0:08 – Live from the UN Climate Summit: Brian gives a live update from the United Nations in NY, where the UN Climate Summit is set to begin, starting with climate leader Greta Thunberg. Brian discusses his reporting on the Global Climate Strike, Friday Sep 20 and we hear voices from around the world at the strike in NYC.
0:34 – KPFA News: Over 4 million people marched world wide in the Global Climate Strike on Friday, with hundreds of thousands rallying in NYC ahead of the UN General Assembly. They demanded immediate action to mitigate climate change, from grassroots organizing to state level political change, and brought grave and honest stories from around the world on how climate change is already impacting communities and the planet. KPFA’s Brian Edwards-Tiekert reports from NYC.
1:08 – Greta Thunberg, 16, of Sweden testifies at the UN General Assembly, condemning global authorities for not acting to curb climate change. Here is her full speech.
1:13 – Author Interview: Much has been written about the problems of the mental health care system, but We’ve Been Too Patient is a collection of voices who have endured the system and offer radical healing in the form of mutual aid, peer support, spirituality, art, and story itself. We speak with Kelechi Ubozoh, a Nigerian-American writer and mental health advocate, and L.D. Green, an artivist: a genderqueer writer, performer, college educator, and mental health advocate. Together they are editors of a new book, We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices of Radical Mental Health – Stories and Research Challenging the Biomedical Model.