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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
January 15, 2020 National, News & Public Affairs
Assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani: Geopolitical Discussion; and Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide: How the New FBI Damages Democracy
President Donald Trump's assassination of General Qasem Soleimani when he was at the airport in Baghdad, Iraq is in violation of both American and international law.
Mike Germans new book, Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide: How the New FBI Damages Democracy, feels especially timely. German is a former FBI undercover special agent whose assignments included infiltrating white nationalist organizations.
ListenJanuary 7, 2020 National, News & Public Affairs
61st Anniversary of Cuban Revolution; Venezuelan Embassy Protectors Could Face Fines And Prison; and U.S. Anti-Immigration and Just Futures Law
Michael Smith and Guest Host Natasha Bannan Discuss 61st Anniversary of Cuban Revolution. Unable to reverse the Cuban revolution United States sought from the beginning to contain its influence. From the 1960s the governments of 7 Latin American Countries were overthrown by American sponsored coups because of their friendly position towards Cuba.
Anti-immigrant discourse and policy has defined a large part of the Trump Administration since 2016. We take a look into attacks against immigrants in the United States and related rule making in the last few months.
Read MoreDecember 31, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
British Election Analysis and Political Parallels; and In Defense of Julian Assange
On December 12, 2019 British Conservative party leader Boris Johnson won the election over Jeremy Corbyns Labour Party by 43.6% to 32%. British voters were less moved by Corbyns economic and social programs than they were by Johnsons nationalist positions.
We interview Margaret Kunstler and Tariq Ali who edited and introduce the just published book titled In Defense of Julian Assange. The book demonstrates convincingly what is at stake in his upcoming trial is the future of free journalism, here and abroad.
ListenDecember 25, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
President Trump Signs Order Defining Jewish People In The United States As Nation And Race, Not Religion
In the past several years support for the human rights of Palestinians has grown substantially, especially on U.S. college campuses. In response to this growth of support for Palestinians President Donald Trump signed an executive order changing the 1964 Civil Rights Act and defining for the first time American Jews not as a religious group , but as a nation and a race.
ListenDecember 18, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
Center For Constitutional Rights Project: ALEC Attacks; and The Report Movie And CIA OIG Torture Report
In December of 2019, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the CCR, sued in Arizona a number of Arizona lawmakers who are participating in a closed meetings of the American Legislative Exchange Council known as ALEC. The complaint asks the court to find that attendance at the closed door meetings for the purpose of deliberation on legislation with corporations and lobbyists by lawmakers from Arizona violates the states open meeting law
Hosts Heidi Boghosian and Michael Smith talk about the recent film titled The Report where one of the film's characters plays the Senate investigator who uncovered and documented Americas extensive use of torture.
ListenDecember 10, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
President Donald Trump, Ukraine, The Bidens And Impeachment; and The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered A Black Panther
Five years ago in 2014 the Obama Biden administration spent $5 billion to help overthrow the democratically elected government of the Ukraine this fact is omitted in the mainstream press coverage of the current Ukraingate impeachment inquiry.
Jeff Haas's personal account of how he and Peoples Law Office partner Flint Taylor went after Hamptons assassins, and ultimately prevailed over unlimited government resources and an FBI conspiracy.
ListenDecember 3, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
CCR Attorney Brings GTMO Cases To Highest International Court; and In Defense of Julian Assange Book Launch
The role of the International Criminal Court is to bring to justice the world's worst crimes known to humankind " war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. The USA is not one of the 123 countries who participate in this International Court, but it can still be investigated and tried if the crimes it commits were committed in one of the 123 countries.
Margaret Kunstler, Aaron Mate, Nathan Fuller, Amy Goodman, and Barry Pollack spoke about the wrongly prosecuted Julian Assange on the occasion of the recent publication by OR Books of In Defense of Julian Assange composed of 39 authors offering a range of insights and perspectives.
ListenNovember 26, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
In Defense of Julian Assange; and Music is Power: Popular Songs, Social Justice and the Will to Change
Whistle blowing truth telling journalist and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange now sits in solitary confinement in London's infamous Belmarsh prison. The Trump administration has asked that he be extradited to Virginia for trial as a spy.
Throughout U.S. history social justice music has played many roles, from motivating soldiers on their way to war, to inspiring activists fighting police repression during the civil rights movements. In his new book, Music Is Power author Brad Schreiber chronicles a century of politically-conscious music.
ListenNovember 19, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
Labor Party’s Jeremy Corbyn For British Prime Minister: Analysis; and Harriet Tubman And The History Of Women Slavery
Jeremy Corbyn, a social Democrat similar in some respects to Bernie Sanders heads the British Labor Party. He has said I will be a very different kind of Prime Minister, not the kind of Prime Minister who believes he was born to rule.
In the recently-released film Harriet, is directed by Kasi Lemmons, who calls Tubman a completely badass woman, shows sides of the legendary Tubman that contrast with how she is remembered and is the first feature film focusing on the legendary Underground Railroad leader.
ListenNovember 12, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
Victory: Trump Administration Rescinds Planned Anti-Protest Rules; and United States Officially Recognizes The Armenian Genocide
In a stunning victory for free speech, the National Park Service was recently forced to withdraw a proposal that would have place burdensome restrictions on protests on the Mall and other federal land in Washington, DC.
In a bipartisan rebuke to Turkey after its offensive into northeastern Syria, the U.S. House of Representatives recently approved a symbolic resolution labeling the deaths of roughly 1.5 to 2 million Armenians from 1915 to 1923 in the Ottoman Empire, now modern-day Turkey, as a "genocide."
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