KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks

From the Balfour Declaration to Israel’s siege of the Gaza strip, Rashid Khalidi delivers a thorough portrait of the intricacies of the geopolitical conflict occurring in the middle east while keeping the text broadly accessible.

Khalidi invites readers to learn more about Palestine in what is both a deeply personal and yet expansive account of the last hundred years of the country’s history.  By blending detailed research with firsthand experiences, this book is equal parts compelling and informative―the perfect educational resource for all ages.

Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Chair in Arab Studies at Columbia University and editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies. He is the author of several books including The New York Times Bestseller, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine and his latest Palestine: A Primer.

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On today’s show we talk about the limits of accountability withing the system of policing with Mac Muir.

Guest: Mac Muir is the co-author with Greg Finch of Cop Cop: Breaking the Fixed System of American Policing. The book is about the culture, incentives, and training that shape modern policing in the United States.  It examines how policing is structured to reward control and compliance over public safety, and why reform efforts so often fail. We discuss the myths that sustain police power, the limits of accountability within the current system, and what real change would require for communities most impacted by policing.

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On Today’s show, we discuss with authors Brian Hochman and Matthew Guariglia how a government investigation led by US senator Frank Church uncovered some of the darkest state secrets of the twentieth century.  The Church Committee confirmed the nation’s worst fears about the unchecked power of its intelligence agencies: at the FBI, surveillance campaigns against civil rights leaders and clandestine attempts to disrupt antiwar protests; at the CIA, assassination plots against foreign heads of state, experiments with toxic substances and illegal drugs, and covert partnerships with the Mafia.

Brian Hochman is the Hubert J. Cloke Director of American Studies at Georgetown University and author of The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States. He lives in Washington, DC.  He is the coauthor of The Church Committee Report: Revelations from the Bombshell 1970s Investigation into the National Security State.

Matthew Guariglia is a historian and senior policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He is the author of Police and the Empire City: Race and the Origins of Modern Policing in New York and coauthor of The Church Committee Report: Revelations from the Bombshell 1970s Investigation into the National Security State.

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On today’s show, Cat Brooks talks about the genocide in Gaza, the settler’s occupation in the West Bank, and reactions to the UN The 81st session General Assembly (UNGA81) with Rayan El-Amine.

Rayan El-Amine is Community organizer and member leader with Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) and teaches at City College of San Francisco in the Labor and Community Studies Department. 

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On today’s show, Cat Brooks talks about the power and potential of language and how the state uses it against us, our opportunities to utilize it in liberatory struggle and the importance of speaking truth to power with Camonghne Felix.

Camonghne Felix is a poet, essayist and former political communications strategist, is the author of Dyscalculia and Build Yourself a Boat, which was longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry. Her latest book is the author of Let the Poets Govern: A Declaration of Freedom.

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On today’s show, host Cat Brooks talks to Professor Richard Wolff about the Declining of the US Economy, the factors that are dealing to it, and what people needs to do to protect themselves.

Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.  Currently, he is a Visiting Professor at the New School University in New York City.  He is the founder of Democracy at Work (democracyatwork.info) and host of the weekly national syndicated TV and radio program Economic Update that airs weekly on KPFA.  Professor Wolff is the author of several books including Understanding Capitalism.

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Blue Power tells us about how police built a political movement to protect themselves.

Stuart Schrader is an associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, where he is the director of the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism. He is also the author of Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing and his latest,  Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves.

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On todays show – September 7th 2026 marked the 30th anniversary of the murder of rapper, actor, activist, thug, poet, rebel, visionary legend Tupac Shakur. .

Davey D is a journalist, DJ, hip hop historian, professor, and host of KPFA’s Hard Knock Radio, a daily syndicated show focusing on Hip Hop culture and politics

Stuart Schrader, author of “Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves” in conversation with Darwin BondGraham about how US police forces organized their political clout over the last several decades, resulting in heavily publicized eye-watering budgets and indemnity to violent overreach and murder.

The event is sponsored by Seeing Red on Saturday 9/19 at 1721 Broadway at 6:30pm.

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On today’s show, we discuss the Third-Country Removals by the Trump administration and ICE flights. Then, we talk about Zakiya Jendayi’s case, a story of Probate.

ICE flights and third-country removals

Gillian Brockell writes about ICE flights and third-country removals at The American Prospect.  She is a former Washington Post staff writer and former flight attendant.  Her latest article “Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say.” can be found at prospect dot org.

When Probate Goes Wrong

Zakiya Jendayi is a retired African-American Studies teacher facing eviction from her longtime home because of an unjust and unlawful ruling in Alameda probate court.

Tanya Dennis is an Oakland Post reporter.  She is the lead of the National Probate Reform Coalition.

Announcements

Petition Justice for Zakiya Jendayi

Candlelight Vigil to Protect Zakiya’s Home on Tuesdays at 6:30-7:30 at 3614 Randoloph Ave 

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On today’s show, we turn our attention to the DR Congo where the Ebola virus has spread to a 7th district.  The new numbers demonstrate 7200 cases, almost 4000 dead.  Meanwhile the war rages on.  Cat Brooks talks with Maurice Carney to debunk how the billionaire class and multinational corporations have been extracting massive wealth from Africa and undermining public health institutions and worsening the Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Maurice Carney is co-founder and Executive Director of the Friends of the Congo.

Image: CDC on Unsplash

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