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Block & Build is a newsmagazine podcast from Convergence Magazine that examines the balance of political forces in the US from a movement perspective.
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25 Years of the “War on Terror” w/ Silky Shah & Darakshan Raja (opens the original)
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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 maybe was lurking inside the United States, and that was driven by a supposedly civilizational grudge match between the Islamic world and the West. Some of those tools, from the Department of Homeland Sec
Blueprints for Donor-Advised Funding w/ Beezer de Martelly and Fatema Ahmad (opens the original)
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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 bad faith accusations by Israel against UNWRA, a relief agency of the United Nations tasked with trying to provide food and other supplies to Gaza amidst Israel’s ongoing genocide. These types of legal
The Attention Economy Navigator, August 2026 w/ Akin Olla and Josh Elstro (opens the original)
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This week we are building our Attention Economy Navigator for the month of August 2026. It's our guide to what you should be paying more attention to, and what you can probably pay less attention to. And why those stories might not be what you’d assume. Joining to help build this month's Attention Economy Navigator in real time are Managing Editor for Convergence, Akin Olla and Senior Multimedia Producer for Convergence, Josh Elstro. You can also read the article version on the Convergence websi
Can You Hear “The Hum?” w/ Saul Levin (opens the original)
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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 these facilities at the local and state level. People are fed up with tech companies massively scaling up development to feed generative AI and large language models at the cost of polluting communities a
Securing Public Education’s Future w/ Cecily Myart-Cruz (opens the original)
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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, Cecily Myart-Cruz. She was also the first woman of color to be elected to the position. During her tenure, she made strides in racial justice and protections for immigrants. She helped secure more finan
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