Death Panel

This episode was originally released March 9th for Death Panel patrons and is being unlocked today for the first time. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Mariame Kaba and Andrea Ritchie about how we should understand the spectacular violence of Trump’s ICE surges as an extension of the violence of everyday policing, lessons in resisting proposed “reforms” that would actually give more power to ICE, and how community care and community defense help build a world toward abolition. Transcript forthcoming. Find Interrupting Criminalization's toolkit "Block It!: A Mini Toolkit to Take Action to Disrupt the ICE Kidnapping, Detention, and Deportation Machine" here - https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-all/block-it MERCH STORE IS BACK! Patrons get a code for 10% off all orders. Find it at www.deathpanel.net/merch Show links: We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523 Find Jules' latest book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781804291603 Outro by Time Wharp: timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/153761379 Beatrice speaks with Mohini Mookim and Veryl Pow about practicing what they call “prefigurative lawyering” to support movements and protect mutual aid work, and how to work towards what they call “hospicing the law.” Runtime 1:15:02 MERCH STORE IS BACK! Patrons get a code for 10% off all orders. Find it at www.deathpanel.net/merch We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Show links: Get Health Communism here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523

This episode was originally released March 3rd for Death Panel patrons and is being unlocked today for the first time. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Cassius Adair about Kansas’s new law stripping trans people of their driver’s licenses overnight as an expression of administrative violence, and about the long history of state identification documents being used as a tool to enforce norms and surveil and punish populations. MERCH STORE IS BACK! Patrons get a code for 10% off all orders. Find it at www.deathpanel.net/merch Show links: We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523 Find Jules' latest book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781804291603 Outro by Time Wharp: timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/153205544 Beatrice speaks with Da’Shaun L. Harrison about how the body itself is being mobilized as a nationalist symbol under the second Trump administration and what it will take to fight back. Read Da'Shaun's piece here: https://scalawagmagazine.org/2026/03/let-us-explain-body-fascism/ Find Da'Shaun's book Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781623175979 Runtime 1:27:05 MERCH STORE IS BACK! Patrons get a code for 10% off all orders. Find it at www.deathpanel.net/merch We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Show links: Get Health Communism here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523

Beatrice speaks with Minneapolis organizers Jonathan Stegall and Anne Kosseff-Jones about how the last few months of anti-ICE organizing and mutual aid work in Minnesota built directly on the foundations laid during the 2020 uprisings, why the twin cities still need support even after the announcement of a “draw down,” and lessons to take forward with us. Note: Shortly after this episode was recorded it was reported that closer to 650 ICE officers remain in Minnesota, not 500 as stated in the episode. Find ways to help keep Minnesota housed at: https://standwithminnesota.com/ Read Jonathan and Anne's piece at Truthout here: https://truthout.org/articles/minneapoliss-2020-uprising-laid-an-abolitionist-groundwork-for-ice-resistance/ To support the show and make episodes like this possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod MERCH STORE IS BACK! Patrons get a code for 10% off all orders. Find it at www.deathpanel.net/merch Read Tracy’s piece in Hammer and Hope here: “Immigration Raids at This Home Depot Got More Aggressive but Less Effective. The LA Tenants Union Knows Why.” hammerandhope.org/article/los-angeles-tenants-ice Show links: We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523 Find Jules' latest book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781804291603 Outro by Time Wharp: timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta

Mariame Kaba, organizer and founder of Project NIA with 35+ years in abolition and youth work, and Andrea Ritchie, movement lawyer and author focused on policing’s impact on Black women and trans people. They map ICE raids to everyday policing. They unpack how outrage often births reform pitches, examine federalized policing and funding, and discuss community care and defense as abolition strategies.

Beatrice and Tracy speak with Zoie and Kevin of the LA Tenants Union about their work organizing community defense against raids by ICE and Border Patrol, how they came to set up the first Centro de Defensa Communitaria, and lessons they can share for other organizers wanting to take on the same work as ICE raids expand across the US. This episode was originally released December 4th and is being re-aired today as ICE continues to be a pressing threat and as organizers in places like Minneapolis grapple with how to keep momentum up as months go on and as the national spotlight moves away. To support the show and make episodes like this possible, become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod MERCH STORE IS BACK! Patrons get a code for 10% off all orders. Find it at www.deathpanel.net/merch Read Tracy’s piece in Hammer and Hope here: “Immigration Raids at This Home Depot Got More Aggressive but Less Effective. The LA Tenants Union Knows Why.” hammerandhope.org/article/los-angeles-tenants-ice Show links: We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523 Find Jules' latest book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781804291603 Outro by Time Wharp: timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/152164375 Beatrice speaks with Cassius Adair about Kansas’s new law stripping trans people of their driver’s licenses overnight as an expression of administrative violence, and about the long history of state identification documents being used as a tool to enforce norms and surveil and punish populations. Runtime 1:28:36 MERCH STORE IS BACK! Patrons get a code for 10% off all orders. Find it at www.deathpanel.net/merch We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Show links: Get Health Communism here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523

This episode was originally released in fall 2023 and is being re-aired today in light of discourse surrounding carceral approaches to public space and recent attacks on the term "carceral sanism" itself. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice, Liat Ben-Moshe, and Leah Harris discuss the increasing wave of policies and legislation, from Eric Adams’ stance on involuntary hospitalization to Gavin Newsom’s Care Courts, that seek to criminalize madness and people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. They also discuss why it is so critical for the left to work against these policies, and how to understand the politics of what we have termed “carceral sanism.” This episode was originally recorded live as part of the 2023 Socialism Conference, organized by Haymarket Books. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/s23-resisting-carceral-sanism Show links: We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523 Find Jules' latest book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781804291603

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/151486955 Following a new introduction on the Trump administration's decision to invoke the Defense Production Act to increase the production of glyphosate, Beatrice speaks with William Boyd about how “risk assessment” became a central focus of health safety and environmental law since the 1970s, and how the political and economic factors that structure how those risks are assessed have resulted in law and policy far less likely to protect against environmental and health hazards. Runtime 1:24:38 MERCH STORE IS BACK! Patrons get a code for 10% off all orders. Find it at https://www.deathpanel.net/merch We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Show links: Get Health Communism here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523