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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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24:58

Antioch’s New Non-Police Emergency Response w/...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/05/11

In this episode, we place Antioch’s new proposal for a non-police 911 emergency response program in conversation with a similar program in Oakland, called MACRO. We’re joined by Antioch City Councilmember Tamisha Torres-Walker, as well as Elliott Jones, the program coordinator for Oakland’s MACRO non-police 911 emergency response program. —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on

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Alameda Co DA Pamela Price Reflects on First 100 Days

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/05/08

Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price joins us for this hour to reflect on her first 100 days in office, and then to take questions from listener call-ins. —- 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 Alameda Co DA Pamela Price Reflects on First 100 Days appeared first on KPFA.

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Black FedEx Driver Chased and Shot by White...

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2023/05/04

In this episode we go to Mississippi to talk with D’Monterrio Gibson, a 24-year old Black FedEx driver who was chased and shot by a white father and son in January of 2022 in Brookhaven, Mississippi, about 55 miles south of Jackson. The shooters have a court date on Monday, May 8th. We’re also joined by D’Monterrio Gibson’s mother, Sharon McClendon. —- 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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32:09

Oakland Teachers Begin Strike w/ Sayuri Valenza &...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/05/04

The Oakland Education Association – Oakland’s teachers union – is on strike as of Thursday, May 4th. We speak with two Oakland teachers from the picket lines about why they’re striking, what they need in their contract, and how the strike might impact families, along with a parent activist whose children are OUSD students. Joining us to discuss are Sayuri Valenza is 19-year veteran teacher who has taught in the Special Ed department at Oakland’s Brett Harte Middle School for 10 years, and Pecolia

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Critical Resistance Celebrates 25 Years of Abolition...

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2023/05/03

Twenty-five years ago, in 1998, abolitionist organizers held a conference at UC Berkeley called Critical Resistance to 25-years since the founding of Critical Resistance, an event that led to the creation of the seminal abolitionist movement organization. We’re joined by Mohamed Shehk, National Campaigns & Projects Director with Critical Resistance, to discuss the organization’s history and give us a peak into their 25th anniverary celebration event on Friday, May 5th. More info on Critical

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20:22

SF Walgreens Security Kills Black Trans Youth w/...

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2023/05/03

Last week in San Francisco, a Walgreens security guard shot and killed 24-year-old Black trans-man Banko Brown over allegations of stealing. San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has decided against pressing charges in the killing. Brown was a long-time member of the Young Women’s Freedom Center – we’re joined by Julia Arroyo, Co-Executive Director of YMFC. Check out the Young Women’s Freedom Center website: https://youngwomenfree.org/ Link to the fundraiser for Banko Brown’s family:

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22:19

Legal Representation Not Guaranteed to Youth in CPS...

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2023/05/03

A new report from the National Association of Counsel for Children (NACC) finds that kids in the child welfare system aren’t guaranteed legal representation in a dozen states. We are joined by Kim Dvorchak, Executive Director of NACC, and a former defense attorney who represented children in the foster system. Kim joins us from Denver. Check out NACC’s report: https://counselforkids.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/C4K-PolicyPaper-FINAL-DIGITAL-2.pdf —- Subscribe to this podcast:

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10:21

SF Official Bear-Sprays Homeless Neighbors w/...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/05/02

In San Francisco, a city official has on numerous occasions attacked homeless people, and the story only came out after one of the people he attacked hit back in self defense. Joining us to discuss is Jennifer Friedenbach, Executive Director of the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness. —- 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

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18:47

Sierras Snowmelt Stokes Fears of Floods in Central...

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2023/05/02

Sierra snowmelt is threatening significant floods in a Central Valley county that houses a prison and massive agricultural industry, which are all at risk from the flood threat. The current levee system in Corcoran is not up to par, and unease is setting in as fears of flooding could bring intense impacts to communities. Joining us to discuss is Kurtis Alexander, a reporter for The San Francisco Chronicle, where he frequently writes about water, impacts of drought, threats to public lands and

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Oakland Mayor Proposes New Budget w/ Rev Jeremy...

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2023/05/02

Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao has released her first budget plan for the city. Joining us to discuss is Rev. Jeremy J. McCants, a Faith Rooted Organizer for East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE), an organization committed to fighting for equitable and economic power in the Bay Area; as well as a minister at the historic Allen Temple Baptist Church in Oakland. Also joining the conversation is James Burch, Policy Director for the Anti Police-Terror Project, an organization that seeks to end

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55:33

Chain Gang All Stars: A Possible Future of the...

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2023/05/01

On today’s show, we’re in conversation with award winning author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah about his brand new book Chain Gang All Stars, a novel imagining a near-future where the prison industrial complex has developed a gruesome and widely popular reality show where prisoners are pitted against each other in gladiator death matches. We talk about the story, but also about how readers can use it to imagine an abolitionist future. Chain Gang All Stars will be released on May 2nd. Nana Kwame

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Resistance in Residence Artist: Tama Brisbane

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2023/04/30

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 Stockton Poet Laureate Tama Brisbane. Follow Tama Brisbane on Instagram:

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12:52

CA Cops Exploit Legal Gray Areas of Cannabis...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/04/28

The complicated legal areas of marijuana legal enforcement in California – we speak with Kate Mishkin, a Los Angeles-based audio producer, journalist, and writer, about her latest piece, published by The Appeal: How California Cops Exploit Legal Gray Areas to Continue Their War on Cannabis. Read Kate Mishkin’s latest article: https://theappeal.org/california-marijuana-cannabis-enforcement-policing/ Check out Kate Mishkin’s website: https://www.katemishkin.com/ —- Subscribe to this podcast:

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Women Sentenced to Death by Incarceration in PA w/...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/04/27

A new report highlights the experiences those sentenced to death by incarceration in Pennsylvania’s women’s prisons. Joining to discuss her article about it as well as a previous recent report on the ways in which prisons use menstruation as a form of punishment, is Victoria Law, is a freelance journalist and the author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women (2012) and “Prisons Make Us Safer”: And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration (2021). She also co-authored the book

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State Terror Round Up for the week of April 24th, 2023

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/04/27

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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29:50

SF Hotels for Homeless Aided Healthcare of Recipients...

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2023/04/25

A San Francisco study shows that the City’s covid-focused policy to house homeless folks in hotels helped those folks access more primary healthcare with fewer emergency room needs, and also helped get access to longer term housing. Our guests are Dr Elizabeth Abbs, one of the authors of the study, who is a primary care doctor at Tom Waddell Urban Health Center in the Tenderloin; along with Chuqin Jiang, is a data reporter with San Francisco-based independent newsroom Mission Local. Read Chuqin

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NY #MeToo Law Allows Incarcerated Women to Report...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/04/24

A new New York law temporarily removes the statute of limitations on sexual assault. Women incarcerated in New York prisons are taking advantage of it to bravely report sexual assault in the state’s prisons. We speak with Molly Hagan, a writer and photographer in New York, whose latest piece for The Appeal is called New York’s Imprisoned Women Brave Risks to Sue Sexual Abusers Under New Law. Read the report for The Appeal here: https://theappeal.org/new-york-adult-survivors-act-women-prisons/ Follow

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Nova Scotia Report: Police Should be ‘Secondary’ in...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/04/24

A new official report from Nova Scotia, commissioned after a 2020 mass shooting, that suggests that police should become “secondary” in some emergency response situations, and that emergency mental healthcare needs to lead the way in the process of defunding the police. We are joined by El Jones is a poet, journalist, academic, and abolitionist who lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. El was the lead author of the 2022 report, Defunding the Police: Defining the Way Forward for Halifax. She was also

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Resistance in Residence Artist: Randolph Belle

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/04/23

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 Randolph Bell. Check out Randolph Belle’s website:

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BLM Organizer Headed to Trial in Kalamazoo w/ Monica...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/04/20

In this episode we turn our attention to Kalamazoo, Michigan, where a movement organizer is headed to trial for defending the people. We are joined this morning by Monica Washington-Padula, an Afro-Native (Ojibwe), and movement organizer mobilizing in Black and Native communities. She is a mother of five and a professional multi-instrumentalist musician. Monica is being charged with 4 felonies and a misdemeanor for what police describe as assaulting two officers. —- Subscribe to this podcast:

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