205) Steven Marquardt: Turning fear into community-based activism with Sunrise Movement
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
kaméa chayne
4.9 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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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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| 1:34.7 | So thank you so much. Everything is political, too. So it's funny when people try to say, oh, |
| 1:39.6 | you know, I don't like to be political or I'm not political. Well, if you're existing in the society and partaking |
| 1:46.5 | in the day-to-day life of traditional Western industrial society, then you are being political, |
| 1:51.7 | whether you like it or not. And to say that you're not political in my eyes merely means that |
| 1:55.8 | you have enough privilege that you don't have to worry about the things that are going on. |
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