Building Local Power

Recent Episodes

Pizza, DMs, and Solidarity: Filming the Amazon Labor Fight

Posted November 27, 2024 • 00:25:09

In March, 2020, Amazon warehouse worker Chris Smalls led a walkout protesting a lack of Covid-19 safety measures at the JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island....

Amazon, Labor, and Race

Posted November 14, 2024 • 00:36:58

For many years, Reverend Ryan Brown has been a picker at Amazon's RDU1 warehouse outside of Raleigh, NC. In 2020, he was asked to work in a part of...

Bookstores and Local Power with BLP’s New Host, Danny Caine

Posted October 31, 2024 • 00:22:14

The first bookstore Danny Caine fell in love with was a suburban Cleveland outpost of a mega-chain. Since then, he has not only fallen in love with...

The Will and the Way to Revive ‘the Mecca’

Posted October 18, 2024 • 00:23:14

The destruction of Dorr Street in Toledo, Ohio isn’t just a story of physical destruction; it's about the dismantling of crucial social infrastructure...

Mending Broken Promises on Dorr Street

Posted October 4, 2024 • 00:23:16

Toledo’s Dorr Street bears the deep scars of federal policies that stripped away Black economic power and prosperity. Once a thriving center of Black...