How To Citizen with Baratunde
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How To Citizen with Baratunde
How To Citizen with Baratunde reimagines the word “citizen” as a verb and reminds us how to wield our collective power. So many of us want to do more in response to the problems we hear about constantly, but where and how to participate can leave us feeling overwhelmed and helpless. Voting, while cr...
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The true story of who we really are
This is our wrap of our Week of Citizening that I've been doing with Jon Alexander. We found 8 stories from across the U.S. — across sectors, communit...
We Know how to Rebuild Our Democracy - final story
There is a model for how we rebuild and heal after the human-made disaster being inflicted on the USA right now. Welcome to Dena Heals—a mutual aid ma...
How we gather is how we citizen
We head to Eliot, Maine, where a multiracial, multidisciplinary group of artists have reimagined what a conference can be. At SeaCHANGE, creativity is...
Don't Wait for New Leaders. BECOME Them
Today we bring you Story #6 in our Week of Citizening. We’ve already shown you how people are rethinking democracy through libraries, labor, and schoo...
We found the Anti-DOGE in Chicago
Today, we head to Chicago, where a civic gathering called Chi Hack Night is bringing technologists, designers, policy nerds, and everyday residents to...
People Know What They Need
We’re told some people just need to be saved. But what people really need is to be needed. This community of young single mothers in Lexington, Kentuc...
Can a School Board Teach Us to Overcome Division?
We’re told America is hopelessly divided. But zoom in—like, say, to a school board in South Central Pennsylvania—and a different story emerges.
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A Tax Day Message about Layoffs With Consent
It’s Tax Day in the U.S., a moment when many of us think about how we fund collective life. So today’s story? It’s about layoffs — but not the kind we...
Libraries Are Hubs for Citizening - Story 1
Watch this first video story from the Week of Citizening on Instagram or LinkedIn: https://newsletter.baratunde.com/p/1st-story-libraries-are-hubs-for...
We're Back (Kind of) with More Stories All Week
It's been almost two years, and I (Baratunde) am back with an experimental drop because democracy is something we DO, not something we HAVE (or don't)...
BONUS: Baratunde On Peril and Promise of AI
Welcome to a special bonus episode of How To Citizen. We are sharing Baratunde's appearance on the What Could Go Right? podcast, created by The Progre...
Citizening at The Source (Sam Rader)
So much of the conversation around democracy focuses on the external: from elections and policy to protests and organizing. While getting active is im...
First, You Bring Them Cake (Christian Vanizette)
There’s no shortage of volunteer opportunities or organizations offering them. But how often are the communities meant to benefit from all of this vol...
A How to Citizen Huddle (Coach Steve Kerr & Friends)
Whether you’re a sports fanatic, or you’ve never stepped foot on a court or field—there’s a lot we can learn about citizening from the lens of coaches...
Fewer Debates, More Dunk Tanks (Priya Parker)
How we gather matters. A lot. And what is a nation but a big ol’ gathering of gatherings? Baratunde talks with Priya Parker, facilitator and author of...
To End Conflict, We Must Transform It (Tim Phillips)
The intensifying political division and violence in our country is concerning — but it’s not unique. And few know that better than Tim Phillips. For 3...
Justice Begins with Imagination (Ruha Benjamin)
According to Ruha Benjamin, we’re living inside someone else’s imagination. An imagination that limits our ability to build a more just, liberated wo...
A New Shape for the Economy (Kate Raworth)
It’s no secret that our economy only works for a select few. But what would our economy look like if we prioritized people and the planet, instead of...
DAO-mocracy (Alex Zhang)
Imagine if the members of your group chat shared more than memes but also shared a bank account, or if the early users of a social media app helped de...
Democracy without Politicians (Claudia Chwalisz)
Instead of electing politicians to represent us…what if we just represented ourselves? Peer to peer. Neighbor to neighbor. Baratunde talks with Claudi...
Love is a Renewable Resource (Nsé Ufot)
We all know that voting alone won’t save democracy. But it does help…a lot. No one understands that better than voting rights organizer Nsé Ufot. She’...
Democracy, Fractals, and Sci-fi (adrienne maree brown)
Saving our democracy isn’t just about registering people to vote, ending gerrymandering, and so on. It’s about getting back to the basics of living to...
Crafting a Citizen Story (Jon Alexander)
The stories we’re told & tell about ourselves shape the ways we act and how we citizen. And the story we’ve been living in for decades now is one of c...
Season 4: Creating a Culture of Democracy
The podcast for people tired of tuning into bad news is back with a fourth season and brand new ways to interpret the word “citizen” as a verb! This s...
BONUS: Homelessness Is Solvable (with Aras Jizan)
In this bonus episode, Baratunde learns how data, well-defined goals, and a sense of collective ownership are helping those at the front lines of Amer...
Those We’ve Left Behind (with Shaka Senghor & Teresa Hodge)
Baratunde asks how can we citizen with tech when we disconnect millions from technology and from society as a whole by incarcerating them? He closes t...
Blockchain Chickens and Empathetic Tech Workers (with Xiaowei Wang)
Baratunde is reminded that “tech companies” are really just people and asks what it would mean for tech employees to think critically about their work...
When The Data Is Us (with Krystal Tsosie)
Baratunde continues his journey to discover how we can embed more justice into the data driving our increasingly automated lives and focuses on the mo...
Arsenic in My Muffins (with Kasia Chmielinski)
Baratunde knows what is healthy to eat or not, thanks to the required nutrition labels on our food. But how do we know the ingredients in the algorith...
Defending Our Collective Psyche (with Sander van der Linden)
Can we inoculate ourselves against misinformation and conspiracy theories in the way we do for infectious diseases? Instead of debunking, can we “pre-...
Can Tech Save the Literal World? (with Jamie Margolin)
Baratunde connects with Gen-Z author and climate activist Jamie Margolin, to see how this next generation is using tech to save the planet. He was sur...
Fast, Fair, Fun (with Digital Minister Audrey Tang)
After a life of civic hacking outside the system through efforts like vTaiwan, Audrey Tang, now Digital Minister of Taiwan, speaks with Baratunde abou...
Circles in a World Made for Triangles (with Pia Mancini)
Baratunde learns more about experiments in digital democracy. He speaks with Pia Mancini, cofounder of Open Collective, a platform empowering collecti...
Move Slow and Fix Things (with Esra’a Al Shafei)
Esra’a is a Bahrani human rights activist and founder of Majal, a multiplatform organization that amplifies underrepresented voices in the Middle East...
Public Parks and Re-creation (with Eli Pariser)
Right now we interact with the public more online than offline. But these digital spaces are not designed with our collective wellbeing in mind. Barat...
A Podcast-Sized History of Tech (with Scott Galloway)
Baratunde has been sounding the alarm about the perils of Big Tech for years. In this episode, he breaks down his journey in tech and talks with tech...
Baratunde’s Tech Origins (with Belinda Yvonne Thurston)
Technology and its promise of a better world is a part of Baratunde’s DNA. In this episode, Baratunde reminisces with his older sister, Belinda, about...
Season 3: Using Tech to Citizen
Season three of How To Citizen with Baratunde is all about tech. Launching October 28th, we’re bringing you the people using technology for more than...
Comedians Who Read the Newspaper (with Hari Kondabolu)
If we’ve learned anything in Season 2 of How To Citizen with Baratunde, it’s that it takes a village, and by that, I mean the entire global community....
Baratunde Reflects on Season Two
“It’s hard to citizen when you can’t pay the bills.” This season’s theme has revealed the economic causes of our deep division and has opened our eyes...