The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.

Our Resistance in Residence artist this week is queer, disabled Australian actor, writer and creative producer Ben Noble.

Ben Noble’s play MEMBER, will run during the San Francisco International Arts Festival from Thursday, May 8 to Sunday, May 11.

More information can be found here: https://www.sfiaf.org/fairly_lucid_productions_press_release

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Black abolitionist philosopher Joy James joins us to discuss her book Contextualizing Angela Davis: The Agency and Identity of an Icon.

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Our return guest Ana Piquer, Americas Director at Amnesty International talks about the Venezuelan migrants who are being detained by U.S. immigration enforcement and trafficked to Cecot Prison in El Salvador via Honduras.

Yesterday was the 5 year anniversary of the police killing of Steven Taylor. Cat Brooks chronicles that history on the State Terror Round Up.

We also discuss the upcoming Walk to End All Hostilities on March 29 with organizers Minister King X Pyeface, Director of California Prison Focus, Richard Johnson, founder of Formerly incarcerated Giving Back; and the hip-hop artivist/rapper Ras Kass.

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We look at the key players influencing the Oakland Mayor’s race with Walter Riley, civil rights lawyer, activist and chair of the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund.

Then, as some cities move to restrict surveillance, law enforcement takes to the sky. Fixed wing aircraft can stay up in the air for hours at a time and are often used in tandem with high definition cameras, heat sensors and cell-site simulation technology by law enforcement agencies. Does this type of aerial surveillance pose a risk to civil liberties? We discuss with Brian Hofer, Executive Director of Secure Justice, a non-profit that advocates against state abuse of power, and for reduction in government and corporate overreach. Hofer is also Chair of Oakland’s Privacy Advisory Commission.

We are also joined by Tiny Gray-Garcia, co-founder of POOR Magazine who has a new book out entitled UnTourBook: Across Occupied Turtle Island

Check that out here: https://www.poormagazine.org/post/untour-book-release

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On our weekly installment of The Palestine Post, we’re joined again by Khury Petersen-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he researches U.S. empire, borders, and migration.

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The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.

Our Resistance in Residence Artist this week is Toronto-based professional playwright, singer-songwriter and multimedia artist, Duane Forrest.

Check Duane Forrest out at the SF International Arts Festival in early May: https://www.sfiaf.org/2025_duane_forrest

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Non-profit newsroom CalMatters has uncovered scandals and abuses pushing California’s homeless population out of shelters, finding that some of the state’s emergency shelters are deadlier than jails. We’re joined by CalMatters journalist Lauren Hepler.

Read the Lauren Hepler’s story here: https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/02/california-homeless-shelters-purgatory/

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In the past month, around 13,500 New York prison guards went on a wildcat strike. The New York Governor responded by sending National Guard troops to work as prison guards in the states prisons. Before prison guards ended their strike, reports of at least nine prisoners dying during the time of the strike hit the news. When the strike ended, 2,000 guards who remained on strike were fired by the state. We’re joined by Chris Gelardi, a reporter for New York Focus investigating the state’s criminal-legal system, who has covered this story intensively.

Follow Chris Gelardi’s reporting here: https://nysfocus.com/author/chris-gelardi

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Despite over a hundred deadly acts by far-right militants since the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, and the far right’s attempts to obstruct transfer of power to a duly elected president on January 6, the FBI continues to deprioritize investigations into white supremacist violence, instead targeting marginalized groups such as environmentalists and Black Lives Matter. In 2005, for example, the FBI labeled eco-terrorists as the top domestic threat, despite not a single fatal attack in the United States. We spend this hour in conversation with author and former FBI agent Mike German about his research and insights into organized far-right extremism.

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On this week’s Palestine Post, we speak first with Linda Sarsour, a Brooklyn-born Palestinian Muslim American activist, author, and community organizer. Then, we’re joined by Samer Araabi, a member of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center who co-hosts the weekly Palestine Solidarity Announcements every Friday at noon.

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