Activate: The Global Citizen Movement
- 2019
- Returning Series
- Documentary
- ~44m / ep
- 1 season
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.
Latest: Season 1 · 2019
View all seasonsE1. Eradicating Extreme Poverty
Sep 5, 2019 · 44m
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.
E2. Ending Cash Bail
Sep 12, 2019 · 44m
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.
E3. Education Cannot Wait
Sep 19, 2019 · 44m
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.
E4. Keeping Girls in School
Sep 26, 2019 · 44m
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.
E5. Ending Plastic Pollution
Oct 3, 2019 · 44m
Darren Criss and Pharrell Williams call for stopping the flow of plastics into our oceans.
E6. Clean Water
Oct 10, 2019 · 44m
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.