25 bipartisan members of US Congress have issued a letter to President Joe Biden urging him to appoint a Special Envoy to Northern Ireland and to increase funding for the International Fund for Ireland.
First, he was asked by Rep. Michael McCaul, the ranking member on the committee about the use of slave labor in China to make and sell solar panels used by much of the rest of the world, including, unfortunately, the United States. Mr. McCaul, who leads the China Task Force in the House, simply asked: “How can you assure us, this quest that we’re on [clean energy] that slave labor coming out of China where genocide is taking place as we speak, is never a part of the climate solution in the United States?”
Mr. Kerry, an experienced diplomat and denizen of Washington for his entire adult life, didn’t flinch at all. He said: “It (slavery) is a problem. Xinjiang province not only produces some of the solar panels that we believe are being, in some cases produced in forced labor by Uyghurs. Nothing can be traded and I’ve made that very clear. President Biden has made it very clear. Climate is existential for everybody on the planet.”
By Wendi Grossman
May 13, 2021
Colombians living in South Florida urging our leaders to speak out on human rights violations there as people take to the streets protesting a tax hike proposal caused by the COVID economic crisis. The group wants our politicians to publicly condemn state-sponsored violence in Colombia. Carlos Naranjo says they re sending a letter to Congressman Ted Deutch,a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, urging him to create a resolution denouncing the atrocities. He says at least 31 people have been shot dead including a 17-year-old protesting for better living conditions. He says the government is trying to silence protesters by cutting off their water, electricity and internet services.
By Wendi Grossman
May 13, 2021
Colombians living in South Florida urging our leaders to speak out on human rights violations there as people take to the streets protesting a tax hike proposal caused by the COVID economic crisis. The group wants our politicians to publicly condemn state-sponsored violence in Colombia. Carlos Naranjo says they re sending a letter to Congressman Ted Deutch,a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, urging him to create a resolution denouncing the atrocities. He says at least 31 people have been shot dead including a 17-year-old protesting for better living conditions. He says the government is trying to silence protesters by cutting off their water, electricity and internet services.