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Kelly Hayes connects with activists, journalists and others on the front lines in this Truthout podcast.
Abortion Funds Are Preparing for a Storm. To Help, “Get in Where You Fit in.”
“The fact that we have to talk about decriminalizing pregnancy is a strong argument for abolition,” says Kelly Hayes.
Attacks on Trans Youth Are a Fascist “Moral Battering Ram”
“I am so disheartened by the lack of response to these attacks,” says attorney Chase Strangio.
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Attacks on Trans Rights and Abortion Rights Are “Bound Together”
“Some of the wildest dreams of the far right are being realized,” says Kelly Hayes.
Hope Is Not a Given. We Must Cultivate It Together.
Kelly Hayes and Tanuja Jagernauth discuss the practice of hope.
Are You Preparing for a Post-“Roe” World?
“It's a perfect storm,” says journalist Robin Marty.
The End of “Roe” Will Lead to More Family Separation and Child Disappearance
“They make money off of family separation,” says sociologist and legal scholar Dorothy Roberts.
Indigenous Abolitionists Are Organizing for Healing and Survival
“This really is a time of action,” says Indigenous organizer Morning Star Gali.
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.
Ruth Wilson Gilmore on Abolition, the Climate Crisis and What Must Be Done
Kelly Hayes and Ruth Wilson Gilmore discuss organizing, extraction and time.
O’ahu Organizers Are Defending the Earth Against US Militarism
We shut down this massive facility in four months, says activist Kawenaʻulaokalā Kapahua.