Karen McClelland Cohen

Human & animal rights advocate; Mom to 2 sons.Grandmother of 3; Progressive Democrat;Liberal Christian; 🇺🇦

[Karen McClelland Cohen @MizLaura18]

@Eman5695 Yes

[Paul Janus F @pauljanusf]

@sfliberty Another Marxist communist dictator causes genocide and no-one knows about it. Young University students still think Marxism is a great idea. So do the democrats and most leftist politicians in power today

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

If the cause of the Ethiopian famine had been a right-wing regime, it would probably be in every school curriculum alongside Live Aid.

The famine that produced the most-watched concert in history was caused by forced collectivization, forced grain seizures, and a deliberate policy of using hunger as a weapon against civilians. Four decades later, that half of the story still does not appear in most accounts of Live Aid.

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

In December 2006, an Ethiopian court convicted Mengistu of genocide. In May 2008, the sentence was upgraded to death. He has lived in exile in Zimbabwe since 1991, never extradited and never tried in person.

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

MSF France denounced the program publicly in October 1985. The Ethiopian government expelled them in December. Investigators later established that a large share of the international aid raised in the West was diverted into the resettlement program itself.

The same money raised to save Ethiopians from starvation paid, in part, for the operation that killed between 50,000 and 100,000 of them.

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

Then came the resettlement program. The regime declared it would move 1.5 million peasants from the rebellious north to the south.

Médecins Sans Frontières documented what followed: people loaded into trucks and aircraft, separated from their families, dumped in regions with no food, water, or shelter.

Deaths during transport and at the destinations are estimated at 50,000 to 100,000.

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

In July 1985, over a billion people watched Live Aid.

Months earlier, Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie had written "We Are the World." All of it was a response to a famine in Ethiopia.

Almost nobody remembers who actually caused the famine. 🧵

[Ingvar Landro @LandroIngvar]

@the_eve33

[Karen McClelland Cohen @MizLaura18]

@bluhue123 👍

[Karen McClelland Cohen @MizLaura18]

@0ivankaTrump1 Yes

[Karen McClelland Cohen @MizLaura18]

@ronsterd89 Own

[Karen McClelland Cohen @MizLaura18]

@bluhue123 Me!

[Karen McClelland Cohen @MizLaura18]

@Eman5695 Yes

[Eman @Eman5695]

Would you do it?!

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

More than 40 years ago, I arrived in Chicago in search of an idea. I was a young man looking for purpose, who believed deeply in America, was inspired by the Civil Rights Movement, and wanted to be a part of something larger. The America I believed in was one where everyone has opportunity, everyone is seen, everyone belongs—because that was an America that had a place for me, too.

[Karen McClelland Cohen @MizLaura18]

@Damaan4u33 Heck yes

[Karen McClelland Cohen @MizLaura18]

@WorkElizab Orlando

[Lee Patriot Hood @Mofoman360]

Drop me a❤️ if you think Larry the Cat deserves a statue outside 10 Downing Street

#caturday @Number10cat

[Project Hail Mary Updates @HailMaryLogs]

The December 2099 date on the Project Hail Mary Blu-ray store page is certainly just a placeholder.

But we ran the numbers anyway!

If you flew from now until then at the Hail Mary spacecraft's constant speed of 0.995c, with no acceleration or braking, the trip would take about 7 years and 4 months from your perspective.

Still probably longer than the actual wait for the physical edition.

[Karen McClelland Cohen @MizLaura18]

@Sofia50020Sofia The skin