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Beatrice speaks with Rasha Abdulhadi about the last six months in the escalation of genocidal violence against the people of Palestine, what has and hasn’t changed since the last time Rasha spoke with us on October 13th, and why appeals to “peace” are not the same as calls for liberation.

This is part one of our conversation with Rasha. Part two will be released next week in the public feed, alongside a transcript.

Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/killing-peace

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Links to resources mentioned in the episode (more links will be coming with the transcript):

Al Jazeera’s Video on October 7th: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0atzea-mPY

Within Our Lifetime: https://wolpalestine.com

“Seizing Knowledge Production in Solidarity With Palestine”:

https://thepublicsource.org/knowledge-production-palestine-solidarity

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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.

Sasha’s new book is Storming Bedlam: Madness, Utopia, and Revolt: https://www.commonnotions.org/storming-bedlam

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Beatrice speaks with Liz Jackson and Rua Williams about the history and ongoing practice of design objects ostensibly created for accessibility being repurposed into tools of war.

Transcript:

https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/wheelchair-to-warfare

Read their article in the New Republic, “How Disabled People Get Exploited to Build the Technology of War,” here:

https://newrepublic.com/article/179391/wheelchair-warfare-pipeline-disability-technology

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, Artie and Abby discuss the recent book “Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time,” which presents itself as chronicling public health’s many missteps since the beginning of the covid pandemic, but in practice wants to draw our attention to all of the wrong conclusions.

The book we discuss in this episode was also the subject of the NYT column we talked about in the episode "Masks and Symbols" in January, here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/masks-and-01-29-97441318

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

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Runtime 1:27:27, 8 April 2024

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This episode was originally released on January 25th. We are re-releasing it today as we approach the sixth month of the ongoing genocidal campaign on Palestine, with a new introduction and a brief update at the end.

Beatrice shares messages from Death Panel listeners in Gaza and speaks with Danya Qato about how the totalizing nature of the genocide of Palestine can't be captured in death and injury statistics alone.

This episode is for Z, J, R, A, M, G and S.

Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/letters-from-gaza

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, Artie and Phil reflect on the impact of the ongoing Medicaid “unwinding”, which began one year ago today and has already seen 20 million people kicked off of the social safety net insurance program, and the Biden administration’s latest attempts to pretend they’re doing anything about it.

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Runtime 1:12:37, 1 April 2024

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Beatrice and Abby speak with Melissa Gira Grant about this week’s oral arguments in a Supreme Court case that could dramatically limit the availability of medication abortion in the US, and the Comstock Act, the 19th century obscenity law looming over the case.

Transcript forthcoming.

Find Melissa’s article in the New Republic, “Two Supreme Court Justices Favor Zombie Law From 1873 to Ban Abortion” here:

https://newrepublic.com/article/180153/alito-thomas-comstock-act-abortion

More info on ComstockCon here:

https://www.comstockcon.com/

Find our episode on the Comstock Act, “Statutes of Limitation” from last year, here:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/statutes-of-w-04-81971897

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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As we prepare for this week’s Supreme Court hearing on mifepristone, Beatrice and Abby discuss the controversy surrounding a recent paper that claims that pregnancy-associated deaths are dramatically overcounted in the US, and that as a result the crisis of perinatal mortality is overstated. We also discuss what the problems with their approach tell us about similar attempts to separate deaths “with covid” from those “from covid,” and the social construction of science as a whole.

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Runtime 1:20:05, 25 March 2024

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Beatrice speaks with Vicky Osterweil about the events we’re encouraged to forget, repress, and reinterpret in order to abet genocide, carcerality, or abandonment to a pandemic, and the power of refusing to forget.

Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/vicky-forget

Read Vicky's essay, "Remembering As an Act of Revolt," here:

https://all-cats-are-beautiful.ghost.io/a-list-of-things-we-have-been-told-to-forget/

And find her book, In Defense of Looting, here:

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/vicky-osterweil/in-defense-of-looting/9781645036678/?lens=bold-type-books

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, Artie and Jules discuss a recent piece in NPR, “Wrestling with my husband's fear of getting COVID again,” which presents avoiding covid both as the product of unreasonable “anxiety” and as something immunocompromised people should let go of lest their loved ones consider abandoning them.

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 1:29:17, 18 March 2024

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