“We’re talking about a hostage situation and the answer is to free the hostages,” says Kelly Hayes.
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.
How can we build our way back from pandemic exhaustion?
It is the tyranny of normalcy that allows our government to perpetrate atrocities.
The recreational dehumanization of people who are dying of COVID-19 harms us all.
The right’s culture war has an astronomical body count.
Occupy helped us imagine a world beyond capitalism.
“We’re talking about a heavily armed populace that’s self traumatizing through its own mythology,” says Shane Burley.
“None of us are safe, so long as safety is mythologized on these terms,” says Kelly Hayes.
“The state is personified and ascended, but people are dehumanized,” says Palestinian organizer Lea Kayali.
“We are under significant attack,” says voting rights organizer Toni Watkins.