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'Because I'm Scared': Jane Fonda's New Book Details Her Journey To Taking Climate Action
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Actress and activist Jane Fonda (center) and Gloria Steinem (right) march during the "Fire Drill Fridays" climate change protest and rally on Capital Hill on December 20, 2019, in Washington, D.C. (Paul Morigi/Getty Images)
In 2019, Jane Fonda decided to temporarily move to Washington, D.C., to protest climate change by launching Fire Drill Fridays.
That's where the Oscar-winning actress starts her new book, "What Can I Do?: My Path From Climate Despair to Action," about activism on the issue of climate change. Recently praised for her hit Netflix series "Grace and Frankie" and known to many for her activism during the Vietnam War, Fonda wanted to responsibly use her platform as a celebrity.
"I'd been depressed last year," she says, "because even though I made a lot of personal lifestyle type changes, you know, electric car, no more single-use plastics and so forth, I knew that I wasn't doing enough and I just didn't know what to do."
Reading Naomi Klien's "On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal" inspired Fonda to "put my body on the line" like young activists such as Greta Thunberg to help older people understand the urgency of the climate crisis. After contacting Klein, Annie Leonard of Greenpeace USA and Bill McKibben of 350.org, the group proposed a rally every Friday to the young climate strikers. Then, protesters would engage in civil disobedience and risk arrest.
When she decided to take this weekly action, Fonda realized she would need to increase her carbon footprint by flying Washington. After weighing the importance of traveling to raise awareness with avoiding air travel, Fonda says she and Leonard decided they "didn't want perfection to get in the way of good."
"The fossil fuel executives are flying all over the world, buying off politicians and trying to convince them to not be against fossil fuels," she says. "We're at a big disadvantage if they're flying all over and we can't fly to get someplace to raise awareness."
Jane Fonda. (Photo by John Russo)
The first of the Fire Drill Friday protesters' three main demands is to cut fossil fuel emissions in half by 2030. If this goal isn't met, scientists say ecosystems will start unraveling uncontrollably, Fonda says.
The second demand is to phase out fossil fuels entirely by 2050. A gradual transition away from fossil fuels is necessary because the economy still depends on them, she says, and workers need retraining and guaranteed union jobs.
Fonda also aimed to raise awareness for the Green New Deal, a resolution proposed by lawmakers including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey to address climate change and income inequality. The "aspirational" proposal calls for communities that have been most impacted by climate change — Black, Brown, Indigenous and low-income communities — to receive new, sustainable jobs and environmental cleanup, she says.
The solution to climate change needs to address both the crisis itself and the other intertwined issues the U.S. faces, she says, which the Green New Deal does.
"I think the climate movement has changed in that it's become far more aware of climate justice, environmental justice and the need to have justice at the forefront of any solutions that we come up with," she says. "Because the crisis that this country faces isn't just a climate crisis. It's an empathy crisis. It's a fairness crisis. It's a democracy crisis."
With a long history of activism under her belt, Fonda mentions protests against the Vietnam War in the book. She was arrested during recent climate protests and also during Vietnam. Now, she says "when you have a hit series behind your back, it's easier to do activism."
A maturity has grown within the climate movement, as well as the movement for racial justice, she says. Fonda, who worked with the Black Panthers in the early '70s and helped bail out political prisoners, says openness and a commitment to nonviolence have set recent Black Lives Matter protests apart and fueled the vast, diverse support for the movement.
At age 82, Fonda felt she needed to get more involved with the climate movement "because I'm scared." Despite this fear, she views the chance to tackle climate change together as a "wonderful responsibility to have."
"I'm also acutely aware of the fact that I'm alive in the last generation that can determine whether there's a future for human beings or not," she says. "We're it. The decisions we make will determine millions of lives and a livable future."
Fonda's youngest grandchild is only 13 months old, but her activism is also for the people feeling the impacts of climate change right now. Beloved places like Big Sur in California, the Amazon and Australia have been devastated by fires in the past year, she says.
"I love these places. I love these trees, these forests, the oceans," she says. "The fact that they support our lives and they're being destroyed — I feel like the skin is being pulled off my body."
Fonda says she had trouble sleeping before launching Fire Drill Fridays, but now she knows she's doing everything she can to make a difference. Not everyone can move to the nation's capital to protest every week, she says, but anyone can support the movement in their own way.
For people looking for ways to get more involved with the climate movement, Fonda has one word of advice: Vote.
"Vote and vote early. Get your ballots early. It's safe to vote by mail, but do it early. Get your ballots early. Mail them early," she says. "That's the most important thing because if you know who gets in there for four more years, it's going to be very difficult."
Emiko Tamagawa produced and edited this interview for broadcast with Peter O'Dowd. Allison Hagan adapted it for the web.adapted it for the web.
Book Excerpt: 'What Can I Do?: My Path From Climate Despair to Action'
By Jane Fonda
During Labor Day weekend in 2019, I was in Big Sur with my pals Catherine Keener and Rosanna Arquette. I have a history with Big Sur dating back to 1961, when I first ventured there by myself in search of Henry Miller. I had just read a pamphlet he wrote, To Paint Is to Love Again, and I wanted to meet him and talk. He wasn't there, but I ended up spending a week at the hot springs (later to become Esalen), and it was transformative.
Now here I was once again in need of transformation. I've been an environmental activist since the 1970s, installing a windmill at my ranch in 1978 and solar heating and electricity in my Santa Monica home in 1981, speaking at rallies, attending Greenpeace marches in both the United States and Canada, and later getting an electric car, stopping my use of single-use plastic, recycling, and cutting back on red meat. But I was still ill at ease. Existential angst? I had just learned that there are 2.9 billion fewer birds in North America than there were in 1970; I knew that sea turtles are strangling from tumors caused by pollution in the oceans; whales are found dead with fifty pounds of plastic in their bellies; polar bears are starving; 93 percent of children worldwide are breathing polluted air that is endangering their health; and untold numbers of people were living in the midst of oil wells and refineries that were causing them major health problems. But I hadn't really focused on what the scientists were saying. I knew we needed to reduce fossil fuel use and invest in clean energy alternatives, fast, but these things remained a disturbing reality sitting out there somewhere, removed from me. I hadn't taken it in and metabolized it. Instead, I would wonder if perhaps humankind deserved the fate it had created. I remembered what E. O. Wilson said decades ago, which I paraphrase: God granted the gift of intelligence to the wrong species. It should have gone to non-meat-eating creatures with no thumbs such as whales and dolphins. I agreed. Just get rid of us Homo sapiens ASAP and things will restore themselves.
But all the while, I knew this fatalist thinking was a cop-out, and I didn't like myself for it. I'd be reminded of the recent birth of my grandson, and my two older grandkids, and the many people out there fighting for a better planet. No, fatalism couldn't be for me. Yet I was compartmentalizing my grief rather than letting it into my heart.
Catherine Keener reminded me recently how, on the five-hour drive to Big Sur, she would go on an hourly rant: What can I do? Tell me what to do! Where are the leaders? I need someone to tell me what to do! I felt impotent, angry with myself for my inability to give her the answers she needed because I felt the same way. What can I do?
The very morning we left for Big Sur, I'd received an advance copy of Naomi Klein's new book, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal. All my life, the exact book I needed without even knowing it had come to me at the perfect time and changed my trajectory. Here it was again. I began reading it the next day, and a quarter of the way through I was shaking with intensity.
Over time, I've asked myself what it was about Naomi's book that so affected me. One was the way she wrote about Greta Thunberg, the sixteen-year-old Swedish activist who, in 2018, started a movement called Fridays for Future that had inspired school strikes for climate action around the world, involving millions of students. I knew about Greta. A lot had been written about her, including that she was on the autism spectrum. But until Naomi, I hadn't understood what that had to do with the power of her connection to the climate crisis and the way she communicated about it. Naomi explained that unlike the rest of us, people with Asperger's don't look around and take cues about how to behave and feel from the people they see. They receive information pure and direct. If they study the science of climate change as Greta, a self-described science nerd, did, they aren't able to read the stark facts, feel scared for a while, and then go about business as usual. When Greta, with her unfiltered focus, her inability to compartmentalize or cope with cognitive dissonance, read the science showing disaster was looming, she didn't believe it at first. "It can't be true, because, if it were, nobody would be speaking of anything else. All people would be doing is trying to figure out how to fix it." But when she realized the science was true and nobody was behaving as they should in a crisis, she became traumatized. She stopped speaking and eating.
Reading this was like a kick in my stomach. I knew that what Greta had seen was the truth, that, as she said, we should be behaving as if our house were on fire, as if we were in a crisis, because we are. The brave, young student was exhorting us to get out of our comfort zone and do something. Learning this about Greta permitted me to take the science into my own body. This was the second thing in Naomi's book that changed me: the clarity with which she conveyed what the scientists were saying in the 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Virtually unanimously, the scientists make clear that given the worsening disasters we're already seeing, and the additional warming that is already baked in because we didn't act forty years ago, we don't stand a chance at changing course in time without profound, systemic economic and social change, and they say, as of 2020, we have a brief ten years before the tipping point is reached. Ten years to reduce fossil fuel emissions roughly in half and then reduce to net zero by 2050 to avoid uncontrollable unraveling of the natural life-support system.
But the scientists also believe that we have the technology to make the transition in time to clean, renewable energy and that the most important factor in whether we can pull off what's needed will be collective actions taken by social movements on an unprecedented scale. Social movements. In my fifty years of activism, I'd been part of social movements that changed policy. For instance, in 1972 and 1973, Tom Hayden, my second husband, and I launched the Indochina Peace Campaign, and together with scores of activists we crisscrossed the country educating the people whom the then president Richard Nixon described as the Silent Majority about the Vietnam War, the Pentagon Papers, and the need to cut the funding that was shoring up the government the United States had installed in South Vietnam that was keeping the war going. Especially because the just-released Pentagon Papers revealed that a succession of administrations had known we couldn't win. The Pentagon Papers were to the Vietnam War what I think the IPCC 2018 report was to the climate crisis: irrefutable proof of lying and deceit on the part of people in power. In the end, the aid was cut, our client government collapsed, and the Vietnam War ended. Yes, I had experienced the effectiveness of mobilizing and organizing with a clear strategy and authoritative documents to back us up.
The third thing in Naomi's book that struck me was how she explained the Green New Deal (GND). When Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey introduced the Green New Deal resolution in 2019, I thought including issues like low-carbon jobs and environmental and economic justice in a document about climate was taking it too far and would easily be dismissed by the right as a leftist
wish list. But Naomi's book made me understand justice is at the heart of solving what led to the climate crisis. The Green New Deal beckons us into a future where everyone can see a place for themselves.
When you're famous, there are so many ways to lift issues and amplify voices. God knows I've done it before to varying degrees of success. But what can I do? What's the right way to use my platform now, when things are getting worse fast?
Naomi's book made clear that right now is the last possible moment in history when changing course can mean saving lives and species on an unimaginable scale. A true civilizational responsibility rests on our shoulders!
I knew what I needed to do, and I felt it so strongly I was quivering all over.
"I'm going to move to Washington, D.C., for a year and camp out in front of the White House to protest climate change," I told Rosanna and Catherine over dinner at the Post Ranch Inn. "If Greta can do it, so can I."
There, I'd said it to my pals, and now I couldn't back out.
Being brave, gung ho gals, Catherine and Rosanna were all for it and pledged to join me when they could. Over the next few days we hiked, and I kept reading Naomi's book. I felt more strongly that if I got the word out, others would join me. It had happened before during the later years of the Vietnam War. At night I lay in bed trying to remember where I'd stored my sleeping bag and bivy sack that have seen me through downpours and blizzards at fourteen thousand feet. I've done a lot of camping in my life and had all the right equipment, but I'd never camped in a city. Where will I poop and pee? I wondered. I'm way older now and have to get up during the night more often. Rosanna, Catherine, and I studied maps of D.C. trying to pick a spot where I would set up, but I realized I didn't want a lonely vigil. What would be the point of that? I needed expert help to plan this. That's when I tried to call Annie Leonard, the director of Greenpeace USA, because they were fearless supporters of big actions and, while I wasn't certain, I felt my action might become big. I paced in front of Rosanna's house, trying to get a phone signal, when I finally managed to reach her.
"Annie, it's Jane Fonda here, do you have a minute? I have an idea and I need your advice."
Annie assured me she did, so I rushed on. "I'm reading Naomi's book, and I've decided to move to Washington for a year and camp out in front of the White House. I want to start in three weeks. Can you
help me figure it out?" See, I'm someone who, when she gets an idea, is 100 percent ready to take a leap of faith and just do it. In fact, leaps of faith are my only form of exercise these days.
There was a rather long silence on Annie's end, and then she said, "Well, Jane, that's so wonderful and I'm blown away that you're ready to put yourself out there like that, but, see, you can't camp overnight in Washington anymore. It's been made illegal after Occupy Wall Street camped there and more so in the current anti-protest climate in D.C. But let's figure out what is possible." She offered to set up a conference call with her, Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org, Naomi, the environmental lawyer Jay Halfon, and me. Time was of the essence, so Annie and I arranged to do the conference call the next day.
That day, Catherine, Rosanna, and I were visiting Esalen, the retreat center perched on twenty-seven acres of cliffs overlooking the Pacific. I figured Esalen would have decent reception for the conference call, and it felt appropriate that this possibly defining call would happen there. Generations of people seeking transformation often find themselves at Esalen, and the power it holds to create change is very much about its topography. It's edgy. The sea off Big Sur is where the Arctic current meets the warm Pacific current. Land and sea touch each other at the base of jagged cliffs. It's all the sharp edges and fierce winds, I think, that encourage people to break with their pasts, to look beyond dogma, and to examine new ways to be effective in the world. I remembered arriving there, a young woman in my midtwenties, the same age as many of the activists now driving the movement to stop climate change. Big Sur's wild nature, those cliffs, was an important part of my transformation from child of the buttoned-up 1950s to someone who wanted to shake off the "good girl" shackles of my youth. In that way, it seemed right that I found myself in Esalen at this moment when I was rethinking how I could work to serve something larger than myself.
Turns out there was very poor cell phone service, but there was a bright red old-fashioned outdoor phone booth and a place where I could gather an hour's worth of quarters.
Bill McKibben suggested that because camping was no longer permitted, perhaps a once-a-week protest that involved civil disobedience would be a better idea. Fridays had been claimed by Greta Thunberg and the student climate strikers, but the youth had also called on adults to join them. "Maybe you could do an action on Fridays as well." Bill referenced what Randall Robinson, executive director of TransAfrica, had done in the mid-1980s, marching in front of the South African embassy in D.C. every day, committing civil disobedience by sitting down in the middle of Massachusetts Avenue, calling for freeing Nelson Mandela and ending apartheid in South Africa. "It was a very successful protest," Bill said. In the beginning there were ten to twenty people, which grew to hundreds, and it spread nationwide until, in 1986, the first antiapartheid bill was passed in Congress.
Annie agreed, noting how important civil disobedience on behalf of climate has become. "For forty years, we've been polite, we've shared the science, we've petitioned, we've marched, rallied, written, pleaded. We've used all the levers of democracy available to us, and our elected representatives haven't listened. Now we have to do more, step it up. Risk arrest if that is what it takes. It's the fossil fuel industry who've led us to this. It's time to be bold. Science demands it. Morality demands it. The moment demands it."
I dropped in more quarters and tried to breathe, not just because it was getting really hot in the phone booth, but because I could feel in my body that this was right. I was ready for this. I'd been getting ready for this my whole adult life . . . a weekly action that culminated in nonviolent civil disobedience. And I wouldn't have to worry about pooping.
I wanted to start in a few weeks, so we decided I should go to D.C. as soon as possible to work out details and meet with some key environmental groups, including the student climate strikers, to get their input and buy-in. I began planning for the maximum time I could spend in D.C. before I had to get ready to film our seventh and last season of Grace and Frankie on January 27, 2020. It added up to four months, fourteen Fridays.
From WHAT CAN I DO? My Path from Climate Despair to Action. Published by arrangement with Penguin Press, a member of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright © 2020 by Jane Fonda.
This segment aired on September 8, 2020.
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Cliff Richard case: BBC had 'strong reasons' to name singer
Cliff Richard privacy case
The BBC's director of news and current affairs has said there were "strong reasons" to name Sir Cliff Richard during a police inquiry into him.
Fran Unsworth told the High Court that while the story would cause "distress" to Sir Cliff, it was "in the public interest."
Sir Cliff is suing the BBC for naming him and broadcasting helicopter footage of police searching his home in 2014.
He says broadcasting the images was a "very serious invasion" of privacy.
Sir Cliff, 77, who denied an historic sexual assault allegation, was not arrested or charged as the result of the South Yorkshire Police investigation.
'Indelible stain'
Giving evidence on Wednesday, Ms Unsworth - who was then deputy director of BBC News - told Mr Justice Mann: "I was aware it would cause serious distress to Sir Cliff, but I had to weigh up the public interest consideration."
Sir Cliff's barrister, Justin Rushbrooke QC, asked about the consideration of the "indelible stain" such an allegation would leave on Sir Cliff's character.
"It certainly occurred (to me) this was a fairly momentous thing we were doing with a high profile person concerned, but there were strong reasons the BBC should do this," Ms Unsworth replied.
She added that there were "strong public interest arguments" in naming suspects who were part of a police investigation.
She told the court that defamation was the "most significant legal issue".
"We were concerned about privacy impact, but I thought that was an editorial matter as opposed to a legal matter," she added.
Image caption Fran Unsworth was deputy director of BBC news at the time of the coverage
Asked whether helicopter footage showing the inside of Sir Cliff's home was intrusive, Ms Unsworth said that Sir Cliff was not in the property and that "shots were of policemen and quite blurred".
Ms Unsworth did not accept it was disproportionately intrusive, adding: "It would be impossible to broadcast it without it being an enormous story. "
She did, however, say use of live footage "was a mistake".
She told Judge Mann the justification of using a helicopter was "the inability to record it pictorially effectively any other way".
Ms Unsworth said it was the first time the BBC had named an individual before arrest in connection with a minor.
"We understood he would have been arrested if at the property," she added.
'Worth showing public'
Questioned on the BBC's decision to report the investigation, Ms Unsworth said: "We had firm information given to us by South Yorkshire Police...
"My instincts tell me that had it emerged that the BBC had chosen to ignore that story in full knowledge of it, the public audiences would have had questions about our role... it would have looked potentially as though we were not covering this story because Sir Cliff was a high profile individual."
She added: "I thought it surprising South Yorkshire Police had given this level of access and I thought that was worth showing the public."
Ms Unsworth said the BBC did receive criticism for naming Sir Cliff after the coverage.
Judge Mann also heard from another witness, Joanne Beattie, a former press officer for South Yorkshire Police.
She confirmed she rang BBC News reporter Dan Johnson the day before the search, to tell him it was being carried out the following morning in Berkshire.
Sir Cliff has said the coverage "smeared" his name. He is suing the BBC over the misuse of private information and breaking data protection rules.
The BBC disputes his allegations and says the BBC report on the police inquiry was in the public interest.
In 2014 South Yorkshire Police searched Sir Cliff's flat in Sunningdale, Berkshire while investigating an allegation the singer sexually assaulted a boy under the age of 16 in Sheffield in 1985.
In June 2016 it was announced he would not face any charges.
South Yorkshire Police has settled its own case with Sir Cliff by paying him £400,000 and argues that the BBC should pay a share of this because its actions were "far more causative of the damage suffered".
The case continues on Thursday.
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Chad Says Forces Killed Top Al-Qaida Commander in Mali
This image released on December 25, 2012 by Sahara Media, shows one of the leaders of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Abdelhamid Abou Zeid in an undisclosed place.
DAKAR — French and Chadian forces battling Islamist militants in Mali's remote northeastern mountains are believed to have killed a top al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb commander known as Abdelhamid Abou Zeid, though the fate of at least four French hostages that Abou Zeid was thought to be holding nearby remains unknown.
Chad's president says Abou Zeid and another al-Qaida commander were among those killed in ongoing military operations in the area. French authorities are not confirming the reports.
Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)
- Formed in the 1990s to fight Algeria's secular government
- Wants to rid North Africa of western influence and impose sharia
- Estimated to have amassed $100 million in kidnapping ransoms
- Most members are from outside Mali
The Algerian-born jihadist, if his death is confirmed, could be a significant blow in the ongoing war against the al-Qaida-linked rebels who seized control of northern Mali last April.
Zeid has been described as inflexible, cruel, violent, audacious, intelligent, radical and without pity. He was born in Algeria and commands a southern battalion of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, known as AQIM. His command is known to be one of AQIM's most radical factions.
A smuggler by trade, Abou Zeid fought in a succession of armed Algerian Islamist movements in the 1990s. He headed south to Mali about a decade ago as part of the Algerian-led Salafist movement that would ultimately rebrand itself as AQIM in 2006.
Mauritanian journalist and AQIM expert Isselmou Ould Moustapha said in killing Abou Zeid, the French and allied forces in Mali would be knocking out a formidable enemy.
He says Abou Zeid is one of the "most daring and determined" commanders that coalition forces currently face in Mali, even though Abou Zeid does not currently hold the post of "emir of the Sahara," or the chief of AQIM southern operations.
Abdelhamid Abou Zeid
- Also known as Abid Hammadou
- A top leader of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb
- Designated a terrorist by U.S. and U.N.
- Blamed for several kidnappings for ransom of tourists in the Sahel
- Believe to be behind execution of a British and French hostage
- Led attack on Mauritanian military outpost in 2005
- Established AQIM camp in Mali to train terrorists
Moustapha says over the past decade, Abou Zeid has taken on the Mauritanian, Nigerien and Malian armies and made a name for himself engineering kidnappings in 2008, 2009 and 2010. He characterizes Abou Zeid as a powerful field commander who could mobilize fighters as determined as him.
He rose to international infamy for his involvement in kidnapping dozens of European hostages in the Sahel, beginning in 2003.
The operations took in millions of dollars in ransoms, money that analysts say was key to funding AQIM, while all the while being known as a tough negotiator.
Abou Zeid is believed to be behind the executions of two hostages: British tourist Edwin Dyer in 2009 and French aid worker Michel Germaneau in 2010.


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ABACE: Hong Kong's Metrojet authorised for Embraer Legacy 500 service
By Greg Waldron2014-04-14T07:12:57+01:00
Hong Kong-based private aircraft charter and maintenance provider Metrojet has become the first authorised service centre for the Embraer Legacy 500 aircraft in the greater China region.
At a press briefing before the annual ABACE private jet industry gathering in Shanghai, the two companies signed an agreement that expands the scope of the parties' previous authorised service agreement signed in 2011.
Metrojet is already authorised to service several Embraer types, such as the Lineage 1000E, Legacy 650,and Legacy 600.
"This amendment not only broadens our scope of cooperation with Metrojet, one of the best maintenance organisations in Asia, but also underscores our commitment to provide best-in-class services to our customers in Greater China," says Embraer.
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Election reordering: Senate suspends Senator Omo Agege over his comment about President Buhari
written by Samuel Etuk April 12, 2018
The Nigerian Senate has suspended Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, for 90 days over his remark that the reordered election sequence was targeted at President Muhammdu Buhari.
Omo-Agege, shortly after the passage of the amendment to the 2010 Electoral Act, told newsmen that the change in the sequence was targeted at President Buhari.
He said, "You don't make a law to target one person. The perception is that the law is targeted at the president. I will continue to protest it. I can tell you it will not become a law,".
However, his statement did not go down well with the leadership of the Senate who ordered an investigation to be carried out by its Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions committee.
The committee presented its report to the house this morning. Amongst the recommendation was for Omo-Agege to be suspended for 180 legislative days (1 year). Senate President Bukola Saraki upon receiving the recommendations, called for leniency. After much deliberation, the suspension was reduced to 90 days (six months).
Here's the speech from senate president, Bukola Saraki, announcing Omo-Agege's suspension;
Distinguished Colleagues, a number of points have been raised. One borders on the issue of preserving the integrity of this institution. To me, that is what i think is the most important thing for us.
Second, is where we take actions that are not sincere. I think in this chamber, if we want to talk about who has the right to say he is Chairman of a Parliamentary Support Group for Mr. President both by action and by what we have done, I think that I have the right to lead that — more than anyone else here.
Those of us that understand politics, understand that because of our own peculiar interest, sometimes some people decide to act like they are holier than thou or more committed — at the expense of others. This is not something that we should tolerate, and I believe that in an institution like this we must show discipline, but at the same time we must also show compassion.
Distinguished Colleagues, there must be discipline. We must show that such groups must be suspended and the case in court must be withdrawn.
In consideration of that we can look at leniency on what is being recommended.
Distinguished Colleagues I'd like for you to make recommendations on this going forward.
I think by that we would have captured:
1. No more of these kind of groups in the Senate;
2. The issue of court actions;
3. We are not in any hurry to take anybody away from this family; and
4. We must lay down an example by showing that there is discipline and apply some form of discipline on this matter.
If I can make recommendations from this chair, I'd say that this issue before us, maybe we should reduce the number of days by half but with an understanding that we can revisit and look at this issue. We must send out a strong message. There are some people who are fanatics and such actions will expose a lot of people and allies.
1. The senator involved, Sen Agege should withdraw the case;
2. The support group should be disbanded; and
3. Out of compassion, we amend the recommendation of the committee to 90 days and we move forward.
Samuel Etuk
Passionate unapologetic Nigerian, highly spontaneous, web content writer cum social media strategist, gidi hustler and Akwa-ibomite in diaspora
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Well 11 and some hours, 680 some miles and it is in its new home town. My new to me Bel Air. Don't know if its good, and or Bad that I have a restoration shop (Truck and Car Shop) close to me. Stopped in today and picked up a 62 Assembly manual, and a few other needed things to get the project build started, need to start going through it and see whats good / bad, fixable, or just needs replacing.
Well either way I am pulling the body off the frame. Just need to decide on whether to blast and powder coat it or blast it and use Eastwoods chassis / frame products?
Looks like you have a good base to start with.
If you go with powder coat, make sure you do all your chassis mods before you have it done.
Cripe SS my 61 was only 7 yrs. old back in 68 and it was starting to go there and over the headlights. This girl I was dating in HS asked me how old my 61 was and I told her it was a brand new 68 but because of the rust issue I was able to buy it as a seconds at a considerable discount and that was the only reason I could afford it, she didn't know what hit her.
I've heard the biggest downfall on powder coating is there is no body filler which will stand the heat. Get those welds finished, dressed, and smooth as hell as well!
First off Merry Christmas to all you fellow 348 - 409 members, been a while since I posted, been hectic at work. Became short staffed due to people leaving and having to let people go. Finally getting staffed back up so hopefully I can get back at the project.
Looks like a great start to me. Looking forward to watching your build. Do you have a car it's going in yet?
Yes Sir the Belair in the first post.
Boy, does all that sound familiar!! If the photo in your avatar is any indication of where this car is going I like it a lot! Will be following along. Good car to start with, looks like. Where'd you have to go to get it?
I drove to the GA, TN mountains border to get it. Trunk Tub is whats needed in the rear, passenger floor and other pieces are the major pieces needing done, everything else looks pretty easy to tackle. Drivers quarter forward of the Gas door has a small crease which shouldn't be a issue either. With this being a "Track Car" it should be pretty much straight forward.
but still thinking about factory steel style on all four corners or mag style up front and steelies out back. We are regulated to 4" min up front and 8' max in the rear. I also need to start locating pedal and linkage pieces and hopefully you guys can/will chime in as I am looking for best place(s) to acquire all the needed parts. We have to use a H-pattern shifter as no V Gate / In Line shifters are allowed.
I would message pvs409 on here for your clutch parts he will have a list of everything you need and possibly has some of the stuff on hand.
So many knowledgeable, experienced people here. Best resource by far. Good luck. I know you will enjoy this.
Nate ( nana1962409) is correct, I have collected 61 to 63/64 clutch conversion parts over the years and have selling off partial and complete sets of linkage with a complete list of options to select from. The includes full original clutch and brake pedals(62's were a one year factory setup). There are two different types of lower linkage matched to a clutch fork - one is better for racing in my option. There is one style Hurst "H" pattern shifter (and matching arms / rods - depending on the type of transmission used, that fits 61 to 64's and it works really good for drag racing( having raced late 50's/60's cars over the years).
Oh wow are you building this thing for the S.E.G. Super stock class?? Awesome!! Wish they weren't 2000 miles away I'd be out there with em. Looks like a lot of fun.


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Maurice Giuliani, né le  à Lyon (France) et décédé le  à Paris, est un prêtre jésuite français. Grand connaisseur de la spiritualité ignatienne et écrivain spirituel il est le fondateur de la revue Christus.

Biographie
Maurice Giuliani entre dans la Compagnie de Jésus en 1935, à Yzeure, après des études de lettres et de droit. Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il poursuit des études de philosophie avant de devenir professeur de lettres au collège de Mongré. En 1953, il est chargé de lancer la revue de spiritualité Christus. Il sera aidé par les pères Henri Holstein, Jacques Guillet, François Roustang, de Broucker, Jean Courel et Michel de Certeau. Il quitte la direction de la revue en 1962 pour prendre celle de la revue Études.

En 1965, il devient assistant du Supérieur général des Jésuites, le père Pedro Arrupe. De retour en France en 1972, il devient instructeur de la 'troisième année de probation' des Jésuites de France jusqu'en 1976. Il sera ensuite et jusqu'à sa mort entièrement donné à donner les Exercices Spirituels de saint Ignace, à publier des articles de spiritualité ignatienne et à diriger l'édition des Écrits d'Ignace de Loyola chez Desclée de Brouwer. Il participe à la fondation d'une association (appelée aujourd'hui 'Association Maurice-Giuliani') visant à former les accompagnateurs donnant les Exercices.

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Naissance en décembre 1916
Naissance dans le 3e arrondissement de Lyon
Décès en août 2003
Jésuite français
Écrivain spirituel
Clergé français du XXe siècle
Décès dans le 7e arrondissement de Paris
Décès à 86 ans

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