Trudell, American Indian activist, poet and actor, is dead at 69
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Activists shut down part of Chicago’s Magnificent Mile on Black Friday and planned to march in protest of the fatal police shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald
Many activists have called what happened to McDonald a “modern-day lynching.”
Demonstrators march down Michigan Avenue during a protest intending to disrupt Black Friday shopping in reaction to the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald in Chicago, Illinois, Nov. 27, 2015.
1. EPA Publishes 19th Annual U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory
2. Killing of environmental activists rises globally
3. Beijing says one third of its pollution comes from outside the city
4. Letter to Pope Francis calling for fossil fuel divestment
Multi-faith groups in Australia and North America urge the Pope to back a campaign to pull money out of the fossil fuel industry
• Pope Francis urged to back fossil fuel divestment campaign
5. The first climate justice summit: a pie in the face for the global north
An alternative summit held during Cop 6 brought the idea of climate justice onto the global stage. How pivotal was this moment for how the climate change movement progressed?
6. U.S. minorities exposed to more toxic air, U finds
Cutting nitrogen dioxide levels for people of color could prevent thousands of deaths, Minnesota researchers said.
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