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|description='''The Story of Change''' is an attractive, animated video short by [[Annie Leonard]] in the style of [[The Story of Stuff]]. Starting by decrying calls to 'save the planet without leaving your couch', she looks at the historical record of how change was effected. Through examples such as [[Gandhi]]'s salt march, the US environmental movements of the 1970s &  [[Martin Luther King]]'s civil rights movement she develops a simple formula. ''Idea'' + ''People'' + ''Action'' = ''Change''
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|description='''The Story of Change''' is a short documentary by [[Annie Leonard]] which by looking at Gandhi's salt march, [[Martin Luther King]]'s {{cat|civil Rights}} movement and the environmental movement in the US in the 1970s, highlights 3 key factors needed for social change:
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Only the third factor is missing, she says, to create a big change and redistribute the world's wealth and priorities towards the common good.
 
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Latest revision as of 07:02, 23 September 2012

Released 2012
Episodes 622
Writer Annie Leonard
Download http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/archive/622/Story%20of%20Change.mov
Length 6 minutes
The Story of Change is a short documentary by Annie Leonard which by looking at Gandhi's salt march, Martin Luther King's civil Rights movement and the environmental movement in the US in the 1970s, highlights 3 key factors needed for social change:
  1. An idea
  2. A group of people who unite behind it
  3. Their willingness to take action

Only the third factor is missing, she says, to create a big change and redistribute the world's wealth and priorities towards the common good.