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Protests in Ferguson, Mo., lure many from across the US
The Mankato Free Press / The Los Angeles Times ^ | August 20, 2014 | Kurtis Lee and Tina Susman
FERGUSON, Mo. — Illai Kenney, a telecommunications student in Washington, found herself mesmerized by the constant stream of images flooding into her Twitter feed of protests underway in the small town of Ferguson, half a continent away.
Pictures of women whose eyes were swollen from tear gas. A mother’s anguished weeping. Hundreds of citizens marching through the streets, their hands held aloft in defiance of a police force that had killed an unarmed young black man. She knew one thing: She had to be there.
Kenney quickly packed a bag, got in a car with friends and drove 1,300 miles west along Interstate 70 to Ferguson.
“This is a movement. To see why these people — my people — were marching on the streets was just too much for me to just watch,” said Kenney, 25, who is black....
http://creativewell.com/pdf/ourgreenfuture.pdf
Illai Kenney, Howard University student
Illai is a leader within the powerful black youth vote movement working to increase civic participation.
She is currently a student organizer for the Responsible Endowments Coalition working to increase
awareness about socially responsible investing and community development at Howard University.
She co-founded Georgia Kids Against Pollution when she was 12 and has traveled the world advocating
environmental justice. Illai was the youngest delegate to the UN World Conference on Sustainable
Development in Johannesburg, South Africa.
http://conference.aashe.org/2013/content/transforming-msis-sustainability-leaders
Illai Kenney, Howard University
Illai is a senior telecommunications management major at Howard University. She is a Program Associate in the Office of Sustainability where she manages the University’s recycling program procedures, policies, data and program development. She helps to educate the campus community to reduce waste and promote effective utilization of materials and resources. An internationally recognized environmental and social justice youth activist, her first public speech was at the Million Youth Movement Rally when she was nine and she founded the Georgia Kids Against Pollution when she was 12. She is a Brower award winner and has contributed to numerous environmental campaigns. She is attracted global media attention for challenging Coca-Cola over water practices in India and for speaking up about poverty at the UN Summit on Sustainability. An outspoken critic of the lack of government response to Katrina, Illai also works with Black Youth Vote to promote youth civic engagement.
“This is a movement.”
Yes a rather big Bowel movemnt it is...