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BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator Eric Mann is an NGO delegate to the United Nations Framework Climate Change Conference representing the Labor/Community Strategy Center. He will be doing daily “Posts from Paris” for Pacifica and his KPFK radio show, Voices from the Frontlines. His new book, Katrina's Legacy: White Racism and Black Reconstruction in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast will have its international opening in Paris in December 2015 and its U.S. opening in Los Angeles in January 2016. He is also the author of: Comrade George an Investigation into the Life, Political Thought, and Assassination of George Jackson, Dispatches From Durban: Firsthand Commentaries on the World Conference Against Racism and Post-September 11 Movement Strategies, and Katrina's Legacy: White Racism and Black Reconstruction in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. He is working on his next book, Revolutionary Organizing in the Age of Reaction, featuring The 25 Qualities of the Successful Organizer. Contact Mr. Mann or visit his blog (ericmannblog.blogspot.com).
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Guest Commentary
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The nations of Africa and small island states, nations like Bangladesh, Congo, Marshall Islands are fighting to feed their people and are asking the U.S. for help.
Note: Eric Mann is at the United Nations Framework Climate Change Conference in Paris where he is organizing on the ground and reporting for Pacifica Radio…
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The President’s positioning for Paris is brilliant but reflective of American Deceptionalism. The President wants to give the impression that he is a visitor or at best a participant in the Paris UNFCCC when in fact he is in charge of it. The U.S. and President Obama are playing a very destructive role at the Paris UNFCCC.
The Republican Senate just voted to reject plans by President Obama and the EPA to dramatically reduce emissions from coal power plants. This is reactionary politics.…
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