Beatrice and Tracy speak with Zoie and Kevin of the LA Tenants Union about their work organizing community defense against raids by ICE and Border Patrol, how they came to set up the first Centro de Defensa Communitaria, and lessons they can share for other organizers wanting to take on the same work as ICE raids expand across the US. Read Tracy’s piece in Hammer and Hope here: “Immigration Raids at This Home Depot Got More Aggressive but Less Effective. The LA Tenants Union Knows Why.” https://...
Dec 04, 2025•1 hr 35 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/144753977 Beatrice speaks with Nate Holdren about how we approach the law in political struggle, the way legal framings create the bounds of “justifiable” violence, and why deportation is wrong no matter the legal status of the person detained. FInd Nate's book Injury Impoverished here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781108448666 Runtime 2:05:21 We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (s...
Dec 01, 2025•25 min
This episode was originally released August 22nd 2022 for Death Panel patrons and is being re-aired today. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Original episode description: Beatrice speaks with Danya Qato about the political economy of health in Palestine and how to understand the intersection of the pandemic and colonial occupation. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/public-health-palestine-danya-qat...
Nov 27, 2025•1 hr 30 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/144323282 Beatrice and Phil discuss how healthcare costs are expected to dramatically spike next year without significant intervention, and how the structure of the Affordable Care Act itself ensures that we’re going to relive moments like the shutdown fight until we can make something fundamentally better. Runtime 1:26:47 We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction...
Nov 24, 2025•19 min
This episode was originally released October 13th 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 Against the backdrop of the Trump administration’s attempted occupation of Chicago, Beatrice speaks with Kelly Hayes about holding together in times of rising fascism and her new edited collection Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis....
Nov 20, 2025•1 hr 33 min
We say goodbye to our friends Alice Wong and Leslie Lee III. Find a slightly longer version including Alice's last appearance on the show here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/143713819 Find Leslie's gofundme here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/lleeiii Find Alice's gofundme here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/alice-wong-stay-in-community Show links: We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find ...
Nov 17, 2025•20 min
To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Natalie Rupp of Trans Income Project about their work providing cash transfers, meals, medication and more to trans people in Louisiana and how Trans Income Project is stepping in to try to fill the gaps created by the federal government’s attacks on trans coverage under Medicaid. Find Trans Income Project here: https://www.transincomeproject.org/ After many, m...
Nov 13, 2025•1 hr 24 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/143208719 Beatrice is joined by Sam Kelly of the Red Medicine to discuss how the politics of Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) evolved under the neoliberal turn and what the recently released NHS 10 year plan tells us about the future of health struggle not just in Britain but internationally, promising as it does to make the NHS “the most AI enabled care system in the world” and to ...
Nov 10, 2025•27 min
To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice and Tracy speak with Lara Sheehi and Sophie Lewis about the role of cultural production in political action, in disrupting genocide, and in standing against hegemonic interests, and about why they worked to organize a boycott for writers, scholars and public figures to refuse to write for the New York Times Opinion section. Find the boycott materials here: https://www.boyc...
Nov 06, 2025•1 hr 40 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/142681697 Beatrice and Tracy speak with Bench Ansfield about their new book charting the rise of the FIRE economy (finance, insurance, real estate) in the 1970s and how this new evolution of racial capitalism led landlords to set fire to their own buildings in the Bronx and throughout the US, placing the blame on—and pathologizing—the very tenants they were dispossessing. Find Bench's book...
Nov 03, 2025•19 min
Note: This episode was originally released February 20th and is being re-aired today. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Sophie Lewis about the history of “fascist feminisms,” what this history can tell us about the current state of US politics, and the need to embrace more radical and liberatory forms of feminism. Sophie’s new book, Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Li...
Oct 30, 2025•1 hr 27 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/142198757 Beatrice speaks with Shira Hassan about reclaiming harm reduction from public health, reclaiming formations of "peer work" from the nonprofit world, and building the politics and practice of surviving together. Find Shira's book, Saving Our Own Lives, here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1938-saving-our-own-lives Runtime 1:32:43 Show links: Get Health Communism here: https:...
Oct 27, 2025•17 min
This episode was originally released June 23rd 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 Beatrice speaks with William C. Anderson about the liberal tendency to limit political action to voting while simultaneously blaming victims of the electoral system for their own oppression (e.g. dismissal of the south as somehow “deserving” Republican control). We...
Oct 23, 2025•1 hr 35 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/141679955 Beatrice speaks with Madeline Lane-McKinley about what it means to build a politics of solidarity with young people against the pervasive right wing attacks that in order to "protect" the children we must deny their trans identities, censor their educations, ban their books and cut social welfare programs that support them. Preorder Solidarity with Children: An Essay Against Adul...
Oct 19, 2025•19 min
Note: This episode was originally released August 28th and is being re-aired today as the article we discuss in the episode has come back under public scrutiny. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice and Artie discuss a disturbing set of arguments that evidence of famine in Gaza—and genocide deaths themselves—can be invalidated by showing that the victims had “pre-existing conditions” or “underlying health cond...
Oct 16, 2025•1 hr 15 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/141148744 Against the backdrop of the Trump administration’s attempted occupation of Chicago, Beatrice speaks with Kelly Hayes about holding together in times of rising fascism and her new edited collection Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart here: https://www.pilsencommunitybooks.com/item/vCQt68DQBH3U0CUUWZyWRw?ref=or...
Oct 13, 2025•21 min
Note: This episode was originally released October 6th for Death Panel patrons. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice 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 soli...
Oct 09, 2025•2 hr 2 min
Note: This episode was originally released September 27th, 2024 and is being aired today as we mark two years since the escalation of genocide in Palestine; we are sharing it again in particular for the guided facilitation portion that begins at 45:00. Additionally, this week's public episode on Thursday will be our discussion with organizers of Workshops for Gaza, which we are currently transcribing to accompany its release. That episode can be found here https://www.patreon.com/posts/140536777...
Oct 08, 2025•1 hr 15 min
This episode was recorded live at the 2025 Socialism Conference in Chicago, where we collaborated with conference organizers to host four discussions over the first weekend in July. All four recordings are now available for Death Panel patrons at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod feat. Beatrice, Artie, and Vicky Osterweil Session description: With the new administration, the federal government has been actively attacking healthcare funding for the poor and intensified its targeting of trans and disa...
Oct 02, 2025•52 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/140036403 Beatrice speaks with Nafis Hasan about how cancer research priorities shifted from environmental and industrial exposure to theories about individual genetic susceptibility, how the neoliberal turn moved cancer intervention from prevention to cure, and his book Metastasis: The Rise of the Cancer-Industrial Complex and the Horizons of Care. Runtime 1:20:33 Find Nafis's book here: ...
Sep 29, 2025•20 min
Note: This episode was originally released April 21st 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 Beatrice speaks with Dean Spade about holding together political coalitions, friendships, and organizing partnerships in the face of a culture of disposability and a world on fire. Find Dean's new book, Love in a Fucked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, ...
Sep 24, 2025•1 hr 44 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/139496883 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. Runtime 1:21:55 Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/408...
Sep 22, 2025•22 min
Note: This episode was originally released October 11th, 2023. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod. Death Panel podcast host Beatrice Adler-Bolton speaks with Liat Ben-Moshe, Leah Harris and Vesper Moore about increasing calls to "reopen the asylums" and why the dark history and enduring legacy of psychiatric incarceration mean we should never go back. We look at recent statements by politicians Eric Adams, D...
Sep 17, 2025•1 hr 54 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/138979001 Beatrice speaks with Andrea Ritchie about why it’s now more important than ever for healthcare workers to resist ICE and refuse to participate in all forms of criminalization of the people they care for. We talk through the Beyond Do No Harm Network’s 13 principles for care workers to interrupt criminalization and the many other resources the network has put together so far. Runt...
Sep 15, 2025•19 min
Note: This episode was originally released June 30th 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 Beatrice speaks with Mon Mohapatra of Community Justice Exchange (CJE) about their new resource “If They Build It: Organizing Lessons & Strategies Against Carceral Infrastructure,” a resource looking at the strategies deployed in anti-carceral organizing ...
Sep 10, 2025•1 hr 37 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/138451663 Artie breaks down the Trump administration's latest attacks on covid vaccines, key moments from RFK's heated Senate testimony last week, and why calls to force RFK out of HHS need to include removing many of the figures he's managed to bring in with him. Find the past episode mentioned near the beginning here: RFK, Health Capitalism, and the Myths of Wellness (11/18/24): https://...
Sep 08, 2025•19 min
Note: This episode was originally released August 11th 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 Beatrice speaks with Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam about their book Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice and the solidarities required to organize at the intersection of sex work, migrant justice, and disability justice. Find t...
Sep 04, 2025•1 hr 39 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/137338165 Beatrice, Phil, and Jules speak with Claire Dunning about the complex history of how nonprofit organizations became so pervasive in US political life and the issues with how the non-profit system promises to address big, structural problems while at the same time structurally constraining what these groups are and aren't allowed to do. Note: This episode was originally released for patro...
Sep 01, 2025•5 min
To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice and Artie discuss a disturbing set of arguments that evidence of famine in Gaza—and genocide deaths themselves—can be invalidated by showing that the victims had “pre-existing conditions” or “underlying health conditions,” most brazenly demonstrated in a recent Free Press piece called “They Became Symbols for Gazan Starvation. But All 12 Suffer from Other Health Problems.”...
Aug 28, 2025•1 hr 15 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/137338165 Beatrice and Tracy speak with journalist Rebecca Burns about how Trump’s takeover of D.C. and threats to send the National Guard into U.S. cities under the auspices of fighting a “crime emergency” and “endemic” homelessness echo the policy proposals and model bills of the Cicero Institute, a right wing think tank run by a co-founder of Palantir. Runtime 1:14:24 Get Health Communi...
Aug 25, 2025•20 min
