Stop Fossil Occupy Plans For Mass Student Protests

Stop Fossil Occupy Plans For Mass Student Protests

How many of us have read the headlines this year about the horrific heat waves and wildfires happening around the world and wondered if there wasn’t something we could do to end the mass insanity of the continued burning of fossil fuels while we are so is the cause of both events? End of fossil occupation says enough is enough.

We hear of our so-called leaders meeting in secluded conference rooms where they “speak of things that matter, with words that need to be said”, only to return to their various countries after issuing a communiqué in the form of a weasel promising serious action in 20 or 30 years. End of fossil occupation says no more.

Even at that point, an obstructionist like… Joe Manchin stands straight-faced and declares that he cannot support climate action that does not include massive tax breaks for himself and his wealthy friends. Add to that a United States Supreme Court determined to force a state-sponsored religion down the throats of all Americans, while erasing the few climate policies in existence, and haunting humanity’s prospects. the day more urgent.

A few years ago, Greta Thunberg stormed onto the scene with her ‘Climate Strike’ campaign for students, but even her voice has been silenced by the defenders of the status quo. But now, a new group of young people styling themselves as End of fossil occupation has published a manifesto calling on students around the world to stage protests in their schools calling for an end to fossil fuels. They hope their call to action will follow the trajectory of the oft-quoted anonymous saying, “Little creeks grow into mighty rivers.”

The organizers very emphatically don’t want a bunch of old gray haired guys (like me) to have their fun. They’ve had it with broken promises and empty rhetoric. They may not want a lot of people over 30 in their ranks, but they can’t stop me from reporting on their campaign. What follows is their manifesto, complete and unexpurgated, as published on July 26 by the guard.


“Why we are stopping strikes. Youth movement: radical and ready to occupy!”

Schools and universities around the world are planning to take school strikes one step further and occupy our campuses to demand the end of the fossil fuel economy. The youth of the climate justice movement learned a lesson from student activists in the 1960s and will shut down the normal course of business. . Not because we don’t like learning, but because what we have already learned makes it clear that without a dramatic break with this system we cannot guarantee a livable planet for our present and future.

Why occupy? Because we marched. We have launched petitions. We have written open letters. We have met with governments, boards and committees. We struck. We have filled squares, streets and avenues with thousands and, altogether, millions of people in every single continent of this earth. We have screamed with all our lungs. Some of us have even participated in blocks, sit-ins, and die-ins.

And just when it seemed like the seeds for deep and radical social transformation were taking root amid the massive climate mobilizations of 2019, COVID-19 came and our momentum waned drastically. What did not decrease, however, were greenhouse gas emissions, the exploitation of the global south and the unimaginable profits of the fossil fuel industry.

It’s no secret that our enemy, the fossil fuel industry, rules the world. And it is far from falling; in fact it is stronger than ever. The evidence is a recent study by The Guardian that revealed to the world that the fossil fuel empire 195″carbon bomb” projects that threaten our hopes of global warming to 1.5C, the safe barrier. That’s right, despite our politicians and institutions’ indeed hilarious show at COP26 in 2021, the biggest oil companies are on track to spend money $103 million in planetary destruction projects every day for the rest of the decade (emphasis added).

Moreover, the climate crisis is not a fair crisis. The last IPCC Reports showing that those most affected by climate change are often those who did the least to cause it in the first place. As young people born on the brink of the greatest catastrophe in human history, it is our historical responsibility to rise up to stop it.

So what do we do? Because giving in to defeatism will never be an option for us, we must now organize massively. We need to create a new peak of mobilization comparable and even greater than 2019. If we were waiting for a sign, this is it. With temperatures rising ever faster, we have never been more certain that mobilizing greater than ever is not only possible: it is existentially necessary

We cannot repeat previous mistakes. We need to be disruptive to business as usual more than ever, because that’s our only chance of survival. The innovation and creativity of the youth, combined with a fierce appetite for disruption and liberation, has the potential to change the world. As a global generation of students, we must disrupt the normal course of business and start with the spaces where we have the power to mobilize and organize: our schools and universities. Sometimes they are directly involved in the destruction industry, as is the case with the many universities that invest in the fossil fuel industry, such as Oxford, Stanford, Princeton, Yale, McGill, Northwestern, MIT, etc.

In other cases, they are indirectly connected to it. They are training us for a world that has no future, a world of fossil capitalism. They want us to be in school and learn like everything is fine. But the world we’re learning for—the world that created the climate crisis—has no future. The big question of our generation “How do we create a world without climate catastrophe?” is not answered by being in school.

The bottom line is, we can’t keep pretending everything’s okay, studying like the planet isn’t on fire. As other students did before us – from the May ’68 students in France to the Arab Spring, from the Chilean Penguin Revolution and Primavera Secundarista in Brazil to Occupy Wall Street, we will quit our ordinary lives to protect our governments and the society that we everything should change now. From Lisbon to California, from Perú to Germany and from Madrid to the Ivory Coast, we are calling on young people to come together and organize an international revolutionary generation that can change the system.

Between September and December 2022, we will occupy hundreds of schools and universities worldwide to end the fossil economy at an international level under the call to action “End Fossil: Occupy!”. We invite everyone to join us and organize professions in their school or university, as long as they follow our 3 principles: youth-led occupation, climate justice framework and occupy until we win.

We will revitalize the youth movement, create new alliances, radicalize, engage the whole of society to support and occupy, and envision the world we want – where life and not profit is central – through this sparkling international moment of action. We will rise in justice and liberation to destroy the fossil fuel industry. We will not doubt it: youth is a revolutionary subject. We will turn the tide, change history and destroy the fossil economy.

We are here. We are radical. We are ready to occupy.

The takeaway

Well, that’s pretty serious stuff, isn’t it? They may not be too fond of older people (who, shall we say, did the most to get the world in this mess and very little to get us out), but there are things you can do to do. First and foremost, you can talk about the movement with your own children and grandchildren and support them if they want to get involved.

You can also make it a point to vote in November to ensure that the Blue Team (which itself is deeply complicit in their support of the fossil fuel industry) retains control of both houses of Congress with a sufficient margin in the Senate. to finally coal baron Joe Manchin irrelevant. Finally you can offer helpno matter who you are or your age. The group might also consider sharing the lyrics of a song by Robert Zimmerman of Hibbing, Minnesota as their national anthem:

Come senators, congressmen, please listen to the call!
Don’t stand in the doorway, don’t block the hallway.
For he who is hurt will be he who has stopped.
The battle rages outside
Soon your windows will shake and your walls rattle,
For the times they change

Come mothers and fathers across the country
And don’t criticize what you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command
Your old way is quickly obsolete.
Please get out of the new one if you can’t help your hand,
For the times they are changing.

As manifestos go, it’s a pretty good one.

Finally, End Fossil Occupy may also do well to engage Juice Media’s services. Now that they’ve helped push the despicable Scott Morrison out of office in Australia, they’ve turned their attention to the US, with the first of their efforts roasting the Supreme Court with their satirical skills. We warn you that Juice Media uses language that some may find offensive and inflammatory. It worked Down Under and it can work here. If you think you might be offended, don’t look at it. You have been warned!

If you object to the Juice Media video, blame Dan Allard. He told us!


 

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