Demonstrations

Millions of people world wide took to the streets calling on world leaders to take action to stop climate change. The demonstrations were in response to a call by 15 year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, to go on strike to stop climate change. Thurnberg had been skipping school one day a week to demonstrate in front of Swedish government building demanding action on climate change and called on childred around the world to join her. She estimated that 3 million people joined her on Sept 20, three days before the opening of the United Nations General Assembly and Climate Action Summit on September 23, 2019

Youth speaker at rally called for signing the petition at http://fossilfreeca.org/petition

September 8, 2018, approximately 30,000 people marched from San Francisco’s Embarcadero to the Civic Center. They  were part of a global day of protest over climate change. Hundreds of thousands of people marched in an  estimated 1000 demonstrations all over the globe.

RiseForClimRise for Climate Change, San Francisco, 9-8-2018

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June 29, 2018, Berkeley. Over 1,500 people demonstrated against  Trump’s anti-immigration policies. The Berkeley demonstration was one of an estimated 700 events nationwide, in all 50 states. Protestors called for an end to US immigration policies, including seizing the children of immigrant parents, part of the Trump administration’s zero tolerance policy for immigrants. The New York Times estimated  2,300 children have been imprisoned in detention centers.