In the Traprock Spotlight —
Congressmember Jamaal Bowman (D-New York) speaking at the NYC Climate March, Sept. 17;
75,000 came out including many from Western Mass.

“And it has to be the craziest thing in the world that the U.S. government actually subsidizes its own self-destruction. How stupid is that? We continually give taxpayer dollars to the fossil fuel companies that are killing our planet. …
And we continue to give almost a trillion dollars a year to our military-industrial complex, which is the number one contributor to carbon emissions in the world. And we give it a trillion dollars a year.
So, as you know, Washington is not broken. It is operating by design. It has been designed for destruction…”
(more at Democracy Now!)
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