The Middlebury Blog Network » Abigil Borah http://sites.middlebury.edu/middblogs Selected Posts from the Midd Blogosphere Fri, 17 May 2013 20:05:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 A Voice Heard ’Round the World http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddMag/~3/lQX96yew5KU/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddMag/~3/lQX96yew5KU/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:52:25 +0000 Middlebury Magazine http://sites.middlebury.edu/middmag/?p=6938 Continue reading →]]> Junior Abigail Borah’s father heard a report on NPR last December about an American student interrupting the UN climate talks in South Africa. When he heard the announcer refer to “her” impassioned appeal for action—and her eviction—he knew it was his daughter. Abigail spoke for her fellow attendees from the youth climate movement against political dithering and delays in Durban. The meeting moderator retorted, “No one is listening to you,” but the world media was.



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