Good evening everyone, welcome to our latest raven book chat and i am will pick talks at the hawkins and i thank you for joining us tonight. Im starting to sound like a broken record before every event but these days when theres so many options for things to do with every time. You could just sit on your couch never evening. Through you critique alexei for us to have folks come in for our events so we really appreciate it. I know that the staff of raven bookstore appreciated as well. Ill introduce you to our guest speaker, james sherow is a professor and the department of history at Kansas State University and he specializes in Research Environmental history and north American Indian history and history of the American West. Professor sherow as written six books norment articles and empire across the heartland, rephotographing alexander gardeners journey which is a familiar resource first staff involved here and i know we have that book on our shelves and weve used it. And the grasslan
Global climate strike, it was the largest protest ever focused on thelimate c crisis. We w will air highghlights frome new york strtrike. Were here to write a new story,y, a story inn whichch o r country is doing everything in its power to address not only the Climate Crisis, but the systemic injustices at its roots. A story whwhich our c cstitutiol right toto a safafclimate is recogngned to the e highest cous. A story which the most Vulnerable People are given the greatest protection. A story with indigigenoupeople are empowered to proctct their homendnds. Amy y plus, well will eaeak to lolongme Journalist Bill mckibben, cofounder of 350. Org. His latest piece, money is the oxygen on which the fire of Global Warming burns. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. As m many as 4illion people to to thetreets around the world fight in t the largest avenue action focused on the Climate Crisis. Students across the
Asia, europe, and australia were organizers say more than 300,000 marched the largest demonstration since the invasion of iraq in 2003. Hundreds of thousands of students and their allies are set to march in the United States, including here in new york city at of next weeks u. N. Climate action summit. We will host a roundtable discussion with youth organizers of the strike, including isra hirsi executive director and cofounder of the u. S. Youth climate strike, who is also the daughter of congressmember ilhan omar, and Kelsey Juliana, lead plaintiff in the landmark youth Climate Lawsuit against the u. S. Government. We are tatalking about our lives. Individualsg those who seem to be putting guns to the four heads of all youth to not only not pull the trigger, but remove your weapon. Amy and we will break the sound barrier with a student from afghanistan who is invited to participate in the firstever u. N. Youth Climate Summit to take place saturday, but the u. S. Rejected his visa. He
Global climate strike, it was the largest protest ever focused on thelimate c crisis. We w will air highghlights frome new york strtrike. Were here to write a new story,y, a story inn whichch o r country is doing everything in its power to address not only the Climate Crisis, but the systemic injustices at its roots. A story whwhich our c cstitutiol right toto a safafclimate is recogngned to the e highest cous. A story which the most Vulnerable People are given the greatest protection. A story with indigigenoupeople are empowered to proctct their homendnds. Amy y plus, well will eaeak to lolongme Journalist Bill mckibben, cofounder of 350. Org. His latest piece, money is the oxygen on which the fire of Global Warming burns. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. As m many as 4illion people to to thetreets around the world fight in t the largest avenue action focused on the Climate Crisis. Students across the
Activists industry. Im phil gale welcome to the program. Worldwide protests or demand action on Climate Change is continuing with huge crowds taking to the streets on every continent a movement that started with children skipping school on friday says grown to become a global force uniting young and old the day of action to protect the planet began in australia. Around the world in just 24 hours the largest condit process the world has ever seen thats what organizers have been calling todays wave of strikes for the planets. Was student demonstrators have been turning out in them millions some of the 1st runnings kicks off in australia i think very run the front lines i mean change you know its already happening its not waiting for it to happen or you know a matter of time if its already yes this is the 1st time adults have joined the climate strikes on such a significant scale like here in hong kong where parents have also been taking part. In thailand hundreds of young protest a stron