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August 9, 2018 04:56 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/XEOsIfHSHKc/maeve-in-america.html
A comedian and the former president of Ireland have a new podcast about women and climate justice
Comedian Maeve Higgins is the host of the amazing Maeve In America podcast in which Higgins, an Irish immigrant to Brooklyn, discusses the immigrant experience in America with other immigrants (as an immigrant to the USA myself, I find this a consistently fascinating and uplifting listen); Mary Robinson was the first woman elected President of Ireland (1990-1997), and after a tenure marked by much-needed, groundbreaking liberalization and secularization, she served as the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997-2002 -- she was forced out by opposition from George W Bush's UN delegation!). (more…)
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