205) Steven Marquardt: Turning fear into community-based activism with Sunrise Movement
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Steven Marquardt is a community organizer and Hub Coordinator Fellow with Sunrise Movement Chico, a chapter of the notable youth-led climate activist organization Sunrise Movement.
In this podcast episode, Steven sheds light on why he wasn't initially interested in getting political and what changed his mind; how you can get started with taking and leading community-based action; and more.
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| 1:11.9 | and review in the podcast app. I read them all. They warm my heart. They keep me going. And I really, |
| 1:17.4 | really appreciate your support. So thank you so much. Everything is political, too. So it's funny |
| 1:22.3 | when people try to say, oh, you know, I don't like to be political or I'm not political. Well, |
| 1:27.0 | if you're existing in this society and partaking in the day-to-day life of traditional |
| 1:33.2 | Western industrial society, then you are being political, whether you like it or not. |
| 1:37.2 | And to say that you're not political in my eyes merely means that you have enough privilege |
| 1:40.8 | that you don't have to worry about the things that are going on. |
| 1:45.9 | That was Stephen McCourt, who is a community organizer and hub coordinator fellow with Sunrise |
| 1:52.1 | Movement Chico, which is a chapter of the notable youth-led climate activist organization, |
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