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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Abolition Is About Escaping the Death Trap of “...
"We need the resources that the carceral state has stolen from us," says Andrea Ritchie.
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Copaganda Arrests Our Imaginations
“Police, as a political force, are shaping mainstream media,” says Andrea Ritchie.
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Prepping for the Apocalypse Means Building Comm...
“These sorts of things aren't something you can outrun,” says Chris Begley.
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Confronting the “Elite Capture” of Identity Pol...
“Either we're going to stand together, or we're going to fall apart,” says Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò.
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Philly Families Faced With Eviction Are Rising...
“I want everyone to fight,” says organizer Sterling Johnson.
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Fascism Has Gone Mainstream
“Forces that have been awakened are not ones that can be tucked away,” says Tal Lavin.
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As Attacks on Queer and Trans People Accelerate...
“I've never seen anything like this in my life,” says journalist Melissa Gira Grant.
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Capitalism Is Making Us Sick and Sucking Us Dry
“All of these systems of extraction are always connected,” says Beatrice Adler-Bolton.
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Nothing Ends With the Law. Let’s Talk About Lif...
An attorney, a clinic director and an abortion doula talk about life after Roe.
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To Build the World We Desire, We Must Dream Dee...
“This is a great time to get with your people,” says Tanuja Jagernauth.
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Abortion Funds Are Preparing For a Storm. To He...
“The fact that we have to talk about decriminalizing pregnancy is a strong argument for abolition,” says Kelly Hayes.
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Attacks on Trans Youth Are a Fascist "Moral Bat...
“I am so disheartened by the lack of response to these attacks,” says attorney Chase Strangio.
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Attacks on Trans Rights and Abortion Rights Are...
“Some of the wildest dreams of the far right are being realized,” says Kelly Hayes.
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Hope Is Not a Given. We Must Cultivate It Toget...
Kelly Hayes and Tanuja Jagernauth discuss the practice of hope.
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Are You Preparing for a Post-Roe World?
“It's a perfect storm,” says journalist Robin Marty.
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The End of “Roe” Will Lead to More Family Separ...
“They make money off of family separation,” says Dorothy Roberts.
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Indigenous Abolitionists Are Organizing for Hea...
“This really is a time of action,” says Morning Star Gali.
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Politics as Usual Has Never Prevented Mass Shoo...
“Gun control discourse is sort of a trap,” says author Patrick Blanchfield.
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore on Abolition, the Climate C...
Kelly Hayes and Ruth Wilson Gilmore discuss organizing, extraction and time.
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O'ahu Organizers Are Defending the Earth Agains...
“We shut down this massive facility in four months,” says activist Kawenaʻulaokalā Kapahua.
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Dean Spade Is Asking Activists, “How Much Bolde...
Kelly and Dean Spade discuss the future of mutual aid.
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Harsha Walia: “To Become Ungovernable Is Central”
"If we each play a part, we chip away at the bricks of the border," says Harsha Walia.
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Incarcerated Organizers Are Resisting Amid Dete...
“These folks inside have had enough,” says organizer Brooke Terpsta.
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Young Activists Are Challenging the U.S. War Ma...
“Making things better is not what the war machine is for,” says Kelly Hayes.
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Trans Youth Are Facing Right-Wing Attacks and a...
“It's not about bathrooms. It's about expulsion and it's about disposability,” says Chase Strangio.
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