First hour: The New York Youth Climate Leaders
Second hour: Discussing the impact of civil rights icon Edie Windsor
On Friday, students around the world will once against walk out of class to go on strike for climate action. Locally, a growing group of students is organizing in a new way. The group is launching a coalition of youth climate activist groups based in New York State; it will be called the New York Youth Climate Leaders or NY2CL for short. We discuss the goals and agenda of this new coalition. Our guests:
- Hridesh Singh, Liam Smith, and Celia Darling from NY2CL
Then in our second hour, LGBTQ activist Edie Windsor was in the process of writing her memoir, "A Wild and Precious Life," when she died at the age of 88. Windsor's landmark 2013 Supreme Court case -- which took on the Defense of Marriage Act of 1996 -- expanded the definition of "spouse" to include some-sex partners, and made them eligible for federal benefits previously limited to heterosexuals. In her book, Windsor shares her journey from hiding her sexual identity to becoming an outspoken LGBTQ activist. Her widow, Judith Kasen-Windsor is in Rochester to discuss Windsor's book and her impact on history. She joins us in studio, along with local activists. In studio:
- Judith Kasen-Windsor, LGBTQ activist and Edie Windsor's surviving spouse
- Assemblymember Harry Bronson (D), District 138
- Evelyn Bailey, executive producer of the Shoulders to Stand On Documentary
