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Risky Business, w/ Deborah Barron & Alex Tom

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This week, Cayden is joined by Executive Director of New Left Accelerator, Deborah Barron and Executive Director of the Center for Empowered Politics, Alex Tom to discuss risk. Any time we perform acts of civil disobedience, we subject ourselves to varying degrees of risk. As we’ve seen in the news lately in campus protests many risk personal arrest. Others, meanwhile, risk loss of funding, jobs, and more. The panel explores how to strategically make assessments of what risks we should take in the face of increasing tendencies of fascist power plays by the MAGA Right. They also take a look at how risk is currently and historically considered in left and progressive movements.
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Block & Build Virtual Launch

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Convergence Magazine and Seed the Vote co-sponsored a special online event introducing the concepts, content, and applications of the "Block & Build Syllabus: Left Strategy in the MAGA Era." The event previewed the syllabus content, looked back at its development and shared early experiences of its use. This post includes links to the video, to the slides from the presentation, and to the syllabus itself.