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Teaser - The Debt Ceiling Deal w/ Marshall Steinbaum (06/05/23) Jun 06, 2023

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/84120459 Bea speaks with Marshall Steinbaum about the debt ceiling deal and the provisions in it—from student loan repayments to new work requirements—that amount to a recommitment to austerity. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:30:43, 5 June 2023 🧬

No More Police w/ Andrea Ritchie (06/01/23) Jun 01, 2023

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Bea speaks with Andrea Ritchie about the movement to defund and abolish policing, how police budgets sap resources from state and local governments, and how to understand abolition as a core principle that advances the goals of so many other movements. Find Andrea's book, co-authored with Mariame Kaba, "No More Police: A Case for Abolition" here: https://thenewpress.com/books/no-more-police Find more information on Interrupting Criminalization and the "Beyond Do No Harm" project here: https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/beyond-do-no-harm Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Teaser - "The People's Hospital" w/ Lily Sánchez (05/29/23) May 30, 2023

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/83728759 Bea 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.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:18:19, 29 May 2023 🧬

Teaser - J.D. Vance vs the Working Class w/ Gabriel Winant (05/22/23) May 23, 2023

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/83389515 Bea, Phil, and Abby speak with Gabe Winant about the faux class politics of Republican Senator J.D. Vance, how his 2016 book Hillbilly Elegy pathologizes the poor, and his adherence to the work of inveterate race scientist Charles Murray. Read Gabe's piece for n+1, "J.D. Vance Changes the Subject" here: https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/politics/j-d-vance-changes-the-subject-2/ Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:20:15, 22 May 2023 🧬

Let This Radicalize You w/ Mariame Kaba & Kelly Hayes (05/18/23) May 17, 2023

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Bea speaks with Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes about their new book Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care, released this week. Find Let This Radicalize You here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-let-this-radicalize-you Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod TRANSCRIPT: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/let-this-radicalize-you-mariame-kaba-kelly-hayes

Teaser - "Defense Against Disorder" (05/15/23) May 16, 2023

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/83053730 Bea, Artie, and Abby look at how mainstream discourse surrounding the murder of Jordan Neely on May 1st devolved into victim blaming, and how New York Mayor Eric Adams is using the moment to push for the expansion of involuntary hospitalization. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:08:32, 15 May 2023 🧬

"The Sociological Production of the End of the Pandemic" (05/11/23) May 11, 2023

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With the public health emergency declaration ending today, May 11th, we turn back the clock to early 2021, mere days into the Biden presidency, and the moment it became clear the US was going to "end the pandemic" not by stopping covid, but by re-narrating its social and political meaning. Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Teaser - Meaning Production at the End of Emergency (05/08/23) May 09, 2023

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/82700562 Bea, Artie, and Abby discuss how the end of the public health emergency has become an opportunity for pundits and media organizations assert some interpretations of the last three years over others, making—and denying—the meaning of the pandemic as a result. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:16:32, 8 May 2023 🧬

"No One Is Left Behind" (05/04/23) May 04, 2023

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With one week until the official end of the public health emergency, Bea, Artie, and Jules discuss the Biden administration's long-promised and newly unveiled plans to continue providing free covid vaccines and therapeutics to the uninsured, and just how remarkably their announced plans fall short. Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Teaser - The Family Problem w/ Zoé Samudzi and M.E. O’Brien (05/01/23) May 02, 2023

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/82338265 Bea speaks with Zoé Samudzi and M.E. O’Brien about the first issue of Parapraxis Magazine: “The Family Problem,” the anti-trans “groomer” panic, and the evangelical promotion of adoption as a policy replacement for abortion. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:07:45, 1 May 2023 🧬

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