197. GO BIG #4: How We Can All Make Change Happen
Reasons Revisited
Geoff Lloyd
4.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Hello! For the final week of our Go Big podcast book tour, we’re talking to incredible people successfully campaigning for change around the world. Ali Abdi and Elbashir Idris talk about the campaign for the first Halal Nando’s in Cardiff and the amazing community activism fighting for social justice that it inspired. Fast food worker and union activist Adriana Alvarez tells us about the remarkable successes of the Fight for $15 in the US. Jane Thewlis talks us through her work in the UK on the global fossil fuel divestment movement. And writer Paul Engler explains why he believes political and social movements can help drive the change we need.
‘Go Big’ is out now in hardback, ebook and audiobook, narrated by Ed and with a bonus conversation between Ed and Geoff: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1119347/go-big/9781847926241.html
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| 0:00.0 | This is reasons to be cheerful with Edmila Band and Jeff Lloyd. |
| 0:12.0 | Hello, hello. Hello, how are you? |
| 0:15.0 | Fine, come in number three, as I used to say. |
| 0:17.0 | So people out on the boating pond. I think that's right, isn't it? |
| 0:20.0 | We went out in a pedlo in Alexander Palace in London the other weekend. |
| 0:23.0 | Did you? Yeah. |
| 0:25.0 | How are you on a pedlo in a pedlo? |
| 0:27.0 | It's surprisingly good. I didn't mangle any swans, we didn't run a ground. |
| 0:32.0 | Yeah. Well, I think it could be my vehicle of choice. |
| 0:37.0 | Yeah, you blow me down. |
| 0:39.0 | If, as, it literally just moments before we came on air, as they say, |
| 0:45.0 | I didn't run into one of the lifeguards from where I swim. |
| 0:49.0 | And he said that a photographer, the paparazzi, have been nosing around, |
| 0:54.0 | trying to get a photo of me in my skinny speeders. |
| 0:59.0 | I'm not sure they are speeders, but I mean, I've got a number of different costumes. |
| 1:03.0 | But they, I mean, in a way, I think I should be flatter. |
| 1:06.0 | This is fantastic news. Do you think so? |
| 1:09.0 | It's not great for the other people who use that pond. |
| 1:12.0 | So there's somebody lurking in the bushes. |
| 1:14.0 | Lurking, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it puts the suppression of the Icelandic geothermal baths video |
| 1:20.0 | in a whole new light. It rather suggests that you could sort of sell it to the highest bidder. |
| 1:25.0 | Well, I am now thinking, obviously these editors of Fleet Street, |
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