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Series · 2019–Returning

Activate: The Global Citizen Movement

1 season·6 episodes·44 min avg.

A six-part documentary series on Global Citizen’s efforts to combat global challenges connected to extreme poverty. Each episode delves into a different issue connected to the root causes of poverty, following a specific Global Citizen campaign and the organizers, amplifiers, grassroots activists and people whose lives are being changed.

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Eradicating Extreme Poverty
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Sep 5, 2019

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.

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Ending Cash Bail
Ending Cash Bail
Sep 12, 2019

Music artists Common and Usher team up with Global Citizen and grassroots organizers as they attempt to achieve historic criminal justice reform by ending the use of cash bail in New York State.

03
Education Cannot Wait
Education Cannot Wait
Sep 19, 2019

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.

04
Keeping Girls in School
Keeping Girls in School
Sep 26, 2019

Priyanka Chopra Jonas campaigns 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.

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Ending Plastic Pollution
Ending Plastic Pollution
Oct 3, 2019

Darren Criss and Pharrell Williams call for stopping the flow of plastics into our oceans.

06
Clean Water
Clean Water
Oct 10, 2019

Uzo Aduba joins Global Citizen as they challenge millions around the world to push for clean drinking water and proper sanitation for the world's most vulnerable people.

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