LA Burns but We Keep Us Safe (Part One) (01/16/25)

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🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Beatrice and Tracy speak with organizers in Los Angeles who have stepped up during the fires to support people the state has left behind. In Part One, we speak with organizers from Youth Justice Coalition and Mask Bloc LA. Part 2 will be out next week. Find Youth Justice Coalition here: https://linktr.ee/youthjusticela Donate to Support System Impacted Young People and Their Families: http://youthjusticela.org/donate Find the audio clip played in the first interview (with subtitles) here: https://x.com/YouthJusticeLA/status/1877832188583887042 https://x.com/YouthJusticeLA/status/1877834081523859759 Find Mask Bloc LA here: https://linktr.ee/maskblocla Mask Bloc LA’s Mask Requests and Volunteer Interest Form here: https://www.bit.ly/MBLAfire Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Tracy's book, Abolish Rent, here: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2443-abolish-rent Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

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1:04.4	at Death Panel underscore. I'm Beatrice Adler Bolton, and today I'm here with my co-host, Tracy
1:09.7	Rosenthal. Hey, B, thanks for having me.
1:12.3	I'm really glad you're joining us today, Tracy, because today we're doing a special two-part
1:16.6	episode on the fires that have been raging in Los Angeles.
1:20.3	Over 40,000 acres of land in Los Angeles have burned.
1:24.0	We were talking about this before the episode recording started, but this is about the same size
1:30.4	as all of Washington, D.C., all five boroughs of New York, or about half of the city of Philadelphia.
1:37.7	So it's an eighth of the city of Los Angeles has burned in the last week.
1:41.9	These are some of the largest fires that L.A. has ever seen,
1:44.9	that Southern California has ever seen. So far, over 12,000 buildings have been destroyed.
1:51.7	This is obviously a major problem in terms of displacement in terms of long-term health effects,
1:58.6	immediate health effects, immediate danger. And in response to the fire, there have been tremendous efforts from folks doing mutual aid
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