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Craft of Campaigns
The Craft of Campaigns podcast highlights stories and lessons from issue-based action campaigns, beyond one-off mobilizations and single election cycles. Campaigns channel grassroots energy to win concrete victories, build winning coalitions, and topple pillars of power standing in the way of justice. In each episode, we interview organizers about how a campaign unfolded, strategy decisions, and lessons for our current moment.
Podcasting since 2022 • 21 episodes
Craft of Campaigns
Latest Episodes
S2E6: Ingrid Lakey on taking on the country’s 6th-largest bank and changing the activist culture on climate change
In our Season 2 Finale, we’ll hear about a group of Quakers who wanted to experiment with campaign strategy to tackle climate change. Their experiment ended up forcing one of the country’s largest banks to stop funding mountaintop removal coal ...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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S2E5: Nico Amador on fighting gender discrimination on public transit and pivoting gracefully when the campaign got stuck
In this episode, we’ll hear about how a few Philly activists came together in 2009 to take on a policy that was causing harassment and discrimination against transgender public transit riders. This all-volunteer collective used creative tactics...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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1:13:46
S2E4: Byron Hobbs and Jonathan Hogstad on taking on the corporations funding voter suppression in Michigan
In this episode, we’ll hear about how several Black-led Michigan basebuilding groups responded to the January 6th 2021 revolt and ongoing attacks on voting rights in Black communities. Byron and Jonathan describe the process of researching the ...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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1:14:07
S2E3: Devan Spear on forcing universities to pay their fair share
In this episode, we’ll hear about a multi-year fight to get some of Philadelphia’s largest property-owners – nonprofit universities and hospitals – to make voluntary payments in lieu of taxes to fund local public schools. Devan Spear describes ...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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57:15
S2E2: Stephen Lerner on Justice for Janitors: A comeback story that continues today
In this episode, we’ll hear about how tens of thousands of workers lost nearly all of their workplace protections, and then spent two decades campaigning against some of the most powerful Fortune 500 companies to win them back. Stephen Lerner, ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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