I'm Special Agent DJ Justice, Radio Host and Managing Partner for Netroots Radio and I'm manning the dials, spinning the discs, warbling the woofers, putting a slip in your hip and a trip to your hop.


The playlist for 10 November 24 8pm to 9pm Pacific Edition of The Justice Department: Musique sans Frontieres

“I Used To Pray To A Man-Faced God”

1 - Laurie Anderson - Waiting for the Barbarians
2 - Lisa Gerrard - Persephone (The Gathering of Flowers)
3 - William Orbit - Gringatcho Demento

Station Break

4 - Guillaume Poncelet - Le Bruit du Vent
5 -  Yusef Lateef - Like It Is
6 - Yussef Dayes, Marco Bernardis & Rocco Palladino - Venna Sicily Box
7 - Natalia Lafourcade - María la Curandera
8 - El Búho - Mañana Tepotzlan
9 - Pedro Mizutani - Chuva de Verão


I used to pray to a man-faced god.
Kept his whip beneath my bed.Set alarms for daybreak lashings.
Pressed white cotton to the flay.Made flags of the bloodsoak.
Raised them from my window.Called this worship.Dreamt heaven a jury small as a county
where nobody looked like me.Winged bailiffs plucked my cuffs
to trap my cousin in a hot coal cage.Called this roulette freedom,
licking my raw wrists.Which kill blew my tatters down.
Peeled me to the blackest jade.Remothered me to the squad car blaze.
Loot and shard my siblings now.Which kill. Forgive me.
I feared the devil’s prison.Misfaithed the sheriff
in the sky. Why.Which kill. Forgive me
family, I miscountried—our swarming, anthem
of my true homeland.Heaven and hell
are the same empirehalf-slipped, gasping,
clutching our hems.Ungoverned by the lie,
with fists and flames,we cleave.

- Kemi Alabi
“Against Heaven”