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.
1
AI Is Class Warfare. Workers Are Fighting Back.
“AI is leveraged as a cudgel against the working class,” says Alex Hanna.
69 min
2
How Communities Are Fighting AI Data Centers an...
“There's so much power in this fight,” says Saul Levin.
68 min
3
Activists Are Preparing to Defend Elections Thi...
“It's about relational organizing,” says Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson.
68 min
4
Artificial Intimacy Is Changing Who We Are
72 min
5
Organizing for Survival in an Era of Climate Chaos
“Whatever you do, it has to be now,” says organizer Alice Liu.
65 min
6
Silicon Valley’s Billionaire Cults Are Coming f...
“We can have billionaires or we can have democracy. We cannot have both," says Gil Durán.
56 min
7
You Can’t Drink Data: Native Communities Are Re...
“These are tools to extract from who we are to erase us,” says Krystal Two Bulls.
76 min
8
The AI Boom Is a Corporate Project. It Can Be D...
“A lot of people are really sitting up and pushing back," says Brian Merchant.
87 min
9
No Abandonment, No Bunkers: Preparing for Disas...
73 min
10
ICE Camps Are Not Untouchable. Here’s How Commu...
“You can do something. It is within reach. You can have an effect,” says John Washington.
77 min
11
What Trump’s “Whenever Wars” Reveal About U.S. ...
“We really have to see the rise of Trump itself as an indictment of the whole system,” says Khury Petersen-Smith.
79 min
12
Hope Is Not Naive: Rebecca Solnit on Backlash, ...
“What if changing the world looked more like care than like war,” asks Rebecca Solnit.
70 min
13
Repair Is a Survival Skill Under Fascism
Too much urgency to resolve conflict can close us off from what repair really requires.
80 min
14
Rupture and Repair Under Fascist Conditions
“Disagreement can be a beautiful, beautiful thing,” says Tanuja Jagernauth.
83 min
15
Why Libraries Matter in a Fascist Moment
“If we lose this as a public good and as a free public service, we will have lost everything,” says Mariame Kaba.
74 min
16
The Science of Unlearning And Why Organizers Ne...
“Nobody had a story about unlearning that didn’t include a connection with other people,” says Lewis Raven Wallace.
63 min
17
Living Under a Concentration Camp Regime — and ...
66 min
18
Minneapolis Community Defense Is “Riding on the...
70 min
19
How We've Resisted ICE: Street Lessons From Chi...
“I cannot imagine doing anything else in this moment,” says community defense organizer Gabe Gonzalez.
88 min
20
Fascism at the Door, Neighbors in the Street: A...
“I think a lot of us could level up our skills,” says Tamara Nopper.
69 min
21
Burnout is Not Inevitable: Building Movements T...
“Care really should be at the center of our strategy, of our analysis, and of our practice,” says Aaron Goggans.
67 min
22
Resisting ICE, Building Worlds: Care and Survi...
“It's all hands on deck and we have to fight. This is the only way,” says Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.
74 min
23
Making Things Together: Zines, Strategy, and Su...
“We're going to need a lot more in-person opportunities for us to expand our humanity,” says Mariame Kaba.
79 min
24
Holding the Line Through Tear Gas and Censorship
"There is no neutral ground in this moment. You're either resisting or you're complicit,” says Eman Abdelhadi.
71 min
25
Raids, Retaliation, and Radical Solidarity in C...
“History shows us that repression always breeds resistance," says Chicago organizer Miguel Alvelo Rivera.
65 min