On today’s show guest host Melina Abdullah speaks with Thandiwe Abdullah and Mau Trejo about the Messy Beautiful Work of Real Black-Brown Solidarity.

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Guest host Dr. Melina Abdullah discusses the impending Cal State faculty strike with Dr. Margarita Berta Avila, president of the California Faculty Association.

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On today’s show – a powerful conversation with author and activist Shourideh Molavi about her new book Environmental Warfare in Gaza: Colonial Violence and New Landscapes of Resistance which chronicles the legacy of land control, degradation and theft as part of the Zionist war chest. We talk perimeters, environmental warfare and crop control and the roles they all play in on going genocide.

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Law & Disorder exposes the cracks in our system, agitates for resistance and collectively builds a new world where all of us thrive. Hosted by Cat Brooks. Produced by Diana Martinez.

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On today’s show, guest-host Nana Gyamfi talks with Aarti Kohli and Ronald Claude about the Trump administration’s deportation campaign, mass detentions, TPS Revocation, deportations to third countries, the community resistance against these policies and much more.

Aarti Kohli is the Executive Director at Asian Law Caucus.

Ronald Claude is Director of Policy & Advocacy at Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI).

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When juvenile courts were first created more than 100 years ago, they were imagined as a therapeutic space where specially-trained public servants and a friendly, caring judge would help children and families. Today, our guest illustrates how that vision never came to pass, and how the procedures and policies of family court are based in a heritage of racism and a disdain for poverty.

Jane Spinak is the Edward Ross Aranow Clinical Professor of Law Emerita at Columbia Law School specializes in juvenile justice, child advocacy, and family court reform. She is the author of the book The End of Family Court: How Abolishing the Court Brings Justice to Children and Families.

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On today’s Palestine Post episode, guest-host Nana Gyamfi talks with Khury Petersen-Smith about the latest developments in the Israel’s genocidal assault on Palestine, the US complicity, and the people’s resistance around the globe.

Khury Petersen-Smith is the Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he researches U.S. empire, borders, and migration.

Our Resistance in Residence this week is director, teacher and solo-performer Kenny Yun.

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Our Resistance in Residence artist this week is Oakland based poet, playwright, and performer Aimee Suzara.

Aimee Suzara’s second full-length book Birth Language, centers on a Filipina-American time traveling through her history, twisted and haunted like the roots of a balete tree. The book fuses English, Spanish, and Tagalog. It employs archival texts from as early as the 1500s when European conquistadors and explorers encountered the pre-colonial Philippine islands. The collection celebrates a history of resistance, reclaiming and redefining the self-despite colonization, assimilation, and cultural loss.

Saturday, August 29, 2026 5-7 pm

326 23rd St. Oakland, CA

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Case of Journalist Richard LA in the ICE Adelanto Detention Center

Adam Rose is deputy director of advocacy at the Freedom of the Press Foundation and a board member of the Los Angeles Press Club.

Update on Yolanda Ramirez’s Case

Melissa Noll is a civil rights attorney and the lawyer of the Ramirez’s family.

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On today’s show, guest-host Kalonji Jama Changa talks to Roger Wareham and Dr. Lawrence “Jahi” Johnson about the 25th anniversary of the Durban Declaration and how no former colonizing state has propose a program to repair the “gravest crimes against humanity” – the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. Then, Urban Farming for social justice with Duron Chavis.

25th Anniversary of the Durban Declaration Criminalizing the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Fight for Reparations

Roger Wareham is a human rights lawyer who specializes in International Law & Criminal Law.  He was a lead counsel in the Central Park 5’s (now the Exonerated 5) convictions in New York City and in the federal class action lawsuit seeking reparations from 17 major U.S. corporations.  He is a former political prisoner and has represented several political prisoners.  Roger is a founding member of the December 12th Movement, a Black non-governmental organization defending the human rights of Black people, both in the U.S. and throughout the African Diaspora.

Dr. Lawrence “Jahi” Johnson is a professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College at the City University of New York.  His teaching and scholarly interests revolve around the study of Black Politics in the United States. He is a member of the December 12th Movement, a Pan-African human rights organization who operates locally and internationally on issues from police brutality to reparations.

Urban Farming for social justice

Duron Chavis is an Urban Farmer, Educator, Change Maker. Duron has been a pivotal figure in community advocacy in Richmond. He is the founder of the Central Virginia Agrarian Commons, and Happily Natural- organizations that work to increase access to land and healthy food for black and brown communities.

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