KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks

The courthouse is an important part of every story of mass incarceration in America and, too often, it is a place of powerlessness for those facing criminal charges, their families, and their communities. But the courthouse can also be an important site of resistance, a place where Americans affected by incarceration can become agents of change—even though they are not lawyers or judges. Our guest is author of a new book by Silicon Valley De-bug co-founder Raj Jayadev. We talk about his story and the primary subject matter in his book – participatory defense, the incredibly effective community organizing model that leads to better outcomes for criminal cases, shifting power in courtrooms along the way.

Buy the book: https://thenewpress.com/books/protect-your-people

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After more than 300 days of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and following a report from Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem on treatment of Palestinian prisoners by the zionist state called “Welcome to Hell” we speak with Linda Sarsour, a Brooklyn-born Palestinian Muslim American activist, author, and community organizer. She is the author of her memoir We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders. We’re also joined by Sahar Francis, is the General Director of Ramallah-based Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, a Palestinian organization providing legal and advocacy support to Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli and Palestinian prisons. She is also an attorney.

Learn more about the ‘Welcome to Hell‘ report: https://www.btselem.org/publications/202408_welcome_to_hell

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On today’s Palestine Post, we begin in conversation with Wassim Hage about the San Francisco District Attorney’s decision to level charges against 26 Bay Area pro-Palestine protesters who blocked the Golden Gate Bridge on April 15th of this year, charging eight of them with significant felonies including conspiracy and false imprisonment. Those protesters turned themselves in on Monday, with all released on their own recognizance. Their legal team is prepared to fight those charges.

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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 Bay Area playwright Star Finch.

Check out Star Finch’s website: https://www.starfinchplays.com/

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A wink and a nod from the supreme court with the Grants Pass ruling has paved the way for San Francisco to agressively clear encampments that serve as homes and communities for the unhoused. Now, Mayor London Breed has asked city officials to pick up the pace by offering free bus tickets out of town as incentive. Joining us to discuss is Jennifer Friedenbach, Executive Director of the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness.

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We have been following the scandal and abuse at the now shuttered women’s federal prison in Dublin, California. The First Report by the Special Master is out, which mostly corroborates what the women have been saying for years, but also contains some additional troubling information. Joining us to discuss are Lisa Fernandez, a veteran journalist working at KTVU Channel 2 in the Bay Area who has been covering the sexual abuse scandal at the all-women’s FCI Dublin prison, in-custody deaths at Santa Rita Jail, and  federal oversight over the Oakland Police Department. We’re also joined by Kendra Drysdale, who is formerly incarcerated at FCI Dublin and is now an advocate with Dublin Prison Solidarity Coalition and the California Coalition for Women Prisoners. Kendra was released from FCI Dublin on April 19th, during the week that the prison was closed. Kendra also testified in evidentiary hearings in January which led to the assigning of the Special Master and eventual closure of the prison.

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Those targeted for incarceration do not simply submit to a monochromatic existence behind bars. Mass incarceration is a lived, sensory experience. On today’s episode we speak with the authors of a new visual primer on mass incarceration. The Warehouse brings to life the histories and means of daily survival of the marginalized people ensnared in this racist, ableist system of class-based oppression. The book elegantly weaves together the most insightful activist scholarship with vivid testimonials by incarcerated people as they fight back against oppression and imagine freedom. Our guests are author James Kilgore and information artist/illustrator Vic Liu.

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In this episode we explore the greenhouse gas emission implications of Israel’s attacks on Gaza, in conversation with two of the academic researchers who published a paper entitled “A Multitemporal Snapshot of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the Israel-Gaza Conflict”. Our guests are Patrick Bigger and Benjamin Neimark. Patrick Bigger is the Research Director at the Climate and Community Project (CCP). His academic research focuses on the creation and regulation of new financial mechanisms by governments, financiers, and NGOs that try to reconcile capitalism’s environmental and economic contradictions. Benjamin Neimark is a human geographer, political ecologist, and professor at Queen Mary University of London, whose current research looks at the US military as a global climate actor and, more broadly, the environment footprints of the world’s militaries.

Read their paper here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4855947

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We start our recurring Monday Palestine coverage discussing the latest news from the region with Phyllis Bennis, a Middle East analyst who directs the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. Her book Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer was recently re-published in its 7th edition.

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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 dancer, choreographer, pilates instructor and founder and director of Grown Women Dance Tonya Marie Amos.

Check out the website for Grown Women Dance: https://www.grownwomendance.org/

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