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Today is Indigenous People’s Day, a day we reclaim from Columbus and colonization. On today’s show, we’ll learn about the story of the Creek Nation, a Native tribe that two centuries ago both owned slaves and accepted Black people as full citizens. Our guest today is Caleb Gayle, whose latest book is called We Refuse … Continued
Today we’re met with a reminder that taking breaks is not only important to our physical health, it’s also important to the health of political movements. We’re joined by performance artist, writer, activist, theologian, daydreamer and founder of the Nap Ministry, Tricia Hersey, to discuss her labor of love to move the work of Black … Continued
September 11th, 2001 led to a new era of the American war machine, certainly in Afghanistan and Iraq, but also with military actions in at least 20 other countries since. As the years have passed, we seem to be less and less aware of ongoing and active US military actions. Why is that? And in … Continued
Law & Disorder exposes the cracks in our system, agitates for resistance and collectively builds a new world where all of us thrive. Hosted by Cat Brooks. Produced by Jesse Strauss.
We’ve spoken many times on Law & Disorder about the importance of Healing Justice. On today’s show, we speak with co-editors Cara Page and Erica Woodland about their new book, anti-capitalist, Black feminist, and abolitionist book, Healing Justice Lineages. The book is a profound and urgent call to embrace community and survivor-led care strategies as models that push beyond commodified self-care, the … Continued
For over fifty years, the Shakurs have inspired generations of activists, scholars, and music fans. Many people are only familiar with Assata Shakur, the popular author and thinker, living for three decades in Cuban exile; or the late rapper Tupac. But the branches of the Shakur family tree extend widely, and the roots reach into … Continued
We’ve spoken many times on Law & Disorder about the importance of Healing Justice. On today’s show, we speak with co-editors Cara Page and Erica Woodland about their new book, anti-capitalist, Black feminist, and abolitionist book, Healing Justice Lineages. The book is a profound and urgent call to embrace community and survivor-led care strategies as models … Continued
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 … Continued
A librarian for forty years, local Bay Area treasure Dorothy Lazard joined the staff of the Oakland Public Library in 2000. From 2009 until her retirement in 2021, she was the head librarian of the Oakland Public Library Oakland History Center, where she encouraged people of all ages and backgrounds to explore local history. On … Continued
On today’s show, we hear from Naomi Klein, speaking from the Socialism 2023 conference about her new book, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, where she discuses the ways that conservatives have taken shortfalls of left movements and turned them against us in the form of conspiracies. We’ll learn that the real conspiracy is capitalism. … Continued
