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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. www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron episode here: www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/174871107 Beatrice speaks with Vicky Osterweil about what we’ve learned from the latest disclosures on the government’s surveillance of le... more

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This recording is from a series of sessions we organized at this year's Socialism Conference. To hear Beatrice's recent interview with Lamble about their book Unsafe: The Carceral Roots of the Anti-Trans Backlash, find it here: www.patreon.co... more

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/174190297/ In today's episode, Beatrice conducts an oral history interview with members of Tucson Food Share about their experie... more

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This episode was originally released September 14th for Death Panel patrons and is being unlocked today for the first time. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Be... more

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Recent Guests

Vicky Osterweil
Philadelphia-based writer, agitator, and worker, and author of In Defense of Looting
Episode: Trans Care in the Age of Health Fascism (DP x S26) (Re-Air)
Da'Shaun L. Harrison
Author, lecturer, researcher, editor, and co-executive director of Scalawag Magazine
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Episode: The Death Panel vs Fox News w/ Da’Shaun L. Harrison
John Washington
Author, translator, and journalist covering climate crisis and border regimes
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Episode: How to Close a Camp w/ John Washington
Andrea Ritchie
Writer, organizer, movement lawyer
Interrupting Criminalization
Episode: Abolish ICE Means Abolish the Police w/ Mariame Kaba & Andrea Ritchie (Re-Air)
Mariame Kaba
Organizer, educator, archivist, and curator
Interrupting Criminalization
Episode: Abolish ICE Means Abolish the Police w/ Mariame Kaba & Andrea Ritchie (Re-Air)
Rasha Abdulhadi
A queer Palestinian southerner who is a cultural organizer, editor, and poet
Palestinian liberation movement and academic circles (as described in the episode)
Episode: Refusing Genocide w/ Rasha Abdulhadi (October 2023)
Gabriel Winant
Historian of labor, political economy, capitalism, and the welfare state
Episode: Teaser - On "Gerontocracy," Part 1: Age and Class w/ Gabriel Winant (09/21/26)
S. Lamble
Community organizer and Professor of Criminology and Queer Theory
Birkbeck, University of London
Episode: Trans Care in the Age of Health Fascism (DP x S26)
Madeline Lane-McKinley
Author of Solidarity with Children, an Essay Against Adult Supremacy
Author, Blind Field editor
Episode: Solidarity with Children w/ Madeline Lane-McKinley

Hosts

Beatrice Adler-Bolton
Host of Death Panel (and related shows), co-creator of the show's critical, abolition-focused discourse.
Artie Vierkant
Co-host on Death Panel; frequent contributor to discussions on policy, health, and justice.

Reviews

4.8 out of 5 stars from 1.2k ratings
  • This podcast has changed my life

    In a world of grasping for solutions to the many crises and problems facing all of us in our lives and in our societies, this podcast has really helped me center what’s real in my approach to life and struggle. It often feels like listening to someone say out loud what you know to be true but you hadn’t realized it or been able to articulate it yet. I’m really grateful to Death Panel for the work you do and that I chose to go to the Luigi talk in Chicago not really knowing what it would be about... more

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    5
    Frothlobster
    United States8 months ago
  • Essential for deepening understanding

    Disability & its intersections with criminalization, gender, race, & medicalization is an under explored & essential lens for both understanding our current moment & how to move towards liberation. I’ve been learning so, so much & recommend this incredibly smart podcast for everyone. Join the Patreon if you can.

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    AMM MN
    United Statesa year ago
  • Experimentation

    Really enjoyed the show. Hope you guys can keep going for as long as possible. I also hope that you guys are following the case in Georgia of a black woman being forced to carry a baby even though she is clinically brain dead and the baby is also showing signs of abnormalities in the womb.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    letia84
    United Statesa year ago
  • Thank you!!

    This podcast has kept me sane and alive through the past five years. Without this podcast I would have fallen for the liberal gaslighting that Biden ended Covid and I would not be here today.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Meow4B
    United States2 years ago
  • Quickly became one of my favorite podcasts!!

    Podcast Addict
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    thefattingtonfrisk
    2 years ago

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Teaser - ACAP 10: Tucson Food Share (11/02/26)
Q: Rosie, can you talk a little bit about those early days a little more and how this project began?
Rosie says the group formed in March 2020 after she shared information about Atlanta's Food for Life. Local connections helped secure a venue and food donations, and the group added in-person distributions when donated produce risked going to waste.
Teaser - ACAP 10: Tucson Food Share (11/02/26)
Q: Can you all talk a little bit about what the project of Tucson Food Share is, what you all do, what a typical week or month of organizing looks like, and how things got started?
The participants describe a horizontally organized mutual aid project that runs grocery distributions, home deliveries and occasional cooked-food events. It began in March 2020, drawing on Food Not Bombs and an Atlanta project, and grew with donated food and access to a space.
Teaser - The Carceral Roots of the Anti-Trans Backlash w/ Lamble (10/26/26)
Q: How did running into the problem of misinformation changing little about the persuasiveness of anti-trans arguments change your understanding of the political work you needed to do?
Lamble says facts alone could not undo deeply embedded assumptions that prisons provide safety. They came to see that the movement also needed to confront the emotional and political appeal of carceral safety narratives and offer a different way to meet people's needs.
Teaser - The Carceral Roots of the Anti-Trans Backlash w/ Lamble (10/26/26)
Q: Could you walk us through the central argument that you're trying to make in Unsafe, and talk about how your organizing experiences brought you into it and what you wanted the book to offer people?
Lamble says the book explains the rapid rise of organized anti-trans politics in Britain through carceral safety politics, and argues for alternatives to punishment and exclusion. Their work in anti-violence support and prisoner solidarity shaped their effort to imagine collective safety that does not abandon people who have caused harm.
How to Close a Camp w/ John Washington
Q: Can you talk a little bit about some of the histories that you brought into this and why you felt it was important to also like contextualize the current moment within history?
Washington traces immigration camps to late-19th-century efforts to control and exclude Chinese people, linking detention to labor control and racial control. He explains that early detention was established as an administrative process, limiting detainees' due-process protections, and notes that resistance began alongside the camps.

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A thought-provoking show anchored in health policy, social justice, and anti-carceral organizing. Across recent episodes, listeners hear rigorous critiques of public health systems, welfare policy, and policing, with frequent dives into decarceration, mutual aid, disability justice, and immigrant rights. Conversations blend scholarly analysis with on-the-ground organizing, often challenging mainstream narratives and offering pragmatic strategies for advocacy, solidarity, and community care. A standout feature is the guests' emphasis on embodied expertise and movement-building, making complex policy debates accessible while highlighting concrete community-led solutions.

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