What Can We Learn From Teenagers? [Rebroadcast]
Wonder Cabinet
Wonder Cabinet Productions
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
All over the country, a chorus of hope is coming from an unexpected group — teenagers. They are marching, protesting and demanding a better future as we – the adults – watch them with a kind of heartbreaking pride. These teenagers are not waiting for adults to figure things out for them.
They have superpowers — innocence, idealism, and Instagram — and they aren't waiting for permission to use them to reshape the conversation around everything from gun control to education to climate change.
What can we learn from teenagers today? What do they have that the rest of us don't?
Guests:
Angie Jiang, Kevin Coval, Luis Carranza, Kee Stein, Frances Jensen, Angie Thomas, Tyler Ruzich
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strain Champs. |
| 0:04.7 | Have you ever tried to lobby a U.S. Senator? |
| 0:07.8 | How about when you were a teenager? |
| 0:14.1 | We walk into the Senate building. |
| 0:16.5 | Me, a U.N. staffer, and a gaggle of girls. |
| 0:21.3 | This is Angie Jang. |
| 0:23.2 | She's 17. |
| 0:25.5 | We ask our like chaperone, who are we seeing first? |
| 0:29.9 | Oh, we're just seeing Tammy Baldwin's staffers and we're like, oh darn, didn't get to see her. That sucks. |
| 0:38.0 | We walk into the room, we're giving this pitch. |
| 0:41.2 | All these girls are just expressing their passions, gender equality, |
| 0:45.2 | and the right to education, the right to having a future, the door clicks a little bit. |
| 0:53.2 | It opens. |
| 0:57.0 | I look to my right, and it's Tammy Tammy Baldwin and she's like, hi girls! And I was like, |
| 0:59.0 | fan girl moment. |
| 1:01.0 | She sits down and she's listening and I knew what I was talking about. |
| 1:07.0 | All the girls knew what they were talking about. |
| 1:10.0 | And she did go on to co-sponsor and associate her name with the bill that we were talking about. All the girls knew what they were talking about. And she did go on to co-sponsor and associate |
| 1:13.5 | her name with the bill that we were talking about. The meeting's over. We leave. We take a picture. |
| 1:19.4 | It's great. You open the door. And there's like a group of activists chanting about health care, waving signs, and they're protesting the potential repeal of the Affordable Care Act. |
| 1:36.3 | This whirlwind of advocacy, we had just gotten out of a meeting, and obviously not all teens have the opportunity to go to D.C. and talk to representatives and senators, but it is changing. |
| 1:49.5 | We are being listened to, especially now. |
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