Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss the mask ban passed in Nassau County last week, the latest in a dramatic rise in legislation criminalizing face masks and targeting the Palestine solidarity movement. We look at what happened in the overtly hostile public hearing over the ban, the history of the New York statute that ban proponents want back, and how the threat of mask bans goes far beyond public health: mask bans embolden racist policing; they’re anti-trans; and they target the whole of the left.

Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/mask-bans-are-everyones-fight

Watch the full Nassau County mask ban hearing here:
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Read the statement on the hearing by Jews for Mask Rights here:
https://www.jewsformaskrights.com/resources/anti-mask-harassment-nassau-countys-mask-ban-hearing

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Beatrice speaks with Silky Shah about the harsh immigration and border detention rhetoric on display at both the DNC and RNC this summer, the historical and material links between the rise of the immigration detention system and mass incarceration, and her new book, Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition.

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Death Panel 536 Teaser - Unbuild Walls w/ Silky Shah (08/26/24)

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Beatrice speaks with Betsy Ladyzhets of The Sick Times about what wastewater surveillance does—and doesn’t—tell us about the level of covid spread and how the rise of covid wastewater monitoring fits inside the larger picture of the privatization of both covid risk and covid data.

Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/promises-and-perils-of-wastewater-data

Find Betsy’s report, “Wastewater surveillance for Covid-19 keeps evolving. Here’s what you need to know” here:
https://thesicktimes.org/2024/07/23/wastewater-surveillance-for-covid-19-keeps-evolving-heres-what-you-need-to-know/

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

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Death Panel The Promise and Perils of Wastewater Data w/ Betsy Ladyzhets (08/29/24)

The Promise and Perils of Wastewater Data w/ Betsy Ladyzhets (08/29/24)

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Beatrice speaks with Sasha Warren about the lessons we can take from the history of anti-psychiatry movements, and other movements aligned against earlier forms of asylums and mental hospitals, with a particular focus on two groups active in the 1960s and 1970s: Institutional Psychotherapy in France and Democratic Psychiatry in Italy.

Find Sasha's book, Storming Bedlam: Madness, Utopia, and Revolt, here: https://www.commonnotions.org/storming-bedlam

Transcript forthcoming.

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

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Beatrice speaks with Victoria Law about how prisons and jails have acted as vectors of covid transmission throughout the pandemic, the experiences of people on the inside from early in the pandemic through fights happening now over long covid in incarcerated people, and why it’s still not too late to bring back a common demand from 2020: to free them all for public health.

Find Victoria's book, Corridors of Contagion: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration, here:
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2447-corridors-of-contagion

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Death Panel 539 Teaser - Corridors of Contagion w/ Victoria Law (09/09/24)

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Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss the political economy of the pandemic and how organizing around covid and long covid intersects with priorities in movements across the left, including labor struggles and economic justice, disability justice, and abolition.

Transcript forthcoming.

This episode was recorded live at the 2024 Socialism Conference in Chicago. We collaborated with conference organizers to host five discussions there over labor day weekend. Recordings and transcripts of those sessions will be released over the coming weeks. More info in the intro stinger at the beginning of this episode, which ends at 0:02:30.

Thanks to Han Olliver for our Death Panel x Socialism Conference 2024 poster image, which is being used as the cover image for this episode on platforms that support it. Find and support Han's work at hanolliver.com

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

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Death Panel The Political Economy Of Covid (DP x S24) (09/12/24)

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Beatrice speaks with Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis about the demands of the growing tenants movement, why so-called “affordable housing” policies fail to keep people in their homes, and why we need to abolish rent once and for all.

Tracy and Leonardo are the authors of Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis, out next week: 
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2443-abolish-rent

Transcript forthcoming.

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

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Death Panel 542 Abolish Rent w/ Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis (09/19/24)

Abolish Rent w/ Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis (09/19/24)

Beatrice speaks with Rasha Abdulhadi about how, as we near 11 months and 100+ years of genocidal settler colonial violence in Palestine, it is vital to remain steadfast in our demands for Palestinian liberation. We discuss turning away from despair towards patience and boldness in our actions, why our demands must push for and beyond “ceasefire,” and draw connections between settler colonialism here and in Palestine; inviting us all to become more skillful in keeping each other alive.

Transcript forthcoming.

This episode was recorded live at the 2024 Socialism Conference in Chicago in early September. We collaborated with conference organizers to host five discussions there over labor day weekend. Recordings and transcripts of those sessions will be released over the coming weeks.

Thanks to Han Olliver for our Death Panel x Socialism Conference 2024 poster image, which is being used as the cover image for this episode on platforms that support it. Find and support Han's work at hanolliver.com

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

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Death Panel Refusing Genocide, from Palestine to Pandemic w/ Rasha Abdulhadi (DP x S24) (09/26/24)

Refusing Genocide, from Palestine to Pandemic w/ Rasha Abdulhadi (DP x S24) (09/26/24)

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Beatrice, Artie and Phil discuss the deeper problems behind JD Vance’s recent comments that Trump wants to separate the sick into their own “risk pool,” and how the US’s system of private healthcare itself generates resentment towards the sick. Then we take a close look at Medicaid unwinding, as some of the final unwinding data now shows that 25 million people were disenrolled from Medicaid in the last year—millions more than originally estimated.

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Death Panel 544 Teaser - Concepts of a Risk Pool (09/30/24)

Teaser - Concepts of a Risk Pool (09/30/24)

Beatrice speaks with Mon Mohapatra, Tracy Rosenthal and Victoria Law about how the rhetorics of “care,” support, and empathy are often deployed to expand and reinforce carcerality—to make carcerality appear innocuous, or even an expansion of social welfare and public health.

Transcript forthcoming.

This episode was recorded live at the 2024 Socialism Conference in Chicago in early September, under the session title "Carewashing: Carcerality Disguised as Social Welfare." We collaborated with conference organizers to host five discussions there over labor day weekend. Recordings and transcripts of those sessions will be released over the coming weeks.

Note: As speakers were not introduced individually before their opening statements, those statements are in the order listed in the title (Mon, Tracy, then Victoria).

Thanks to Han Olliver for our Death Panel x Socialism Conference 2024 poster image, which is being used as the cover image for this episode on platforms that support it. Find and support Han's work at hanolliver.com

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

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