The Craft of Campaigns

Learn from Ingrid Lakey how a group of Quakers created a purpose-built organization that forced change at the country's sixth-largest bank.

Learn from Nico Amador, Director of the Leadership Institute at CenterLink—an international member network of LGBT Centers—about how campaigns can pivot to create more favorable conditions.

Learn how Byron Hobbs and Jonathan Hogstad of Community Change/Action and the Defend Black Voters Coalition creatively targeted utility companies and health insurers as part of their strategy to combat voter suppression in Michigan.

Learn how Devan Spear and Philly Jobs with Justice helped secure $100 million to address asbestos and lead contamination within the Philadelphia public school system.

Learn, with Stephen Lerner of Bargaining for the Common Good, how Justice for Janitors reinvented themselves and labor organizing and created multipronged strategies for victory.

Learn about Chicago's #NoCopAcademy Campaign and how the struggle helped build the capacity of the city's growing social movement. Featuring Karina Mireya, digital organizer and freelance photographer, and Benji Hart, an interdisciplinary artist, author, and educator.

The Craft of Campaigns podcast featured stories and lessons from issue-based action campaigns. In Season 2,  we’ll hear from campaigners who took on the ruling class in D.C. to win protections for janitors, challenged corporations who were bankrolling far-right election deniers in Michigan, and got one of the nation’s largest banks to stop funding mountaintop removal coal mining.

Heather Cronk on GetEqual's campaign to end "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

West Virginia Can't Wait's Kately Lauer on our movement's growing pains 

Justin J. Pearson on Memphis Community Against Pollution's fight to stop a new pipeline.

Daniel Hunter of 350.org on the campaign to stop casino development in Philadelphia. 

Women’s March uses campaigns as "political identity formation moments"

This year, Illinois will become the first state to eliminate wealth-based pretrial incarceration. The path to passing the legislation holds lessons for organizers in how to win large-scale victories. 

Eleni Schermer and Ann Bowers reflect on the Debt Collective's work over the past ten years.

The Birth of Black Mama’s Bail Outs

KC Tenants's Tara Raghuveer is "ruthless" about base building. 

Campaign lessons from the battle to stop Amazon’s HQ2 in Queens

Neidi Dominguez on how youung undocumented organizers won by not listening to DC, embracing disagreement, and using multiple strategies.