Podcasts about anti police terror project

Oakland is in a budget crisis and appears on the verge of bankruptcy. Meanwhile the police union is rejecting an idea of cuts to their staff. Oakland is faced with hard choices, and we're joined to discuss by James Burch, Deputy Director of the Anti-Police Terror Project. — Subscribe to this 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 Oakland Budget Potential for Bankruptcy w/ James Burch appeared first on KPFA.

Donald Trump becomes the first convicted felon elected president of the United States, also the oldest person, the wealthiest person, and apparently the first Republican in 20 years to win the popular vote. Republicans have also won the Senate, and remains to be seen if they also win the House. To discuss what happened, we're joined by John Nichols, National Affairs Correspondent for the Nation. 0:20 -What happens to the criminal and civil cases against Trump now? Jeremy Stahl is Jurisprudence editor at Slate.  0:33 – Latinos, immigration and the election Oscar A. Chacón is Senior Strategy Advisor for Alianza Americas.  0:45 – The impact on the war on Palestine and US solidarity movements Khury Petersen-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he researches U.S. empire, borders, and migration. 1:10 – San Francisco sees a swing to the right Tim Redmond is the founder of 48hills, and has covered San Francisco for more than 30 years.  1:25 – Oakland votes to recall both mayor and district attorney Pecolia Manigo is the political director of Oakland Rising, which mobilizes and educates voters in the flatlands – East and West Oakland – around issues of social justice. 1:35 – What happened in Los Angeles: District Attorney's race Melina Abdullah is a Vice Presidential candidate who ran this election as an Independent with Dr Cornel West. She's a professor of pan-African studies at Cal State Los Angeles, as well as the co-founder of the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter and co-founder of Black Lives Matter Grassroots. 1:45 – California ballot propositions Keyan Bliss is a community organizer with the Anti Police Terror Project in Sacramento, where he also serves as a commissioner on the Sacramento Community Police Review Commission.  Co-hosted by Cat Brooks and Brian Edwards-Tiekert.  The post Post-Election Day 2024 Special appeared first on KPFA.

 Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We played a recording of two speakers at the small but powerful Kanaky Libre Solidarity Rally, which was held on Parliament steps on the night of Friday 26th July, discussing the history of Kanaky (so-called 'New Caledonia'). This excerpt also includes a discussion about boycotting the Olympic games in Paris, as the opening ceremony was held on the same day.// We listened back to an excerpt from Brisbane Free University and Radio Reversal's 'Challenging Colonial Copaganda' webinar, which brought together Professor Chelsea Watego, Dr Amy McQuire, Ronnie Gorrie and Associate Professor Amanda Porter to speak about the laundering and normalisation of policing in so-called Australia. In this segment, we hear Chelsea and Amanda critically discussing the normalisation of police presence at First Nations community events, and the machinations of police image-management through ties with other institutions.// Last week, Priya caught up with Stop LAPD Spying Coalition's Hamid Khan and Matyos Kidane to talk about organising with unhoused community in downtown Los Angeles' Skid Row and beyond against militarised policing and surveillance by the Los Angeles Police Department. We played part one of this interview today.// The Anti Police Terror Project joined organisations around the United States to coordinate a rally calling for Justice for Sonya Massey on the 29th of July in Oakland, California. Sonya Massey was a 36-year-old Black mother who was shot and killed by Deputy Sean Grayson of the Illinois Police Department on 6 July, 2024, after she called the police with concerns about an intruder entering her home. The rally was MC'd by APTP's Cat Brooks, and the recording we played in today's show features poetry by Oakland's first Poet Laureate Dr Ayodele 'WordSlanger' Nzinga, as well as reflections from Uncle Bobby and Big Oscar, the uncle and father of Oscar Grant, who was killed on New Year's Day 2009 by Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Officer Johannes Mehserle in Oakland.//

The Mamas for a Free Palestine collective is made up of mothers across the Bay Area who are fed up with business as usual. While they are a relatively new group, these mothers are not new to activism and political organizing. In December 2023 and February 2024, Mamas for a Free Palestine organized alongside Eastbay for Ceasefire Now to rally rank and file workers across various unions and social justice organizations like AROC, Jewish Voice for Peace, PODER, and Anti Police Terror Project to demand that elected officials declare a permanent ceasefire, as well as end the use of public funds for Israel's military. Their rally call: fund care, not killing. Support humanitarian aid for Gaza immediately. Fund community needs like healthcare and affordable housing.

In Oakland, the city has been examining the potential for reintroducing a former police program called Operation Ceasefire. It's a carrot and stick program, where the Police Department identifies people they believe to be violent, offer them social services and support structures while also threatening them with significant criminal enhancements like state and federal charges in the case that they are arrested for any crime. It turns out that the carrot portion of Operation Ceasefire had a positive impact. Joining us to discuss are George Galvis, the co-founder and executive director of Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice, along with James Burch, Deputy Director for the Anti Police-Terror Project, an organization that seeks to end police violence in Black and Brown communities. — Subscribe to this 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 Oakland Re-examines Operation Ceasefire w/ George Galvis & James Burch appeared first on KPFA.

As we close out a difficult year, two great games with interesting parallels remind us to keep it pushing -- with profound meditations on what happens when we look away from the world and from each other. In Rundisc's Chants of Sennaar, a hooded protagonist strives to reach the top of a mysterious tower while decoding language barriers that have kept its inhabitants isolated for generations. In Don't Nod's Jusant, a young climber scales an abandoned mountain in a treacherous journey to restore balance to a planet trapped in limbo. And they both slap!!!!1:51 - Patreon shoutouts! Thank you all!4:09 - Casual home disaster chat (thanks for your patience as we've rescheduled lately!)6:27 - We both finished Sea of Stars!17:23 - Jusant and Chants of Sennaar conversationArticle referenced: https://www.polygon.com/reviews/23864920/chants-of-sennaar-review-puzzles-stealthSide Questhttps://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/ The Anti Police-Terror Project is a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color. We support families surviving police terror in their fight for justice, documenting police abuses and connecting impacted families and community members with resources, legal referrals, and opportunities for healing.About Pixel TherapyWe're a podcast queering and transcending video games for all kinds of gamers and those who love them--get cozy with us! If you like what you hear, please take a moment to rate us, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts (or your listening app of choice) and subscribe! Want more? Join for free or unlock monthly bonus episodes for $2/mo at patreon.com/pixeltherapypod

What can actually be done about bad actors in law enforcement? A recent law may have an impact – that's California's Senate Bill 2, also known as the Kenneth Ross Jr. Police Decertification Act which was fought for and won by a statewide coalition that included BLM Grassroots, the Anti-Police Terror Project, Alliance for Boys and Men of Color and others including the ACLU of Northern California. Joining us to discuss is Marshal Arnwine, an advocate for the Criminal Justice Program at the ACLU of Northern California. In this capacity, he helps lead and organize efforts to reform police policies for 48 Northern California counties. —- Subscribe to this 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/ photo: Maxim Hopman via Unsplash The post California's Police Decertification Act w/ Marshal Arnwine appeared first on KPFA.

A local bus or train ride usually costs between one and three dollars. But many Americans living in public transportation-dense cities choose to evade paying for transit tickets when possible. They get on the bus through the back door and avoid the driver. And in bigger cities, it's common practice to hop the turnstile on the subway. Fare evasion can cost transit agencies across the country tens, even hundreds of millions of dollars. It affects their ability to provide consistent bus and train service, which in turn affects riders on their way to work, school, home, or wherever they need to go. On the other hand, enforcement of fare evasion has historically been racially targeted. When police stop people for hopping the turnstile, there is a heightened opportunity for violence against riders of color. This method of enforcement also ends up discriminating against people with lower incomes. If cities are going to enforce transit fares, it must be done in an equitable way. We spoke to Ben Brachfeld, a transit reporter for amNewYork; Haleema Bharoocha, Policy Advocate at the Anti Police-Terror Project and author of the article, Op-Ed: Why Is Fare Evasion Punished More Severely than Speeding?; and Dr. Sogand Karbalaieali, a transportation engineer and author of the article Opinion: Fights Over Fare Evasion Are Missing the Point.

California's lack of mental health infrastructure is leaving some of our neediest people on the streets or to languish in jails and prisons which simply exacerbate their conditions. James Ramsey, who had repeated issues with mental health and problematic run-ins with law enforcement, received advocacy for long-term care by the Anti-Police Terror Project for years to no avail, as a result of over-crowded social support systems. Without that material and ongoing support, James Ramsey ended up on the streets, and his name appeared in the newspaper for having assaulted an Asian elder. Joining us this morning to discuss the lack of services and infrastructure in California to take care of our community members with high needs – especially those with criminal convictions – is Emily Hoeven, an Opinion columnist at The Chronicle. She previously wrote for non-profit newsroom CalMatters on California politics and policy. —- Subscribe to this 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 CA's Lack of Support for Poor Mentally Ill Residents w/ Emily Hoeven appeared first on KPFA.

We take a deep dive into the mayor of Oakland's proposed budget, a day after the Oakland City Council had its first meeting about the current budget cycle. The city is facing a $300 million dollar deficit and every department has been cut – except for the police. We are joined by Ayodele Nzinga, Oakland's poet laureate and a multi-hyphenated artist, actress, producing director, playwright, poet, dramaturg, performance consultant, educator, and community advocate; we're also joined by James Burch, Deputy Director for the Anti Police-Terror Project, an organization that seeks to end police violence in Black and Brown communities; and lastly, we speak with Kijani Edwards, the Oakland Director of The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) Action, a grassroots, member-led, statewide community organization working with more than 15,000 members across California. All three are members of the People's Budget Coalition. Then we go to the US South to get updates from regional grassroots organizer Marquell Bridges on the latest in killings by police officers throughout the region. Our Resistance in Residence Artist this week is writer, poet, educator, and Executive Director of Youth Speaks, Michelle “Mush” Lee. Learn more about Youth Speaks: https://youthspeaks.org/ —- Subscribe to this 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 Oakland Mayor's Budget Maintains Police Funding Amid Major Deficit w/ Ayodele Nzinga, James Burch & Kijani Edwards appeared first on KPFA.

Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao has released her first budget plan for the city. Joining us to discuss is Rev. Jeremy J. McCants, a Faith Rooted Organizer for East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE), an organization committed to fighting for equitable and economic power in the Bay Area; as well as a minister at the historic Allen Temple Baptist Church in Oakland. Also joining the conversation is James Burch, Policy Director for the Anti Police-Terror Project, an organization that seeks to end police violence in Black and Brown communities. —- Subscribe to this 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 Oakland Mayor Proposes New Budget w/ Rev Jeremy McCants & James Burch appeared first on KPFA.

This January, the Anti Police-Terror Project opened its new building, the People's House---a community center for abolitionist organizing. For this episode, we spoke to two key APTP organizers-- Cat Brooks, the group's co-founder, and Guadalupe Chavez, its healing programs coordinator. From them, you'll hear about Mental Health First, the APTP's non-carceral crisis response team, and about healing justice and its relationship to abolition. 

On today's show, a conversation about California's current campaigns to remove certain responsibilities from police officers in the latest organizing to defund. That includes a statewide campaign to remove police from traffic stops as well as the recent transition in Oakland to remove police from dealing with abandoned vehicles. We're joined by James Burch, Policy Director for the Anti Police-Terror Project, an organization that seeks to end police violence in Black and Brown communities. Check out the Anti-Police Terror Project's website: https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/ —- Subscribe to this 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 No Cops in Traffic Stops w/ James Burch appeared first on KPFA.

Next week is Black Solidarity Week in the Bay Area. We speak with organizer Turha AK, a movement strategist and security expert. He is the founder of Community Ready Corps and a co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project. Check out the Black Solidarity Week website: https://blacksolidarity.org/ —- Subscribe to this 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 Black Solidarity Week w/ Turha AK appeared first on KPFA.

In the wake of two mass shootings that left 18 people dead, California leaders say they'll pass new legislation to regulate concealed weapon permits. Reporter: Marisa Lagos, KQED  The funeral for 29-year-old Tyre Nichols was held Wednesday in Memphis, three weeks after he died following a beating by police. There are increased calls for police accountability across the nation, an issue that's being taken on here in California by the Bay Area-based Anti Police-Terror Project. Guest: Cat Brooks, Executive Director, Anti Police-Terror Project 

The Oakland Police Chief, Leronne Armstrong has been placed on paid administrative leave by Mayor Sheng Thao after he made the news for neglecting to follow through on punishments for an officer who violated policy and law multiple times – including a hit-and-run car accident while driving a city-owned vehicle and discharging his firearm in an elevator. Yesterday, Chief Leronne Armstrong teamed up with Public relations consultant Sam Singer – the same crisis communications manager that worked with terminated police chief Anne Kirkpatrick in her lawsuit against the city – and fired back demanding he be immediately reinstated and taking aim at the federal monitor Robert Warshaw. We speak with James Burch, the Deputy Director of the Anti-Police Terror Project to address the situation, and also to discuss the latest work of APTP, including the opening of a new building called The People's House. At the end of the conversation, we're joined by April Green, aunt of Keita O'Neil who was killed by San Francisco police officers in 2017. Check out APTP's website: http://aptp.org/ Follow APTP on Twitter: https://twitter.com/APTPaction —- Subscribe to this 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 OPD Chief suspended and APTP opens The People's House w/ James Burch appeared first on KPFA.

The Anti-Police Terror Project has redistributed $3.5 million to Black-led community organizations and families impacted by state violence – in this episode we speak with the folks that helped make it happen. Rahel Mekdim Teka and Asia Alman are community organizers and project managers of the Radical Redistribution Fund. They discuss the decision-making process around how to redistribute funds so they can be used most effectively, and without any strings attached whatsoever. —- Subscribe to this 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 $3.5 million redistributed for Black self-determination appeared first on KPFA.

It is election time and the mayoral race in Oakland is full of folks hopeful to lead the city. We spend this episode taking a look at the platforms of the candidates with two of The Town's most forward-facing activists and advocates. We're joined by Walter Riley, a Civil Rights activist since the civil rights movement, who worked alongside Malcolm X and others before moving to the Bay Area in 1965, where he supported the Third World Liberation strikes at SF State in 1968 that led to the beginning of ethnic studies. More recently, he's an active criminal defense and civil rights attorney based in Oakland who is deeply involved with local politics. We're also joined by policy expert James Burch, who is Deputy Director for the Anti Police-Terror Project, an organization that seeks to end police violence in Black and Brown communities. Follow Walter Riley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/walterphillip Follow James Burch's organization APTP on Twitter: https://twitter.com/APTPaction —- Subscribe to this 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 Oakland's Mayoral Race w/ Walter Riley + James Burch appeared first on KPFA.

In this episode, we dive into this week's breaking local story about the violence of the Alameda County Sheriff Department – this is the department that oversees Santa Rita County Jail as well as a variety of other policing activities in the county. Forty-seven Alameda County sheriff deputies have been relieved of their duties after an internal audit revealed they had failed psychological exams required to be an officer. Some of the deputies had failed as far back as 2016 but were allowed to continue working. This revelation comes as a result of an investigation into a sheriff deputy murdering a couple in their home the previous week – that deputy was allegedly having an affair with a woman in that couple. We are joined by James Burch of the Anti-Police Terror Project and then by Jose Bernal with the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights to discuss. Follow the Anti-Police Terror Project on Twitter: https://twitter.com/APTPaction Check out the Anti-Police Terror Project's website: https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/ Follow the Ella Baker Center on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ellabakercenter Check out the Ella Baker Center's website: https://ellabakercenter.org/ —- Subscribe to this 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 47 Alameda Co Sheriff Deputies On Leave For Failed Psych Evals w/ James Burch from APTP & Jose Bernal from the Ella Baker Center appeared first on KPFA.

How did The Real Work come to be? What were the conditions that set the stage (pun intended) for theater workers to come together to study & practice transformative justice? Let's find out...Episode transcript: https://bit.ly/TheRealWork-EP1Sogorea Te' Land Trust: https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/Save the West Berkeley Shellmound: https://shellmound.org/Anti Police-Terror Project: https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/The Village in Oakland #feedthepeople: @villageoakland, https://www.facebook.com/TheVillageInOakland Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment: https://www.acceaction.org/East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative: https://ebprec.org/Washington Post, “Chicago theaters said ‘Not in Our House' to sexual abuse and harassment”: ​​https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/chicago-theaters-say-not-in-our-house-to-sexual-abuse/2017/12/14/e2db9c30-e014-11e7-8679-a9728984779c_story.html Howlround, “What Playwrights Can Learn from Intimacy Directors: A Conversation with Gaby Labotka“: https://howlround.com/what-playwrights-can-learn-intimacy-directors Coalition of Black Women Professional Theatre Makers in the Bay Area, California: https://blackwomenbayareatheatre.wordpress.com/The New York Times, “Long Wharf Theater Leader is Accused of Sexual Harassment”: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/theater/gordon-edelstein-long-wharf-theater-sexual-misconduct.html Kim Tran: https://www.kimtranphd.com/ Kyra Jones: https://www.kyrajones.me/Adrienne Skye Roberts: http://therapywithadrienneskye.com/Resources for Addressing Sexual Harassment & Violence (compiled for It's Time: Bay Area Town Hall on Sexual Harassment in Our Theatre Community): https://www.theatrebayarea.org/general/custom.asp?page=itstimeresources Mia Mingus: https://www.soiltjp.org & https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective: https://batjc.wordpress.com/Liberation Spring: https://liberationspring.com/ For additional resources, including this episode's ASL video: https://www.weriseproduction.com/therealworkzAnda of DiaspoRADiCAL: @diaspo.radical on Instagram & https://soundcloud.com/diasporadicalConnect with us at weriseproduction[at]protonmail[dot]com, and follow us on Facebook & Instagram at weriseproduction, & on twitter at WeRiseProducers.

CharRon chat with Visual artist, poet, Activist, register nurse, and Book author: Asantewaa Boykin. Asantewaa is a founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project and a co-chair for Mental Health First. Plus, a co-chair and advocate of Capital City Black Nurses Association. We also discuss her first book, Live, Love + Liberation(Nomadic Press), being release on May 7, 2022. She will be doing a Book tour starting in May.  Check out:  Asantewaa - www.asantewaaboykin.com CharRon Smith: Iambiczine(instagram) APTP: https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/ MH first: https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/mh-first-1 Capital City Black Nurses Assoc.: https://www.ccbna.org/

Rally honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., Central Park, New York City, April 1968. | Library of Congress – Photographer: Bernard Gotfryd On today's show: 0:08 – We continue our inflation discussion with Dean Baker (@DeanBaker13), senior economist at the Center for Economic Policy and Research. 0:34 – Lexi McMenamin (@leximcmenamin), News & Politics Editor at Teen Vogue and Keith Brown, President of the Oakland Education Association (@OaklandEA) join us to discuss the student walkouts organized in Oakland and at schools across the U.S. 1:08 – Darby Aono (@darbyaono), student at Berkeley Law joins us to discuss the torrent of COVID cases inside Santa Rita Jail. 1:20 – Sergeant Ray Kelly, spokesperson with the Alameda County Sheriff's Office joins us. 1:34 – Tur-Ha Ak, Field Marshall for the Black Panther Party Cubs, co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project, and Founder of the Community Ready Corps; and Asantewaa Boykin, a Registered Nurse, co-founder of the Anti Police Terror Project, and program director of MH First Sacramento (@MHFirst Sac) join us to discuss the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr and the events taking place in Oakland and Sacramento to reclaim Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Details about Monday's car caravan in Oakland can be found on APTP's website: Reclaim MLK 2022 The post More on inflation; Across the country, students walkout; COVID Update on Santa Rita Jails; Plus direct actions taking place on MLK Day appeared first on KPFA.

Last May the murder of George Floyd tipped off a wave of national protests that reenergized the criminal justice reform movement and launched the “defund the police” slogan right to the center of the national conversation. But now a year-and-a-half later amid a wave of worsening violent crime Bay Area leaders are beginning to strike a different tone as they signal support for stepped up law enforcement resources. On this edition of KCBS In Depth, we dig into the Bay Area's crime trends to try to find out what's driving them and what this could all mean for the future of reform. Guests:  Jonathan Simon, professor, UC Berkeley School of Law Cat Brooks, co-founder, Anti Police-Terror Project | executive director, Justice Teams Network Loren Taylor, Oakland City Council member  Host: Keith Menconi    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The summer of 2020 saw perhaps the largest collective uprising in the United States. The uprising, sparked by the cold-blooded murder of George Floyd, catapulted an important question into the public imaginary: is modern day policing...reformable? Or do we need to move beyond it entirely? Most of the thousands of people who poured out into the streets last summer understood that the murder of George Floyd was not just an isolated incident — not just the actions of a single bad apple. They understood that the entire institution of policing was responsible, that despite the years of reform, police continue to kill about a thousand people every year, they continue to terrorize Black, Brown, and poor communities, and they do what they do, for the most part, with zero accountability. For the first time since this institution was actually created, people, in very large numbers, were saying, “No. We're done with reform. It's not a few bad apples — the entire barrel is rotten.” In this episode of Upstream, we explore the current establishment backlash against the abolish/defund movement, and ask the questions: what does more cops on our streets actually mean? Does more police and more police funding actually lead to safer communities? How about reforms — do they actually lead to better policing? What's happening with the defund or abolish movement, which seemed so unstoppable just a year ago? We not only examine these questions, but go further to ask: what is the history and function of policing? How is it inextricably intertwined with racism and capitalism? Whose interests do the police really serve? Is it even possible to reform this institution? And if not, what should take its place? And How can we bring about safer and better resourced communities — for everyone? Featuring: Cat Brooks– Co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project in Oakland, Executive Director of the Justice Teams Network, and co-host of Upfront on KPFA Alex Vitale – Professor of sociology, coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College, and author of The End of Policing published by Verso Books Kay Gabriel – Teacher and organizer with the #DefundNYPD campaign D'atra Jackson – National Director of BYP 100 John – Part of the Working Class History Project Sen. Sydney Kamlager- State Senator for California's 30th Senate District ​​ Music by: ​ Godspeed You! Black Emperor Chris Zabriskie Do Make Say Think Tristeza Thank you to Phil Wrigglesworth for the cover art. Upstream theme music was composed by Robert. Upstream is a labor of love — we couldn't keep this project going without the generosity of our listeners and fans. Please consider chipping in a one-time or recurring donation at www.upstreampodcast.org/support Also, if your organization wants to sponsor one of our upcoming documentaries, we have a number of sponsorship packages available. Find out more at upstreampodcast.org/sponsorship. For more from Upstream, visit www.upstreampodcast.org and follow us on social media: Facebook.com/upstreampodcast twitter.com/UpstreamPodcast Instagram.com/upstreampodcast You can also subscribe to us on Apple Podcast and Spotify: Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/upst…am/id1082594532 Spotify: spoti.fi/2AryXHs

The summer of 2020 saw perhaps the largest collective uprising in the United States. The uprising, sparked by the cold-blooded murder of George Floyd, catapulted an important question into the public imaginary: is modern day policing...reformable? Or do we need to move beyond it entirely? Most of the thousands of people who poured out into the streets last summer understood that the murder of George Floyd was not just an isolated incident — not just the actions of a single bad apple. They understood that the entire institution of policing was responsible, that despite the years of reform, police continue to kill about a thousand people every year, they continue to terrorize Black, Brown, and poor communities, and they do what they do, for the most part, with zero accountability. For the first time since this institution was actually created, people, in very large numbers, were saying, “No. We're done with reform. It's not a few bad apples — the entire barrel is rotten.” In this episode of Upstream, we explore the current establishment backlash against the abolish/defund movement, and ask the questions: what does more cops on our streets actually mean? Does more police and more police funding actually lead to safer communities? How about reforms — do they actually lead to better policing? What's happening with the defund or abolish movement, which seemed so unstoppable just a year ago? We not only examine these questions, but go further to ask: what is the history and function of policing? How is it inextricably intertwined with racism and capitalism? Whose interests do the police really serve? Is it even possible to reform this institution? And if not, what should take its place? And How can we bring about safer and better resourced communities — for everyone? Featuring: Cat Brooks– Co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project in Oakland, Executive Director of the Justice Teams Network, and co-host of Upfront on KPFA Alex Vitale – Professor of sociology, coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College, and author of The End of Policing published by Verso Books Kay Gabriel – Teacher and organizer with the #DefundNYPD campaign D'atra Jackson – National Director of BYP 100 John – Part of the Working Class History Project Sen. Sydney Kamlager- State Senator for California's 30th Senate District ​​ Music by: ​ Godspeed You! Black Emperor Chris Zabriskie Do Make Say Think Tristeza Thank you to Phil Wrigglesworth for the cover art. Upstream theme music was composed by Robert. Upstream is a labor of love — we couldn't keep this project going without the generosity of our listeners and fans. Please consider chipping in a one-time or recurring donation at www.upstreampodcast.org/support Also, if your organization wants to sponsor one of our upcoming documentaries, we have a number of sponsorship packages available. Find out more at upstreampodcast.org/sponsorship. For more from Upstream, visit www.upstreampodcast.org and follow us on social media: Facebook.com/upstreampodcast twitter.com/UpstreamPodcast Instagram.com/upstreampodcast You can also subscribe to us on Apple Podcast and Spotify: Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/upst…am/id1082594532 Spotify: spoti.fi/2AryXHs

The summer of 2020 saw perhaps the largest collective uprising in the United States. The uprising, sparked by the cold-blooded murder of George Floyd, catapulted an important question into the public imaginary: is modern day policing...reformable? Or do we need to move beyond it entirely? Most of the thousands of people who poured out into the streets last summer understood that the murder of George Floyd was not just an isolated incident — not just the actions of a single bad apple. They understood that the entire institution of policing was responsible, that despite the years of reform, police continue to kill about a thousand people every year, they continue to terrorize Black, Brown, and poor communities, and they do what they do, for the most part, with zero accountability. For the first time since this institution was actually created, people, in very large numbers, were saying, “No. We're done with reform. It's not a few bad apples — the entire barrel is rotten.” In this episode of Upstream, we explore the current establishment backlash against the abolish/defund movement, and ask the questions: what does more cops on our streets actually mean? Does more police and more police funding actually lead to safer communities? How about reforms — do they actually lead to better policing? What's happening with the defund or abolish movement, which seemed so unstoppable just a year ago? We not only examine these questions, but go further to ask: what is the history and function of policing? How is it inextricably intertwined with racism and capitalism? Whose interests do the police really serve? Is it even possible to reform this institution? And if not, what should take its place? And How can we bring about safer and better resourced communities — for everyone? Featuring: Cat Brooks– Co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project in Oakland, Executive Director of the Justice Teams Network, and co-host of Upfront on KPFA Alex Vitale – Professor of sociology, coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College, and author of The End of Policing published by Verso Books Kay Gabriel – Teacher and organizer with the #DefundNYPD campaign D'atra Jackson – National Director of BYP 100 John – Part of the Working Class History Project Sen. Sydney Kamlager- State Senator for California's 30th Senate District ​​ Music by: ​ Godspeed You! Black Emperor Chris Zabriskie Do Make Say Think Tristeza Thank you to Phil Wrigglesworth for the cover art. Upstream theme music was composed by Robert. Upstream is a labor of love — we couldn't keep this project going without the generosity of our listeners and fans. Please consider chipping in a one-time or recurring donation at www.upstreampodcast.org/support Also, if your organization wants to sponsor one of our upcoming documentaries, we have a number of sponsorship packages available. Find out more at upstreampodcast.org/sponsorship. For more from Upstream, visit www.upstreampodcast.org and follow us on social media: Facebook.com/upstreampodcast twitter.com/UpstreamPodcast Instagram.com/upstreampodcast You can also subscribe to us on Apple Podcast and Spotify: Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/upst…am/id1082594532 Spotify: spoti.fi/2AryXHs

We spoke with Oakland based activist, playwright, poet, radio host, and former mayoral candidate, Cat Brooks. Brooks talked about her work with the Anti-Police Terror Project — a coalition dedicated to the eradication of police terror in communities of color — the trauma that police terror and unjust systems inflict on people and communities, and why she believes so-called radical policies like defunding the police are in reality rational.Music by Commodore1983: https://soundcloud.com/commodore1983 c

July 18, 2021 - Episode 3 ​We Keep Us Safe: A Discussion of Police Violence with the SF Mime Troupe A year after the murder of George Floyd, national sentiments around reforming and defunding the police are swinging back to their levels before BlackLivesMatter protests swept the nation in summer 2020. The majority of Americans still oppose diverting funding from police departments. Where do we go next? We'll hear from guests who have worked successfully to reallocate budgets toward community-based interventions in health and wellbeing. How do racial justice and economic transformation go hand-in-hand? Discussion hosted by Kari Barclay. Audio engineering by Will McCandless. With special guests: Danielle Purifoy from Durham Beyond Policing, find out more about Danielle Purifoy and Durham Beyond Policing at; https://www.daniellepurifoy.com/ - https://twitter.com/daniellepurifoy - https://durhambeyondpolicing.org/ Cat Brooks from Anti Police Terror Project, find out more about Cat Brooks and APTP at; https://www.catbrooks.org/ - https://twitter.com/catscommentary - https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/ and Michael Gene Sullivan from the SF Mime Troupe, find out more about Michael Gene Sullivan at; https://www.michaelgenesullivan.com/ Tales of the Resistance Vol. 2: Persistence is a radio serial by the San Francisco Mime Troupe. You can find more information at https://www.sfmt.org

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Amid nationwide reckoning with racial justice and calls to reimagine policing in America's cities, Oakland has moved ahead with plans to change its public safety funding and performance. The Defund OPD campaign was launched by the Anti Policy Terror Project five years ago. Join us for a discussion with two leaders in the effort to change the criminal justice system. About the Speakers Cat Brooks is an activist, performer, politician and speaker or who has served as the communications director for Coaching Corps, as executive director of Youth Together and executive director of the National Lawyers Guild. Brooks is the co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) whose mission is to rapidly respond to and ultimately eradicate what it calls state violence in communities of color. With APTP, she shepherded the development of a “first responders” process, which provides resources and training for a rapid community-based response to police violence. She also helped negotiate the passage of AB392, AB 931 and SB 1421 and has organized with local housing advocates to bring Proposition 10 (Repeal Costa Hawkins) to the ballot in November. n late 2018, Cat was the runner up in the Oakland mayoral race. Brooks currently serves as the executive director of the Justice Teams Network, a network of grassroots activists providing rapid response and healing justice in response to all forms of state violence across California. In addition, she is touring her one-woman show, Tasha, about the in-custody murder of Natasha McKenna in the Fairfax County Jail. She lives in West Oakland with her daughter. Born and raised in Natick, MA, James Burch grew up with the direct impacts of a punitive carceral system within his immediate family; all three of his siblings have been entangled in the criminal justice system for their entire lives. To address this, James became a lawyer after attending Yale University and Georgetown Law School. Upon moving to the Bay Area, James became an active member of the Anti Police-Terror Project, eventually becoming the director of policy and a member of the Black Leadership Team. Burch now works as the policy director for the Justice Teams Network (JTN), a statewide coalition working to end state violence in California. James is also the current president of the National Lawyers Guild of the Bay Area. SPEAKERS Cat Brooks Activist; Politician; Performer James Burch Lawyer; Activist Michelle Meow Producer and Host, "The Michelle Meow Show" on KBCW/KPIX TV and Podcast; Member, Commonwealth Club Board of Governors; Twitter @msmichellemeow—Co-Host In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently hosting all of our live programming via YouTube live stream. This program was recorded via video conference on April 29th, 2021 by the Commonwealth Club of California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amid nationwide reckoning with racial justice and calls to reimagine policing in America's cities, Oakland has moved ahead with plans to change its public safety funding and performance. The Defund OPD campaign was launched by the Anti Policy Terror Project five years ago. Join us for a discussion with two leaders in the effort to change the criminal justice system. About the Speakers Cat Brooks is an activist, performer, politician and speaker or who has served as the communications director for Coaching Corps, as executive director of Youth Together and executive director of the National Lawyers Guild. Brooks is the co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) whose mission is to rapidly respond to and ultimately eradicate what it calls state violence in communities of color. With APTP, she shepherded the development of a “first responders” process, which provides resources and training for a rapid community-based response to police violence. She also helped negotiate the passage of AB392, AB 931 and SB 1421 and has organized with local housing advocates to bring Proposition 10 (Repeal Costa Hawkins) to the ballot in November. n late 2018, Cat was the runner up in the Oakland mayoral race. Brooks currently serves as the executive director of the Justice Teams Network, a network of grassroots activists providing rapid response and healing justice in response to all forms of state violence across California. In addition, she is touring her one-woman show, Tasha, about the in-custody murder of Natasha McKenna in the Fairfax County Jail. She lives in West Oakland with her daughter. Born and raised in Natick, MA, James Burch grew up with the direct impacts of a punitive carceral system within his immediate family; all three of his siblings have been entangled in the criminal justice system for their entire lives. To address this, James became a lawyer after attending Yale University and Georgetown Law School. Upon moving to the Bay Area, James became an active member of the Anti Police-Terror Project, eventually becoming the director of policy and a member of the Black Leadership Team. Burch now works as the policy director for the Justice Teams Network (JTN), a statewide coalition working to end state violence in California. James is also the current president of the National Lawyers Guild of the Bay Area. SPEAKERS Cat Brooks Activist; Politician; Performer James Burch Lawyer; Activist Michelle Meow Producer and Host, "The Michelle Meow Show" on KBCW/KPIX TV and Podcast; Member, Commonwealth Club Board of Governors; Twitter @msmichellemeow—Co-Host In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently hosting all of our live programming via YouTube live stream. This program was recorded via video conference on April 29th, 2021 by the Commonwealth Club of California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At the uprisings sparked by the killing of George Floyd last year, demonstrators all over the country were calling on their municipalities to “defund the police.” In Oakland, a Reimagining Public Safety Task Force in March approved a long list of recommendations, many of them made by the Anti Police Terror Project, an organization that has been calling for reducing police budgets in order to fund alternatives to law enforcement for years. As former police officer Derek Chauvin, accused of murdering Floyd, is tried, we hear from James Burch, policy director for the Anti Police-Terror Project and the Justice Teams Network and president of the National Lawyers Guild Bay Area.

This week we talk about landlords, missing panel discussions, and we talk about what's sketchy and what's legit. You know- the basics.Most of the music in this episode is by DUNGEON WEEDTHE LAB DANCE-A-THON"Guaranteed Income Pilot for the City of San Francisco"#SaveMillsHollaback! Bystander intervention trainingAnti Police-Terror ProjectLaminate yourself a press pass!

We're back...with some updates and some new voices. Professor Sandra Susan Smith interviews Cat Brooks, founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project, about policing and reimagining community safety.

Every year, organizers with the Anti Police Terror Project mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day with public actions meant to reclaim King’s radical legacy. This year they have adapted those actions to the pandemic and are working in the context of the recent riot at the US capitol. On the morning of Friday, January 15th, activists announced their plans and cited some of King’s stances and ideas that have been erased from common narratives about his work.

Hari and Kamau can't help noticing that Blue Lives Matter, except when they try to defend the Capitol. Cat Brooks of the Anti Police-Terror Project and Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff of the Center for Policing Equity unpack what it means to "defund the police" — and why it's so damn hard. Plus, the ACLU's Kate Ruane is concerned about Twitter's Trump ban, even though she thinks he deserves much worse. Find our guests: Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff (@DrPhilGoff)https://www.policingequity.org Cat Brooks (@catscommentary) https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org Kate Ruane https://www.aclu.org Find us: Hari Kondabolu (@harikondabolu) http://www.harikondabolu.com/ W. Kamau Bell (@wkamaubell) http://www.wkamaubell.com/ Find the show: Twitter (@PoliticReActive) Facebook (@politicallyreactive) Instagram (@politicallyreactive) Produced by Topic Studios. Part of the WarnerMedia Podcast Network. Full credits.www.PoliticallyReActive.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

2020 was certainly a year for the history books, but now that it’s finally over and done with what will be its lasting legacy? On this edition of KCBS In Depth we reflect on a very challenging year for the Bay Area with some of the newsmakers and experts who understand those challenges best.  Guests:    Dr. John Swartzberg, emeritus professor of Public Health at UC Berkeley’s Division of Infectious Disease Chris Dicus, professor of wildland fire and fuels management at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo Cat Brooks, co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project in Oakland  Host:Keith Menconi  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Anti-Police Terror Project created M.H. First, a model for non-police response to mental health crises. What does that mean, and why is it important?

In January of this year, Cat Brooks and the Anti Police-Terror Project launched a service where trained professionals respond to mental health crises; it's an alternative to people calling the police to handle the situation. The service, Mental Health First, or M.H. First, initially launched in Sacramento, and began serving Oakland this summer. Brooks says that M.H. First's work is just one part of the effort to refund the community and divest from overspending on police. This week on Rightnowish, Brooks discusses M.H. First, the racism she encountered as a young person and she traces her origins in organizing back to the killing of Oscar Grant-- a case which was recently been reopened.

Photo: Vote totals on the California Racial Justice Act (Kalra), AB 2542. From Ella Baker Center on Twitter On this show: 0:08 – Donald Trump is planning to visit Kenosha, Wisconsin, where unarmed father Jacob Blake was shot by police in the back seven times in August in front of his children. We talk about Trump's visit and Wisconsin politics with Ruth Conniff, editor in chief of the Wisconsin Examiner, a nonprofit newsroom. 0:34 – Gov. Newsom just signed an eviction prevention deal, but tenants' rights advocates say it's far from the rent and mortgage cancellation needed to keep people in their homes — and say that the measure is overly complicated and likely will leave renters behind, if they don't have legal representation to fight their evictions. Marc Janowitz is interim deputy director of the housing team at the East Bay Community Law Center, and Sara Hedgpeth-Harris is supervising attorney of the housing team at Central California Legal Services, based in Fresno. 1:08 – A cascade of bills on policing, prisons and racial justice passed — or failed — in the California state legislature Monday night, under a midnight deadline for the end of the legislative session. At stake were racism in sentencing, challenging “strikes” against Black jurors, a stalled effort to decertify police who commit misconduct, parole for elders, reducing jail fines and fees, and more. We talk about the policies with three guests: Derick Morgan is policy associate at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Amber-Rose Howard is executive director of CURB, Californians United for a Responsible Budget, and James Burch is director of policy at the Anti-Police Terror Project. 1:34 – Journalists Bernice Yeung and Michael Grabell join us to for an interview about the meatpacking industry and ProPublica's new investigation showing the industry knew for years that a respiratory illness like Covid-19 could have devastating consequences for its workforce and production. Read the piece here: Meatpacking Companies Dismissed Years of Warnings but Now Say Nobody Could Have Prepared for COVID-19 The post A look at the racial justice bills that passed or failed before California's legislative deadline; plus, new investigation shows meatpacking industry knew of dangers of respiratory illness for years appeared first on KPFA.

In response to the disproportionate law enforcement violence against people with mental illness and amid ongoing calls to defund or reform police, activists with the Anti Police-Terror Project on Friday night will launch an initiative in Oakland designed to offer an alternative to calling the police in mental health crises. The initiative, called M.H. First Oakland, will begin operations as a hotline with the number (510) 999-9MH1.

Guests: Rosa Clemente is a grassroots organizer, lecturer, independent journalist, and scholar, and a former vice presidential candidate with the Green Party. Cat Brooks is an activist, playwright, poet, theater artist and journalist. She co-founded the Anti Police-Terror Project. And is the co-host of the weekday morning show UpFront on KPFA. Aaron Glantz is a senior reporter at Reveal and the author of Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream.   Photo: Wikimedia.org The post Continuing Coverage on the Democratic Ticket Biden-Harris appeared first on KPFA.

Join Bee for the final Interview of the Minority Mental Health Month Interview Series.The "system" as a whole has failed black people over and over again. We live under a system that was never designed to protect us. This week Bee is joined by Speech Pathologist and Mitigation Specialist Jade Romain. The two talk the school to prison pipeline, Juvenile detention, death row and so much more. Jade is also the owner of @BLKHSTL . "We are not target" tee is on sale now! 100% of proceeds are donated to the Anti-Police Terror Project. If you want to stay connected with Jade follow her @jaderomain --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Federal agents lined up in Portland, Ore. Photo by Tuck Woodstock On this show: 0:08 – Trump's Postmaster General, a major donor to the Trump campaign, is cracking down on work hours by deliberately instructing USPS employees to cut their routes short and delay First Class mail. Why is the agency deliberately underfunded, and what does this mean for its future? Philip Rubio is professor of history at North Carolina A&T State University and author of the book Undelivered: From the Great Postal Strike of 1970 to the Manufactured Crisis of the U.S. Postal Service. 0:34 – Santa Rita is reporting over 100 cases of Covid-19. For more on the outbreak we talk with Jose Bernal of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Sikander Iqbal of Urban Peace Movement, who has a friend inside the jail, and Darby Aono (@darbyaono), a student at Berkeley Law who has been tracking the cases inside. 1:08 – Federal agents made national news for snatching protesters off of Portland, Oregon streets and tear gassing crowds at uprisings for racial justice and against police repression. But Portland independent journalist Tuck Woodstock (@tuckwoodstock) says the frightening tactics of the federal agents are not that different from those of the Portland Police Bureau or Multnomah County Sheriffs, which residents have already been enduring. Woodstock, who has covered the protests since May, gives us an on-the-ground update.  1:20 – Ken Klippenstein is a D.C. correspondent with The Nation. He obtained an internal memo about the role of Border Patrol agents in cracking down on protesters in Portland. Read his recent reporting here. 1:45 – Tonight, Oakland's city council will finally vote on a possible significant reduction in the police budget. James Burch is Policy Coordinator with the Anti-Police Terror Project, he joins us to talk about the vote. Community members who want to attend the meeting can download the agenda here.   The post Protests continue in Portland under brutal police and federal repression; How the crisis at the U.S. Postal Service undermines elections by mail; Covid spreads at Santa Rita Jail appeared first on KPFA.

Rather than invest in a social safety net that protects Americans from experiencing mental health crises, addiction and homelessness, our country funnels the majority of its resources into punitive, violent police forces, and a burgeoning jail and prison system. But Asantewaa Boykin of MH First and the Anti Police-Terror Project says there's a better way. Historically, when we see someone experiencing a mental health crisis, the only option for a first responder to call has been the police. But even cops themselves have said that they are not mental health professionals. In fact, the American police force brings with it a culture of escalation and punitive enforcement. So when police arrive to the scene of someone experiencing a mental health crisis, tragedy often follows. Sacramentans will remember the 2016 story of Joseph Mann, who would have benefited from the help of a mental health professional. Instead, Sacramento police officers arriving at the scene tried to run him over with their vehicle and, when that failed, shot him 14 times. With MH First, Boykin and her team of volunteers offer up a different, safer option. APTP's website describes MH First as "a cutting-edge new model for non-police response to mental health crisis. The goal of MH First is to respond to mental health crises including, but not limited to, psychiatric emergencies, substance use disorder support, and domestic violence situations that require victim extraction." Between 7 pm and 7 am on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, Sacramentans can call MH First if they see someone experiencing a crisis that could benefit from their care. They have successfully responded to countless calls, caring for the people who need help, giving them food and water, and discussing options with them for how best to proceed with their own care. While Mayor Darrell Steinberg and the Sacramento City Council continue to steal millions in Measure U funding from Sacramento taxpayers, giving it to the violent Sacramento police (#GiveItBack, tinyurl.com/giveitbacksac), Boykin and MH First provide a proven community-based model for emergency response. Thanks for listening and, as always: Patreon: patreon.com/voicesrivercity Twitter: @youknowkempa, @guillotine4you, @ShanNDSTevens, @Flojaune And thank you to Be Brave Bold Robot for the tunes.

Join us for a wide ranging conversation with Clare Bayard where we discuss her 20+ years of organizing in grassroots multiracial struggles for collective liberation, and the role of somatic healing work and the importance of mentorship for intergenerational movements of resistance. Content warning: interview includes mention of sexual trauma and white nationalism. Topics we discuss include: The space between impact and intention. Healing for the sake of being able to show up in work for collective liberation. How anti-racist work has evolved over the years. The role of mentorship in movement building. Mentorship as a bidirectional relationship. Community safety work - alternatives to police, transformative justice, grassroots neighborhood organizing. Concrete suggestions on how we prepare for the wave of increased state repression that is coming. Security as solidarity. About Clare Bayard: Clare Bayard has organized for over 20 years in grassroots multiracial movements for collective liberation, and co-founded Catalyst Project, a movement building center supporting white anti-racist organizing. Clare is an organizer and a parent, a direct action trainer with The Ruckus Society, a writer, and a somatic healing practitioner who focuses on working with survivors of sexual assault and war. Clare's training comes from coalition and campaign work in many movement sectors, particularly in migrant rights, global justice, housing rights and anti-displacement, Palestinian liberation, anti-imperialist struggles against US wars and G.I. resistance, post-Katrina Gulf Coast Reconstruction, and climate justice. Demilitarization and connecting struggles against US empire at home and abroad are at the heart of Clare’s political work. Clare is active in the War Resisters International Network, served in board and staff positions at the War Resisters League for over a decade, and has worked closely with About Face (formerly known as Iraq Veterans Against the War) since soon after its founding.Clare’s writing has been published widely including the Guardian UK, Z Magazine, Alternet, Common Dreams, The Hill, and the recent anthology We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st century America.   Find Clare online: Catalyst Project: collectiveliberation.org Clare’s writing: https://healingandjustice.wordpress.com/ Links to relevant resources: War at Home book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/927659.War_at_Home A Troublemaker’s Guide: Principles for Racial Justice Activists in the Face of State Repression: https://tinyurl.com/y9kxhom4 Catalyst Project: www.collectiveliberation.org GI Rights hotline: https://girightshotline.org/ About Face’s Open Letter from Veterans to Recently Activated National Guard: https://medium.com/@VetsAboutFace/minnesota-national-guard-stand-down-for-black-lives-7596e1f0493b Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ): https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/ Anti Police-Terror Project: https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/ Ruckus Society: www.ruckus.org Bay Area Solidarity Statement: https://couragetoresist.org/solidarity2020/   Links to So Many Wings’ social media and website On the web: https://somanywings.org On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/somanywingspodcast On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/somanywingspodcast On Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/somanywingspodcast

This week, Philip dives into the history of British imperialism, Indian occupation, the ice trade, and the first modern cocktail. & Liam takes us into the economics of Chinese delivery, and why your local Chinese restaurant can kick the pants off the delivery megacorps. --- Thought & A Chaser is a project of Adult Juice Box. We are entirely supported by our Patreon subscribers, and for the month of June all new subscription proceeds will be donate to the Anti-Police Terror Project. Visit https://patreon.com/adultjuicebox to find out more.

In January, the Anti Police-Terror Project launched a community first responder program in Sacramento called Mental Health First. Throughout the night, Friday through Sunday, Mental Health First volunteers respond to people in crisis — all without police. Guests: Niki Jones, Peer Crisis Counselor/Volunteer Coordinator with Mental Health First and Asantewaa Boykin, co-founder of Anti Police-Terror Project Read the transcript here.

In this solo episode, I do a life update and Q&A to catch up with you guys. I discuss my current dating life, updates on my moving situation and answer some advice questions you asked! If you missed last week's episode, every click + listen helps and donates to the Anti-Police Terror Project (a Black-led, multi-racial coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color). Listen here! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-create-lasting-change-amplifying-black-voices/id1498954335?i=1000477207323 Welcome to Unfiltered - an honest, open conversation about life situations we all can relate to - hosted by Youtube personality and social media influencer Lindsey Hughes. Please rate & review Unfiltered on Apple Podcasts to help people find it! I pick a new reviewer to shout out every week :) Follow @unfilteredwithlindseyhughes on Instagram to submit your experiences + questions for the next episode! https://www.instagram.com/unfilteredwithlindseyhughes/ My Patreon (unfiltered videos + extra secret content!) : https://www.patreon.com/lindseyhughes My Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/lindseyhughes My Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/livinlikelindsey/ Send in a Voice Message: https://anchor.fm/lindseyhughes/message Intro/Outro Music: MYSM - Indie Feel: https://thmatc.co/?l=6A8CD075 Cover Art Done By: @mattietrue https://www.instagram.com/mattietrue/ For business/sponsorship inquiries, or to submit questions/stories/artwork to me, email: unfilteredwithlindsey@gmail.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lindseyhughes/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lindseyhughes/supportSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/unfiltered/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

0:08 – Mitch Jeserich, host of Letters & Politics weekdays at 10AM, joins us for “Mondays with Mitch” to discuss what is and isn't included in the House Democrats' proposed policing reform — the Justice in Policing Act. We take a look at the history of qualified immunity and how this legislation would impact the process of suing police officers for civil rights violations. 0:37 – In Oakland on June 6th, three unnamed California Highway Patrol officers shot dozens of rounds at a vehicle driven by 23-year old Erik Salgado, killing him and injuring his pregnant girlfriend. KPFA's Lucy Kang (@ThisIsLucyKang) and Chris Lee (@chrislee_xyz) spoke to Erik's step-father Farid Majail, his step-sister Amanda Majail Blanco, and his younger sister Vanessa Majail on the street where Erik was killed. 0:43 – What would a world without prisons and police actually look like? We explore this question with Rosa Clemente (@rosaclemente), a grassroots organizer, lecturer, independent journalist, and scholar, and a former vice presidential candidate with the Green Party.  1:08 – Today is the last day Oakland City Council members can submit amendments to the city's budget revision. Across the city this morning, activists and Oakland residents are organizing actions to demand Oakland City Council defund Oakland Police Department by 50 percent, a campaign started by the Anti Police-Terror Project five years ago. KPFA's Chris Lee (@chrislee_xyz) joins us for a live report from one of these actions, where about 100 protesters gathered in the Temescal neighborhood. 1:13 – The Supreme Court has ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act — which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex — applies to the LGBTQ community. We discuss the implications of this landmark decision with Marjorie Cohn (@marjoriecohn), professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and former president of the National Lawyers Guild. 1:34 – Should police associations exist, and if so, what standards should they be held to? We host a discussion with Clarence Thomas, former member of the ILWU. Photo by Ted Eytan. The post Rosa Clemente is imagining a world without prisons and police — plus, SCOTUS rules to protect LGBTQ workers from discrimination appeared first on KPFA.

This is our last episode before summer break! We talk about white hysteria, SFMOMA, Angela Davis, and more. Go ahead and email us if you miss us.All the music in this episode is by Wizard ApprenticeThe Anti Police-Terror Project IG: antipoliceterrorprojectThe Black New DealThe Coalition on Homelessness IG: coalitiononhomelessnessPoor Magazine IG: poormagazineBay Area Anti- Repression Committee Bail FundPeople's Breakfast Oakland (linktree)NO NEUTRAL ALLIANCESOMArtsslash artShahid Buttar - Get Pelosi out of there!Petition and numbers to call to tell the SEIU: DROP THE COPS! Email us if you want to get more involved in this campaign!National Association of Government Employees (part of the SEIU)Oakland City CouncilSan Francisco Board of Supervisors Podcasts/Radio to listen to:UpFront (on KPFA)Hard Knock Radio (on KPFA)We Want the AirwavesCouples TherapyFantiThe Read1619

On this episode, we chat about our weariness of the ways of the world (cue Solange's Weary). We share what's been the most challenging parts within the fight for Black justice while also highlighting the need to support the Black women and trans community who are also in this fight. Then, we share some of our feel goods of the moment, which include lots of television binging and the albums that'll really get you in your feelings (or out of them). Finally, we put you on to some solid Black voices that can help steer you through all that's going on and also some organizations that you can show up for, financially or otherwise. Amplifying Black Voices: @MsPackyetti, @IamGMJohnson, @wesleylowery, @emarvelous, @theccync, @mark.c, @jennydeluxe, @darian, @speakpatrice, @reagangomez, @nifmuhammad, @jnthnwll Organizations To Support: Black Lives Matter Minnesota Freedom Fund Black Visions Collective Campaign Zero Reclaim The Block Healing Minneapolis Disability Justice Mutual Aid Fund Mutual Aid Fund by the Anti-Police Terror Project

Episode Notes https://youtu.be/U5LvppNUmas Inform yourself. Donate. Protest. http://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/ "The Anti Police-Terror Project is a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color" https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd Official George Floyd Memorial Fund https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/nbfn-directory A directory of bail funds by state and an organization that seeks to end the money bail system. https://bailproject.org/ The Bail Project, Inc. is a non-profit organization designed to combat mass incarceration by disrupting the money bail system. bit.ly/ANTIRACISMRESOURCES A document of resources like podcasts and articles about racism for people to inform themselves. https://themadmommy.com/black-owned-etsy-shops/ A list of over 100 black-owned etsy shops We make this podcast with the support of Patreon backers like Petri Leinonen, Kettle and Clock, Ura 238, David Gibb, BarthVader, Kylie, Aaron Acevedo, Sean Knight, Joshua Denman, Matthew Molineaux, Marty Chodorek, polyamorous_q, Daniel Hiatt, Devin White, Ben Tiefenthaler, Jack Blair, Rogue Shindler, Matt Hayles, Aneurin Harrow, Michael Pardue, Phil Ulrich, Oli Jeffery, HellaDrawings, Lou Tenant, Scott Paladin, Hemraa, Oliver Perks, Nick & Cameron Robertson, Zach, Christian Guanzon, Chris Wittich, Brett Volz, MagpieMirrorTest, Siobhan Gartland, Rich Howard, Justen Hunter, August If you’d like to help support this show and future shows check us out at Patreon.com/stophackandroll Find us both on twitter as @stophackandroll Find all our episodes and links to some of the games we’ve been working on at StopHackandRoll.com Email us at James or Brandon @ Stophackandroll.com Please Rate and review our podcast on iTunes to help others find our show. If you can’t support us financially, support our community by being part of it. Join our discord at tinyurl.com/shrdiscord or discord.stophackandroll.com >Music for the show is 'There It Is' by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) >Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

This week we talk with The IZM, a New Jersey-based author, producer, songwriter, and emcee. The IZM talks about his process, performance practice, subverting the mainstream, and being black and gay in the world of hip hop.Bonus Tracks after the interview - "Entrapped" by Gwen Laster - text by Poet Gold, performed by New Muse 4tet (Gwen Laster, Hsinwei Chiang violins, Melanie Dyer viola, Alex Waterman-cello).Helpful links to support the current protest against police brutality towards the black community. Aboriginal Legal Services (Australia) https://www.alsnswact.org.au/donate /https://vals.org.au/volunteers/get-involved/donate-vals/ ACLU https://www.aclu.org/ AIME (Australia) https://aimementoring.com/about Amadeu Antonio Stiftung (Germany) https://www.amadeu-antonio-stiftung.de/ Anti Police-Terror Project http://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/ Bail Project https://bailproject.org Belly Mujinga Fund (UK) https://www.gofundme.com/f/rip-belly-mujinga Black Lives Matter https://blacklivesmatter.com/ Black Mama's Bail Out https://nationalbailout.org/black-mamas-bail-out/ Black Visions Collective https://www.blackvisionsmn.org/ The Black Curriculum (UK) https://www.theblackcurriculum.com/ B.L.A.M (UK) https://blamcharity.com/donate/ Campaign Zero https://www.joincampaignzero.org/#vision Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en La Lucha https://ctul.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=1 Color of Change https://colorofchange.org/ The Dream Corps https://www.thedreamcorps.org/ Divine Natural Ancestry https://www.divinenaturalancestry.com/reparationsdonations Equal Justice Initiative https://eji.org/ Embrace Race https://www.embracerace.org/ (for children)Headwaters Foundation https://headwatersfoundation.org/ Innocence Project https://www.innocenceproject.org/ Integrated Schools https://integratedschools.orgKnow Your Rights Camp https://www.knowyourrightscamp.com/Little Earth Residents Association https://littleearth.org/impact The Marshall Project https://www.themarshallproject.org/ Minnesota Freedom Fund https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/donate Minnesota Youth Collective https://secure.actblue.com/donate/minnesotayouthcollective Movement for Black Lives https://m4bl.org/ NAACP https://naacp.org/campaigns/we-are-done-dying/ National Bail Out http://nationalbailout.org/ National Memorial Family Fund (UK) https://www.memorialfamilyfund.org.uk/ Official George Floyd Memorial Fund https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd Reclaim The Block https://www.reclaimtheblock.org/home Reform Alliance https://reformalliance.com/Sony Foundation (Australia) https://www.sonyfoundation.org/general-donation Southside Harm Reduction  http://www.southsideharmreduction.org/ StopWatch (UK) www.stop-watch.org Transgender Law Center in Memory of Tony McDade https://transgenderlawcenter.org/ Twin Cities DSA https://twincitiesdsa.org/join/ Unicorn Riot https://unicornriot.ninja/ Voices for Racial Justice https://voicesforracialjustice.org/ We Can't Breathe https://www.wecantbreathenational.org/ Women for Political Change Mutual Aid Fund https://www.womenforpoliticalchange.org/mutual-aid

100% of this episode's ad revenue will go to the Anti-Police Terror Project (http://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/) - a Black-led, multi-racial coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color. They support families surviving police terror in their fight for justice, document police abuses and connect impacted families and community members with resources, legal referrals, and opportunities for healing. Link to donate to the Anti-Police Terror Project: https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/donate Justice for Breonna Taylor Petition & Fundraiser: https://www.change.org/p/andy-beshear-justice-for-breonna-taylor Organizations to donate to: National Bail Out Fund - Free Black Mamas: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/freeblackmamas2020 Black Visions Collective: https://www.blackvisionsmn.org/ George Floyd Memorial Fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd Women for Political Change: https://secure.everyaction.com/ZNYnUikGcU2b9OAYFs1TeQ2 The Liberty Fund: https://www.classy.org/give/204448/#!/donation/checkout I Run With Maud - Justice for Ahmaud Arbery Fundraiser: http://www.gofundme.com/f/i-run-with-maud Welcome to Unfiltered - an honest, open conversation about life situations we all can relate to - hosted by Youtube personality and social media influencer Lindsey Hughes. Please rate & review Unfiltered on Apple Podcasts to help people find it! I pick a new reviewer to shout out every week :) Follow @unfilteredwithlindseyhughes on Instagram to submit your experiences + questions for the next episode! https://www.instagram.com/unfilteredwithlindseyhughes/ My Patreon (unfiltered videos + extra secret content!) : https://www.patreon.com/lindseyhughes My Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/lindseyhughes My Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/livinlikelindsey/ Send in a Voice Message: https://anchor.fm/lindseyhughes/message Intro/Outro Music: MYSM - Indie Feel: https://thmatc.co/?l=6A8CD075 Cover Art Done By: @mattietrue https://www.instagram.com/mattietrue/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lindseyhughes/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lindseyhughes/supportSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/unfiltered/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

BACKGROUND: J and LT  founded the Ambassadors Circle which was created in 2016 to inspire and equip change makers, influencers, and culture creators, to use their influence, flex their gifts, and take more meaningful action. The Ambassadors Circle exists to inspire and equip our tribes to DO MORE GOOD. People join the Ambassadors Circle for lots of reasons. To support inspiring storytelling, to amplify the good works of their tribes or to creatively demonstrate social responsibility. We've had the great pleasure of collaborating with them on a number of projects. In this episode we talk about how we can become better listeners, why sports is a great platform to inspire social change, the Vote with Love  campaign, and more.LINKS: WebsiteAmbassador's Circle InstagramConnect with LTConnect With JLT's InstagramVote With Love Instagram (Site Coming Soon)Links from Ambassadors Circle...End institutionalized racism and empower black communities:Black Visions Collective - https://www.blackvisionsmn.org/Black Futures Lab - https://blackfutureslab.org/Burns Institute- https://www.burnsinstitute.org/Color of Change - https://colorofchange.org/Funders for Justice - https://fundersforjustice.org/Movement for Black Lives- https://m4bl.org/The Marshall Project - https://www.themarshallproject.org/Until Freedom - https://www.untilfreedom.com/Support incarcerated individuals, families impacted by incarceration or people living with convictions, check out these organizations:Ella Baker Center - https://ellabakercenter.orgEssie Justice Group - https://essiejusticegroup.orgInitiate Justice - https://www.initiatejustice.orgThe Gathering for Justice - https://www.gatheringforjustice.orgTime Done - https://timedone.orgInvest in the next generation of leaders, check out these organizations:Black Youth Project - http://blackyouthproject.comBlack Organizing Project - http://blackorganizingproject.orgDream Defenders - https://dreamdefenders.orgUrban Ed Academy - https://urbanedacademy.orgYoung Women's Freedom Center - https://www.youngwomenfree.orgBail out protestors, donate to these organizations:Know Your Rights Camp - https://www.knowyourrightscamp.com/Minnesota Freedom Fund - https://minnesotafreedomfund.orgThe Bail Project - https://bailproject.orgAlso, here is a complete list of community bail funds - https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floydHold police accountable, check out these organizations:Anti-Police Terror Project - http://www.antipoliceterrorproject.orgCampaign Zero - https://www.joincampaignzero.org/Check the Police - https://www.checkthepolice.org/National Police Accountability Project - https://www.nlg-npap.org

This week, Nick and Zach don't do a normal podcast. Instead, they talk about how people can educate themselves on Black filmmaking, and how they (and you) can help. Want to do your part to help combat police brutality and racism? donate to the organizations below. And even if you cant, there are other ways you can help. But please, help make a change.  DONATE: Campaign Zero – collects data to work towards reducing police violence LINK: https://www.joincampaignzero.org/  8CANTWAIT: https://8cantwait.org/ The Mass Defense Committee/ National Lawyers Guild – provides legal support for activists and protesters. LINK: https://www.nlg.org/massdefenseprogram/ Anti-Police Terror Project – supports black families who have been affected by police violence, documents abuse of power, and connects those affected with legal resources and counseling. LINK: https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/ NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund – focuses on civil rights for Black Americans with advocacy, litigation support, educational outreach, and scholarship opportunities. LINK: https://www.naacpldf.org/ The Loveland Foundation – provides financial assistance and resources for black women and girls seeking therapy. https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/NzU4MzM= Know Your Rights Camp – founded by Colin Kaepernick; run camps to educate and empower the youth of Black and Brown communities. LINK: https://www.knowyourrightscamp.com/ Communities United Against Police Brutality – advocates for those affected by police violence, pushes for reformed accountability programs and educates communities about issues inherent in the justice system. LINK: https://www.cuapb.org/ Free films to watch and educate yourself: Criterion Collection: https://www.criterionchannel.com/browse JOIN THE CAST: http://www.patreon.com/lightscameranonsense EMAIL US: http://www.gmail.com/lightscameranonsense MERCH: http://www.teepublic.com/user/lightscameranonsense TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/lightscameranonsense INSTA: http://www.instagram.com/lightscameranonsense NICK: https://twitter.com/Nixunderfire ZACH: https://twitter.com/FullMetal_Z

On this show: 0:08 – Is organized labor poised to expel police unions? We talk with Bill Fletcher, Jr., long-time writer and social justice activist, with work in the trade union movement, electoral politics and international affairs. 1:08 – John Eligon is a national correspondent for the New York Times covering race. He has been in Minneapolis reporting on the uprising after the police killing of George Floyd. 1:34 – Vallejo police shot and killed another person on Tuesday. Brian Krans, independent journalist, contributor to Open Vallejo, joins us. Editor's note 9/2/2020: The name of the shooting victim is Sean Monterrosa. 1:45 – What does defunding the police look like in Oakland? James Burch is Policy Coordinator with the Anti-Police Terror Project. The post Vallejo police shoot and kill unarmed man; plus, John Eligon on the uprising for George Floyd in Minneapolis appeared first on KPFA.

Episode Notes On the cover we see a top down scene of a medical lab. On a cold steel table in the center of the cover Ramón, who is Crosswind is strapped down to the table. Tubes and sensors are plugged into his body. Despite weeks of medical attention in the Appointed labs we can clearly his body is still cracked and breaking apart. Black Lives Matter. Inform yourself. Donate. Protest. http://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/ "The Anti Police-Terror Project is a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color" https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd Official George Floyd Memorial Fund https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/nbfn-directory A directory of bail funds by state and an organization that seeks to end the money bail system. https://bailproject.org/ The Bail Project, Inc. is a non-profit organization designed to combat mass incarceration by disrupting the money bail system. bit.ly/ANTIRACISMRESOURCES A document of resources like podcasts and articles about racism for people to inform themselves. https://themadmommy.com/black-owned-etsy-shops/ A list of over 100 black-owned etsy shops Introduction voiced by Peter DeGiglio All music was composed by Jim Malloy Masks: A New Generation is a game by Brendan Conway and published by Magpie Games This podcast is created thanks to the financial support of backers on Patreon Join us at in our Discord or follow us on twitter @ProteanCity Subscribe to Protean City Comics on iTunes or anywhere podcasts are found. Join us next Wednesday to find out what thrilling adventures lie ahead! Find out more at http://proteancity.com

LA Mostly Peaceful Protests Move Into San Fernando Valley Last night, there were more protests against racial injustice and police abuse across the state. Many cities and counties imposed curfews on residents. The footprint of the protests also continued to expand. For the first time since the demonstrations began, large protests were held in LA’s San Fernando Valley, home to roughly 2 million people. Reporter: Ben Gottlieb, KCRW Organizers Worried About Risk of Catching Coronavirus While Protesting Health professionals who are worried about the hazards of demonstrating during a pandemic. Organizers, like Cat Brooks with Oakland's Anti-Police Terror Project, are taking precautions. Reporter: Mary Franklin Harvin, KQED Progressive Prosecutors Want to Limit Political Donations from Police Unions In the wake of George Floyd’s killing, a coalition of California prosecutors is pushing for a new ethics rule to limit law enforcement’s political influence. Reporter: Holly J. McDede, KQED San Diego Bans Controversial Choke-Hold In San Diego, the death of George Floyd has led to an immediate ban on a controversial chokehold called a carotid restraint, and it involves an officer applying pressure to a person’s neck until the suspect temporarily loses consciousness. Reporter: Raquel Maria Dillon, The California Report South LA Stays Calm, Welcomes Peaceful Protests In this week’s protests, South LA has been quiet. Community leaders in Watts say they welcome any peaceful protests that might come to their area but they won’t tolerate violence or vandalism. Reporter: Robert Garrova, KPCC

0:08 – Texas began a new phase of reopening during Covid-19 on Monday, May 18, despite logging its single largest increase in cases just two days prior. We speak with R.G. Ratcliffe (@rgratcliffe), writer at large for Texas Monthly magazine. 0:19 – A new investigation by journalist Aura Bogado (@aurabogado) of Reveal says the Office of Refugee Resettlement is refusing to release jailed migrant children to their willing sponsors. She follows the story of a boy and the family ready to receive him. 0:34 – A year ago, the East Oakland DREAMers had a budget of a little over $1,000. Now, they have given out over $85,000 in grants to undocumented Bay Area youth and mixed status families who are in need during the Covid-19 lockdown. Kateri Dodds Simpson, program director for East Oakland DREAMers, joins us to talk about their work. 1:08 – The Oakland City Council today will consider the demands of the Black New Deal, a list of demands drafted by over 50 Black Oakland leaders and signed by over 20 allies that address the structural racism and disparities that have lead to more infections and deaths among Black people from Covid-19. Oakland councilmember Nikki Fortunato Bas (@nikki4oakland) and Cat Brooks of the Anti-Police Terror Project and Justice Teams Network discuss the city council resolution. Interested members of the public can participate in the city council meeting by viewing the agenda here. 1:34 – SF Mayor London Breed has rolled out a program of sanctioned, fenced-off outdoor encampments called “safe sleeping sites” rather than comply with a unanimous Board of Supervisors vote to procure thousands of hotel rooms to shelter unhoused people during the coronavirus pandemic. We hear reaction from District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney (@MattHaneySF), who says Breed's administration has offered an array of excuses to avoid proactively placing unsheltered people in hotels. Photo: Anti-Police Terror Project The post New investigation shows Trump administration refuses to release migrant children to willing sponsors; also, Oakland's City Council will vote on demands of Black New Deal appeared first on KPFA.

0:08 – Updates on the impeachment of President Trump: The U.S. Senate sent the articles of impeachment to the president, who has until Saturday, January 18 at 6 p.m. Eastern Time to respond. A vote on the rules in the impeachment process is scheduled in the Senate on Tuesday, January 21. 0:18 – The Anti Police-Terror Project has planned events for the coming Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, in recognition of King's radical legacy, culminating in a march at noon on Monday, January 20, 2020 at Oscar Grant Plaza in Oakland. Find out more about the Reclaim MLK weekend here. 0:34 – Stacey Hoffman, executive director of Living Jazz, talks about the 18th “In the Name of Love” concert, an annual non-denominational musical tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. taking place Sunday, January 19, 2020 at 7 p.m. at the Oakland Scottish Rite Center. The post #ReclaimMLK: Activists plan events in Oakland to take back Martin Luther King Jr.'s radical legacy and honor him through music appeared first on KPFA.

This week, in Part Two of our episode with brontë velez, we dive into the capacity for pleasure amidst times of great uncertainty and historical oppression. What does “pleasure in the apocalypse” mean? How might this conversation take on different meanings depending on whether we are talking about climate change as an abstraction versus the current lived experience of planetary uncertainty? As brontë defines it, pleasure is what makes us come alive, so how can we create a culture that is deeply attuned to our senses and directs our desire towards Earth and each other? By feeding our senses, how might we confront the isolation and industrialization of our bodies, while acknowledging the limitations of grief in that “suffering is not accountable to the Earth.” brontë velez (they/them) is guided by the call that “black wellness is the antithesis of state violence” (Mark Anthony Johnson). a black-latinx transdisciplinary artist and designer, they are currently moved and paused by the questions, “how can we allow as much room for god to flow through and between us as possible? what affirms the god of and between us? what is in the way? how can we decompose what interrupts our proximity to divinity? what ways can black feminist placemaking rooted in commemorative justice promote the memory of god, which is to say, love and freedom between us?” they relate to god as the moments of divine spacetime that remind us we are not separate, the moments that re-belong us to the earth. they encounter these questions in public theology, black prophetic tradition & environmental justice through their eco-social art praxis, serving as creative director for Lead to Life design collaborative, media director for Oakland-rooted farm and nursery Planting Justice, and quotidian black queer life ever-committed to humor & liberation, ever-marked by grief at the distance made between us and all of life. Part Two of brontë and Ayana’s ripe conversation explores topics including appropriating propaganda and memetics, reorienting ourselves away from the spectacle of terror, tending to erotic energy and sensual spaces, and the nuances around beauty and aesthetics in dominant culture. In closing, we are asked to assess our capacity and privilege and then grow ourselves to create pleasurable pathways, ensure accessibility to embodiment, and foster environments where people are in their senses. ♫ Music by Jennifer Johns and members of the Thrive Choir and Jiordi Rosales on cello, recorded at the 2019 Lead to Life Oakland ceremony, a ceremony that melted weapons into the constellations above Oscar Grant the evening he was murdered. The event closed the annual Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy March, hosted by the Anti Police-Terror Project. Additional ♫ Music by Jeremy Harris

Today on Sojourner Truth: A white man in Oakland fatally stabs a Black woman and injures her sister on Sunday evening, July 22. Eighteen-year-old Nia Wilson died at the scene, her 26-year-old sister Letifah Wilson was hospitalized. The incident took place on the platform of the BART train, the Bay Area public transport system. The suspect, a young white man, is in custody. Our guest for this week’s Campaigners for Black Lives is James Burch, Policy Director of the Anti-Police Terror Project. Is the welfare of children truly at the forefront of county child welfare systems? Why is it that attention is only brought to abuses in the system when a child dies? And what is the lifelong trauma that children face when they are separated from their families either under the guise of border security or simply because their families are poor? What is the situation in Los Angeles County? Why is the foster care system being referred to as the “New Jane Crow?” And the outrage of hundreds of children snatched by the Trump administration at the border who now will never be reunited with their families. What is the inter-relationship between what is happening to children at the border and U.S. Child welfare agencies? We speak with Richard Wexler, Executive Director of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform (NCCPR). We continue follow up with my recent trip to Europe. Our guest is Dr. Deirdre McHugh with the National University of Ireland. We discuss how the U.S. civil rights movement inspired the Irish anti-colonial movement in Northern Ireland in their long struggle against British rule, domination and discrimination. Also, our Weekly Earth Minute.

Today on Sojourner Truth: A white man in Oakland fatally stabs a Black woman and injures her sister on Sunday evening, July 22. Eighteen-year-old Nia Wilson died at the scene, her 26-year-old sister Letifah Wilson was hospitalized. The incident took place on the platform of the BART train, the Bay Area public transport system. The suspect, a young white man, is in custody. Our guest for this week’s Campaigners for Black Lives is James Burch, Policy Director of the Anti-Police Terror Project. Is the welfare of children truly at the forefront of county child welfare systems? Why is it that attention is only brought to abuses in the system when a child dies? And what is the lifelong trauma that children face when they are separated from their families either under the guise of border security or simply because their families are poor? What is the situation in Los Angeles County? Why is the foster care system being referred to as the “New Jane Crow?” And the outrage of hundreds of children snatched by the Trump administration at the border who now will never be reunited with their families. What is the inter-relationship between what is happening to children at the border and U.S. Child welfare agencies? We speak with Richard Wexler, Executive Director of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform (NCCPR). We continue follow up with my recent trip to Europe. Our guest is Dr. Deirdre McHugh with the National University of Ireland. We discuss how the U.S. civil rights movement inspired the Irish anti-colonial movement in Northern Ireland in their long struggle against British rule, domination and discrimination. Also, our Weekly Earth Minute.

Today on Sojourner Truth: A white man in Oakland fatally stabs a Black woman and injures her sister on Sunday evening, July 22. Eighteen-year-old Nia Wilson died at the scene, her 26-year-old sister Letifah Wilson was hospitalized. The incident took place on the platform of the BART train, the Bay Area public transport system. The suspect, a young white man, is in custody. Our guest for this week’s Campaigners for Black Lives is James Burch, Policy Director of the Anti-Police Terror Project. Is the welfare of children truly at the forefront of county child welfare systems? Why is it that attention is only brought to abuses in the system when a child dies? And what is the lifelong trauma that children face when they are separated from their families either under the guise of border security or simply because their families are poor? What is the situation in Los Angeles County? Why is the foster care system being referred to as the “New Jane Crow?” And the outrage of hundreds of children snatched by the Trump administration at the border who now will never be reunited with their families. What is the inter-relationship between what is happening to children at the border and U.S. Child welfare agencies? We speak with Richard Wexler, Executive Director of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform (NCCPR). We continue follow up with my recent trip to Europe. Our guest is Dr. Deirdre McHugh with the National University of Ireland. We discuss how the U.S. civil rights movement inspired the Irish anti-colonial movement in Northern Ireland in their long struggle against British rule, domination and discrimination. Also, our Weekly Earth Minute.

The Justice Teams Network is a new project aimed at challenging dominant narratives of police shootings and helping communities find healing. Building on models developed by the Anti Police Terror Project and Dignity and Power Now, the network brings together activists with training in investigation, community support, and communication to deal with the aftermath of police violence, and works on policy to prevent it. I spoke with Justice Teams Network director Cat Brooks, who has also just decided to run for Mayor of Oakland, California. When the cops kill somebody, the responding organization, whether it’s APTP, or somewhere else, our Facebook pages go off, our Twitter pages go off, our personal phones go off, We then send an email out to a list of about 500 people who are trained and are active in the database, who are trauma-informed investigators. That means they have been trained on how to engage communities and people that have dealt with various traumas. They go to the scene, they talk to community members. They look at the pictures. They scour the scene for any video footage that might be in existence of the incident. Sometimes the will pick up evidence that might be helpful that the cops leave behind. Then, hopefully, the find someone that is connected to the family at that scene. If they don’t, they come back to social media and they scour social media. Because, inevitably, in this day and age someone who was there has posted something to Twitter. Once we have connected with the family, we have got two primary agenda items. One is to, within 24 hours, either hold a vigil or support the community in holding their own. The second, of course, is to see what they need. Then, in talking to the family, it is about finding everything out about the person that was killed. So, the news by that time, of course, has come out and said, “Oh, the police shot a black man--black suspect is actually how they say it most of the time--He had a gun and he stole a lollipop and he stole a lollipop in 1922 from Samuel Adams.” as if whatever happened in 1922 has anything to do with why he’s dead now. We then come out with our narrative, the family’s narrative, “They liked the color blue, they went to church on Sundays. They were parents. They took care of their mother.” Just humanize them, because...when you talk about people, like dentists, students, mothers, lawyers, cashiers, whatever, we are having a different conversation. Then, from there, we connect them to our legal team, which is pro bono legal support, and then we support them with communications, legal, fundraising—they have to hold a funeral, often have to raise money for independent autopsies because often the one you get comes from law enforcement, they’re not going to challenge what law enforcement said happened. Then, we walk with them, and that is a long walk because while the story is in the media for a week, maybe two, for families, this is years and years and years, it never ends. The pain never ends. Interviews for Resistance is a syndicated series of interviews with organizers, agitators and troublemakers, available twice weekly as text and podcast. You can now subscribe on iTunes! Previous interviews here.

Stephon Clark. Family, friends and the Sacramento community buried the 22 year-old who was shot at at least 20 times by police. We talk to one Bay Area activist before she headed to Sacramento on the day of his funeral. Guest: Cat Brooks, co-founder of the Anti-Police Terror Project and executive director of the Justice Teams Network Subscribe to The Bay

Rajeshree Roy, a Yuri Kochiyama Fellow Tonight on APEX Express, we have two guests hosts: Melissa Hung and Vida Huang. We'll learn about Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus's new Yuri Kochiyama Fellowship for formerly incarcerated Asian Pacific Islanders. We talk with young, radical, community members who have spoken about anti-black racism with their families and tried to move them towards solidarity with the Movement for Black Lives. And we hear from Justin Lin, director of Star Trek Beyond, from back when he was just starting out and taking his film Better Luck Tomorrow on the festival circuit. Justin Lin at the Chicago Asian American Showcase in 2002 Community Calendar On Saturday in San Bruno, Halau o Keikiali'i perform their Songs of Hilo and Tribute to Hawaii's songbird, Lena Machado. This takes place at Capuchino High School. Doors open at 4 p.m. with Hawaiian arts, crafts, and food for sale. Performance is at 6 p.m.  Also on Saturday night is the Gay Asian Pacific Alliance Foundation's Runway with 11 contestants vying for the title of Mister and Miss GAPA. The contest starts at 7 p.m. at the renovated Herbst Theater. Tickets for the pageant are available at cityboxoffice.com and our own Nonogirl will be one of the guest judges. Next week on August 16, you can hear a conversation with movement leader Pam Tau Lee and Steven Bingham, moderated by Steve Williams. Pam founded the Asian Pacific Environmental Network and Chinese Progressive Association, and is a member of Asians 4 Black Lives, so she'll have lots of knowledge to drop. This celebration of Movement Warriors organized by Hospitality House takes place at the Kelly Cullen Community in San Francisco. And the Anti Police-Terror Project General Meeting is next Wednesday, August 17 at Eastside Arts Alliance. The Anti Police-Terror Project is a project of the ONYX ORGANIZING COMMITTEE that in coalition with other organizations working to develop a replicable and sustainable model to end police terrorism in this country The post Yuri Kochiyama Fellows, Letters About Black Lives, and Justin Lin appeared first on KPFA.

Cat Brooks of San Francisco’s Anti Police-Terror Project is joined in conversation by journalist Manolia Charlotin of The Media Consortium to discuss race, police violence, and criminal justice reform. This event was made in collaboration with public radio program Making Contact.

In cities across the country, black women – many of whom have been on the front lines of the Movement for Black Lives – are lifting up the names of their sisters killed by police. This March, Manolia Charlotin, a multimedia journalist with the The Media Consortium, and Cat Brooks, artist and organizer with Oakland's Anti Police-Terror Project sat down at a community event in San Francisco to talk about Say Her Name and what it looks like to build a movement that centers black women. Jamison Robinson, Yuvette Henderson's brother, talks about the difference it makes when a community comes together to demand justice after the police kill someone. Featuring: Jamison Robinson, brother of Yuvette Henderson; Manolia Charlotin, journalist with The Media Consortium, Cat Brooks, artist and organizer with the Anti Police-Terror Project The post #SayHerName: Black Love in Action appeared first on KPFA.

In cities across the country, black women – many of whom have been on the front lines of the Movement for Black Lives – are lifting up the names of their sisters killed by police. This March, Manolia Charlotin, a multimedia journalist with the The Media Consortium, and Cat Brooks, artist and organizer with Oakland’s Anti Police-Terror Project sat down at a community event in San Francisco to talk about Say Her Name and what it looks like to build a movement that centers black women. Jamison Robinson, Yuvette Henderson’s brother, talks about the difference it makes when a community comes together to demand justice after the police kill someone.  Featuring: Jamison Robinson, brother of Yuvette Henderson Manolia Charlotin, journalist with The Media Consortium Cat Brooks, artist and organizer with the Anti Police-Terror Project

In cities across the country, black women – many of whom have been on the front lines of the Movement for Black Lives – are lifting up the names of their sisters killed by police. This March, Manolia Charlotin, a multimedia journalist with the The Media Consortium, and Cat Brooks, artist and organizer with Oakland’s Anti Police-Terror Project sat down at a community event in San Francisco to talk about Say Her Name and what it looks like to build a movement that centers black women. Jamison Robinson, Yuvette Henderson’s brother, talks about the difference it makes when a community comes together to demand justice after the police kill someone.  Featuring: Jamison Robinson, brother of Yuvette Henderson Manolia Charlotin, journalist with The Media Consortium Cat Brooks, artist and organizer with the Anti Police-Terror Project

This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! 1. Cat Brooks, Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) speaks about the 96 hours of direct action across the Bay Area this weekend: https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/96hours and https://www.facebook.com/Anti-Police-Terror-Project-513658562107268/ 2. Canaan Kennedy (18), author, Struggles to Victory over Racism in America (2015).  3. Amikaeyla Gaston, director, Living Jazz Children's Project for "In the Name of Love, the 14th Annual Musical Tribute Honoring Dr. MLK, Jr.," Sun., Jan. 17, 7 p.m. Visit mlktribute.com or call (510) 858-5313. 4. Co-Artistic Director William Hodgson and actors Rolanda Dene & William Hartfield speak about Ubuntu Project's season opening work: Marcus Gardley's Gospel of Loving Kindness, Jan. 13-31 at Oakland City Church, 2735 MacAthur Blvd., Oakland, (510) 646-1126 & ubuntutheaterproject.com                                                          

Cat Brooks -- an activist who is Co-Founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project, and Co-Chair of the ONYX Organizing Committee-- on the "96 Hours of Direct Action" project that aims to address the ongoing, persistent, epidemic of police brutality and racism in America. For more info: http://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/call-to-action/

Alicia Garza, Black Lives Matter co-founder; Cat Brooks, Anti Police Terror Project; Antonia Juhasz, Investigative Journalist; Thomas DarDar, United Houma Nation Chief; Mark Miller, Southern Utah University History professor; Sylvia Rivera, Remembering Stonewall oral history project; Michael Schirker, Remembering Stonewall oral history project; Aesha Rasheed, Southerners on New Ground. Host: Jasmin Lopez Producers: Laura Flynn, Andrew Stelzer, and Jasmin Lopez Executive Director: Lisa Rudman Web Editor: Kwan Booth Music: Ketsa: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/ Ryan Little: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ryan_Little/ The post Looking Back, Moving Forward: 2015 Year in Review appeared first on KPFA.

On tonight's program you'll hear: an interview with Cat Brooks from the Anti-Police Terror Project, the LatinRebels give tips to avoid police harassment, a commentary on Jorge Dalton's recent visit to La Peña, hear poetry from Juan Felipe Herrera, the first Latino poet laureate of USA Argentine Tango Orchestra, Victoria, and a world premier of Rico Pabon's song, Father's Day.