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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March 30, 2023 • 28 min
In today’s episode, we go to London, where a new report commissioned by the government has exposed deeply entrenched misogyny, racism and homophobia in the Metropolitan Police Force. The report was spawned from the conviction of an officer for the rape and murder of a 33-year old woman, and the report shows horrendous failures of public safety, from careless treatment of evidence in rape cases, to officers neglecting to file report...
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March 30, 2023 • 11 min
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 can...
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March 29, 2023 • 21 min
In this episode we take a look at how the latest Bay Area storms are impacting our unhoused neighbors with Talya Husbands-Hankin, who is known to many as ‘Boots’ and is the founder of Love and Justice in the Streets.
Check out the Love and Justice in the Streets website: https://www.loveandjusticeinthestreets.com/
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March 29, 2023 • 24 min
In this episode, we focus on our neighbors without secure housing as covid-oriented eviction protections begin to dissolve. Our guest is Leah Simon-Weisberg, Legal Director of The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) Action. ACCE is a grassroots, member-led, statewide community organization working with more than 15,000 members across California.
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March 28, 2023 • 21 min
Oak Flat is a sacred Apache site in the land now known as Arizona, where President Joe Biden’s team has used courts to move forward a mining plan on the sacred site that would obliterate it. We’re joined by Dr Wendsler Nosie Sr, the former Apache tribal chairman and founder of activist organization Apache Stronghold in Arizona. Apache Stronghold is an organization dedicated to battling continued colonization, to defend Holy sites ...
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A new bill could make California the first state to outlaw caste-based bias, a safeguard for people of South Asian descent, to build protection from discrimination in areas like housing and education. We’re joined by the sponsor of the bill, Aisha Wahab, the California state senator representing the 10th District, which runs from Hayward and Union City south to Sunnyvale and Santa Clara. We’re also joined by Thenmozhi Soundararajan...
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March 27, 2023 • 57 min
Four hundred and eighty-three anti-trans bills have been introduced in legislatures across the country in an attempt to restrict medical access and public expression in what some advocates say is an attempt to erase trans existence from public life. We start this hour with a round up the legislative attacks on our transgender community members around the nation with Adam Rhodes, a queer, first-generation Cuban American journalist w...
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March 26, 2023 • 31 min
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 award-winning scho...
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We go to Modesto, where families impacted by killings by police are organizing together. We’re joined by Darlene Ruiz, the mother of Trevor Seever who was killed by Modesto police on December 29, 2020. We’re also joined by Brittoni Estrella-Chavez, wife of Paul Chavez Jr who was killed by Modesto police on July 14, 2022.
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March 23, 2023 • 32 min
In this episode, we go to Phoenix, where, after Jacob Harris was killed by police, his friends were charged with his murder. We’re joined by Roland Harris, Jacob’s father, along with Meg O’Connor, an award-winning Senior Reporter for The Appeal, covering police, prosecutors, and the criminal legal system. Her latest piece is titled: Police Killed his Son – Prosecutors Charged the Teen’s Friends with his Murder.
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March 23, 2023 • 10 min
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 can...
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March 22, 2023 • 23 min
In this episode we go to Los Angeles, where school staff are striking and schools are shut down. The Service Employees International Union, Local 99, which represents about 30,000 teachers’ aides, special education assistants, bus drivers, custodians, cafeteria workers, special education assistants and other support staff, walked out amid stalled contract talks on Tuesday, March 21st, for a 3-day strike. SEIU Local 99 members voted...
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March 22, 2023 • 24 min
A new legislative session is upon us in California, so, we spend some time walking through just a few of the more progressive bills folks will be pushing. Joining me to discuss is Eric Morrison-Smith, the Executive Director for the Alliance for Boys and Men of Color, a national network of community and advocacy organizations coming together to advance race and gender justice by transforming policies that are failing boys and men of...
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March 21, 2023 • 19 min
San Francisco police response times have been getting slower and slower since 2016. We talk with Will Jarrett, the data reporter from Mission Local about the article he collaborated with to identify the police department’s slow down, which claims that the police “staffing crisis (is) just the beginning” of the department’s woes.
Read the Mission Local piece here: https://missionlocal.org/2023/03/police-staffing-crisis-san-francisco...
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March 21, 2023 • 21 min
California Governor Gavin Newsom has announced that San Quentin State Prison will transition into a “rehabilitation” center for the California prison system, transitioning to a service-oriented site that focuses on prisoners who are spending their final time incarcerated before being freed. Meanwhile, current long term prisoners there will be transferred away to other prisons – likely sites that have fewer services for the people l...
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March 21, 2023 • 3 min
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 letter comes to us from Orange County Theo Lacy Jail.
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Letters from the Inside features music by Michael Louis. Follow him on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tigers_view
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March 20, 2023 • 30 min
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 community organize...
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March 16, 2023 • 9 min
In this episode we look at a new policy in San Mateo County Jail that restricts prisoner access to letters other than digital scans that they cannot have at their bedside – it’s a policy justified by an overplayed outcry that prisoners are receiving drugs through mail while in reality, the majority of drugs inside jails are trafficked there by guards themselves. Along with other justice-minded organizations, the Electronic Frontier...
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March 16, 2023 • 17 min
In this episode we go back to Atlanta to discuss the movement to stop Cop City, including the latest developments of an independent autopsy that shows police shot and killed a forest defender in the head while they had their hands up, as well as the latest with protests and terrorism charges filed against protesters. We’re joined by Tunde Osazua, a member of the Atlanta chapter of the Black Alliance for Peace (or BAP), and is also ...
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March 16, 2023 • 12 min
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 can...
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