#kimkelly — Public Fediverse posts
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This #KimKelly interview from #MovementMemos #podcast (I can't recommend this podcast highly enough):
"Kids have always been treated as expendable little products if they were the wrong color or came from the wrong place, or spoke the wrong language or looked the wrong way. . . . I live in Philadelphia. Every time I go to City Hall I walk by a plaque memorializing her [Mary Harris "Mother" Jones's] 1903 March of the Mill Children wherein she took hundreds of mill workers who were children on a march from Philly up to Long Island, where President Theodore Roosevelt had his summer home. Their goal. . . was to publicize the harsh conditions of child labor and to demand a 55 hours work week for the kids who worked in those factories. . . . 55 hour work week was like their pie in the sky goal."
https://truthout.org/audio/labor-history-can-help-us-learn-to-fight-like-hell/
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Sophie Lewis Interview by #KimKelly https://filmmaker.substack.com/p/how-a-film-review-ended-up-at-the
The Essay on #horrormovies written and directed by #AriAster: Hereditary (2018) and Midsommar (2019)
https://communemag.com/the-satanic-death-cult-is-real/https://theintercept.com/2026/03/13/movie-review-antifa-prairieland-trial/
#HatersCafe (zines)
https://haters.noblogs.org/#Prairieland Defendants
https://prairielanddefendants.com/statements/the-future-of-political-freedom-in-america-is-on-trial-in-north-texas/#Trumpland
https://theconversation.com/the-trump-administrations-global-campaign-against-radical-left-terrorism-is-built-on-a-national-security-memo-without-congressional-approval-287276 -
For a century, teens have proved time and time again that they are the future.
By #KimKelly August 18, 2026https://www.teenvogue.com/story/teens-have-always-been-on-the-front-lines-of-the-labor-movement
#directaction #labourmovement #solidarity #workingclasshistory #youngworkers
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"Why the Sunrise Movement reorganized to fight authoritarianism
Sunrise Executive Director Aru Shiney-Ajay discusses why the youth-led organization shifted tactics, how it played out during the Minneapolis ICE surge, and why she thinks fighting authoritarianism and climate change go hand in hand.
Aru Shiney-Ajay spends a lot of time thinking about climate change. For one thing, it’s her job. The 29-year-old is the executive director of Sunrise Movement, a youth-led climate justice political action organization formed in 2017; she was tapped for the top job in 2023 after spending several years as the organization’s national training director. Before that, she was involved in a fossil fuel divestment campaign at her school, Swarthmore College, and took time off from her studies to throw herself into the fight for climate justice. Ever since President Donald Trump returned to office, though, Shiney-Ajay, who now lives in Minneapolis, has increasingly focused her energies on another pressing issue: combating authoritarianism. As she sees it, the two crises are inextricable from one another.
In early January, people across Minnesota were shocked when the Trump administration flooded their towns and cities with thousands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (commonly known as ICE), border control agents, and other federal personnel. The administration insisted that the heavily militarized deployment was a crackdown on crime and rampant fraud, a claim that state officials dismissed as a 'manufactured crisis.'
The result was to sow terror among immigrant communities and inspired Minnesotans to launch a massive public response to the threat. Among the many grassroots organizations, labor unions, religious institutions, and mutual aid groups that came together to fight off ICE’s occupation, Sunrise Movement emerged as an especially creative participant. Shiney-Ajay organized neighborhood patrols, protests, and direct actions aimed at emphasizing just how unwelcome ICE was in the city."
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Ecologist's harsh Chilean #blackmetal is a tribute to the melting #glaciers of #Patagonia. "Many black metal bands talk about nature but very few about its disappearance..."
Salvo: #antifascist #heavymetal newsletter
https://salvo.ghost.io/chile-ecologist-interview-2026/?Reinos y ecorregiones different ecoregions of Chile, in song detailing the problems faced in terms of #climatechange.
https://fiadh.bandcamp.com/album/reinos-y-ecorregiones?
AntiFascist Black Metal Network
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a talk by Kim Kelly at the University Pittsburgh’s Frick Fine Arts Auditorium on April 9th at 7pm as part of the Alice and Staughton Lynd Working Class History Seminar; it’s free and open to the public.
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Is anyone here a paid subscriber to Kim Kelly's Salvo metal website/newsletter? I dig the couple of interviews that have gone in my inbox since signing up for the free bits, wondering if I should go for the paid tier.
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Lawsuit: #Alabama Is Denying Prisoners Parole in order to Lease Their Labor to #Meatpackers, #McDonalds
by #KimKelly 19 April 2024
You get no parole if you're still profitable.
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The latest interview from #KimKelly’s magazine #Salvo is another banger: #Horndal!
I’m going to keep posting these until everyone of you subscribes. 🖤🤘
https://salvo.ghost.io/horndal-head-hammer-man-interview-2024/
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Another fantastic interview from #KimKelly’s new magazine project #Salvo – this time it’s with T.J. Childers, the song writing drummer from #InterArma. 🖤
https://salvo.ghost.io/inter-arma-tj-new-heaven-interview-2024/
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Alabama Is Denying Prisoners Parole to Lease Their Labor to #Meatpackers, #McDonalds (No parole if you’re still profitable.)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/alabama-slavery-prison-labor-incarcerated-company-exploit-capitalism-lawsuitPhotographs: Guards supervise a group of convict-lease prisoners in Birmingham, Ala. & Convict-lease prisoners at the Banner Mine in Alabama.
Source: BIRMINGHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY ARCHIVES
#FightLikeHell book cover#alabama #capitalism #exploitation #prisonlabor #USSW #RWDSU #union
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#ColumbiaJournalismReview 12 January 2021
What Covering #HeavyMetal Taught Me about Spotting #Nazis
by #KimKelly
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#Noisey 2018
#KimKelly
Riding the New Wave of #AntiFascistBlackMetal :antifa: :three_arrows:
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It's no surprise that labor activism, anti-racism and feminism go together. Since the earliest days, the labor justice struggle was also a social justice struggle. To learn more check out #KimKelly's *Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor*:
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Fight-Like-Hell/Kim-Kelly/9781982171063
The most exploited, underpaid, and abused workers in America are also the most marginalized (duh).
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As #KimKelly explained to @adamconover in the latest #Factually podcast, the Alabama coal strikers didn't get anywhere near the attention that the Hollywood strikers have enjoyed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvyMHf7Yg0Q
(To learn more about the untold story of worker organizing, from prison unions to the key role that people of color and women played in labor history, check out Kelly's book, "Fight Like Hell," now in paperback:)
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Fight-Like-Hell/Kim-Kelly/9781982171063
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