Running with My Girls | Trailer
Preview: Season 11 Episode 6 | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
Five female activists run for local office in a grassroots effort to take back their city.
Tired of watching local government ignore their communities’ interests, five diverse female activists run for municipal office in Denver - one of the U.S.’s fastest gentrifying cities. A story about an engaged community outrunning the deep pockets of the political establishment, RUNNING WITH MY GIRLS demonstrates that building a new kind of political power is not just aspirational but possible.
Major funding for America ReFramed provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Wyncote Foundation, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional funding provided by Open Society Foundations,...
Running with My Girls | Trailer
Preview: Season 11 Episode 6 | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
Tired of watching local government ignore their communities’ interests, five diverse female activists run for municipal office in Denver - one of the U.S.’s fastest gentrifying cities. A story about an engaged community outrunning the deep pockets of the political establishment, RUNNING WITH MY GIRLS demonstrates that building a new kind of political power is not just aspirational but possible.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- When a few of my home girls decided to run for office, I started making a documentary about their experience.
- Five women in Denver band together to take on the political establishment.
- In Denver's 160-year history, we've never had a woman for mayor.
Representation matters.
- It was actually more terrifying to decide to run than to think about being mayor.
- And they're taking on mainstream politics, and they're running without permission, and they're running without the handshake.
- An exciting behind the scenes look at a grassroots movement.
- Yes.
- I'm scared.
- Yeah.
You've done everything you can.
- Anytime we're trying to increase representation in a place where people are accustomed to a certain type of person and a certain identity being represented, there was gonna be some pushback.
- We want a country that we can be happy to pass on to our children and our grandchildren.
- "Running with my Girls" on "America ReFramed", watch on World Channel and in the PBS app.
Running with My Girls | Identity and Politics
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Is it enough that someone in political office only looks like you? (44s)
Running with My Girls | The Gentrification of Denver
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Where in the United States is the second fastest gentrifying city? (21s)
Running with My Girls | The Only One
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Shontel M. Lewis shares why women of color should and can run for political office. (1m 35s)
Running with My Girls | Why Voting is Your Voice
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Shayla Richard, a City Council candidate in Denver, talks about the importance of voting. (33s)
Running with My Girls | Women Working Together
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A collective of women candidates choose to work together on Denver's political trail. (1m 12s)
Running with My Girls | Preview
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Five female activists run for local office in a grassroots effort to take back their city. (30s)
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Major funding for America ReFramed provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Wyncote Foundation, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional funding provided by Open Society Foundations,...