Episodes

  • The Human Cost of Welfare Reform w/ John Pring (Re-Air)

    The Human Cost of Welfare Reform w/ John Pring (Re-Air)
    Jul 2 2026
    This episode was originally released November 21, 2024. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod 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: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9780745349893 MERCH STORE IS BACK! Patrons get a code for 10% off all orders. Find it at www.deathpanel.net/merch 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 it here: bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Outro by Time Wharp: timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta
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    1 hr and 33 mins
  • Mutual Aid w/ Dean Spade (Unlocked)

    Mutual Aid w/ Dean Spade (Unlocked)
    Jul 9 2026
    This episode was originally released April 6th 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 https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Dean Spade about how mutual aid allows us to reclaim and collectivize the labor of survival itself, how the practice is much more radical than it’s often been portrayed since it became a topic of mainstream press discussion, and the new second edition of Dean’s 2020 book, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next). If you appreciated this episode consider checking out our interview series All Care for All People; the first episode aired here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/157359074 Find the new edition of Dean's book Mutual Aid here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781836742555 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 it here: bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Outro by Time Wharp: timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta
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    1 hr and 26 mins
  • Teaser - ACAP 08: Earthbound Farmer's Almanac (07/06/26)

    Teaser - ACAP 08: Earthbound Farmer's Almanac (07/06/26)
    Jul 7 2026
    Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/162983378 Beatrice speaks with Hadley, Tina and Beau from the Earthbound Farmer's Almanac Editorial Collective about their experiences engaging in mutual aid and survival work and the Earthbound Farmer's Almanac, described as "a journal of anti-colonial agriculture; an almanac for the end of the world." Runtime 2:14:51 This is the eighth episode in a new series called All Care for All People (ACAP), as Artie describes in an introduction at the top of this episode. Over the coming weeks we will be speaking to people engaged in mutual aid survival programs, working across a variety of tactics, locations, and organizational structures, who are each stepping in, in different ways, to provide care where it is needed. MERCH STORE IS BACK! Patrons get a code for 10% off all orders. Find it at https://www.deathpanel.net/merch 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 it here: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Show links: Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523
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    30 mins
  • Teaser - RICO w/ Dan Berger

    Teaser - RICO w/ Dan Berger
    Jul 12 2026
    Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/163701602 Beatrice speaks with Dan Berger about the long history of RICO (the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) being used as a tool of repression against left movements, and what we can learn from the RICO charges against Stop Cop City activists. Runtime 1:30:00 Today's episode originally aired September 25th, 2023 and is being re-aired today in light of the Prairieland sentencing, the 'Minnesota 15,' and other developments. We'll be back next week with a new episode! Get Health Communism here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523
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    19 mins
  • Minneapolis Spring, the 2020 Uprisings and Beyond w/ Jonathan Stegall & Anne Kosseff-Jones (Re-Air)

    Minneapolis Spring, the 2020 Uprisings and Beyond w/ Jonathan Stegall & Anne Kosseff-Jones (Re-Air)
    Jul 16 2026
    This episode was originally released March 12th 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 Minneapolis organizers Jonathan Stegall and Anne Kosseff-Jones about how the last few months of anti-ICE organizing and mutual aid work in Minnesota built directly on the foundations laid during the 2020 uprisings, why the twin cities still need support even after the announcement of a “draw down,” and lessons to take forward with us. Read Jonathan and Anne's piece at Truthout here: https://truthout.org/articles/minneapoliss-2020-uprising-laid-an-abolitionist-groundwork-for-ice-resistance/ MERCH STORE IS BACK! Patrons get a code for 10% off all orders. Find it at www.deathpanel.net/merch 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 it here: bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Outro by Time Wharp: timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta
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    1 hr and 26 mins
  • Teaser - Empty Rights and Underlying Conditions

    Teaser - Empty Rights and Underlying Conditions
    Jun 29 2026
    Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/162399538 Beatrice, Artie and Tracy discuss the potential impacts of a Trump executive order called “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,” which threatens to dramatically expand involuntary psychiatric commitment and make it easier for the government to disappear people off the streets, allegedly in the name of “compassion.” Runtime 1:51:47 Get Health Communism here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523
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    27 mins
  • Abolish ICE Means Abolish the Police w/ Mariame Kaba & Andrea Ritchie

    Abolish ICE Means Abolish the Police w/ Mariame Kaba & Andrea Ritchie
    Jun 25 2026
    This episode was originally released March 9th 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 Mariame Kaba and Andrea Ritchie about how we should understand the spectacular violence of Trump’s ICE surges as an extension of the violence of everyday policing, lessons in resisting proposed “reforms” that would actually give more power to ICE, and how community care and community defense help build a world toward abolition. Find Interrupting Criminalization's toolkit "Block It!: A Mini Toolkit to Take Action to Disrupt the ICE Kidnapping, Detention, and Deportation Machine" here - https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-all/block-it MERCH STORE IS BACK! Patrons get a code for 10% off all orders. Find it at www.deathpanel.net/merch 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 it here: bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Outro by Time Wharp: timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta
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    1 hr and 38 mins
  • Teaser - ACAP 07: Below Sea Level Aid (06/22/26)

    Teaser - ACAP 07: Below Sea Level Aid (06/22/26)
    Jun 22 2026
    Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/161771826 Beatrice speaks with Jack from Below Sea Level Aid about their experiences engaging in mutual aid and survival work. Runtime 52:30 This is the seventh episode in a new series called All Care for All People (ACAP), as Artie describes in an introduction at the top of this episode. Over the coming weeks we will be speaking to people engaged in mutual aid survival programs, working across a variety of tactics, locations, and organizational structures, who are each stepping in, in different ways, to provide care where it is needed. MERCH STORE IS BACK! Patrons get a code for 10% off all orders. Find it at https://www.deathpanel.net/merch 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 it here: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Show links: Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523
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    13 mins