Climate change: Irma, Harvey, Katia, Jose?

DemocracyNow.org (Sept. 11, 2017); CC Liu, Crystal Quintero (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Honest conversation about climate change  in wake of storms

Why have you done this to my planet?

At least four people have died and nearly 6 million people are without power in Florida, after Hurricane Irma made landfall on Sunday on the Florida Keys as a Category 4 hurricane. Is this due to climate change? How about Hurricane Harvey? Democracy Now! speaks to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Elizabeth Kolbert. The Irma super-storm flooded the streets of downtown Miami, Florida, turning the city’s main strip, Brickell Avenue, into a 3-foot-high raging river. Its arrival sparked one of the largest mass evacuations in U.S. history, with nearly 7 million people ordered to leave their homes. More (Watch Full Show)

• Elizabeth Kolbert award-winning journalist and a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine, where she has reported extensively on climate change. Her most recent piece is headlined "Hurricane Harvey and the Storms to Come." She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her 2015 book, The Sixth Extinction.
  
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• Austerity, divestment, Irma: Why are 300,000 in Puerto Rico without power?
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Los Angeles Protests U.S. War in Iraq

LA Daily News Staff photographer John McCoy (Hollywood, CA 3/21/09)

Peace activists stage "die in" by lying down in the middle of Hollywood Blvd. The sounds of bombs were amplified through a sound system. Citizens, students, veterans, activists, and union members joined together to promote peace in the White House and Iraq. They seek an end to military force by the U.S. around the world on the sixth anniversary of the U.S. war (John McCoy).

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Ron Kovic is a Vietnam veteran and author of the book Born on the Fourth of July. Along with citizens, students, veterans, activists, and union members, he gathered to protest the U.S. war in Iraq. They were there to protest other military actions the U.S. is involved in around the world as well.

Crowds gathered at the intersection of Hollywood Blvd. and Vine. After some speeches, people proceeded to march to the intersection of Hollywood and Highland to stage an elaborate demonstration in front of the Kodak Theater.

Mock coffins draped with Iraqi, Afghani, Palestinian, and U.S. flags represented the casualties of war. March 21 is the sixth anniversary of the U.S. war in Iraq.

"Peace is Patriotic" -- pass it on.