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From Africa to the US to Haiti, climate change is a Black Lives Matter
The Guardian ^ | September 14, 2017 | by Patrisse Cullors and Nyeusi Nguvu

Posted on 09/14/2017 2:33:29 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Just over a year ago, Black Lives Matter UK successfully shut down London City airport. Our aims were to call attention to three things: Britain’s historical responsibility for global temperature changes, while the UK remains among the least vulnerable countries to the direct effects of climate change; second, that black people and poor people globally suffer the most from environmental impacts; and third, that safe freedom of movement is a reality only for the privileged, wealthy and mostly white.

Black Lives Matter UK and the Black Lives Matter US network need to set the record straight:

1) Black Lives Matter is a global black queer femme-led intersectional movement and network that works across multiple issues. We do not believe in single-issue stories.

2) Environmental injustice has always been an issue and a fight taken on by black and poor communities. We are the first to die, but we are also the first to fight on the frontlines.

3) The inequalities that turn an extreme weather event into a disaster or human catastrophe mirror the inequalities that cause the disproportionate loss of black and poor life globally – and the exact systems that Black Lives Matter fights against.

As long as black and poor people are seen as disposable bodies, not worthy of the care afforded to other citizens, then we will be there, making noise, taking space, and saying it loud and clear: climate change is a racist crisis.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bam; fakecauses; fakescience; globalwarming; haiti; hoax; socialism
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Patrisse Cullors is a native-born Angeleno and an artist, organiser and freedom fighter. She is a co-founder of Black Lives Matter.

Nyeusi Nguvu is an activist, abolitionist and artist, writing under a pseudonym. They are a member of Black Lives Matter UK.

1 posted on 09/14/2017 2:33:29 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Neither of them have ever built, produced, or created anything of any worth of value. They are purely destructive elements in society.


2 posted on 09/14/2017 2:36:07 PM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hurricanes are caused by White Supremacists.


3 posted on 09/14/2017 2:36:22 PM PDT by Tax-chick (A fried egg on toast is what I want most.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Another graduate of Community Organizer U.


4 posted on 09/14/2017 2:36:28 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (7.5 mos M/R joining dems to block Cons. agenda? No problem. Trump deal w/Dems, big problem! Ah NO!)
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To: Tax-chick

Okay, so we name the next one Robert Byrd.


5 posted on 09/14/2017 2:37:08 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (7.5 mos M/R joining dems to block Cons. agenda? No problem. Trump deal w/Dems, big problem! Ah NO!)
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To: Tax-chick

Fried egg. Two slices toast. Two slices provolone.

Some assembly required.


6 posted on 09/14/2017 2:37:26 PM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

7 posted on 09/14/2017 2:37:55 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: NorthMountain

Two eggs, two pieces of toast, generous dollops of yellow mustard.


8 posted on 09/14/2017 2:39:13 PM PDT by Tax-chick (A fried egg on toast is what I want most.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Heh, good one!


9 posted on 09/14/2017 2:39:28 PM PDT by Tax-chick (A fried egg on toast is what I want most.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In other words, 2 leeches on the dole.

CC


10 posted on 09/14/2017 2:41:43 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Veni, vidi, Vomui- I came, I saw, I hurled.)
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To: Tax-chick

“:^)


11 posted on 09/14/2017 2:41:56 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (7.5 mos M/R joining dems to block Cons. agenda? No problem. Trump deal w/Dems, big problem! Ah NO!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So, if you are a Climate Change denier, you’re racist!...................


12 posted on 09/14/2017 2:44:54 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Global Warming - Climate Change” world biggest hoax and scam.
Just like Obama causing Global Flooding by pissing in the ocean.
That much can humans contribute.
Elaborate scam to screw off taxpayers off their money!

Earth climate and changes are dependent on Sun’s and Sunspots activity supplying 99.99% of energy. Humans can do schit about it.
Volcano eruptions can produce much more distractions to climate than all humans and SUVs farting together.
CO2 is not poison, it is “food” for plants, which in turn produce Oxygen, that we need to breathe.
STOP the scam, jail all the scammers!!!
God bless and protect Mr. Trump!
MAGA!!!!

Yo 95% of scientwists:
Did you notice temperature drops when sun eclipse happened?
Was that because sun’s output was being shielded, or all the SUVs were confiscated?


13 posted on 09/14/2017 2:45:10 PM PDT by Leo Carpathian (FReeeeepeesssssed)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“From Africa to the US to Haiti, climate change is a Black Lives Matter”

ie, global governance communist movement matter


14 posted on 09/14/2017 2:45:13 PM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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To: Tax-chick

We should make a list...

Robert Byrd (D), Orville Faubus (D), George Wallace (D), and all the other big-name Democrats who fought racial desegregation.

Name the people who fought Rosa Parks and others.

Make sure to put (D) after their names.


15 posted on 09/14/2017 2:45:32 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (7.5 mos M/R joining dems to block Cons. agenda? No problem. Trump deal w/Dems, big problem! Ah NO!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Patrice Cullors, BLM founder from Los Angeles

16 posted on 09/14/2017 2:48:09 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: NorthMountain

BLM: Black Supremacist..


17 posted on 09/14/2017 2:48:34 PM PDT by maddog55 (After years of trying, you actually can't fix stupid.)
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To: gaijin

Wow ... a perfect leftist.

Fat, ugly, belligerent, mouth wide open making a lot of noise about nothing.


18 posted on 09/14/2017 2:51:18 PM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The day the Blacks of the world wake up to how they’ve been used by the Communist Party is the day everyone with anything to do with Communist Party will need to head to the hills.


19 posted on 09/14/2017 2:51:41 PM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now
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It is the white male privilege that no matter how extreme the disaster that we will never ever be hardest hit. The other privilege white males possess is that they are the only group on earth that can plan, prepare, and execute any plan without the help or resources of white males.


20 posted on 09/14/2017 2:59:30 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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