All Episodes
Block & Build — 119 episodes
Blueprints for Donor-Advised Funding w/ Beezer de Martelly and Fatema Ahmad
The Attention Economy Navigator, August 2026 w/ Akin Olla and Josh Elstro
Can You Hear “The Hum?” w/ Saul Levin
Securing Public Education’s Future w/ Cecily Myart-Cruz
Repro Rights on the Ballot w/ Jennifer Parrish Taylor
Crafting Better Narratives w/ Shanelle Matthews and Yewande Addie
Insights From Florida w/ Angie Nixon, Andrea Cristina Mercado, Eric Brakken
Hands Off Ohio! w/ Caitlin Johnson
The Attention Economy Navigator, July 2026 w/ Francesca Fiorentini
How to Remake Democracy w/ Elizabeth Adams and Danielle Chynoweth
Live From Take Back Tech w/ Andre Brock & Ariella Steinhorn
The Attention Economy Navigator, June 2026 w/ Justin Hendrix
AI vs. Workers w/ Alexandra Mateescu and Aiha Nguyen
Beyond the Politics of Powerlessness w/ Yotam Marom
NYC Tenants in Co-Governance w/ Ritti Singh, Lex Rountree, Irene Hsu, and Joanne Grell
The Attention Economy Navigator, May 2026 w/ Dr. Shan (Pop Smart Media)
(Kind) Gamers, Rise Up w/ New Save Collective
Meet the Elbaum Resident Writers w/ Delaney Vandergrift and Whitney Washington
#100 – Once More, With Feeling!
Women’s Sports Rally w/Caroline FitzGerald and Kathy Plate
The Attention Economy Navigator, April 2026 w/ Bridget Todd and Negin Owliaei
International Youth Movements w/ Sharmin Hossain and Samir Shrestha
How to Mobilize 8 Million People w/ Leah Greenberg
Co-Governance in Philly w/ Kendra Brooks, Nicole Kligerman, and Nikki Grant
The Attention Economy Navigator, March 2026 w/ Rynn Reed and Ravi Mangla
Lawyering for Liberation w/ Ameca Reali and Marbré Stahly-Butts
Tabletop Solidarity w/ Gabor Fu and Sam LeDoux
Minnesotan Resilience w/ Doran Schrantz
The Attention Economy Navigator, February 2026 w/ Chris Fields Figueredo and Steven Renderos
Voters vs. Data Centers w/ Michelle Martinez, Molly Sweeney, and Christy McGillivray
Feed Drop: Art Against Empire Ep. 1
Preventing Another Epstein w/ Shannon Perez-Darby and Chanelle Gallant
Artists Against ICE w/ Kyle Tran Myhre
The Attention Economy Navigator, January 2026 w/ Shaira Chaer and Jess St. Louis
The State of Student Debt w/ Braxton Brewington
Feed Drop: The Anti-Authoritarian Podcast on Choosing Democracy
Feed Drop: Dear Rad Ops on Multi-Entity Infrastructure
We Will Rise Again w/ Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older
Reimagining Philanthropy w/ Chris Landry and Maribel Morey
The Attention Economy Navigator, November 2025 w/ Nima Shirazi
How Communities Organized Zohran’s Win w/ Alicé Nascimento, Jagpreet Singh, and Alina Shen
Organizing for Tenant Power w/ Josh Poe
Listen to This When Things Fall Apart w/ Kelly Hayes
The Capital of Slavery w/ Gerald Horne
Liberation Stories w/ Marzena Zukowska and Shanelle Matthews
Authoritarian Testing Grounds w/ Stacy Suh
Building State Power w/ Margie Del Castillo
Controlling Narrative Infrastructure w/ Lina Srivastava
MAGA Deportation IS Political Violence w/ Kerri Kennedy
Organizers vs. Big Data w/ Myaisha Hayes, Vivek Bharathan, Keshaun Pearson
Crafting the Radical Imagination w/ Nicole Manganelli and Zak Foster
Holding Sheriffs Accountable w/ Amaris Leon and Amber Walker
Medicaid Defense in Pennsylvania, w/ Nijmie Dzurinko
How Right Wing Media Rage-baits Local Issues w/ H Kapp-Klote
Why We Fear AI w/ Hagen Blix
How Zohran Won, w/ Jasmine Gripper and L Pervez Afridi
Block & Build – But Make it Abolitionist w/ Andrea Ritchie
Blocking the Right, Building the Base – Live from Socialism 2025
Transitioning Movements to Politics w/ Asha Ransby-Sporn
Rebutting Political Violence w/ Scot Nakagawa, Steven Gardiner, and Amanda Otero
Can We Stand Undivided? w/ Hahrie Han
Veterans Against the War w/ Brittany Ramos DeBarros
Pulse Check
In The Time of the Right: A Conversation with Suzanne Pharr
How Indivisible Mobilized the Nation w/ Dani Negrete
Narrative Power Summit 2025 w/ Shaira Chaer & Ivie Osaghae
Moving Past “Cancel Culture”
Labor’s Role Right Now w/ Alex Caputo-Pearl
Why Detained Migrants are Sent to Louisiana w/ Lydia Pelot-Hobbs
MAGA’s Campus Crusade w/ Aaron Nisenson
Medi-Cal Under Attack w/ Christopher Wilson
Musk Tries to Buy a State Election w/ Corinne Rosen & Insha Rahman
Feed Drop: Build Through Belonging, w/ Essie Justice Group
Unrigging the Game, w/ Vanessa Priya Daniel
Philanthropy’s Relation with Organizing, w/ Carmen Rojas
Protecting Migrant Communities w/ Marisa Franco
Rural America Fights the Right w/ Beth Howard and Stephen Smith
Feed Drop: The Fascism Barometer
Cop City and the ATL 61 w/ Aja Arnold & Tåsi Chargualaf
The People Still March w/ Rachel O’Leary Carmona
Organizing Federal Workers w/ Cathy Albisa
Block & Build 2.0 w/ Max Elbaum and Jon Liss
Embodying Abolition in Our Lives, w/ Maya Schenwar
Holding Our Collective Grief, w/ Sarah Jaffe and Malkia Devich-Cyril
Checking The Barometric Pressure of Creeping Fascism, w/ Ejeris Dixon
We Don’t Need a “Joe Rogan of the Left” w/ Adam Johnson & Hermalinde Cortés
Avenues for Action, w/ United We Dream and LJ Amsterdam
The Post Election Blame Game w/ Waleed Shahid & Connie Razza
We Failed to Block the Return of MAGA
State of the United Front Against MAGA, w/ Loan Tran
Organizing the Rich, w/ Vini Bhansali and Michael Gast
The Future of American Foreign Policy, with Van Jackson
One Year of Anguish and Grief
The Minnesota Model, w/ Doran Schrantz
The Power to Win, w/ Miski Noor
Manufacturing Consent for Genocide w/ Sandra Tamari & Ramah Kudaimi
Exposing Neo-Nazi Lies, w/ Kate Ross
Ballot Initiatives as Direct Democracy, w/ Chris Melody Fields Figueredo
Block & Build Strategy at CUNY, w/ Alethia Jones
Reports From the DNC, w/ Sarah Lazare & Eman Abdelhadi
AIPAC’s Election Influence, w/ Branko Marcetic & Alex Aronson
Harris Fumbles Uncommitted Voters, w/ Layla Elabed & Elianne Farhat
Season 2 of ‘Hegemonicon’ w/ William Lawrence
Live from the RNC w/ Chris Walker
France’s New Popular Front, w/ Clément Petitjean
The Right-Wing, Anti-Trans, Hate Machine, w/ Vivian Topping & Alex Han
Building a Party Vehicle, w/ Maurice Mitchell
The UC Standup Strike, w/ Rafael Jaime
What if Trump Wins Again? w/Daniel Hunter & Katey Lauer
AI Activism Has Landed, w/ Chinyere Tutashinda
Risky Business, w/ Deborah Barron & Alex Tom
Freedom Train: Steven Pitts in Conversation with Cedric de Leon
Trust and Security in Movement Building, w/ Sammie Ablaza Wills
Movement Media Roundtable, w/ Maya Schenwar & Lara Witt
Fighting AI Hype, w/ Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna
Labor Militancy and Beyond, w/ Bob Master
Protecting Reproductive Rights, w/ Jennifer Knox
Building a United Front, w/ Loan Tran (Rising Majority)
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