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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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56:40

Potential for armed intervention in Haiti w/ Mamyrah...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/10/24

Haiti is in ever-increasing crisis with fuel ports blocked by local gang leaders, escalating levels of violence including the sexual assault of girls, women and, elders and a widespread cholera outbreak. In this episode we discuss the state of things as well as the path forward and why the potential UN/US intervention may not be the way to go … again. We are joined by Mamyrah Dougé-Prosper, professor of global and international studies at University of California, Irvine. She specializes in research

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30:51

Artist Resistance in Residence: Lauren Wheeler

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/10/21

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 Artist Resistance in Residence is Oakland-based poet and author Lauren Wheeler. Lauren has a new book of poetry out on

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32:18

Oct 22nd is National Police Brutality Awareness Day

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/10/20

Saturday, October 22 is National Police Brutality Awareness Day so we are highlighting three local Bay Area families who have lost loved ones to police violence, who are using their grief as fuel to organize for a safer communities. We start with Taun Hall, mother of Miles Hall who was shot and killed by the Walnut Creek Police Department in the middle of a mental health crisis in 2019. Then we move to Michelle and Ashley Monterosa, sisters of then-22-year-old Sean Monterosa who was shot and killed

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15:11

Oakland PD’s potential shotgun-armed robot w/ Sam Biddle

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/10/20

The Oakland Police Department was outed earlier this week for requesting to acquire a robot armed with a shotgun – a weapon that they said would generally be loaded with blank ammunition, but that they would consider using with regular shotgun shells should they desire. Since the story was covered by The Intercept, the Oakland Police Department has said that they are no longer pursuing the acquisition at this time, but the reporter who covered the story initially has worries about the department’s

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13:10

State Terror Round Up for the week of October 17th, 2022

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/10/20

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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54:28

Focus on LA politics – racism at the city council and...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/10/19

We spend this episode talking Los Angeles politics with Dr. Melina Abdullah, professor and chair of pan-African studies at Cal State Los Angeles, and founder and director of BLM Grassroots – not to be confused with the BLM Global Foundation. They are dealing with the fallout from racist comments made by sitting city council members, a heated mayoral race, a sheriff who has condoned gangs in his agency and an ongoing lawsuit. Follow Dr Melina Abdullah on Twitter:

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85:37

Creative Interventions into Interpersonal & Domestic...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/10/18

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and we’re going to spend some time throughout the rest of the month exploring community responses to domestic or interpersonal violence. On today’s episode we talk with Mimi Kim, founder of Creative Interventions and co-founder of INCITE! She has been a long-time activist, advocate and researcher challenging gender-based violence at its intersection with state violence and creating community accountability, transformative justice and other

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61:52

Oakland’s Mayoral Race w/ Walter Riley + James Burch

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/10/17

It is election time and the mayoral race in Oakland is full of folks hopeful to lead the city. We spend this episode taking a look at the platforms of the candidates with two of The Town’s most forward-facing activists and advocates. We’re joined by Walter Riley, a Civil Rights activist since the civil rights movement, who worked alongside Malcolm X and others before moving to the Bay Area in 1965, where he supported the Third World Liberation strikes at SF State in 1968 that led to the beginning of

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33:09

Artist Resistance in Residence: Stephanie Johnson

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/10/14

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 Artist Resistance in Residence is lighting designer and mixed-media artist Stephanie Anne Johnson. Check out Stephanie’s

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8:23

New documentary on Fantastic Negrito w/ director Yvan...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/10/13

There is a new film out about Oakland’s own – the legendary Fantastic Negrito; and you can check it out this weekend in Berkeley or Marin as part of the film’s premiere in the Mill Valley Film Festival. Were joined by the films co-director Yvan Iturriaga. Yvan Iturriaga is an Oakland-based director and writer who spent his childhood border crossing through Latin America, living in the extended Chilean exile community. He co-founded Offsides production company and filmed the original web series The

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18:15

SF Mayor’s Latest Scandal w/ Journalist Tim Redmond +...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/10/13

We take a look at San Francisco’s ongoing political scandal, where Mayor London Breed’s office has apparently forced appointees in all kinds of positions to submit undated resignation letters at the time of their appointment. We speak with Tim Redmond, founder of 48 hills (https://48hills.org/). Tim has been a political and investigative reporter in San Francisco for more than 30 years. He spent much of that time as executive editor of the Bay Guardian. We also speak with Tim Redmond about the

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12:27

Bay Area officers under investigation for failed...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/10/13

After an internal audit of the Alameda Sheriffs Department revealed that 47 officers had failed a psychological exam that should have prevented them from being hired – the state entity Police Officer Standards and Training or POST is now leading an audit on the psychological exams of hundreds of law enforcement officers in San Francisco. We speak with Jonah Owen Lamb, Senior Reporter at the San Francisco Standard Follow Jonah Owen Lamb on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jonahowenlamb Follow Jonah Owen

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State Terror Round Up for the week of October 10th, 2022

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/10/13

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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53:54

Alameda Co DA Candidates – w/ Terry Wiley and Pamela...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/10/12

In this episode, we take a direct look at one of the most important elections coming up in Alameda County this November 8th – We’ll be in conversation with the two candidates running for the District Attorneys office – that’s Terry Wiley and Pamela Price – who are vying in a runoff election for a position that has an incredible power to impact how laws are enforced and who is charged and imprisoned for breaking them. Law & Disorder is not endorsing any candidate. We have both candidates on as

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49:44

Exploring The Edge of Being w/ author and actor James...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/10/11

On today’s episode – a bit of politics, a tinge of history, a dab of fiction, and a whole lot of love. We’re in conversation with actor, producer, and bestselling author James Brandon about his new book The Edge of Being – a story about being young, queer, and searching for the role of fathers and identity. The book is a tender and heartfelt queer young adult novel about the multiplicities of grief, deeply held family secrets, and finding new love – within the political context of San Francisco’s

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13:45

State Terror Round Up for the week of October 3rd, 2022

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/10/06

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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47:35

African Foodways and The Wakanda Cookbook w/ Nyanyika...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/10/03

On this episode, we speak with Nyanyika Banda, the cook and creative mind behind The Wakanda Cookbook – a cookbook for the Marvel universe that builds out of expertise in culinary traditions from all over the African continent. Nyanyika is a Malawian-American chef, writer, and entrepreneur. She designed her history and writing degrees around African Foodways and has been a scholar of the topic ever since. Nyanyika Banda teaches Culinary Arts at Holyoke Community College and continues to freelance,

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Letters from the Inside – Sept 30, 2022

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/09/30

We encourage our brothers and sisters on the other side of the wall to write in to our show. Occasionally we read those letters on the air. This is our third segment of Letters from the Inside. —- This episode features music by Michael Louis: https://www.instagram.com/tigers_view 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 Letters

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19:18

School shooting in Oakland w/ school safety...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/09/29

Six people were shot at Sojournor Truth Independent Study high school in East Oakland on Wednesday, September 28th. As of this reporting, two of the victims are reportedly in critical condition at Highland Hospital, and the other four are in stable condition. When intense violence happens in our neighborhoods, we can’t just pass it by. Yesterday, 6 people were shot at an East Oakland high school campus. Our guest in this episode is Jose Garcia, the Safety Specialist at Rudsdale High School and the

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State Terror Round Up for the week of September 26th,...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/09/29

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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