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Should climate change be added to the civil rights agenda?
UK Guardian ^
| August 30, 2013
| Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins
Posted on 08/30/2013 3:49:27 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
We marched against the recent attack on voting rights. We demanded justice in the face of Stand Your Ground laws and racial profiling. We marched to raise awareness on unemployment, poverty, gun violence, immigration, and gay rights. And we called for action on climate change.
Chances are, when you think about civil rights, environmental issues aren't on the radar screen. But stop and think about it. Remember Hurricane Katrina?
The hurricane that leveled New Orleans showed that severe weather in low-income neighborhoods and communities of colour is a matter of life and death. The images from the storm are hard to forget: bodies floating in water for days and thousands of people stranded without shelter, waiting for help that was too slow to come.
It's not difficult to see how injustice and inequality played out during Hurricane Katrina. Thousands of people were subjected to needless loss, suffering, even death just because they didn't have the resources to prepare and escape the storm.
What's harder to see is the imminent threat that severe weather occurring with increased frequency and voracity poses to our communities.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: civilrights; climatechange; climatechangehoax; climategate; communism; globalwarminghoax; hoax; humanrights; marxism; naturalrights
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The "green" movement is full of radical communist vermin. Hardcore Marxists.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins is Van Jones without a Y chromosome.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Should climate change be added to the civil rights agenda?Why not? It is a black mark against truth and science.
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posted on
08/30/2013 3:53:46 PM PDT
by
bigheadfred
(INFIDEL)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Sure, why not?
Hey, I know - While we’re at it why don’t we sh!! in one hand and wish in the other and see which one fills up first?
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posted on
08/30/2013 3:54:42 PM PDT
by
servo1969
To: Oldeconomybuyer
“If you are a global climate change denier, you are trying to murder children, therefore you must shut up, or else.”
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posted on
08/30/2013 3:55:39 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: All
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posted on
08/30/2013 3:56:06 PM PDT
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins Ok, now I understand.
5.56mm
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posted on
08/30/2013 4:00:10 PM PDT
by
M Kehoe
To: musicman; FReepers; Patriots; FRiends
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posted on
08/30/2013 4:00:48 PM PDT
by
onyx
(Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Sure, the more confusion the better. It has worked for O man for 4 years now.
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posted on
08/30/2013 4:02:32 PM PDT
by
JSteff
(It was ALL about SCOTUS... We are DOOMED for several generations. . Who cares? The Dems care!)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
British Scientist Steve Jones tells us in his "Darwin's Ghost" book that ... "Five hundred million years ago, the air had twenty times as much carbon dioxide as it contains now," and that "... growth rings from four hundred million years ago show that there were then four hundred days a year."
In short, science tells us that today's "global warming" is a hoax.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
The hurricane that leveled New Orleans showed that severe weather in low-income neighborhoods and communities of colour is a matter of life and deathThe author may as well have added "but if those hurricanes went after those greedy rich white folks, well, we wouldn't care. In fact, they'd deserve it. Social justice!"
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posted on
08/30/2013 4:13:44 PM PDT
by
Luna
(Evil will not triumph. God is at the helm.)
To: bigheadfred
Why not-—It’s all Bull$hit anyway.
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posted on
08/30/2013 4:18:40 PM PDT
by
Venturer
( cowardice posturing as tolerance =political correctness)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
We need to see what these left-wing idiots look like
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posted on
08/30/2013 4:20:15 PM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(Play the 'Knockout Game' with someone owning a 9mm and you get what you deserve)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
...The hurricane that leveled New Orleans showed that severe weather in low-income neighborhoods and communities... For the ten millionth time, Katrina DID NOT hit NOLA. The levees broke the morning AFTER the storm passed.
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posted on
08/30/2013 4:21:56 PM PDT
by
Islander7
(There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
To: Venturer
To: Oldeconomybuyer
We're trying to reason with stupid people. You can't fix stupid, only kick its a**. If A = B and B = C, then A = C.
CW2 will be rural vs. urban, old(er) vs. young(er), and above room temperature IQ vs. below room temperature IQ.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
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posted on
08/30/2013 4:31:17 PM PDT
by
wku man
(It's almost deer season, got your DEERGOGGLES on yet? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jexrnFq2fXY)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
We marched to raise awareness on unemployment, poverty, gun violence, immigration, and gay rights. I'm so aware of all of these things that I never want to hear about them again. But the Left is like the Cambodian indoctrinators under Pol Pot - they're up in our faces screaming at us without relent.
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posted on
08/30/2013 4:33:04 PM PDT
by
Hardastarboard
(Buck Off, Bronco Bama)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Yes, please complete the dishonoring of the dream.
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posted on
08/30/2013 4:36:09 PM PDT
by
jimfree
(In November 2016 my 13 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
Less than $2.4k to go!!
We can do this!!
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posted on
08/30/2013 4:43:03 PM PDT
by
RedMDer
(http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
More insane backflips from a 3 name liberal.
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posted on
08/30/2013 4:48:56 PM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(What would Scooby do?)
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