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You can make your voice heard this Friday during the Youth Climate Strike. Whether you’re 15 or 50, join the march at City Hall to support those working to fight for our environment.

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The Pamela & Ajay Raju Foundation, along with the Zoo, offered $15,000 to a student who can help solve our water crisis. Here’s the winning essay:

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About US Youth Climate Action Demands

We Demand that our legislators implement the Green New Deal and other legislative actions that decrease the climate crisis.

We Demand a halt in any and all fossil fuel infrastructure projects.

We Demand that all decisions made by the government be tied in scientific research, including the 2018 IPCC report

We Demand that our government declare a National Emergency on Climate Change

We Demand compulsory comprehensive education on climate change and its impacts throughout grades K-8

We Demand the preservation of our public lands and wildlife

We Demand the management of a clean water supply.

 

Guest Commentary

The Youth Are Fed Up

The winner of last year’s Raju Foundation Essay Contest urges youth—and their adult supporters—to protest for climate change Friday

Guest Commentary

The Youth Are Fed Up

The winner of last year’s Raju Foundation Essay Contest urges youth—and their adult supporters—to protest for climate change Friday

Sixteen-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg said it best: “Change is coming, whether you like it, or not.” On Friday, students across the globe are mobilizing to become that change.

Thunberg made headlines last summer when she launched a strike in front of the Swedish Parliament House every school day for three weeks to protest her government’s inaction on climate change. She then turned it into a Friday protest—launching the phrase #FridaysForFuture—that has inspired young people all around the globe, as in Belgium, where more than 30,000 students have walked out of class in a series of weekly protests.

We are fed up with being ignored, and fed up with watching adults in positions of power sit idly by while climate change and the combustion of fossil fuels quickly ruin the future of their children, and their children’s children.

The world’s youth are fed up. We are fed up with being ignored, and fed up with watching adults in positions of power sit idly by while climate change and the combustion of fossil fuels quickly ruin the future of their children, and their children’s children. Our mission statement is a call to stand up for our future:

“Our futures are at stake. We call for radical legislative action to combat climate change and its countless detrimental effects on the American people. We are striking for the Green New Deal, a fair and just transition to decarbonize the US economy, and other legislative action that combats the effects of climate change. We stand in solidarity with Greta Thunberg and all youth strikers worldwide as we demand action on this issue.”

In pursuit of this mission, US Youth Climate Strike has orchestrated strikes across more than 40 states to give the climate crisis the global spotlight it demands. Supported by the Sunrise Movement, students from across Pennsylvania and New Jersey will be leaving school Friday to protest in our city as a part of this movement.

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We will gather at Love Park from noon to 2 pm, to use our joint statement and voice to emphasize action on the Green New Deal, and the reduction of fossil fuels to meet global standards. During the main rally from, 3:30 pm- 5:30 pm at City Hall, students will be voicing their concerns and demands to legislators through local student speakers and performers.

We encourage any and all students as well as adult allies to support the movement either in the Philadelphia strike, their home strike, or respective school demonstrations. This crisis is our responsibility, and we will not be bystanders to global climate injustice.  

Friday, March 15, 12 pm-5:30 pm, Free, Love Park and City Hall.

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