You may assist them put it out by collaborating on Friday. (Photograph: Jonathan Maus/BikePortland)
I discovered the final Portland Youth Local weather Strike to be one of the vital highly effective occasions of the 12 months. This time round, organizers look like headed for one thing even larger.
This Friday, organizers count on hundreds of individuals of all ages to depart their school rooms and jobs and march to downtown Portland to assist struggle for stronger motion on local weather change mitigation. They’re calling it: “Not Your Common Local weather Strike: Huge Multigenerational Mobilization in Portland.”
They plan to fulfill at Portland Metropolis Corridor for speeches and a rally at 11:00 am after which march throughout the Hawthorne Bridge to Revolution Corridor on SE Stark and thirteenth the place they’ll be a part of the Portland Local weather Competition round 2:00 pm.
At Metropolis Corridor, youth leaders will announce their calls for and ask elected officers to signal a local weather pledge.
This 12 months the strike is concentrating on what youth activists name Portland’s “prime 4 local weather villains”: NW Pure (“a fracked gasoline monopoly and the only largest fossil gasoline firm in Oregon”), Zenith Vitality (“a fossil gasoline transloading facility… misrepresenting its operation as a ‘renewable fuels’ terminal in an effort to greenwash its picture”), Portland Enterprise Alliance (“an umbrella group for a lot of of Portland’s worst local weather polluters and anti-democratic actors”) and the Oregon Division of Transportation (which, “continues its establishment plan to spend billions of {dollars} widening freeways as an alternative of robustly investing in public transportation”). All 4 of these organizations are, “contributing to the local weather disaster by way of their emissions, utilizing advertising and marketing methods and deceptive promoting to confuse the general public, and by spending cash on lobbying and marketing campaign contributions to undermine the democratic course of and alternatives for sturdy local weather motion by way of public coverage,” organizers wrote in an announcement in regards to the occasion.
To be taught extra in regards to the occasion and the “villains” it targets, learn the backgrounder right here.
And lest you assume this “youth” occasion is only for younger folks, assume once more. JJ Klein-Wolf, a sophomore at Ida B Wells Excessive College who’s serving to set up it stated, “As a lot as teenagers seem to be they’ll do all the things on their very own, we want sturdy grownup position fashions and help to proceed reaching our aim of a stronger and safer tomorrow.”
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