Friends

Thank you so much for joining us yesterday for our first ever online #ClimateStrike! 

Together we shared stories, stood in solidarity and in the face of everything, continued to build our people powered movement which will work to ensure the recovery from Covid-19 centres communities and climate justice not coal and gas corporations and climate catastrophe. 

Last night, for the first time in weeks, I truly felt like a better future is possible, and that we are the ones that will build it. 

And I don’t think I was alone. Last night the world tuned in, with over 50K people now having watched the livestream and #BuildaBetterFuture #1 on twitter, our message was loud and clear. From Licypriya from India sharing her passion, to Roxanne Highfold & Dr Simon Quilt and the students from Arrernte country talking about climate & covid impacts on First Nations lands, this really is a global movement.

“There are many ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and some of those ways will replicate or further entrench inequality, other solutions are this extraordinary opportunity to reinvent the future, build a society that fundamentally honours the dignity and humanity of all people, we shouldn’t be interested in green capitalism, we should be interested in justice for all“ - Tim Lo Surdo from Democracy in Colour. 

We all come from different backgrounds but we all share a common vision of a future free from the injustices of the climate crisis. Together, we are powerful. But to win, we know we need to build much more power than we have. Let’s build together, here’s where you can start: 

1. Joining our Online Strike School: to build skills and knowledge about climate justice, social justice and community organising so we can build local power in our communities. 

2. Joining School Strike 4 Climate: sign-up to be part of our growing school student led movement.

3. Contact your MP: reach out to start a conversation about what climate justice looks like and means to you and why they need to act in the interests of communities and country, not coal and gas corporations. 

4. Spreading your vision for climate justice: by making and sharing (on social media, your window, your front fence) a climate justice flower and ensuring that climate justice flowers in these challenging times, not greed, self-interest and fossil fuel industry power.

We’ll be in touch in the coming weeks about other plans and ideas to build our power and push for a recovery from Covid-19 that centres communities and climate justice. But for now, thank you for joining us on Friday, and thank you for giving to this movement. 

With hope and gratitude,

Nathan for School Strike 4 Climate