ART 80F Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Black Lives Matter, Climate Justice, National Novel Writing Month
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Nanowrimo (national novel writing month) starts today! (i am so going to be dead by the end of this month) Dakota access pipeline protests (logging into standing rock on fb) In discussing, #nodapl, too few people have started from a place of naming that we have a right to defend our water and our lives, simply because we have a natural right to defend ourselves and our communities. When climate justice, in a very broad sense, becomes the center of conversation, our fronts of struggle are often reduced to a staging ground for the messaging of ngos. This is happening far too frequently in public discussion of #nodapl. At this point if the pipe does not go over. Tunnel underneath the river, build it down the river where it won"t hurt the natives should it burst. Of course, it"s also a deep social issue.
