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Ep. 5 - Megan Merrick and Jonathan Judge, engaged Denver residents
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Today's episode features *gasp* two guests who are not elected officials.
We're talking about activism, and moments of "gateway activism". How we encourage others and ourselves to notice our relative privileges and turn holiday charity aimed at the hardship of the moment into activism aimed at the systems that perpetuate these hardships year after year.
Megan Merrick is a nurse in Denver who works mainly with severely ill children and their families. In May she appeared with Brian on the 24+ hour filibuster Hold The Floor. More about that at holdthefloor.info, and videos of the event on Instagram - @bhastert.
Jonathan Judge is the Director of Youth Engagement at Rise Above Colorado, an organization founded to help empower teenagers to make healthy choices and avoid substance abuse. More info at iriseaboveco.org.
Some additional reading on the darker origins of Thanksgiving.
The books that Megan mentioned:
No One Ever Asked Me: The World War II Memoirs of an Omaha Indian Soldier
A Little Radical: The ABCs of Activism
A Child's First Book of Trump - by Michael Ian Black
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