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President Obama Asks Americans To Choose His Path For The Future – nativenewsnetwork.com

President Obama Asks Americans To Choose His Path For The Future

Levi Rickert, editor-in-chief

CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA – Over chants of four more years,President Barack Obama accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for a second term as President of the United States last night at the Time-Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Some 22,000 thousand cheering Democrats filled the arena on the last night of the four day convention with delegates holding up signs with the reelection campaign’s theme Forward on them.

The President spoke of two paths of choices for the future of the country.

He spoke of about the environment. It is an issue that resonates with American Indians:

And yes, my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet – because climate change is not a hoax. More droughts and floods and wildfires are not a joke. They’re a threat to our children’s future. And in this election, you can do something about it.”

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Jodi Rave Spotted Bear

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear is the founder and director of the Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance, a 501-C-3 nonprofit organization with offices in Bismarck, N.D. and the Fort Berthold Reservation. Jodi spent 15 years reporting for the mainstream press. She's been awarded prestigious Nieman and John S. Knight journalism fellowships at Harvard and Stanford, respectively. She also an MIT Knight Science Journalism Project fellow. Her writing is featured in "The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity," published by Columbia University Press. Jodi currently serves as a Society of Professional Journalists at-large board member, an SPJ Foundation board member, and she chairs the SPJ Freedom of Information Committee. Jodi has won top journalism awards from mainstream and Native press organizations. She earned her journalism degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.