#Mari 'Little Miss Flint' Copeny

[touchoffleece]

Lizzo being an icon yet again 👏

"I was on the fence on whether I should accept, because if I'm the people's champ, I don't need a trophy for championing people." "...To be an icon isn't about how long you've had your platform. Being an icon is what you do with that platform." -Lizzo 2022

Lizzo instead of giving a long speech about herself, brings out activists of diverse fields and shines the spotlight on them.

[hotvampireadjacent]

Racism is alive and well in America

This Juneteenth as we celebrate and reflect on the progress we've made and look to what we can do to improve equal rights for black folks I want to bring attention to an issue far too closet to my heart- environmental racism.

I had a friend who died, far too young. It's been many years so newer tumblr users won't know him. His name was james and he was a popular tumblr user when he was alive @kumagawa . I idolized him like an older brother, and still do. He lived in Flint, Michigan. He was around 27 when he died. He was a healthy man, other than the fact he lived with dirty water in Flint, Michigan.

I'll never fucking forgive the US government for killing my friend, my brother. Why did James die? Because Flint, Michigan is 56% Black. Because it would be expensive to fix the lead pipes that gave my friend lead poisoning and killed him.

As of April 24,2024 the city of Flint, Michigan still hasn't replaced all the lead pipes that are poisoning the people living there.

https://www.aclumich.org/en/press-releases/residents-still-waiting-city-flint-replace-all-lead-pipes-10-year-anniversary-water

If you can help, give money to Mari Copeny's go fund me.

Mari Copeny, better known as Little miss Flint, is now 16 years old and over the past few years has raised nearly a million dollars for her community.

She has a website to links for other ways to support the community

Please reblog this post if you can't give any money... It would mean the world to me if I could use my friend's memory to help promote environmental racism and the issues still facing his community today.

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Amariyanna Copeny. Little Miss Flint

https://www.unadonnalgiorno.it/amariyanna-copeny/

Mari Copeny, conosciuta soprattutto col nome di Little Miss Flint, utilizzato per molte campagne di sensibilizzazione, è una giovane attivista nata il 6 luglio 2007 a Flint, nel Michigan.

È salita alla cronaca internazionale per la potente azione di sensibilizzazione sulla crisi idrica della sua città e per le tante raccolte fondi a sostegno dell’infanzia svantaggiata.

Il suo nome completo è Amariyanna e aveva otto anni quando ha scritto una lettera a Barack Obama che, su suo suggerimento, si era recato personalmente nella città per constatare da vicino la devastazione delle vite dei suoi abitanti nelle cui case veniva erogata acqua avvelenata dal piombo. La visita presidenziale aveva acceso i riflettori sulla situazione critica ed erano stati stanziati cento milioni di dollari per misure tese ad aiutare a sradicare il problema, anche se le riparazioni necessarie alle infrastrutture hanno avuto bisogno di quattro anni per essere completate.Nel 2017 è diventata l’ambasciatrice nazionale delle nuove generazioni alla Marcia delle Donne di Washington e al National Climate. Impegnata contro il bullismo, fa parte della Flint Youth Justice League e del MDE Anti-Racism Student Advisory Council.È stata presidente del consiglio d’amministrazione di Kid Box 2019 e lavorato con Eighteen by 18. Per due volte ha preso la parola alla Marcia per la Scienza per raccontare la crisi idrica di Flint.  Le è stata anche dedicata una bambola modellata sulla sua figura.

Ha utilizzato la sua piattaforma per sensibilizzare sulla crisi idrica nella sua comunità, ma anche per raccogliere fondi per le giovani e giovani più svantaggiati. È riuscita a trovare i soldi per distribuire oltre 17.000 zaini pieni di materiale scolastico, un evento natalizio annuale con migliaia di giocattoli, cesti pasquali, proiezioni di film e molti altri eventi mirati a bambine e bambini della sua comunità come il progetto di donare libri di autori di colore per accrescere l’istruzione, la conoscenza e favorire l’empowerment. Ha raccolto e regalato oltre un milione di bottigliette d’acqua per l’emergenza idrica e poi iniziato una collaborazione con un’azienda che produce filtri per depurare l’acqua per cercare di evitare il rischio di intossicazioni.

Il suo attivismo contro le ingiustizie del razzismo ambientale l’ha portata a essere intervistata e avere le copertine di importanti riviste come Teen Vogue, The Guardian, Time, The Washington Post e tante altre ancora.

Ai Billboard Music Awards del 2022 ha ricevuto il terzo Change Maker Award in onore dei suoi sforzi di difesa dell’ambiente.

Invece di lamentarsi e restare a guardare e, nonostante la giovane età, è riuscita ad avere un impatto significativo sul dialogo sul razzismo ambientale e sensibilizzare l’intero paese sulla realtà affrontata dalle vittime della negligenza dello stato. Ha dato voce alle grandi difficoltà di tante persone in balia di infrastrutture al collasso. Una giovane portentosa che farà ancora tanto parlare di sé.

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Speaking of water crisis, Mari Copeny aka Little Miss Flint, has been fighting for clean water in Flint Michigan for nearly a full decade.

Mari Copeny has a water filter fund she started to combat the unsafe water in Flint as well as the plastic pollution bottled water creates. Five years ago when she was 12, Mari started trying to raise $1 million for her filters and still hasn’t met the goal but she’s close, $857,721 / $1,000,000!

To donate: GFM and PP

A small town of about 4,000 people in Eyl District on the coast of Somalia is going through an active water crisis. Everyone relies on a single well for access to water but that well has become contaminated with sea water making it completely unusable.

Humanitarian African Relief Organization, aka HARO is running multiple aid campaigns for Ramadan relief including a specific campaign for the Eyl Water Project.

Just $1.50 can donate 10 liters of water, $50 can get the village a whole tanker containing 200 liters

To donate directly click the link below and make sure to select the cause you want to support.

You can also find them on Instagram: @/harousa and TikTok: @/harosomalia1

[sleepynegress]

You mispronounce Miette?? JAIL for Mother!!

I'm getting negative attention anyway, likely into at least next week (I have a feeling I'm severely underestimating that), I might as well get paid for it. If you are appalled that I mispronounced this stunning cat's name and can afford it, drop a tip.

...I might even take French lessons (I'm not taking French lessons). I will definitely use some to watch Challengers this weekend with it, and drop a review (that I will 100% do). And/or donate something here:

and/or here:

To those who made me laugh, helped with pronunciation, and even those who took note about how to pronounce it because their sight-reading was a damn lie too...

To those who were churlish... Please, take that energy to your state rep about issues like the genocides we're aiding right now and the protection of the body autonomy of everyone with a uterus, among others. With Love, "Mag-GAY" aka sleepynegress

Reposting this comic because it's always a good message:

[cherrysnax]

Hopping back in for some positivity! little miss flint ( a young black girl whose been fighting to ensure her community has clean water since she was 8 years old, and she’s 17 now) she finally hit her goal on gofundme

[kaydub80]

[klapollo]

Mari Copeny (little miss flint) has been struggling so hard to crowdfund for her Christmas drive the past couple weeks and has been visibly distraught over it and like two days ago Lizzo featured her in a speech at an award show and boosted her plea for donations on social media and today she got a massive outpouring of cash and has gone from barely taking in to being well over the goal. some donated five dollars. some donated over a thousand. people are really good sometimes

Link

[lulubrezzell]

this my gofundme campaign link check it out

I'm happy to share that I got help from an SEO expert to promote my campaign. Because of this, my campaign is now easier to find online, and our newsletters have reached many people. This has led to a lot of donations, and I reached my campaign goal faster than I thought. Thank you all for your amazing support

Feel free to modify it as needed

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🚱#ArtIsAWeapon

🗣It has been a decade since #Flint Michigan has had clean water, and we have literally watched #MariCopeny @littlemissflint grow up raising awareness about this travesty while none of the officials responsible for this act of crimimal negligience has been held accountable. Read more about her activism in @teenvogue

www.teenvogue.com/story/mari-copeney-little-miss-flint-activist-grows-up

Reposted from @teenvogue Try as she might, 16-year-old Mari Copeny, aka @littlemissflint, is not an average teen. After gaining global recognition at just eight years old for speaking out about the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, her total social media following has grown to more than four times larger than her hometown’s population. She has met and spoken to the last three American presidents. In 2022, she appeared at the Billboard Music Awards stage to accept the Change Maker award, becoming its youngest recipient. Her knack for distilling some of today’s most pressing problems into urgent yet relatable content is just one dimension of her power. It’s a skill she is grateful for, yet tired of, as she is encountering a common paradox that youth activists face as they mature and begin to morph into more than just a mouthpiece.

“Yeah, I’m an activist, but I’m really just Mari. I don’t really like putting labels on myself for real,” she says. “I wish more people [could] see me for me and not Little Miss Flint.” Mari chats with @thecityproper on activism, the Flint water crisis, and more at the link in bio.

📸: @sylviajarrusphoto

🖋️: @thecityproper

Childhood Photos Courtesy of @littlemissflint

Photo Assistants: @sbmaneyphoto & @milesthedirector

Photo Retouching: @ultraviolet_creative

Stylist: @kath_thom

Stylist Assistant: @_mhope_

Hair Stylist: @naturalbybria

Makeup Artist: @trashbeauty_

Manicurist: @_nailsbynatalie at @eighttennailbar

Producer: @dabney_

Design Director: @emilyzirimis

Designer: @lizcoulbourn

Visual Editor: @snapsbybea

Location: @flintfarmersmarket

#FlintWaterCrisis #CleanWater #EnvironmentalJustice

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16-year-old climate activist Mari Copeny, known as "Little Miss Flint," from Flint, Michigan was attacked online by #NickiMinaj fans after offering a way for the rapper and #MeganTheeStallion to give back amid their ongoing beef.

Copeny called on Nicki and Megan to help fund a water filter she created to get clean water to Flint and other communities dealing with a clean water crisis. Copeny's suggestion came after Megan released "Hiss," in which she included a bar about "Megan Law's," which seemed to be a shot at Nicki. Nicki then took aim at Megan on social media and later released "Big Foot," dissing the rapper who was shot by #ToryLanez in 2020.

Several social media users attacked Copeny for her attempt to spread awareness about the clean water crisis amid the beef. Copeny shared the disparaging tweets on social media and noted that she hadn't received a response from Nicki or Megan.

Click LINK IN BIO for more details.

FQ Nicki and her entire fandom

[creepykuroneko]

Whenever I see threads like this, there it's always some white ecofascist screaming "we're destroying the Earth and how come no one's doing anything about it?" And it pisses me off that not only do they have this narrow uninformed viewpoint but the fact that everyone ignores it completely.

Do you seriously believe brown and black people haven't been protesting for the rights of their land for centuries?

Did you all seriously forget how many people were protesting against the Keystone Pipeline and the Flint Michigan Water Crisis?

Marginalized people have been trying their hardest to protect the environment for Generations but because it's not some white savor here to save the day with science I guess it doesn't count?

https://www.circleofblue.org/2009/world/chinas-dirty-water-leads-to-protests-some-reform/

Yeah I know this post was specifically about rainwater contamination but I said what I said.

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[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

This is my favorite post of today.