Best of 2025: ICE OUT w/ Members of LATU

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4.8 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2026

⏱️ 95 minutes

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As we prepare for what's coming in the new year, we’re releasing a Best of 2025 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. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Original description: 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.” hammerandhope.org/article/los-angeles-tenants-ice 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 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523 Find Jules' latest book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781804291603 Outro by Time Wharp: timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta

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0:00.0	There's this kind of division, I feel like opening up in American political life where what's
0:06.2	happening in LA and Chicago is kind of so absent from a general national imagination of
0:12.8	kind of where we're at politically and what new forms are emerging.
0:16.2	You know, I think it's important that anyone who cares about overcoming and fighting the rise of
0:23.8	fascism in this country needs to up their levels of commitment.
0:28.0	And I think this is like a small experiment in that where we all have to do a little bit.
0:38.3	Yeah. I'm. I'm. I'm
0:40.3	. Welcome to the death panel.
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1:33.7	I'm Beatrice Suther Bolton, and I'm here today with my co-host, Tracy Rosenthal,
1:37.2	to talk about a piece that they wrote for Hammer and Hope about organizing to resist ICE in Los Angeles
1:42.7	called Immigration Raids at this Home Depot got more
1:45.4	aggressive but less effective.
1:47.4	The L.A. Tenants Union knows why.
1:49.4	Hey, Tracy.
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