《上級者向け》今日の英語ニュース☆2024.05.06☆時事英語・ニュース英語を極める
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[09:40] Experts I've spoken to point out that this generation of student activists have grown up in an era full of social justice movements from Black Lives Matter in 2020, March for Our Lives, climate change.
[** March for Our Lives (MFOL) is a student-led organization which leads demonstrations in support of gun control legislation. It took place in Washington, D.C., on March 24, 2018, with over 880 sibling events throughout the United States and around the world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_for_Our_Lives ]
[10:35] I think public schools have a different sort of obligation. They have a lot of eyes on them from their state legislatures. I think there's also different pressures when it comes to their strict -- they have to strictly abide by First Amendment time, place, manner restrictions.
[** While freedom of speech is a fundamental right, it is not absolute, and therefore subject to restrictions... Time restrictions regulate when expression can take place; place restrictions regulate where expression can take place; and manner restrictions regulate how expression can take place...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_the_United_States#Definition_and_early_history ]
[13:15] There are what are called ethnic armed organizations, which are made of ethnic groups that were essentially thrown into the country of Myanmar together for the first time through British colonization, but really have a long history of being individual political entities, and have been fighting for independence in some cases, more legal rights in other cases, and in some cases, this complete separation from the country of Myanmar proper.
[** Myanmar proper = the primary geographical area of Myanmar, as opposed to outlying territories or regions that might be associated with it. //
proper = (adj, used postpositively) in the strict sense ]
[23:22] One of the things you write about a lot in the book in terms of your own story and the others that you share is the connection between mental health and addiction. And so frequently, they're treated as two completely separate things. Why was that important to make that point throughout the book? Well, obviously, we've divvied up brain illnesses as if they're all separate diagnoses, when it's the brain, the brain, the brain. And obviously, you need to treat both kind of concurrently if you're going to get the best results. And in the advocacy world, we need to stop this siloing.
[* to divvy up = (in this context) to divide or separate into distinct categories ]
[** to silo = (in this context) to separate into distinctive, mutually-unrelated groups ]
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clear-eyed/ students have a really clear-eyed goal of divestment
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