Fridays for Future’s next Global Climate Strike is on March 19th!
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The international theme is #NoMoreEmptyPromises:
The international theme is #NoMoreEmptyPromises. In the United States, Fridays for Future USA will be organizing digital actions around this theme and applying it to President Biden’s administration. In President Biden’s Build Back Better plan, he has promised to place renewable energy infrastructure and clean jobs at the center of the economic recovery from the pandemic.
The goal of our #BuildBackGreen campaign is to hold Biden accountable for the promises he made for a Green Recovery and to invigorate our community. We are catalyzing the remobilization of the U.S. Climate Strike Movement!
Call to Action
- Bring signs or shoes to your local government building or City Hall. Leaving shoes and signs (be sure to take photos) on the steps by these buildings signifies that while the movement is not in the streets, the fight is ongoing.
- Take a photo of yourself with your climate strike sign and post it on social media – tagging your local elected officials!
And tag FFF USA if you want us to engage! [Instagram: @Fridaysforfutureusa] [Twitter: @FFF_USA] [Facebook: @Fridaysforfutureusa] - Put your climate strike sign in your window. You may inspire your neighbors and community to take this action, too!
Program Schedule
We’re planning an entire day of events for you to get involved in the way that’s funnest for you! Pick and choose a few events or stay all day:
GLOBAL CLIMATE STRIKE 12:00 – 2:00 pm ET
First, we will strike and come together as a community on Zoom. During this time, local groups and individuals are encouraged to bring climate strike signs and posters or shoes and lay them at their local city hall or government buildings. We are also encouraging people to take a photo of themselves striking at home with their signs, and post on social media, tagging their elected officials. This way communities can speak on local issues specific to them and be heard/boosted by social media on a national level.
These actions will be based on the theme of silence. During COVID, we’ve been in an apocalyptic waiting state – looking outside. This is supposed to solidify the fact that while the people are not in the streets – the movement is.
MAPA ROUNDTABLE 2:00 – 3:00 pm ET
Organizers from MAPA (Most Affected People and Places) will talk about their experiences and stories outside of the United States. While organizing on the national level, we encourage U.S. activists to be cognizant of issues often caused by U.S. inaction, and the differences in climate activism in other nations.
NATIONAL DIGITAL RALLY 3:00 – 4:00 pm ET
Our digital rally will highlight dynamic speakers with the goal of re-energizing our movement. The digital rally will feature fiery speakers. serving to energize and inspire our community. Speakers will include prominent climate activists and storytellers. This is where we bring our energy – coming together to get excited about work we are doing!
COMMUNITY BUILDING 4:00 – 5:00 pm ET
Once we are energized and ready to go, we will have community spaces for people to debrief their thoughts and the action they want to take! We will discuss in breakout rooms – featuring representatives from climate organizations, workshops, music, art – whatever inspires you!
WOMEN IN CLIMATE ROUNDTABLE 5:00 – 6:00 pm ET
This roundtable is an opportunity to explore the intersections prominent within the climate crisis. We will have a panel discourse on the intersection of climate and the patriarchy, and the invaluable role women play in climate activism. We will learn about what it is like to be a woman in climate, and discuss the issues women across the world face as a result systematic oppression and the global climate crisis.
AFTER RALLY PARTY 6:00 pm ET – BEYOND
Anyone energized and activated after the rally and day’s events can stay on to participate in themed breakout rooms for people who want to talk about what they’ve learned, community decompression spaces for people who just want to connect with others in the movement, and an after-show party!
This is all here for you to meet the community in the way that works for you. Come to one event, or stay with us all day – whatever you want to do, we’re excited to strike with you!
* By joining any of these events, you agree to the Code of Conduct.
Partners
350.org
350.org was founded in 2008 by a group of university friends in the United States along with author Bill McKibben, who wrote one of the first books on global warming for the general public. The goal was to build a global climate movement. 350 was named after 350 parts per million — the safe concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Alliance for Climate Education (ACE)
ACE’s mission is to educate young people on the science of climate change and empower them to take action. We achieve impact by working at the nexus of young people, climate justice, and democracy.
Can You Hear Us?
#CanYouHearUs is an impact campaign focused on local climate action efforts that are intergenerational, intersectional & accessible to all. Launched surrounding Hulu’s Original Documentary #IAmGreta, it works to uplift the work & voices of youth leaders in the climate movement.
Care About Climate
Care About Climate builds capacity for young people around the world to fight the climate crisis and create a just, equitable future. We advocate for climate policy that centers accountability, gender justice, intergenerational equity, and more!
Climate Action Campaign (CAC)
The Climate Action Campaign (CAC) is a national climate organization and an unbranded coalition (with no public facing website) that counts among its members some of the most prominent green groups and environmental justice organizations in the country, such as Sierra Club, Environment America, National Wildlife Federation and more.
Common Energy
The Impact Team is a youth collective of Clean Energy Advocates working in our communities to connect people to equitable, free, renewable energy!
Dangerously Persistent
A production studio for collective liberation. Specializing in live and virtual events from start to finish.
Dear Earth,
Our mission is to cut our emission. We are a group of PNW students passionate about using our voices to spread more awareness about the current climate crisis. Dear Earth, we hear you and we will fight for you.
Earth Day Initiative
Join Earth Day Initiative in a call for climate action and environmental justice, bringing the spirit of the first Earth Day into the 21st Century!
Earth Uprising Lansing
The Lansing MI chapter of Earth Uprising is a youth-led nonprofit that focuses on bringing climate action and Education to the Lansing area.
Earth Uprising McLean
Earth Uprising McLean is a city group of the non-profit organization Earth Uprising. We are entirely youth-led and our mission is to advocate and educate about the climate in the Northern Virginia and DMV area.
Earth Uprising MN
We are youth-led organization striving to educate, empower, and ally for climate justice in the Twin Cities area.
Extinction Rebellion San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
Extinction Rebellion is a global nonviolent movement to compel the world to address the climate and ecological emergency.
Georgia for The Planet
Georgia for the Planet is a youth-led coalition dedicated to fighting for climate justice for every Georgian. Through advocacy and grassroots organizing, we work to protect marginalized communities at the frontlines of the climate crisis and to preserve Georgia’s natural wonders from powerful industries.
Nadia Kacmar
I’m an environmentalist from the midwest who uses tiktok to try to bring attention to the climate movement and use my knowledge to provide digestible education for people of all ages and backgrounds.
Nourish Our Earth
We aim to mobilize the youth to take effective steps at personal and social levels to reverse climate change, encourage healthy living, and mitigate global hunger.
One Up Action
OneUpAction is built by a group of powerful intersectional youth advocates who realized that just participating in climate strikes, rallies, and legislative advocacy wasn’t enough to solve the climate crisis. In order to see a true impact, we must take our energy to mass mobilize and complement it with local direct action.
Polluters Out
Polluters out was founded due to the failure of cop 25. Which is a symptom of a much greater and prolonged issue in which the fossil fuel industry controls every aspect of our society from indigenous lands, governments, banks, universities, and climate negotiations.
The Social Justice Leaders
The Social Justice Leaders is a youth-led organization created to advocate for many different issues going on around the world. Some of the issues include Women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights, Climate Change, Racism and Xenophobia, etc.
Sunrise Movement
The Sunrise Movement is a youth movement to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process. We’re building an army of young people to make climate change an urgent priority across America, end the corrupting influence of fossil fuel executives on our politics, and elect leaders who stand up for the health and wellbeing of all people.
The Western New York Youth Climate Council
A youth organization fighting for the future of our planet and working to bring climate justice to Western New York through education, policy, and youth solidarity!
Waterspirit
Waterspirit is a nonprofit center for spiritual ecology sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace. Through programs and advocacy we inform, inspire, and enable all people to deepen their consciousness of the sacredness of water and all Creation.
ZeroHour
Zero Hour is an international youth climate justice movement that organizes mobilizations, educational campaigns, lobby days, summits, strikes, marches and media and social media campaigns to demand urgent action on climate change.
ZeroHour NC
An NC-wide youth organization focused on promoting climate action through conversations with policymakers, climate rallies, and other forms of activism.