http://sites.middlebury.edu/middmag Fri, 17 May 2013 13:21:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://sites.middlebury.edu/middmag/2012/01/18/a-voice-heard-round-the-world/ http://sites.middlebury.edu/middmag/2012/01/18/a-voice-heard-round-the-world/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:52:25 +0000 Maria Theresa Stadtmueller http://sites.middlebury.edu/middmag/?p=6938 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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