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Not Going Quietly Discussion Guide The Film: Participants and Key Issues
The Film: Participants and Key Issues
KEY PARTICIPANTS
- ADY BARKAN – The central focus of the film. A fierce advocate for healthcare services for all/Medicare for all, Ady was diagnosed with ALS at age 32
- RACHAEL KING – Associate professor of English at University of California, Santa Barbara. She is Ady’s wife and mother of their children, Carl and Willow
- LIZ JAFF- Political activist and organizer. Her chance encounter with Ady in an airport led to the creation of the Be a Hero campaign, and the cross-country tour chronicled in the film
- NATE SMITH – Ady’s best friend, companion, caregiver, and driver for the cross-country tour
- TRACEY CORDER - Teaches people how to utilize bird-dogging when approaching elected officials and candidates
- ANA MARIA ARCHILA – A leading activist locally and nationally whose encounter with Senator Flake in an elevator goes viral
- NICHOLAS BRUCKMAN – Director and writer and the founder/director/EP of People’s Television
- AMANDA RODDY - Producer and writer and documentary filmmaker with People’s Television
KEY ISSUES
Not Going Quietly is an excellent tool for outreach and will be of special interest to people who want to explore the following topics:
- People-power and civic responsibility
- Grassroots organizing
- Bird-dogging as a method to engage your elected officials
- Health care and systemic inequity
- Medicare for all
- Healthcare delivery in the United States
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
- The negative impact the tax cuts for the richest Americans have on millions of low-income and working-class Americans.
- Sacrifices involved in activists’ lives
- Intersection of justice-oriented movements
- Social media and social change
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