social justice
environmental justice
Student Strike for Climate Action - September 20, 2019
Students from across the U.S. and the world walked out of their classes on September 20th to call for Climate Action and a Green New Deal for the Planet. Swedish youth climate activist Greta Thunberg to the United Nations Climate Action Summit In New York City: "This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you! You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. People are suffering...dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you! You are failing us. But the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of future generations are upon you. We will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now is where we draw the line. The world is waking up. And change is coming whether you like it or not."
Poor Peoples March - 2003 - Encampment on the National Mall, calling attention to gross social, economic, educational and health disparities impacting the poor and people of color.
Occupy D.C. - Fall 2011 - The Occupy Movement, begun on Wall Street and expanding nationwide, contended, “Money is not speech, corporations are not people, only people have Constitutional rights,” demanding a shift of power from the wealthiest 1% of Americans to the underrepresented 99%. Cardboard signs lined the walkways of the makeshift tent community created on Freedom Plaza, blocks from the White House.
March for Our Lives Against Gun Violence- 2018 - Parents and teachers cleared a path as students led the way in San Diego and across the country demanding their right to safety in their schools and communities, calling for gun control and an end to a culture of violence that increasingly threatens their lives and their future.
american heroes-
the free press
First Amendment Rights accorded by the Constitution — Freedom of Expression, Assembly and Freedom of the Press — sustaining a viable and humane democracy only if actively exercised by its Citizens.
