SIFFcast with Heather Booth
Influential Organizer and Subject of Heather Booth: Changing the World
Influential Organizer and Subject of Heather Booth: Changing the World
On the newest episode of SIFFcast, Jeremy interviews activist and long-time community organizer Heather Booth. Heather is probably one of the most famous and influential people you've never heard of and she is the subject of the new documentary, appropriately titled Heather Booth: Changing the World. In telling the story of Heather Booth, her evolution from an activist in Mississippi to a legendary political organizer, the film presents-through her life and work-an overview of 50 years of the Progressive movement, as well as a manual on how to become an organizer.