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On the List | Global Climate Strike in Seattle Friday in Cal Anderson Park

A 2019 climate striker

In 2019, around 3,000 — many of them young students — took to the streets of Capitol Hill, rallying in Cal Anderson and marching as part of a global climate strike. Smaller strikes have followed. The pandemic has changed the world. But the planet? Still getting hotter.

Global Climate Strike
Cal Anderson Park
Friday, March 25 1 to 3 PM

Friday, organizers from the The Action Network are holding a new strike with Cal Anderson — and the events unfolding in Ukraine — at its center:

The dependence on fossil fuel has made Russia into a military superpower. Putin’s war in Ukraine has shown us that fossil fuels aren’t just killing us through the climate crisis, they’re killing us through bombs and warplanes. We must show up for Ukraine. We can change the course of history. Right now, President Biden has the unprecedented power to kickstart a just transition away from fossil fuels. Strike with us to call on Biden to invoke the Defense Production Act – this would accelerate and ramp up production of renewable energy, create millions of good, green jobs, and end Putin’s stranglehold on the world’s energy economy. This is so possible, but without public pressure from us, Biden will stick with the status quo. Join us to demand a just, livable future where we can all thrive.

Organizers say this year’s strike will not include a march. Instead, they’re turning the energy into art with plans to create a “human mural” plus “screen-printing, inspiring youth speakers and a fun kickball game of climate activists vs fossil fuel executives.”

They’re also asking participants to be COVID safe and please wear a mask.

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