Knife at the Gunfight

Dr. Fitzgerald and Dr. Raphaël introduce themselves and the Trauma Code to New York City on WBAI, 99.5 FM.

Trauma Code, co-hosted by Dr. Simon Fitzgerald and Dr. Cassandra Raphaël airs Mondays at 2:00 PM on 99.5 WBAI, New York City.

Interview with Ceasefire ambassador David Johnson on his work with youth sports, with squeegee workers and in the recording studio. For more info on the Baltimore Ceasefire Movement

Interview with Dr. Haytham Kaafarani regarding Beirut Port explosion.

First in the Baltimore Ceasefire Series. Interviews with founders and activists of the Baltimore Ceasefire Movement.

Dr. Fitzgerald catches up with his Fallstaff Middle School classmate, Detective Triston Ferguson of the Baltimore Police Department.

We interview Baynard Woods on the white supremecist roots of the January 6th seige of the capitol in Southern White insurrection against reconstruction. Also discuss his new book "I Got a Monster". Music by Miss Kam https://heymisskam.bandcamp.com/ Buy the books I Got a Monster https://redemmas.org/titles/34329-i-got-a-monster--the-rise-and-fall-of-america-s-most-corrupt-police-squad Growing up Barksdale. https://redemmas.org/titles/34121-growing-up-barksdale--a-true-baltimore-story For more on GTTF see our previous interview with Baynard https://soundcloud.com/knifeatthegunfight/baynard-woods-can-the-baltimore-police-department-survive-the-gun-trace-task-force-trial and Brandon Soderberg's latest piece on police corruption in Baltimore https://theappeal.org/years-after-freddie-grays-death-baltimore-police-misconduct-persists/ #RIPTater

We interview Green Party candidate for Baltimore City council 12th district, Franca Muller Paz. All elected city council members in Baltimore have been Democrat since the 1930s. For the first time in decades, that may be about to change. Music by Franca supporters "Goals" by Eze Jackson and "If I were President" by Las Cafeteras.

We discuss Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iran and drone warfare in the region with Canadian PhD candidate Anthony Fenton. As featured on Shay Wa Nana radio on WPFW in Washington D.C. October 2, 2019.

Dr. Lawrence Brown from Morgan State discusses the Black Butterfly and Apartheid in Baltimore. Music: Fists of Fury by Kamasi Washington W'ani Aba by M.anifest

We talk with D. Watkins about his new book We Speak for Ourselves. We touch on the Healthy Holly scandal, four years since the death of Freddy Gray, and Johns Hopkins presence in East Baltimore.

Knife at the Gunfight is back on WPFW with Shay Wa Nana radio. We talk to Anthony Fenton about the International Defense Exposition military conference in Abu Dhabi, and then with Letrice Gant about the Baltimore Ceasefire Movement. Music by Emel Mathlouthi

Dr. Fitz interviews Anthony Fenton on Canada's fallout with Saudi Arabia as well as the problematic North American support for the ongoing war in Yemen. Special Guest TT the Artist discusses Baltimore Club music and Baltimore Ceasefire.

Baltimore Club Queen TT the Artist joins us in studio and discusses the Baltimore Ceasefire hip hop collaboration with Von Vargas, as well as her community work in Baltimore and upcoming movie Dark City: Beneath the Beat.

I was on WPFW covering for for the Shay Wa Nana show with the homie Gaurav Madan. Show's topic ICE raids in DC and the community response. My essay on Taylor Hayes and the Red Lines of Baltimore at minute 42.

Israeli mathematician Kobi Snitz talks about his direct action work with Palestinians as a part of the group "Anarchists Against the Wall" also known as "Jews Against Ghettos."

Dr. Fitz sits in the studio for Zein El-Amine of Shay Wa Nana radio and talks to Dr. Alice Rothchild about Gaza mental health and health care infastructure. Guest Gaurav Madan visits to talk about updates on ICE and immigrant communities in Maryland. Music: Slingshot Hip Hop soundtrack

Dr. Fitz and Dr. McIntyre discuss the role of global surgery as well as career advice for young professionals and students interested in a career in global surgery. Introduction on Baltimore Lacrosse, and conclusion on Baltimore's ghosts of violent past. Music: 9th v. Though by Black Thought Last Ride by Beach House

Dr. Fitz and Brandon Soderberg discuss media consolidation in Baltimore from Baltimore Beat and the City Paper to Tronc and the Sinclair Media Group. Music: Be More by TT the Artist and Mighty Mark Kid Radium by Ed Schrader's Music Beat Invocation: Dear Baltimore by Erricka Bridgeford and Judah Adashi Book Recommendations: Why We Matter by Eaton Thomas Things that Make White People Uncomfortably by Michael Bennett Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones

Coppin University senior and Operation Heat founder Sameirra Jones talks education, violence and organizing in Baltimore. Music: Abrock "Ain't Yours" Book Recommendation: Art Activism by Aaron Maybin

Baynard Woods: Can the Baltimore Police Department Survive the Gun Trace Task Force trial? Music: Indie by Greenspan feat. Christen B Keep Swimming by Greenspan feat. Eze Jackson Tired by Young Moose Book Recommendation: Dark Alliance by Gary Webb

"The power of the surgeon beyond how we weild the knife" with Dallas trauma surgeon Dr. Brian H. Williams. Book Recommendations: Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson Where do we go from here: Chaos or Community? by Dr. Martin Luther King Music: Haiti Cherie by multiple artists Lady Haiti by Wyclef Jean Wake Up! by Rage Against the Machine See it Through by Ryan Harvey, Kareem Samara and Shireen Lilith

Hospital-based violence responder Anthony Barnes discusses his work against violence in Northwest Baltimore and his life journey through drugs, gangs and prison to get here. He explains the classic science fiction work Ender's Game as a metaphor for for gang life. Music: Baltimore Cease Fire ft. Von Vargas, Greenspan, Josh Lay, Blaqstarr, TT The Artist, The Boy Blesst, Femi the Drifish, Smallz, Preme, Martina Lynch, and Ill Conscious Book Recommendations: Perspective Baltimore by Kyle Pompey Art Activism by Aaron Maybin Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card Community of Self by Dr. Na'Im Akbar

Doc Fitz and Terrance Williams discuss the struggle for pay parity in women's sports, the NFL boycott, Colin Kaepernick, and White Supremacy after Charlottesville. RIP 30 Glizzy. Book Recommendations: Raw Wounds by Kondwani Fidel Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Music by 30 Glizzy and Ain't Nobody Worrying by Anthony Hamilton.

Doc Fitz discusses a weekend intervention against violence in Baltimore with Erricka Bridgeford of Baltimore Ceasefire and Baltimore Peace Challenge.

A surgeon discusses trauma with a military sociologist who happens to be a ballet dancer, a veteran of the Iraq war, and a former advisor to Barack Obama.

The world changing, subtle Knife at the Gunfight.

Oh, Baltimore! Surgical grand rounds on the public health of race, poverty and violence in Baltimore

Doc Fitz and Terrance Williams discuss the political economy of the sports world in 2017. Book Club Reading: League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions and the Battle for Truth

A Baltimore surgeon against violence discusses #NoDAPL and the struggle of indigenous people for land rights. This is an edited version of the first episode, easier to listen to and a little shorter. Book Club Reading: The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses

#NoDAPL A surgeon against violence discusses with activists working on the Dakota Access Pipleine and indigenous land rights issues.