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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December 12, 2024 • 16 mins
On today’s episode: A look at how the Biden Administration is prepping Immigration and Customs Enforcement ahead of a Trump presidency, in conversation with José Olivares, a bilingual investigative journalist and audio producer whose work focuses on immigration, criminal justice, Latin America, and human rights. We’re in conversation about his latest 2-part series published by the Guardian. Those headlines are: “Revealed: Biden lay...
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December 11, 2024 • 23 mins
On today’s segment, we develop our ongoing coverage of the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria and what Syria’s regime collapse says about the Arab region moving forward, in conversation with Rami Khouri, a Distinguished Public Policy Fellow at the American University of Beirut, and a journalist and author with 50 years of experience covering the Middle East.
Read Rami Khouri’s latest op-ed in Al Jazeera: https://www.alj...
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December 10, 2024 • 18 mins
In this Palestine Post segment, we are joined by Tiffany Willoughby-Herard is a tenured professor of African-American Studies at UC Irvine. She was arrested in a May pro-Palestinian demonstration on campus along with about 50 others and faced court in the case.
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December 9, 2024 • 30 mins
In this Palestine Post segment, we explore the Hezbollah/Israel truce as well as the downfall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad with Samer Araabi, a member of AROC and co-hosts the weekly Palestine Solidarity Announcements every Friday at noon.
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December 4, 2024 • 17 mins
On today’s show we speak with Nikki Fortunato-Bas, the Alameda County District 5 Supervisor-Elect, and outgoing Oakland City Council president representing District 2. As outgoing Oakland City Council member, Fortunato-Bas will become interim Oakland mayor after the recall of Sheng Thao, however, that interim position will only last until Fortunado-Bas transitions to the new Supervisor position.
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December 4, 2024 • 27 mins
On today’s show we’re joined by Congresswoman-elect Lateefah Simon, our newest house representative, on her way to being inaugurated for California’s 12th District, which includes the cities of Oakland, Berkeley, Emeryville, Alameda, Albany, Piedmont, and most of San Leandro. The congresswoman-elect will be replacing long-time rep Barbara Lee next month.
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December 2, 2024 • 13 mins
In this recurring Palestine Post segment, we discuss the firing by Oakland high school Bishop O’Dowd of a teacher for wearing a pin that read “Free Palestine”. Joining us to discuss is Erin Donevan, the high school teacher fired for wearing that pin.
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December 2, 2024 • 50 mins
On today’s recurring Palestine Post segment, we explore the Israel/Lebanon Ceasefire agreement.
We start the conversation with Khury Petersen-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he researches U.S. empire, borders, and migration.
Then, we speak with Rami is an organizer with the Bay Area chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement, a transnational, grassroots independent movement of Ar...
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November 28, 2024 • 5 mins
We are re-airing this short story by our co-host Jesse Strauss: Thanksgiving in the year 2223 in Israel celebrates the colonial promise of the complete settling of the land of Palestine.
When it was first written in 2023, Jesse’s intention was to challenge those of us in the United States to re-think the holiday that many of us look to today, and how some of us participate in it, even in the most minor of ways – is it really possi...
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November 28, 2024 • 56 mins
On today’s show we hear audio from Thangs Taken: Rethinking Thanksgiving, an annual event at La Peña cultural center which took place on Sunday, November 24th, 2024, whose purpose is to challenge the colonial narrative of the Thanksgiving holiday and to honor indigenous artists, activists, organizers and cultural workers. We’ll hear the voices of Morning Star Gali, Xiomara Chingara, Chris Wanis, Desirae Harp, Vick Montana and Deja ...
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On today’s recurring Palestine Post segment, we explore the potential impacts of government labelling pro-Palestine organizations and organizers as associates to terrorism. We start in conversation with Shane Kadidal, a Senior Managing Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where he has worked on several significant cases arising in the wake of 9/11, and has been counsel in major Center for Constitutional Rights cases ch...
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November 24, 2024 • 34 mins
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 a duo from the you...
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November 22, 2024 • 14 mins
Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1,200 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, assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequa...
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November 21, 2024 • 7 mins
In Alabama lawyers are working with prisoners to end the practice of slavery for incarcerated people in that state. We talk with CJ Sandley, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights based in Birmingham, Alabama, who is one of the attorneys on a case challenging that state’s usage of prison slavery, which recently entered a new appeal stage.
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November 21, 2024 • 21 mins
Oakland is in a budget crisis and appears on the verge of bankruptcy. Meanwhile the police union is rejecting an idea of cuts to their staff. Oakland is faced with hard choices, and we’re joined to discuss by James Burch, Deputy Director of the Anti-Police Terror Project.
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November 20, 2024 • 24 mins
Today is the Trans Day of Remembrance. We’re in conversation with a founder of San Francisco’s Transgender District and co-owner of the Stud bar who currently works as the Director of the Office of Trans Initiatives in San Francisco, Honey Mahogany. Honey Mahogany is also discussing the San Francisco plans to commemorate the Trans Day of Remembrance in the late afternoon of Wednesday, November 20th.
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November 19, 2024 • 17 mins
On our weekly roundup of news from and about Palestine, a follow up conversation with the Palestinian Youth Movement’s Mask Off Maersk campaign, which recently experienced the success of Spain refusing to allow Maersk ships to dock after PYM was involved in publishing information about Maersk’s use of Spanish ports to dock US military equipment headed for Israel.
We speak with Voulette Hattar, an organizer with the Palestinian Yout...
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November 18, 2024 • 14 mins
On our weekly roundup of news from and about Palestine, we discuss zionist street fights in Amsterdam that followed a Netherlands vs Israel soccer match. In the fallout of the fighting, a group that was defending their communities from zionist violence has been charged with false accusations of anti-semitism. We speak with Amanda Gelender, a Jewish anti-zionist organizer and writer from the Bay Area, currently based in the Netherla...
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November 18, 2024 • 22 mins
On our weekly roundup of news from and about Palestine, we discuss the current political moment that includes Trump’s appointees in the region as well as the expiration of Biden’s 30-day red line warning to Israel which led to no consequences at all. We speak with Phyllis Bennis, a Middle East analyst and directs the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies.
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November 17, 2024 • 33 mins
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 Oakland-based DJ a...
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