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Beatrice speaks with Sasha Warren about the lessons we can take from the history of anti-psychiatry movements, and other movements aligned against earlier forms of asylums and mental hospitals, with a particular focus on two groups active in the 1960s and 1970s: Institutional Psychotherapy in France and Democratic Psychiatry in Italy.

Find Sasha's book, Storming Bedlam: Madness, Utopia, and Revolt, here: https://www.commonnotions.org/storming-bedlam

Transcript forthcoming.

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here:

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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 their new book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2212-how-to-abolish-prisons

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Runtime 1:17:41, 2 September 2024

Beatrice speaks with Betsy Ladyzhets of The Sick Times about what wastewater surveillance does—and doesn’t—tell us about the level of covid spread and how the rise of covid wastewater monitoring fits inside the larger picture of the privatization of both covid risk and covid data.

Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/promises-and-perils-of-wastewater-data

Find Betsy’s report, “Wastewater surveillance for Covid-19 keeps evolving. Here’s what you need to know” here:

https://thesicktimes.org/2024/07/23/wastewater-surveillance-for-covid-19-keeps-evolving-heres-what-you-need-to-know/

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here:
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

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Beatrice speaks with Silky Shah about the harsh immigration and border detention rhetoric on display at both the DNC and RNC this summer, the historical and material links between the rise of the immigration detention system and mass incarceration, and her new book, Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition.

Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

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Runtime 1:21:31, 26 August 2024

Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss the mask ban passed in Nassau County last week, the latest in a dramatic rise in legislation criminalizing face masks and targeting the Palestine solidarity movement. We look at what happened in the overtly hostile public hearing over the ban, the history of the New York statute that ban proponents want back, and how the threat of mask bans goes far beyond public health: mask bans embolden racist policing; they’re anti-trans; and they target the whole of the left.

Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/mask-bans-are-everyones-fight

Watch the full Nassau County mask ban hearing here:

https://vimeo.com/994184432

Read the statement on the hearing by Jews for Mask Rights here:

https://www.jewsformaskrights.com/resources/anti-mask-harassment-nassau-countys-mask-ban-hearing

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here:

https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

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Beatrice speaks with October Krausch about how the cultural imaginary of covid and covid risk has shifted from some of the earliest interpretations of the pandemic, how social pressure amongst liberals to place trust in institutions led many to ignore ongoing risk, and their recent article for Truthout, “The US Government Has Abandoned Us to Endless COVID. We Can Do Better.”

Read October's piece here: https://truthout.org/articles/the-us-government-has-abandoned-us-to-endless-covid-we-can-do-better/

Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

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Runtime 1:34:06, 19 August 2024

Beatrice and Jules discuss “managed care,” a seemingly innocuous term for a guiding principle in contemporary US healthcare that structures and incentivizes medical rationing and austerity. We also discuss how the use of managed care in state Medicaid programs leads to widespread denials for trans care.

Transcript forthcoming.

This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on August 21st, 2023. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

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https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

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Beatrice speaks with Kareem Rabie about how capitalist visions for “the day after” ceasefire often rely on economic development projects that act as an extension of settler colonialism, Rabie’s research on housing development projects in the West Bank in 2005-2009, and his 2021 book, Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank.

Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

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12 August 2024

Beatrice speaks with Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu about attempts to dismiss Aaron Bushnell’s self immolation as mental illness, and why settler colonialism relies so heavily on drawing lines between madness and “reason.”

Note: intro from Artie ends at 0:03:30

Transcript:

www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/aaron-bushnell

This episode was originally released on February 29th, 2024 and we're re-releasing it today to mark nearly six months since Bushnell's action against the still ongoing genocide.

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More on Project LETS here:

projectlets.org/

More info on 2024 Socialism Conference here:

https://socialismconference.org/2024-schedule

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here:

https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

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Beatrice speaks with William Boyd about how “risk assessment” became a central focus of health safety and environmental law since the 1970s, and how the political and economic factors that structure how those risks are assessed have resulted in law and policy far less likely to protect against environmental and health hazards.

Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

Runtime 1:22:10, 5 August 2024