| From the Villa ge of Brook ly n |
OUR TIME PRESS THE L OCAL PAPER WITH THE G LOBAL VIEW
| VOL. 23 NO. 22
May 30 - June 5, 2019 |
Since 1996
Of Roots and Rivers
“I spoke at the National North American Nature Photography Summit in Vegas a couple of months ago and people came up to me afterwards and told me they hadn't been able to go outside for months if they lived on the water. Not only can you not touch that water, it is not good for you to breathe near it.” Lynne Buchannan As Lynne Buchannan is fighting with her art and heart to save our waters, it becomes clear just what we’re faced with from an administration that doesn’t get it. Buchannan stresses the urgency of realizing that our lives are not viable without water – both the drinkable quality and the water we use to grow our vegetables, clean our clothes, etc. But instead of focusing attention and legislation on sustaining our waters, it appears that government officials – including Cabinet members – have other priorities.
Speaking at an Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting in Finland in early May, Trump’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo praised the melting of Earth’s polar caps as being good for commerce. “Steady reductions in sea ice are opening new passageways and new opportunities for trade,” he said. “This could potentially slash the time it takes to travel between Asia and the West by as much as 20 days. Arctic sea lanes could come before — could [become] the 21st Century Suez and Panama Canals.” Environmentalists from around the world who attended at the meeting were stunned at the crass ignorance of the effects of global warming. Unfortunately this reflects the determined denial of climate change by Donalt Trump and his appointees. The world will pay a price for their treachery against the planet. (Credit Image: © Richard Wear/Design Pics via ZUMA Wire)
Part 2 on page 6
50th Anniversary of The EAST
(Photo credit: Bernice Elizabeth Green.
Photo: Courtesy Lumumba Bandele
People came from across the country to reunite in celebration Page 3
FOCUSED GROUP: Khailer Walker, 17, a junior at Brooklyn’s Xaverian H.S. in Bay Ridge, is a rapt listener to community leader Karen Cherry (unpictured) the morning of the first leg of the “Rediscovering Lost Values” tour, Thursday, May 16, in Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Walker’s laptop and the brown leather-bound notebook, a gift weathered with character, hold equal weight in his life, the reason he set out to use both to capture his learnings. Walker and students – young and older – quickly learned just how interesting the tour would be a couple of hours later. The inspired narratives of the “Rediscovering Values” tourgoers’ young and older, begins with U.S. Marine Glen Beck’s first-person, UNGUARDED REAR VIEW, on page 7. It continues through to the first week in July, with stopovers June 13 for Mr. Walker and his peers’ reports and impressions.