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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On today’s show, we spend the hour diving into the Oakland election cycle, the money and players that bought a new political landscape and what it means for the “most progressive city” in the country, with Ali Winston is an independent reporter covering criminal justice, privacy, and surveillance. Along with Darwin BondGraham, he’s the co-author of The Riders Come Out At Night: Brutality, Corruption and Cover-Up in Oakland (Atria Books, 2023), a history of policing in Oakland. You can read more of his work at bleeding-edge.ghost.io

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This week, our Resistance in Residence artist is Leigh Rondon-Davis (they/them), a performer, dramaturg, director, and producer; in addition to their creative work, Leigh is on staff as part of the shared leadership team of the Crowded Fire Theater in San Francisco, as the Leader of Artistic Curation & Marketing, where they are also a Resident Artist. Additionally, they are an Artistic Company Member at Shotgun Players, Casting Director with the Casting Collective, and Producing Director with The Forum Collective. Leigh has had the immense pleasure of working at dozens of local companies, including A.C.T., Aurora Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Curran, Magic Theatre and others. For more on their work, check out https://www.crowdedfire.org/leigh-rondon-davis/

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Last week, the Jailhouse Lawyer Initiative convened a conference called Flashlights: Jailhouse Lawyers, Legal Empowerment and Building a Just World Together,” a historic convening of jailhouse lawyers in dialogue with justice allies that “illuminates the power and promise of legal empowerment to advance justice from the inside out.” We’re joined by Jhody Polk, the founder of the Jailhouse Lawyer Initiative which is currently housed at the Bernstein Institute for Human Rights at NYU School of Law.

Who are jailhouse lawyers? Jailhouse lawyers are incarcerated individuals who generally have no formal legal training, but teach themselves the law to advocate for themselves and the rights of their peers. They conduct legal writing, research, and analysis on a host of legal issues from civil rights actions to habeas corpus petitions, administrative grievances, parole/probation, and family law matters, among others. Because of their justice work, these advocates are often retaliated against and silenced by the very institutions they attempt to hold to account. They continue to toil without recognition of their personal growth and rehabilitation, without their names being attached to the legal victories they fought for, and without connection to others doing the work or those standing in solidarity with them on the outside. JLI believes that breaking the cycle of incarceration requires building bridges between inside and out communities. Jailhouse lawyers are an essential part of reforming and abolishing the broken carceral system, and are seen as incarcerated advocates who are THE bridge builders.

The Jailhouse Lawyers Initiative can be reached at:

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Tonight, Oct 23 is the Oakland premiere of the The Strike documentary about the Pelican Bay hunger strikes against solitary confinement, a historic coordinated effort and the largest hunger strike in US history, told by those who lived it. It’ll be tonight Wednesday Oct 23 at 6pm at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland. For more information, visit thestrikefilm.com.

We’re joined by co-directors and producers Lucas Guilkey and JoeBill Muñoz. Dolores Canales, one of the film protagonist, is founder of CA Families Against Solitary Confinement, organizer on behalf of her son who was in solitary confinement during the hunger strikes Jack Morris is one of the film’s protagonists, he spent over 30 years in solitary confinement, and participated in the hunger strikes.

For more information, visit thestrikefilm.com.

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On today’s show, we discuss the intensification of Israel’s siege on northern Gaza, plans for resettlement, continued backing by the US, and expansion of its assault on Lebanon. We’re joined by Rami Khouri, a Distinguished Public Policy Fellow at the American University of Beirut, and a journalist and author with 50 years of experience covering the Middle East. Among many things, we discuss his latest piece in Al-Jazeera “What Sinwar’s death reveals about war and peacemaking in Palestine.”

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