Death Panel

This episode was originally released October 20th, 2025 for Death Panel patrons and is being unlocked today for the first time. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Beatrice speaks with Madeline Lane-McKinley about what it means to build a politics of solidarity with young people against the pervasive right wing attacks that in order to "protect" the children we must deny their trans identities, censor their educations, ban their books and cut social welfare programs that support them.

Find the book here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888904657

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We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel

Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

Outro by Time Wharp: https://timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta

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Artie discusses what studies show are the health impacts of data centers on the communities they're built in, how to think about data centers and AI as mechanisms of social murder, and why the dramatic rise of anti-data center sentiment can't be dismissed as a "moral panic."

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This episode was originally released August 3rd for Death Panel patrons. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Beatrice, Artie and Phil discuss the Trump administration’s proposal to shift the definition of “medical frailty” under Medicaid to explicitly redefine health as your ability to work, and how this change threatens not just the healthcare coverage of countless people, but an impending blow against the Medicaid program and the healthcare system itself.

Show links:

We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel

Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

Outro by Time Wharp: timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/167584830

Beatrice speaks with R.H. Lossin about how early criminal syndicalism laws were weaponized against the IWW in the early 20th century to criminalize their political education around industrial sabotage, and how those acts of repression have continued to shape how certain demands are dismissed as “too radical” or as “adolescent” today.

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Read R.H. Lossin's piece in LPE blog here: https://lpeproject.org/blog/property-sabotage-and-the-origins-of-anti-left-repression/

Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

Beatrice speaks with Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché about how the fight to abolish prisons touches other movements, what abolitionist movement wins tell us about taking the long view in organizing work, and their new book How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement against Imprisonment.

Find the book here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888900833

This episode was originally released September 2nd, 2024 for Death Panel patrons. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Show links:

We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel

Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

Outro by Time Wharp: timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/166952827

Beatrice speaks with Vicky Osterweil about how intellectual property has become central to global capitalism, what led the Disney corporation to send lobbyists to defend covid vaccine patents, and her new book The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World.

Runtime 2:22:00

Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

Note: This episode was originally released September 9th, 2024 for Death Panel patrons. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Beatrice speaks with Victoria Law about her book Corridors of Contagion: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration.

Find the book here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902561

Show links:

We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel

Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/166214339

Beatrice speaks with John Washington about how detention camps are at once essential pieces of the immigration enforcement regime and also one of its most vulnerable sites to a variety of forms of public resistance, and about his new book, How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention.

Runtime 1:31:42

Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

Note: This episode was originally released August 11th 2025 for Death Panel patrons. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Beatrice speaks with Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam about their book Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice and the solidarities required to organize at the intersection of sex work, migrant justice, and disability justice.

Find the book here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888900864

Show links:

We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel

Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

Outro by Time Wharp: https://timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/165668581

Beatrice, Artie and Phil discuss the Trump administration’s proposal to shift the definition of “medical frailty” under Medicaid to explicitly redefine health as your ability to work, and how this change threatens not just the healthcare coverage of countless people, but an impending blow against the Medicaid program and the healthcare system itself.

Runtime 1:28:52

Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179