Movement Memos

What will the next week be like? Kelly talks with journalist Sarah Kendzior about what to expect in the final days of the 2020 presidential race. You can find a transcript, audio and show notes on our website.

What does it take to survive a crisis? Kelly explains how you can begin to create your own personal safety plan. For a transcript and show notes, you can check out our website.

With the threat of right-wing violence and other chaos hanging over the election, what does personal and community safety look like? In this episode of Movement Memos, Kelly talks about nonviolence, self defense and the relationships we will need to survive. For a transcript, audio and show notes, including organizing resources, you can listen on our website.

Trump holds up his recovery as evidence that the time for fear has passed. But migrant children and others caged in the path of COVID-19 will not be flown to Walter Reed Hospital. In this episode, Kelly Hayes explains why “don't fear the virus” is genocidal rhetoric. Like to read while you listen? You can find audio, a transcript and show notes on our website. In recognition of the National Week o...

Under fascism, mass displacement often means mass death. With a catastrophic eviction crisis looming, Kelly talks with longtime activist Cheri Honkala about housing reclamation and the solidarity we will need to navigate an era of collapse. For a transcript and show notes, you can check out our website.

Trump knows the full expression of our collective grief would be the end of his presidency. Can we generate enough empathy to save each other from fascism? You can find a transcript and show notes on our website.

Trump’s attacks on Black protesters and Black people are inextricably bound to the arguments he will make to try to invalidate the election. In this episode, Kelly talks with voting rights activist Anoa Changa about how you can defend voting rights in the homestretch of the presidential race. If would like a transcript, you can listen on our website.

As Trump continues his attacks on the post office and issues another round of illegal edicts, Kelly talks with author and researcher Sarah Kendzior about the ascent of authoritarianism in the U.S. and the potential collapse of democracy as we know it. If you need a transcript, you can listen on our website.

Anxieties over the optics of rebellion in an election year have inflamed debates about “peacefulness,” violence and respectability. In this episode, Kelly tackles the question of whether raucous protests will help Trump and replaces it with better questions. If you need a transcript, you can listen on our website.

Trump's anti-protest squads are broadening their reach and expanding their mission. Kelly and author Shane Burley assess the threat and put these events in their fascist context. Need a transcript? You can listen on our website.

Kelly talks with grassroots strategist Ejeris Dixon about fascism, police violence and how we can fight back. If you need a transcript, you can listen on our website.

Kelly talks with grassroots strategist Ejeris Dixon about courage and solidarity in a time of rebellion. If you need a transcript, you can listen on our website.

Kelly talks with author and organizer Cindy Milstein about reclaiming collective grief and resisting fascism.

Kelly talks with organizer Juliana Pino about environmental racism in the time of COVID-19. If you need a transcript, you can listen on our website.

Kelly talks with Mariame Kaba about storytelling and building power. If you need a transcript, you can listen on our website.

Kelly talks with Morning Star Gali about Native life and death in the age of COVID-19. If you need a transcript, you can listen on our website.

Kelly talks with attorney Alan Mills about COVID-19, prisons and making bold demands.

Kelly Hayes talks with Lisa Fithian about direct action in a socially distanced world.

Kelly talks with Tanuja Jagernauth about collective grief and resisting the normalization of mass death. If you need a transcript, you can listen on our website.

How can we fight fascism as public health restrictions tighten? Kelly talks with Shane Burley about organizing for survival and the analysis of state power we need right now. If you need a transcript, you can listen on our website.

Kelly talks about organizing for change while socially distanced and what we ought to be doing with ourselves. If you need a transcript, you can listen on our website.

Kelly talks with Pilar Weiss about how bail funds empty cages and offers some updates on mutual aid options during the COVID-19 crisis.

How do you organize against a pandemic or a wildfire? Kelly talks with organizer Vanamali Hermans about mutual aid, catastrophe and how we survive. 

Kelly Hayes talks with Rabbi Brant Rosen about anti-Semitic violence, Israeli apartheid and what it means to say Never Again in the age of Trump.

Has Trump dragged the U.S. beyond the bounds of democracy? Kelly Hayes talks with Shane Burley, a Truthout contributor and author of the book Fascism Today: What it is and How to End It, about the current political moment and how we can fight back.