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OCCUPY!: An Unfinished Uprising
The story of Occupy Wall Street — how it exploded, how it collapsed, and why its lessons may matter more now than ever before — from the voices of activists who camped out in New York City for two months.
Episodes
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingDignity and Justice: Judge Victoria Pratt
Thursday, May 11th, 2023 Judge Victoria Pratt was Chief Judge in Newark Municipal Court in New Jersey and the author of The Power of Dignity. She is currently…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingCivic Information Media: Craig Aaron
Thursday, May 4th, 2023 Craig Aaron is the Co-CEO of Free Press and Free Press Action. We discuss the civic information bill in New Jersey and the promise of…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingA Slow Civil War?: Jeff Sharlet
Thursday, April 27th, 2023 Jeff Sharlet is a journalist, best-selling author, and longtime observer and investigator of the Christian right. His latest book is…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingReclaiming Rural Power: Chloe Maxmin & Canyon Woodward
Thursday, April 20th, 2023 Chloe Maxmin and Canyon Woodward are the co-authors of Dirt Road Revival: How to Rebuild Rural Politics and Why our Future Depends…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingWinning Messages: Anat Shenker-Osorio
Thursday, April 13th, 2023 Anat Shenker-Osorio is a renowned communications researcher and campaign advisor, the host of Words to Win By, and the Principal of…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingDrilled: The Boom
Thursday, April 6th, 2023 We're sharing an episode of Drilled, a true-crime podcast about climate change, hosted and reported by award-winning investigative…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingBail Reform's Success: Alana Sivin
Thursday, March 30th, 2023 Alana Sivin is the New York State Director of Criminal Justice Reform at FWD.us. We discuss the history of bail reform legislation…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingHolding Police Accountable: Joanna Schwartz
Thursday, March 23rd, 2023 Joanna Schwartz is a professor of law at UCLA, where she teaches civil procedure and courses on police accountability. Her new book…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingElect Women: Laphonza Butler
Thursday, March 16th, 2023 Laphonza Butler is President of Emily's List, an organization that aims to help elect pro-choice democratic women to office. We're…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingDefend Public Education: Jennifer Berkshire & Jack Schneider
Thursday, March 9th, 2023 Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider are co-authors of A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingWinning Legislative Majorities: Daniel Squadron
Thursday, March 2nd, 2023 Daniel Squadron is the co-founder and Executive Director of The States Project and also a former New York State senator. We discuss…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingHousing Justice: Leah Goodridge
Thursday, February 23rd, 2023 Leah Goodridge has served on the New York City Planning Commission since 2021 and is the Managing Attorney for Housing Policy at…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingSolving Homelessness: Gregg Colburn
Thursday, February 16th, 2023 Gregg Colburn is the co-author of Homelessness is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain US Patterns. He's also an…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingCreate Responsive Government: Octavia Abell
Thursday, February 9th, 2023 Octavia Abell is the co-founder and CEO of Govern For America, which describes its mission as bridging the gap between governments…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingUnions Represent the Voiceless: Ruth Milkman
Thursday, February 2nd, 2023 Ruth Milkman is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and History at the CUNY Graduate Center and at the CUNY School of Labor and…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingOvercoming Neoliberalism: Jared Yates Sexton
Thursday, January 26th, 2023 Jared Yates Sexton is a self-described Hoosier, a Political Analyst, and host of the Muckrake Podcast. His latest book is The…
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Invest in Young Voters: Victor Shi
Thursday, January 19th, 2023 Victor Shi is a Gen Z activist, host of On the Move, co-host of iGen Politics, a junior at UCLA, and Strategy Director of Voters…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingWe Have the Majority: Danielle Moodie & Wajahat Ali
Thursday, January 12th, 2023 Danielle Moodie is a cultural connoisseur, a political junkie, and, in addition to Democracy-ish, also hosts the Woke AF Daily…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingWinning the Civil War: Steve Phillips
Thursday, January 5th, 2023 Steve Phillips is the host of the Democracy in Color podcast and the author of How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial…
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How Textbooks Made America Not So Great: Some of My Best Friends Are
Thursday, December 29th, 2022 We're sharing a clip from an episode of Some of My Best Friends Are… Here's a preview of another podcast, Some of My Best Friends…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingReform the Courts!: Chris Kang
Thursday, December 22nd, 2022 Chris Kang is the Co-Founder and Chief Counsel of Demand Justice. He served in the White House for nearly seven years as Deputy…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingInclude the Independent Voter: Jackie Salit & Thom Reilly
Thursday, December 15th, 2022 Jackie Salit and Thom Reilly are co-directors of the Center for an Independent and Sustainable Democracy at Arizona State…
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Ballot Initiatives For Direct Democracy: Chris Melody Fields Figueredo
Thursday, December 8th, 2022 Chris Melody Fields Figueredo is the Executive Director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, which seeks to strengthen…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingOrganizing Powers Democracy: Cecile Richards
Thursday, December 1st, 2022 Cecile Richards is the co-chair of American Bridge, former president of Planned Parenthood, a co-founder of Supermajority, and…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingThe Appeal of Libertarianism: Andrew Koppelman
Thursday, November 23rd, 2022 Andrew Koppelman is the author of Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed. It's a…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingThe Truth About Disability Rights: Rebecca Cokley
Thursday, November 10th, 2022 Rebecca Cokley is a disability-rights advocate and the first U.S. Disability Rights Program Officer for the Ford Foundation. From…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingPolice and Public Safety: Thaddeus Johnson
Thursday, November 10th, 2022 Thaddeus Johnson is a former police officer, a Senior Fellow at the Council on Criminal Justice, and Assistant Professor of…
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Indictment Is Accountability: Allison Gill
Thursday, November 3rd, 2022 Dr. Alison Gill is a veteran, former federal government executive, and Host of Mueller She Wrote and the Daily Beans Podcast. We…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingFlexing the Women's Vote: Amanda Brown Lierman
Thursday, October 27th, 2022 Amanda Brown Lierman is the Executive Director at Supermajority and Supermajority Education Fund, which builds women's political…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingAI for Equality: Orly Lobel
Thursday, October 20th, 2022 Orly Lobel is the Warren Distinguished Professor of Law and the Director of the Center for Employment and Labor Law. Her latest…
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The Difference Between The House & The Senate: Civics 101
Tuesday, October 18th, 2022 We're sharing an episode of Civics 101 from New Hampshire Public Radio. The House and the Senate have mostly the same powers: they…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingHow the NRA Radicalized America: Ryan Busse
Thursday, October 13th, 2022 Ryan Busse is a former firearms executive, Senior Policy Advisor to Giffords, and author of Gunfight: My Battle Against the…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingGen Z for Change: Aidan Kohn-Murphy & Jack Petocz
Thursday, October 6th, 2022 Aidan Kohn-Murphy is the founder and Executive Director of the organization Gen Z for Change, a youth-led nonprofit working to…
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Stop Banning Books: Jonathan Friedman
Thursday, September 29th, 2022 Jonathan Friedman is the director of free expression and education programs at PEN America. He oversees research, advocacy, and…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingFascism Is All Around Us: Jason Stanley
Thursday, September 22nd, 2022 Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale and the author of 5 books, including How Propaganda Works and…
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Fight for Democracy: Steve Pierson
Thursday, September 15th, 2022 Steve Pierson is the host of the How We Win podcast. He's an activist, community organizer, and trainer, who started as a "class…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingThe Power of Crisis: Ian Bremmer
Thursday, September 8th, 2022 Ian Bremmer is a political scientist and he's the founder and president of the research and consulting firm Eurasia Group. We…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingDemocratic Thinking and Acting: Christopher Beem
Thursday, September 1st, 2022 Christopher Beem is Managing Director of the McCourtney Institute for Democracy, co-host of the Democracy Works podcast, and the…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingThe Taxpayers' Watchdog: Rob Sand
Thursday, August 25th, 2022 Rob Sand is Iowa's State Auditor, which is the taxpayers' watchdog in the state. He's the first Democrat to beat an incumbent…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingEconomic Crimes of the Powerful: Jennifer Taub
Thursday, August 18th, 2022 Jennifer Taub is a lawyer, advocate, and author of Big Dirty Money: The Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White Collar Crime…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingBreak Up Monopolies: Zephyr Teachout
Thursday, August 11th, 2022 Zephyr Teachout is Senior Counsel for Economic Justice for the New York Attorney General and law professor at Fordham University…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingClimate Leadership with Vision: Elizabeth Yeampierre
Thursday, August 4th, 2022 Elizabeth Yeampierre is an internationally recognized Puerto Rican attorney and environmental and climate justice leader of African…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingMaking Government Work: Amanda Renteria
Thursday, July 28th, 2022 Amanda Renteria the CEO of Code for America, an organization of people-centered problem solvers working to improve government in a…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingUniversal Civic Duty Voting: E.J. Dionne & Miles Rapoport
Thursday, July 21st, 2022 Miles Rapoport and E.J. Dionne are the co-authors of 100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting. In a time when the erosion of…
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City Life and Remote Work: Matthew E. Kahn
Thursday, July 14th, 2022 Matthew E. Kahn is Provost Professor at the University of Southern California and the author of six previous books about…
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The Suburban Women Problem: Rachel Vindman
Thursday, July 7th, 2022 Rachel Vindman is the host of the Suburban Women Problem podcast and wife of retired Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman. We discuss…
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Financial Confessions: Imani Barbarin
Thursday, June 30th, 2022 This week, Future Hindsight is sharing an episode of The Financial Confessions – a podcast by The Financial Diet. The Financial Diet…
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End Gerrymandering with Ballot Initiatives: Katie Fahey
Thursday, June 23rd, 2022 Katie Fahey is the Executive Director of The People, an organization working to find common ground and take action to create a more…
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The Asian-American Vote: Sung Yeon Choimorrow
Thursday, June 16th, 2022 Sung Yeon Choimorrow is the executive director of the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, whose mission is to elevate AAPI…
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Getting Dark Money Out of Politics: Jeff Clements
Thursday, June 9th, 2022 Jeff Clements serves as President of American Promise, an organization that is focused on repairing the constitutional foundation to…
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Climate Action Within Reach: Amy Westervelt
Thursday, June 2nd, 2022 Amy Westervelt is a climate journalist and the founder and executive producer of the Critical Frequency Podcast Network. She hosts the…
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The Future of Abortion Rights: Andrea Miller
Thursday, May 26th, 2022 Andrea Miller is the President of the National Institute for Reproductive Health. As we await the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v…
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Primary Elections for All: John Opdycke
Thursday, May 19th, 2022 John Opdycke is the President of Open Primaries, an organization building a coalition of diverse Americans to enact open primaries in…
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Patriot and Diplomat: Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch
Thursday, May 12th, 2022 Marie Yovanovitch is the former Ambassador to Ukraine and best-selling author of her memoir, Lessons from the Edge. In a live event…
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Radical Common Ground: Nisha Anand
Thursday, May 5th, 2022 Nisha Anand is an Indian-American activist, leader for racial justice, and the CEO of DreamCorps. Her expansive organizing experience…
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Strategic Racism is a Divide and Conquer Scam: Ian Haney López
Thursday, April 28th, 2022 Ian Haney López is the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes…
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The Cure for Cheap Speech: Rick Hasen
Thursday, April 21st, 2022 Richard Hasen is a nationally recognized expert in election law and campaign finance regulation, and his new book is Cheap Speech…
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State Houses to the Rescue: David Toscano
Thursday, April 14th, 2022 David J. Toscano served 14 years (2006-20) in the Virginia House of Delegates representing the 57th District. He's the author of…
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Country First, Community First: Emily Cherniack
Thursday, April 7th, 2022 Emily Cherniack is the founder of New Politics. She believes that politics has the power to change systems. Her organization works…
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