Lesson Plan

Being Present, Connected, and Plural: Expanding the Commons

These episodes argue against the narrowing and containment of life, and show ways we can be together with the planet in ways that liberate, and allow joy and pleasure and empathy.

Podcast Episodes

Ida Susser on Creating a New Historical Bloc: Reimagining the Commons and the Yellow Vests in France

Activism and Actions, Organizing, Politics and Culture, Being Present, Connected, and Plural: Expanding the Commons, Histories That Help Us Act, Powerful Activism and Organizing

In 2018, hundreds of thousands of people in France showed up day after day, month after month, to protest the French government’s attacks on labor, on social benefits, and on the environment, among other things, including police violence. Anthropologist Ida Susser...