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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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.
47 min
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Activists Are Building a Counterculture of Care...
“Support for one another [is] the hallmark of whether or not we're building something radically different,” says author Shane Burley.
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Abolition Means Reclaiming the Commons and Reje...
“Capitalism is a generalized order of insecurity that requires a politics of security,” says Brendan McQuade.
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Corporations Are Funding Police Repression
“Essentially they've created company towns where they control law enforcement,” says Alex Vitale.
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Bree Newsome Bass: "Capitalism Has To Collapse"
Organizers Kelly Hayes and Bree Newsome Bass discuss long COVID, voting rights and getting organized.
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What Will We Do With Our Rage in 2022?
"A game-changing era of global political upheaval is looming."
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People in Prison Organize Collectively for Surv...
“In a death-making institution, the formation of a social life-support system is a rebellious act.”
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Abolitionists Are Fighting Against the Surveill...
The ShotSpotter system manufactures urgency for aggressive police deployments.
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Enough Colonial Pageantry. Let’s Rally Behind C...
Native people are still battling world-crushing forces.
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Apocalypse Normal
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Right-Wing Attacks on Native Child Welfare Law ...
The right's attacks on the Indian Child Welfare Act are part of a larger power grab.
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A COVID Memorial Mixtape Revisited
In this throwback episode, we revisit a moment of indignation and remembrance.
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Healthcare Workers Sound Off About Trauma, Soli...
“We are kind of at this breaking point. We're at this cusp,” says healthcare worker Hannah Winchester.
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Rikers Island and the Shapeshifting Monster of ...
"We’re talking about a hostage situation and the answer is to free the hostages."
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From Burnout to Breakthroughs, Weary Organizers...
How can we build our way back from pandemic exhaustion?
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Trump is Gone, But the U.S. is Still Putting Mi...
Securitization is a bipartisan imperative that must be fought.
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Laughing at Mass Death Brings Us Closer to Fascism
The recreational dehumanization of people who are dying of COVID-19 harms us all.
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