Craft of Campaigns

The Craft of Campaigns podcast highlights stories and lessons from issue-based action campaigns, beyond one-off mobilizations and single election cycles. Campaigns channel grassroots energy to win concrete victories, build winning coalitions, and topple pillars of power standing in the way of justice. In each episode, we interview organizers about how a campaign unfolded, strategy decisions, and lessons for our current moment.

Craft of Campaigns is a education podcast hosted by Training for Change, with 23 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Training for Change hosts Craft of Campaigns, a education show with 23 episodes published.

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  Episode #8

  Special Episode Part 2: Lauren Jacobs and Harmony Goldberg on facing corporate power and authoritarianism and how to build long-term governing power

  Jul 8, 202558 minS2

  <p>This episode is part two of a two-part special episode. You can listen in any order. Unlike our standard episodes where we zoom in on one particular campaign, we’re zooming out around broader strategy themes. To help us zoom out, we invited five insightful thought leaders, who each recently wrote vital resources for campaign organizers, to talk with Andrew. </p><p>In part two of two, we talk with two guests. First Lauren Jacobs of Power Switch Action highlights the role of corporate targeting campaigns in resisting authoritarianism, pulling from her co-written article Reining in Amazon to Build Up...

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  Episode #7

  Special Episode Part 1: James Mumm, Stephanie Luce, and Bill Fletcher on knowing your target, learning from successful failures, and building a united front

  Jul 1, 202553 minS2

  <p>This episode is part one of a two-part special episode. You can listen in any order. Unlike our standard episodes where we zoom in on one particular campaign, we’re zooming out around broader strategy themes. To help us zoom out, we invited five insightful thought leaders, who each recently wrote vital resources for campaign organizers, to talk with Andrew. </p><p>In part one, we talk with three guests. First <b>James Mumm</b> grounds us in ‘what is organizing’ anyway, the importance of thinking like a target in power analysis, and why campaigns must contest for mainstream values...

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  Episode #6

  S2E6: Ingrid Lakey on taking on the country’s 6th-largest bank and changing the activist culture on climate change

  May 14, 20241h 15mS2

  <p>In our Season 2 Finale, we’ll hear about a group of Quakers who wanted to experiment with campaign strategy to tackle climate change. Their experiment ended up forcing one of the country’s largest banks to stop funding mountaintop removal coal mining after a multi-year campaign and hundreds of direct actions around the country. Ingrid Lakey describes intervening in a culture that prioritized personal solutions to the climate crisis and building an organization that was pro-confrontation and pro-system change. They built action teams around the country that shut down shareholder meetings and disrupted business as usual until their demands were...

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  Episode #5

  S2E5: Nico Amador on fighting gender discrimination on public transit and pivoting gracefully when the campaign got stuck

  Apr 30, 20241h 14mS2

  <p>In this episode, we’ll hear about how a few Philly activists came together in 2009 to take on a policy that was causing harassment and discrimination against transgender public transit riders. This all-volunteer collective used creative tactics, including a drag show and a larger-than-life riders bill of rights to take on one of the largest public transit systems in the country and win. Along the way, they set up a flexible campaign structure and successfully pivoted their strategy when their target was unresponsive.</p><p>Check out a writeup on this campaign at The Forge. And check out our ne...

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  Episode #4

  S2E4: Byron Hobbs and Jonathan Hogstad on taking on the corporations funding voter suppression in Michigan

  Apr 9, 20241h 14mS2

  <p>In this episode, we’ll hear about how several Black-led Michigan basebuilding groups responded to the January 6th 2021 revolt and ongoing attacks on voting rights in Black communities. Byron and Jonathan describe the process of researching the corporations that funded election-denying politicians (23:16), and then going after those corporations to create consequences for funding voter suppression (19:12), including a successful campaign against statewide utility rate hikes (40:54). </p><p>Check out a writeup on this campaign at The Forge, and an article Byron and Jonathan wrote about it.</p><p>Support the show</p><p>Visit www.trainingforchange.org for workshops and tra...

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