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Activate: The Global Citizen Movement Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2019 - 2019
Episode 1
Eradicating Extreme Poverty
Thu, Sep 5, 201943 mins
Hugh Jackman, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Becky G join Global Citizen in campaigns to push world leaders into enacting policy changes that would end extreme poverty around the globe. As Jackman prepares for the organization's massive Central Park festival, Becky G travels to Mexico to amplify Global Citizen's campaign to push companies to support women-owned businesses. Experts describe the state of extreme poverty around the world, the enormous progress that's been made in the past 20 years and innovative solutions being implemented across the globe, including P&G and its Charmin brand's supply chain sourcing efforts.
Episode 2
Ending Cash Bail
Thu, Sep 12, 201947 mins
Common and Usher join global citizens and activists to fight for historic criminal justice reform.
Episode 3
Education Cannot Wait
Thu, Sep 19, 201945 mins
Emmy Award-winning actor Rachel Brosnahan teams up with Global Citizen and travels to the border of Peru to see what happens to children's education during conflicts and natural disasters. After an emotional experience with displaced families, Brosnahan and Global Citizen return to the U.S., where they urge Ireland, the U.K. and the U.S. to pledge millions to Education Cannot Wait, a global fund for education during crises. Experts describe the disproportionate impact that natural disasters and conflict have on developing countries and ways people and brands around the world, like Tide, are providing effective relief during emergencies.
Episode 4
Keeping Girls in School
Thu, Sep 26, 201930 mins
Priyanka Chopra Jonas joins Global Citizen and activists around the globe as they campaign to break down barriers to girls' education. Meanwhile, Gayle King and Bonang Matheba rally tens of thousands of people to call on the South African government to commit $58 million toward ending period poverty and providing girls with the menstrual education and resources they need to stay in school and stay confident. Experts look at the broad range of issues that keep girls from getting an education, and the enormous progress that's being made around the world, like the work by period product brand Always to provide puberty education and free product to girls from the U.S. to the U.K. to South Africa and beyond.
Episode 5
Ending Plastic Pollution
Thu, Oct 3, 201947 mins
Pharrell Williams joins Global Citizen's push to get governments, companies and individuals to solve the ocean plastic pollution crisis. Meanwhile, Darren Criss travels to the Philippines to witness how plastic waste impacts people living in extreme poverty and calls on global citizens to urge their mayors to commit their cities to zero-waste futures. Experts describe the disproportionate impact of plastic pollution on people in developing countries and the ways people and brands are solving the problem around the world.
Episode 6
Clean Water
Thu, Oct 10, 201947 mins
"Orange Is the New Black" star Uzo Aduba joins Global Citizen as they rally millions around the world to push for clean drinking water and proper sanitation for the world's most vulnerable people. They travel to Aduba's parents' homeland of Nigeria, where they urge governors to commit state funds to eradicate the contaminated water and open defecation crises.
