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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Awareness-Raising Protests Won’t Threaten the R...
“Making durable changes isn't always about the raw numbers,” says Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò.
70 min
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We Live in Fearful Times. Our Safety Comes Thro...
“Now is the time to be bold and audacious,” says Che Johnson-Long.
64 min
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How to Fight Fascism in a Captured State
"A union exists whenever two people or a group of people work together to solve a problem they couldn't alone," says Shane Burley.
73 min
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Fascism Isn’t Coming — It’s Here. Now What?
“We don't get to choose the people who show up for us and who save us sometimes,” says Ejeris Dixon.
68 min
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Let's Be Politically Promiscuous
56 min
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We Must Burst Our Algorithmic Bubbles and Build...
73 min
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Fight Fear, Build Power: Community Defense Works
“This kind of repression, part of its intention is to isolate people,” says organizer Nikki Marín Baena.
49 min
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Let’s Learn and Live Lessons in Collective Surv...
“We are really good at finding what's wrong with each other,” says Margaret Killjoy.
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We Won't Take Risks Alone. Our Relationships M...
Tenant unions can teach us to strategize “with every lever that we have,” says Tracy Rosenthal.
62 min
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How Immigration Organizers Are Gearing Up for A...
“It's inherently a racial justice fight and economic justice fight,” says organizer Silky Shah.
64 min
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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.
82 min
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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.
63 min
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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.
87 min
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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.
65 min
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"Our Power Is Where We Choose One Another”: Abo...
“We are on the precipice of something big,” says M Adams.
60 min
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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.
64 min
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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.
59 min
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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.
64 min
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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.
53 min
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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.
60 min
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Palestine Solidarity Encampments Are a Rehearsa...
“The movement is not going away,” says Eman Abdelhadi.
64 min
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Outside Agitators Are Good, Actually
“Outside agitators have played an incredible role in social movements,” says Astra Taylor.
54 min