KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks

On today’s show we talk about the limits of accountability withing the system of policing with Mac Muir. Guest: Mac Muir is the co-author with Greg Finch of Cop Cop: Breaking the Fixed System of American Policing. The book is about the culture, incentives, and training that shape modern policing in the United States.  It examines how policing is structured to reward control and compliance over pub...

On Today’s show, we discuss with authors Brian Hochman and Matthew Guariglia how a government investigation led by US senator Frank Church uncovered some of the darkest state secrets of the twentieth century.  The Church Committee confirmed the nation’s worst fears about the unchecked power of its intelligence agencies: at the FBI, surveillance campaigns against civil rights leaders and clandestin...

On today’s show, Cat Brooks talks about the genocide in Gaza, the settler’s occupation in the West Bank, and reactions to the UN The 81st session General Assembly (UNGA81) with Rayan El-Amine. Rayan El-Amine is Community organizer and member leader with Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) and teaches at City College of San Francisco in the Labor and Community Studies Department.    —- Subsc...

On today’s show, Cat Brooks talks about the power and potential of language and how the state uses it against us, our opportunities to utilize it in liberatory struggle and the importance of speaking truth to power with Camonghne Felix. Camonghne Felix is a poet, essayist and former political communications strategist, is the author of Dyscalculia and Build Yourself a Boat, which was longlisted fo...

On today’s show, host Cat Brooks talks to Professor Richard Wolff about the Declining of the US Economy, the factors that are dealing to it, and what people needs to do to protect themselves. 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.  He is the founder of Democr...

Blue Power tells us about how police built a political movement to protect themselves. Stuart Schrader is an associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, where he is the director of the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism. He is also the author of Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing and his latest...

On todays show – September 7th 2026 marked the 30th anniversary of the murder of rapper, actor, activist, thug, poet, rebel, visionary legend Tupac Shakur. . Davey D is a journalist, DJ, hip hop historian, professor, and host of KPFA’s Hard Knock Radio, a daily syndicated show focusing on Hip Hop culture and politics   Announcement Stuart Schrader, author of “Blue Power: How Police Organized to Pr...

On today’s show, we discuss the Third-Country Removals by the Trump administration and ICE flights. Then, we talk about Zakiya Jendayi’s case, a story of Probate. ICE flights and third-country removals Gillian Brockell writes about ICE flights and third-country removals at The American Prospect.  She is a former Washington Post staff writer and former flight attendant.  Her latest article “Immigra...

On today’s show, we turn our attention to the DR Congo where the Ebola virus has spread to a 7th district.  The new numbers demonstrate 7200 cases, almost 4000 dead.  Meanwhile the war rages on.  Cat Brooks talks with Maurice Carney to debunk how the billionaire class and multinational corporations have been extracting massive wealth from Africa and undermining public health institutions and worse...

On Today’s show, host Cat Brooks talks to Zeiad  Abbas Shamrouch about the ongoing Israeli genocide in Palestine and the deterioration of the living conditions for Palestinian people. Zeiad  Abbas Shamrouch is the Executive Director of Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA for Peace).  Zeiad is a Palestinian refugee from Dheisheh Refugee Camp in the West Bank.  He is co-founder of the Ibdaa Cultur...

On today’s show guest host Melina Abdullah speaks with Thandiwe Abdullah and Mau Trejo about the Messy Beautiful Work of Real Black-Brown Solidarity. —- Subscribe to our podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post The Messy Beautiful Work of Real...

Guest host Dr. Melina Abdullah discusses the impending Cal State faculty strike with Dr. Margarita Berta Avila, president of the California Faculty Association. —- Subscribe to our podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Defending Teacher Sol...

On today’s show – a powerful conversation with author and activist Shourideh Molavi about her new book Environmental Warfare in Gaza: Colonial Violence and New Landscapes of Resistance which chronicles the legacy of land control, degradation and theft as part of the Zionist war chest. We talk perimeters, environmental warfare and crop control and the roles they all play in on going genocide. —- Su...

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 Diana Martinez. —- Subscribe to our podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post...

On today’s show, guest-host Nana Gyamfi talks with Aarti Kohli and Ronald Claude about the Trump administration’s deportation campaign, mass detentions, TPS Revocation, deportations to third countries, the community resistance against these policies and much more. Aarti Kohli is the Executive Director at Asian Law Caucus. Ronald Claude is Director of Policy & Advocacy at Black Alliance for Just Im...

When juvenile courts were first created more than 100 years ago, they were imagined as a therapeutic space where specially-trained public servants and a friendly, caring judge would help children and families. Today, our guest illustrates how that vision never came to pass, and how the procedures and policies of family court are based in a heritage of racism and a disdain for poverty. Jane Spinak ...

On today’s Palestine Post episode, guest-host Nana Gyamfi talks with Khury Petersen-Smith about the latest developments in the Israel’s genocidal assault on Palestine, the US complicity, and the people’s resistance around the globe. Khury Petersen-Smith is the Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he researches U.S. empire, borders, and migration. Our Resista...

Our Resistance in Residence artist this week is Oakland based poet, playwright, and performer Aimee Suzara. Photo Courtesy of https://www.aimeesuzara.net/ Aimee Suzara’s second full-length book Birth Language, centers on a Filipina-American time traveling through her history, twisted and haunted like the roots of a balete tree. The book fuses English, Spanish, and Tagalog. It employs archival text...

On today’s show, guest-host Kalonji Jama Changa talks to Roger Wareham and Dr. Lawrence “Jahi” Johnson about the 25th anniversary of the Durban Declaration and how no former colonizing state has propose a program to repair the “gravest crimes against humanity” – the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. Then, Urban Farming for social justice with Duron Chavis. 25th Anniversary of the Durban Declaration Crim...

In this episode: A four-hundred-year reckoning with the colonial workings of the carceral state and resistance against it. We talk about how the story of American prisons is inextricably linked to the expansion of US power around the globe as well as the power of prison resistance, from the Seminole Indians to Assata Shakur. Our guest is Benjamin Weber, professor of African American Studies at UC...

In today’s episode, we speak with author, influencer and anti-Zionist Jewish activist Sim Kern about their book Genocide Bad: Notes on Palestine, Jewish History, and Collective Liberation. —- Subscribe to our podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ Th...

On todays show, Black August explainers and commemoration continues. Dhoruba bin Wahad is a political activist and author, former leader of the New York Black Panther Party and co-founder of the Black Liberation Army.  He was one of the Panther 21 defendants charged in 1969 with conspiracy to attack New York City police stations. He is the author of the book “Revolution In These Times: Black Panth...

On today’s show, the right wing is targeting the family of democratic congressional candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s family with Mother Jones reporter Alex Nguyen. Then, Israel’s illegal US propaganda campaign with Julian Cooper. The Right Is Targeting Abdul El-Sayed’s Family Members Alex Nguyen is a reporter for Mother Jones, covering politics of the day, and the connections between labor, race, and cu...

On todays show, we will speak to Aditi Varshneya about AI “activation zones” and Data Centers in downtown Oakland. Then ICE wants a new toy and looks like they are getting them – electric shock gloves are on the menu – we will speak to Mother Jones reporter Sophie Hurwitz and finally we will speak to the director of a new film about Joan Little. No Data Centers in Oakland campaign  Aditi Varshneya...

On today’s show, Cat Brooks delivers a commentary on the targeting of Black youth before speaking with Mica Rosenberg and Jeff Ernsthausen of ProPublica about their investigation into the sharp increase in ICE detentions and deportations of unaccompanied immigrant children under the Trump administration. Then, Alicia Saddler remembers her brother, Angel Ramos, who was killed by Vallejo police in 2...