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“Resilience, Grace And Humor”: Activist Ady Barkan Fights Good Fight In ‘Not Going Quietly,’ Despite ALS Diagnosis

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Each day progressive activist Ady Barkan, who is battling the debilitating and incurable disease ALS, faces a difficult reality: “I got a lot to say and not a lot of time left to say it in.”Barkan, 37, makes that observation in Not Going Quietly, the new documentary about his life and work that opens today in theaters in New York and L.A.

The film follows Barkan on what, under the circumstances, is an almost super-human task—a cross country tour in 2018 aiming to flip the House from Republican to Democratic control, and to spotlight Republican attempts to gut medical coverage for those who need it most.The grueling trek of 30 Congressional districts threatened to worsen his health, but Barkan insists in the film, “Movement building is

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