Posted on 01/05/2018 10:37:19 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Native American tribes, islanders and communities of color led the toughest environmental fights of 2017.
Thenjiwe McHarris of the Movement for Black Lives leaned into the microphone and, with a finger pointed firmly at her audience, delivered a powerful message to the 200,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C., for the People's Climate March.
"There is no climate justice without racial justice," McHarris boomed as the temperature reached 91 degrees, tying a record for late April. "There is no climate justice without gender justice. There is no climate justice without queer justice."
For a movement historically led by white males who have rallied around images of endangered polar bears and been more inclined to talk about parts per million than racial discrimination, McHarris's message was a wake-up call.
"We must respect the leadership of black people, of indigenous people, of people of color and front line communities who are most impacted by climate change," she said. "This must be a deliberate, strategic choice made as a means to not only end the legacy of injustice in this country, but an effort to protect the Earth."
"We are at a point where we have crossed the threshold beyond which we can not return to a period where environmental justice is not a part of the conversation," Patrice Simms, vice president of litigation for the environmental law organization Earthjustice, said.
Driven by pollution concerns, advocates from low-income and minority communities across the country are providing a powerful, new voice on environmental issues.
(Excerpt) Read more at insideclimatenews.org ...
Thenjiwe McHarris has spent her entire political and professional career challenging the injustices that imprison people and their communities in a life of poverty or behind bars. That commitment has led her to campaign on human rights issues in the United States and around the world.
Saul Alinsky was an American community organizer and writer. He is generally considered to be the founder of modern community organizing. He is often noted for his 1971 book Rules for Radicals.
Black Snow Matters?
True, true. Black snowflakes melt faster.
But that is based in things like “albedo” and “thermometers” and “specific heat capacity” are have been measured by old, white males.
Thenjiwe doesn’t look like she’s one of the sharpest knives in the drawer. But hey! “Activism” sure beats having to work for a living.
Lost me right there.
200,000 people showed up for a climate march? How’d the get there and what were they wearing?
These people are incoherent.
What exactly is climate justice or racial Justice in the first place? How are they related? When she gives speeches does her audience know what the hell she is talking about?
Or does she just shoot from the hip, speaking in stream of consciousness expressions??? But since she is an alleged authority on this, nobody challenges what she says?
Environmental Justice Grabs a Megaphone in the Climate Movement
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but no one was listening ...
Wow reliving a 9 month old event that has nothing to do with today’s world:-)
Preaching to the choir loft
“There is no climate justice without racial justice,”
“There is no climate justice without gender justice.
There is no climate justice without queer justice.”
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So if you oppose “climate justice” (whatever that is), then you must be a racist, sexist homophobe.
2 million showed up to protest the Kenyanesian Usurpation 9/12/2009 and the Ministry of Propaganda has made it disappear.
Was a solar-powered microphone? If not, then the speaker is an eco-criminal...
My question is who are the judges of "climate justice", "social justice", etc.? Marxists? Communists? Community Organizers?
Don’t eat it.
Or the yellow snow either.
She has a point: it's all one great big hoax.
The word “Justice” — when qualified — is a political statement; therefore, far removed from what justice really is.
Stark. Raving. Mad.
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