Wednesday, December 2, 2015

POET OF THE MARSHALL ISLANDS

Minutes before our show today at the COP21 summit on climate change, poet Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner performed a breathtaking spoken word piece about the rising sea levels that threaten her home, the Marshall Islands. Watch her perform her poem, "Tell Them":
The Global Call for Climate Action (GCCA), an organization that uses art to inspire social change, brought a delegation of poets to Paris for the COP21 summit.
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