The DC National Guard deployed to the nation’s capital Tuesday, a day after President Donald Trump announced he was sending in troops and taking direct federal control of the city’s police force. The move followed what he called a public safety emergency after an assault on “Big Balls” a former government employee. In this episode, we speak with Michael Sainato, a reporter for the Guardian who writes on politics and labor.

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Gaza’s renowned journalist Anas al-Sharif was killed alongside four others in a targeted Israeli airstrike on Sunday, according to his network Al Jazeera. His death has drawn condemnation from the United Nations, human rights organizations, and journalism advocacy groups. In this episode, we speak with Samer Aarabi from the Arab Resource and Organizing Center as well as KPFA’s Frank Sterling on the station’s response.

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Our Resistance in Residence Artist this week is multi-hyphenated artist and storyteller Brian Copeland. Brian’s solo show The Waiting Period will play 12:00pm, Sunday, August 10, 12:00pm, Sunday, August 24, and 5:00pm, Saturday, September 20 at The Marsh Berkeley, 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley. For tickets and more information check out https://themarsh.org/performers/brian_copeland/the-waiting-period/

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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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The California Rehabilitation Center in Norco, CA, once an art deco hotel turned state prison, is slated to shut down by 2026. State officials announced the closure, citing a continued decline in the state’s incarcerated population. The City of Norco has long advocated for the facility’s closure, arguing the site could be put to better use. We speak with Amber-Rose Howard, Executive Director for California United for a Responsible Budget.

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ICE has arrested and detained US citizens as part of the agency’s militarized sweeps to capture undocumented immigrants.  Sam Levin, correspondent for The Guardian and Sergio Perez, executive director of the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Affairs join today’s show.  You can read Sam’s article for the Guardian here https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/05/us-citizens-jailed-ice-los-angeles

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We speak with Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, Oakland’s Poet Laureate, cultural architect, and an advocate for the arts as a tool for social transformation. Known as the “wordslanger,” Dr. Nzinga has spent decades building spaces where Black creativity thrives and where the stories, struggles, and triumphs of the community are given voice.

In this conversation, Dr. Nzinga will share her journey, her vision for Oakland’s cultural future, and her role in shaping BAMBDfest, the Black Arts Movement Business District Festival.

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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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During the past seven decades, Palestine has been sealed from the Arab world and shattered into fragmented and coded areas: 1948 area, 1967 area, Jerusalem, West Bank, Gaza, and A, B and C areas within the West Bank. Each area is ruled by different laws, including different roads and permits that control the mobility of Palestinians and privilege Jewish settlers.

Today we’re be in conversation with Rehab Nazzal, a Palestinian-born multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto, whose latest book, Driving in Palestine, is a research-creation project by acclaimed artist Rehab Nazzal, who explores the visible indices of the politics of mobility that she encountered firsthand while traversing the occupied West Bank between 2010 and 2020. This photography book consists of 160 black and white photographs, hand-drawn maps and critical essays in Arabic and English by Palestinian and Canadian scholars and artists.

The photographs were all captured from moving vehicles on the roads of the West Bank. They focus on Israel’s architecture of movement restrictions and surveillance structures that proliferate in the West Bank, including the Apartheid Wall, segregation walls surrounding illegal colonies, gates, fences, watchtowers, roadblocks and military checkpoints among other obstacles to freedom of movement.

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Our Resistance in Residence artist this week is Candace Johnson, a multi-hyphenated artist and creator of the solo show Scat-ter Brain, The Music of ADHD, playing July 19 – September 13 at San Francisco’s Marsh Theater as part of their POC Mental Health Awareness series.

You can get tickets to see Candace’s show Scat-ter Brain here https://themarsh.org/shows_and_events/marshstream/candace-johnson-scat-er-brain-the-music-of-adhd/

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