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Movement Memos — 173 episodes

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Organizing for Survival in an Era of Climate Chaos

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Silicon Valley’s Billionaire Cults Are Coming for Democracy

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You Can’t Drink Data: Native Communities Are Resisting the AI Death Cycle

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The AI Boom Is a Corporate Project. It Can Be Disrupted.

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No Abandonment, No Bunkers: Preparing for Disaster Together

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ICE Camps Are Not Untouchable. Here’s How Communities Can Push Back.
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What Trump’s “Whenever Wars” Reveal About U.S. Empire

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Hope Is Not Naive: Rebecca Solnit on Backlash, Power, and Political Memory

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Repair Is a Survival Skill Under Fascism

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Rupture and Repair Under Fascist Conditions

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Why Libraries Matter in a Fascist Moment

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The Science of Unlearning And Why Organizers Need It

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Living Under a Concentration Camp Regime — and Fighting Back
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Minneapolis Community Defense Is “Riding on the Learning Edge of a Whirlwind”

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How We've Resisted ICE: Street Lessons From Chicago

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Fascism at the Door, Neighbors in the Street: Abolition in Practice

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Burnout is Not Inevitable: Building Movements That Can Hold Us

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Resisting ICE, Building Worlds: Care and Survival in Fascistic Times

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Making Things Together: Zines, Strategy, and Survival

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Holding the Line Through Tear Gas and Censorship

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Raids, Retaliation, and Radical Solidarity in Chicago
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The Trap of Law and Order Under Fascism

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Resisting the Authoritarian City, Block by Block

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Public Assemblies Strengthen Community Resistance to Rising Authoritarianism

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Traitors to the Earth: Fascism, Christian Nationalism, and the Tech Elite

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The Authoritarian Machine Is Growing — And It Won’t Stop at Immigrants

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Awareness-Raising Protests Won’t Threaten the Richest, Most Well-Armed People on Earth

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We Live in Fearful Times. Our Safety Comes Through Preparing Together.

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How to Fight Fascism in a Captured State

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Fascism Isn’t Coming — It’s Here. Now What?

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Let's Be Politically Promiscuous

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We Must Burst Our Algorithmic Bubbles and Build Together Across Difference

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Fight Fear, Build Power: Community Defense Works
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Let’s Learn and Live Lessons in Collective Survival Together

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We Won't Take Risks Alone. Our Relationships Make a Better World Possible.
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How Immigration Organizers Are Gearing Up for Another Trump Era

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We Must Contest the Christian Right’s Agenda in Every Venue of Our Lives

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To Transform Our Trauma, We Must Nurture Movements for Change

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From the Ashes: How Grief Shapes Our Struggles

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Keeping Each Other Alive: Mental Health and Collective Survival

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Breaking Down Sudan’s Struggle: What the World Is Missing
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"Our Power Is Where We Choose One Another”: Abolitionists Discuss Our Moment

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Remembering How to Care: Lessons from Deep Space Nine

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It's “Open Season” on the Unhoused. We Must Oppose It.

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Radical Acts of Care: From Underground Abortions to Militant Clinic Defense

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How Solidarity Falters Amid Repression and How We Can Do Better

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To Stay in the Fight, We Must Navigate Trauma and Find the Healing We Need
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What Today’s Workers Can Learn From Machine Breaking Luddites
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Objectivity in Journalism Is a Deadly Myth That Serves Israeli Military and Cops

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Palestine Solidarity Encampments Are a Rehearsal for Self-Governance and Liberation

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Outside Agitators Are Good, Actually
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“Hope For Me is in The Doing of Things,” Says Mariame Kaba

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Family Policing is Part of a "Carceral Web"

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Capitalism is Killing Us and Our Work Won't Love Us Back

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Care Must Be a Collective Practice of Survival, Not a Site of Profit Extraction
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State of US Journalism Is “Worst I’ve Ever Seen It,” Says Sarah Kendzior

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Chicago Organizers Defeat Police Tech in Ongoing Fight for Community Safety
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Predictive Police Tech Isn’t Making Communities Safer – It’s Disempowering Them
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Attacks on the Concept of Settler Colonialism Are About Undermining Solidarity
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“Palestine Is About Living in Spite of Everything”
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Native Organizers Celebrate Solidarity, Grieve Losses and Work to Reduce Harm
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Vigil for Palestine: We Mourn and Consider What Solidarity Demands of Us
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Practicing New Worlds in a Time of Collapse

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Israel's Tools of Occupation Are Tested on Palestine and Exported Globally

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To Fight Big Tech, We Must Seize the Means of Computation

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We Can Survive Together By Becoming Kin
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Our Movements Need Infrastructure for Care, Recovery and Belonging

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Rocket-Launching Billionaires Promise a New Pie in the Sky

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AI Won’t Overthrow Us, But It Will Optimize the Capitalist Death Machine
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Bizarre and Dangerous Utopian Ideology Has Quietly Taken Hold of Tech World

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Cop City is Only the Beginning, Unless We Fight

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Palestinian Organizers: We Honor Our Grief by Practicing Hope

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To Transform Conflict in Movements, We Must Learn How to Stay in It Together

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Let This Conversation With Mariame Kaba Radicalize You

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Latin American Feminism Has Much to Teach US Left on How to Fight for Abortion

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Labor History Can Help Us Learn to Fight Like Hell

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We Need Collective Healing, Not Commodified “Self-Care”
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Disability Justice Organizers Dream Big and Resist a Culture of Disposability

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Antifascists Are Adapting to a Strange New World

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The Death of a Forest Defender at Stop Cop City

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Building New Worlds in an Era of Collapse

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Navigating Grief and Cultivating Hope at the End of 2022

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We Need Harm Reduction With a Liberatory Vision

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Abolition Is About Escaping the Death Trap of “Normalcy”

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Copaganda Arrests Our Imaginations

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Prepping for the Apocalypse Means Building Community

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Confronting the “Elite Capture” of Identity Politics in Our Movement Spaces

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Philly Families Faced With Eviction Are Rising Up, Refusing to Leave Their Homes

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Fascism Has Gone Mainstream

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As Attacks on Queer and Trans People Accelerate, We Need Solidarity Now

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Capitalism Is Making Us Sick and Sucking Us Dry

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Nothing Ends With the Law. Let’s Talk About Life After Roe.

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To Build the World We Desire, We Must Dream Deeply Together

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Abortion Funds Are Preparing For a Storm. To Help, “Get In Where You Fit In.”

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Attacks on Trans Youth Are a Fascist "Moral Battering Ram"

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Attacks on Trans Rights and Abortion Rights Are “Bound Together”

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Hope Is Not a Given. We Must Cultivate It Together.

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Are You Preparing for a Post-Roe World?

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The End of “Roe” Will Lead to More Family Separation and Child Disappearance

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Indigenous Abolitionists Are Organizing for Healing and Survival

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Politics as Usual Has Never Prevented Mass Shootings. We Must Break the Cycle.

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Ruth Wilson Gilmore on Abolition, the Climate Crisis and What Must Be Done

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O'ahu Organizers Are Defending the Earth Against U.S. Militarism

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Dean Spade Is Asking Activists, “How Much Bolder Could You Be?”

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Harsha Walia: “To Become Ungovernable Is Central”

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Incarcerated Organizers Are Resisting Amid Deteriorating Conditions

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Young Activists Are Challenging the U.S. War Machine as Tensions Escalate With Russia

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Trans Youth Are Facing Right-Wing Attacks and a Solidarity Shortage

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Activists Are Building a Counterculture of Care in Apocalyptic Times

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Abolition Means Reclaiming the Commons and Rejecting Securitization

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Corporations Are Funding Police Repression

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Bree Newsome Bass: "Capitalism Has To Collapse"

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What Will We Do With Our Rage in 2022?

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People in Prison Organize Collectively for Survival. We All Need to Learn How.

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Abolitionists Are Fighting Against the Surveillance State in Their Neighborhoods
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Enough Colonial Pageantry. Let’s Rally Behind Criminalized Water Protectors.

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Apocalypse Normal

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Right-Wing Attacks on Native Child Welfare Law Should Frighten Us All

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A COVID Memorial Mixtape Revisited

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Healthcare Workers Sound Off About Trauma, Solidarity and Why They're Ready to Strike

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Rikers Island and the Shapeshifting Monster of Reform

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From Burnout to Breakthroughs, Weary Organizers Can Come Back Stronger

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Trump is Gone, But the U.S. is Still Putting Migrants Through Hell

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Laughing at Mass Death Brings Us Closer to Fascism

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To Fight the GOP’s Radicalized Base, We Have to Push Left

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Ten Years After Occupy Wall Street, Another World Is Still Possible

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The Fight Against Fascism Isn’t Over

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Getting Real About Prisons and Why They Don’t Make Us Safer

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What the Mainstream Media Never Told You About Palestine

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A New Wave of Jim Crow Laws is Here. Here’s What You Need to Know.
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Police Convictions Are Not the Goal. Minneapolis Abolitionists Have Bigger Dreams.

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You Cannot Divorce Policing From Murder
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Resuscitating Normalcy Will Kill Us. What We Need is a Just Recovery.

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Work Isn’t Fulfilling Because Capitalism is a Death March
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From Survival to Solidarity: Emerging From the Wreckage of the Trump Era

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Bent on Revenge, The Far-Right Will Rage Against Reality in the Biden Era

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What to Expect in the Final Days of Trump's Fascist Reign

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2020 Turned Our Worlds Inside Out. Here’s What We Learned.
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Chicago Teachers Pledge Collective Action as January Reopening Approaches
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Don’t Fawn Over Biden. Fight Neoliberalism.
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Georgia Organizers and the GOP Square Off in a Fight for the Future

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Hunger Strikers Caged in the Second Wave are "Just Trying to Survive the Winter"
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Welcome to Trump's Last Act, The Most Dangerous Show on Earth
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Having a Meltdown? Let's Process this Electoral Nightmare Together

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Mass Protest is Coming and the Cops Are on Trump’s Side
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Reclaiming Possibility: A Rant Against Despair
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Arm Wrestling Authoritarianism: The Homestretch

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Planning for Disaster: A Writing Exercise
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Searching for Safety in a Right-Wing Nightmare
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“Don’t Fear the Virus” is Genocidal Rhetoric. We Mourn in Rebellion.
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Reclaiming Life and Housing in an Era of Collapse
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Why The Fascists Don't Want Us to Grieve
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How to Do More Than Panic About Voter Suppression
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The Election is Being Sabotaged Before Our Eyes

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"Unrest" Is Not the Enemy. Fascism Is.
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Trump's "Shockingly Dangerous" Fed Squads Expand Their Reach
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“The Cops Are With the Fascists”: How Police Terror and Trumpism Converge
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"We Surrender Nothing and No One”: Our Playbook for Solidarity Amid Fascist Terror

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In the Era of COVID-19, Collective Grief is Rebellion
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Hit Hard by Toxic Smoke and COVID-19, This Chicago Neighborhood Fought Back
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Adventures in Digital Organizing with Mariame Kaba
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Surviving Pandemics is Indigenous Resistance
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Incarceration is Killing Us
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Imagining Protest in a Quarantined World
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We Need a Riot of Empathy

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How to Fight Fascism While Surviving a Plague

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Shelter in Place and Plan an Uprising
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Our Government Has Failed Us. How Do We Protect Our Communities?

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What to Do When the World's on Fire ft. Vanamali Hermans

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Fighting Anti-Semitism: From Terror to Solidarity and Action ft. Brant Rosen

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Getting Real About Fascism: What You Need to Know ft. Shane Burley

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Should We All Be In the Streets? Let's Talk About Protest. ft. L.A. Kauffman

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Clinging to Normalcy Is Killing Us. How Do We Break Free? ft. Aly Wane