Building Power with Alicia Garza

Becoming the People Podcast with Prentis Hemphill

Prentis Hemphill

Society & Culture

5 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, author, political strategist, and organizer, Alicia Garza, breaks down what power is, how we build it and why we need it in order to build a more equitable society.

Alicia founded the Black Futures Lab to make Black communities powerful in politics. She is the co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter and the Black Lives Matter Global Network, serves as the Strategy & Partnerships Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and is a co-founder of Supermajority, a new home for women’s activism.

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0:00.0	Power Notice what you feel when I just say the word.
0:19.0	Some of us recoil at it or rail against the idea.
0:22.6	Many of us have been on the blunt end of unjust or abusive or at the very least unskillful
0:28.4	exercises of power.
0:32.3	But what if we could see power as something not external to us, that we resist or relinquish,
0:38.6	but as a force that lives in all of our actions?
0:42.4	Could we learn to use it well?
0:45.2	Could we be honest about where we have it?
0:48.7	Could we grow it, share it, risk it?
0:52.9	Could we learn to wield it well?
0:55.5	On this episode, Alicia breaks down what power is, how we build it, and why we need it
1:01.8	in order to build a more equitable society.
1:04.8	I think this episode is necessary listening for anyone wondering how to begin and how
1:10.6	to understand what it will take to change things.
1:14.2	I really hope you enjoy it.
1:17.9	You know, before I get into it, I have to say, I woke up this morning, I thought, Alicia
1:21.5	is going to look amazing as we record this podcast, but I felt like it's a rainy day.
1:27.4	I was like, I'm only wearing sweats, I'm not even going to try today, but I knew that
1:32.3	Alicia was going to.
1:33.6	You know, I got to represent.
1:35.6	You really do.
1:36.6	You really do.
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