Nexus Media is a syndicated newswire covering climate, energy, policy, art and culture. Environmental organizer Rachel Stevens got her start working with college students advocating for clean energy in South Florida, and went on to work with indigenous communities fighting for their land in Peru. But of course nothing concrete has happened yet. A new generation of black activists are working on issues from housing to transportation to food security. After marching in solidarity with more than 400,000 people at the People’s Climate March in New York City, he organized his peers in local frontline climate campaigns. Purpose: To explore Canadian dietitians’ understandings of, attitudes towards, and engagement in socially just dietetic practice and advocacy. Follow Vic on Twitter @vict_barrett and Instagram vicbarrett_, “India should declare a climate emergency.

Mychal Johnson is a community organizer in the South Bronx in New York City. I want you to act as if the house was on fire. She was spurred to work on environmental issues after working as an elementary school principal in Detroit, where she saw children get sick and miss school because of air pollution and lack of access to clean water.

The rich biodiversity and culture are under direct threat from our climate crisis.”, 22-year-old climate activist, writer, and global peace ambassador John Paul Jose provides a commentary on our environmental crisis through an Indian lens. Patrick Yancey from Extinction Rebellion delivered a talk entitled Making Waves for Justice . In September 2018, Lindsay Harper made history as the first Black woman to become executive director of Georgia WAND, a women-led advocacy group working to end nuclear proliferation and stem pollution. We made it easy for you to exercise your right to vote!

The New York Times published an op-ed by Regina Ip, a pro-Beijing politician widely known for her ambition to become chief executive of Hong Kong. .”, Every friday morning, 16-year-old Saoi O’Connor travels two hours from her home to the city to protest. President Trump revealed early Friday morning that he and First Lady Melania have tested positive for coronavirus. Here’s an extract: Follow Xiuhtezcatl on Twitter @xiuhtezcatl and Instagram @xiuhtezcatl, “You don’t have to be a grown up to do something. 1752 N. Street NW Watch Rich Lowry, Kevin Hassett, Kevin Williamson, Ramesh Ponnuru, and Andrew Stuttaford discuss Capital Matters, our new initiative on business, finance, and economics. She no longer needs the practice but she’s still picking up plastic. She is an organizer of FridaysForFuture, an organization of students striking every Friday around the world. She sits on the administration committee of the Peoples Climate Movement, where she brings the voice of youth to existing grassroots and climate organizations. Introducing Youth to American Infrastructure+, Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land, South Carolina Interfaith Power and Light, Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice, Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage, To Love the Wind and the Rain: African Americans and Environmental History, Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy.
“Our house is falling apart and our leaders need to start acting accordingly because at the moment they are not,” Greta demanded of Members of the European Parliament and EU officials in Strasbourg in April. Follow Xiye on Twitter @xiyebastida and Instagram @xiyebeara, “Don’t be intimidated by what you think you can’t do. As a 14-year-old member of Fridays for Future Uganda, Leah Namugerwa strikes every Friday for climate justice. The line from all Democrats will now be that “Antifa is an idea, ... With New York City sinking ever deeper into financial difficulty, it’s worth paying attention to this report over on the home page by Brittany Bernstein. Vic is now an undergraduate student at UW-Madison and is also among 21 youth activists who are actively suing the government to take action on climate change.

Alexandria is a 14-year-old activist who strikes outside of the United Nations in order to bring attention to climate change.

Children are allowed to help the environment. Despite the Ugandan government’s harsh response to strikers, Leah continues to fight for change. Unimpressed with political soundbites and platitudes, these young people are refusing to settle for anything less than transformational change, informed by recent scientific reports that find that we have just over a decade to halve our global greenhouse gas emissions. Join the World’s Largest Environmental Movement! It could be argued that without Greta Thunberg, there would be no youth climate strike movement.
Tap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you. Harper believes that economic empowerment is the best tool for promoting peace. The comments came during a Twitter conversation between Biden campaign deputy data. If John Roberts Isn’t A Conservative, What Is He, Exactly? And if a few children can get headlines all over the world just by not going to school, then imagine what we could all do together if we really wanted to.”, Follow Greta on Twitter at @GretaThunberg and on Instagram at @gretathunberg. She is a geography student, activist and member of the german environmentalist Green Party, and in the last year, she has become the German face of the “Fridays for Future” climate protection rallies. Holly Gillibrand is a young ambassador for Scotland: The Big Picture and a campaigner for animal welfare charity OneKind. Leah Penniman is a Black Kreyol farmer, activist and founder of Soul Fire Farm, a community farm in Petersburg, New York that trains people of color to farm and provides organic produce, eggs and meat to families without access to fresh food. Beverly Scott is the vice chair of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council and Jobs to Move America, and the founder of Introducing Youth to American Infrastructure+, which helps women and people of color become infrastructure innovators and entrepreneurs.

Meet The Black Climate And Social Justice Leaders You Have Never Heard Of. The politicians we elect this weekend will have a direct influence over whether or not my generation inherits a liveable planet . “You have to listen to the science and the facts because climate change isn’t an opinion”. Markeya Thomas, Shravya Jain-Conti, Mina Lee, Celia Gurney, Bartees Cox, Owen Agnew and Jeremy Deaton contributed to this report.

An Indiana activist known for racial and social justice advocacy has apologized for lying about being Black. Ip, a longtime apologist for Chinese Communist Party control over the city, ... Columbia University and Japan's Hiroshima University researches found that a UVC light wave of 222 nanometers works. Today is National Voter Registration Day! ©2020 Verizon Media. A native of Dominica, Ama Francis is a climate law fellow at the Sabin Law Center at Columbia University, working to help people displaced by climate disasters and make small island nations more resilient in the facing of rising seas and dangerous storms. The deciding factors for whether we take advantage of our potential will be our activism and our international unity”. As a black Muslim woman, she emphasizes the importance of intersectionality in the movement for climate justice. Her activism helped win a state-wide fracking ban in Maryland and bills to reduce fossil fuel dependence in Maryland and the District of Columbia. Xiye Bastida is a teenage climate activist currently based in New York City and one of the lead organizers of the Fridays For Future youth climate strike movement. +1 (202) 518- 0044 Patrick Yancey has been active in organizing around social and environmental justice for over a decade in groups such as the Blue Dot movement for environmental rights, Fair Vote Canada and the Antigonish Community Energy Co-op. No thank you, Javascript must be enabled for the correct page display, 19 youth climate activists you should be following on social media.

Is this the worst "fact-check" article in history? It does this through high school workshops and emerging artists residencies. Follow Jamie on Twitter @Jamie_Margolin and Instagram @jamie_s_margolin, “Most people do not care what they do to the environment. It’s important to focus on making better choices and decisions, not on finding the ‘right’ solution or answer.”. “We will not stop until politicians and leaders decide to take action”.

He is a member of Jóvenes Por El Clima Argentina, an organization of youth climate activists in Argentina. The politics of climate change are shifting. As a black Muslim woman, she emphasizes the importance of intersectionality in the movement for climate justice.

She’s working to make sure public transportation projects serve everyone. She is also the founder of Earth Uprising, a nonprofit where youth around the world rise up against climate change together. “We have reached a point in history when we have the technical capacities to solve poverty, malnutrition, inequality and of course global warming. He is an anarchist. Currently, she is demanding a Ugandan plastic bag ban, and her petition can be found here.

She received the “Spirit of the UN” award in 2018. The Associated Press.