SPECIAL | The life and legacy of activist Ady Barkan
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🗓️ 20 December 2023
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Ady Barkan was an American lawyer and a social justice activist. He was a powerful grassroots organizer who promoted policies that help America’s workers and was a champion of healthcare for all. Ady was an especially vocal advocate for low-income, elderly and disabled populations. He ended up as a member of that last group after having been diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, in 2016. Sadly, Ady succumbed to the disease in November. But his life's work is memorialized in the documentary, "Not Going Quietly." Director Nick Bruckman joins The Excerpt to talk about Ady's impact and influence.
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| 0:08.0 | Hello and |
| 0:15.0 | this is a special episode of the excerpt. |
| 0:17.0 | today is Wednesday December 2023 |
| 0:18.0 | and this is a special episode of the excerpt. |
| 0:25.0 | Ohad Barkin, known as Adi, was an American lawyer and a social justice activist. |
| 0:31.0 | He co-founded the progressive anti-Special Interest Pack be a hero and was a powerful |
| 0:35.7 | organizer promoting policies that help America's workers. He was a champion of health care for all, but |
| 0:41.0 | was an especially vocal advocate for low-income, elderly, and |
| 0:45.2 | disabled populations. |
| 0:47.1 | He ended up as a member of that last group after having been diagnosed with ALS, also |
| 0:52.0 | known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, in 2016. |
| 0:55.0 | Joining us now to talk about Adi's life, impact, and influence is Nick Bruckman, |
| 1:01.0 | the director of not going quietly, a documentary about Adi's life and work. |
| 1:06.1 | Nick, thanks for coming on the excerpt. |
| 1:08.2 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:09.2 | It's an honor to be here. |
| 1:10.8 | So Adi Barkin died last month of ALS at the age of 39. |
| 1:16.0 | You directed the documentary about him a couple of years ago though. |
| 1:19.0 | What was it about him that made you want to make an entire film about this man? |
| 1:25.0 | Sure, so I met Adi in 2018 right after he had confronted Senator Jeff Flake |
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