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Working 2050: Episode 1 (Show Notes + Transcript)
Listen to the Episode Here. Credits + Gratitude: 2020 Interviewee: Rabbi Menachem Cohen 2050 Interviewee: Ursula Delany, Pathfinder,...
H Kapp-Klote
Aug 17, 202016 min read
What’s the Catch?: Mind Controlling Worm Balls and Prison Abolition
I had to look at so many creepy pics of worms to find this and it literally didn’t occur to me that this would happen until I had already...
H Kapp-Klote
Jul 8, 20203 min read
Accessible digital organizing is medium agnostic
The digital divide is real. The literacy gap is real. The “I’m 29 and my eyes are fine so I put this flyer in the smallest font...
H Kapp-Klote
Jul 8, 20203 min read
Who Even Does Digital Organizing?
Over the last few months of pandemic there has been a sudden boom in organizations investing in digital organizing and non organizations...
H Kapp-Klote
Jul 8, 20202 min read
Digital Organizing is Just Writing Things Down
I felt weird sending this yesterday, with an open rebellion in Minneapolis and Donald Trump’s bizarre and cryptic anti-Twitter Executive...
H Kapp-Klote
Jul 8, 20203 min read
Working 2050: Limerence Counselor
Listen to the audio here: https://anchor.fm/h-kapp-klote5/ Octavia Robinson’s office space is small but its hard to notice. the plants...
H Kapp-Klote
Feb 11, 20205 min read
Quality Assurance
Diane Guin is 34, a quality assurance investigator for home and cooperative medical printers. We met at her apartment on Western. She’s a...
H Kapp-Klote
Jan 29, 20205 min read
Working 2050: Recomposition Technician
Elmer Machado has a large beard and an even larger thermos of coffee, which seems appropriate for a 6:30 AM meeting. The building where...
H Kapp-Klote
Jan 15, 20204 min read
Working 2050: Security
Working 2050 is a speculative oral history about workers of the future. Ab4gn4l6 won’t meet with me. I’m from a different time, she says...
H Kapp-Klote
Dec 26, 20193 min read
Working 2050: Business Coach
Working is a speculative fiction oral history project about workers of the future. I first meet Margaret Boggs at the Galesburg train...
H Kapp-Klote
Dec 17, 20196 min read
Working 2050
One of my favorite books is Working, by Studs Terkel, an oral history and radio interview collection. Terkel interviewed over 30 people...
H Kapp-Klote
Dec 2, 20193 min read
Working 2050: Beekeeper
Working 2050 is an homage to Studs Terkel’s Working, a series of possible interviews with workers of the future. My mother always wanted...
H Kapp-Klote
Dec 2, 20194 min read
Feednet 10: Technology Moves Fast: How Do Social Movements Keep Up?
Over the last month (since I left my full time role with a Chicago organizing group) — I’ve done a lot of thinking about social change,...
H Kapp-Klote
Oct 21, 20196 min read
3 AOC Communications Strategies Everyone on the Left Should Copy
I am an unrepentant AOC fanboy. I bet many of you, regardless of gender identity or presentation, are also unrepentant AOC fanboys. Can...
H Kapp-Klote
Oct 21, 20195 min read
Feednet Vol 9. (The Earth is Burning, Want to Come to a Public Speaking Workshop?)
Feednet is a quarterly-ish news roundup on technology, community organizing, and this month, a lot of feelings about YouTube. This...
H Kapp-Klote
Oct 21, 20193 min read
30 Days of Explainers: Results from September
I spent a month working on iteration, testing new mediums, and playing with video, audio, and social media formats -- I did this by...
H Kapp-Klote
Oct 21, 20191 min read
The ReDirect Method: YouTube's algorithm, the Alt Right, and marketing to fight extremism.
A few months ago, a disturbing Medium article was going around about children’s media on YouTube. The auto play feature on the platform...
H Kapp-Klote
Oct 21, 20194 min read
An Astrological Guide to New Members of Chicago’s City Council
There are few topics more polarizing than local politics or astrology. With newly elected Council members taking their oaths soon, it’s...
H Kapp-Klote
Oct 21, 20194 min read
Nonprofit Property Tax Exemption: How Does It Work in Chicago?
(For City Bureau) It’s tax season. What are you going to do about those 217 acres of land? (Link to video is here.) Getting a nonprofit...
H Kapp-Klote
May 31, 20193 min read
Aldermanic Prerogative: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly.
Understanding affordable housing in Chicago (and the claims that politicians, developers, and community groups make about affordable...
H Kapp-Klote
May 31, 20195 min read
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