'We don't have any choice': the young climate activists naming and shaming US politicians
by Nina Lakhani in Philadelphia from Environment | The Guardian on (#595QA)
As the election nears, young Americans are calling on US politicians to take action on climate, police brutality and immigration
It was a Saturday night in September when 160 or so middle and high school students logged on to a Zoom call about how to confront American politicians using tactics inspired by young civil rights activists fighting for the abolition of slavery.
The teenagers were online with the Sunrise Movement, a nationwide youth-led climate justice collective, to learn about organizing Wide Awake actions - noisy night-time protests - to force lawmakers accused of ignoring the climate emergency and racial injustice to listen to their demands.
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