Upstream is a quarterly documentary and bi-weekly conversation series that invites you to unlearn everything you thought you knew about economics. Blurring the line between economic analysis and storytelling, we look beyond the numbers to explore a wide variety of themes pertaining to our tumultuous 21st century economy.
221 episodes transcribedIt’s pretty crazy to think that it’s already been a decade since Occupy Wall Street — but, at the same time, it also feels like forever ago. So much h...
The summer of 2020 saw perhaps the largest collective uprising in the United States. The uprising, sparked by the cold-blooded murder of George Floyd,...
What are the material conditions which underpin much of the bizarre phenomena taking place during this strange era that we’re in? What unites the cons...
We are currently living in an era dominated by overwork. Whether it’s your punch-in, punch-out job, the side hustles and extra gig work you pursue to...
We’re always told that if you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life. But what if you’re being tricked or manipulated into thinking yo...
There are many ways women across the world have been disproportionately impacted by COVID. The pandemic has simultaneously increased the demand for un...
Many of us around the world live on colonized land. In recent years, the conversation around “decolonization” has been seamed through many different c...
COVID has in many ways monopolized the public imagination in the last year or so, and at times it’s seemed like many other conversations were put on h...
In this conversation, we spoke with Niki Franco, AKA, Venus Roots. Niki is a Caribbean abolitionist community organizer, multidisciplinary cultural wo...
Throughout history, crises and disasters have always catalyzed new strategies to make the world cheap and safe for capitalism. We are seeing this duri...
In this Conversation, we spoke with Eric Holt-Gimenez, author of the book, “A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism: Understanding the Political Economy of Wha...
It’s been a year since Covid hit the United States and radically altered our lives. It won’t be news to most that the Trump administration completely...
Over the last few decades, mindfulness has gone viral. These days, the practice has found its way into corporations, prisons, schools, police departme...
What do you see when you peek behind the curtains of neoliberal capitalism? What happens when you lift the veil off? Well, you see a mythological char...
In this episode, we’re bringing you a special solstice // New Year's conversation. Upstream host Della Duncan comes out from interviewer's chair to be...
It won’t come as a surprise to most to hear that the Trump administration has completely dropped the ball on their response to the covid pandemic. The...
The idea of Silicon Valley means many things to many people. The most prominent associations with this region and culture probably have to do with the...
What if you got your neighbors together and occupied the public spaces on your book, transforming them into whatever you would all want it to be? What...
Dr. Nafeez Ahmed is a journalist and researcher who uses systems thinking to support the just transition to a more equitable and sustainable future. W...
Continuing our focus on the COVID pandemic and its intersection with capitalism, in this Conversation, we spoke with London-based economic anthropolog...
