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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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15:43

16-Year-Old Shot for Being Black and Ringing a...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/04/20

In Kansas City, Black 16-year old Ralph Yarl was shot twice by a white homeowner last week, through a glass door, after ringing the doorbell at the wrong address while trying to pick up his younger siblings. After stalling on the part of prosecutors, the white and elderly shooter was arrested after an eruption of protest in Kansas City streets. Joining us to discuss is Justice Gatson, founder and director of the Reale Justice Network in Kansas City, Missouri. She is also a writer, organizer,

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State Terror Round Up for the week of April 17th, 2023

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/04/20

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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26:54

Grassroots Work to Undo The Harm of Incarcerating...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/04/19

An Ella Baker Center for Human Rights’ 2020 study found that people of color accounted for 99% of the youth under probation supervision in Alameda County. Youth who become entangled in the criminal legal system often find themselves stuck in a web of carceral violence for the rest of their lives. That report also found that Black youth in Oakland were 113 times more likely than white youth to be criminalized and arrested. Joining us to discuss some of those efforts are Jasmine Frye the Director of

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22:14

Oakland Teachers Vote On Strike Authorization w/...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/04/19

This week, Oakland teachers are voting on a strike authorization amid stalled contract negotiations. Joining us to discuss is Kampala Taiz-Rancifer, is the Vice President of the Oakland Education Association and a founding member of the Black Women’s Caucus. The Oakland Education Association represents nearly 3,000 K-12 teachers, Counselors, Psychologists, Social Workers, Speech Pathologists, Early Childhood Educators, Nurses, Adult Education Teachers, and Teacher Substitutes. —- Subscribe to this

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14:10

Oakland Council Moves Forward to Sunset Eviction...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/04/18

On Tuesday evening, April 18th, the plan to phase out the COVID 19 eviction moratorium will be presented to Oakland’s City Council. The proposal is being put forth by Councilmember Nikki Fortunado-Bas and Councilmember Dan Kalb, and it went to the Community and Economic Development Committee last week where, despite a very raucous meeting, it garnered enough committee member votes to move forward – with some amendments. Joining us to discuss are Councilmember Nikki Fortunado-Bas who represents

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25:52

Tackling Hate Against Our AAPI Communities w/ Tony D,...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/04/18

Three AAPI led organizations here in the bay area have launched a new campaign tackling hate against the AAPI community. We are joined by Tony D., Executive Director of Youth Together; along with Mike Cheng, Deputy Director of Asian Prisoner Support Committee; and Nicole Lee, Executive Director of Urban Peace Movement. —- 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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17:00

Antioch Police Texting Scandal Gets Worse w/ Frank...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/04/18

The Antioch police texting scandal just gets worse and worse – what started off as 17 police officers in the 90-person department being accused of sending racist and homophobic messages has now surged to upwards of 50 officers – or 40% of the department – said to have been involved. Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe, a Black man, has called for an audit of the departments internal affairs department, as well as a review of the hiring and promotion policies in the department. We speak with KPFA

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Resistance in Residence Artist: Hodari Davis

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/04/16

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 educator, entrepreneur, poet, and filmmaker Hodari Davis. Follow Hodari Davis on

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41:04

First Ever Charges Against Officers for Louisiana...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/04/13

Louisiana has for the first time ever filed charges against police for killing someone – in this case, that’s Ronald Greene. We are joined by Mona Hardin, the mother of Ronald Greene. She has been fighting to unearth truth and for justice in the name of her son since 2019. She just made it back to her home in Orlando, Florida after an 11 hour drive from Farmerville, Louisiana, where she was present for the arraignment of the 5 Louisiana state troopers responsible for the death of her son, Ronald

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14:07

State Terror Round Up for the week of April 10th, 2023

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/04/13

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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13:20

London Breed “Goes All In” on Police Spending w/ Tim...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/04/12

SF Mayor London Breed has gone all in on funding the cops, asking for many millions for more police overtime, for significant raises, benefits and bonuses, and is now under fire for minimizing the funds that she’s asking for from the SF Board of Supervisors for policing – a situation where she vocally requested $82 million, but her if approved that paperwork would give $166 million over three years. We speak with Tim Redmond, founder of San Francisco-focused independent news site 48hills. Tim

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13:41

SF Mayor Falls Flat on Non-Carceral Emergency...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/04/12

In San Francisco, London Breed flip flops again – when non-carceral response to mental health crisis was dominating the headlines she vowed the city would lead with such programming, but now while at the same time fighting for more police funding, she is refusing to support alternative responses to community crisis. Joining us to discuss is Jennifer Friedenbach, Executive Director of the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness. Check out the Coalition on Homelessness‘ website:

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24:36

LA Sues Watchdog Group For Publishing Public Records...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/04/12

We start today’s show in Los Angeles, where the City and its police department are upset that a police watchdog group called Stop LAPD Spying Coalition has released public records of individual LAPD officers including their headshots and salaries, and are now suing even though they are the ones who initially released the photos. Joining us is Hamid Khan, Coordinator and Organizer with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition. Check out the public records discussed: https://watchthewatchers.net/ Check out the

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10:56

Wood Street Residents on the Defensive w/ Talya...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/04/11

On Monday (April 10th), Wood Street residents in Oakland, with the help of allies, started yet another campaign to defend their home from an eviction by the city of Oakland. Joining us to discuss is Talya Husbands-Hankin, known to many as ‘Boots’, is the founder of Love and Justice in the Streets, along with Brigitte Nicoletti, a staff attorney with the East Bay Community Law Center. —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow

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29:47

Chicago’s New Progressive Mayor w/ Tiffany Waldon

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/04/11

We kick off today’s show with the Progressive political upset in Chicago. The Windy City has a new mayor, Brandon Johnson, and he’s a labor candidate. One of his primary campaign platforms was Reimagine Public Safety. Here to talk about Mayor Johnson, his campaign, and what this may mean for Chicago is Tiffany Walden, Editor-In-Chief of The Tribe, an independent digital media platform based in Chicago. Read Tiffany Waldon’s latest for The Tribe:

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33:43

Idaho Restricts Travel for Minors Seeking Abortion;...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/04/10

In today’s episode, we discuss the new state law passed in Idaho last week, which restricts travel for minors seeking abortion. The legislation creates a new crime of “abortion trafficking,” which carries a felony offense punishable by up to 5 years in prison. Our guest is Jessica Mason Pieklo, Senior Vice President and Executive Editor of Rewire News Group. She also co-hosts the podcast Boom! Lawyered, which covered an earlier version of the legislation when it was poised to pass. “When we

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26:08

Resistance in Residence Artist: Adamu Chan

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/04/09

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 filmmaker, writer and storyteller Adamu Chan. His film, What These Walls Won’t Hold,

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59:43

Unheralded Leaders of the Black Power Movement w/...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/04/06

The Black Power movement, often associated with its iconic spokesmen, derived much of its energy from the work of people whose stories have never been told. Stayed On Freedom brings into focus two unheralded Black Power activists who dedicated their lives to the fight for freedom. Zoharah Simmons and Michael Simmons fell in love while organizing tenants and workers in the South. Their commitment to each other and to social change took them on a decades-long journey that traversed first the country

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66:54

The Conservative Alliance Between India and Israel w/...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/04/05

Growing conservatism among religious nationalist movements is threatening people without political power across borders. On today’s episode, we look at the colonial, military and political connections between India and its conservative Hindutva movement, and Israel’s zionist movement. The lands of both these countries were British colonies, and their political development since formal colonial times have included religious and ethnic partitions and borders – with Palestine on the one side and

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65:09

Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party w/...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2023/04/04

We spend this hour with legendary former political prisoner and civil rights icon, famed for her leadership and education work with the Black Panther Party – Ericka Huggins, who recently released a new book along with Stephen Shames: Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party. “This stunning collection of historical photographs, complimented by contemporary conversations with women members of the Black Panther Party, reminds us that women were literally the heart of this new political

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