4 Community Activism
When Black women walk things have always changed. From the boycotts in Birmingham to Harriet Tubman. When Black women walk, we get to shake something up, and so, watch out in Chicago watch out in New York. It’s about to go down.
Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison,GirlTrek’s Black History Bootcamp
In an interview on Alicia Garza’s podcast Lady Don’t Take No!, anti-fascist activist, organizer, and movement educator Kelly Hayes speaks to the possibilities of using podcasting as a means of calling people to action: “I don’t just want the podcast to get people information that helps them do better activism I want to help people make the jump from ‘okay, I’m passionate about this information in this story’ and ‘now this person is giving me an idea of what it would mean to cross into this work.’”1 In addition to her Movement Memos podcast, Hayes
has co-organized major protests and campaigns during some of the most heated political moments of our times, including struggles for Native sovereignty, the fight to save the Affordable Care Act, the Mental Health Movement, the campaign to stop school closures under former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, and the successful effort to win reparations for survivors of police torture in the city of Chicago. Kelly has also co-organized and led trainings prior to some of the most significant protests in Chicago in recent history and has helped resistors around the country, from Boston College to the Pacific Northwest, hone their ...
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