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Best of 2023: Building Movements is Uncomfortable. That's a Good Thing / Kelly Hayes

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🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 91 minutes

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The penultimate Best of 2023 episode features a September interview with Truthout's Kelly Hayes on the article she co-wrote the Boston Review essay with past guest Mariame Kaba, “How Much Discomfort Is the Whole World Worth?: Movement building requires a culture of listening—not mastery of the right language.” Following the interview, Jeff Dorchen delivers a Moment of Truth and we read more of your answers to the Question from Hell! Check out Kelly and Mariame's essay here: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-much-discomfort-is-the-whole-world-worth/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

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0:00.0

The water is with the Lord is with the

0:15.0

I'll get our power in the order.

0:18.0

Vincher! Oh, This is hell. Live from the United States where our obsession with individualism is a sucker play made by the rich to fake the public into thinking they have rights when those same rights are actually being stolen from us.

0:59.0

Yes, individualism is a con put on by the wealthy and powerful who benefit from it most while disempowering

1:05.8

poor saps like us because this is hell and that was one of the many things discussed during the best of 2023

1:14.3

interview we are sharing on today's show a conversation that actually gave us

1:20.1

Hope I know go figure we've been doing a show called This is hell for nearly 30 years and somehow

1:26.1

We finally found actual hope

1:29.5

Not that it's the first time we have had conversations filled with hope, hopes of

1:35.1

protesters and activists and organizers that appear to have been dashed by the

1:39.6

violent forces of the status quo. A status quo that would rather cause suffering, violence, and

1:45.0

death than give up their legal right to private islands, charter jets, mammoth yachts, or tumble

1:51.7

the walls that protect them from the masses they abuse for profit, all

1:56.3

which creates huge contributions to humanity threatening climate change.

2:01.8

Nonetheless, these same activists who have given us hope have all left behind a lingering legacy that has been growing for longer than we've been on air.

2:12.0

From the globally influential Zapatista movement

2:16.0

that Western media does everything to ignore,

2:18.0

dismiss, and even censor,

2:20.0

to the anti-globalization movement,

2:22.0

to the anti-globilization movement, to the anti-war movements to occupy, to the growth

2:26.6

and climate change activism, to the movement for black lives and the expanding fight for

2:31.1

LGBTQIA plus rights.

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