She's not just talking the talk.

Greta Thunberg is walking the walk.
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Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been found guilty by a Swedish court of disobeying a police order at a protest in Malmo last month.

The 20-year-old avoided a potential prison sentence and has been fined. She pleaded not guilty and told the court: "My actions are justifiable," according to the Sydsvenskan newspaper.

Greta was charged because she refused to comply with police orders to leave the scene during the protest, according to Swedish Prosecution Authority spokeswoman Annika Collin and a statement from prosecutors.

When the protestors were ordered to move to allow vehicles to pass, Greta was among those who refused. She was then dragged away by police.

Earlier in the year, the climate activist was briefly detained by police in Oslo during a protest against wind farms built on Indigenous land in Norway. She was also detained during protests against the demolition of the coal village of Luetzerath in Germany in January.
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FULL STORY -- https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/07/24/greta-thunberg-appears-in-swedish-court-to-face-charge-of-disobeying-police-at-a-climate-p

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction

While standing-to with antifa a few years back (before the plague), I came face-to-face with a guy carrying a Nazi flag. I said to him, "You know, your grandparents" - he was my age - "would be so ashamed of you now, to see you proudly toting that trash."

"WELL I'M NOT A NAZI, BECAUSE THE NAZIS WERE NATIONAL *SOCIALISTS*, AND I HATE SOCIALISM!"

And I'm like, "wait, dude, your problem with the Nazis is that you think they wanted workers to own the means of production? THAT is where you differ?"

#UNESCO Condemns russian Strike on Ukraine’s #Odesa

“UNESCO is deeply dismayed and condemns in the strongest terms the brazen attack carried out by the russian forces, which hit several cultural sites in the city centre of Odesa, home to the World Heritage property ‘The Historic Centre of Odesa’“, the Paris-based body said in a statement.

UNESCO chief Audrey Azoulay said it marked “an escalation of violence against (the) cultural heritage of #Ukraine ”

Read more here🔗 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/19769

Young gifted & black
Oh what a lovely precious dream
To be young gifted & black
Open your heart to what I mean
In the whole world y’know
There's a million boys & girls
Who are young, gifted & black
And that's a fact
"You are young gifted & black"
We must begin to tell our young
There's a world waiting for you
Yours is the quest that's just begun
When you feelin really low
Yeah there's great truth that you should know
When you're young gifted & black
Your soul's intact

Happy Birthday Nina Simone

Also this poem:

So, here you are/
too foreign for home/
too foreign for here/
never enough for both

"diaspora blues" by ijeoma umebinyuo

#everynightapoem #poetry #diaspora

In honor of The-House-Can't-Elect-A-Speaker Day:

In 1856--a Speaker election that took 133 ballots--a congressman attacked a reporter, biting his finger so badly that a newspaper described it as "catawompously chawed up."

I'd wager there's some modern-day catawampous chawing going on right now behind the scenes.

#SpeakerOfTheHouse #politics