Building The Infrastructure of Revolt
On today's episode, we speak with an organizer with the Let's Go Network a new and growing project from movement builders who are working to provide infrastructure and training to new and emerging social struggles, especially fights against ICE and AI data centers.
From the Let's Go website:
Let's Go! is a movement infrastructure and support network founded at the end of 2024. We saw that the national political disaster was pushing many movements into immobility, and multiple political currents into stasis. In order to get out of the national malaise and get going again, we came together around the theme of local struggles, where we saw diverse participants fighting in new and vital ways against top-down, oligarchic projects like data centers, Flock surveillance, and ICE infrastructure.
We focus on training and movement infrastructure, supporting these local fights from the bottom up and helping them make global impacts. We think local groups and struggles are where the most interesting things are happening and we want to help those involve connect with each other, skill up, and get the resources they need to win.
During our discussion, we cover how Let's Go came into being in the post-Trump 2.0 landscape, the hard and long-form work of building autonomous movement infrastructure, and the approach of Let's Go to bringing together various parts of the expansive social movement ecosystem. We also touch on growing efforts by the state to attack the radical flank of existing social movements and the need to intertwine anti-repression and robust solidarity into our organizing, as well as the need for the growing movement against AI and data centers to push back against attempts by the far-Right to latch onto it.
We hope that this interview presents listeners with a fresh approach to how we might all work to build up the existing tapestry of emerging social struggles, at a time when repression is ramping up, while waves of new people are also coming into movement organizing like never before.
For more information on Let's Go, check out their website at https://letsgonetwork.org/
Also, Let's Go is set to soon release a brand new anti-Data Center organizing resource and broadsheet, which you can check out at https://letsgonetwork.org/reboot/.
Be sure to also check out two inspiring initiatives against the deportation machine: the ongoing active blockade against border wall construction in Lochiel, AZ. Check out reports from Unicorn Riot, https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/treesit-blocks-us-mexico-border-wall-construction-for-six-weeks-in-arizona/, and Living and Fighting, https://livingandfighting.net/24-Hours-in-Lochiel.
There's also been a week of action against ICE called in Willston, VT in early October. Check out https://shutdownicevt.org/ and Shut Down ICE VT, https://www.instagram.com/shutdown.icevt.