March marks four years since the beginnings of the COVID-19 pandemic. Public health failures and government inaction have forced communities to take matters into their own hands. On today's show, we look at two groups steeped in the values of community care.

First, we'll hear about the Auntie Sewing Squad, which distributed over 350,000 hand-sewn masks to communities in 2020-2021. Then, we'll speak with organizers from Pandemic Solidarity for the Long Future, which is working today towards a safer future for everyone.

Learn more about the story and find the transcript on radioproject.org. [https://www.radioproject.org/2024/03/no-covid-isnt-over-and-the-need-for-continued-community]

Making Contact [https://radioproject.org/] is an award-winning, nationally syndicated radio show and podcast featuring narrative storytelling and thought-provoking interviews. We cover the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground building a more just world.

EPISODE FEATURES: Kristina Wong, founder of the Auntie Sewing Squad; J Mase III, organizer with Pandemic Solidarity for the Long Future; and Gata, organizer with Pandemic Solidarity for the Long Future.

MAKING CONTACT: This episode is hosted by Lucy Kang. It is produced by Anita Johnson, Lucy Kang, Salima Hamirani, and Amy Gastelum. Our executive director is Jina Chung. 

MUSIC: This episode includes "Background Documentary Piano" by SigmaMusicArt via Pixabay.

Learn More:
Kristina Wong: www.kristinawong.com
"Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord" at ACT in San Francisco: https://www.act-sf.org/whats-on/2023-24-season/kristina-wong-sweatshop-overlord/
Pandemic Solidarity for the Long Future: www.pandemicsolidarity.org
Home Test to Treat offers free tests and free treatment for COVID-19 and flu at home: www.test2treat.org

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No, COVID Isn’t “Over,” and the Need for Continued Community

Wrapping Disability Justice n Black
What would that be like from the front to the back
Rooted in our ancestors 
Off the tongues of our Black babies

Disability Justice n Black

From the Blues to Hip-Hop
Or better yet
From Black blind Blues
To Krip-Hop

Opening cages of freak shows
Take off the paint of minstrel shows
What will be reveal, don’t you know
The Black disabled talent

Not only entertainment 
Black disabled resistance 
From Tubman to Hibbler
Speaking Black sign language 

Disability Justice n Black

New Black Krip knowledge 
Coming out with ph.d.’s
From ivory towers back in the community
Black disabled intellectuals 

Blacking DJ principals
Starting with our own Black people
Grounded in the Black family
Help to erase Black ableism

New theories will come
Building on DJ & Krip-Hop
Internationally, finding home
Living into Afro-Krip


Leaving pity behind
It’s about time
Disability Justice n Black
Making it hip

To be continue
Because it will never end
We are only beginning 
Disability Justice n Black is where it’s at

Dressing DJ in Blackness
Will be a process
Must do it today, can’t rest
The next generation will be looking at our progress

Disability Justice n Black

By Leroy F. Moore Jr.
4/2/24

Disability Justice n Black

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Beatrice speaks with Micah Khater about her award winning article on the intersection of race, disability, and incarceration in the southern US in the early 20th century, and her work documenting the history of how Black women experienced and theorized disability from within Alabama prisons.

Read Micah’s full article, “No Use to the State: Phrasing Escape and a Black Radical Epistolary of Disability in Early Twentieth-Century Alabama Prisons” (winner of the 2024 Toni Cade Bambara Article Prize from the Black Women's Studies Association) here: 
dsq-sds.org/index.php/dsq/article/view/9662/8007

Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

Runtime 1:31:03, 22 April 2024

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Death Panel 509 Teaser - "No Use to the State" w/ Micah Khater (04/22/24)

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Teaser - "No Use to the State" w/ Micah Khater (04/22/24)

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Beatrice and Phil speak with legal scholars Karen Tani and Katie Eyer about how the Supreme Court used cases related to disability and deinstitutionalization in the 1970s and 1980s as an opportunity to remake and expand its own powers, the role that these cases had in securing conservatives’ “New Federalism” revolution, and how disability cases continue to be a site of conservative judicial advancement today.

Read Karen and Katie's article, "Disability and the Ongoing Federalism Revolution," here: https://www.yalelawjournal.org/feature/disability-and-the-ongoing-federalism-revolution

Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

Runtime 1:25:44, 6 May 2024

Death Panel 513 Teaser - Disability and the Ongoing Federalism Revolution w/ Karen Tani and Katie Eyer (05/06/24)

Teaser - Disability and the Ongoing Federalism Revolution w/ Karen Tani and Katie Eyer (05/06/24)

This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on April 22nd. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Beatrice speaks with Micah Khater about her award winning article on the intersection of race, disability, and incarceration in the southern US in the early 20th century, and her work documenting the history of how Black women experienced and theorized disability from within Alabama prisons.

Read Micah’s full article, “No Use to the State: Phrasing Escape and a Black Radical Epistolary of Disability in Early Twentieth-Century Alabama Prisons” (winner of the 2024 Toni Cade Bambara Article Prize from the Black Women's Studies Association) here: 
dsq-sds.org/index.php/dsq/article/view/9662/8007

Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/micah-khater

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

Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here:
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch

As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Death Panel 509 "No Use to the State" w/ Micah Khater (Unlocked)

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"No Use to the State" w/ Micah Khater (Unlocked)

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Beatrice, Artie and Abby discuss a recent piece by Freddie deBoer in New York Magazine that attempts to present a "left" case for supporting involuntary commitment policies and the expansion of the carceral state—claiming that “the disability activist community and their enablers in the media have done everything in their power to obscure the truth.”

Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

Runtime 1:42:23, 24 June 2024

Death Panel 525 Teaser - On New York Magazine's "The Case for Forcing the Mentally Ill Into Treatment" (06/24/24)

Teaser - On New York Magazine's "The Case for Forcing the Mentally Ill Into Treatment" (06/24/24)

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Beatrice speaks with Sunaura Taylor about how industrial pollution and systemic abandonment produce networks of disability among people, animals, and what she calls “injured landscapes;” how one community in Arizona organized against longstanding environmental pollution from arms manufacturing; and her new book, Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert.

Find Sunaura’s book here: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520393066/disabled-ecologies

Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

Runtime 1:32:58, 8 July 2024

Death Panel 528 Teaser - Disabled Ecologies w/ Sunaura Taylor (07/08/24)

Teaser - Disabled Ecologies w/ Sunaura Taylor (07/08/24)

Beatrice and Jules mark the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with a discussion of just how limited the law is compared with how it's portrayed, how to understand the ADA as part of the broader story of welfare state retrenchment in the 1980s and 1990s, and the broader story of how it got this way.

Transcript:
https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/the-ada-as-welfare-reform

This episode was originally released on August 3rd, 2023 to mark the 33rd anniversary of the passage of the ADA, and we're re-releasing it today to mark the 34th anniversary. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Transcript:
https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/the-ada-as-welfare-reform

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

Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here:
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

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Death Panel 453 The ADA as Welfare Reform

The ADA as Welfare Reform

This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on July 8th. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Beatrice speaks with Sunaura Taylor about how industrial pollution and systemic abandonment produce networks of disability among people, animals, and what she calls “injured landscapes;” how one community in Arizona organized against longstanding environmental pollution from arms manufacturing; and her new book, Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert.

Find Sunaura’s book here: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520393066/disabled-ecologies

Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/sunaura-taylor

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

Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here:
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch

As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Death Panel 528 Unlocked Disabled Ecologies w/ Sunaura Taylor

Disabled Ecologies w/ Sunaura Taylor

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

Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

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As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

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

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

Black Kripple here with news, views, music, poetry, story-telling of people with disabilities from around the world and from myself and the latest from Krip-Hop Nation especially from Black and Brown people with disabilities.  Come get some of this!



Krip-Hop's Mission is to educate the music, media industries and general public about the talents, history, rights and marketability of Hip-Hop artists and other musicians with disabilities. Krip-Hop main objective is to get the musical talents of hip-hop artists with disabilities into the hands of media outlets, educators, and hip-hop, disabled and race scholars, youth, journalists and hip-hop conference coordinators. Krip-Hop Nation’s public education has many avenues i.e. Internet magazine’s columns, workshops, Internet radio show, publications and our famous mixtape series to name a few reporting on the latest news about musicians with disabilities.

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w/ Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant, Phil Rocco and Jules Gill-Peterson. 

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