Christopher Soto joins us to discuss his new queer abolitionist poetry book, Diaries of a Terrorist

On today’s show . . .

0:08 – We explore the latest in congressional hearings on the January 6th insurrection with John Nichols (@NicholsUprising), national affairs correspondent for The Nation magazine.

0:33 – In May 2021 after an extended Immigration Customs Enforcement detention, Walter Cruz Zavala went back to El Salvador, but he’s back imprisoned there now. Raha Jorjani is Director of Immigration Defense at the Alameda County Public Defender’s Office, and joins us to discuss his case.

0:45 – In the past few weeks, the Supreme Court has continued to issue handfuls of rulings. We’re joined by Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of UC Berkeley’s School of Law (@BerkeleyLaw), to discuss the latest including today’s ruling on prosecution of non-Native Americans on reservation land in Oklahoma.

1:08 – As our Alameda County Sheriff’s office prepares to transition to a newly elected chief officer, another person – Jose Piña Cardenas – has died as a result of injuries sustained at the jail administered by the Sheriff – Santa Rita County Jail. We’re joined by Adante Pointer (@adanteesq), a civil rights attorney representing Lydia Piña, Jose’s mother, as well as Jose Bernal (@jose_bernal), Organizing Director at the Ella Baker Center which is advocating on behalf of the family.

1:33 – We spend our last segment with queer abolitionist poet Christopher Soto (@loma_poetry), whose new poetry book – Diaries of a Terrorist – is out now. Christopher Soto is a Los Angeles-based poet, co-founder of the Undocu-poets campaign and of Writers for Migrant Justice. He’s just out with his first published book of poetry – Diaries of a Terrorist.

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