by Kelly Hayes | Jun 11, 2026 | Climate Crisis, COVID, disaster planning, Heat Deaths, Interview, Organizing, Pandemic, Podcast, Wildfires
As climate disasters intensify and authoritarian threats escalate, most of us are underprepared for moments when systems fail or are weaponized against us. In this episode of Movement Memos, Kelly talks with Chris Begley and Amy Edelman, authors of The Emergency Playbook: A Bunker-Free Guide to Disaster Preparation, about how preparedness can move us away from fear, isolation and bunker fantasies…
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by Victoria Law | Jun 6, 2026 | access to health care, California, Climate Change, Extreme Heat, Heat Deaths, Incarceration, Lawsuit, News, Texas
The Central California Women’s Facility, the nation’s largest women’s prison, is in Chowchilla, where temperatures reached past 90 degrees by the second week of May. The prison lacks air conditioning or any facility-wide cooling system, turning cells into saunas. “I dread going to my groups at night because we have to wait forever at the gates and we cannot bring water with us. We can’t take…
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