Death Panel

Nov 21 2024 500 ep. 49 mins 3.5k

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Politics, culture, and public policy from the left. Stay alive another week. w/ Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant, Phil Rocco and Jules Gill-Peterson. https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

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The Human Cost of Welfare Reform w/ John Pring (11/21/24)

Nov 21 2024 93 mins

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 Jo

Teaser - RFK, Health Capitalism, and the Myths of Wellness (11/18/24)

Nov 17 2024 20 mins

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

Seizing the Means of Reproduction w/ Annie Powers & Tracy Rosenthal (11/14/24)

Nov 14 2024 78 mins

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

Teaser - The Long Trump Era (11/11/24)

Nov 10 2024 15 mins

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 Jul

Grief w/ Sarah Jaffe (Unlocked)

Nov 06 2024 103 mins

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 experienc

Teaser - Deaths by Welfare w/ China Mills and John Pring (11/04/24)

Nov 03 2024 21 mins

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 proj

A Death Panel Halloween (10/31/24)

Oct 31 2024 75 mins

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 Pa

Teaser - Instruments of Dehumanization w/ Maryam Jamshidi

Oct 26 2024 18 mins

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 contemp

New York War Crimes w/ Members of WAWOG (10/24/24)

Oct 24 2024 56 mins

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 boycot

Teaser - Grief w/ Sarah Jaffe (10/21/24)

Oct 21 2024 21 mins

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