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 Mar 30, 2024

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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.

Episode Date
“Hope For Me is in The Doing of Things,” Says Mariame Kaba
Apr 25, 2024
Family Policing is Part of a "Carceral Web"
Apr 15, 2024
Capitalism is Killing Us and Our Work Won't Love Us Back
Mar 29, 2024
Care Must Be a Collective Practice of Survival, Not a Site of Profit Extraction
Mar 14, 2024
State of US Journalism Is “Worst I’ve Ever Seen It,” Says Sarah Kendzior
Feb 29, 2024
Chicago Organizers Defeat Police Tech in Ongoing Fight for Community Safety
Feb 15, 2024
Predictive Police Tech Isn’t Making Communities Safer – It’s Disempowering Them
Feb 01, 2024
Attacks on the Concept of Settler Colonialism Are About Undermining Solidarity
Jan 18, 2024
“Palestine Is About Living in Spite of Everything”
Dec 07, 2023
Native Organizers Celebrate Solidarity, Grieve Losses and Work to Reduce Harm
Nov 23, 2023
Vigil for Palestine: We Mourn and Consider What Solidarity Demands of Us
Nov 07, 2023
Practicing New Worlds in a Time of Collapse
Oct 26, 2023
Israel's Tools of Occupation Are Tested on Palestine and Exported Globally
Oct 12, 2023
To Fight Big Tech, We Must Seize the Means of Computation
Sep 28, 2023
We Can Survive Together By Becoming Kin
Sep 14, 2023
Our Movements Need Infrastructure for Care, Recovery and Belonging
Aug 31, 2023
Rocket-Launching Billionaires Promise a New Pie in the Sky
Aug 17, 2023
AI Won’t Overthrow Us, But It Will Optimize the Capitalist Death Machine
Aug 03, 2023
Bizarre and Dangerous Utopian Ideology Has Quietly Taken Hold of Tech World
Jul 20, 2023
Cop City is Only the Beginning, Unless We Fight
Jun 01, 2023
Palestinian Organizers: We Honor Our Grief by Practicing Hope
May 18, 2023
To Transform Conflict in Movements, We Must Learn How to Stay in It Together
May 05, 2023
Let This Conversation With Mariame Kaba Radicalize You
Apr 20, 2023
Latin American Feminism Has Much to Teach US Left on How to Fight for Abortion
Apr 07, 2023
Labor History Can Help Us Learn to Fight Like Hell
Mar 23, 2023
We Need Collective Healing, Not Commodified “Self-Care”
Mar 09, 2023
Disability Justice Organizers Dream Big and Resist a Culture of Disposability
Feb 23, 2023
Antifascists Are Adapting to a Strange New World
Feb 09, 2023
The Death of a Forest Defender at Stop Cop City
Jan 26, 2023
Building New Worlds in an Era of Collapse
Jan 12, 2023
Navigating Grief and Cultivating Hope at the End of 2022
Dec 16, 2022
We Need Harm Reduction With a Liberatory Vision
Dec 01, 2022
Abolition Is About Escaping the Death Trap of “Normalcy”
Nov 17, 2022
Copaganda Arrests Our Imaginations
Nov 03, 2022
Prepping for the Apocalypse Means Building Community
Oct 20, 2022
Confronting the “Elite Capture” of Identity Politics in Our Movement Spaces
Oct 06, 2022
Philly Families Faced With Eviction Are Rising Up, Refusing to Leave Their Homes
Sep 22, 2022
Fascism Has Gone Mainstream
Sep 09, 2022
As Attacks on Queer and Trans People Accelerate, We Need Solidarity Now
Aug 25, 2022
Capitalism Is Making Us Sick and Sucking Us Dry
Aug 11, 2022
Nothing Ends With the Law. Let’s Talk About Life After Roe.
Jun 30, 2022
To Build the World We Desire, We Must Dream Deeply Together
Jun 24, 2022
Abortion Funds Are Preparing For a Storm. To Help, “Get In Where You Fit In.”
Jun 16, 2022
Attacks on Trans Youth Are a Fascist "Moral Battering Ram"
Jun 09, 2022
Attacks on Trans Rights and Abortion Rights Are “Bound Together”
Jun 03, 2022
Hope Is Not a Given. We Must Cultivate It Together.
May 26, 2022
Are You Preparing for a Post-Roe World?
May 19, 2022
The End of “Roe” Will Lead to More Family Separation and Child Disappearance
May 12, 2022
Indigenous Abolitionists Are Organizing for Healing and Survival
Apr 28, 2022
Politics as Usual Has Never Prevented Mass Shootings. We Must Break the Cycle.
Apr 22, 2022
Ruth Wilson Gilmore on Abolition, the Climate Crisis and What Must Be Done
Apr 14, 2022
O'ahu Organizers Are Defending the Earth Against U.S. Militarism
Mar 24, 2022
Dean Spade Is Asking Activists, “How Much Bolder Could You Be?”
Mar 17, 2022
Harsha Walia: “To Become Ungovernable Is Central”
Mar 10, 2022
Incarcerated Organizers Are Resisting Amid Deteriorating Conditions
Mar 03, 2022
Young Activists Are Challenging the U.S. War Machine as Tensions Escalate With Russia
Feb 25, 2022
Trans Youth Are Facing Right-Wing Attacks and a Solidarity Shortage
Feb 17, 2022
Activists Are Building a Counterculture of Care in Apocalyptic Times
Feb 10, 2022
Abolition Means Reclaiming the Commons and Rejecting Securitization
Feb 03, 2022
Corporations Are Funding Police Repression
Jan 27, 2022
Bree Newsome Bass: "Capitalism Has To Collapse"
Jan 20, 2022
What Will We Do With Our Rage in 2022?
Dec 16, 2021
People in Prison Organize Collectively for Survival. We All Need to Learn How.
Dec 09, 2021
Abolitionists Are Fighting Against the Surveillance State in Their Neighborhoods
Dec 02, 2021
Enough Colonial Pageantry. Let’s Rally Behind Criminalized Water Protectors.
Nov 25, 2021
Apocalypse Normal
Nov 18, 2021
Right-Wing Attacks on Native Child Welfare Law Should Frighten Us All
Nov 11, 2021
A COVID Memorial Mixtape Revisited
Nov 04, 2021
Healthcare Workers Sound Off About Trauma, Solidarity and Why They're Ready to Strike
Oct 28, 2021
Rikers Island and the Shapeshifting Monster of Reform
Oct 21, 2021
From Burnout to Breakthroughs, Weary Organizers Can Come Back Stronger
Oct 14, 2021
Trump is Gone, But the U.S. is Still Putting Migrants Through Hell
Oct 06, 2021
Laughing at Mass Death Brings Us Closer to Fascism
Sep 29, 2021
To Fight the GOP’s Radicalized Base, We Have to Push Left
Sep 22, 2021
Ten Years After Occupy Wall Street, Another World Is Still Possible
Sep 15, 2021
The Fight Against Fascism Isn’t Over
Jun 02, 2021
Getting Real About Prisons and Why They Don’t Make Us Safer
May 26, 2021
What the Mainstream Media Never Told You About Palestine
May 19, 2021
A New Wave of Jim Crow Laws is Here. Here’s What You Need to Know.
May 05, 2021
Police Convictions Are Not the Goal. Minneapolis Abolitionists Have Bigger Dreams.
Apr 28, 2021
You Cannot Divorce Policing From Murder
Apr 21, 2021
Resuscitating Normalcy Will Kill Us. What We Need is a Just Recovery.
Apr 14, 2021
Work Isn’t Fulfilling Because Capitalism is a Death March
Apr 07, 2021
From Survival to Solidarity: Emerging From the Wreckage of the Trump Era
Jan 27, 2021
Bent on Revenge, The Far-Right Will Rage Against Reality in the Biden Era
Jan 20, 2021
What to Expect in the Final Days of Trump's Fascist Reign
Jan 14, 2021
2020 Turned Our Worlds Inside Out. Here’s What We Learned.
Dec 31, 2020
Chicago Teachers Pledge Collective Action as January Reopening Approaches
Dec 23, 2020
Don’t Fawn Over Biden. Fight Neoliberalism.
Dec 16, 2020
Georgia Organizers and the GOP Square Off in a Fight for the Future
Nov 25, 2020
Hunger Strikers Caged in the Second Wave are "Just Trying to Survive the Winter"
Nov 18, 2020
Welcome to Trump's Last Act, The Most Dangerous Show on Earth
Nov 13, 2020
Having a Meltdown? Let's Process this Electoral Nightmare Together
Nov 03, 2020
Mass Protest is Coming and the Cops Are on Trump’s Side
Oct 30, 2020
Reclaiming Possibility: A Rant Against Despair
Oct 28, 2020
Arm Wrestling Authoritarianism: The Homestretch
Oct 26, 2020
Planning for Disaster: A Writing Exercise
Oct 21, 2020
Searching for Safety in a Right-Wing Nightmare
Oct 14, 2020
“Don’t Fear the Virus” is Genocidal Rhetoric. We Mourn in Rebellion.
Oct 07, 2020
Reclaiming Life and Housing in an Era of Collapse
Sep 30, 2020
Why The Fascists Don't Want Us to Grieve
Sep 23, 2020
How to Do More Than Panic About Voter Suppression
Sep 16, 2020
The Election is Being Sabotaged Before Our Eyes
Aug 12, 2020
"Unrest" Is Not the Enemy. Fascism Is.
Jul 29, 2020
Trump's "Shockingly Dangerous" Fed Squads Expand Their Reach
Jul 22, 2020
“The Cops Are With the Fascists”: How Police Terror and Trumpism Converge
Jun 24, 2020
"We Surrender Nothing and No One”: Our Playbook for Solidarity Amid Fascist Terror
Jun 05, 2020
In the Era of COVID-19, Collective Grief is Rebellion
May 27, 2020
Hit Hard by Toxic Smoke and COVID-19, This Chicago Neighborhood Fought Back
May 20, 2020
Adventures in Digital Organizing with Mariame Kaba
May 13, 2020
Surviving Pandemics is Indigenous Resistance
May 04, 2020
Incarceration is Killing Us
Apr 27, 2020
Imagining Protest in a Quarantined World
Apr 20, 2020
We Need a Riot of Empathy
Apr 13, 2020
How to Fight Fascism While Surviving a Plague
Mar 30, 2020
Shelter in Place and Plan an Uprising
Mar 23, 2020
Our Government Has Failed Us. How Do We Protect Our Communities?
Mar 16, 2020
What to Do When the World's on Fire ft. Vanamali Hermans
Mar 09, 2020
Fighting Anti-Semitism: From Terror to Solidarity and Action ft. Brant Rosen
Mar 02, 2020
Getting Real About Fascism: What You Need to Know ft. Shane Burley
Feb 24, 2020
Should We All Be In the Streets? Let's Talk About Protest. ft. L.A. Kauffman
Feb 17, 2020
Clinging to Normalcy Is Killing Us. How Do We Break Free? ft. Aly Wane
Feb 10, 2020