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Showing videos filed under: climate justice
Vigil for Survival
December 22, 2009In Copenhagen, while world leaders argued dollar amounts and percentage points, more than 5000 ordinary people, activists and NGO workers, decided to fast for climate justice as an example of their willingness to make sacrifices for the greater good. This video from TckTckTck shows their vigil outside the conference.Movies, Philadelphia Security Officers, and Alan Grayson
December 21, 2009The holiday season is usually when the biggest movies of the year come out, but there are several that have been out for a while generating lots of buzz. Kathryn Bigelow received a Golden Globe nomination for The Hurt Locker and is being touted as the woman who could break the Best Director Oscar's all-male streak. Other films this year told unconventional stories of women outside the usual mold of Hollywood superstars. But was this actually a good year for women in cinema?Communities of Color and Climate Change
December 15, 2009Jacqui Patterson, NAACP Climate Justice Initiative Director, is in Copenhagen to remind negotiators and activists alike that fighting climate change is part of any social justice platformLatin America, Copenhagen, and Annise Parker
December 14, 2009"The Obama administration now has both the continuing Honduran crisis and a divided hemisphere on its hands, with no solution in sight," reads a new article in The Nation today. The U.S. has decided to recognize the result of the recent elections in Honduras, despite ongoing reports that the elections were boycotted and that the people consider them an extension of the coup.
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