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Sustainability and the poor: Will the two ever get along?
September 21, 2012
In connection with its production of
red, black & GREEN: a blues,
presented as part of the Live Arts Philly Fringe festival, the
Annenberg Center last evening hosted a panel that sought to address how
to engage communities in sustainability issues. It proved an
enlightening mix of provocative questions, thoughtful answers, and
rousing audience response.
The writer and performer of
red, black & GREEN: a blues,
a multi--media spoken word piece, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, served as
moderator, or "mediator," as he termed it, of the event. First, though,
he recited a snippet of his work — it involved personalities in Chicago
and the Sudan and concluded with the phrase "if you're brown, you cannot
go green till you respect black life."
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