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Bea, Artie and Phil are joined by Justin Feldman to cast doubt on a recent paper claiming that the US is suffering from an "injustice of under-policing" and that the way to finally reduce mass incarceration is ... 500,000 more cops.

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Beatrice, Artie, and Jules discuss the Biden administration's recently announced fall covid plan, the rather lazy recycling of old lines to justify covid normalization, and the recent uptick in claims that pandemic mitigations were worse than the virus itself because of so-called "immunity debt."

(Episode begins at 2:00 after introduction.)

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Beatrice and Jules speak with Jasbir Puar about biopolitics, competing theorizations of disability, the difference between debility and disability, and her pathbreaking 2017 book The Right to Maim.

Jasbir Puar is the author of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (2017) and Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007).

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Beatrice, Artie, and Abby discuss the way long covid is portrayed in the media and the mainstream press, and the frequently used tropes that focus on long covid as a question of economic productivity and "spoiled identity."

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Beatrice speaks with Minh-ha T. Pham about the extractive dynamics of the global garment industry, what happened to garment workers in the global south in the early days of the pandemic, and understanding the need to end sweatshop labor through an abolitionist lens.

Minh-ha T. Pham is an Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in Media Studies at Pratt Institute, and is the author of ”Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Social Media’s Influence on Fashion, Ethics, and Property” (2022).

Her essay “A World Without Sweatshops: Abolition Not Reform” is included in the recently released anthology from Haymarket, “Abolition Feminisms: Organizing, Survival and Transformative Practice."

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Runtime 1:07:23, 14 November 2022

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Beatrice speaks with Jessica Phoenix Sylvia about prison book bans, how simple it is for prison officials to administratively withhold basic needs, and the necessity of publishing incarcerated writers.

Jessica Phoenix Sylvia is an Empowerment Avenue social justice writer, abolition theorist, and community organizer. She is one of the contributors to the recently published book “The Press In Prison,” (Haymarket Books & Scalawag Media). She is currently working with the Study and Struggle program, and she is the author of a recent piece in PEN America called “Prison Book Bans, Protect Mass Incarceration.”

Mentioned in this episode:

https://www.empowermentave.com

https://pen.org/prison-book-bans-protect-mass-incarceration

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1993-the-press-in-prison

https://www.studyandstruggle.com

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Beatrice, Abby, and Artie formally decline Emily Oster’s request for a “pandemic amnesty.” But first, we check in on a few recent statements out of the CDC minimizing the impact of covid and leaning into “immunity debt.”

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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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Beatrice, Artie, and Jules discuss the Biden administration's recently announced fall covid plan, the rather lazy recycling of old lines to justify covid normalization, and the recent uptick in claims that pandemic mitigations were worse than the virus itself because of so-called "immunity debt."

Find Bea and Artie's new book Health Communism here: tinyurl.com/healthcommunism

Runtime 1:21:44, 31 October 2022

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Phil reads "The Bungalow House" by Thomas Ligotti.

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