Global Climate Strike in Nashville, TN
Last Friday, some 250 Nashvillians, including students from Vanderbilt and local high schools, joined an estimated 4 million people from 163 countries across the world for the Global Climate Strike. They gathered on the steps of the Tennessee Capitol and in the Public Square to call for more urgent government action and policy change on climate issues. To be among the crowd was to feel at once the weight of the crisis and the energy of those prepared now to call for answers. “I want to grow up and see my friends succeed,” one student protestor said, addressing the gathered crowd. “I want to see them become artists and activists. I want to see them become president.”
Want to become active? Check out the Sunrise Movement (one of the organizers of Friday’s protests) and the group Climate Nashville, which organizes monthly meetings open to the public at Friends Meeting House (with the next meeting held on Thursday, October 3rd at 6:30 pm).
Written by John Shakespear
Posted on Sept 26, 2019