Building Local Power

Building Local Power brings you thought-provoking stories and new ideas for breaking the hold of corporate monopolies and expanding the power of communities to chart their own futures.

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Brendan Greeley on Why We Need a Pro-Competition Political Party

Posted February 23, 201800:44:02

Show page available at: https://ilsr.org/competition-party-blp-episode-40/. In this episode of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance's podcast, Community...

Colorado State Senator Steve Fenberg on Local Power Versus Corporate Power

Posted February 8, 201800:24:34

Show page available at: https://ilsr.org/fenberg-local-power-blp-episode-39/. In this episode of ILSR's Building Local Power podcast, Energy Democracy...

Environmental Justice & Local Activism, A Conversation with NAACP Leader Jacqui Patterson

Posted January 25, 2018

Show page available here: https://ilsr.org/naacp-activism-blp-episode-38. Jacqui Patterson, the director of the NAACP's Environmental and Climate Justice...

Want Your City to Prosper? Then Forget Everything You Think You Know about Economic Growth

Posted January 11, 2018

Show page available at: https://ilsr.org/strong-towns-blp-episode-37/. In this episode of ILSR's Building Local Power podcast, Chuck Marohn of Strong...

The Rising Anti-Monopoly Movement

Posted December 28, 2017

Show page available at: https://ilsr.org/anti-monopoly-blp-episode-36. This roundtable discussion between ILSR's Stacy Mitchell, John Farrell, and Christopher...