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Workshops for Gaza (10/06/25)
Death Panel podcast host Beatrice Adler-Bolton speaks with “L,” “B” and Rosa from Workshops for Gaza about their work trying to redirect funds to keep people alive in Palestine, the importance of survival work in this moment, and why we all need to stand up to free the political prisoners facing persecution taking part in the Palestine solidarity movement.
The Rise of Mask Bans (06/20/24)
Death Panel podcast hosts Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant and Phil Rocco discuss New York Democrats’ plan to ban masks on the subway and beyond, and take a close look at the latest updates on North Carolina’s anti-mask bill HB237, “Unmasking Mobs and Criminals,” which state lawmakers managed to make significantly worse since we last talked about it on the show at the end of May.
On The Atlantic’s “The UN’s Gaza Statistics Make No Sense” (06/05/24)
Death Panel podcast hosts Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Abby Cartus and Phil Rocco discuss a recent article by The Atlantic staff writer Graeme Wood that went viral for its assertion that, in the context of the genocide in Palestine, “it is possible to kill children legally.” We take a close look at the piece and how the rest of the surrounding argument uses a veneer of data “objectivity” to mask its underlying idea: that Palestinian death statistics cannot be trusted simply because they are collected by Palestinians themselves.
On NPR’s “Wrestling with my husband's fear of getting COVID again” (03/18/24)
Death Panel podcast hosts Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant and Jules Gill-Peterson 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.
“Unmasking Mobs and Criminals” (05/23/24)
Death Panel podcast hosts Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant and Jules Gill-Peterson discuss the recent push by state and local governments to criminalize masking in public space, in some cases introducing new legislation to make existing anti-mask laws more severe, and take a close look at HB237, “Unmasking Mobs and Criminals,” a bill currently being debated in North Carolina that perfectly illustrates the links between covid activism, abolition, and the fight for Palestinian liberation.
Water for Gaza (05/20/24)
Death Panel podcast hosts Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Abby Cartus discuss how the ongoing water crisis in Palestine is a tool of genocide, how to understand the centrality of water and sanitation systems to all of the infrastructure needed to support life, and what Death Panel listeners and contacts in Gaza tell us we can do to help.
Carewashing and the Right to Public Space w/ Tracy Rosenthal (05/09/24)
Death Panel podcast host Beatrice Adler-Bolton 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.
What the Solidarity Encampments Demand w/ Nicki Kattoura and Charlie Markbreiter (05/01/24)
Death Panel podcast host Beatrice Adler-Bolton 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.
A Killing Peace w/ Rasha Abdulhadi (Part Two) (04/25/24)
Death Panel podcast host Beatrice Adler-Bolton 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.
A Killing Peace w/ Rasha Abdulhadi (Part One) (04/18/24)
Death Panel podcast host Beatrice Adler-Bolton 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.
Policy-Based Evidence Making w/ Jane Thomason (03/14/24)
Death Panel podcast host Beatrice Adler-Bolton speaks with Jane Thomason of National Nurses United (NNU) about the CDC’s recent abrupt decision to drop its 5-day covid isolation guidance and the latest developments in the campaign to stop the CDC from dramatically weakening infection control practices in healthcare settings.
CDC Says: Back to Work (02/15/24)
Death Panel podcast hosts Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant and Abby Cartus discuss this week’s news that the CDC is planning to drop its covid isolation guidelines, and how the proposed change is emblematic of the Biden administration’s long running practice of undoing pandemic policies as a form of labor disciple.
Refusing Genocide w/ Rasha Abdulhadi (10/16/23)
Death Panel podcast host Beatrice Adler-Bolton speaks with Rasha Abdulhadi about how to stand in solidarity with Palestinians in this moment, the importance of refusing the idea that the genocide of Palestinians is inevitable, and how the language we use to resist the colonial project can sometimes fail to meet the scale of our demands.
Covid Year Two (12/13/2021)
Death Panel co-hosts, Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant, and Phil Rocco, review the year 2021 in the U.S. covid response, and the profound miscalculations on the part of the government and the media that have played a direct role in keeping this crisis ongoing. While this episode is retrospective, we have covered the pandemic quite closely day in day out since March 2020. If you’d like to listen to some of shows we released reacting in real time to some of the events described in Covid Year Two; start with our episodes “Meaning Production at 500,000 Dead” from February, “A Pandemic of the Unvaccinated” from July, “Operation Enduring Virus” from September, or “Bracing for the Wave” from December. Suffice it to say it has been a terrible year.
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