Social Movement Appreciation Project
In our rapidly destabilising world, it's clear that nothing will get better without large numbers of people working together. But social movements remain mysterious and under-studied creatures: the Social Movement Appreciation Project aims to shine a warm and loving light on today's many efforts at collective agency and system transformation.
Podcasting since 2025 • 13 episodes
Social Movement Appreciation Project
Latest Episodes
Organising Les Résistantes: secret sauce and looming storms
Les Résistantes was a beacon of joyful social movement ambition. Something like 10,000 people came together representing struggles from across not only France but Europe and beyond. An activist event of this scale and substance must be seen to ...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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49:52
The French anti-nuclear movement
You might be as surprised as me to learn the anti-nuclear fight is one of the biggest social movement scenes in France. I sat down with Pauline Boyer to learn about France’s current nuclear crossroads and its peculiar economic, cultural and geo...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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57:47
The Movement Hub, Greenpeace and NGOs
In an age of sinister international connivance, have you ever wondered where *our* shadowy networks are? Wonder no longer!Ok not really, but the Movement Hub is a rare and brilliant case of social movement internationalism: alongside muc...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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1:06:29
Soulèvements de la Terre and the Battle of Sainte-Soline
Soulèvements could lay a claim to be the hottest eco-action group not just in France but all of Europe. Their approach of bundling local environmental struggles into bigger efforts has paid off in several actions with numbers in the tens of tho...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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41:18
Anti-fascist football and the Slovak climate movement
For our first entry at Les Résistantes I talk to Mikhail about his activist career, which begins with the onset of far-right violence in early-2000s Slovakia, runs though the world of football ultras, and ultimately brings him to the climate mo...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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