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"Tell Them" by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner at Southbank Centre for London 2012 Poetry Parnassus

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Kathy just delivered an amazing poem at UN Climate Justice Convention in front of over a hundred heads of states.    • Marshallese poet Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner...   Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner is a poet from Marshall Islands. I ran into this young talented artist via our London assistant Linda Kwon, who saw Kathy perform at a Poetry Parnassus event and was deeply moved by her poems. Linda insisted that I work with Kathy and make a video or two while I was in London. So we did two. This is the first one. For more information on Kathy, please go to http://jkijiner.wordpress.com/about/ This piece "Tell Them" focuses on climate change, a pressing threat for many low lying Pacific Island nations, including her own. Our second collaboration piece HISTORY PROJECT is here:    • "History Project" by KathyJetnil-Kiji...   Filmed by Masahiro Sugano Produced by Studio Revolt http://studio-revolt.com/ Studio Revolt © 2012 ...more
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"Tell Them" by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner at Southbank Centre for London 2012 Poetry Parnassus
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Kathy just delivered an amazing poem at UN Climate Justice Convention in front of over a hundred heads of states.    • Marshallese poet Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner...   Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner is a poet from Marshall Islands. I ran into this young talented artist via our London assistant Linda Kwon, who saw Kathy perform at a Poetry Parnassus event and was deeply moved by her poems. Linda insisted that I work with Kathy and make a video or two while I was in London. So we did two. This is the first one. For more information on Kathy, please go to http://jkijiner.wordpress.com/about/ This piece "Tell Them" focuses on climate change, a pressing threat for many low lying Pacific Island nations, including her own. Our second collaboration piece HISTORY PROJECT is here:    • "History Project" by KathyJetnil-Kiji...   Filmed by Masahiro Sugano Produced by Studio Revolt http://studio-revolt.com/ Studio Revolt © 2012

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