"Get It Done": Urging Climate Justice, Youth Delegate Anjali Appadurai Mic-Checks UN Summit

www.democracynow.org - A number of protests are being held today at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban to protest the failure of world leaders to agree to immediately agree to a deal of binding emissions cuts. Anjali Appadurai, a student at the College of the Atlantic in Maine, addressed the conference on behalf of youth delegates. Just after her speech, she led a mic-check from the stage -- a move inspired by the Occupy Wall Street protests. "It always seems impossible until it's done. So, distinguished delegates and governments around the world, governments of the developed world: Deep cuts now. Get it done," Appadurai says.

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[Igasia101]

Anjali has been removed from COP18. Because of this speech and because she spoke for everyone who is demanding more from the UNFCCC! Help get her back in the negotiations! #getitdone @Cfigueres

[bluesparrowfish]

2017?

MIC CECK

KNOWING THAT NOTHING WILL CHANGE BY THEN (2017) WILL THOSE CLIMATE (G)HATERS GO AWAY OR WILL THEY CONTINUE?

[mphello]

THIS WOMAN IS AN INTERNATIONAL HERO!!

[mphello]

Outlaw meat. There's your solution. Vegans and antinatalists have advocated solutions for decades, but consumers and denialists and conservatives are too selfish to take action or give up any part of their lifestyle, and mainstream media has ignored them.

[mphello]

Correct: fear is not the answer. Banning you from buying another gas-powered car and mandating you carpool in an electric car is. Tough action is necessary.

[mphello]

These students and protestors have the courage to speak the truth that the average mentally inferior consumer, who doesn't take manmade climate change seriously, doesn't have the guts to face.

[Shepsu Tera Netchebmaa]

Yeah I think they've done a pretty good job. Look at all the cemtrails to block the sun. Test the water now for aluminum that is destroying lakes, rivers and streams. I thought CO2 was the 4th element of life. Without it plants don't grow. Too many people, lets charge for the air they breath.

[Riva Thorus]

Fear is not the answer, it`s just a ride....If you think it`s warm blame the sun !

[33Crazydude]

A woman who speaks great truth and carries much passion, but she's also hot.

[equatoriallights]

goodness this reminds me of Severn of Suzuki!

[DJTrancenergy]

Go Anjali! :) 

[Igasia101]

No. She is speaking on behalf of international youth and I don't think it's presumptuous to assume that the youth of the world don't want climate change and death...