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Must Read Roundup
From Gaza to Elon Musk and underground economies, these stories are worth your time.
Kelly Hayes
Kelly Hayes is a Menominee author, educator, organizer, and photographer. Kelly is the host of Truthout’s podcast “Movement Memos” and co-author of Let This Radicalize You, with Mariame Kaba.
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Poetry as Violence | An Excerpt From Let This Radicalize You
"If these systems function without interruption, you will be told you are experiencing 'peace,'" write Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba.
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Harsha Walia Talks About GardaWorld, Migrant Camps and Chicago
"GardaWorld literally operates sites of carcerality, of social control," says Harsha Walia.
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What to Read This Weekend
From resistance to care work, grief, and the merging of Big Tech and policing, here are some stories you may have missed this week.
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To Fight Big Tech, We Must Seize the Means of Computation
"Musk is kind of an unsubtle example of the problem with Tech Bros," says Cory Doctorow.
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A Major Victory In The Fight to Erase Chicago's Gang Database
"We saw a window of opportunity," says organizer Xanat Sobrevilla.
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What to Read This Weekend
Reading fuels resistance.
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Fascism in Florida, The State of Antifascism and Thinking About Electoral Defense
"People should always be planning community safety initiatives at all times no matter what the climate feels like," says Shane Burley.
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Update: All Charges Dropped Against Migrant Mother Arrested After Asking to Use Bathroom at Police Station
Public outcry made this outcome possible.
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Migrant Woman Arrested After Asking to Use Bathroom at Chicago Police Station
Asylum seekers were pleading, “we are human, we are human."
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RICO Charges Against Stop Cop City Protesters Are an Assault on Solidarity
"Everything that the state has accused the movement of doing is ultimately a projection," says Micah Herskind
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Our Movements Need Infrastructure for Care, Recovery and Belonging
I hope you'll check out this week's episode of Movement Memos, in which I talk with my friend Aaron Goggans about how activists can resist the trends of late capitalism, including the alienation imposed by the tech world, by cultivating modes of communication and communal care