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Law and Disorder
Law and Disorder is a weekly, independent radio program airing on several stations across the United States. Law and Disorder gives listeners access to rare legal perspectives on issues concerning civil liberties, privacy, right to dissent and the horrendous practices of torture exercised by the US government.
Law and Disorder is a weekly, independent radio program airing on several stations across the United States. Law and Disorder gives listeners access to rare legal perspectives on issues concerning civil liberties, privacy, right to dissent and the horrendous practices of torture exercised by the US government.
This program examines the political forces and legislation that are moving the United States into a police state. Four of the top progressive attorneys and activists host the program and bring an amazing, diverse line up of guests from grassroots activists to politically mindful authors. Most importantly, Law and Disorder brings access to attorneys who give insights to some of the most controversial cases. Law and Disorder will sometimes be the generator of news within the radio echo-chamber throughout the country.
Program website – http://www.lawanddisorder.org/
Recent Episodes
March 24, 2020 National, News & Public Affairs
Civil Liberties Amid Pandemic; United States Executive Authority Declares Emergency Powers; and Executive Authority in Declaring Emergency Powers
Michael Cohen testified last year before Congress that Trump would never leave office voluntarily. With the pandemic of Covid-19 virus upon us, Trump last week he declared a state of national emergency. This gives him more than 100 additional powers.
Some of those 100 powers provide reasonable responses to real emergencies, while others seem to bolster the power of a unitary executive who wants to amassing or retain power. The president can activate laws allowing him to, shut down many kinds of electronic communications inside the U.S. or to freeze Americans bank accounts.
ListenMarch 17, 2020 National, News & Public Affairs
Basic Legal Rights For Animals: Activists and Advocates
Discussions over whether animals are sentient beings, capable of feeling pain, pleasure or suffering, date back as far as ancient thinkers such as Plutarch, Hippocrates and Pythagoras. They all advocated for the fair treatment of animals. The term animal rights stands for the proposition that non-human animals have the right to be treated, not as property, but rather as the individuals they are, with their own desires and needs.
Animal law is now widely taught in law schools across North America. There are 167 law schools in the U.S. and Canada, and 11 in Australia and New Zealand, teaching courses in animal law. Several legal scholars support extending basic legal rights and to personhood to non-human animals.
ListenMarch 10, 2020 National, News & Public Affairs
Law And Disorder: COVID-19 Virus And History of Quarantine
Quarantine” is a state, period, or place of isolation in which people or animals that have arrived from elsewhere or who have been exposed to infectious or contagious disease are placed.
As Law & Disorder taped this show in early March 2020, thousands of people around the globe are being quarantined as governments rush to keep the COVID-19 virus from spreading. In China, for example, thousands were forced into mass quarantine centers. And entire cities and towns in Italy were put on lock-down, sending an estimated 100,000 persons into quarantine.
ListenMarch 3, 2020 National, News & Public Affairs
The Hundred Years War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
More than 100 years ago, a Zionist Congress meeting in Vienna sent a delegation of several rabbis to Palestine to report back on what they saw. The rabbis telegraphed: The bride is beautiful but she is married to another man. That is to say, Palestine was already settled by Palestinians who have been there for centuries. Thus the project of the Zionists was to ethnically cleanse Palestine by any means necessary.
In a violation of international law, on May 16, 2019 more than 100 police, many with military gear, invaded the embassy of Venezuela in Washington, DC and arrested four Embassy Protectors who were in the embassy with the permission of the Venezuelan government to protect it from takeover as part of a US coup against the elected Venezuelan government of Nicolas Maduro.
ListenFebruary 25, 2020 National, News & Public Affairs
In Defense Of Julian Assange: Attorney Renata Avila; and The Prosecution of Julian Assange – CUNY School of Law and UCLA
Julian is fighting extradition to the United States on 18 charges, including violating the Espionage Act and conspiring to hack government computers. The charges are in connection with Wikileaks release of thousands of secret cables in 2010.
We listen to two presentations from a panel discussion among leading journalists, attorneys and human rights defenders as the extradition trial in London of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is set to begin.
Read MoreFebruary 18, 2020 National, News & Public Affairs
When at Times the Mob Is Swayed, A Citizen’s Guide to Defending Our Republic; and Amazon Ring Of Surveillance
Trump was elected by about 25% of the eligible voters. Half of the voters who could have, didn't vote. He lost the popular election by 3 million votes.
When it comes to e-commerce, the multinational tech company Amazon.com has laid claim to a huge corner on the market. Now, its venturing into the business of surveillance.
ListenFebruary 11, 2020 National, News & Public Affairs
Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents; and Unchained At Last: Unarrange A Marriage; Rearrange A Life
In her new book Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents author Margaret Kimberley explores Americas relationship with race through the lens of the presidents who have been chosen to represent all the people.
Each year, before they reach the age of 18, 12 million girls will marry. It happens in every country, and cuts across religions, ethnic, and cultural divides. Over 650 million women alive today were married as girls. Child marriage is a human rights violation.
Read MoreFebruary 4, 2020 National, News & Public Affairs
Attorneys-Activists Supporting The Defense of Julian Assange; and Senate Impeachment Trial Analysis
A recent Washington Post op-ed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden connected Brazilian prosecutors' recent decision to file charges against American investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald with the U.S. government's efforts to prosecute WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
A joke going around is that even if Trump shot a senator on the Senate floor he would still win acquittal by a vote of 53 to 47, unless he shot a Republican. Then the vote would be 52 to 47
ListenJanuary 28, 2020 National, News & Public Affairs
The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American; and Supreme Court Roundup
The men who wrote United States Constitution and the first Ten Amendments to it known as the Bill of Rights were mostly not Christians. The founding fathers were deists and understood from European history the terrible consequences of not separating church and state.
The Supreme Court is poised to hear several highly charged disputes as the justices return to the bench in 2020. It promises to be one of the most politically volatile terms in recent memory. The court has heard high-profile disputes over LGBT rights in the workplace, the scope of the Second Amendment, and the deportation status of nearly 700,000 young undocumented immigrants.
ListenJanuary 21, 2020 National, News & Public Affairs
Human Rights Attorney Michael Tigar
2020 began with President Donald Trump illegally and recklessly ordering the assassination of top Iranian general Qassem Suleimani who was on a peace mission in Iraq at the time he was killed by a US drone. The peoples constitutional right to impeach a president is also in jeopardy. The separation of church and state and the separation of powers are also in jeopardy.
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