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This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on September 25th 2023. We'll be back with a new episode Monday in the patron feed.

Beatrice speaks with Dan Berger about the RICO charges against Stop Cop City activists and the long history of RICO being used as a tool of repression against left movements.

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Links to media and resources mentioned in this episode:

Read the full indictment against Stop Cop City activists here: https://www.fultonclerk.org/DocumentCenter/View/2156/CRIMINAL-INDICTMENT

Raymond Luc Levasseur, "Until All Are Free": https://archive.org/details/sparrowsnest-4710

Raymond Luc Levasseur, "RICO Expanded By Supreme Court" in Prison Legal Review, 1994. https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/1994/jun/15/rico-expanded-by-supreme-court/

Our episode with Jessica Phoenix Sylvia from last year, "Press and the Prison": https://soundcloud.com/deathpanel/press-and-the-prison-w-jessica-phoenix-sylvia-111022

James Baldwin, "An Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davis," 1971. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1971/01/07/an-open-letter-to-my-sister-miss-angela-davis/

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Beatrice and Jules speak with Melissa Gira Grant about the history of the Lavender Scare, the anti-gay campaign that overlapped and ran in parallel with the Red Scare, how it shaped the politics of gender and sexuality today, and whether we're experiencing a new Lavender Scare today or if instead the Lavender Scare never ended.

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

Runtime 1:36:55, 27 November 2023

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This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on October 16th 2023. We are re-releasing it today, alongside a new transcript (with links to referenced material), because of news of an inadequate four-day "humanitarian pause" that fails to meet demands to stop the genocide and to free Palestine, and because many of Rasha's observations from a few weeks ago have now come to pass. We'll be back with a new episode Monday in the patron feed.

Full transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/refusing-genocide-palestine

Original episode description: Beatrice speaks with Rasha Abdulhadi about how to stand in solidarity with Palestinians in this moment, the importance of refusing the idea that the genocide of Palestinians is inevitable, and how the language we use to resist the colonial project can sometimes fail to meet the scale of our demands.

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

Pre-order Jules' new book here:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/

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Bea speaks with Kathryn Olivarius about the economy and social structure that emerged around yellow fever in antebellum New Orleans, and the ecosystem of deniers, capitalists, and novel theories of "immunity" that echo our current pandemic.

Note: This episode is a re-air, as Artie explains in a brief clip at the beginning of the episode. We'll be back with a brand new patron episode next Monday.

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

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Beatrice speaks with Andrea Ritchie about working to build abolitionist futures in the face of rising fascism and unrelenting state violence, resisting the ongoing annihilatory campaign on Gaza, and her new book Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies. Transcript forthcoming.

Find Andrea's new book here: https://www.akpress.org/practicing-new-worlds.html

And two links Andrea mentions early in the episode:

"Stop Gaza Genocide," a public toolkit: https://bit.ly/StopGazaGenocide

Another toolkit to find protests and more:

https://gazaispalestine.org/

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

Pre-order Jules' new book here:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/

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We’ve gotten a lot of requests from patrons for an update on where things stand with the Medicaid “unwinding,” so today Beatrice, Abby and Phil discuss what it means that so far this year over 10 million people have lost their Medicaid coverage, and how it is that—with a full 2/3 of the “unwinding” still to come—politicians have continued to avoid blame and the media has treated it like business as usual.

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

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Beatrice and Jules speak with Mariame Kaba and Melissa Gira Grant about the importance of understanding the library as a site of political contestation and a rare expression of the commons in contemporary US life, and how left organizers are fighting back against right wing attacks on public space.

Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/library-mariame-kaba-melissa-gira-grant

Join up with For the People: A Leftist Library Project here:

https://www.librariesforthepeople.org/

And find the latest updates here:

https://librariesforthepeople.substack.com/p/library-solidarity-with-palestine

Read Melissa’s piece, “Librarians Didn’t Sign Up to Be Queer Activists—but This Year, They Are” here:

https://newrepublic.com/article/175567/librarians-new-queer-front-lines

Referenced in this episode:

“The Prison in Twelve Landscapes,” directed by Brett Story (2016)

https://www.prisonlandscapes.com/

“The People and the Library: Reflections on Grass-Roots Efforts to Preserve and Expand the Library As a Commons” here: https://justseeds.org/the-people-and-the-library-reflections-on-grass-roots-efforts-to-preserve-and-expand-the-library-as-a-commons/

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

Pre-order Jules' new book here:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/

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Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss the ongoing escalation of violence on the people of Gaza and the many proxy discourses that have kept US media and politicians busy talking about everything except what’s actually happening.

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

Runtime 1:10:36, 6 November 2023

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This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on November 21st 2022. We are re-releasing it today, alongside a new transcript of the conversation, because in the past few weeks we have found Jasbir’s work tremendously useful in understanding the enormity of what’s happening in Gaza.

Episode description: Beatrice and Jules speak with Jasbir Puar about the violent global effects of settler colonialism and how they shape our understanding of what we mean by “disability” and “debility.” We discuss how colonial occupation itself can be understood through a theory of debility, colonial constructions of who is labeled a "terrorist," and some of the most important insights from Jasbir's 2017 book The Right to Maim.

Transcript:

https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/jasbir-puar-body-politics

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

Pre-order Jules' new book here:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/

Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch

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Beatrice and Abby speak with epidemiologist Ellie Murray about how the many arguments against masking tend to repeat the same set of misunderstandings about how population health works and who health interventions are for. We also discuss why universal masking is so effective, the issues with dropping mask mandates in healthcare settings in particular, and how dynamics within the field of public health left space open for the social production of the ‘end’ of the pandemic.

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

Runtime 1:44:13, 30 October 2023

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