John,
We’re just three days away from the biggest youth-led global demonstration in history. On Friday, millions of people in 120+ countries around the world will walk out of school and work to demand that our leaders join our fight for a Green New Deal now.
This Friday, be a part of the largest youth-led global demonstration in history. Join the global climate strike.
This strike could be a pivotal moment in history. Looking back, this moment reminds me of others: like the civil rights marches of the 60s, and the first Earth Day in 1970 when 20 million people marched in the streets, leading to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
In these moments, millions of people came together and were able to change fundamental aspects of our society. Those changes didn’t happen overnight. But they started when millions of people took to the streets to demand them.
That’s exactly what we’re doing now -- and we’re seeing a massive wave of momentum growing around us. This strike is spreading far beyond the students that started it:
In the US, employees at big companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google will be striking from work to push their employers to act on the climate crisis.1 And around the world, hundreds of major labor unions are joining the strike, like Public Services International which represents 30 million workers worldwide.2
This is your chance to make history. Join the global climate strike this Friday and push political leaders around the world to launch a new era of transformative action on climate.
Right now, we have a choice to make: let the “adults” in the room keep selling our future to oil and gas executives, or link arms and force our leaders to take this crisis as seriously as we do. Politicians are only able to stay silent because we let them. It’s time for us to get louder.
Victoria Fernandez
1. https://fortune.com/2019/09/16/global-climate-strike-protest-google-amazon-microsoft-walkout/
2. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/09/12/we-must-be-bolder-ever-labor-federation-representing-30-million-workers-calls-all
