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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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.
41 min
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What Will We Do With Our Rage in 2022?
"A game-changing era of global political upheaval is looming."
18 min
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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.”
36 min
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Abolitionists Are Fighting Against the Surveill...
The ShotSpotter system manufactures urgency for aggressive police deployments.
36 min
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Enough Colonial Pageantry. Let’s Rally Behind C...
Native people are still battling world-crushing forces.
41 min
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Apocalypse Normal
17 min
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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.
53 min
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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.
32 min
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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."
50 min
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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.
47 min
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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.
42 min
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To Fight the GOP’s Radicalized Base, We Have to...
The right’s culture war has an astronomical body count.
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Ten Years After Occupy Wall Street, Another Wor...
Occupy helped us imagine a world beyond capitalism.
69 min
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The Fight Against Fascism Isn’t Over
“We're talking about a heavily armed populace that's self traumatizing through its own mythology."
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Getting Real About Prisons and Why They Don’t M...
“None of us are safe, so long as safety is mythologized on these terms."
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What the Mainstream Media Never Told You About ...
“The state is personified and ascended, but people are dehumanized."
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A New Wave of Jim Crow Laws is Here. Here’s Wha...
“We are under significant attack,” says voting rights organizer Toni Watkins.
31 min
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Police Convictions Are Not the Goal. Minneapoli...
“The only way we can guarantee justice is to remove ourselves from this entire system as it exists right now."
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You Cannot Divorce Policing From Murder
Policing is the violent maintenance of inequality.
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Resuscitating Normalcy Will Kill Us. What We Ne...
What kind of world are we trying to imagine into being?
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Work Isn’t Fulfilling Because Capitalism is a D...
"We live in a system that conditions us to celebrate each other for sacrificing ourselves to work."
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From Survival to Solidarity: Emerging From the ...
“You don’t always get to choose who helps you survive.”
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