justice Project. Check out the JUST website:

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Radio Theater: Diamonds and Bullets

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/08/30

Today, we share Diamonds and Bullets, an all vocal theatrical experience produced by Oakland-based arts and consulting company Edutainment for Equity, to provoke greater understanding and empathy for the statement “Black Lives Matter”. It features music of Bay Area Hip Hop Vocal Ensemble Antique Naked Soul, headed by songwriter and activist Candice Antique Davis and Grammy Award Winning Artist MC Soulati aka Tommy Shepherd. The script was written by scholar, artist and activist Hodari Davis, and our

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23:24

No Coal in Oakland w/ Sejal Choksi-Chugh & Ryan Nicole

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/08/28

For years now, local developer Phil Tagami has been embattled in a lawsuit with the city over a lease granted to him by the City of Oakland at the West Gateway on the waterfront of West Oakland – to build the Oakland Global Trade and Logistics Center. It is here he that wants to orchestrate the shipping of coal from Utah right through West Oakland. Not only has Tagami been embroiled in a battle with the city – he has been embroiled in a battle with Oaklanders who don’t want coal pollutants running

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16:13

West Oakland’s Schnitzer Steel Burns Again w/...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/08/28

In this episode we focus on the local environmental impact of West Oakland’s Schnitzer Steel Factory, which has poured chemicals into the areas airways for many years. Earlier in August, the factory experienced a significant toxic fire. Joining us to discuss is Ms. Margaret Gordon, co-founder and co-director of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project (WOEIP). and a lifetime local community activist who has been collaborating with neighborhood organizations, physicians, researchers, and

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32:10

Resistance in Residence Artist: Leelee Jackson

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/08/27

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 playwright Leelee Jackson, who writes postmodern narratives of the African diaspora

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19:56

State Terror Round Up for the week of August 21st, 2023

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/08/24

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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52:42

Family Ties and Child Removal in America w/ Roxana...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/08/22

On March 26, 2018, rescue workers discovered a crumpled SUV and the bodies of two women and multiple children at the bottom of a cliff along the California coastline. The crash was a murder-suicide: a white lesbian couple had adopted six Black children, with a paper-trail of child abuse and neglect that had been ignored by the child welfare system. We’re in conversation with Roxana Asgarian, a journalist whose focus on the story developed into an incredible book – a deeply reported indictment of a

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33:59

Resistance in Residence Artist: Sarah Crowell

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/08/20

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. This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is dancer, artist, choreographer, consultant and founder of Destiny Arts Center, Sarah

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16:55

State Terror Round Up for the week of August 14th, 2023

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/08/17

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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Commemorating Black August w/ Kalonji Jama Changa

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/08/14

August is when many of us commemorate Black August and so Law & Disorder is bringing you more Black August resistance programming. We are joined this morning by Kalonji Jama Changa is an organizer, founder of the FTP Movement, and the co-chair of the Urban Survival and Preparedness Institute and is co-founder of Black Power Media. He is also author of the bestselling book, “How to Build a People’s Army” and co-producer of the documentary “Organizing is the New Cool”. — Subscribe to this podcast:

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30:42

CA Sends $1.2m to Oakland for License Plate Readers...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/08/14

Governor Gavin Newsom has committed $1.2 million for automated license plate readers in Oakland. Joining us to discuss is Brian Hofer is the Executive Director of Secure Justice, a non-profit that advocates against state abuse of power, and for reduction in government and corporate over-reach. He has also been the Chair of Oakland’s Privacy Advisory Commission since 2016. — 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: YahNé Ndgo

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/08/13

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. This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is writer, singer, and organizer for Black freedom and the freedom of political prisoners,

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Celebrating Bay Area Hip Hop at 50 w/ Davey D, Anita...

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2023/08/10

Hip Hop is turning 50 and several Bay Area folks are being inducted into the Bay Area Hip Hop Archives. We are joined by three of the people being honored at the celebration event for the Archives, which will take place on Friday, August 11th at the Oakland Museum of California. Our guests are Davey D, a multi-media journalist, professor, hip-hop historian, dj, activist, speaker, and commentator with a long history of playing and reporting on hip hop. He is the veteran host of KPFA’s very own Hard

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15:56

Remembering the Black Veteran Murdered While...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/08/10

On August 13 1955, a Black WW1 war veteran named Lamar Smith was murdered on the steps of the Brookhaven MS courthouse in front of many witnesses as he tried to register Black people to vote. No one was ever brought to justice. Joining us to discuss is Roy L Smith, a nephew of Lamar Smith. Their family is planning an event in Lamar Smith’s honor on August 14th. — 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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