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Cat Brooks

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Executive Director, Justice Teams Network and @aptpaction.bsky.social | Host, Law & Disorder on KPFA Radio | Organizer, Strategist, Columnist, Artivist, and Playwright, Director and Actress | catbrooks.org

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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · Jun 12

“Every time we’ve demanded transformation — from Reconstruction to the civil rights movement to Black Lives Matter — the system has retaliated…

“Donald Trump’s threats should terrify us. But more than that, they should galvanize us.”

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Tony L. Clark holds a photo of George Floyd outside the Cup Food convenience store, near where Floyd was killed, May 28, 2020, in Minneapolis

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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · 9d

Today on @lawanddis at 8 am PST on @kpfa and @kpfk - a look at #sudan where the RSF claims to have captured El Fasher. We will speak to @rachelsavage of @guardian and poet and human rights activist @emibattuta #exposeagitatebuild

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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · 10d

Today on @lawanddis - #hurricanemelissa and its impact on #jamaica and #haiti - our guests are Jamaican recording artist @tufflikeiron and @pierrelabossiere of the @haitiaction … 8am on @kpfa and @kpfk #exposeagitatebuild

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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · Sep 11

Steven Taylor was murdered by a San Leandro cop in 2020. Then DA was forced to charge but new DA is wants to drop we speak to Stevens grandmother & CCR suing Trump admin around global health foundation @helenprejean discusses efforts to end CA death row. Today! 8am PST @kpfa and @kpfk www.kpfa.org

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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · Sep 9

On today’s law & disorder, we spend the hour on Chicago as Trump’s Midway Blitz is underway. We will speak with Aislinn Pulley - co-executive director of the Chicago Torture Justice Center and Kevin Fee, legal director of the ACLU of Chicago - and Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. stream @ www.kpfa.org

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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · Sep 8

Law & Disorder on @kpfa & @kpfk: Palestine Post, where we spend the entire hour on Israels genocidal assault. We start our hour with Tariq Habash co-founder of A New Policy. Then we will be joined Lulu Hammad is a Palestinian American lawyer, human rights activist, and community organizer.

Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · Sep 3

Tomorrow in Oakland! #solitaryconfinementistorture #endsolitaryconfinement

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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · Aug 27

Law&Disorder starting NOW! we look into the redistricting war between CA and TX with @gustavo_arellano of the LA Times and then @george_galvis to discuss community readiness and response to a federal invasion. Starting now on @kpfaradio and @kpfk and streaming at www.kpfa.org #exposeagitatebuild

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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · Aug 25

Today on Law & Disorder Palestine Post a full hour covering the genocide. Were joined by Khury Peterson-Smith and Zahra Billoo for headlines analysis then joined by parents beginning a solidarity fast for Gaza of which I am taking part. 8 am PST on @kpfaradio and @kpfk and streaming at Kpfa.org

Pro Palestine protestors with signs that read things like “from the river to the sea”

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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · Aug 18

That’s at 8am PST on @kpfaradio & @kpfk or stream us from www.kpfa.org

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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · Aug 18

Then we will speak with Samer Araabi is a member of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) and we wrap up the hour with Steve Sosebee, the co-founder/executive director of HEAL Palestine

Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · Aug 18

We begin with Dr. Ussama Makdisi - Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California Berkeley.

Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · Aug 18

Today on @lawanddis - Palestine Post, where we spend the entire hour bringing you news coverage and analysis on Israels genocidal assault on the Palestinian people, the peoples resistance to it and the impact on the region and the rest of the world.

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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · Aug 18

I kept saying it over and over as I watched it … “this could happen here” and if I wasn’t mf’n right …

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Aug 17

Folks keep talking about the parallels between real life and The Handmaid’s Tale.

Here’s another one: they seized Washington, DC, and the seat of American power collapsed overnight into authoritarian rule.

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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · Aug 18

You ever wondered what pure evil looks like? Welp, here ya go. #lauraloomeristrash

Picture of right wing conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer who had red streaks in black hair is wearing a black top and is against a green leafy background

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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · Aug 15

“I did it! I did it! I threw the sandwich” 🤣🤣🤣 I dunno why but this sandwich shyt is giving me all of the life. What if we make it a national movement - errybody get a sandwich and just start throwing em at them mo’fos Flip that whole Marie Antoinette thang on its head “Let them eat sandwiches”! 😂

a cartoon of a girl making sandwiches with a jar of peanut butter on the table

Alt: a cartoon of a girl making sandwiches with a jar of peanut butter on the table

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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · Aug 15

#facts #istayready

Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · Aug 14

Honestly, its going to be women who will lead and rise in this dark time. We are the fighters, protectors, providers and innovators.

To all the women on my timeline-- I hope you're ready, in whatever way that means to you.

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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · Aug 14

“Unfortunately for him, the ‘president’ doesn’t understand Oakland” but he sho can FAFO 🤷🏽‍♀️

Oakland leaders, residents respond to President Trumps threats to deploy troops to city

YouTube video by KPIX | CBS NEWS BAY AREA

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Aug 14

I hope your community is never occupied like LA or DC. But if it is, you’ll quickly find that people don’t take kindly to having their city under federal control. And folks are just getting started.

📌 Protesters gathered near a checkpoint in the U Street corridor in Northwest Washington.

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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · Aug 14

Now watch the orange dude strip the federal court of its power and reverse the ruling … cause ya know … what does the law matter these days 🤷🏽‍♀️

ACLU @aclu.org · Aug 14

BREAKING: A federal appeals court affirmed that Louisiana's state legislative districts dilute the power of Black voters and must be redrawn.

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Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · Jul 20

The rich have used poor bodies for their entertainment for centuries. Why wouldn’t they hunt us down and put us in pits today?

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · Jul 15

On 6 months of Harms Committed...

Last Fall, I momentarily imagined a public archive where one could easily access a feed of credible journalism detailing the history of police brutality for any location. A passing thought inspired by dissertation research.

Harms Committed is and isn't that.
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Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) @curbprisons.bsky.social · Jul 9

Let’s keep the momentum going to protect our communities!✊🏾⚠️🧊

☎️📧 Call and email @cagovernornewsom.bsky.social 📲 tinyurl.com/stopice25

Governor @gavinnewsom.bsky.social: Use AB 137 authority NOW – to declare closed CA prisons as “excess” and request legislative approval for their immediate disposal.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jul 13

“If you are not careful, and if you are not tapped into your own humanity and that of others, it can be tempting to mistake people for symbols.”

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Zohran Mamdani and Mahmoud Khalil Are In on the Joke

What it feels like to laugh when the world expects you to disappear.

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Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social · Jul 13

Keen to read about the political & economic context around the FIFA Club World Cup ahead of today's final between PSG & Chelsea? @edgeofsports.bsky.social & I break it all down. The key takeaway: the #FIFACWC is a grift that deepens FIFA's ties to authoritarianism while mistreating footballers

Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social · Jul 11

I wrote about the highly contrived money-grubber grift fest known as the FIFA Club World Cup w/ co-author @edgeofsports.bsky.social for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

FIFA Is Abusing Its Players to Keep Authoritarians Happy

While players are forced to endure extreme heat in this summer’s World Cup, FIFA president Gianni Infantino is cozying up to power.

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Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali @mustafasantiagoali.bsky.social · Jul 17

IDA B. WELLS SAID,”THE WAY TO RIGHT WRONGS IS TO TURN THE LIGHT OF TRUTH UPON THEM.”
I invite you to explore my latest piece—there may be something in it that resonates deeply, or a truth you can’t ignore.
“What Ida B. Wells Would Say About Trump & the Epstein Files!” wordinblack.com/2025/07/what...

What Ida B. Wells Would Say About Trump and the Epstein Files

Poet and activist Mustafa Ali imagines what the godmother of investigative journalism would say about our need for accountability and truth.

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