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Beatrice and Tracy speak with Bench Ansfield about their new book charting the rise of the FIRE economy (finance, insurance, real estate) in the 1970s and how this new evolution of racial capitalism led landlords to set fire to their own buildings in the Bronx and throughout the US, placing the blame on—and pathologizing—the very tenants they were dispossessing.

Find Bench's book, Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City, here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781324093510

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Outro by Time Wharp: timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta

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Born in Flames w/ Bench Ansfield (Unlocked)

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Beatrice speaks with Jack from Below Sea Level Aid about their experiences engaging in mutual aid and survival work.

Runtime 52:30

This is the seventh episode in a new series called All Care for All People (ACAP), as Artie describes in an introduction at the top of this episode. Over the coming weeks we will be speaking to people engaged in mutual aid survival programs, working across a variety of tactics, locations, and organizational structures, who are each stepping in, in different ways, to provide care where it is needed.

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Teaser - ACAP 07: Below Sea Level Aid (06/22/26)

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Beatrice speaks with Hadley, Tina and Beau from the Earthbound Farmer's Almanac Editorial Collective about their experiences engaging in mutual aid and survival work and the Earthbound Farmer's Almanac, described as "a journal of anti-colonial agriculture; an almanac for the end of the world."

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This is the eighth episode in a new series called All Care for All People (ACAP), as Artie describes in an introduction at the top of this episode. Over the coming weeks we will be speaking to people engaged in mutual aid survival programs, working across a variety of tactics, locations, and organizational structures, who are each stepping in, in different ways, to provide care where it is needed.

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: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel

Show links:

Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523

Teaser - ACAP 08: Earthbound Farmer's Almanac (07/06/26)

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Beatrice speaks with Dean Spade about how mutual aid allows us to reclaim and collectivize the labor of survival itself, how the practice is much more radical than it’s often been portrayed since it became a topic of mainstream press discussion, and the new second edition of Dean’s 2020 book, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next).

If you appreciated this episode consider checking out our interview series All Care for All People; the first episode aired here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/157359074

Find the new edition of Dean's book Mutual Aid here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781836742555

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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

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Mutual Aid w/ Dean Spade (Unlocked)

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Beatrice speaks with Dan Berger about the long history of RICO (the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) being used as a tool of repression against left movements, and what we can learn from the RICO charges against Stop Cop City activists.

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Today's episode originally aired September 25th, 2023 and is being re-aired today in light of the Prairieland sentencing, the 'Minnesota 15,' and other developments. We'll be back next week with a new episode!

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Teaser - RICO w/ Dan Berger

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Beatrice, Artie and Tracy discuss the potential impacts of a new 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.”

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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

Empty Rights and Underlying Conditions

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Beatrice speaks with Vicky Osterweil about the Trump administration’s recent statements declaring a renewed red scare, painting the left as “deformed,” a “fatal cancer to civilization,” and a threat to “normal, healthy, ordered living.”

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Teaser - Trump’s New Red Scare w/ Vicky Osterweil (07/27/26)

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Beatrice, Artie and Phil discuss the Trump administration’s proposal to shift the definition of “medical frailty” under Medicaid to explicitly redefine health as your ability to work, and how this change threatens not just the healthcare coverage of countless people, but an impending blow against the Medicaid program and the healthcare system itself.

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Teaser - “Medical Frailty” and the War on Fraud (08/03/26)

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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.

Runtime 1:31:42

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Teaser - How to Close a Camp w/ John Washington (08/10/26)

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Beatrice speaks with Vicky Osterweil about how intellectual property has become central to global capitalism, what led the Disney corporation to send lobbyists to defend covid vaccine patents, and her new book The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World.

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Teaser - I.P. the Killer w/ Vicky Osterweil (08/17/26)

Politics, culture, and public policy from the left. Stay alive another week.

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

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