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Uprising’s guest expert Robert Jensen, author and professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, analyzes today’s news headlines:

Four hundred thousand people marched on the streets of New York City yesterday calling urgent attention to our changing climate in what is being touted as the largest climate demonstration in history. Nearly 3000 solidarity marches and events around the world and in other US cities also took place on Sunday. The show of public force comes just two days before a UN climate summit in New York on Tuesday. Today, in just under an hour, activists plan to overwhelm Wall Street wearing blue and drawing connections between corporate greed and climate change. Meanwhile, in what seems to be a direct outcome of public pressure, the Rockefeller family announced that it would be divesting some of its vast fortune from fossil fuel-based investments. Click here for a Guardian newspaper article and here for a Huffington Post article about the story.

There have been two breaches of White House security within just hours of one another. On Friday a 42 year old veteran from Texas named Omar Gonzalez was caught on the grounds of the White House. He was carrying a small serrated knife. Family members say Gonzalez is troubled and suffers from PTSD. Another man, a 19 year old, named Kevin Carr from New Jersey, also scaled the White House fence. Neither President Obama nor his family was present at the time. Obama has expressed doubt in the abilities of the Secret Service to protect him. Click here for a Christian Science Monitor article about the story.

And finally masses of students in Hong Kong are gathering on the streets of their city today, boycotting classes in protest of China’s refusal to grant them more democratic powers. The Chinese government voted in August to allow an election in Hong Kong but only among candidates carefully vetted by China. Many of Hong Kong’s residents say they want all-out democracy. One survey indicates that a fifth of Hong Kong’s population is so disappointed that they are considering relocating. Click here for a Guardian newspaper article about the story.