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THE FENTON FORECAST

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With David Fenton

Insurgent conversations with the dissident thinkers, scientists, and activists shaping tomorrow. The people Ezra Klein won’t interview. Expect turbulence.

What Future WillWe Choose?

▶ 3 New Episodes Out Now
▶ 3 New Episodes Out Now

AI Safety,

Climate,

Social Movements,

Democracy ,

Income Inequality,

Safe Food,

Digital Propaganda,

AI Safety, Climate, Social Movements, Democracy , Income Inequality, Safe Food, Digital Propaganda,

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There Is No Podcast Like This

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Veteran activist & strategist David Fenton is launching a new podcast challenging the conventional, insider conversations of mainstream media.

The Fenton Forecast is the anti-establishment podcast. It will feature leading dissidents and doers, not the usual pundits.

The Fenton Forecast asks: what future will we choose?

AI-driven mass unemployment… or shared abundance?

Climate collapse… or a livable planet?

Billionaire control… or democracy?

Media platforms of falsehood… or honest journalism?

A sick health system… or regenerative agriculture and medicine?

“ I’m starting this to show people that the future is up to us...

We don’t have to accept a world run by oil, pharma, finance and tech billionaires. That’s not democracy — it’s a new feudalism. I’ve seen social movements triumph before – and they can again.”

If you want the same old recycled talking points, this podcast isn’t for you.

We will name those breaking our world — and how to stop them. ” ‍ ‍- Host David Fenton

Early guests include:

  • on the fight to rein in Big Tech.

  • now banned from American tv for speaking the truth about the Israeli/US alliance.

  • Professor at U Penn, speaking on decades of attacks by fossil fuel companies.

  • on the right’s unmatched digital media machine.

  • on organizing lessons from the Black Panther Party.

  • on the power of art to mobilize and heal.

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Meet Your Host

David Fenton — A Lifetime of Making Trouble for the Right Reasons

Called “the Robin Hood of public relations” by the National Journal, host David Fenton has spent more than 50 years helping social movements win — working with figures like Nelson Mandela, Al Gore, Jane Fonda, George Soros, Yoko Ono, Rev. Jesse Jackson and Bruce Springsteen. As founder of Fenton Communications, he built the largest public interest PR firm, using media to challenge corporate power and protect the environment, public health and human rights.

Fenton is also the author of The Activist’s Media Handbook: Lessons from 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator.

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Learn more at: www.davidfentonactivist.com

What people say about david

  • "David Fenton has helped progressive activists reach the media and public since the late 1960s. In the struggles against apartheid, the nuclear arms race, unjust wars... his work has helped movements advance justice."

    —Jane Fonda

  • "The service rendered to the African National Congress by Fenton Communications during the difficult years, has been of great value to us."

    —Nelson Mandela (From a 1994 letter)

  • "David Fenton has spent decades helping advocates for human rights and social justice reach the public."

    —George Soros

  • "There is no one who has done more to help the progressive community build public support for its causes through powerful and effective messaging."

    —Ken Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch

  • "The progressive world's chief evangelist on the importance of communications and language in social movements."

    Wes Boyd & Joan Blades, Co-founders, MoveOn.org

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PR & Marketing

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