KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks

Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1,200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don’t know its happening – then we can’t fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder we do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build.

This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of November 18th, 2024.

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This episode featured music by Kofy Brown.

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In Alabama lawyers are working with prisoners to end the practice of slavery for incarcerated people in that state. We talk with CJ Sandley, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights based in Birmingham, Alabama, who is one of the attorneys on a case challenging that state’s usage of prison slavery, which recently entered a new appeal stage.

Read more about the case from the Center for Constitutional Rights here: https://ccrjustice.org/home/press-center/press-releases/imprisoned-workers-alabama-continue-legal-fight-abolish-prison

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Oakland is in a budget crisis and appears on the verge of bankruptcy. Meanwhile the police union is rejecting an idea of cuts to their staff. Oakland is faced with hard choices, and we’re joined to discuss by James Burch, Deputy Director of the Anti-Police Terror Project.

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Today is the Trans Day of Remembrance. We’re in conversation with a founder of San Francisco’s Transgender District and co-owner of the Stud bar who currently works as the Director of the Office of Trans Initiatives in San Francisco, Honey Mahogany. Honey Mahogany is also discussing the San Francisco plans to commemorate the Trans Day of Remembrance in the late afternoon of Wednesday, November 20th.

Learn more about the SF plans for Trans Day of Remembrance: http://tdorsf.org/

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On our weekly roundup of news from and about Palestine, a follow up conversation with the Palestinian Youth Movement’s Mask Off Maersk campaign, which recently experienced the success of Spain refusing to allow Maersk ships to dock after PYM was involved in publishing information about Maersk’s use of Spanish ports to dock US military equipment headed for Israel.

We speak with Voulette Hattar, an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement, based in the East Bay.

Read about Maersk’s use of Spanish ports here: https://theintercept.com/2024/11/04/maersk-israel-gaza-spain-embargo-military-shipping/

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On our weekly roundup of news from and about Palestine, we discuss zionist street fights in Amsterdam that followed a Netherlands vs Israel soccer match. In the fallout of the fighting, a group that was defending their communities from zionist violence has been charged with false accusations of anti-semitism. We speak with Amanda Gelender, a Jewish anti-zionist organizer and writer from the Bay Area, currently based in the Netherlands.

Amanda Gelender’s latest writing is called “Hamasterdam and the “Antisemitic Pogrom” That Never Was” and you can read it here: https://agelender.substack.com/p/hamasterdam-and-the-antisemitic-pogrom.

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On our weekly roundup of news from and about Palestine, we discuss the current political moment that includes Trump’s appointees in the region as well as the expiration of Biden’s 30-day red line warning to Israel which led to no consequences at all. We speak with Phyllis Bennis, a Middle East analyst and directs the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies.

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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.

This week’s Resistance in Residence artist is Oakland-based DJ and co-founder of Soulovely, DJ LadyRyan.

Find out more about DJ LadyRyan here: https://ladyryan.com/

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On today’s show, we’re joined by Bill Ayers, co-founder of the Weather Underground, professor, author, organizer and activist. He has a new book out called When Freedom is the Question – Abolition is the Answer: Reflections on Collective Liberation – a series of essays, poems and prompts to help us chart a path to liberation. It’s a fire conversation with a movement legend. 

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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.

This week’s Resistance in Residence artist is L. Peter Callender, actor, writer, director, who for fifteen years was also the artistic director of the African American Shakespeare Company.

Find out more about L. Peter Callender’s work here: https://www.african-americanshakes.org/l-peter-callender/

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