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On todays show, increased ICE activity in Alameda County has been reported and how the community is responding. We speak to Nikolas De Bremaeker and Gabriela Galicia. Then, Islamophobia and the raid on Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s home and how Islamophobia is infecting the current election cycle.

ICE activity in Alameda County and the Community Response

Nikolas De Bremaeker is managing attorney with Centro Legal de la Raza and ACILEP, the Alameda County rapid response network.

Gabriela Galicia is Executive Director of Street Level Health Project.

Islamophobia in the Current Political Environment: Ilhan Omar 

Samer Araabi is the Associate Director of Political Education and Research at the Center for Constitutional Rights.  He is also a member of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) and co-founder of AROC Action.

Photo credit:  Occupy ICE / Abolish ICE by Master Steve Rapport. Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic

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On today’s show, we honor Domestic Violence Awareness month discussing the many issues of this epidemic and prevention approaches that include non-police interventions to tackle these issues.

Guests:

Christian Beauvoir (he/him) is  Lead Organizer at the Alliance for Boys and Men of Color (ABMoC). A statewide network of over 200 racial and gender justice organizations.

Dámariz Vásquez (she/they) is a Culture Bearer, Ancestral and Restorative Practices Practitioner, currently she is Restorative Justice Coordinator at East Los Angeles Woman Center / Coordinadora de Justicia Restaurativa.

Regi Wingo is the lead responder for “A Call for Change” Helpline and a trainer and facilitator for “Growing A New Heart” program.

Photo by halle tansley on Unsplash

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On today’s show, Rashid Khalidi dicussing his lbook Palestine: A Primer.

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.

Palestine: A Primer 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.

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On today show – national protest police brutality day,  we discus a review of Vallejo police use of their FLOCK camera system as well as hiccups with the new Vallejo police station with guest Scott Morris of the Vallejo Sun. Then, why isn’t the DMV doing anything about big rigs that kill? We will speak with Lauren Hepler of Cal Matters about their new report “Licensed To Kill.”  And then, Dr Melina Abdullah will join to discuss an update in the Kohen Wiley case and plans for protesting pi/cops on october 22.

Scott Morris is a journalist based in Oakland who covers policing, protest, civil rights and far-right extremism. His work has been published in ProPublica, the Appeal and Oaklandside.

“License to Kill” Series by CalMatters

Lauren Hepler is an investigative reporter at CalMatters. She has spent the past decade covering housing, labor and climate issues for the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Guardian, the LA Times and others.

National Day Against Police Brutality 

Dr. Melina Abdullah is a professor of pan-African studies at Cal State Los Angeles, as well as the co-founder of the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter and co-founder and director of Black Lives Matter Grassroots.

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On today’s show, the student protests in France that have grown to include multiple sectors of resistance from fuel prices to wages –  and the governmental crack down utilizing the brutality of police with guest Laura Wojcik joining us from Paris. Then  this month the Black Panther Party commemorates 60 years since its birth here in Oakland CA.

Student Protests in France: Analysis 

Laura Wojcik is a video journalist at Mediapart, an independent French digital newspaper. She regularly covers urban issues, working-class neighborhoods, gender-based and sexual violence.

The Legacy of the Black Panther Party – 60th Anniversary

Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. is a Chicago-based community organizer, activist.  He is the president and chairman of the Prisoners of Conscience Committee and Black Panther Cubs.  He is the son of the Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton.

Tur-Ha Ak is a prominent Oakland community activist, organizer, and co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project and the Community Ready Corps.

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On today’s show, a conversation with Professor Elisabeth Semel about the botched execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee and what it should that say to us about the death penalty.  We also discuss the Los Angeles mayoral race with Sam Ribakoff.

Death Penalty

Professor Elisabeth Semel is Co-Director of the Death Penalty Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.  Her research is related to the defense of capital cases, with an emphasis on the role that race plays in the administration of the death penalty, and, more broadly, in the selection of juries.

Resources: Death penalty Information Center

LA Mayor’s Race

Sam Ribakoff is a reporter, journalism teacher, communicator for labor unions.  His latest article in LA Taco is  “The ‘G-Words’: Bass and Raman’s Opposing Views on Palestine May Decide the Mayoral Election.”

Image credit: Lady Justice on Wikimedia commons

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On today’s show, our guest Sarah Leah Whitson update us on the situation in Gaza and the wars in the Middle East.

Sarah Leah Whitson is a Human Rights Lawyer and coauthor of the book “From Apartheid to Democracy: A Blueprint for Peace in Israel-Palestine.”  She previously served as executive director of Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) and also former executive director of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa Division.

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Host Cat Brooks in conversation with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi debunking the origins of authoritarianisms and the “great replacement theory” and how those ideas have become dominant political ideas in our time ushering in an antidemocratic age.

Dr. Ibram X Kendi is a professor of history and the founding director of the Howard University Institute for Advanced Study, an interdisciplinary research enterprise examining global racism. He is the author of the National Book Award–winning Stamped from the Beginning and the international bestseller How to Be an Antiracist and his latest, Chain of Ideas: he Origins of Our Authoritarian Age. He has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, popularly known as the Genius Grant.

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On today’s show Professor Richard Wolff join us to discuss the state of the economy, he explains how the so called “AI bubble” could burst.

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.  Professor Wolff 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 Richard Wolff is the author of several books including Understanding Capitalism.  

His website is: democracyatwork.info

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On today’s show, Lebanese ethnobotanist, sovereignty steward, and cultural worker Layla K Feghali talks about a history of healing plants of Cana’an (the Levant) and the Crossroads (“Middle East”) and explores ways we become free from the wounds of colonization and displacement. Her latest book is The Land in Our Bones: Plantcestral Herbalism and Healing Cultures from Syria to the Sinai –Earth-based pathways to ancestral stewardship and belonging in diaspora.

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