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Underdogs United
This podcast is dedicated to the people who are interested in or currently dedicated to organizing people into a force for good. Ben MacConnell has been organizing professionally since 1998. In this limited series he answers some basic questions: (1) What is organizing? (2) Who are organizers? (3) How does organizing heal divides? (4) Why is grit so important? (5) Why should parents let their kids grow up to be organizers?
Episodes
4 episodes
Organizing Heroes: Frank Smith Jr.
In the third installment of "Underdogs United," Ben MacConnell interviews Frank Smith Jr., a civil rights organizer and the founder and director of the African American Civil War Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.Smith recounts his organ...
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Organizing People Works
In the second episode of the Underdogs United Podcast series, the host, Ben MacConnell, brings to life the African proverb: "Until the lion tells the story, the hunter will always be the hero. He and his friend Rachel offers an authentic "Lion'...
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Episode 2
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Organizing People into a Force for Good Defined
Ben MacConnell, an organizer who started his career in 1997, talks with Kim Bobo, author of Organizing for Social Change and Director of Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy, Lee Staples author of Roots to Power, and Peter Block, author...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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