John,
When Congress introduced the censorship bill SOPA, we knew it was an existential threat to the free and open Internet.
So we mobilized tens of thousands of websites for the largest online protest in human history, flooded lawmakers with millions of phone calls, and stopped the bill dead in its tracks.
Then, when companies like Comcast and Verizon came to destroy net neutrality, we did it again: harnessing the power of the Internet to organize people online and off at a scale previously thought to be impossible.
Now we’re doing something we’ve never done before.
We’re taking the playbook that we’ve used to win unprecedented victories for digital rights and Internet freedom and applying it to another existential threat: the climate crisis.
Fight for the Future is working with an ad-hoc coalition of youth climate activists and tech workers to mobilize thousands of websites, companies, and organizations to join a Digital Climate Strike, to coincide with the youth-led Global Climate Strike on September 20.
We’re not changing our mission of protecting people’s most basic rights in the digital age. But this feels like a crucial moment in human history, and we decided we couldn’t sit it out.
The climate crisis is an existential threat to every corner of society, and it’s not just our food, water, and lives—but the Internet itself.1 All of us need to step up if we want to stop it. So we’re following the lead of youth strikers and hitting the streets, and we want you to march with us.
Ready? Click here to sign up and strike for an end to the fossil fuel era. Then, spread the word online.
Onward!
Shuo at Fight for the Future
Footnotes:
1. Gizmodo: https://earther.gizmodo.com/the-planet-needs-a-new-internet-1837101745
Fight for the Future works to protect your rights in the digital age.
