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book covers for Jen Soriano's "Nervous" and Gabriel winant's "The Next Shift"

Book Essay: History Is What Hurts

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Read side-by-side, Jen Soriano’s “Nervous” and Gabriel Winant’s “The Next Shift” illuminate the interconnections between large historical processes, family and community life—and the intricate workings of our bodies and psyches.

Shifting the Narrative – Protecting our Futures, with Malkia Devich-Cyril

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The stories we tell and how and to whom we tell them can be the difference between winning and losing in political struggle. Scot and Sue chat with Malkia Devich-Cyril from MediaJustice about the difference between communication strategy and narrative strategy. Short term communication strategy is helpful for the policy debates of today, but long term cultural change requires a deep understanding of narrative strategy. Authoritarians and political elites offer a false narrative rooted in fear and violence - how must we in the pro-democracy movement shift the narrative to protect our futures? What has worked for us in the past, and how might we adapt?

Grassroots Internationalism, with Cindy Wiesner

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Cindy Wiesener of the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance joins the show to share reflections on her 35 years of internationalist organizing on the US Left—from the global justice movement of the 1990s and early 2000s, through the antiwar movement of the 2000s, to the growing international climate justice movement of the 2000s–2010s. Throughout that journey, she has been working to build power from the grassroots in the US, and with allies across the globe, especially in the Americas. She shares her perspective on that trajectory, and where we find ourselves now.