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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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13:30

State Terror Round Up for the week of September 5th,...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/09/08

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 do

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9:55

AB503 could limit youth probation in California – w/...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/09/07

And a spotlight on California’s Assembly Bill 503, which would limit the amount of time a minor could be placed on probation and remove the authority of the court to order minors to pay a fine or participate in an uncompensated work program in lieu of restitution. We’re joined by Analisa Ruiz, Policy Director at the Young Women’s Freedom Center, one of the organizations taking the lead in pushing Assembly Bill 503. Follow Young Women’s Freedom Center on Twitter:

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18:04

Bay Area Kaiser mental healthcare workers on strike...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/09/07

Kaiser mental healthcare workers – members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) – in the Bay Area, are on strike, in a labor action that started more than three weeks ago. We are joined by Jessica Dominguez, Founder and Lead Clinician of La Clínica in Richmond a program that provides culturally sensitive mental health care to Spanish speakers. It is the only program Kaiser offers that is targeted to Spanish speakers. Follow the NUHW on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NUHW/ Check out the

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30:23

Water crisis in Jackson, MS w/ Joshua Dedmond from...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/09/07

Today’s episode goes deep into the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, where water is no longer running from taps as a result of racist infrastructural failure. Our guest is Joshua Dedmond of Cooperation Jackson who is involved in coordinating emergency water response for residents. Follow Cooperation Jackson on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CooperationJXN Check out Cooperation Jackson’s website: https://cooperationjackson.org/ —- Subscribe to this podcast:

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61:27

Repurposing closed prisons and jails w/ Nicole Porter...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/09/06

From the 70s or 80s into the earlier 2000s, we saw the numbers of people locked up in prisons and jails increase, around the country. But since the first decade of the 2000s, the numbers of people being locked up have actually decreased nationally and also locally. One of the results is that prisons themselves have started to close nationwide, as they have more and more empty beds, empty cells. On today’s show, we take a look at what it means for imprisonment facilities to close – the impact on

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62:10

Colonial legacies of homophobia and racism w/ Robert...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/09/06

We spend this episode with Robert Jones Jr, who recently retired his well-known social media handle Son of Baldwin. He discusses his debut novel, The Prophets, which is about two men who are in love, enslaved on the same Mississippi plantation. We talk about how the relationship between colonialism, Western imperialism, and christian hegemony built up an intersectional anti-Black racist and homophobic culture that has been maintained until today. We also explore his Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis, how

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44:02

Artist Resistance in Residence: Tongo Eisen-Martin

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/09/06

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 San Francisco Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin. Follow Tongo Eisen-Martin on Twitter:

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36:12

FBI raids the Uhuru Movement – our guest is Uhuru...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/09/01

On July 29th, our guest Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party, was targeted in a multi-city FBI raid on several homes and offices of the Uhuru Movement. On September 13th, Yeshitela will return to the Uhuru House in Oakland for the first time since the pandemic, to speak at the “Days of Reparations to African People” event. Yeshitela leads the Uhuru Movement with active branches and black community economic development institutions throughout the US, in Africa and in

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9:10

State Terror Round Up for the week of August 29th, 2022

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/09/01

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 we

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34:02

Samora Pinderhughes on The Healing Project @ YBCA and...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/08/31

Berkeley-raised, Julliard-trained pianist Samora Abayomi Pinderhughes has designed and curated an exhibit at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts entitled The Healing Project. Fundamentally an abolitionist project, The Healing Project explores particularly the prison industrial complex through music, visual arts, film, a digital library of audio interviews. The works are rooted in interviews and relationships that Pinderhughes has fostered since 2011 and have been formed by over 100 storytelling and

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45:32

Legacy of the Freedom Rides w/ David Dennis Jr

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/08/31

In this episode, we dive into the legacy of the Freedom Rides with David Dennis Jr, son of legendary civil rights activist and organizer David Dennis Sr. Together, they’ve collaborated on a book called The Movement Made Us – looking not only at the life of David Dennis Sr, chronicling everything from his first freedom ride to his first meeting with Dr Martin Luther King Jr, to the birth of Freedom Summer, but also the mental, emotional, and spiritual impact of those times on Dennis Sr and his

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62:06

W. Kamau Bell wants you to “do the work” of anti-racism

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/08/30

He’s a comedian, a television host, a political pundit, an advocate, a husband, a daddy and Cat Brooks gets to call him her friend. Today’s show is in conversation with W. Kamau Bell about his new book which he co-authored with Kate Schatz: Do the Work! An Anti-Racist Activity Book. We also talk about his CNN show United Shades of America, plus, we have some good and fun conversation about politics and policies. Follow W. Kamau Bell on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wkamaubell Check out his new book:

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17:45

Inedible food in Virginia women’s prison w/ Elizabeth...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/08/29

Reports from inside Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women (FCCW) – a women’s jail in Virginia – show that the food prisoners are receiving is spoiled and moldy, leading to calls from elected officials for a deeper investigation and change. We are joined by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, senior reporter for The Appeal, a worker-led nonprofit news organization. She writes on prison and jail conditions, and wrongful convictions, and she has been deep in the exposure of poor treatment and food access at

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37:51

Mexico’s former Atty General arrested in...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/08/29

On September 26, 2014, students from a rural teachers college in Ayotzinapa, a town in the Mexican state of Guerrero, were disappeared by state actors and police. Forty-three students completely vanished, igniting years of national protest. Now, the country’s former Attorney General – long thought complicit in the coverup – has been arrested, reopening wounds and more investigations. We speak with John Gibler, an independent journalist that has been covering this tragedy since the beginning. He is

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17:03

MACRO: Oakland’s non-police 911 response w/ program...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/08/26

A grassroots movement has pushed to the surface that law enforcement should not be the first or primary response to mental health crisis — and the movement is winning the public debate. On this episode, a dive into Oakland’s Mobile Assistance Community Responders of Oakland (MACRO) Program — a community response program for non-violent, non-emergency 911 calls. The intention of MACRO is to meet the needs of the community with a compassionate care first response model grounded in empathy, service,

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33:28

Artist Resistance in Residence: Ryan Nicole

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/08/26

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 Residence in Resistance is Ryan Nicole. In her own words, she is an artist, actress, activist, athlete, wife,

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6:57

Letters from the Inside – from Corcoran State Prison...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/08/25

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 first segment of Letters from the Inside. This letter comes from Corcoran State Prison. 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

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20:30

Rare look into police shooting investigations: The...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/08/25

John Albers of Overland Park Kansas was just 17 years old when he announced on social media that he was suicidal. Concerned friends called the police. But instead of receiving help, Albers was shot 17 times by Officer Clayton Jenison. The Washington Post conducted a deep dive investigation of his murder and provided it to five law enforcement experts. Here to discuss is Tom Jackman – a pulitzer prize winning journalist who has covered police, crime and courts for The Washington Post since 1998, and

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11:30

State Terror Round Up for the week of August 22nd, 2022

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/08/25

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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25:33

All violence is state violence – Sikander Iqbal from...

KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks ·

2022/08/24

We continue our ongoing conversation exploring how all violence is state violence, in conversation with Sikander Iqbal, Deputy Director of Urban Peace Movement, an Oakland-based organization that builds youth leadership to transform the culture and social conditions that lead to community violence and mass incarceration in communities of color. Urban Peace Movement: https://urbanpeacemovement.org/ Follow UPM on Twitter: https://twitter.com/urbanpeace … Subscribe to this

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