David Fenton on The Activist's Media Handbook

Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

(11/14/2022) David Fenton has been the driving force behind some of the most important and history-making campaigns of the last 50 years, from the No-Nukes concerts with Bruce Springsteen in 1979, to the campaigns to free Nelson Mandela and end apartheid in the late 1980s, exposing the dangers of toxic chemicals in our food, the long battle to legalize marijuana and end racist drug laws, the misinformation in Washington during the Bush era in the 2000s, and recent campaigns that successfully banned fracking in New York and alerted the public to the climate crisis, including the environmental impact of Bitcoin. Join us when, David tells the fascinating story of how he developed the strategies and that have made him a successful media agitator and shows how these tools can be used by anyone to advance their cause on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.