The Complex Reality of Black–Jewish Coalitions in Georgia
AT A JEWISH DEMOCRATIC COUNCIL OF AMERICA virtual election celebration on January 17th, newly elected Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock reminded the audience about “the longstanding relationship between the African American community and the Jewish community, our shared values, our sense of justice and struggle for peace in the world,” citing the connection between Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who had once been a pastor at the Atlanta church where Warnock now presides, and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. His fellow Georgia senator-elect, Jon Ossoff, offered a similar sentiment, referencing his mentor Rep. John Lewis’s support for Black–Jewish coalitions. “I know that Congressman Lewis is looking down at us in Georgia right now and smiling . . . the heart of the old Confederacy and the cradle of the Confederacy will be represented in a few days by the Jewish son of an immigrant and an African American pastor of Ebeneze
Climate weighs on mental health
Teens, young adults particularly affected by fear, anxiety By Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times
Published: January 12, 2021, 6:02am
Share: Several burnt vehicles and charred tree trunks are what s left of a homestead in Berry Creek, Calif., after the North Complex Fire in September. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Time)
Maddie Cole in eighth grade stopped running cross country. She’d competed the year before, but the air quality in her native Sacramento, Calif., was so bad that she got sick during a race; she soon learned she had asthma.
The next year the sky above Sacramento turned gray with smoke from the 2018 Camp Fire. Maddie and her classmates went to school with masks on. “It felt,” she said, “like a futuristic apocalypse.”
Now, seriously, did anyone expect this outcome?
Maddie Cole in eighth grade stopped running cross country. She’d competed the year before, but the
air quality in her native Sacramento was so bad that she got sick during a race; she soon learned she had asthma.
The next year the sky above Sacramento turned gray with smoke from
the 2018 Camp fire. Maddie and her classmates went to school with masks on. “It felt,” she said, “like a futuristic apocalypse.”
The situation has only worsened as wildfires and their devastation have become so routine that she and her classmates are “just used to it,” said Maddie, now 16 and a junior. This fall “it was just like, ‘Yeah, California’s on fire again. It’s that time of year.’”
December 29, 2020
You would protect children from monsters. Please protect them from the fossil fuel industrypic.twitter.com/fUstIrGiCh Peter Kalmus (@ClimateHuman) November 23, 2020
There s a myth that young people get anxious or depressed when people talk about the reality of the climate crisis.
My experience is the opposite.
The worst part is denial, looking away, downplaying or spreading false hope saying ”we ll fix this” without taking sufficient action. Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) December 28, 2020
Maddie Cole in eighth grade stopped running cross country. She’d competed the year before, but the air quality in her native Sacramento was so bad that she got sick during a race; she soon learned she had asthma.
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