Movement Memos
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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.
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Rupture and Repair Under Fascist Conditions
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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Why Libraries Matter in a Fascist Moment
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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The Science of Unlearning And Why Organizers Need It
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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Living Under a Concentration Camp Regime — and Fighting Back
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Minneapolis Community Defense Is “Riding on the Learning Edge of a Whirlwind”
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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How We've Resisted ICE: Street Lessons From Chicago
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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Fascism at the Door, Neighbors in the Street: Abolition in Practice
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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Burnout is Not Inevitable: Building Movements That Can Hold Us
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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Resisting ICE, Building Worlds: Care and Survival in Fascistic Times
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Making Things Together: Zines, Strategy, and Survival
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Holding the Line Through Tear Gas and Censorship
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Raids, Retaliation, and Radical Solidarity in Chicago
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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The Trap of Law and Order Under Fascism
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Resisting the Authoritarian City, Block by Block
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Public Assemblies Strengthen Community Resistance to Rising Authoritarianism
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Traitors to the Earth: Fascism, Christian Nationalism, and the Tech Elite
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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The Authoritarian Machine Is Growing — And It Won’t Stop at Immigrants
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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Awareness-Raising Protests Won’t Threaten the Richest, Most Well-Armed People on Earth
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May 29, 2025 |
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We Live in Fearful Times. Our Safety Comes Through Preparing Together.
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May 15, 2025 |
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How to Fight Fascism in a Captured State
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May 01, 2025 |
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Fascism Isn’t Coming — It’s Here. Now What?
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Let's Be Politically Promiscuous
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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We Must Burst Our Algorithmic Bubbles and Build Together Across Difference
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Fight Fear, Build Power: Community Defense Works
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Let’s Learn and Live Lessons in Collective Survival Together
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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We Won't Take Risks Alone. Our Relationships Make a Better World Possible.
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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How Immigration Organizers Are Gearing Up for Another Trump Era
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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We Must Contest the Christian Right’s Agenda in Every Venue of Our Lives
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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To Transform Our Trauma, We Must Nurture Movements for Change
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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From the Ashes: How Grief Shapes Our Struggles
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Keeping Each Other Alive: Mental Health and Collective Survival
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Breaking Down Sudan’s Struggle: What the World Is Missing
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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"Our Power Is Where We Choose One Another”: Abolitionists Discuss Our Moment
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Remembering How to Care: Lessons from Deep Space Nine
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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It's “Open Season” on the Unhoused. We Must Oppose It.
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Radical Acts of Care: From Underground Abortions to Militant Clinic Defense
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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How Solidarity Falters Amid Repression and How We Can Do Better
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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To Stay in the Fight, We Must Navigate Trauma and Find the Healing We Need
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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What Today’s Workers Can Learn From Machine Breaking Luddites
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Objectivity in Journalism Is a Deadly Myth That Serves Israeli Military and Cops
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Palestine Solidarity Encampments Are a Rehearsal for Self-Governance and Liberation
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May 23, 2024 |
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Outside Agitators Are Good, Actually
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May 09, 2024 |
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“Hope For Me is in The Doing of Things,” Says Mariame Kaba
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Family Policing is Part of a "Carceral Web"
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Capitalism is Killing Us and Our Work Won't Love Us Back
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Care Must Be a Collective Practice of Survival, Not a Site of Profit Extraction
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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State of US Journalism Is “Worst I’ve Ever Seen It,” Says Sarah Kendzior
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Chicago Organizers Defeat Police Tech in Ongoing Fight for Community Safety
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Predictive Police Tech Isn’t Making Communities Safer – It’s Disempowering Them
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Attacks on the Concept of Settler Colonialism Are About Undermining Solidarity
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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“Palestine Is About Living in Spite of Everything”
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Native Organizers Celebrate Solidarity, Grieve Losses and Work to Reduce Harm
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Vigil for Palestine: We Mourn and Consider What Solidarity Demands of Us
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Practicing New Worlds in a Time of Collapse
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Israel's Tools of Occupation Are Tested on Palestine and Exported Globally
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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To Fight Big Tech, We Must Seize the Means of Computation
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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We Can Survive Together By Becoming Kin
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Our Movements Need Infrastructure for Care, Recovery and Belonging
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Rocket-Launching Billionaires Promise a New Pie in the Sky
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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AI Won’t Overthrow Us, But It Will Optimize the Capitalist Death Machine
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Bizarre and Dangerous Utopian Ideology Has Quietly Taken Hold of Tech World
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Cop City is Only the Beginning, Unless We Fight
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Palestinian Organizers: We Honor Our Grief by Practicing Hope
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May 18, 2023 |
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To Transform Conflict in Movements, We Must Learn How to Stay in It Together
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May 05, 2023 |
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Let This Conversation With Mariame Kaba Radicalize You
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Latin American Feminism Has Much to Teach US Left on How to Fight for Abortion
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Labor History Can Help Us Learn to Fight Like Hell
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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We Need Collective Healing, Not Commodified “Self-Care”
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Disability Justice Organizers Dream Big and Resist a Culture of Disposability
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Antifascists Are Adapting to a Strange New World
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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The Death of a Forest Defender at Stop Cop City
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Building New Worlds in an Era of Collapse
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Navigating Grief and Cultivating Hope at the End of 2022
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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We Need Harm Reduction With a Liberatory Vision
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Abolition Is About Escaping the Death Trap of “Normalcy”
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Copaganda Arrests Our Imaginations
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Prepping for the Apocalypse Means Building Community
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Confronting the “Elite Capture” of Identity Politics in Our Movement Spaces
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Philly Families Faced With Eviction Are Rising Up, Refusing to Leave Their Homes
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Fascism Has Gone Mainstream
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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As Attacks on Queer and Trans People Accelerate, We Need Solidarity Now
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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Capitalism Is Making Us Sick and Sucking Us Dry
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Nothing Ends With the Law. Let’s Talk About Life After Roe.
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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To Build the World We Desire, We Must Dream Deeply Together
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Abortion Funds Are Preparing For a Storm. To Help, “Get In Where You Fit In.”
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Attacks on Trans Youth Are a Fascist "Moral Battering Ram"
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Attacks on Trans Rights and Abortion Rights Are “Bound Together”
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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Hope Is Not a Given. We Must Cultivate It Together.
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May 26, 2022 |
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Are You Preparing for a Post-Roe World?
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May 19, 2022 |
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The End of “Roe” Will Lead to More Family Separation and Child Disappearance
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May 12, 2022 |
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Indigenous Abolitionists Are Organizing for Healing and Survival
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Politics as Usual Has Never Prevented Mass Shootings. We Must Break the Cycle.
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore on Abolition, the Climate Crisis and What Must Be Done
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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O'ahu Organizers Are Defending the Earth Against U.S. Militarism
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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Dean Spade Is Asking Activists, “How Much Bolder Could You Be?”
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Harsha Walia: “To Become Ungovernable Is Central”
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Incarcerated Organizers Are Resisting Amid Deteriorating Conditions
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Young Activists Are Challenging the U.S. War Machine as Tensions Escalate With Russia
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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Trans Youth Are Facing Right-Wing Attacks and a Solidarity Shortage
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Activists Are Building a Counterculture of Care in Apocalyptic Times
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Abolition Means Reclaiming the Commons and Rejecting Securitization
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Corporations Are Funding Police Repression
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Bree Newsome Bass: "Capitalism Has To Collapse"
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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What Will We Do With Our Rage in 2022?
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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People in Prison Organize Collectively for Survival. We All Need to Learn How.
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Abolitionists Are Fighting Against the Surveillance State in Their Neighborhoods
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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Enough Colonial Pageantry. Let’s Rally Behind Criminalized Water Protectors.
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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Apocalypse Normal
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Right-Wing Attacks on Native Child Welfare Law Should Frighten Us All
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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A COVID Memorial Mixtape Revisited
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Healthcare Workers Sound Off About Trauma, Solidarity and Why They're Ready to Strike
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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Rikers Island and the Shapeshifting Monster of Reform
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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From Burnout to Breakthroughs, Weary Organizers Can Come Back Stronger
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Trump is Gone, But the U.S. is Still Putting Migrants Through Hell
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Laughing at Mass Death Brings Us Closer to Fascism
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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To Fight the GOP’s Radicalized Base, We Have to Push Left
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Ten Years After Occupy Wall Street, Another World Is Still Possible
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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The Fight Against Fascism Isn’t Over
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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Getting Real About Prisons and Why They Don’t Make Us Safer
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May 26, 2021 |
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What the Mainstream Media Never Told You About Palestine
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May 19, 2021 |
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A New Wave of Jim Crow Laws is Here. Here’s What You Need to Know.
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May 05, 2021 |
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Police Convictions Are Not the Goal. Minneapolis Abolitionists Have Bigger Dreams.
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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You Cannot Divorce Policing From Murder
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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Resuscitating Normalcy Will Kill Us. What We Need is a Just Recovery.
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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Work Isn’t Fulfilling Because Capitalism is a Death March
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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From Survival to Solidarity: Emerging From the Wreckage of the Trump Era
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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Bent on Revenge, The Far-Right Will Rage Against Reality in the Biden Era
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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What to Expect in the Final Days of Trump's Fascist Reign
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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2020 Turned Our Worlds Inside Out. Here’s What We Learned.
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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Chicago Teachers Pledge Collective Action as January Reopening Approaches
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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Don’t Fawn Over Biden. Fight Neoliberalism.
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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Georgia Organizers and the GOP Square Off in a Fight for the Future
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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Hunger Strikers Caged in the Second Wave are "Just Trying to Survive the Winter"
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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Welcome to Trump's Last Act, The Most Dangerous Show on Earth
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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Having a Meltdown? Let's Process this Electoral Nightmare Together
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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Mass Protest is Coming and the Cops Are on Trump’s Side
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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Reclaiming Possibility: A Rant Against Despair
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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Arm Wrestling Authoritarianism: The Homestretch
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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Planning for Disaster: A Writing Exercise
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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Searching for Safety in a Right-Wing Nightmare
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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“Don’t Fear the Virus” is Genocidal Rhetoric. We Mourn in Rebellion.
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Reclaiming Life and Housing in an Era of Collapse
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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Why The Fascists Don't Want Us to Grieve
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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How to Do More Than Panic About Voter Suppression
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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The Election is Being Sabotaged Before Our Eyes
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Aug 12, 2020 |
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"Unrest" Is Not the Enemy. Fascism Is.
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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Trump's "Shockingly Dangerous" Fed Squads Expand Their Reach
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Jul 22, 2020 |
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“The Cops Are With the Fascists”: How Police Terror and Trumpism Converge
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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"We Surrender Nothing and No One”: Our Playbook for Solidarity Amid Fascist Terror
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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In the Era of COVID-19, Collective Grief is Rebellion
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May 27, 2020 |
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Hit Hard by Toxic Smoke and COVID-19, This Chicago Neighborhood Fought Back
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May 20, 2020 |
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Adventures in Digital Organizing with Mariame Kaba
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May 13, 2020 |
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Surviving Pandemics is Indigenous Resistance
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May 04, 2020 |
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Incarceration is Killing Us
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Apr 27, 2020 |
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Imagining Protest in a Quarantined World
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Apr 20, 2020 |
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We Need a Riot of Empathy
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Apr 13, 2020 |
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How to Fight Fascism While Surviving a Plague
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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Shelter in Place and Plan an Uprising
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Mar 23, 2020 |
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Our Government Has Failed Us. How Do We Protect Our Communities?
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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What to Do When the World's on Fire ft. Vanamali Hermans
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Mar 09, 2020 |
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Fighting Anti-Semitism: From Terror to Solidarity and Action ft. Brant Rosen
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Mar 02, 2020 |
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Getting Real About Fascism: What You Need to Know ft. Shane Burley
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Feb 24, 2020 |
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Should We All Be In the Streets? Let's Talk About Protest. ft. L.A. Kauffman
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Feb 17, 2020 |
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Clinging to Normalcy Is Killing Us. How Do We Break Free? ft. Aly Wane
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Feb 10, 2020 |