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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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34:29

Atlanta Defunds Shelters While Bankrolling Cop City...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/06/16

The Cop City project has become a national flashpoint for the struggle against police excesses and the underfunding of social programs and organizations. In this episode we go deeper into some of the background behind Cop City, and what it means for the city of Atlanta to make these funding choices, at the expense of defunding social programs. Our guest is Ariana Brazier, a Black queer feminist mom who wrote her doctoral dissertation on the intersections of housing insecurity and the ways that Black

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20:25

SF Paid $70m for Police-Related Civil Settlements w/...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/06/15

Local non-profit news site Mission Local has published a 2-part investigative report this week on civil settlements involving San Francisco law enforcement that has cost taxpayers roughly $70 million dollars since 2010. We’re joined by Will Jarret, Mission Local’s data reporter and lead investigator on the two-part series titled: “$70 million dollars in SF law enforcement settlements” and ‘Some SFPD cops appear in civil court again and again.” Follow Mission Local’s reporting on SF’s civil payouts:

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9:49

State Terror Round Up for the week of June 12th, 2023

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/06/15

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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52:25

Uganda’s Extreme Homophobic Law Includes Death...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/06/14

It is pride month, and we’re spending intentional time this month – as we do every month – tracking movement for queer liberation and the processes that try to muzzle the rights of our queer families. In this episode we look at a homophobic legislative process going on in Uganda, a country where the law has leaned increasingly conservative. Most recently, in a law backed by the Ugandan president that went into effect last month, people who are convicted of homosexual acts could be executed or

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66:23

Appalachian Roadside Theater Tackles Democracy...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/06/13

Roadside Theater is a professional ensemble of storytellers and theater makers hailing from the mountains of central Appalachia. In its decades since its founding in 1975, the ensemble has taken on the task of people’s theater, engaging social issues and abandoning the ‘fourth wall’ concept in order to bring audiences into the process of cultural production. Roadside Theater reflects Appalachian culture, but it has also worked over decades to build theater in solidarity with social struggles across

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57:42

Imperfect Victims: Criminalization of Survivors of...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/06/12

Criminalization of gender-based violence was meant to protect victims of violence. But greater state intervention in cases of intimate partner violence, rape, sexual assault, and trafficking has led to the arrest, prosecution, conviction, and incarceration of those victims—the criminalization of survival. Victims of violence are regularly punished by the criminal legal system. Our guest, Leigh Goodmark, argues that only dismantling the system will bring that punishment to an end. Leigh Goodmark is

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39:34

Resistance in Residence Artist: Naru Kwina

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/06/11

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 Rapper, Hip hop scientist, performer, teacher, and creator of Hip Learning, Naru Kwina

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20:44

Forced Psychiatric Detention Grows Alongside 988 w/...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/06/08

Almost 11 months ago, the phone number 988 launched as a new crisis number, available to all US landline and cell phone users, that accesses over 200 local and state funded crisis centers. The number is meant to be an easy-to-remember way to access mental health support. It also wraps in the former 10-digit role of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. With a shorter and easier-to-remember phone number, call volume has increased dramatically as compared to the National Suicide Prevention

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23:54

Asylum Seekers Need Better Supports as Texas Traffics...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/06/08

Over the past week, dozens of people seeking asylum, who reached US in the southern area of Texas, were flown to Sacramento, in what critics – including Gavin Newsom – have called a political stunt, led by Florida governor Ron DeSantis, as the latter tries to build energy into his Republican presidential campaign. Florida’s Division of Emergency Management has stated that they were involved in the transfer of asylum seekers – it’s an interesting role to play, given that these people were in Texas,

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11:59

State Terror Round Up for the week of June 5th, 2023

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/06/08

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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20:04

Minnesota’s Office of Missing and Murdered Black...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/06/07

***This segment is part of a special this week on the crisis of missing and murdered Black women and girls*** Minnesota has created the first of-its-kind Office of Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls. We’ll speak with Representative Ruth Richardson, is the Minnesota State Representative who authored the initial bill to create the state’s “Office of Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls”. We’re also joined by Lakeisha Lee, an advocate in Minnesota for missing and murdered Black women and

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34:21

Kidnapping of Black Girls in Oakland for the...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/06/07

***This segment is part of a special this week on the crisis of missing and murdered Black women and girls*** In this episode, we bring our focus on missing and murdered Black women and girls home to Oakland, in conversation with Selena Wilson, the executive director of the East Oakland Youth Development Center, whose mission is to develop the social and leadership capacities of youth and young adults (ages 5-24) so that they achieve excellence in education, career, and service to their communities

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21:48

‘Ebony Alert’ Bill Aims for Defense of Missing Black...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/06/06

***This segment is part of a special this week on the crisis of missing and murdered Black women and girls*** Legislation is moving through the California legislature to create an “Ebony Alert”. With a similar concept to the Amber Alert, an Ebony Alert gives particular emergency focus to the disproportionate disappearances of Black women and girls in the state. We’re joined by Aisha Wahab, the California state senator representing the 10th District, which runs from Hayward and Union City south to

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25:44

FBI Raids Stop-Cop-City Supporters in Atlanta w/ Aja...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/06/06

In Atlanta, a joint operation with the Atlanta police department and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation raided and arrested folks involved in solidarity fundraising for people arrested in the Stop Cop City protests. Our guest is Aja Arnold, an Atlanta-based journalist and founding editor of local outlet Mainline. Her reporting on Atlanta’s Cop City project has been featured in The Intercept, Vice, and The Appeal – where her latest is titled: Atlanta Police Target Bail Fund Organizers in Latest

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32:15

It’s Grad Season – Resources for Graduates and Their...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/06/05

It’s graduation season, and so we spend the next segment of our show answering your questions about how best to support your kids in this next phase of their lives. We are joined by Wendy Snyder, a college and career counselor at the Oakland School of the Arts, where she monitors student progress and works closely in the college application process with students and families as they approach graduation. The resources mentioned by Wendy are listed below. Resources for High School graduates: Oakland

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21:35

Suspending the Federal Debt Ceiling w/ John Nichols

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/06/05

President Joe Biden signed a bill over the weekend that suspends the US government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling with a package he says prevents the financial sky from falling but progressive democrats say weight of the plan falls heavily on the shoulders of americas most vulnerable populations and the planet. We are joined by John Nichols, National Affairs Correspondent for the Nation, who has been focused on the debt ceiling conversation – his latest piece is Here’s Why Principled Progressives

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29:47

Resistance in Residence Artist: Jeuneé Simon

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/06/05

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 actor, director, and intimacy choreographer Jeuneé Simon. Listen to our full length

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24:10

Felony Murder Law Imprisons Friends of Victim in...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/06/02

We continue to lift up the case of Jacob Harris who was murdered by the Phoenix Police Department four years ago at age 19, as he ran away from them. But Jacob and his family were not the only victims in this tragedy. Jacob’s friends, Johnny Reed and Jeremiah Triplett were in the car with him, witnessed their friend being killed by the police, and then were arrested, charged, and convicted for the murder of their friend under a Felony Murder law, which gives prosecutors the ability to charge people

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22:17

Contra Costa Co Overcharges Black People w/ PD Evan...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/06/01

Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge David Goldstein ruled on May 23rd that prosecutors have disproportionately charged Black defendants with sentencing enhancements that unfairly target them for life in prison without parole – at about a 40% greater likelihood than non-Black defendants. This court case legally acknowledges what we’ve long-known – that Black people are given heavier charges than others. Joining us to discuss is Evan Kuluk, a deputy public defender with the Contra Contra Costa

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State Terror Round Up for the week of May 29th, 2023

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/06/01

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 do

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