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Beatrice and Tracy speak with organizers in Los Angeles who have stepped up during the fires to support people the state has left behind. In Part One, we speak with organizers from Youth Justice Coalition and Mask Bloc LA. Part 2 will be out next week. Find Youth Justice Coalition here: https://linktr.ee/youthjusticela Donate to Support System Impacted Young People and Their Families: http://youthjusticela.org/donate Find the audio clip played in the first interview (with subtitles) here: https://x.com/YouthJusticeLA/status/1877832188583887042 https://x.com/YouthJusticeLA/status/1877834081523859759 Find Mask Bloc LA here: https://linktr.ee/maskblocla Mask Bloc LA’s Mask Requests and Volunteer Interest Form here: https://www.bit.ly/MBLAfire Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Tracy's book, Abolish Rent, here: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2443-abolish-rent 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

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/119936307 Beatrice speaks with William Boyd about how “risk assessment” became a central focus of health safety and environmental law since the 1970s, and how the political and economic factors that structure how those risks are assessed have resulted in law and policy far less likely to protect against environmental and health hazards. 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 1:22:10

As this year comes to a close, we’re releasing a Best of 2024 series—by no means objective, and making plenty of tough decisions to leave a few favorites out. Each of these will also be posted in the public feed. We’ll be back January 13th with new episodes. Original description: Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss the mask ban passed in Nassau County last week, the latest in a dramatic rise in legislation criminalizing face masks and targeting the Palestine solidarity movement. We look at what happened in the overtly hostile public hearing over the ban, the history of the New York statute that ban proponents want back, and how the threat of mask bans goes far beyond public health: mask bans embolden racist policing; they’re anti-trans; and they target the whole of the left. Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/mask-bans-are-everyones-fight Watch the full Nassau County mask ban hearing here: https://vimeo.com/994184432 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

As this year comes to a close, we’re releasing a Best of 2024 series—by no means objective, and making plenty of tough decisions to leave a few favorites out. Each of these will also be posted in the public feed. We’ll be back January 13th with new episodes. Original description: Beatrice speaks with Rasha Abdulhadi about the last six months in the escalation of genocidal violence against the people of Palestine, what has and hasn’t changed since the last time Rasha spoke with us on October 13th, and why appeals to “peace” are not the same as calls for liberation, as well as the linkages between the struggle for Palestinian liberation and political action around covid and long covid. This episode was originally released on April 18 & April 25, 2024. Transcript for Part 1: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/killing-peace Transcript for Part 2: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/killing-peace-2 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

As this year comes to a close, we’re releasing a Best of 2024 series—by no means objective, and making plenty of tough decisions to leave a few favorites out. We’ll be back January 13th with new episodes. Original description: Beatrice speaks with Vicky Osterweil about the events we’re encouraged to forget, repress, and reinterpret in order to abet genocide, carcerality, or abandonment to a pandemic, and the power of refusing to forget. Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/vicky-forget This episode was originally released on March 21, 2024. Read Vicky's essay, "Remembering As an Act of Revolt," here: https://all-cats-are-beautiful.ghost.io/a-list-of-things-we-have-been-told-to-forget/ And find her book, In Defense of Looting, here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/vicky-osterweil/in-defense-of-looting/9781645036678/?lens=bold-type-books 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

As this year comes to a close, we’re releasing a Best of 2024 series—by no means objective, and making plenty of tough decisions to leave a few favorites out. We’ll be back January 13th with new episodes. Original description: Beatrice speaks with Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu about attempts to dismiss Aaron Bushnell’s self immolation as mental illness, and why settler colonialism relies so heavily on drawing lines between madness and “reason.” This episode was originally released on February 29, 2024. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/aaron-bushnell More on Project LETS here: https://projectlets.org/ 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

As this year comes to a close, we’re releasing a Best of 2024 series—by no means objective, and making plenty of tough decisions to leave a few favorites out. Each of these will also be posted in the public feed. We’ll be back January 13th with new episodes. Original description: Beatrice speaks with Nicki Kattoura and Charlie Markbreiter about the proliferation of Palestine solidarity encampments, their experiences at the encampments at CUNY and at Columbia, and to share a call to action for today, May Day: strike in solidarity with the people of Palestine. Note: This episode was recorded shortly before the coordinated raid on both the CUNY and Columbia encampments on the evening of April 30th. This episode was originally released on May 1, 2024. Read Nicki's piece from October 18th, mentioned at the top of the episode, "I will never be the same" here: https://mondoweiss.net/2023/10/i-will-never-be-the-same/ Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/solidarity-encampments 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

As this year comes to a close, we’re releasing a Best of 2024 series—by no means objective, and making plenty of tough decisions to leave a few favorites out. Each of these will also be posted in the public feed. We’ll be back early in the new year with new episodes. Original description: Beatrice speaks with Tracy Rosenthal about the pending Supreme Court ruling that could dramatically strip the rights of unhoused people in the US, how politicians frequently invoke a rhetoric of “care” to promote expansions of the carceral system, and how the laws at the center of this Supreme Court case are the same being used to police and sweep solidarity encampments across the US. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/carewashing Read Tracy's piece, "The New Sundown Towns," here: https://newrepublic.com/article/181036/new-sundown-towns-grants-pass-v-johnson And find Abolish Rent here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2443-abolish-rent This episode was originally released on May 9, 2024. 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 As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

As this year comes to a close, we’re releasing a Best of 2024 series—by no means objective, and making plenty of tough decisions to leave a few favorites out. Each of these will also be posted in the public feed. We’ll be back early in the new year with new episodes. Original description: Beatrice speaks with Dean Spade about how we respond to crises, from climate collapse to covid, and how the state’s primary response to these crises is to try to narrow the possibilities for political action around them. Read Dean’s piece, “Climate Disaster Is Here—and the State Will Never Save Us” here: https://inthesetimes.com/article/climate-disaster-ecological-crisis-deluge-ministry-markley-robinson-gelderloos Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/dean-spade-collapse This episode was originally released on February 22, 2024. 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 As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

As this year comes to a close, we’re releasing a Best of 2024 series—by no means objective, and making plenty of tough decisions to leave a few favorites out. We’ll be back early in the new year with new episodes. Original description: Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss a recent piece in NPR, “Wrestling with my husband's fear of getting COVID again,” which presents avoiding covid both as the product of unreasonable “anxiety” and as something immunocompromised people should let go of lest their loved ones consider abandoning them. Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/npr-covid This episode was originally released on March 18, 2024. 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 As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Now that we've completed the transcript for Covid Year Five, we've decided to extend the public teaser to over the first hour (of four). Find the transcript for this extended teaser here: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/teaser-cy5 Subscribe on Patreon and hear the full episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/118561606 We present our 2024 year in review, taking a look back at the last year in the ongoing social and political consequences of normalizing the covid pandemic and rushing to bring the federal covid response to a close. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 4:12:08 🧬

As this year comes to a close, we’re releasing a Best of 2024 series—by no means objective, and making plenty of tough decisions to leave a few favorites out. We’ll be back early in the new year with new episodes. Original description: Beatrice shares messages from Death Panel listeners in Gaza and speaks with Danya Qato about how the totalizing nature of the genocide of Palestine can't be captured in death and injury statistics alone. This episode is for Z, J, R, A, M, G and S. We pray it finds you safely. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/letters-from-gaza 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 As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

As this year comes to a close, we’re releasing a Best of 2024 series—by no means objective, and making plenty of tough decisions to leave a few favorites out. Each of these will also be posted in the public feed. We’ll be back early in the new year with new episodes. This episode was originally released on January 18, 2024. Original description: Beatrice, Artie, and Phil discuss how recent claims that Biden has tried to bring about “the largest expansion of the welfare state in a half century” ignore his track record of ending every last pandemic welfare program. Full transcript here: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/biden-unmaking-welfare 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 As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/118561606 We present our 2024 year in review, taking a look back at the last year in the ongoing social and political consequences of normalizing the covid pandemic and rushing to bring the federal covid response to a close. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 4:12:08 🧬

This episode was originally released October 6th, 2022 and we're re-releasing it today in the lead up to Covid Year Five. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Ruth Wilson Gilmore about how to understand the concept of "the state," the capitalist state's capacity of organized abandonment, and the extraction of time. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/organized-abandonment-with-ruth-wilson-gilmore Order her book Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation here: www.versobooks.com/books/3785-abolition-geography Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and American Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she is also Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. 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 As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/118100728 After a brief update from Artie on Covid Year Five, Beatrice speaks with Lily Sánchez about Ricardo Nuila's popular new book "The People's Hospital," which purports to paint a compassionate picture of how to fix the US healthcare system, while ignoring—and reinforcing—the structural issues that make the system so bad in the first place. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:34:00 🧬

Beatrice speaks with Vicky Osterweil about organizing under a second Trump presidency (and why jumping in takes less than you might think), the historic assassination of the CEO of the US’s most profitable health insurance company, and Daniel Penny’s acquittal. Read Vicky’s piece “Let’s get started” here: https://all-cats-are-beautiful.ghost.io/keeping-us-safe/ Find CAW Journal here: https://www.cawshinythings.com/ And CAW’s fundraiser here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-launch-caw/#/?perk=5651030 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

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/117646789 Beatrice and Tracy Rosenthal speak with Marques Vestal about the history of political conflicts over eviction and property in Los Angeles, the role of removal in producing property value, and using history to help us tell new stories about the past to shape our present. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:34:00 🧬

This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on September 23rd. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice and Jules discuss an amicus brief Jules co-authored for the Supreme Court case United States v. Skrmetti, a case heard at the court this week that could have a dramatic impact on young people’s access to medical transition. We talk through the brief and the historical evidence it contains dispelling popular myths that trans kids are new or that transition is itself dangerous, and show that medical transition and youth transition have histories stretching back far further than popular accounts would lead you to believe. Read the brief here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-477/323955/20240903153746246_23-477tsacAmericanHistoricalAssociation.pdf 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 As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/117169360 Beatrice speaks with Cassandra Kislenko about ethical and political issues with Canada's expansion of MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying) laws and how we should understand them as the UK debates its own MAID policy, and as a handful of U.S. states seek to implement similar laws. Read Cassandra's piece in The Baffler, "Last Resorts," here: https://thebaffler.com/latest/last-resorts-kislenko And in The Maple, "How Healthcare Privatization In Ontario Made The Pandemic Worse," here: https://www.readthemaple.com/how-healthcare-privatization-in-ontario-made-the-pandemic-worse/ Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:20:52 🧬

Beatrice and Artie discuss the impact that some of Trump's most recent picks to lead major federal agencies will have on the state of welfare programs and healthcare in the US, and why the whole slate of names should be raising as much alarm as Trump's pick of RFK. We walk through how Dr. Oz stands to personally benefit from privatizing Medicare, what anti-vaxxer Dave Weldon could easily do as head of the CDC, why Jay Bhattacharya at NIH and Marty Makary at FDA could harm the future of long covid research, and more. Find our episode on RFK (mentioned in this episode) here: www.patreon.com/posts/116273220 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

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/116717109 Beatrice speaks with Astra Taylor about how the capitalist state constructs and reproduces insecurity, the eugenic logic of austerity, and Astra's new book The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:34:10 🧬

Beatrice speaks with John Pring about how welfare privatization and calls to cut benefits in the name of reducing waste, fraud and abuse hollowed out the welfare state in the UK and directly led to the deaths of welfare recipients, and about his new book The Department: How a Violent Government Bureaucracy Killed Hundreds and Hid the Evidence. Find our other recent episode with John and China Mills (discussed in this episode) here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/115294795 Find John’s book here: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745349893/the-department/ Transcript forthcoming. 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

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/116273220 Beatrice and Artie discuss Trump’s nomination of prominent anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services, the agency overseeing healthcare, infectious disease, food safety, and more. We discuss some of RFK’s more unseemly beliefs, the responses to his nomination so far, and how his nomination doesn’t come out of nowhere, but instead follows decades of struggles over the political economy of health that have laid the groundwork for a figure like him to come into power. 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 1:26:33

Beatrice and Tracy Rosenthal speak with Annie Powers about how our organizing can meet the moment, with lessons from homeless, landless, and poor people’s movements from the 1930s, 1980s, and today. Annie Powers is an organizer with Union de Vecinos, the Eastside Local of the Los Angeles Tenants Union, and a scholar of landless people’s political movements in the United States. She studies the history of housing and homelessness, and poor people’s urban land struggle, in the US and the world. This episode is part of a series in collaboration with Tracy Rosenthal centered around the growing tenants’ movement and their book, co-authored with Leonardo Vilchis, Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis. Transcript forthcoming. Find Tracy's book, Abolish Rent, here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2443-abolish-rent 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

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/115816956 Beatrice, Artie, Phil and Jules discuss the outcome of the 2024 election and how Palestine, the pandemic response, and the swift removal of pandemic welfare supports played a part. 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 1:06:32

This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on October 21st. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Sarah Jaffe about the politics of grief and grieving: who is allowed to grieve and how, what we are allowed to grieve and aren’t, and how taking the time to experience grief and loss are anathema to capitalism. Sarah’s new book is From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire. https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sarah-jaffe/from-the-ashes/9781541703490/?lens=bold-type-books Find Sarah’s new podcast here: www.patreon.com/HeartReacts 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

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/115294795 Beatrice speaks with China Mills and John Pring about how the structure of welfare benefits in the United Kingdom leads to the death of disabled people, the difficulties in documenting such administrative violence and the process of “slow death,” and their project Deaths by Welfare that attempts to expose it. 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 1:21:55

Phil reads "The Black Gondolier" by Fritz Leiber. 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

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/114867221 Beatrice speaks with Maryam Jamshidi about how US law has been shaped in recent decades to specifically guard against Palestinian self-determination, and the direct role that Benjamin Netanyahu, Benzion Netanyahu, and other settler officials had in crafting contemporary state definitions of what constitutes “terrorism.” 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 1:18:27

Beatrice speaks to Nour and Sarah, two members of Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG), about the role the New York Times has played in portraying the genocide in Palestine as just and reasonable, the campaign to get NYT readers to unsubscribe from the paper and for writers to boycott them, and the counter-propaganda project “New York War Crimes.” More on the call to boycott the Times here: https://www.writersagainstthewarongaza.com/boycott-nyt Read The New York War Crimes here: https://newyorkwarcrimes.com/ Transcript forthcoming. 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

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/113880253 Beatrice speaks with Sarah Jaffe about the politics of grief and grieving: who is allowed to grieve and how, what we are allowed to grieve and aren’t, and how taking the time to experience grief and loss are anathema to capitalism. Sarah’s new book is From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire. https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sarah-jaffe/from-the-ashes/9781541703490/?lens=bold-type-books Find Sarah’s new podcast here: https://www.patreon.com/HeartReacts 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 1:43:22, 21 October 2024

Jules speaks about her book A Short History of Trans Misogyny, the need to integrate material analysis into trans politics, and how it is that such a (relatively) small population of people have become the subject of such a high degree of political ire. Transcript forthcoming. This episode was recorded live at the 2024 Socialism Conference in Chicago in early September. We collaborated with conference organizers to host five discussions there over labor day weekend. Today's episode is the final recording to be released from those sessions. 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 Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/113747049 Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss a recent article called “Are Colleges Getting Disability Accommodations All Wrong?” that earned enormous backlash from the disability community for arguing that young people are faking or exaggerating disabilities in order to secure preferential treatment and “financial compensation.” 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 1:27:27, 14 October 2024

Liat Ben-Moshe, Sasha Warren, and Leah Harris discuss the political economy of psychiatric incarceration and strategies for resisting surveillance and carcerality that center liberatory care and international solidarities. Transcript forthcoming. This episode was recorded live at the 2024 Socialism Conference in Chicago in early September, under the session title "Care Not Courts: Resisting Carceral Psychiatry and the Pathologization of Dissent." This panel was the rare exception where a DP member was not able to chair the session, so our thanks to Eman Abdelhadi who graciously stepped in as moderator. 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 Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/113438086 Today, Death Panel are joining the calls of organizers around the world to strike for Palestine. As such, today's Death Panel is an episode in two parts: Part One — One Year (0:00:00 - 0:20:45) A statement on one year of genocide from us at Death Panel through parts of three texts from the past year. Part Two — Body Politics w/ Jasbir Puar (originally released November 21st, 2022) Beatrice and Jules speak with Jasbir Puar about the violent global effects of settler colonialism and how they shape our understanding of what we mean by “disability” and “debility.” We discuss how events like the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the bombings in 2014 are often described through the number of dead, when they also entail mass disablement and mass debilitation, and how colonial occupation itself can be understood through a theory of debility. Find the Jasbir Puar interview (and transcript) here: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/jasbir-puar-body-politics 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 2:40:11, 7 October 2024

Beatrice speaks with Mon Mohapatra, Tracy Rosenthal and Victoria Law about how the rhetorics of “care,” support, and empathy are often deployed to expand and reinforce carcerality—to make carcerality appear innocuous, or even an expansion of social welfare and public health. Transcript forthcoming. This episode was recorded live at the 2024 Socialism Conference in Chicago in early September, under the session title "Carewashing: Carcerality Disguised as Social Welfare." 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. Note: As speakers were not introduced individually before their opening statements, those statements are in the order listed in the title (Mon, Tracy, then Victoria). 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 Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/113089961 Beatrice, Artie and Phil discuss the deeper problems behind JD Vance’s recent comments that Trump wants to separate the sick into their own “risk pool,” and how the US’s system of private healthcare itself generates resentment towards the sick. Then we take a close look at Medicaid unwinding, as some of the final unwinding data now shows that 25 million people were disenrolled from Medicaid in the last year—millions more than originally estimated. 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 1:14:45, 30 September 2024

Beatrice speaks with Rasha Abdulhadi about how, as we near 11 months and 100+ years of genocidal settler colonial violence in Palestine, it is vital to remain steadfast in our demands for Palestinian liberation. We discuss turning away from despair towards patience and boldness in our actions, why our demands must push for and beyond “ceasefire,” and draw connections between settler colonialism here and in Palestine; inviting us all to become more skillful in keeping each other alive. Transcript forthcoming. This episode was recorded live at the 2024 Socialism Conference in Chicago in early September. 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. 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 Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/112625641 Beatrice and Jules discuss an amicus brief Jules co-authored for the upcoming Supreme Court case United States v. Skrmetti, a case being heard next month that could have a dramatic impact on young people’s access to medical transition. We talk through the brief and the historical evidence it contains dispelling popular myths that trans kids are new or that transition is itself dangerous; and show that medical transition and youth transition have histories stretching back far further than popular accounts would lead you to believe. Read the brief here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-477/323955/20240903153746246_23-477tsacAmericanHistoricalAssociation.pdf 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 1:43:42, 23 September 2024

Beatrice speaks with Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis about the demands of the growing tenants movement, why so-called “affordable housing” policies fail to keep people in their homes, and why we need to abolish rent once and for all. Tracy and Leonardo are the authors of Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis, out next week: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2443-abolish-rent Transcript forthcoming. 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

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/112179324 Beatrice speaks with Ja’Loni Owens about what we can learn from the discussion of abortion in last week’s Harris/Trump debate and how much of the subsequent fact checking of debate statements leaned into anti-abortion stigma. Find Ja'Loni's zine mentioned in the episode, Friends Help Friends Have Abortions, here: https://www.canva.com/design/DAGNlKBtwt8/9DgvIJT14dLd2z9ngqtkLQ/edit 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 1:23:00, 16 September 2024

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 Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/111673467 Beatrice speaks with Victoria Law about how prisons and jails have acted as vectors of covid transmission throughout the pandemic, the experiences of people on the inside from early in the pandemic through fights happening now over long covid in incarcerated people, and why it’s still not too late to bring back a common demand from 2020: to free them all for public health. Find Victoria's book, Corridors of Contagion: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration, here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2447-corridors-of-contagion 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 2:00:02, 9 September 2024

This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on April 15th. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Sasha Warren about the lessons we can take from the history of anti-psychiatry movements, and other movements aligned against earlier forms of asylums and mental hospitals, with a particular focus on two groups active in the 1960s and 1970s: Institutional Psychotherapy in France and Democratic Psychiatry in Italy. Find Sasha's book, Storming Bedlam: Madness, Utopia, and Revolt, here: https://www.commonnotions.org/storming-bedlam Transcript forthcoming. 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

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/110969806 Beatrice speaks with Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché about how the fight to abolish prisons touches other movements, what abolitionist movement wins tell us about taking the long view in organizing work, and their new book How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement against Imprisonment. Find their new book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2212-how-to-abolish-prisons 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 1:17:41, 2 September 2024

Beatrice speaks with Betsy Ladyzhets of The Sick Times about what wastewater surveillance does—and doesn’t—tell us about the level of covid spread and how the rise of covid wastewater monitoring fits inside the larger picture of the privatization of both covid risk and covid data. Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/promises-and-perils-of-wastewater-data Find Betsy’s report, “Wastewater surveillance for Covid-19 keeps evolving. Here’s what you need to know” here: https://thesicktimes.org/2024/07/23/wastewater-surveillance-for-covid-19-keeps-evolving-heres-what-you-need-to-know/ 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

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/110836544 Beatrice speaks with Silky Shah about the harsh immigration and border detention rhetoric on display at both the DNC and RNC this summer, the historical and material links between the rise of the immigration detention system and mass incarceration, and her new book, Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition. 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 1:21:31, 26 August 2024

Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss the mask ban passed in Nassau County last week, the latest in a dramatic rise in legislation criminalizing face masks and targeting the Palestine solidarity movement. We look at what happened in the overtly hostile public hearing over the ban, the history of the New York statute that ban proponents want back, and how the threat of mask bans goes far beyond public health: mask bans embolden racist policing; they’re anti-trans; and they target the whole of the left. Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/mask-bans-are-everyones-fight Watch the full Nassau County mask ban hearing here: https://vimeo.com/994184432 Read the statement on the hearing by Jews for Mask Rights here: https://www.jewsformaskrights.com/resources/anti-mask-harassment-nassau-countys-mask-ban-hearing 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

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/110415159 Beatrice speaks with October Krausch about how the cultural imaginary of covid and covid risk has shifted from some of the earliest interpretations of the pandemic, how social pressure amongst liberals to place trust in institutions led many to ignore ongoing risk, and their recent article for Truthout, “The US Government Has Abandoned Us to Endless COVID. We Can Do Better.” Read October's piece here: https://truthout.org/articles/the-us-government-has-abandoned-us-to-endless-covid-we-can-do-better/ 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 1:34:06, 19 August 2024