Mitchell Rabin Speaks with David Fenton, Activist, Founder, former CEO, Fenton Communications

Social Activism in business is gaining new ground again as the injustices in society and damage being routinely done to our environment along with economic disparities have become utterly transparent to the point of embarrassment.   Thankfully, the space of social enterprise is picking up the ball here and running with it, offering change, if not transformation in many sectors of society. But there's someone who started this long ago, the marriage of social change and business, today's guest, activist & environmentalist, David Fenton.   In 1982, after having been a photo-journalist, hippie and with ties to the major movers and shakers of the 1960's, David took the spirit of his values and activism and shaped it into a company that had non-profits as its clients and people blowing the whistle on society's ills, from the chemicalization of apples while calling them healthy and his mounting a campaign that reached the Supreme Court to protect children--and everyone--from carcinogenic sprays on apples, to blowing the whistle on the ever-growing nuclear arsenal and producing a film about that. The list goes on---from helping to build MoveOn.org to helping Nelson Mandela win the Presidency in South Africa.  David's life reads like an extraordinary adventure novel of a hero doing good and taking down the bad guys, with some humor and cheer, one by one. In this interview, David takes us for a tour to meet the stars of the times, Abby Hoffman and others, and it's interesting as much as it provides some historical documentation of a time from which today, we can take a few pages, of not chapters from to inform and guide  needed actions today. David's work has been a model for us here at A Better World. See www.fenton.com Visit us at: www.mitchellrabin.com  www.abetterworld.tv  www.abetterworld.net  www.abetterworld.store