Karen Bass Releases Plan to Combat Climate Change
April 28, 2022
Rep. Karen Bass released her plan to combat climate change and take bold action to protect Los Angeles from the existential threat of global warming.
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Dr. Ladson-Billings Earns 2020 NNPA Leadership in Education Award
September 17, 2020
“We have COVID, we have anti-Black, we have the very tenuous economy and we have the climate catastrophe,” said Dr. Ladson-Billings.
Pots and Kettles – Republican Hypocrisy and Double-Talk
December 19, 2019
While Republicans are throwing mud at Hunter Biden, no one has asked for any investigation of the Trump family. Ivanka has used her father’s influence to gain coveted trademarks in China. Her brothers have used government resources and their father’s influence to feather their nest in establishing new Trump properties all over the world. While I’m not condoning Hunter Biden’s possible pecuniary use of his father’s status, none of us should be happy about the way our government has subsidized the Trump Empire.
Kam’s Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun
January 16, 2019
For movies opening January 18, 2019:
Africa Seeks Commitments to Fight Climate Threat at World Climate Confab
December 17, 2018
Seyni Nafo, spokesman of the African delegation at the World Climate Conference taking place this week in Poland, is not one to mince words about the serious climate threat now facing the African continent.
Climate Summit Predicts Floods Across the Globe
September 21, 2018
The U.S.-based Union of Concerned Scientists wrote: “Global warming is making heavy rain more frequent in many areas of the country. With human alteration of the land—like the engineering of rivers, the destruction of natural protective systems, and increased construction on floodplains—many parts of the U.S. are at greater risk of destructive floods.“
Editorial Cartoon: Global Warming and Hurricane Harvey
September 7, 2017
“PROUD CLIMATE CHANGE DENIER” Trump and Global warming is a hoax, Hurricane Harvey in Texas, Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey and Katrina in New Orleans
Climate Change Poses Imminent Threat To Africa
December 23, 2015
While government leaders, media and climate justice activists converged in Paris to advance the fight against global warming and, as President Barack Obama said, “save the one planet we have,” extreme weather patterns were already creating havoc across the African continent. A rare weather pattern that brought 60 degree days to the East Coast of the U.S. in December has been linked to a brutal drought in southern Africa. An exceptionally large pool of warm water in the Pacific has bottled up cold winter air in the Artic. This unusual El Nino weather phenomenon has left a trail of bone