By Any Means

Means TV

By Any Means is a show about how we build a different world hosted by James Harr. Hosted by artist and propagandist James Harr, the series talks with organizers, politicians, designers, technologists, and cultural workers about how power is actually constructed—and what it takes to build institutions capable of changing society. While most political conversations stop at critique. By Any Means starts at Praxis. Each episode pressure-tests ideas against reality: how movements organize, how systems change, what breaks when power is challenged, and what people can build right now; whether through elections, mutual aid, labor, design, media, or something entirely new.

Episodes

  1. Jun 11

    Occupy DSA? | By Any Means

    In this episode of By Any Means, James talks with organizer James Ray about Chris Rabb's Philadelphia state house campaign, the internal dynamics of DSA, and what it means to actually fight for the direction of a left organization instead of just critiquing it from the outside. They get into Philly electoral politics, Palestine solidarity work, local chapter organizing, and the messy but necessary reality of building power inside organizations full of contradictions. James Ray makes the case that DSA's decentralized structure is not just a weakness, but an opening — one where committed organizers can intervene, shift priorities, and make real political wins possible. This is a conversation about elections, organizing, coalition-building, and why the answer to a flawed organization might not be to abandon it, but to occupy it. Watch more By Any Means By Any Means is a production of Means TV, the world's only worker-owned streaming service.

    1h 28m

  2. Jun 11

    Are we all terrorists now? | By Any Means

    Investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein has spent years exposing the hidden architecture of surveillance, national security, and state power. In this episode of By Any Means, James Harr sits down with Klippenstein to talk about the expanding definitions of threat, extremism, and political danger in America—and whether those expansions are becoming a permanent feature of maintaining American capitalism in a period of growing instability. From leaks and information control to protest, media, and the logic of permanent security, this conversation follows a larger question: if empire requires techniques of surveillance, containment, and counterinsurgency abroad, what happens when those same logics begin returning home? If the boundaries of acceptable politics continue to narrow, and left-wing dissent increasingly becomes something to manage rather than respond to, what does that say about the relationship between security, capitalism, and democracy? Watch more By Any Means By Any Means is a production of Means TV, the world's only worker-owned streaming service.

    54 min

  3. Jun 11

    Socialism on the Ballot? | By Any Means

    California's governor race has dozens of candidates. Only two advance. So what does it actually mean to run a socialist campaign inside a political system where the economy is largely controlled privately, major institutions are shaped by wealth, and elections rarely produce change on their own? In this episode of By Any Means, James Harr talks with Peace and Freedom Party gubernatorial candidate Ramsey Robinson about what his campaign is trying to build—and what elections can and can't actually do under those conditions. Not whether socialism sounds good, but how movements use campaigns to organize people, expand political horizons, and create forms of power that survive after election day. Watch more By Any Means By Any Means is a production of Means TV, the worlds only worker-owned streaming service.

    1h 4m
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About

By Any Means is a show about how we build a different world hosted by James Harr. Hosted by artist and propagandist James Harr, the series talks with organizers, politicians, designers, technologists, and cultural workers about how power is actually constructed—and what it takes to build institutions capable of changing society. While most political conversations stop at critique. By Any Means starts at Praxis. Each episode pressure-tests ideas against reality: how movements organize, how systems change, what breaks when power is challenged, and what people can build right now; whether through elections, mutual aid, labor, design, media, or something entirely new.

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  • Creator
    Means TV
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    3
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026
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