Youth

Millions Of Youth March Against Climate Change

March 17, 2019 Bryan Dyne, WSWS.org. Resist! climate crisis, Climate Justice, Students, Youth

An estimated 1.4 million students and youth walked out of school and took part in Friday’s worldwide demonstrations against climate change. The internationally coordinated protests, the largest in sixteen years, were organized in response to the growing realization among young people that the governments of the world are incapable of taking any significant measures to halt global warming. The latest UN report states that there may be as little as eleven years before the impact of climate change on human civilization becomes exponentially more devastating. The demonstrators have also directed their outrage against international agreements such as the Paris Accord, which have all proven to be worthless in addressing the crisis.

Parenting the Climate-Change Generation

March 15, 2019 By Frida Berrigan, Tomdispatch.com Educate! Climate Change, Youth

Young people across the world are striking to draw attention to the ravages of climate change. They are demanding -- with their bodies and their voices -- that the catastrophe each of them will inherit be a priority for the grown-ups around them. They are insisting that we adults make some sacrifices to keep their planet from becoming uninhabitable. “We are the voiceless future of humanity... We will not accept a life in fear and devastation. We have the right to live our dreams and hopes.” You know who said that? A teenager. Actually, lots of them, since it’s part of a letter, a call to action, from the organizers of Fridays for a Future. I’m hearing them loud and clear and it’s driving me crazy!

Over 30,000 Youth Urge U.S. Court To Allow Juliana V. United States To Go To Trial

March 2, 2019 Staff, Ourchildrenstrust.org Resist! Climate Change, Courts, Youth

San Francisco, California - Youth-led climate group, Zero Hour, will file the Young People’s amicus (“friend of the court”) brief tomorrow with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of the 21 young Americans behind the landmark lawsuit, Juliana v. United States. Responding to the Trump administration’s latest attempt to get the case dismissed, the brief will urge the Court to allow the constitutional climate lawsuit to proceed to trial. In the amicus brief, Zero Hour represents the nearly 30,000 young people under the age of 25 from across the United States and abroad who added their names to support the youth climate lawsuit.

Youth Climate Activists Demanding Green New Deal Arrested For Sit-In At #OilMoneyMitch McConnell’s Office

February 27, 2019 By Jessica Corbett, Commondreams.org Resist! Activism, Climate Change, Green New Deal, Youth

"We're here to warn him and all senators: if you refuse to back the Green New Deal, young people will remember next time you ask for our votes." Hundreds of Kentucky high school students and climate campaigners with the youth-led Sunrise Movement descended on the Capitol Hill office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday to deliver 100,000 petition signatures and stage a sit-in to make clear to lawmakers that young people want a Green New Deal for their communities and futures.

Youth Climate Leaders Occupy Schumer’s Office To Demand Support For Green New Deal

January 18, 2019 By Jake Johnson, Commondreams.org Resist! Climate Change, Green New Deal, Youth

"Real climate leadership means a commitment to bold climate action and a just transition. It means a Green New Deal." Keeping up the pressure on the Democratic leadership to embrace bold and popular solutions that are aligned with the science, youth climate leaders on Thursday occupied the D.C. office of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y) to demand that he either show true leadership by supporting a Green New Deal or "step aside." "Real climate leadership means a commitment to bold climate action and a just transition.

Thousands Participate In Youth-For-Climate March In Brussels

January 18, 2019 Staff, Brusselstimes.com Resist! Climate Change, March, Youth

Some 12,500 demonstrators participated in a march organised in Brussels by students who stayed away from school on Thursday to press for a more ambitious policy on climate change, according to the spokesman of the local police. Thursday’s march dwarfed a first demonstration organised on Thursday last by the group, Youth for Climate, that attracted about 3,000 young Dutch-speaking participants. This time around, young French-speaking Belgians also joined the protest. “It’s great to see the number of people present here today,” said march organiser Anuna De Wever. “It’s an incredible signal. This cannot be ignored.”

‘We Gonna Rise Up, Rise Up ’Til It’s Won!:’ 140+ Arrested At Pelosi And Hoyer Offices As Youth-Led Protests Demand Green New Deal On Capitol Hill

December 12, 2018 Julia Conley, Nationofchange.org Resist! Electoral Politics, Protesters Arrested, Protests, Youth

Before presumptive House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) even appeared at her office to hear from young Americans who had traveled from all over the country to urge her to back a Green New Deal, Capitol police arrived Monday and arrested more than 60 of the protesters. As of this writing, at least 143 demonstrators had been arrested as they lobbied in 50 congressional offices. More than 1,000 young people and allies flooded the Capitol Hill hallways and offices of Democratic representatives to demand that elected officials listen to their youngest constituents – as well as some of the world’s top scientists – and back the bold proposal to shift the U.S. to a zero-carbon energy system by 2050 in order to save the planet from an irreversible climate catastrophe.

Students Are Suing For A Constitutional Right To Education

December 1, 2018 Alia Wong, The Atlantic Resist! Education, Justice System, Youth

Nearly all of the world’s 180-plus countries include the term education in their constitution. Most guarantee every child the right to free education, and many make participation in some form of schooling mandatory; some even provide universal access to affordable college. For the remaining handful, the UN’s decades-old treaty on children’s rights, which stipulates various educational protections, serves as a backup, and has been ratified by pretty much every sovereign nation on the planet. Except for one. That one country is the United States of America, a nation that prizes the idea that anyone should be able to build a better life through education and hard work.

Thousands Of Juvenile Lifers Sentenced To Die In Prison In the US

November 17, 2018 Victoria Law, Truthout.org Educate! Juveniles, Prisons, Youth

Tuesday, October 23, might have been a routine day in prison for Avis Lee. “I got up at 5 am, took a shower, drank decaf coffee, prayed, ate breakfast and went to work at 8 am,” she recalled. Lee, who has been incarcerated for over 30 years, works as a peer assistant at the inpatient drug and alcohol therapeutic community at SCI Cambridge Springs, the Pennsylvania women’s prison. The routine was normal, but the day was not. In Philadelphia, nearly 350 miles away, the state’s superior court was hearing oral arguments about her prison sentence. “This hearing may very well determine what’s going to happen to me for the rest of my life,” Lee recalled thinking. In 1979, Lee’s older brother and his friend committed a robbery. Lee, then age 18, was the lookout.

Halt To Youth Climate Lawsuit Inspires Nationwide Resistance

October 31, 2018 By Alexandra Jacobo, Nationofchange.org Resist! Climate Change, Lawsuit, Youth

The three-year-long case has survived countless obstacles and the 21 youth plaintiffs don't plan on backing down now. This week should have been the start to the three-year-long landmark youth climate trial against the federal government, deemed the “trial of the century.”Instead, the Supreme Court halted the case in response to a last-ditch effort by the Trump administration to kill the case. Now the rest of the country is responding to the disgraceful decision. The 21 youth plaintiffs of the case, Juliana v. United States, have been joined by thousands across the country the past several days to “keep our government accountable for the effects of climate change.”

Youth Plaintiffs File Response With Supreme Court Pointing To Government’s Serious Mischaracterization Of Juliana v. United States

October 24, 2018 Staff, OurChildrensTrust.org Create! Climate Change, Lawsuit, Supreme Court, Youth

Eugene, Oregon -- Today, attorneys for youth plaintiffs in the landmark climate lawsuit, Juliana v. United States, filed their response with the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, requesting that the Court allow their trial to proceed on October 29 and pointing to numerous mischaracterizations of the lawsuit by the Trump administration in its recent filing with the Court. On Thursday, for the second time in three months and claiming harm only from costs of litigation, the Department of Justice filed an application for stay and a petition for writ of mandamus with the Supreme Court. On Friday, Chief Justice John Roberts issued an administrative (temporary) stay of discovery and trial while the Court reviews the youth plaintiffs’ response.

If You Think Education Is Expensive, Try Ignorance

September 22, 2018 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Educate! Education reform, Food and Agriculture, health, Youth

Such important news from the Korean peninsula. The heads of government of North and South Korea have agreed not only that ‘the era of no war has started’, but they have come up with a series of proposals to strengthen ties across the peninsula. Military drills will end, missile sites will close down, mines will be dug up, road and rail lines will link the two halves of Korea, and North and South Korea will put in a joint bid to host the 2032 Summer Olympic Games. No-one could have anticipated the speed of these developments.

Today’s College Students Are Paying More For Less

September 16, 2018 By Lawrence Wittner, History News Network Educate! College, Tuition, Youth

Despite the soaring costs of attending American colleges and universities, their students are receiving an education that falls far short of the one experienced by earlier generations. The sharp increase in costs is clear enough. Between 1978 and 2013, American college tuition rose by 1,120 percent, and became the major source of revenue for higher education. Traditionally, most public colleges and universities had no tuition or very low tuition. But, faced with severe cutbacks in government funding from conservative state legislatures, these public schools adopted a tuition system or dramatically raised tuition.

These Youth Are Suing Their State For A Livable Future

September 6, 2018 Nature's Trust Rhode Island. Resist! Climate Change, Justice System, Youth

Providence, RI—Nature’s Trust Rhode Island, a youth-driven campaign for the legal right to a healthy climate, joined by Sisters of Mercy Ecology, today initiated legal action to compel the State of Rhode Island to step up and do its fair share to stop climate change before it is too late. Today’s action, a petition to the Department of Environmental Management (DEM), starts a 30-day clock ticking. During that time, DEM will either initiate a public process to consider and implement this proposal, or the department will have to justify its inaction to the courts.

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