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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.

Members of the NYPD investigate an incident on an uptown 4 subway on April 12, 2022, in New York City.
Interview
Politics & Elections

Politics as Usual Has Never Prevented Mass Shootings. We Must Break the Cycle.

“Gun control discourse is sort of a trap,” says author Patrick Blanchfield.
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April 22, 2022
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The sun shines through high security fencing surrounding Norwich Prison on August 25, 2005, in Norwich, England.
Interview
Prisons & Policing

Ruth Wilson Gilmore on Abolition, the Climate Crisis and What Must Be Done

Kelly Hayes and Ruth Wilson Gilmore discuss organizing, extraction and time.
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Kelly Hayes,
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April 14, 2022
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Oʻahu Water Protectors gather with signs protesting the U.S. Navy and the Red Hill bulk fuel station.
Interview
Environment & Health

O’ahu Organizers Are Defending the Earth Against US Militarism

We shut down this massive facility in four months, says activist Kawenaʻulaokalā Kapahua.
by
Kelly Hayes,
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March 24, 2022
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Services Not Sweeps coalition members surround a tent to stop city workers from removing it during a homeless encampment sweep on Cherokee Avenue on August 26, 2020, in Los Angeles, California.
Interview
Politics & Elections

Dean Spade Is Asking Activists, “How Much Bolder Could You Be?”

Activists Kelly Hayes and Dean Spade discuss the future of mutual aid.
by
Kelly Hayes,
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March 17, 2022
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A person in silhouette runs through a torn fence
Interview
Immigration

Harsha Walia: “To Become Ungovernable Is Central”

Organizers Kelly Hayes and Harsha Walia talk about “how we remake the world.”
by
Kelly Hayes,
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March 10, 2022
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An officer checks on prisoners at Santa Rita Jail on April 5, 2018, in Dublin, California.
Interview
Prisons & Policing

Incarcerated Organizers Are Resisting Amid Deteriorating Conditions

“These folks inside have had enough,” says organizer Brooke Terpsta. 
by
Kelly Hayes,
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March 3, 2022
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People participate in a protest in Grand Central Station in the borough of Manhattan against war in Ukraine on February 19, 2022, in New York City.
Interview
War & Peace

Youth Are Challenging the US War Machine as Tensions Escalate With Russia

“Making things better is not what the war machine is for,” says Kelly Hayes.
by
Kelly Hayes,
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February 25, 2022
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Protestors demonstrate during a rally against the transgender bathroom rights repeal at Thomas Paine Plaza on February 25, 2017, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Interview
LGBTQ Rights

Trans Youth Are Facing Right-Wing Attacks and a Solidarity Shortage

“It’s not about bathrooms. It’s about expulsion and it’s about disposability,” says attorney Chase Strangio.
by
Kelly Hayes,
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February 17, 2022
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“Support for one another [is] the hallmark of whether or not we're building something radically different,” says author Shane Burley.
Interview
Politics & Elections

Activists Are Building a Counterculture of Care in Apocalyptic Times

“We need to start thinking about something entirely new,” says author Shane Burley.
by
Kelly Hayes,
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February 10, 2022
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A police officer charges forward as people protest the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police in front of the White House in Washington, D.C., on May 31, 2020.
Interview
Prisons & Policing

Abolition Means Reclaiming the Commons and Rejecting Securitization 

“Capitalism is a generalized order of insecurity that requires a politics of security,” says Brendan McQuade.
by
Kelly Hayes,
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February 3, 2022
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