EDITORIAL: Hong Kong’s troublesome new law deserves a second look
By the NBTB 2020 Online Global Journalism Newsroom This editorial reflects the unanimous view of the newsroom. On July 1st, the first day of the implementation of the Hong Kong version of the National Security Law, tens of thousands of…
OPINION: Why we should cover the trauma, not drama, of school shootings
Marchers gather in Washington to call for action on climate change
California high school students organize walkout, march downtown
Green School of Bali performance targets conflict palm oil, forest fires
Le Bourget, PARIS — Students from Green School in Bali, Indonesia, staged a flash mob performance to highlight the fires burning in Borneo, which have resulted from slash-and-burn land clearing techniques by palm oil producers. Indonesia has the world's largest flora and…
Q & A with Asher Jay, art activist and NatGeo Young Explorer
PARIS — GSS news editor Bethany Ao sat down with Asher Jay, a National Geographic Young Explorer and artist who addressed the COY11 climate change conference in Paris earlier today (see "@EarthHeiress Asher Jay: 'Wild Is Who We Come From"). Ao and…
@EarthHeiress Asher Jay: ‘Wild is who we come from’
By Bethany Ao, GSS correspondent PARIS — Asher Jay's Twitter profile @AsherJayNYC defines her goal and her process — "Asher Jay creates to comment, conserve and contribute" as "a designer, artist, writer and activist" through art, design installations, film, and advertising. But…
“Radical Raskolnikov” points to “next wave” of youth activism
What if Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, the politically-minded student at the heart of "Crime and Punishment," had a Tumblr page? It might look something like "Radical Raskolnikov," the blog that a team of Sequoia students created to showcase their growing interest in…
