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Phil reads an adaptation of Samuel Beckett's 1938 novel "Murphy."

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Beatrice speaks with Brian Nam-Sonenstein about two recent briefs he wrote for Prison Policy Initiative focused on a few key intersections of housing, disability, incarceration, and the administrative state. The first concerns how "failure to appear" laws add additional layers of criminalization into the court system, and the second concerns Housing First programs.

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Runtime 1:27:38, 23 October 2023

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Beatrice and Abby speak with Jane Thomason of National Nurses United (NNU) about the latest in an ongoing campaign to stop the CDC from further weakening infection control guidance, how newly revealed documents show the CDC prioritizing employer costs and profits over public health, and how you can help lend pressure to NNU's campaign.

Sign onto the letter and sign up to testify here—if you signed on last time, please sign on again!: https://bit.ly/DPNNU2

Our previous episode with Jane can be found in the Death Panel public feed, posted August 17th 2023, or here: https://soundcloud.com/deathpanel/how-the-cdc-could-further-weaken-infection-control-w-jane-thomason-081723

Transcript forthcoming.

Read the newly released meeting notes here: https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/cdc-hicpac-work-group

Find the webinar Jane mentions here: https://rutgerstraining.sph.rutgers.edu/PreventATD/

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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.

Rasha Abdulhadi is a writer, editor, and cultural organizer, and a queer Palestinian Southerner disabled by Long Covid.

Find the poem Rasha reads at the top here:

https://thedeadlands.com/issue-16/believe-the-graves/

The documentary Rasha recommends in the episode called “Women in Struggle” (2005) can be watched via Solidarity Cinema’s radical film archive: https://www.solidaritycinema.com/

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Runtime 1:47:00, 16 October 2023

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Beatrice speaks with Liat Ben-Moshe, Leah Harris and Vesper Moore about increasing calls to "reopen the asylums" and why the dark history and enduring legacy of psychiatric incarceration mean we should never go back. We look at recent statements by politicians Eric Adams, Donald Trump, Matt Gaetz, and Vivek Ramaswamy and discuss how carceral sanism is not exclusively the domain of the right.

Transcript:

https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/reopen-asylum

This episode stands alone, but also functions as an extension of "Resisting Carceral Sanism," posted September 28th in the public Death Panel podcast feed, or available here: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/s23-resisting-carceral-sanism

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This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on August 22nd 2022, and we are re-releasing it today alongside a new transcript of the conversation. (This is in addition to our regular schedule, a new episode will be up tomorrow like usual). Free Palestine 🇵🇸.

Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/public-health-palestine-danya-qato

Original episode description: Beatrice speaks with Danya Qato about the political economy of health in Palestine and how to understand the intersection of the pandemic and colonial occupation.

Danya Qato is an associate professor of epidemiology and health services research based in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Bea, Artie, and Abby pick apart a recent paper by Vinay Prasad, Tracy Beth Høeg, and Shamez Ladhani claiming that "methodological pitfalls" have led to the prevalence of long covid being “overestimated,” and that the problem with acknowledging high rates of long covid is that it will lead to “increased social anxiety and healthcare spending.”

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Runtime 1:44:41, 9 October 2023

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Bea 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, and tease Jules’ new book, “A Short History of Trans Misogyny,” coming in January from Verso.

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Beatrice speaks with Shira Hassan about reclaiming harm reduction from public health, reclaiming formations of "peer work" from the nonprofit world, and building the politics and practice of surviving together.

Find Shira's book, Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1938-saving-our-own-lives

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Runtime 1:32:42, 2 October 2023

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Bea, Artie, Phil and Abby discuss how the widely reported expense and unavailability of the new covid boosters is the disastrous (and predictable) consequence of the Biden administration’s move to kick covid vaccines and therapeutics to the private market.

Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/covid-booster-rollout-fall-2023

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

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