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The Craft of Campaigns podcast highlights stories and lessons from issue-based action campaigns. Each episode features an organizer telling the story of how a campaign unfolded, strategy decisions, and lessons for our current moment. Each episode includes a transcript and writeup of key take-aways.
Episode highlights include Tara Raghuveer on hijacking Kansas City’s elections by being “ruthless” about basebuilding, Sasha Wijeyeratne on holding a ‘hard no’ & winning the narrative “on the doors” in the fight against Amazon’s “HQ2”, Justin J. Pearson on campaigning to stop a pipeline headed for a Black neighborhood in Memphis, and many more.
Season One Episodes
- S1 E1: Neidi Dominguez on “not listening to DC” & embracing disagreement in the fight to win Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
- S1 E2: Tara Raghuveer on hijacking Kansas City’s elections by being “ruthless” about basebuilding
- S1 E3: Sasha Wijeyeratne on holding a ‘hard no’ & winning the narrative “on the doors” in the fight against Amazon’s “HQ2”
- S1 E4: Mary Hooks & Kate Shapiro on ending bail in Atlanta & the Black Mama’s Bail Outs
- S1 E5: Debt Collective organizers on crafting campaigns against an idea and generating “inside game” leverage by keeping up “outside” pressure
- S1 E6: Will Tanzman on ending cash bail in Illinois, and how Chicago organizers built a statewide coalition and spent two years defending a legislative win
- S1 E7: Caitlin Breedlove on taking on Amazon’s price-gouging, using campaigns as “political identity formation moments”
- S1 E8: Daniel Hunter on never using the same tactic twice, undoing a “done deal” in Philadelphia
- S1 E9: Justin J. Pearson on campaigning to stop a pipeline headed for a Black neighborhood in Memphis
- S1 E10: Katey Lauer on how to grieve when our campaigns get stuck and weathering transitions with grace
- S1 E11: Heather Cronk on disrupting the movement ecosystem to jumpstart a campaign to win federal LGBTQ protections
- S1 E12: Hannah Sassaman on making Comcast pay, ensuring your victories stick and planning the next campaign before your current one ends