ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Block & Build is a newsmagazine podcast from Convergence Magazine that examines the balance of political forces in the US from a movement perspective. Every week, host Cayden Mak explores what's happening in politics—and what we can do about it.
The show takes Convergence's Block & Build framework as a jumping-off point for responding to escalating authoritarianism in ways that focus on preventing harm while building the strength, resilience, and strategy for our movements to win in the long-term.
And we're not just talk. Block & Build is made by and for doers: every week we hear from organizers, strategists, movement journalists, and others who are helping to refine our strategy and develop strategic unity in a time of great peril for people and planet.
But we have no time for doomerism. This show is about how to fight, and while we are clear-eyed about what we're up against, we're also determined to win. Join us.
The show takes Convergence's Block & Build framework as a jumping-off point for responding to escalating authoritarianism in ways that focus on preventing harm while building the strength, resilience, and strategy for our movements to win in the long-term.
And we're not just talk. Block & Build is made by and for doers: every week we hear from organizers, strategists, movement journalists, and others who are helping to refine our strategy and develop strategic unity in a time of great peril for people and planet.
But we have no time for doomerism. This show is about how to fight, and while we are clear-eyed about what we're up against, we're also determined to win. Join us.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
55 minutes
Guest interviews
Has sponsors
Video podcast
English
United States
125 episodes
since April 1, 2024
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
In 1992, the state of Colorado let voters decide to whether to discriminate against LGBTQ individuals by proposing Amendment 2, a law that would prohibit the state from enforcing anti-discrimination protections on the basis of sexual orientation. Voters passed it and earned Colorado the moniker "ha…
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On January 17, 1969, an altercation at UCLA ended in gunfire that left two members of the Black Panther Party dead. Watani Stiner–who was a member of the conflicting Us Organization–was there that day. But despite not shooting anyone, he and his brother George were sentenced to life in prison for c…
Semiconductors are at the heart of every piece of electronics you interact with on a daily basis. Despite being invented and innovated in the US, much of the manufacturing of semiconductors and the technology they power was "offshored" from the 1980s through the early 2000s as part of the globaliza…
In the aftermath of the September 11th, 2001 attacks, the US government enjoyed broad, bipartisan support for mounting what President George W. Bush termed a “War on Terror.” We were told that "war" required new tools, new techniques, and new resources to fight a global, asymmetric foe–one that may…
Listeners may be familiar with stories from the past few years about left and movement organizations coming under legal attack. These include an indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center on fraud charges, claiming their strategy of paying informants to expose extremist groups is fraud. Or …
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Joining to help build this mont…
In the past year, this show has explored how organizing against data centers is becoming a unifying rally point that breaks through this country’s typical “red vs. blue” dynamic. From urban cores to rural farm communities, serious organizing is happening to stop or slow the rapid development of the…
Leading a union can be difficult. Even more difficult? Leading the educators union in the second-largest school district in the country, United Teachers Los Angeles, through the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, we talk to the woman who did just that: immediate Past President of UTLA, C…
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