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Hurricane Katrina proved that if black lives matter, so must climate justice
The Manchester Guardian ^ | August 24, 2015 | Elizabeth C. Yeampierre

Posted on 08/24/2015 9:54:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The environmental justice and Black Lives Matter movements are complementary. We can’t afford to choose between the two.

Those of us from low-income communities of color are on the frontlines of the climate crisis. US cities and towns that are predominantly made up of people of color are also home to a disproportionate share of the environmental burdens that are fueling the climate crisis and shortening our lives. One has only to recall the gut-wrenching images of Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath to confirm this.

At a time when police abuse is more visible than ever thanks to technology, and our communities continue to get hit time and time again by climate catastrophe, we can’t afford to choose between a Black Lives Matter protest and a climate justice forum, because our survival depends on both of them.

As a young woman, I started organizing against racial violence and police misconduct. For the last 20 years, I have been struggling for environmental and climate justice. As descendants of slavery and colonization, our communities have lived and continue to live at the intersection of all these challenges. Both have a long history rooted in the extraction and abuse of our labor and later the extraction and abuse of our resources. Both involve people who are the descendants of historical trauma and are now faced with the catastrophe of a changing climate....

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blacklivesmatter; blacks; climatechange; globalwarming; katrina; lawenforcement
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Do they REALLY believe all this nonsense?
1 posted on 08/24/2015 9:54:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Wasn’t the Mayor of New Orleans a Black Dude?


2 posted on 08/24/2015 10:00:49 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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The media sure are pushing the 10th anniversary of Katrina. They are pushing it for their own reasons.

Interesting to see this crazy attempt to link global warming and the whole black lives matter mythology.


3 posted on 08/24/2015 10:01:07 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Wasn’t the Mayor of New Orleans a Black Dude?

I guess he was found Guilty by Climate Justice!

Can I get a Hallelujah!

4 posted on 08/24/2015 10:05:22 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Trump is the missile. Cruz is the payload. (Tagline stolen from Kid Shelleen with no attribution!))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What a fetid stinking pile of crap


5 posted on 08/24/2015 10:07:01 PM PDT by tx_eggman (Liberalism is only possible in that moment when a man chooses Barabas over Christ.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And what would the conversation be today if we had just picked pour own cotton?


6 posted on 08/24/2015 10:07:40 PM PDT by umgud
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>>The media sure are pushing the 10th anniversary of Katrina. They are pushing it for their own reasons.<<

Biggest whiners ever. 240+ BILLION dollars and they still can’t seem to set things straight.

It is like it is a financial Palestine, where actually FIXING the problem would result in removal of a political posture.

NOLA can sink and never arise.


7 posted on 08/24/2015 10:08:03 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Trump is the missile. Cruz is the payload. (Tagline stolen from Kid Shelleen with no attribution!))
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>>And what would the conversation be today if we had just picked pour own cotton?<<

Old times there would just be forgotten...


8 posted on 08/24/2015 10:08:39 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Trump is the missile. Cruz is the payload. (Tagline stolen from Kid Shelleen with no attribution!))
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To: umgud

Or if Lincoln had lived?


9 posted on 08/24/2015 10:09:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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The left act as if blacks have been unable to wipe their own asses since the beginning of time. Liberals must believe blacks are at a minimum at least semi-retarded. They’re incapable of doing anything for themselves.

If not for whitey, all blacks would live like royalty and there would be no global warming.


10 posted on 08/24/2015 10:12:33 PM PDT by boycott (S)
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11 posted on 08/24/2015 10:15:07 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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Looks white with a fake tan to me, like that Washington State NAACP faker.


12 posted on 08/24/2015 10:17:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hurricanes have been happening since the dawn of time.

New Orleans is on the Gulf Coast, and the Gulf Coast is prone to hurricanes. New Orleans is below sea level. New Orleans is prone to flooding from storm surges during a hurricane.

Mayor Ray Nagin didn’t want to evacuate people on school buses. School buses weren’t good enough for the people of his city, in his eyes.

So, leaving them behind in a flooded city was the better option?

The woman who wrote this screed is a clueless moonbat.


13 posted on 08/24/2015 10:20:01 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Liberals are like the Taliban and ISIS....destroying cultural icons they don't like.)
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At least she doesn’t live in a Food Desert.


14 posted on 08/24/2015 10:21:45 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Black people and Democrats controlled New Orleans.


15 posted on 08/24/2015 10:23:46 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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16 posted on 08/24/2015 10:32:26 PM PDT by Dallas59 (Only a fool stumbles on things behind him.)
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Climate justice? What is that?


17 posted on 08/24/2015 10:35:40 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If we had had clymer justice so many years ago, there’d BE no climate justice to seek today


18 posted on 08/24/2015 11:43:52 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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It's a waste of time to argue with a moron.

Facts are irrelevant to people like this.

19 posted on 08/24/2015 11:52:46 PM PDT by DB
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Yes...they do...doesnt make it true....NO has been under sea level since it was built....


20 posted on 08/25/2015 12:03:31 AM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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