You are listening to the second episode of our second season. It is an episode I, Antje, was particularly looking forward to, since it focuses on many questions that are central to my personal work in the labor movement: How can we move from di

Identity, Allyship, and Difference

Aug 6th, 2022 1h 1m

This is a special crossover between Spadework and European Alternatives. Earlier this year, our co-host Daniel Gutiérrez, had been a fellow at European Alternatives’ Academy of Migrant Organizing – a structure dedicated to bringing together mig

Intermission – Introducing a New Season

May 26th, 2022 53m 16s

Welcome back to Spadework podcast! Yes, we're still alive and still kicking! This is our intermission episode. We never expected to need an intermission, but this podcast, like everything else, exists in relation to a world defined by turbule

Toolbox: Enter the One-on-One

Oct 5th, 2021 1h 31m

In this toolbox episode, we talk to Steve Hughes of the European Community Organizing Network and union scholar and organizer Jane McAlevey about “the one-on-one” – a keystone technique that has informed the craft of professional organizing for

Multidirectional Kung Fu Class Struggle

Jul 13th, 2021 1h 13m

In this episode, we consider the role of organized labor in the crisis of neoliberalism with labor organizer, campaigner, trainer, and migrant rights activist, Valery Alzaga. Drawing on decades of experiences within the global world of organize

A New Grammar of Organization

Jun 3rd, 2021 1h 17m

Who draws the boundaries of the “self” in self-organization? Isn’t a spontaneous event organized? From where does the suspicion of being organized spring? How can organizations combine the resources and move beyond competition in political proc

Problems, Hypotheses, and Innovations of Workers’ Self-Organization

Apr 29th, 2021 1h

In a conversation with militant researchers Manuela Zechner and Bue Rübner Hansen, we discuss experiments in workers’ self-organization that have taken shape in Europe over and against the process of neoliberalization and the resulting conditio

Organizing Toolbox: Getting Started

Mar 29th, 2021 1h 5m

Spadework is excited to present to our listeners our first themed “toolbox” episode, called “Getting Started.” Toolboxes are special content where experienced organizers from different contexts provide our listeners with “tools” to help them wo

Tenants Strike Back!

Feb 15th, 2021 1h 6m

Over the span of a few short years, the Deutsche Wohnen and Co. Enteignen campaign has fundamentally altered Berlin politics as it has been able to successfully mobilize tens of thousands of tenants around a very radical demand: it’s time to ex

Spadework Against the Doomsday Clock

Jan 18th, 2021 1h 3m

In this episode we will talk with two organizers from the German climate movement. We will focus on their struggle to save the planet and their fight against a pending doomsday clock. For those that don’t know, the Doomsday Clock was a cold war

Becoming Organizers

Dec 15th, 2020 1h

In today’s episode, we talk to Sharmeen Khan and Chris Dixon about the difficulties that define organization and movement building. We go over all the different labors that make up organizing and how organizing is about building the capacities

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