Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/120426993 Beatrice and Artie discuss the rise of avian influenza cases last year in the U.S. through a discussion of The Monster at Our Door, Mike Davis' 2005 book on the looming threat of H5N1. 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 1:12:58
Jan 20, 2025•14 min
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:...
Jan 16, 2025•1 hr 35 min
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/4...
Jan 13, 2025•22 min
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 ha...
Jan 08, 2025•1 hr 31 min
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...
Jan 07, 2025•2 hr 27 min
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 ...
Jan 05, 2025•1 hr 23 min
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 to...
Jan 05, 2025•1 hr 13 min
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 Thi...
Jan 05, 2025•1 hr 22 min
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 promo...
Jan 02, 2025•1 hr 14 min
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 ar...
Jan 01, 2025•1 hr 13 min
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 lo...
Dec 31, 2024•1 hr 27 min
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...
Dec 30, 2024•2 hr 7 min
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 t...
Dec 30, 2024•1 hr 14 min
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” i...
Dec 29, 2024•1 hr 8 min
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 🧬
Dec 23, 2024•28 min
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-...
Dec 18, 2024•1 hr 15 min
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.c...
Dec 16, 2024•7 min
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/#/?...
Dec 12, 2024•1 hr 49 min
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 🧬
Dec 09, 2024•24 min
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 dispe...
Dec 05, 2024•1 hr 43 min
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...
Dec 02, 2024•29 min
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 covi...
Nov 26, 2024•1 hr 32 min
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 🧬
Nov 25, 2024•7 min
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: h...
Nov 21, 2024•1 hr 33 min
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...
Nov 18, 2024•20 min
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. Th...
Nov 14, 2024•1 hr 17 min
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
Nov 11, 2024•15 min
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 Fir...
Nov 06, 2024•1 hr 43 min
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-communi...
Nov 04, 2024•22 min
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
Nov 01, 2024•1 hr 15 min
