@cardon_brian@SoulReaper2222 Wow.
@bariweiss the head of a major independent news program @60Minutes... is taking direct talking point LIES from a current administration.
In real time.
Yeah... that's fascism folks.
Her husband told a court she was too strong to be a wife. The judge agreed and stripped Wangari Maathai of everything, her family, her job, her home.
She looked around and noticed women walking miles every single day just to collect firewood. So she handed them seeds instead. The government responded with arrests, beatings, and a padlocked office door.
30,000 women trained. 51 million trees planted across Kenya. Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. They handed her destruction. She turned it into an entire forest.
I’m wearing orange on Gun Violence Awareness Day in honor of Hadiya Pendleton, and every person impacted by gun violence.
At just 15-years-old, Hadiya was shot and killed while at a park in Chicago—one week after performing in President Obama’s inauguration. Her whole life was ahead of her.