Trauma Code

We talked to Vikings record setting punter, community activist and author Chris Kluwe about all of this and his brand new science fiction novel Shades of Forever. Good luck in your upcoming election on California state assembly district 72.

Dr. Seema Jilani, a Texas Pediatrician and global physician with the International Network for Aid, Relief and Assistance, talks with us about her experience in Gaza and the effort to free physicians forcibly disappeared by the Israeli military. Vivos los llevaron! Vivos los queremos! Free Dr. Hussam Abu Safiyah! Free them All!

What effect has the politicization of research funding had on the pipeline for American health research? We talk to Michael Green PHD to understand the effect on early career researchers. We also call for the release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who Israeli Physicians for Human Rights report is at risk of dying without charges in Israeli detention.

The Reverend Hand Tuell calls the Trauma Code with updates from the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility where detainees are on hunger strike and a work stoppage. RIP Sonny Rollins.

Dr. John Reuwer calls with his experience on the global humanitarian flotilla to Gaza, and first had reports from Israeli kidnapping and capture in Greek territorial waters.

Steven Thrasher comes into our WBAI studio in Brooklyn to talk about his new book The Overseer Class the day before its May 19th publication.

Dr. Oni Blackstock shares with the Trauma Code how the federal government's LCME is removing guidance on health equity for American medical schools as part of a larger assault on both black health outcomes and health education as a whole. Medical workers and institutions have a duty to push back and stand on principle in support of health equity research and education. We also love to our friends from Philadelphia and condolences for the end of the 76ers season.Music by Orquesta Baobab and Bahamadia

We talk to a rapid responder who witnessed the confrontation between the Bushwick community and immigration enforcement officers who injured a detainee and brought them to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York over the weekend.