Death Panel

This episode was originally released August 10th 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 https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with John Washington about how detention camps are at once essential pieces of the immigration enforcement regime and also one of its most vulnerable sites to a variety of forms of public resistance, and about his new book, How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention. Find John's book, How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention, here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888908167 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: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Outro by Time Wharp: https://timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta

What does it really mean to “be normal” in politics? This discussion explores respectability, moderation, and the pressure to shrink transformative demands. Topics include the left’s relationship to weirdness, working-class diversity, capitalism’s conditional access to survival, the psychological costs of normality, and how respectable institutions can enable violence.

Mariame Kaba, organizer and abolitionist educator, joins Andrea Ritchie, movement lawyer and author focused on policing’s impact on Black women and trans communities. They connect ICE surges to everyday policing, challenge “good immigrant” narratives, and examine reforms that expand carceral power. The conversation turns to defunding, mutual aid, community defense, transformative justice, and building abolition through everyday collective action.

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/172178479 Beatrice, Artie and Phil discuss the Trump administration’s announcement that it has unilaterally kicked 760,000 people off of their health insurance, why they were able to do so to shockingly little outcry, and what it means as an escalation in their so-called "War on Fraud." Runtime 1:24:52 Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

This episode was originally released October 16th, 2023. We are re-airing it today as we mark three years in the ongoing escalation of genocide in Palestine. If you can, donate to the Sameer Project here: https://linktr.ee/thesameerproject To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Original episode description: Beatrice speaks with Rasha Abdulhadi about how to stand in solidarity with Palestinians in this moment, the importance of refusing the idea that the genocide of Palestinians is inevitable, and how the language we use to resist the colonial project can sometimes fail to meet the scale of our demands. Full transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/refusing-genocide-palestine 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: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Outro by Time Wharp: https://timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/171514403 In today's episode, we revisit a conversation from last year on the Trump administration's intent to attack federal disability protections in order to expand involuntary commitment and psychiatric incarceration—now with a new intro from Artie on Trump's recent attacks on Section 504 and Olmstead. Runtime 1:58:19 Original description: Beatrice, Artie and Tracy discuss the potential impacts of a Trump executive order called “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,” which threatens to dramatically expand involuntary psychiatric commitment and make it easier for the government to disappear people off the streets, allegedly in the name of “compassion.” This episode originally aired under the title, "Empty Rights and Underlying Conditions." Further reference: Find our full two part episode on the history of the 504 sit-in, plus a transcript, here: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/504 Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

This episode was originally released August 31st 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 https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Artie discusses what studies show are the health impacts of data centers on the communities they're built in, how to think about data centers and AI as mechanisms of social murder, and why the dramatic rise of anti-data center sentiment can't be dismissed as a "moral panic." Find the companion blog post (referenced in this episode) here: https://blindarchive.substack.com/p/indifference-engines This episode was recorded prior to our participation in the Socialism Conference this year and contains reference to those sessions as upcoming; all sessions are now available in the patron and public Death Panel feeds and you can find our response discussion to the right wing / Fox News outrage over one of our sessions here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/169543050 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: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Outro by Time Wharp: https://timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta

Nate Holdren, a historian of labor, disability, and political economy, joins Beatrice Adler-Bolton to challenge “gerontocracy” as a framework for understanding power. They discuss social murder, institutional violence, unequal aging, disability, and how capitalism produces disposability. The conversation also explores political conflict, consensus, and why age can obscure the structural forces shaping who is protected, impaired, or abandoned.

Historian A. Naomi Paik, author of Bans, Walls, Raids, and Sanctuary, and immigrant-rights organizer Silky Shah, executive director of Detention Watch Network, examine border policing as a machinery of illness, detention, and social fragmentation. They discuss abolitionist sanctuary, resisting deservingness narratives, defending communities against raids, and rebuilding care networks through mutual aid.

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/169919130 Beatrice speaks with Gabriel Winant about the idea popular in some circles that we live in a “gerontocracy” and whether and how age could be understood to act as a mediator of class. Runtime 1:13:52 Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179