AOC and Greta Thunberg talk tactics and hope
Congresswoman and force of nature Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and student activist and force of nature Greta "Extinction Rebellion" Thunberg conducted a videoconference to meet one another and talk...
View ArticleThe case for allowing children to vote
Writing on Crooked Timber, John Quiggin (previously) responds to the epidemic of elderly reactionaries piling vitriol and violent rhetoric on the child activist Greta Thunberg and asks, why not let...
View ArticleSept 20: More than 900 Amazon employees pledge to walk out over climate inaction
More than 900 Amazon employees have pledged to walk off the job at 11:30PST on Sept 20 to protest the company's inaction on climate change as part of Greta Thunberg's Global Climate Strike: they are...
View ArticleOn Fire: Naomi Klein's book is a time-series of the shift from climate denial...
My latest LA Times book review is for Naomi Klein's new essay collection, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal, which traces more than a decade of Klein's outstanding, on-the-ground...
View ArticleRaffi's new songs about kids, climate emergency, and Greta Thunberg
Raffi Cavoukian (AKA "Raffi") is best known as a beloved children's singer -- I vividly remember attending one of his concerts as a child -- and possibly secondarily as the brother of former Ontario...
View ArticleAt the UN, Greta Thunberg excoriates world leaders and her elders for climate...
Holy shit. I don't watch a lot of videos; I prefer transcripts. When I absolutely have to get through a video, I usually put it in a background window and listen. Don't do that with Thunberg's...
View ArticleGreta Thunberg does Swedish Death Metal
YouTuber John Mollusk took Greta Thunberg's biting address to the U.N. and turned it into Swedish Death Metal. And, of course, it's EPIC!
View ArticleFatboy Slim mashes up Greta Thunberg's UN speech
Greta Thunberg's Joan of Arc-grade tongue-lashing to the world's leaders at the UN makes for some incredible mashup possibilities: it's not merely that her excellent delivery lent itself to death...
View ArticleGreta Grotesk: a font based on Greta Thunberg's hand-lettered signs
Uno's Greta Grotesk is a free font based on Greta Thunberg's hand-lettered signs. (Image: Anders Hellberg, CC BY-SA) (via Kottke) Read the rest
View ArticleMinor Problem: a punk anthem about Donald Trump's mockery of Greta Thunberg
Balazs Sarkadi from the Hungarian band Bankrupt ("a refreshingly energetic blend of 90s indie, hip hop and punk rock") writes, "President Trump mocked Greta Thunberg in a recent tweet, which sparkled...
View ArticleClimate activist Greta Thunberg is Time's Person of the Year
In barely months, a 16 year-old Swedish activist has changed the record on climate change, drawing the attention of the world to a problem as it becomes critical--and the contemptuous wrath of...
View ArticleGreta Thunberg: 'You have not seen anything yet,' climate activist says as...
“To the world leaders and those in power, I would like to say that you have not seen anything yet. You have not seen the last of us, we can assure you that. And that is the message that we will bring...
View ArticleGreta Thunberg has a crisply articulated demand
I was a anti-nuclear arms proliferation activist from a very young age, 10 or 11, and took it seriously, nearly getting kicked out of school and organizing classmates to attend large demonstrations. I...
View ArticleBristol newspaper publishes names and photos of local men calling for...
The Bristol Post provided complete coverage of Greta Thunberg's speech in the English city. She was seen in person by thousands of locals, but angry older men gathered online to post abusive and...
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After nearly a year, Greta Thunberg finally gets Trump back for mocking her...
In December 2019, then-President Donald J. Trump mocked Greta Thunberg — a 16-year-old Swedish girl with autism — for having the audacity to be recognized as TIME's Person Of The Year. So ridiculous....
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Authorities seize Andrew Tate's luxury cars
Just days after incel influencer Andrew Tate taunted climate activist Greta Thunberg with a description of his expensive gasoline-powered car collection, Romanian authorities seized several of them,...
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