How We Build This
How We Build This
Podcast Description
How We Build This is a podcast how we can take action in a time of rising authoritarianism and shrinking rights. Hosted by longtime climate and movement leader, May Boeve, each episode finds May in conversation with with organizers, activists, and changemakers as they try to make sense of how movements are born, and how they grow, and what we can do right now.
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The podcast explores themes of social justice, activism, and the dynamics of organizing in a time of authoritarianism, with specific episode topics such as the origins of Black Lives Matter, the impact of the Ferguson uprising, and the role of personal experiences in shaping movements. Each episode includes discussions on building power for marginalized communities and navigating political landscapes.
How We Build This is a podcast how we can take action in a time of rising authoritarianism and shrinking rights. Hosted by longtime climate and movement leader, May Boeve, each episode finds May in conversation with with organizers, activists, and changemakers as they try to make sense of how movements are born, and how they grow, and what we can do right now.
May Boeve talks with Leah Greenberg, co-founder and co-executive director of Indivisible, about what it means to build an organization designed to meet the moment. Leah reflects on the origins of Indivisible after Trump’s 2016 election, when she and Ezra Levin turned their experience as former congressional staffers into a guide for regular people to organize locally and push back. A decade later, Indivisible is still evolving, helping people move from frustration into leadership, from PTA skills to school board fights, from local organizing to mass mobilization.
Together, May and Leah dig into the terrain of 2026: institutional collapse, the role of No Kings, and the two-track challenge of both winning elections and protecting the conditions under which those elections can take place. Leah explains why early voting is a crucial anti-sabotage strategy, why movements sometimes need a disciplined “coalition of no”.
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How We Build This is created and hosted by May Boeve
Producer: Phil Surkis
Theme music: ‘Within’, composed by Ruthie Dineen, and performed by Negative Press Project.
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