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Washtenaw community demands Warren visits change in Global Climate Strike striking auto Students walk out of class, call attention to threat of global warming workers in metro Detroit Presidential candidate joins state politicians in supporting UAW ALEX HARRING Daily Staff Reporter
ALEXIS RANKIN/Daily University students, local high schoolers and community members participate in the climate strike that occurred worlwide Friday to support government action on climate change.
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Naina Agrawal-Hardin, one of the lead organizers of the Washtenaw County Climate Strike and a junior at Washtenaw International High School, is worried for her future. “I’m here fighting for climate justice because I know that if we don’t fight for climate justice then we won’t have anything left to fight for,” Agrawal-Hardin said. Students, faculty and Ann Arbor residents gathered for the Washtenaw County Climate Strike on Ingalls Mall Friday afternoon. The strike included main-stage performances by activists, poets and musicians, as well as more than 25 workshops educating attendees on issues related to climate change such as “Green New Deal 101,”
“Addressing Climate Change at Home,” “The Importance of Water in Indigenous Communities” and more. According to a tweet from 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, the leading figure of the #FridaysForFuture movement, more than 4,638 youth climate strikes took place Friday in more than 139 nations. The movement began in August 2018 after Thunberg began protesting the lack of climate action from the Swedish government. Thunberg sat outside the Swedish parliament every school day for three weeks and inspired a world-wide movement, led primarily by young people, to hold their nations accountable to cut greenhouse-gas emissions to maintain a below 2 degrees
BUSINESS
New Ross grad class to promote teamwork Interdisciplinary program centers around social consequences of business ANGELINA LITTLE Daily Staff Reporter
The Ross School of Business hosted an open house for its +Impact Studio, the latest installment of their Business+Impact initiative, this Friday. Located on the second floor of the Executive Learning and Conference Center, the +Impact Studio space is designed to be a collaborative space for crosscampus problem solving and home to a +Impact Studio Course. Business School Dean Scott Derue told The Daily the aim of the studio is to create a space for graduate students and faculty to work together to solve issues aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
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Celsius pre-industrial levels, in alignment with the 2015 Paris Agreement. Last March’s Washtenaw County Climate Strike, which had an estimated turnout of 2,5003,000 people, led to the arrest of 10 students who participated in a 7.5-hour sit-in in the Fleming Administrative Building. The students refused to leave until President Mark Schlissel addressed their demand for a onehour public meeting about the University’s plan for combating climate change and attaining carbon neutrality without screening questions. Last week, the six demonstrators who were charged with trespassing appeared in court for a pretrial hearing in preparation for the official Oct. 10 trials. Efforts to combat climate
change are not only being taken on by students, but also by local communities. On Wednesday, the Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to endorse a climate emergency declaration, signalling the onset of regional efforts to limit greenhouse gas emissions and calling on the state of Michigan and the federal government to declare a climate emergency. At Friday’s strike, Business senior and co-president of Net Impact Gillian Cobb, who attended the event, described the student organization’s goal to promote sustainable business models. She explained how climate activism intersects with with many academic disciplines.
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Hundreds of United Auto Workers picketers were met by presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren at the General Motors DetroitHamtramck Plant Sunday afternoon. Warren marched with workers at the plant who are striking because of contract negotiations. GM has announced the plant is expected to close in January 2020. “GM made billions of dollars in profits last year and closed five plants around the county,” Warren said at a press conference after picketing. “GM is demonstrating that it has no loyalty to the workers of America or to the people of America. Their only loyalty is to their own bottom line.” The decision to strike was made by UAW leaders last week after a 2015 collective bargaining agreement expired. Nearly 50,000 UAW members across the country are striking until the UAW and GM agree on a contract that preserves fair wages, affordable health care, profit sharing and job security for temporary and permanent workers. UAW’s strike is expected to
Students call for destigmatization of medical care for mental health Event seeks to break silence, highlights perspectives in communities of color JULIA FANZERES Daily Staff Reporter
A group of students gathered on the front steps of the Hatcher Graduate Library on Friday evening for Breaking the Silence of Stigma on Mental Health, an event meant to address how stigma surrounding mental health impacts communities of color. Live Love Fitness LLF and the University of Michigan’s Asian American Association co-hosted the event. Different representatives from organizations across campus also came to support including the Black Student Union, CAPS in Action, United Asian American Organizations and Hope for the Day. Tiffany Yoo, event organizer and the founder of Live Love Fitness LLF, spoke at the event about her struggles with mental health from middle school to college. Her speech centered around how she felt she couldn’t confide in anyone throughout high school and most of college. “During my senior year of high school, I was obese and that didn’t help with the depression, which I didn’t really understand because
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nobody would talk about it,” Yoo said. “Nowadays people know what depression is, even as a child. But back then I had no idea what it really was because I thought I didn’t know anyone who had it because no one would talk about it.”
Yoo explained the stigma surrounding anxiety and depression held her back from going out of her comfort zone and making new friends. “I was very afraid of people knowing what I was going through because I just wanted to make new
friends,” Yoo said. “I didn’t want people to gossip about me, to be mean, label me as like, ‘Oh, she’s like that depressed girl, she has issues.’”
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cost GM $50 million per day. The union last went on strike in 2007, though it ended after two days when the parties reached an agreement. Ahead of her visit, Warren met with state politicians, including Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, and UAW leaders at Legends Coney Island in Detroit to hear about workers’ experiences first hand. Warren said she has advocated for union rights while in the Senate and would continue to if elected president. “The workers of the UAW are here to say ‘no more,’” Warren said. “They want a fair wage. They want benefits. They want what it takes to be part of America’s middle class.” Warren, who was named the leading Democratic candidate in Iowa in a recent poll from the Des Moines Register, CNN and Mediacom, refused to speculate about polls at this point in the race when speaking with the press. Other presidential hopefuls, including Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, have also made or intend to make visits to the Detroit picketers.
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CAMPUS LIFE
Fundraiser helps fight leukemia, lymphoma Light the Night benefits individuals with cancer, their friends and family ALYSSA MCMURTRY Daily Staff Reporter
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In Riverside Park along the Huron River in Ann Arbor, family and friends gathered Saturday night to celebrate the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s 20th anniversary of the Light the Night fundraiser. The night started with food and games, followed by an opening ceremony of lighting the lantern and a walk around Ann Arbor. LLS was founded by New York couple Rudolph and Antoinette Roesler de Villiers in 1949 after they lost their son to leukemia. Named after their late son, the Robert Roesler de Villiers Foundation started in a small Wall Street office.
Tiffany Yoo discusses the necessity of mental health awareness at Breaking the Silence of Stigma on Mental Health event on the Diag Friday evening.
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INDEX
Vol. CXXVIII, No. 138 ©2019 The Michigan Daily
NEWS.........................2 OPINION.....................4 CLASSIFIEDS................6
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MIC.....................3 ARTS...................5 SPORTS.................1B