“Tina Kotek, listen up! All the youth have risen up.” This was one of many chants that echoed through downtown streets during the Portland Youth Climate Strike (PYCS) last Friday, September 15. The strike, which saw teens leave school to march downtown, was held on an unseasonably warm September day, with temperatures in the 90s, underscoring the protesters' message: the climate is changing rapidly, and our leaders must act to reduce greenhouse gas emissions—before it's.
Community members hold vigil for victims of police violence We have all lost lives too soon in an entirely preventable way.
Posted: Apr 18, 2021 3:48 PM
Updated: Apr 18, 2021 6:32 PM
Posted By: KEZI 9 News
EUGENE, Ore. Around 40 community members came together Sunday afternoon at Maurie Jacobs Park in Eugene to honor the lives of the many minority men and women killed by police violence.
Organizers and community members painted on posters and cardboard to make signs protesting against police brutality. Folks who we have all lost to police violence even if they are not in our state or direct in our community, one of the organizers Avery Temple said. We have all lost lives too soon in an entirely preventable way.
The longer Sahara Valentine fights the climate crisis, the bigger that fight becomes.
The struggle for a more livable future has become more urgent since she joined the cause at 10 years old. For her, it has become a fight for the future of the world s most vulnerable people. A sense only her generation is willing to fight has become more real. Climate change is really the biggest threat facing the youth right now, Valentine said.
Valentine, 16, is one of the youngest plaintiffs in
Juliana v. United States, a 2015 lawsuit
brought by 21 young people,
six of whom are from Eugene, which alleged the federal government infringed on their rights to a healthy future by allowing the use of fossil fuels.
Register-Guard
Climate silence is white violence
The progressive claims were loud when Mayor Lucy Vinis and Councilman Alan Zelenka were asking the people to vote for them again but y’all sure are quiet now. We have leech-like polluters taking our money, using our resources, contaminating our communities and I have not heard a peep from these two.
These greedy, destructive corporations are holding our city councilors hostage and we, BIPOC communities, are the ones who are going to suffer the consequences.
Meanwhile, councilors Claire Syrett, Jennifer Yeh and Matt Keating have been loudly championing the cause for climate justice. They’ve responded to those testifying at every public forum in favor of the Fossil Free Eugene campaign. All of them have taken meetings with climate justice organizations and community members on their own time to hear why this is important to the people.