One year ago, George Floyd – a Black man in Minnesota – was chillingly murdered by a white police officer in a case that rocked the United States and the world and reinvigorated the Black Lives Matter movement.
Nationwide, the response to Floyd’s killing went beyond calls for criminal justice reform. Activists have rallied to demand more equitable policies to tackle structural violence, as well as racially driven income, health and housing disparities.
Promoting environmental justice is also high on the agenda.
The Red Black & Green New Deal is part of that movement and represents a new approach to environmental issues that fuses the politics of Black liberation with efforts to tackle climate change.
In a recent interview for Latino USA, Ms Ocasio-Cortez said I m doing therapy, but also I ve just slowed down”. I think the Trump administration had a lot of us, especially Latino communities, in a very reactive mode, she said.
The congresswoman described the insurrection as extraordinarily traumatizing”. After the 6th, I took some time and it was really [Rep.] Ayanna Pressley when I explained to her what happened to me, like the day of, because I ran to her office and she was like, you need to recognize trauma , she said in the interview.
She previously said she thought she was going to die” on the day of the riot, and said she hid in a bathroom with a staffer while rioters chanted her name.
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At the end of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic was continuing to ravage the populations of many nations, Israel stood out as a success story, administering more doses of vaccines to it .
Top Republicans including Kevin McCarthy CONDEMN Marjorie Taylor Greene for appalling comments comparing the horrors of the Holocaust with wearing masks
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy condemned on Tuesday Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for comparing mask mandates to the Holocaust Marjorie is wrong, and her intentional decision to compare the horrors of the Holocaust with wearing masks is appalling, he tweeted
Greene defended her comparison, writing on Twitter Tuesday: I never compared it to the Holocaust, only the discrimination against Jews in early Nazi years
She also blamed Joe Biden for the rise in anti-Semitic attacks in America after the massive conflict between Israel and Palestinians broke out this month