Amanpour and Company

April 23, 2021

Mazie Hirono; Julie Mehretu; Vivek Maru and Rhonda Hamilton

The Fight for Environmental Justice

17m 48s

Vivek Maru is founder of Namati, which empowers grassroots groups to protect common lands and enforce environmental laws, while Rhonda Hamilton works with Namati to combat unlawful pollution in her own D.C. neighborhood. They join Hari to discuss their work as part of the ongoing public media initiative Peril and Promise, on the challenges of and solutions to climate change.

Previews + Extras

  • US Senate Passes Anti-Asian Hate Crime Bill: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    US Senate Passes Anti-Asian Hate Crime Bill

    S2021 E3213 - 2m 43s

    Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii is one of the lead sponsors of new legislation to stop anti-Asian hate crimes. In 2012, Hirono became the first Asian American woman elected to the Senate, and is currently the only immigrant serving there. Her new memoir “Heart of Fire” chronicles her own remarkable journey and she joins the show to discuss.

  • Artist Julie Mehretu on Her Retrospective at the Whitney: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Artist Julie Mehretu on Her Retrospective at the Whitney

    S2021 E3213 - 2m 59s

    The works of artist Julie Mehretu are informed by global crisis and upheaval. Mehretu is best known for her expansive murals addressing aspects of war, immigration, racism, and other themes that shape our world. Now she is having a mid-career retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and joins the show from New York.

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