Movement Memos
An ongoing call to action for movement work and mutual aid efforts around the country. Kelly Hayes connects with activists, journalists and others on the front lines to break down what’s happening in various struggles and what listeners can do to help.
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We Must Contest the Christian Right’s Agenda in...
“It is a self-replicating authoritarian system that has persisted over the course of generations,” says Talia Lavin.
78 min
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To Transform Our Trauma, We Must Nurture Moveme...
“How do we hold each other in falling apart,” asks Chiara Galimberti.
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From the Ashes: How Grief Shapes Our Struggles
“The capitalist system also doesn't care if we die,” says Sarah Jaffe.
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Keeping Each Other Alive: Mental Health and Col...
“We cannot become what it is that has harmed us in the first place,” says Elliott Fukui.
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Breaking Down Sudan’s Struggle: What the World ...
“This war is not a civil war, it's a counterrevolutionary war against civilians,” says Sudanese organizer Nisrin Elamin.
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"Our Power Is Where We Choose One Another”: Abo...
“We are on the precipice of something big,” says M Adams.
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Remembering How to Care: Lessons from Deep Spac...
“We can exist in a future beyond the status quo,” says Robyn Maynard.
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It's “Open Season” on the Unhoused. We Must Opp...
“We don't have a housing system, we have an unhousing system,” says Tracy Rosenthal.
53 min
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Radical Acts of Care: From Underground Abortion...
"There are deep lessons here about comradery," says Angela Hume.
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How Solidarity Falters Amid Repression and How ...
“This system was designed to do exactly what it is doing,” says author and activist Dean Spade.
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To Stay in the Fight, We Must Navigate Trauma a...
“How do we grieve at the same time as we adapt,” asks Robyn Maynard.
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What Today’s Workers Can Learn From Machine Bre...
“The Luddites get a bad rap,” says author Brian Merchant.
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Objectivity in Journalism Is a Deadly Myth Tha...
“The whole Israeli propaganda machine, the hasbara effort, has been so effective,” says Lewis Raven Wallace.
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Palestine Solidarity Encampments Are a Rehearsa...
“The movement is not going away,” says Eman Abdelhadi.
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Outside Agitators Are Good, Actually
“Outside agitators have played an incredible role in social movements,” says Astra Taylor.
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“Hope For Me is in The Doing of Things,” Says M...
"These pandemic years really have changed everything," says Mariame Kaba.
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Family Policing is Part of a "Carceral Web"
"The child welfare system is structured to incentivize, financially, taking children from their families," says Dorothy Roberts.
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Capitalism is Killing Us and Our Work Won't Lov...
"Neoliberalism is an entire social engineering project to destroy solidarity," says Sarah Jaffe.
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Care Must Be a Collective Practice of Survival,...
"I think it is imperative upon all of us to push back on the system of profit from care," says Premilla Nadasen.
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State of US Journalism Is “Worst I’ve Ever Seen...
“I can't believe that I have nostalgia for these previous eras of crises,” says Sarah Kendzior.
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Chicago Organizers Defeat Police Tech in Ongoin...
“We're going to continue to organize,” says Stop ShotSpotter organizer Navi Heer.
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Predictive Police Tech Isn’t Making Communities...
“We haven't seen public safety systems privatized in this way that we're seeing now,” says Andrew Guthrie Ferguson.
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Attacks on the Concept of Settler Colonialism A...
“Surviving settler colonialism isn't just about surviving its material realities,” says Nadine Naber.
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“Palestine Is About Living in Spite of Everything”
“Hope is what the history of Palestine has taught me,” says Palestinian feminist Rana Barakat.
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Native Organizers Celebrate Solidarity, Grieve ...
“We're connected to each other and these liberation fights across the globe,” says Ashley Crystal Rojas.
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