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September 20, 2019 All Day
Youth activists are emphatically urging adults to join them in a global climate strike on Friday, Sept. 20, calling on leaders in every sector of society to act on climate. A week of actions in Vermont and around the U.S. will follow that, Sept. 21-28.
(For info on other events in our state, see http://www.vermontclimatestrike.org. For general info see https://bit.ly/2UtxWpD and www.globalclimatestrike.net.)
Ideally the climate strike would be a general strike around the world. Actions like that are relatively common in many countries.
But a general strike is a strange concept to most Americans. So organizers are asking adults to do even just a little bit to join students who will leave school on Sept. 20.
The hope is that adults who can’t strike for the entire Friday will at least symbolically walk out of their workplaces for a portion of the day. Even if it’s just for 30 minutes to send an email to political leaders calling on them to do something to slow global warming.
For many adults who choose to stick to business-as-usual on Sept. 20, it will be a message to our young people that we’re very sorry — but they’re now on their own to clean up the mess we helped to create.
