So this is really a broad intersectional agenda. Do you want to speak to that? And how do we get it? Okay, so we're mentioning wars, we're mentioning news and media. During World War II, the New York Times posted daily headlines, telling people even the minute details, like what soldiers were doing. The war that's heading our way will kill, affect, disproportionately cause suffering more than any war that has come to pass. It will cause hunger, it will cause pain, and the kind of pain will not be able to be medicated with immediate medicine. It's going to be starvation. And so what's heading our way is, if not the biggest issue humanity faces, that's why we have these very specific demands. That's why our actions are so dramatic. We cannot work against the media or the sources of information that are available to people. We need them as much as they need us. We need to be working in hand with the quote-unquote liberal progressive media. We're not asking, for example, Fox News to change its agenda. We're asking for the New York Times to put it on its headlines. We're asking for the Washington Post to put it on its headlines. The people that claim to be for justice, for social movements, it's your time to do it. And as we know, it's a media ecosystem in which there is also independent media like ours. Had a dear friend that always said it was the independent media that brings issues to the boil and the mainstream that entails the steam. So in the spirit of that, here's our report from the climate strikes of this October and some of the actions of extinction rebellion. What do we want? What do we want in here? Did we want to get today? No! Did we want it tomorrow? No! Did we want it now? No! My name is Carrie Fulton. I am a policy fellow with the Climate Justice Alliance. I'm also a National Urban Fellow. So we're really happy here at the Climate Justice Youth Summit. This is the seventh one. It's very exciting to be here because you're looking at young people from all over the country and even really the world that are gathering together to discuss climate justice and what that means and how we're all directly impacted and connected. You know what? Let's do a quick check. You ready for a check? I can't hear you. You ready for a check? All right. So my name is Naysha Mallet. I'm a Climate Justice Youth Organizer at Uproost, Brooklyn, Wulu. So today is the Climate Justice Youth Summit, which is something that we've been doing over the past ten years. It's usually the largest gathering of young people of color to learn and talk about climate change and climate justice and what the just transition looks like. And what solutions we want to put forth to solve the problem. This year, we're doing this September around the climate week, it's the two-year anniversary of Maria. And we also know that yesterday was a whole bunch of climate strikes that was happening up in New York and across the world. This is our frontline climate strike, frontline leadership from the youth and across the world. We come here, we come here now. Hi, I'm Annie West Chelsea. I'm an artist and an organizer with Uproost. How I'm connected to the summit is that I was the artist behind all the art and I also was one of the lead organizers at the summit. In any movement, the things could feel really heavy. Then I feel like art really helps people's hearts to get connected. Because if your heart's not in, you're not going to stay in it. I just cannot help but tell you that the future is bright, because you are all invested, like so many generations before you. To fight for justice. When we saw four million people around the world, young people, missing class, missing lessons in the classroom, because they were about to teach us a lesson that when it takes its leadership and courage, it is up to you because as many of you have said, there is not planet B and we are all in this together. Talk about the way that we tell this history, Libro, because I'm thinking to myself, you know, you two are great and I'm reminded of the movements that I was part of in my teens, which were saying some of the same things about nuclear conflagration. I went and camped out at the Greenham Common Women's Air Force, encampment protesting US Air Force missile, cruise missiles, and we felt that same sense of urgency. And the story that is told of the 80s is, well, that was just a kind of, you know, explosion of activism. But it also led to a non-proliferation treaty. The cruise missiles had to be removed. You saw a difference in the nuclear discussion because of people, especially women and young people, speaking from our hearts. But it goes back to the story because the story is told that this stuff maybe worked once in the civil rights movement. But it's not true. It has worked. It does work, and I think the challenge for any movement is how do you zero in on a strategy to get to these bold demands? Right. I mean, these four demands that were laid out are huge. They're massive. The thing that prevents us from getting there is the lack of power. And I think, you know, non-violent direct actions of those obedience, these are tactics. They have to be deployed in a power building strategy. How do we? Meaning. Meaning we have to grow organizations. We have to grow institutions. We have to win some victories. People don't stay in movements where you lose all the time. And I think that that's one of the challenges is to use these dramatic actions as an educational and media moment. But then to capture that moment, you have to build organization and build infrastructure. So give us an example of where you think that's happened and then it'll up to you from you how it's happening where you are. Well, I think that, you know, examples of that is where people build local organizations. The climate strike was not just a single flash in the pan event. It actually built local high school committees. It built local structures. And to the extent that those continue and that they build over time and aren't about one event, then that is shows the ability to actually win some victories. We can't just also, we can't just have demands. We have to have clear targets. I think one of the challenges is like, who are we demanding this from? And how do we put pressure on those targets? Because that's an important principle of organizing is we have to figure out who can give us this of the win and how do we actually make it worth their while. Giovanni, do you have answers to the near those questions? The fact of the matter is that non-violent direct action works. Erica Chenowov, one of the leading scholars on how to bring about radical political change, says that we don't have any more excuses anymore. We know what is the most effective strategy and tool to power build and create a structural change in society. And that is non-violent direct action. It's very straightforward. If you can get 3.5% of the population mobilized in sustained resistance, non-violent resistance, you can bring about a radical political change in a very, very short time scale. And this is exactly. You don't need millions of people. You don't need millions of people. You need 3.5% of both population in question. Yes, in New York City it's around 280,000 people. But in terms of victories, I think I am quite on board with Libero because at our last movement we got to New York City, the city government, to declare a climate emergency. I've had the privilege of organizing with the strikers. I was one of the 15 students in New York City who led 315,000 people out of school and onto their street, onto the street. And absolutely, the movement required a coalition. It required seeds at every school in New York City. We provided the students with resources and then we let them do with those resources what they would. And they created affinity groups. They created a community. And I mean XR prides itself in its community building orientation. We have the youth, then we have groups of neighborhood groups. We have flat bush group. We have upper North Manhattan group, etc., etc. And the reason why XR would say that our movement is working is because it's not one arbitrary action. It's just one day after day, one cohort of people gets arrested, another comes in and takes their place. Which again is another media myth that it's just the action in the street or that the action in the street is not connected to the organizing. Even by virtue of a person who is doing both.