Feed your soul and fill your toolbox every Thursday with Benn (a trans man, outdoors person, political organizer, and social justice advocate) as he interviews organizers, activists, artists, academics, and experts about their experiences and knowledge on building community and creating change. They dive deep into social movements, fundraising, building teams, volunteer leadership development, self care, recruitment, time management, launching non-profits, resiliency work, digital organizing, direct action, coalition work, and so much more.
Guests on the show also explore different progressive issues and how they are organizing around them including sexual assault prevention and consent language, organizing peer to peer support networks for trans folks, water justice, resiliency work in communities of color, and a vast array of other topics. In addition to interviews, Benn shares his own toolbox of knowledge and skills to help you be more efficient and effective in the work. So dive on in! The water’s warm!
I am constantly looking for ways to make organizing easier on organizers and when I met the folks of Action Network and Action Builder at Netroots Nation this year, I was super excited to learn Read more…
Swing Left helps folks find the most impactful ways of electing democrats in the most important elections all across the United States. Their focus for 2020 is flipping the senate, winning the white house, and Read more…
Anat Shenker-Osario is a leading researcher in progressive messaging and communications with her research and writing being featured in a myriad of publications including The Atlantic, Boston Globe, Salon, and The Guardian, among others. She Read more…
Chris O’Connor shares with us his 5 years of experience as a development director at Equality Maine, one of the largest LGBTQ advocacy organizations in the state. Chris came to Equality Maine with a boat Read more…
In this episode I share with you how this podcast came to be, goals for the future, and last but not least I share with you a little nugget of one of the biggest lessons Read more…
Cooper Reed got his start in political organizing as a young person (pre-teen!) volunteering on Obama’s 2008 campaign and has worked on a myriad of issue and candidate campaigns. Currently he is the Political and Read more…
Recording from the Netroots Nation conference in Philadelphia, this episode highlights some vendors and causes while also sharing some tips from fellow organizers. Netroots Nation is one of the largest gatherings of progressive organizers in Read more…
Jeanie has worked on LGBTQ advocacy campaigns on both marriage and non-discrimination efforts. She shares with us some of her favorite memories and greatest challenges in the work. Currently she is off hiking the Pacific Read more…
Sass shares a powerful story of how a direct action protesting trains transporting fracked oil through their small Maine town forever changed the direction of their life. Now as an organizer for Resources for Organizing Read more…