{"id":30865,"date":"2024-01-03T12:29:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T20:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=30865"},"modified":"2024-01-03T12:29:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T20:29:14","slug":"a-crash-course-in-making-political-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/01\/03\/a-crash-course-in-making-political-change\/","title":{"rendered":"A crash course in making political change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-ted wp-block-embed-ted wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Katie Fahey: A crash course in making political change\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/katie_fahey_a_crash_course_in_making_political_change\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Katie Fahey\u00a0| TED Democracy \u2022 November 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You don&#8217;t need political power to make real change, says activist Katie Fahey. She tells the story of how she led a successful movement in Michigan to end gerrymandering \u2014 the practice of drawing district lines to favor one political party \u2014 and how it all started with a simple social media post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/topics\/politics\">Politics<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/topics\/social+change\">Social Change<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/topics\/society\">Society<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/topics\/democracy\">Democracy<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/topics\/government\">Government<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the speaker<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/katie_fahey\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/katie_fahey\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/katie_fahey\">Katie Fahey<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/katie_fahey\">Citizen changemaker<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/katie_fahey\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See speaker profile<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Katie Fahey bridges political divides and supports nonpartisan good governance reforms across the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Fahey\u00a0| TED Democracy \u2022 November 2023 You don&#8217;t need political power to make real change, says activist Katie Fahey. She tells the story of how she led a successful movement in Michigan to end gerrymandering \u2014 the practice of drawing district lines to favor one political party \u2014 and&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/01\/03\/a-crash-course-in-making-political-change\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1684],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30866,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30865\/revisions\/30866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}