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Reasons to be Cheerful with Ed Miliband & Geoff Lloyd

162. HOW MOVEMENTS CHANGE THE WORLD

Season 1, Ep. 162
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Hello! This year’s Black Lives Matter protests are thought to be the biggest in US history and across the world mass movements are on the rise. But how do these movements shift the national conversation? What works in driving political change? We chat to social movement experts Deva Woodly and Hahrie Han about language, organising and the strategies of success.


Plus Twitter sensation Michael Spicer on being the ‘man in the room next door’

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