About this episode

John Pavlovitz discusses the importance of leveraging privilege for social change and the need for collective action in America.

John Pavlovitz reminds us that what’s happening in America isn’t independent of who we are. That any position of privilege we may hold in this world is a currency we must leverage on behalf of others. That while we might be grieving the country we thought we were, we have to get serious about the person we know we are to make sure our actions are in line with our values. Our values can not be our best kept secret. We need them to find our like minded communities, the ones who want to make a difference. We underestimate our collective power while the powers that be have kept us separated for generations because they know exactly what we could accomplish if we worked together. As always, IF YOU FIND WORTH IN WHAT WE DO, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast AD FREE, along with a bunch of other PERKS, like the rants directly to your inbox and the knowledge that you’re making this kind of highly researched, factual information possible. If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and SUBSCRIBE TODAY!! Thank you so much! xoPG Guest social: https://johnpavlovitz.com/ Beautiful Mess substack…

People in this episode

Host: Leigh McGowan

Guest: John Pavlovitz

Topics covered

• American values
• collective power
• privilege
• community
• social change

Keywords

• America
• privilege
• values
• community
• social change
• collective power
• PoliticsGirl

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Meidas Media Network, PoliticsGirl, Beautiful Mess

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