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