<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field field--name-body" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><div class="field__items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field__item even" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: inherit;" class=""><p class="hv hm hr hi b hn hs hj em at ho ht hk hp hu hl hq" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><b class="">Excerpt : </b>We are not just mad, we are furious. Today, we are not only striking from school and marching in the streets (<a class="by hw hz dj hy hx" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/detroit-climate-strike-tickets-84042534483" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px;">check out Detroit’s climate strike!</a>) as we did on September 20th, but we are also using escalated tactics en masse for the first time.</p><p class="hv hm hr hi b hn hs hj em at ho ht hk hp hu hl hq" style="box-sizing: inherit;">We have learned from our predecessors. In America, the New Deal Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, the Anti War Movement, and the indigenous activists of Standing Rock, among many others, have paved the path of nonviolent direct action that we are now embarking on. They have proven, with lunch counter sit-ins and extended occupations, that peaceful, but escalated action is necessary to topple systems of oppression and inspire radical societal change.</p><p class="hv hm hr hi b hn hs hj em at ho ht hk hp hu hl hq" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The science and the warning signs are crystal clear: now more than ever, we are in need of such change. The youth climate movement is done waiting to be taken seriously by those in power. <a class="by hw hz dj hy hx" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50644395" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;">Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg said</a> as she arrived at COP25 three days ago, “People underestimate the force of angry kids… If they want us to stop being angry, maybe they should stop making us angry.”</p><p class="hv hm hr hi b hn hs hj em at ho ht hk hp hu hl hq" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Today, we are turning our anger into action. And today is just the beginning.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="field--label-hidden field--type-entityreference field field--name-field-author-profile" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 50px 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><div class="field__items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field__item even" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><div id="cdreams-profile-13780" class="author cdreams-profile teaser" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="content clearfix grid-size-16" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field--name-field-profile-img field--label-hidden field--type-image field" style="box-sizing: inherit; float: left; margin: 4px 12px 10px 0px;"><div class="field__items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field__item even" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div itemscope="" itemprop="image" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="box-sizing: inherit;" class=""><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/author/naina-agrawal-hardin" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><img class="caption-processed" src="https://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_bio_small/public/authors/screen_shot_2019-12-06_at_4.12.10_pm_0.png?itok=Y7GRWzUu" width="65" height="65" alt="Naina Agrawal-Hardin" style="box-sizing: inherit; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></a></div></div></div></div><div class="field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field field--name-field-desc" style="font-size: 17px; font-family: "PT Serif", Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field__items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field__item even" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 0.9em;" class=""><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/author/naina-agrawal-hardin" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;" class="">Naina Agrawal-Hardin</span></a> is the co-founder of Zero Hour and an activist with Sunrise Movement.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/12/06/young-people-are-escalating-sit-ins-politiciansoffices-today-heres-why" class="">https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/12/06/young-people-are-escalating-sit-ins-politiciansoffices-today-heres-why</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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