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Street medicine nurse practitioner Dr. Arielle Banks joins host Amir Whitaker to reveal how healthcare is delivered in encampments, riverbeds, and alleys, wound care, blood draws, and portable ultrasound brought directly to unhoused patients. They unpack social determinants of health, showing how a $5 copay or lack of refrigeration for insulin gets mislabeled as "non-compliance" when it's really structural failure. The conversation dives into homelessness, the opioid crisis, and a profit-driven, racially inequitable healthcare system, then closes with practical know-your-rights guidance: asking questions, seeking second opinions, and demanding culturally competent care.

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Flock cameras are quietly building a nationwide surveillance database, tracking your car, your face, your daily routine, and even your visits to doctors, churches, and homes. What started as a tool to catch stolen vehicles has ballooned into mass surveillance with zero federal oversight. We dig into officers using Flock to stalk partners and exes, ICE accessing the system to track immigrants without a warrant, and the misidentifications that have landed innocent people in jail at gunpoint. Plus: how over 80 jurisdictions are fighting back, and how you can check if your plate has been "Flocked."

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Host: Amir Whitaker (@Drknucklehead_esq) and Diana Barbadillo (@deeeeezzyyy)

Guest: Cayden Brown (@thecaydenbrown)

At just 19, Cayden Brown is already reshaping how the world talks about children's rights. In this powerful episode of the Know Your Rights Camp podcast, the youth advocate, author, and executive director of the Trespass Project opens up about being silenced in family court as a six-year-old during his parents' divorce; an experience that inspired his Amazon #1 bestselling children's book, The Kid in a Courtroom. Cayden breaks down how teen court offers a peer-driven alternative to the juvenile justice system, boasting a 90% success rate in preventing recidivism, and why it should be adopted nationwide for first-time, low-level offenses. He also shares his experience as the youngest youth panelist at a United Nations event on global peace and security, and explains why legal literacy and honest conversations with kids are essential tools for healing. A must-watch for parents, educators, and youth advocates alike.

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