The Radical Leap
Political organizers are aware of “wedge issues” that divide us and “web issues” that bring us together. What could be more unifying than saving the planet? The Earth is heating up. Polar ice caps are melting. Sea levels are rising. April was the 12th consecutive hottest month on record. The December 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement, doesn’t rise to the challenge. Clearly, it is going to take mobilization from below to radically change the fossilized attitudes of the fossil fuel industry and the politicians that they bankroll. Broad coalitions of diverse groups seek to do just that. Climate activism engages a new intersectional politics. From Pope Francis to the Dalai Lama, workers and trade unionists, indigenous peoples, and many others are speaking with one voice on the issue like never before.
Speaker
Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein, award-winning journalist and columnist, is the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University. She is author of The Shock Doctrine, This Changes Everything, No Is Not Enough, The Battle for Paradise and On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal. Her articles appear in The Intercept, Rolling Stone, The Nation and The Guardian, She is co-founder of the climate justice organization The Leap.
Elaine Bolton –
Thank you for broadcasting Naomi’s lecture. I am a better person, for listening. I wish she was going to be the new president.
Please don’t stop, thinking, speaking, and problem solving, Naomi. The world needs the light that you shine on these immediate situational dangers. I will definitely be spreading the word about The LEAP program.
Unfortunately there was a glitch in the broadcasting, during the solution portion of the program. I would love to listen to that part, and indeed the whole lecture, again.
Thank you all for the work you do, and the voices you share.
This was an excellent and very important program. 5 stars, from me.
Elaine Bolton
Dahlia Cummings –
This talk is real, empowering, informative, practical, insightful and broadly interconnecting the many important movements of our time. A good one to pass on to everyone who wants humanity to thrive on planet earth!