'Education is seen as the epitome of preparing for your future, but why should we be preparing for our future when that’s not a guarantee?' Students strike against the abyss
” In New York City, the Board of Education responded to mounting pressure from students by agreeing not to penalize those who cut classes to participate in the strike.
We need to talk about doing more sustained strikes. We need to encourage more people to go out, get arrested, shut down streets. We don’t have the time to be complacent and wait until it’s too late. It’s not like. That’s not the future I want! We need to unionize, we need to band together, we need to force change.For the climate strike on March 15, 2019, we put posters up in the hallways at my school, but when we came back the next day, they were gone.
I moved to New York City in 2015, when I was 13 years old. That same year, in 2015, the town where I’m from in Mexico suffered from flooding from heavy rainfall. That was the first time I saw the climate crisis—at literally my doorstep. We also have a river there that is contaminated from factory waste, and all that contamination came into the streets. So it wasn’t just about extreme weather patterns, it was also about contamination that came from fossil fuels.
I want fast and effective mass transit and I want this whole transition to be just. There are some communities who will require more help, more money, and more time than others. Historically black and brown communities, frontline communities—they’re just going to need more. I want healthcare for everyone, I want college for all. There’s a lot of stuff that’s tied into this.“I’ve heard a lot of my peers talk about climate anxiety.
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