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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.
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OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingFixing Public Schools: Ted Dintersmith
Innovation in the Classroom Classroom innovation stems from teachers and students working together to pursue subjects that excite students to learn. Examples…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingReimagining Higher Education: Leon Botstein
Democracy and Education Democracy and education are inextricably linked. A democracy can only work when voters have an open mind, the ability to think…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingEnding the Counter-Revolution: Bernard Harcourt
Counterrevolution Since 9/11 and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, US warfare has focused on counterinsurgency. America now uses this counterrevolutionary…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingReimagining Law Enforcement: Norm Stamper
Community Policing The future of public safety is community police partnership. Stamper suggests a plebiscite in which neighborhoods elect representatives to…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingThe Precarity of Taxi Work: Veena Dubal
Proposition 22 Prop 22, the most expensive California ballot initiative in history, carves out app-based gig economy workers as a new employee class that lacks…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingThe Future of Antitrust: Zephyr Teachout
Monopolies are Anti-Democratic A monopoly is a company that has the power to set the terms of interactions, from the pricing of consumer goods to interactions…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingA Keynesian Future: Zach Carter
Keynes's Goals Keynes concerned himself with his day's most significant problems: WWI and WWII, the rise of fascism and revolution, and the Great Depression in…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingSeason 12 Trailer
This is a thought-provoking season of visionary and practical ideas to reimagine our future in a post pandemic and post trump world. We cover everything from…
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Lasting Civic Engagement: Maria Yuan
Civic Engagement Online and In-Person Technology can make participating in democracy easier than ever before because it's scalable and makes it possible for…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingOctober Surprise: Devlin Barrett
October Surprise The term 'October Surprise' refers to a type of dirty trick that comes so late in the election calendar that a candidate does not have the…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingBuilding Authoritarian Power: Nathan Stoltzfus
Legitimacy Hitler is one of the early modern autocrats for whom legitimacy was crucial to his claim to power. He recognized the importance of including the…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingBuilding Power Online: Alice Marwick
Hashtag Activism Black Lives Matter is the epitome of 'hashtag activism.' #BLM is a native social media activist movement that started on the internet and…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingDigital Labor Organizing: Jess Kutch
Democracy at Work Our work lives are an important place to practice democracy. Union members learn negotiation and problem solving skills to determine wages…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingCivics Club: Adam Cohen
Wondering what being a member of our Civics Club is like on Patreon? Well, here's a free look at our bonus content from our talk this week with Adam Cohen!…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingSupreme Inequality: Adam Cohen
Supreme Court's Agenda Although we are taught to believe the Supreme Court is a neutral institution whose primary concern is justice, it is actually an…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingDecolonizing America: Nick Tilsen
Self-Determination Self-determination empowers those who are most affected to be in the driver's seat of policy-making decisions. For example, if an oil…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingBuilding Civic Power: K. Sabeel Rahman
Civic Power Civic power puts communities most impacted by legislative decisions in the drivers' seat of making public policy. Community members get to have a…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingState Capture: Alex Hertel-Fernandez
Capturing State Legislatures State capture refers to the idea that a set of organizations, businesses, and movements can capture a political office and dictate…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingOrganized Power: Theda Skocpol and Caroline Tervo
Political Learning In response to the elections of Obama and Trump, grassroots political movements sprung up on the right and the left. Members of these groups…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingEnergizing Local Politics: Drew Kromer
Building Precincts Precincts are critical to building local and regional party power. Kromer started Davidson's Democratic party precinct with only four other…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingPolitics is for Power: Eitan D. Hersh
Politics Begins with Service Political power starts with service to others. For instance, Russian immigrant and Boston resident Naakh Vysoky began his…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingIntroducing the Future Hindsight Civics Club
Introducing the Civics Club! Signup at www.patreon.com/futurehindsight today! By supporting Future Hindsight, you're helping this independent podcast deliver…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingSexual Citizens: Jennifer S. Hirsch & Shamus Khan
Sexual Citizenship The concept of sexual citizenship asserts that people have the right to sexual self-determination, including young people. Recognizing young…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingSurveillance Capitalism: Shoshana Zuboff
Surveillance Capitalism Surveillance Capitalism is the dominant economic logic in our world today. It claims private human experience for the marketplace and…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingCanvassing with Love: David Fleischer
After listening to this episode, try deep canvassing yourself! Click HERE to read the step-by-step guide. We'd love to compare notes and see how you did. After…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingDeconstructing the Alt-Right: Alexandra Minna Stern
Culture Informs Politics The Alt-Right believes politics is downstream from culture. They operate in this meta-political sphere where changing American…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingThe Roots of Conservative Media: Nicole Hemmer
Conservative media activism Beginning with the America First Movement, conservative political activists also became conservative media figures. In addition to…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingPolitical Communication Ethics: Peter Loge
Ethical Communication Ethical communication involves respect and civil discourse. Taking time to listen to other sides and treating lawmakers with civility are…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingFact-Checking for Truth: Jon Z. Greenberg
Who Gets Fact-Checked? PolitiFact finds statements of "fact" by American politicians that can be verified and are highly visible, or pertinent, to a current…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingThe New Conspiracism: Nancy Rosenblum
Conspiracism A functional conspiracy theory uses facts and rational arguments to prove that things are not as they seem. Conspiracism is a conspiracy without…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingThe Risks of Fake News: Travis I. Trammell & Elisabeth Paté-Cornell
Viral Model Trammell created a viral disease model to mimic how fake news spreads. People must come in to contact with the fake information in order to be…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingThe Truth Sandwich: George Lakoff
Truth sandwich George Lakoff invented a construct called the Truth Sandwich in order to effectively frame the truth and negate a lie. In it, true statements…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingPost-Truth: Lee C. McIntyre
Post-Truth Post-truth is the political subordination of reality. It is not a failing of knowledge, but one of politics. Authoritarians use post-truth to…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingAuthoritarianism Under COVID-19: Thomas O. Melia
COVID & Authoritarianism COVID-19 has created an excuse for authoritarians around the world to consolidate power. Repressive regimes such as China have jailed…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingCivic Engagement, Social Distancing, and Democracy Reform
Recently, Mila sat down with other podcast hosts from our podcast network The Democracy Group, to discuss the impact COVID-19 is having on our democracy…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingExxonMobil's Dirty Secret: Geoffrey Supran
ExxonMobil's Knowledge Beginning in 1959, ExxonMobil became scientifically aware of the dangers of human-caused climate change. By the 1970s-80s, they had a…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingEnding the Nuclear Era: Fred Pearce
Legacy of Secrecy Nuclear technology has a long history of secrecy, cover-up, and deceit from military officials and government leaders, starting with the…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingOur Radioactive Ocean: Ken Buesseler
The Pacific Ocean is Safe After the Fukushima reactor accident, radiation leaked into the Pacific Ocean, sparking global worry. In the months after the…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingA Renewable Future: Mark Z. Jacobson
Nuclear Power is Impractical Building nuclear power plants is extremely costly and time-consuming; projects are often plagued by cost overruns and construction…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingCOVID-19 Special Edition
Stephen Pimpare is a nationally recognized expert on poverty and U.S. social policy. Hedebunks the idea that COVID is the great equalizer, and explains why…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingA Nuclear Future: Joshua Goldstein
Green Power Nuclear energy offers large amounts of power, produces no carbon dioxide, uses a comparatively small amount of land, and runs around the clock…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingCriminalizing Ecocide: Jojo Mehta
What is Ecocide? The crime of ecocide is the "extensive loss, damage, or destruction of ecosystems such that their inhabitants can no longer enjoy life…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingClimate Policy Failures: Leah Stokes
Fighting for Climate Policy Dismantling the energy system is crucial to breaking the energy crisis. Implementing clean energy policies is the most effective…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingClimate Justice: Julian Brave NoiseCat
Climate Justice Many low-income communities bear the brunt of industrial pollution or the harshest consequences of climate change. In order to address global…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingWriting Climate Policy: Jerry Taylor
Carbon Tax The climate crisis is a global collective problem that requires a collective global solution. Robust and bipartisan public policy must be at the…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingThe Actual Cost of Fast Fashion: Jussara Lee
Use Your Purchasing Power Corporations only care about their bottom-line, so boycotting stores you don't believe in does make a difference. Taking…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingThe Future of Food: Lenore Newman
Sustainable Food Supply We can create a sustainable food supply for future populations with technology and a change in diet. We cannot feed the world the way…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingA Call to Arms: Bill McKibben
Nonviolent Social Movement Through non-violent social movements, we can demand meaningful change in the political and economic calculus for polluters. Climate…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingTowards a Sustainable Future: Katherine Richardson
The UN's Sustainable Development Agenda The United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda for 2030 lists 17 goals designed to improve human well-being, while…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingThe End of Welfare: Kathryn Edin (Rebroadcast)
The end of welfare Welfare ceased being guaranteed after reform in 1996. Although the safety net for the working class was strengthened through tax credits…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingDemocracy and Freedom: Season Round Up
Empowering citizens Many Americans are unsure of how their government works. Civic education is the manual for democracy, which Civics 101 offers in the form…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingEnding Urban Violence: Thomas Abt
Focus on Violence First Abt's central thesis for solving violence in urban areas is fairly straightforward: focus on the violence—and not other factors—first…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingThe Meritocracy Trap: Daniel Markovits
The Cost of Human Capital Meritocracy gives the illusion that we are all equally competing at a level playing field. The reality is that the elite is able to…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingBipartisan Civil Discourse: Michael Baranowski
Agreeing on the basic fundamentals The need for positive, bipartisan discourse is acute. In today's politically charged environment, it's important to disagree…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingProtecting Free Speech: Suzanne Nossel
The First Amendment The First Amendment protects four types of freedom of expression: freedom of speech, belief, assembly, and the ability to petition the…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingPractical Equality: Robert L. Tsai
Law as a Framework Equality creates a framework for how we should treat others, and how we should expect to be treated by others. The institution of laws…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingDeliberative Democracy: Jane Suiter and David Farrell of the Irish Citizens' Assembly
Citizens' forum The Irish Citizens' Assembly was formed in response to the severe social and economic crisis caused by the global financial meltdown of 2008. A…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingResponsible Statecraft: Stephen Wertheim
Responsible Statecraft Responsible statecraft should derive from serious consideration of the public interest, with robust public debate and a strong role for…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingKeeping Government Accountable: David Greising
Investigations Get Results Since 1957, BGA investigations have uncovered corruption and unfair practices throughout Chicago and the state of Illinois. A recent…
OCCUPY!: An Unfinished UprisingPowering American Democracy: Seth Flaxman
Technology for Democracy Democracy Works remedies some of the most pervasive and mundane reasons we don't vote. TurboVote is a tool that enables online voter…