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“We need to remember this isn’t just about balance sheets,” she said. “It’s about people -- real people like me. It’s about our livelihoods and lives.” Nakate also called on the IMF, World Bank and others to “double down” on financing renewable energy projects for Africa, which she said could help transform the continent’s economy. Such projects would reduce emissions, she said, and provide 600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa with electricity.
Nakate has been at the forefront of climate protests in Africa, as she started a solitary strike against climate change inaction outside the Parliament of Uganda. She then founded the Rise Up Movement, which brings together young people across Africa to protest for climate action. But the movement to fight climate change still faces obstacles. World Bank President David Malpass recently failed to acknowledge the role that burning fossil fuels plays in warming the planet, remarks that prompted some to call for his resignation and accuse him of being a climate change denier.
Nakate said climate change deniers “block themselves from the reality of what is happening” despite the overwhelming scientific consensus, and the reality on the ground that has brought the collapse of agriculture and the displacement of thousands of people already amid rising sea levels. “In my part of the world, farms are collapsing, livestock are perishing, and people are starving,” she said. “But here in one of the most powerful cities on the Earth, I see climate denial is still allowed to exist, even at the top of global institutions.”
Climate activist calls for biggest polluters to compensate climate change victims
Climate activist and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Vanessa Nakate called on major polluters and world institutions to “do the right thing” and compensate the victims of climate change during a National Press Club Newsmaker press conference on Friday. Nakate, a Ugandan activist who visited communities affected by Hurricane Ian and then traveled to Washington for meetings at the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, among others, said the impacts of climate change are most keenly felt by poorer countries that are responsible for less of global emissions. These climate impacts include…
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Latinos accounted for nearly 19% of the U.S. population in 2019, but held just 12% of the jobs in the media industry, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found. In addition, the highest percentage of Hispanics in the media industry held service worker positions, such as food service, while the lowest percentage worked in management. “I consider this a foundational issue for our community,” Castro said.
Sonia Perez, vice president of Unidos US, the largest Latino civil rights and advocacy organization, accompanied Castro. Her organization has worked with him on issues of education, economic empowerment and voting rights. “There is no question that our ability to advance on any of these issues is thwarted by the perception our fellow Americans have of the Latino community,” she said. She cited statistics from GAO report that found that 4%f of management staff in the media industry are Latino while one in five Americans are Latino, as are one in five workers.
Castro described his personal experience growing up in neighborhoods in San Antonio, which were over 90% Latino, in a city that was 60% Latino, where he watched TV and movies that did not match the reality around him. Latinos are systematically excluded from Hollywood and the media, he said. He cited a study of 1,300 top grossing films from 2007 to 2019, which found only 3.5% of leading roles were Latino characters. Of the top 100 grossing films in 2019, 40% of Latinos were depicted as criminals or ex-convicts, he said. He likened this depiction of Latinos to negative political ads that run…
Castro compares media representation of Latinos to a continuous negative political ad
Latinos continue to be underrepresented in the media business, according to a new government study presented at a National Press Club Headliners event on Oct. 5 by Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Tex.
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Lunch and Learn Program: How to Increase Organic Social Media Engagement
Communicators write social media posts for their organizations (or clients) to reach online communities with news and information. Getting posts liked is one thing, but the real power of social media is getting your posts shared and re-shared. Most people don’t have the time or inclination to do more than simply click the share button on a social media post. But those clicks have little, if no, impact to getting a post noticed. On Oct. 20, at noon (ET), NPC Member and co-founder of SpeechifAI Tudor Mihailescu will talk about the challenges of getting attention on social media and an…
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