We Need YOU Attending Fridays for Future Strikes
Tara Prakash, Sidwell Friends School
Inspired by environmental activist Greta Thunberg’s 2018 school strike for climate, Fridays For Future is an international organization focused on organizing and executing climate strikes. During these protests, youth students and activists from around the globe, gather to urge leaders in power to push for change.
Believing that non-violent and consistent protest is an effective way to initiate change, the Fridays For Future organization has three main goals: to keep the global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels, to follow the Paris Climate Accords, to ensure climate justice and equity and to listen to the best-united science currently available.
The organization believes strikes ...