{"id":7893,"date":"2021-05-14T06:37:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T06:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7893"},"modified":"2021-05-14T06:38:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T06:38:10","slug":"xiye-bastida-and-antony-blinken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2021\/05\/14\/xiye-bastida-and-antony-blinken\/","title":{"rendered":"Xiye Bastida and Antony Blinken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to think that being US Secretary of State was a busy job (North Korea \/ China \/ Germany \/ Iran \/ Afghanistan \/ Russia \/ Palestine \/ Yemen \/ ...), but Antony Blinken took a lot of time to introduce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/xiye_bastida\">Xiye Bastida<\/a> at the US-led Leaders Climate Summit back in April. \u00a0 It was a fulsome tribute to the 19-year old climate justice activist, who's a member of @fridays4future and co-founder of @Re_EarthOrg. \u00a0Xiye [\u00a0\u0283\u025b\u0301j ] was born in Mexico, but now lives in the USA.<\/p>\n<p>Xiye (think Greta Thunberg without the jokes) has a better honed and less emotional anti-neoliberal rhetorical line than GT. \u00a0You can listen to the Blinken appreciation, and Xiye's talk\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/xiyebastida\/status\/1385262464598695941\">here.<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0If you do, you'll be left in no doubt where the problem lies:<\/p>\n<p>\"<em>The climate crisis is the result of us(?) perpetuating and upholding the harmful systems of colonialism, oppression, capitalism, and market-orientated greenwashing solutions<\/em>.\"<\/p>\n<p>And it's even clearer what has to be done:<\/p>\n<p>\"W<em>e already have all of the solutions we need, so all we have to do is implement them<\/em>.\"<\/p>\n<p>Here's one of Xiye's many Demands:<\/p>\n<p>\"<em>We demand comprehensive, non-Eurocentric, and intersectional climate education including literacy on climate justice, environmental racism, ancestral and indigenous wisdom, and historical movements, disability justice, green careers, and sustainable living<\/em>.\"<\/p>\n<p>I'm sure I heard the sound of Joe Biden nodding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to think that being US Secretary of State was a busy job (North Korea \/ China \/ Germany \/ Iran \/ Afghanistan \/ Russia \/ Palestine \/ Yemen \/ ...), but Antony Blinken took a lot of time...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}