This week we speak with NYC comrade Rose, who gives us a report on recent repression by NYPD of pro-Palestine student protests.
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On Feb. 5’s episode, we speak with Dr. Orisanmi Burton, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at American University, about his new book Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt.
To write to Victor Puertas, who is in ICE detention, check out @freevictornow on Instagram for more details. For a guide on how to write to folks on the inside, check out our how-to guide here.
Visit uprisingsupport.org to find more information on people who have been facing carceral repression since summer of 2020.
To find a copy of “Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt” check out your local bookstore or the University of California press.
On this week’s episode of No Police Radio, we cover a topic always worth revisiting because it’s present like air: surveillance. We learned from the pandemic that we can take measures to make the air safe to breath, and we can take measures to protect ourselves from an ever-expanding surveillance apparatus. Tune in to learn about ways to keep yourself and your comrades safe. We’ll cover a basic KYR (know your rights), how to practice good security hygiene, and why your life mantra should be STFU when it comes to interacting with the cops.
We air every other Monday from 4:30-5:30 PM, next show February 5 live on KDVS 90.3 FM.
Aired 1/8/24
On this episode of No Police Radio, we discuss the police sieges on People’s Park in Berkeley, CA, past and present. To give some context on recent events, we talk with Jonah Gottlieb, a UC Berkeley fourth year history major and organizer with Cal Young Democratic Socialists of America.
Today we’re joined by the poet and public intellectual Wendy Trevino, with whom we discuss border politics and more.
You can read Wendy’s full-length poetry collection, Cruel Fiction, here.
You can find her on the site formerly known as Twitter here.
Originally aired October 10 2023
Today we continue the discussion of the Stop Cop City movement, which began in Atlanta but is increasingly national as more cop city developments are announced and met with resistance.
As it grows in scope, it also intensifies locally. In Atlanta, a mass call to action was announced under the heading of Block Cop City, and we were honored to get to speak with Barry, one of the cool folks helping to make the action happen.
Hosts Juniper and Roger discuss surveillance, past and present methods, panopticon and discipline/control societies, and how social media can affect wellness. Above all, they tell you why your phone is a cop in your pocket. How might we find ways to resist the norms of 24/7 surveillance? Tune in turn off find out Ⓐ
Note: our team had to do some improvised recording for this episode, and you may hear a slightly degraded audio quality.
This week, we dive into Moms for Liberty, a national organization that astroturfs policy on the school board and county level under the guise of being “Concerned parents.” The Southern Policy Law Center designates them to be a hate group as their members have quoted hitler and pushed for the erasure and eradication of trans youth.
Recently, they’ve made forays into Davis, holding anti-trans events at the Mary L Stephens Public Library. We chat about the alarm that they’ve brought to the community, via bomb threats and general fashy hysteria, and how we might respond as abolitionists and targets of the group’s hate.
Also, we have an extended Bad Cop segment on a proposed project to expand the Sacramento County Jail.
As always, fire to the prisons; free them all.
Today, we look at the question of how our abolitionist perspectives can scale down to a place like a specific university campus, and how they also can scale up to address policing at an international level.
Relatedly, we give an update on something relevant to our last show, which focused on labor action and its repression at UC San Diego
Then we explore in more depth the way that university administrators and other kinds of bosses function as cops and work with cops by looking at UCD as an example. Featuring a special guest!
Finally, we move our focus outward to look at what is happening with policing internationally and talk a bit about the relation of US policing to some struggles happening on the other side of the Atlantic.
On May 5th, a group of UAW affiliates walked on stage at a UC San Diego awards ceremony and disrupted the scheduled events. Why you ask? They were bringing to light the failings of the university administration to uphold the union contract they brokered as a result of the UAW strike of 2022. As a result of this demonstration, 67 graduate students are now facing disciplinary action.
This week, we speak with two UCSD community members about their ongoing struggle. Alex is a graduate student researcher studying cancer genomics at UCSD and a member of the UAW local 2865 academic workers union. Wendy is faculty member at UCSD and part of executive board of San Diego Faculty Association that endorsed the faculty solidarity letter that now 299 signatures (over 100 from UCSD) calling for the withdrawal of the charges.