At Grist, Eric Holthaus interviews Isra Hirsi, the 16 -year-old daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar.
Hirsi is one of the three teenager chairmen who are planning the U.S. ingredient of Friday’s International Youth Climate Strike. Around the world, members plan to walk out of class to call attention to the urgent would be required for immediate action to deal with the atmosphere crisis.
She will be speaking at the disturb in D.C .. And so will her mommy who is the only representative still further to prove she will be joining the strike.
Here are some interrogation excerpts:
Q. How do you feel about[ your mom speaking ]?
A. I imply, I kind of got her to. It’s good. I kind of want to get do beings there. We invited some other parties like[ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] and Bernie Sanders and we’re exactly hoping they all come. […]
Q. How has their own families influenced you? You said both of your mothers “get it.” Where do you feel most of your insight is coming from?
A. I wouldn’t say it would be my mothers. I would say more of the gaps that I’m in. Learning more about climate change and what it does, all of the different things that are affecting it. I learned about things like Line 3, and wildfires in California. There are so many things that got me recognise how important this is. It’s important to talk about what climate change does to marginalized parishes, what it could do to their own communities. I think that’s a really great style to get more people involved.
Q. And watching the whole national exchange over the past few months.
A. Especially Sunrise. They’re very big now. Speaking about the Dark-green New Deal, it’s energize. Learning about all these things is kind of interesting. And Sunrise has helped employ women around colouring at the forefront.
Q. Why do you think it’s important to have women of dye leading the climate change shift?
A. Parties of pigment are disproportionately affected by climate change and that kind of only comes rejected. Beings lives with these things right now. Accessibility, when it comes to fighting for climate change, too gets rejected. Every interview I have, they’re like, “Are you impressing every Friday? ” And I’m like , no, I can’t. There’s no way. Parties say, “Oh you’re not vegetarian! ” And I say, “Well, their own families is not from home countries. They grew up as meat-eaters, I can’t verify those things.”
It’s important for people to step back and realize that they’re not the only people. Environmental racism is a really big thing. The environmental change is still primarily grey, how do we change that discourse? Having women around hue guiding is one way to do that. […]
You can predict more about the impres in Sher Watts Spooner’s piece here .
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“Racial violence has been rationalized, legitimated, and channeled through our criminal justice system; it is expressed as police barbarism, solitary confinement, and the discriminatory and arbitrary imposition of the death penalty.”
~~ Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness( 2012)
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On this time at Daily Kos in 2006 — British Envoy on US in Iraq: Thirteen Messages Say It All 😛 TAGEND
“No leadership , no policy , no coordination , no arrangement and inaccessible to everyday Iraqis.”
That was British envoy John Sawers’ assessment of the U.S. occupation forces to Tony Blair in May 2003, four epoches after he arrived in Iraq. Three decades ago. The scathing report was loaded onto a memoranda even more scathingly titled “What’s Going Wrong, ” part of a series of leaked substantiates given to The Guardian, which described the exchanges as peppered with “unusual frankness.”
The memos–written in the immediate aftermath of Mr. Bush’s abominable “Mission Accomplished” photo op on the USS Lincoln–detail a damaging ineptness and callousnes at every level of the occupation.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: Everybody into the pond! Greg Dworkin, Armando and Joan McCarter were all on hand today for Manafort’s sentencing, more lessons from the college entrance misleading scandal, reactions to Pelosi, Brexit news, brand-new nuclear option notifications& more.
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