Jane Fonda's Speech on A Green New Deal - Youth Global Climate Strike - Sept. 2019

For the past 15 years, I've seen many Bay Area organizations organize and participate in major U.S. social movements, the last of which are lead by youth groups and young adults. 

 

 The Youth Global Climate Strike rose up partly simultaneously and also as a result of global attraction to the protests by Greta Thunberg, who is a teen from Sweden.  Her journey begins when she as an Asperger's child became emotionally unable to function when she discovered how complacent society and particularly political leaders were to the Earth's existential threats of global warming and climate disruption.  

Beginning with convincing her parents to change their lifestyles, her activism in Fridays for Future, protests in front of the Swedish Parliament, grew. Young people concerned with the effects of climate disruption around the world were ready to join her, collaborate and build a movement, the Youth Global Strike, together. In September, 2019, attended the event in San Francisco, and was quite surprised at the youth, family, school, teen and multicultural turn-out!

An excerpt from Wikipedia continues:  Her sudden rise to world fame has made her both a leader^[7] and a target for critics.^[8] Her influence on the world stage has been described by The Guardian and other newspapers as the "Greta effect".^[9] She has received numerous honours and awards including: honorary Fellowship of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society; Time magazine's 100 most influential people and the youngest Time Person of the Year; inclusion in the Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women (2019)^[10] and two consecutive nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize (2019 and 2020).^[