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Teen climate activist gets Normandy’s first Freedom Prize

 

Swedish teen climate change activist Greta Thunberg has received the first Freedom Prize awarded by France’s Normandy region, which last month commemorated the 75th D-Day anniversary.

 

Thunberg, 16, received the award in Caen on Sunday, posing alongside D-Day veterans Charles Norman Shay and Léon Gautier.

 

Thunberg said that “I think the least we can do to honor them is to stop destroying that same world that Charles, Leon and their friends and colleagues fought so hard to save.”

 

She sent out a warning that “we are currently on track for a world that could displace billions of people from their homes, taking away even the most basic living conditions … making areas of the world uninhabitable for parts of the year.” But she added, “We can still fix this.”

Anonymous ID: 5bdf7a July 21, 2019, 3:22 p.m. No.7124680   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Sanders’ early life in Brooklyn taught lessons, some tough

 

Back on Brooklyn College’s red brick campus this winter to launch his second bid for the White House, Bernie Sanders set aside rhetoric for a few minutes to acknowledge the neighborhood where he grew up.

 

The irascible Vermont senator recalled that his father had come to Brooklyn as an immigrant “without a nickel in his pocket.” Arguments over money in the family’s 3½-room apartment, within walking distance of the campus, taught Sanders early on what it meant to live “paycheck to paycheck.”

 

“I know where I came from,” Sanders told a crowd of supporters, contrasting his New York story with President Donald Trump’s privileged upbringing in neighboring Queens, “and that is something I will never forget.”

 

It was a noteworthy departure for a politician who, for most of his career, has avoided sharing details of his own story, rarely linking policy proposals to his personal experience. But relatives and former classmates who grew up alongside Sanders — and occasionally now Sanders himself — say there are clear connections between the candidate’s Brooklyn boyhood and his decades of speeches and legislative proposals aimed at leveling the economic playing field.

 

Not least, they say, was the death of his mother, Dorothy, when Sanders was 18, an event he has rarely done any more than mention.

 

“I remember my father … came to me and said go downstairs and say goodbye to Aunt Dorothy,” recalls Sanders’ cousin, Maxine Glassberg, raised in the same six-story apartment building his family lived in. “She was in bed, this was the end, and they knew she wasn’t coming back.”

 

The death helped shape Sanders’ views on the need for equal access to health care, the senator said in a recent interview, even as it pushed him to leave Brooklyn for Vermont.

 

“Losing one’s mother at the age of, I believe, 18 … was very, very difficult,” Sanders told The Associated Press. “In fact, I graduated Madison High School and went to Brooklyn College for one year, and I decided to leave Brooklyn because I kind of wanted to get away from the community that I’d grown up in.”

 

The experience is one of the notable parallels between Sanders’ early life and his politics.