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“#WomanLifeFreedom” along its embankment. IrSA member Foroogh Farhang , an eighth-year anthropology Ph.D. student, opened the event by reading a
Schenita Stewart will be Evanston’s next police chief, the city announced Friday. Stewart currently serves as the deputy chief of police for the East Dundee Police Department. In its news release, the city highlighted her focus on positive community partnerships and budget development and management. “I’m thankful for the opportunity to be able to serve the community that raised and supported me my entire life,” Stewart said in the release. “This great city of Evanston is the lighthouse community that my great grandparents fled to from Abbeville, SC for a better life.” City Manager Luke Stowe appointed Stewart after a sixmonth candidate recruitment process, which included a community survey, public candidate forum and panel interviews with police chief candidates. Interim Police Chief Richard Eddington will continue to serve until she assumes her new role on Oct. 10.
» See VIGIL, page 6
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A photo of Mahsa Amini surrounded by candles. The Iranian Student Association organized a vigil to honor her life on Friday.
Students honor woman who died in Iran After Mahsa Amini died in police custody, community members call for change
By RUSSELL LEUNG and MAIA PANDEY
daily senior staffers @rjleung7, @maiapandey
Content warning : this story contains mentions of death.
More than 50 community members gathered at The Rock on Friday for a vigil honoring Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who died in police custody in Iran last week after officers apprehended her for allegedly
wearing a hijab too loosely. Amini’s family said the Iranian “morality police” beat her into a coma, killing her. Iranian authorities allege a heart attack induced the coma, though Amini’s family said she did not have any prior
medical conditions. The Iranian Student Association, a group primarily composed of graduate students, hosted the event. Organizers painted The Rock with the green, white and red of the Iranian flag and wrote
Alum’s thesis looks ETHS students call for divestment at climate activism Residents join Fridays For Future climate strike pushing for action Jack Jordan discusses history of Evanston’s climate policies, work By JACK AUSTIN
daily senior staffer @jackaustinnews
Evanston’s history of community involvement in climate activism transformed the city into an environmental leader, according to Jack Jordan’s (Weinberg ’22) honors thesis. The American Studies paper, titled “Participation in Change,” details the local organizing that informed city climate action plans in 2008 and 2018 in concert with global efforts including the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement. Jordan presented his thesis, which he said will be published in mid-October, to Evanston’s Climate Action Resilience Plan Working Group and Mayor Daniel Biss. Jordan, who said he interviewed over 20 activists and alderpeople, said action plans are one of the best mechanisms for cities to address climate change.
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“The biggest reason why (the climate plans) were successful was a long history of residents, almost always on a volunteer basis, who were super passionate about climate activism,” Jordan said. “Evanston (has) a lot of climate professionals and professors.” Evanston was one of the first cities in the country to have a climate plan and meet its preliminary environmental goals, Jordan said. The thesis attributes the plan’s success to passionate local volunteers: many activists involved in the 1990s remained involved through the mid-2000s. In 2005, Evanston organizers successfully convinced former Mayor Lorraine Morton to sign The U.S. Mayors’ Climate Protection Agreement, committing the city to the Kyoto Protocol’s greenhouse gas reduction goals. Environmental Justice Evanston co-chair Jerri Garl said a key finding of the thesis is that 2008’s action plan enjoyed larger public participation, while 2018’s plan was an insular process conducted mostly at the city level. Over 100 people, including many residents,
» See THESIS, page 6
By KRISTEN AXTMAN
the daily northwestern @kristenaxtman1
Evanston Township High School students joined about 250 people to protest for divestment from fossil fuels at this year’s Fridays For Future global climate strike at Pritzker Park. Activist Greta Thunberg’s youth-led climate organization, Fridays For Future, sponsored the global strike that took place across the globe. Friday’s strike in Chicago was centered around the theme “#PeopleNotProfit.” Demonstrators marched downtown to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago to protest the role of banks in the climate crisis. They called for divestment from fossil fuels, regulation of fossil fuel financing and investment in sustainable climate change solutions. The protesters stopped at the Federal Plaza and adjacent Chase Bank before returning to Pritzker Park. Danica Sun, co-head of the Fridays for Future Chicago chapter and Climate Chicago Youth Coalition, said the protest was also specifically advocating against a bill recently introduced by Sen. Joe
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Manchin (D-WV). Sun said the current legislation would invest in fossil fuel infrastructure. “We were really urging people to call their representatives and tell them to vote that (bill) out,” Sun said. Erris Maguire, a leader of ETHS-based climate activist group E-Town Sunrise, said there was a large youth presence at Friday’s protest from multiple Chicago-area schools. Maguire’s
group works to advocate for better local climate legislation that creates lasting change, she said. It is important for youth to organize, she said, because they are the ones that will bear the brunt of future catastrophic climate events. “Our generation as a whole is really afraid and really concerned for the future,” Magurie said. “I know that everyone in our group really cares a lot about Evanston and wants to see Evanston taking
real steps to fight the climate crisis.” The climate strike began with a staged flash mob to the song “Stayin’ Alive” by the Bee Gees. Maguire said the song choice was intentional to emphasize that the climate crisis is about life and death. The protesters then performed a “die-in,” lying on the ground for two minutes. Participants stood in solidarity with
» See CLIMATE, page 6
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