{"id":51903,"date":"2012-01-18T12:52:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T17:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=51903"},"modified":"2018-10-01T13:39:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T17:39:55","slug":"sun-journal-mlk-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2012\/01\/18\/sun-journal-mlk-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun Journal offers extensive coverage of 2012 MLK events"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sun Journal <\/em>offers extensive coverage of the 2012 Martin Luther King Jr. Day events at the college, including talks by environmental policy expert Julian Agyeman and Monday’s breakout sessions.<\/p>\n

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Environmental policy expert Julian Agyeman gives the 2012 Martin Luther King Jr. Day keynote address in the Bates Chapel.<\/p><\/div>\n

Agyeman offered the homily during Sunday’s memorial service<\/a> and the keynote on Monday<\/a> morning, both in the Chapel.<\/p>\n

Covering the memorial service, reporter Andie Hannon tells of Agyeman growing up in England and looking to the U.S. for black role models, and finding Martin Luther King Jr.<\/p>\n

The next day, reporter Dan Hartill covered the keynote, where Agyeman discussed the concept of “just sustainability.”<\/p>\n

Agyeman argues that the inequities between the world’s peoples \u2014 Americans account for less than 5 percent of the world’s population but use 25 percent of its resources \u2014 will eventually provoke people from other countries to act if the wealthy do not change.<\/p>\n

“Someday a U.S. president has got to stand up and say, ‘We have got to dial it down.'”<\/p>\n