Movement Memos Podcast
1) Burnout is Not Inevitable: Building Movements That Can Hold Us
What happens when our movements start to run on empty? In this episode, Kelly talks with organizer and WildSeed Society strategist Aaron Goggans about trauma, dysregulation, burnout, and the myth that...Show More
2) How We've Resisted ICE: Street Lessons From Chicago
“The best way to respond to fear and intimidation tactics is to just show we're not afraid. We're going to keep showing up. We're going to keep speaking out,” says musician Jocelyn Walsh, who is facin...Show More
3) Fascism at the Door, Neighbors in the Street: Abolition in Practice
“We’re very aware that things are awful … That means that we’re alive, and that we want something different. That’s a really important starting point, is just to even have that kind of repulsion and t...Show More
4) Resisting ICE, Building Worlds: Care and Survival in Fascistic Times
“It's all hands on deck and we have to fight. This is the only way,” says Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. In this episode, Leanne and Kelly discuss lessons from Leanne’s book Theory of Water: Nishnaabe M...Show More
5) Making Things Together: Zines, Strategy, and Survival
“We can only be brave together,” says Mariame Kaba. In this episode, Kelly talks with Maraime and writer and organizer Red Schulte about political education, collective courage, and the mistakes we’ll...Show More
6) Holding the Line Through Tear Gas and Censorship
"You're either on the side that is singing and showing up and holding other people, or you're on the side of the helicopters and the gas canisters and the guns,” says Eman Abdelhadi. In this episode, ...Show More
7) Raids, Retaliation, and Radical Solidarity in Chicago
“History shows us that repression always breeds resistance. Fear can never kill solidarity," says Chicago organizer Miguel Alvelo Rivera. In this episode, Kelly uplifts the voices of activists and org...Show More
8) The Trap of Law and Order Under Fascism
“There's no rule of law that's going to get us out of where we are,” says author and organizer Andrea Ritchie. In this episode, Andrea and Kelly discuss the role of criminalization in authoritarian an...Show More
9) Resisting the Authoritarian City, Block by Block
What does gentrification have to do with authoritarianism? In this episode, Kelly talks with organizer and author Andrew Lee about how displacement, surveillance, and “quality of life” policing functi...Show More
10) Public Assemblies Strengthen Community Resistance to Rising Authoritarianism
“The People's Movement Assembly process provides a unique opportunity for people to build a democracy that has yet to be born,” says Denzel Caldwell. In this episode, Kelly and Denzel discuss the powe...Show More