Advocacy

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  • 1

    Minicast Exclusive: Municipalism 101: Fearless Cities 2018

    The Laura Flanders Show - Lifting Radical Spirits

    18:41 | May 23rd, 2019

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    In the upcoming 2019 Barcelona elections, Mayor Ada Calou of Barcelona en Comu is up for re-election. BCN en Como is a part of a network of municipalist movements that calls themselves Fearless Cities...Show More

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    Great look at municipality - what happens when there’s “people power” and locals organize. @yskevinhuang @jspinelle

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    Since we started this show, we’ve had the opportunity to speak with several organizers, from Joyce Ladner in the Civil Rights movement to Srdja Popovic in Serbia to the students involved with the Marc...Show More

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    20 years ago, Srdja Popovic was part of a revolution — literally. He was a founding member of the Otpor! movement that ousted Serbia Slobodan Milsovic from power in 1999. It’s easy to characterize soc...Show More

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    I really loved this episode! If you're an social movement organizer/activist, this is a must listen. Popovic knows his stuff and is a deep thinker. He puts activism into a well thought out framework t...Show More

  • 4

    Are you a "political hobbyist?" If so, you're the problem.

    The Gray Area with Sean Illing

    1:25:37 | Mar 9th, 2020

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    Obsessively following the daily political news feels like an act of politics, or at least an act of civics. But what if, for many of us, it’s a replacement for politics — and one that’s actually hurti...Show More

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    A critique on political hobbyism by two political hobbyists in the most political hobbyist medium. The irony is strong. If you identify as a political hobbyist, this is a good kick in the butt to in...Show More

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    Are social networks downplaying their complicity in the problem that is “fake news?”Anil talks to Fadi Quran of the people powered social advocacy group, Avaaz, about how tech is used to target groups...Show More

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    “Should people have to perform their pain for a product manager before [social media] changes?” Powerful question from Anil Dash. Important conversation about advocacy group Avaaz on how they are conf...Show More

  • 6

    Can the Go-Go Go On?

    Code Switch

    29:10 | Apr 17th, 2019

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    For more than two decades, a cellphone store in Washington, D.C. has blasted go-go music right outside of its front door. But a recent noise complaint from a resident of a new, upscale apartment build...Show More

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    “We like your culture sometimes unless it inconveniences us” Even though whether the Go-Go music stayed on or not is not comparable to some of the larger issues of gentrification like affordability im...Show More

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    How do oral histories help create frameworks for cities of resilience? Diane Wong researches gentrification's impact on low-income immigrants and the mobilization of Chinatown residents in their fight...Show More

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    Power woman Dr. Diane Wong talks about the importance and power of oral histories and her experience collecting oral histories for Chinatowns across US and Canada. She also talks about the mobilizatio...Show More

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    As smart devices become a bigger and bigger part of our lives, we look at how Facebook and other companies gather information about their users and turn it into profits.  Don’t miss out on the next b...Show More

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    A social casino game on Facebook drains a woman’s inheritance of $400k. A son charges $6k on his mom’s credit card by pressing on some coins in a game. Facebook employees call these kids “whales”. Thi...Show More

  • 9

    Our new season: RADICALS

    COMMONS

    01:26 | Mar 13th, 2020

    Our new season is about the people on the extremes. The activists, the terrorists, and the revolutionaries who took things right to the edge for what they believe in... for good or for ill.Support COM...Show More

  • 10

    A master class in organizing

    The Gray Area with Sean Illing

    2:02:03 | Mar 16th, 2020

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    The Bernie Sanders campaign is an organizing tour-de-force relative to the Joe Biden campaign; yet the latter has won primary after primary — with even higher turnouts than 2016. So does organizing ev...Show More

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    This woman is POWER!!! 💪💪💪 The goal of organizing is to WIN and once you win, change will happen if you do it strategically. Note: Most of this is about labour organizing and it’s from a pretty “w...Show More

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