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Kenyan youth seek compensation from rich countries responsible for climate change
Kenyan youth seek compensation from rich countries responsible for climate change
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Life changed and the peace effort eventually opened the door to millions in redevelopme
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Kenyan youth seek compensation from rich countries responsible for climate change
Kenyan youth seek compensation from rich countries responsible for climate change
Kenyan youth seek compensation from rich countries responsible for climate change
(GIN)—Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of Nairobi over the weekend to demand that wealthy countries pay more in the fight against climate change.
“We need the Global North to pay for the damages they are causing,” said Duncan Omwami, an activist who joined the protest. “Ninety six percent of the emissions are being emitted by
(GIN)—Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of Nairobi over the weekend to demand that wealthy countries pay more in the fight against climate change.
“We need the Global North to pay for the damages they are causing,” said Duncan Omwami, an activist who joined the protest. “Ninety six percent of the emissions are being emitted by the Global North,” he said, “while four percent is emitted by the Global South.
We are not able to make any great contribution to these emissions so we are demanding that the Global North pay for the loss and damage.”
The march was part of the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), a youth-based movement that holds street marches and protests as it highlights the need for wealthier countries to pay for the huge damage done to lands of smallholder farmers and pastoralists across Africa.
PACJA climate activists point to the ongoing drought which has been described by locals as the “worst in 40 years.”
“It unimaginable that communities can lose livelihoods due to the climate crisis and yet governments are too incapacitated to intervene,” said Mithika Mwenda, executive director of PACJA.
Protestor Elizabeth Wathuti commented: “These disasters and these challenges are not just happening in Kenya, they are happening across the African continent. And this is a continent that has done the least to cause the climate crisis but still continues to bear the biggest brunt.”
“So we are asking that countries which have contributed the most to this crisis should definitely not abandon these communities on the frontline to their fate but they should step up and fulfil the pledges they have made on climate finance,” she said in a press interview.
In September 2021 almost 3.5 million Kenyans became victims of extreme weather with the government declaring it a national disaster. In the same period, around 200,000 people were displaced by flooding. Meanwhile, at the African Ministerial Conference on Environment (AMCEN) taking place in Dakar, Senegal, African climate activists expressed disappointment with the presentation of John Kerry, President Joe Biden’s special climate envoy, accusing him of a lack of comprehension of the magnitude of climate change.
“John Kerry came to AMCEN without coming out strongly to deliver a bold commitment that would offer hope to families in the Horn of Africa, Sahel and the rest of Africa whose livelihoods have been turned upside down by a problem they have very little to do with,” said Mithika Mwenda, executive director of PACJA.
In his speech during the African Ministerial Conference, Kerry urged every country to bear the burden of its impacts. Kerry acknowledged that the 48 countries of sub-Saharan Africa emit only 0.55 percent of global harmful emissions, but said that every nation had to pull together in the face of crisis.
“And is there a disparity in that? Yes, there is. Is there an unfairness built into that? Yes, there is,” Kerry said. “Mother Nature does not measure where the emissions come from,” he said.
“They don't have a label of one country or another on them. And it's important for all of us to now come together to figure out how we're going to compensate for that and deal with it.”
“The challenge of the climate crisis comes from the crisis of emissions in every country.” Mithika said African community-based organizations consider it a mockery to the people on the continent when a top U.S. diplomat spews out what Africans have heard over the years without telling them why his country continues to churn out tons of carbon emissions across the Atlantic and on its failure to honor its commitments on climate finance. “Kerry’s mere recognition of the ‘climate crisis facing the African continent’ is just a tired rhetoric which we hardly want to hear.”
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Kenyan youth seek compensation from rich countries responsible for climate change
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Naba'a Richard Muhammad is the editor-in-chief of The Final Call, the only nationally distributed weekly newspaper in Black America. The Final Call – http://www.finalcall.com– is published by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam and follows in the tradition of Muhammad Speaks, the groundbreaking newspaper publis
Naba'a Richard Muhammad is the editor-in-chief of The Final Call, the only nationally distributed weekly newspaper in Black America. The Final Call – http://www.finalcall.com– is published by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam and follows in the tradition of Muhammad Speaks, the groundbreaking newspaper published by the Nation in the 1960s and 1970s.
In addition to his skill as a writer and editor, Muhammad is a powerful speaker, media trainer and self-published author.
Muhammad became editor of The Final Call in 2009. He is a former managing editor and opened The Final Call East Coast Bureau in Washington, D.C., in the 1980s. The late Abdul Wali Muhammad, who served as editor of The Final Call and whose demand for excellence and accuracy remain hallmarks of the publication, was his mentor. The Final Call has won national awards for writing, design and photography under his leadership. The Final Call is the largest national Black print weekly newspaper in America with some international distribution.
In February 2020 in Detroit, he was given the Islamic holy name Naba'a Muhammad by Minister Farrakhan.
Muhammad, with over 35 years’ experience as a media professional, has served as a consultant and communications director for national non-profits, an advocate for independent media, and freelance writer.
He has worked with the LISC Community Development Corporation, the Chicago Rehab Network, Veterans for Peace, National People's Action, the National Training and Information Center, Interfaith Worker Justice, the Environmental Leadership Project and other organizations. He has conducted training sessions for the Gale Cincotta Leadership Institute, the Chicago-based Community Media Workshop, the National Association of Black Journalists, the Nation of Islam and the Black Press of America. He has presented at national conferences devoted to worker rights, community housing and banking issues, and independent publishing.
He has spoken in schools, colleges, jails and on street corners. He has traveled internationally and covered uprisings in Washington, D.C., Ferguson, Mo., after the death of Mike Brown in 2014 and in Baltimore after the 2015 death of Freddie Gray from injuries sustained in police custody.
Muhammad played significant roles in the historic Million Man March, March anniversaries, major mobilizations related to immigrant rights, and highlighting the plight of Hurricane Katrina survivors and other important stories.
He has served as a board member for the National Newspaper Publishers Association, which represents over 200 Black-owned newspapers across the country.
His award-winning Straight Words column began in November 1999. His work has been carried by leading newspapers, and Internet sites in the U.S. and Canada. He has been featured on internet, radio, television shows and comments on current events, race and society, and provides media analysis. Muhammad has been a guest lecturer for a graduate course on media bias, race, the Nation of Islam and alternative media. An essay and photographs by Muhammad are included in "Million Man March/Day of Absence, A Commemorative Anthology " edited and published by Haki Madhubuti, and Dr. Maulana Karenga.
He published his first book, "Dopebusters: Farrakhan Fanatics Or Saviours? The True Story of the D.C. Crack Cocaine Crisis and Successful Muslim Anti-Drug Patrols," in 2018.
Muhammad grew up in Baltimore, Md., and graduated from Morgan State University, earning a BA in English. He lives in Chicago and can be reached via email at nabaa@straightwords.com. Find him on Facebook and follow @RMfinalcall on Twitter and Instagram.
Bookings, Speaking Engagements
While the enemies of truth cannot win, we must fight for the truth
Bookings, Speaking Engagements
Naba'a Richard Muhammad, editor-in-chief of The Final Call, is available for speaking engagements and media appearances.
He has appeared on as well as television, radio and online outlets in the United States, including the Roland S. Martin Show, the Carl Nelson Show, a nationally syndicated radio show that is part of the Radio One Networ
Naba'a Richard Muhammad, editor-in-chief of The Final Call, is available for speaking engagements and media appearances.
He has appeared on as well as television, radio and online outlets in the United States, including the Roland S. Martin Show, the Carl Nelson Show, a nationally syndicated radio show that is part of the Radio One Network, WEAA Radio in Baltimore, the Perri Small Show and Elevated Talk on Chicago’s WVON-AM and other platforms. He has appeared on South Africa Today and national radio in Johannesburg and international media.
His topics can include current events and analysis, the Nation of Islam, the Black liberation struggle, urban issues and solutions, mentoring, journalism, media bias, urban rebellions in 2014 in Ferguson, Mo., after the police killing of Mike Brown, Jr., the 2015 insurrection in Baltimore following the death of Freddie Grey after injuries sustained in police custody, the need for Black-owned and independent media, freelance writing, column writing, media strategy and press relations, working with non-profits and community groups, Black fatherhood, the historic 1995 Million Man March and subsequent March anniversaries, Minister Farrakhan and his mission—or subjects that are of interest to you, your organization or your audience.
He has also spoken to public school students from grades K-12 about their history, their potential greatness and their place in the world. He has spoken to students at major universities, including Morgan State University in Baltimore and graduate students at the University of Chicago. He is an avid advocate for teaching and training the next generation of Black journalists and media makers.
Muhammad has an essay and photographs published in “Million Man March/Day of Absence, A Commemorative Anthology” edited and published by Haki Madhubuti, and Dr. Maulana Karenga. He can also talk about his book and experiences captured in his first book, "Dopebusters: Farrakhan Fanatics Or Saviours? The True Story of the D.C. Crack Cocaine Crisis and Successful Muslim Anti-Drug Patrols," published in 2018. He can be reached at 312-480-9775 or via email at nabaa@straightwords.com. Find him on Facebook and follow @RMfinalcall on Twitter and Instagram.
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While the enemies of truth cannot win, we must fight for the truth
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While the enemies of truth cannot win, we must fight for the truth
While the enemies of truth cannot win, we must fight for the truth
While the enemies of truth cannot win, we must fight for the truth
A group has put out a report on the entertainment industry and how the industry is negatively impacting their community. If you thought it was Black folk complaining about the violence, hyper-sexualization of women and girls and the negative images associated with Black life, you would be wrong.
Those who are complaining about the music in
A group has put out a report on the entertainment industry and how the industry is negatively impacting their community. If you thought it was Black folk complaining about the violence, hyper-sexualization of women and girls and the negative images associated with Black life, you would be wrong.
Those who are complaining about the music industry are associated with one of the most powerful groups in the country and a group with immense collective power in the billion-dollar business that is often cited as America’s largest export to the world.
The group, Creative Community for Peace, put the 20-page report out July 19 and expressed “concern” about antisemitism in the entertainment industry. That’s interesting because the Jewish community has heavy influence, power, control and actually helped to create the music, movie and entertainment business. The group should have been calling out Jewish executives and owners in the business and demanding that these powerful people and forces stop attacking their own people. Instead, this Jewish group falsely names the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and wrongly accuses him in relationship to their fake issue.
An article in The Jewish Journal, www.jewishjournal.com, July 25 included an interview with the group’s director Ari Ingel saying in 2020 that NFL wide receiver DeSean Jackson “expressed support for Nation of Islam (NOI) leader Louis Farrakhan,” which Mr. Ingel described as problematic. And not just because the football player said something positive about Minister Farrakhan, but because the wide receiver was an example of how Black athletes were drawn to the Minister.
“Ingel pointed to how Jackson’s comments were spread to his ‘millions of fans’ on social media,” The Jewish Journal reported.
That’s the real problem: The voice of truth comes, people recognize the truth and the truth exposes the liars, the evil-doers and all those who are condemned by the truth.
So if Twitter can ban, limit or otherwise inhibit the ability of Min. Farrakhan to reach a wide range of people over the social media platform, the enemy does not want others with influence to spread the very truth the Minister speaks. So now all who are associated with the truth are targeted, pushed to apologize or in some way backtrack their support or even acknowledgement of the truth and the light that comes from the words and wisdom that Min. Farrakhan speaks.
Mr. Ingel also complains in the article about “football players, you have basketball players, you have artists in the music industry that are hearing these things” that Min. Farrakhan teaches.
“Ingel pointed to Revolt TV––founded by rapper Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs––broadcasting Farrakhan’s July 4 speech in 2020 as the event that preceded the Jackson incident as well (as) Chelsea Handler sharing a clip of a Farrakhan speech on social media,” the article noted.
Again, the core of the message in the article is a determination to stop the message of Min. Farrakhan from spreading. Why? If any message is flawed or faulty, people can see and hear it. But if the message is illuminating, clear, impeccably crafted by God’s grace and so plain a foolish people can clearly understand it, it is a threat to the very existence of those who have lived well off of the ignorance of Black people in America and the 85 percent of the people in the world who believe in a Mystery God. They don’t know the law of cause and effect and don’t understand the reality of God and Satan manifested in the thinking and actions of living human beings.
These constant attacks on the Minister and ever-present efforts to keep people away from him, those who are affected by him and those who follow him is further proof of the truth that he teaches and its power. A lie only is effective so long as the truth is not present. The presence of truth destroys lies, so to defeat falsehood one need only to speak or present the truth. But if truth is called a lie that doesn’t change the nature of truth. The truth remains, can be proven in no limit of time and those who actually hear the truth or see the man of truth speaking will receive the message.
That’s why the man and the light of truth must be shut out by the enemy and explains his determination to do so. But we are in the day of the triumph of the truth and the death of untruths so those who believe in the truth and the man of truth must continue to tell and fight for the truth.
Early in his life as a Muslim, Min. Farrakhan was faced with the choice of leaving a thriving career in music, which he had virtually devoted his life to, or leaving the Nation of Islam. Within minutes of being told this news, he made his decision: he could live without a successful music career but he could not live without truth. He decided to stay the course as a Muslim and the result has been an incredible blessing to our people and the world through Allah’s (God’s) power and beneficence.
We must decide that we cannot live without truth and redouble our efforts to speak, spread and defend the truth. Allah (God) promises us in the Holy Qur’an, the book of scripture of the Muslims, that this is the day of judgment and the day of triumph for His servants. Nothing the enemy does can stop that which the Supreme Being has decreed. But as those who have benefited from and who know the truth, we must stand strong on it and share it. So we must actively live out these beautiful lyrics: “We are fighting for Islam and we will surely win, With our Saviour Allah the Universal King.”
So Muslims let us be brave fighters for the truth and unswerving in our defense of the man of truth.
—Naba’a Muhammad, StraightWords.Com
editor, The Final Call
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My recent editorial, Lies Don't Honor Dr. King
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Reaping the bitter fruit of rejection
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