Craft of Campaigns
Craft of Campaigns
Latest Episodes
Special Episode Part 2: Lauren Jacobs and Harmony Goldberg on facing corporate power and authoritarianism and how to build long-term governing power
This episode is part two of a two-part special episode. You can listen in any order. Unlike our standard episodes where we zoom in on one particular campaign, we’re zooming out around broader strategy themes. To help us zoom o...
Special Episode Part 1: James Mumm, Stephanie Luce, and Bill Fletcher on knowing your target, learning from successful failures, and building a united front
This episode is part one of a two-part special episode. You can listen in any order. Unlike our standard episodes where we zoom in on one particular campaign, we’re zooming out around broader strategy themes. To help us zoom o...
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 ...
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...
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 ...