Trump’s New Red Scare w/ Vicky Osterweil

This episode was originally released July 27th 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 Vicky Osterweil about the Trump administration’s recent statements declaring a renewed red scare, painting the left as “deformed,” a “fatal cancer to civilization,” and a threat to “normal, healthy, ordered living.” 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: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Outro by Time Wharp: https://timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta

To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod This is the first recording in a series of sessions we organized at this year's Socialism Conference. We're posting it ahead of our usual schedule as clips from this session have started circulating online and kicking off a round of discourse on health, health fascism and "fitness," and we wanted to make sure everyone has access to the full remarks. Full session description: As governments retreat from care, and health increasingly becomes a signifier of discipline—rather than provision—fitness, disability, fatness, illness, Blackness, impairment, and bodily capacity are mobilized into measures of moral worth and political belonging. This panel examines how health, disability, body size, and race are instrumentalized by the state and being reorganized under health fascism. Da’Shaun L. Harrison and Beatrice Adler-Bolton will discuss what these transformations reveal about the changing relationship between capitalism, the state, and everyday life. Speakers: Beatrice, Da'Shaun L. Harrison 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: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/168217967 Beatrice speaks with "Bitch" from Mutual Aid Street Solidarity Chicago about their experiences engaging in mutual aid and survival work. This episode is an extension of the series we ran over the summer, All Care for All People (ACAP), and one of the final episodes remaining in that series. Please note that as with other episodes in this series, this recording has been edited with a lighter touch than usual to preserve its nature as an oral history interview. We will be back next week with a new episode. Runtime 1:41:10 Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

This episode was originally released October 20th, 2025 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 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. Find the book here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888904657 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: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Outro by Time Wharp: https://timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/168215562 Artie discusses what studies show are the health impacts of data centers on the communities they're built in, how to think about data centers and AI as mechanisms of social murder, and why the dramatic rise of anti-data center sentiment can't be dismissed as a "moral panic." Runtime 1:07:01 Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

This episode was originally released August 3rd 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, Artie and Phil discuss the Trump administration’s proposal to shift the definition of “medical frailty” under Medicaid to explicitly redefine health as your ability to work, and how this change threatens not just the healthcare coverage of countless people, but an impending blow against the Medicaid program and the healthcare system itself. 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: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Outro by Time Wharp: timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/167584830 Beatrice speaks with R.H. Lossin about how early criminal syndicalism laws were weaponized against the IWW in the early 20th century to criminalize their political education around industrial sabotage, and how those acts of repression have continued to shape how certain demands are dismissed as “too radical” or as “adolescent” today. Runtime 1:38:04 Read R.H. Lossin's piece in LPE blog here: https://lpeproject.org/blog/property-sabotage-and-the-origins-of-anti-left-repression/ Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

Beatrice speaks with Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché about how the fight to abolish prisons touches other movements, what abolitionist movement wins tell us about taking the long view in organizing work, and their new book How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement against Imprisonment. Find the book here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888900833 This episode was originally released September 2nd, 2024 for Death Panel patrons. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod 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: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Outro by Time Wharp: timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/166952827 Beatrice speaks with Vicky Osterweil about how intellectual property has become central to global capitalism, what led the Disney corporation to send lobbyists to defend covid vaccine patents, and her new book The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World. Runtime 2:22:00 Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

Note: This episode was originally released September 9th, 2024 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 Victoria Law about her book Corridors of Contagion: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration. Find the book here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902561 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: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179