We did it for the money they did it for the money they did it for the money ey did it for the money they didnt do it for the boys didnt do it for the girls didnt do it for the mothers didnt do it for the daughters didnt do it for me didnt do it for you didnt do it for the weak didnt do it for the they did it for the money hey did it for the money what they did do it for the money they did it for the money thank you so much. My name is caroline. Theres a fundamental problem with our relationship with money in this country. Money is stitch intoed fabric, the foundation of our society. I do think its important to have events like this and stand up to power. We live in a society where money is power. And it dictates everything we do. When you stand out here, youre standing up to money and power. [indiscernible] thank you so much for being here. I really appreciate it. Give it up one more time for caroline rose. [cheers and applause] ok. So were going to be a little interactive now with the audience. I want all this side to yell for me. [yelling] come on. [cheering] ditto. [indiscernible] i think this side can do better. This side can definitely do etter. [cheering and yelling] ok. Were going to be introducing our next speaker who is another representative from california. Any net, can you please come up nenette, can you please come up. Thank you. Are you ready for some change . [cheers and applause] i am too. My friends, this is the moment right here, right now. The alarm bells have been sounding for an entire generation. But this is the moment for you to be heard [cheers and applause] youre being heard across the city, across this nation, and across the entire planet, which is literally dying to be heard and its beautiful to look at youth our climate making the change and causing this movement to move forward. Are you ready . [cheers and applause] and were sending the message that were doing this in an urgent way. And we want Climate Action when . Now now, we dont lack the science to know the Climate Crisis is here. Nor do we lack the brain power to heal our wounded planet from generations of abuse and neglect. But what we do lack is the will to act on it. Youre all going to change that, right . [cheers and applause] and thats why having your voices here today is so critical and so important. Because, like those in power who refuse to act quickly enough or boldly enough, like those in an industry who place profits over the environment and over public health. So i want to be here with you to know that we are going to continue to call out loud, rally and show up and tell our until our voices are heard. Is that right . [cheers and applause] well, dont stop and keep it going and i will do the same in the United States congress. Thank you for showing your power in numbers, your power in voice, and to our climate youth, lets do this cheers and applause] give it up one more time. There we go. Come on. [cheers and applause] so next up we have some amazing youth activists. Theyre suing the federal government. Cheers and applause] we have Kelsey Juliana and levi, jacob, avery and jerome will be joining as well. [cheers and applause] thank you so much for coming out today. A lot of gratitude from the bottom of our hearts. We are the youth who are suing the u. S. Government. Our government. [cheers and applause] because we believe that we have a constitutional right to a climate capable of sustaining human life. And the courts are agreeing with us. Cheers and applause] our government is paying 20 billion every year to fossil fuel companies and permitting pipelines like the pipeline in north dakota and a project in my hometown of oregon. Me and my family farm. If our government continues to promote dark money and fossil fuels over our lives, we wont have an economy to grow up in. We wont be able to grow our crops. We wont be able to raise our children in a safe community. And we wont be able to have clean water and a livable climate. [applause] listen to the science and protect life. Thank you. [cheers and applause] we are on a timeline this is a fight for our lives, for our security, for all future generations to come. [cheers and applause] they want us to just sit quiet . No they want us to just sit and live for a future that may not exist . We are here because our generation has put us in an unstable place. And you know what, im sick of hearing about their actions, im sick of their apologies, im sick of their shame and im sick of the future that they put on us. [cheers and applause] im sick of it and so are all of you. And we are not here to talk about our sacrifices and our doom and gloom and nonexistence. We are here to create [cheers and applause] we are creating this movement every day because every days action for ves more us cheers and applause] who here is [indiscernible] sorry. I couldnt hear that. [cheers and applause] thats just a little bit better. Lets hear it cheers and applause] all right. Who here is not excited to hear that we might not have a future . I couldnt hear that. Yeah. All right. Everybody, lets go and lets were never going to give up until we get Climate Action. [cheers and applause] what do we want . Climate action when do we want it . Now what do we want . Climate action. When do we want it . Now thank you. Cheers and applause] my name is Jerome Foster ii. Thank you. But what i want everyone to do who is standing here in the front of the capitol, i want to you look left, i want you to look right. I want all of you to understand that we are all united in this crisis. Cheers and applause] all the actions we are seeking here and continue to seek, were fighting for us. Were fighting for our children, were fighting for our sisters and brothers, wear fighting for your mother and father. We are fighting for every Single Person who has died because of the Climate Crisis. [applause] we are the victims of an entire Climate Crisis that has destroyed andes mated entire communities, entire peoples. But politicians dont understand that. As millions of young people strike all around the world, the politicians are acting as if they care that i act ags if they care about our future but we need real action to follow this all around the world were seeing natural disasters affecting billions of people. People around the world are dying but were acting as if we dent care. Were acting as if nothing is going to work. So we have to actually make sure we have legislation that will help the Climate Crisis. We have to make sure were Holding Elected Officials accountable. We have to hold corporations accountable. Before you leave today i want every Single Person here to call their member of congress. I want every Single Person here talk about the clay mat crisis. I want this to be the number one ssue in the 2020 debate. Right now, every single politician is quaking in fare because were showing them what action looks like, were showing them what the people look like. We are showing them what democracy looks like. [cheers and applause] she me me what i say what democracy looks like, you say this is what democracy looks like. Show me what democracy looks like this is what democracy looks like show me what democracy looks like this is what democracy looks like immaterial you to remember the faces here, i want you to understand that everyone here, everyone here is part of the movement. Everyone here in this audience, everyone here as organizers, are part of this movement and we will act as such. You can not just go back to your job, you cannot just go back to our schools. You must join this earth, you must be here every sing friday, you must be part of the revolution because this is a time for change. Give it up again for all these people suing the federal government. [cheers and applause] we wanted to quickly acknowledge all the organizers that worked hours and hours tirelessly. Eyre all sitting back here, e want to thank the organizers activism is about organizingment. A huge am of applause for all the people who put this together. Cheers and applause] next we want to introduce one of our organizers who worked on finance and recruitment, an amazing young individual from earth uprising, wendy ok, got it. Hello, everyone. [cheers and applause] it is so amazing to see alm of you here today and to be here with all of you. Every time i walk the streets of d. C. Or chant the chant it make misheart so full of pride and hope. It is and always will be the honor of my life to strike with each and every one of you today. K. [cheers and applause] my name is wendy, im 17 years old, i a native american climate activism. Activist. Id like to acknowledge my privilege and my background because my story is vastly different than the ones youve heard today or will hear later on. Indidge jus people and frontline communities are and will continue to be most affected by the Climate Crisis. Many are fighting for their lives and rights today and they have been for centuries. So we recognize this an amplify their voices and they work. [applause] while we strike in solidarity with our brothers and sisters, we also know that the Climate Crisis is different from any problem that humanity has ever faced before because we know it affects everyone. And everyone has a climate story, whether you know yours yet or not. My parents are chinese immigrants and they sacrificed everything to come to america so my sisters and i could have a Higher Education and better life than they did. [cheers and applause] my sisters and i understood this and weve always wanted to do well in school to make sure their sacrifices are worthwhile my education and my future has become my end goal. As it should. Because im 17 and i shouldnt just be a fulltime student. College applications should be the only thing im worried about. I should just be a fulltime student. College applications should be the only thing im worried about. But in october of 2018, the they released their report telling the government they have 12 years left to act on the Climate Crisis or face devastating problems. I remember reading the report and feel very small. I will be 29 30 years old which isnt enough time for me to become the first Asian AmericanSupreme Court justice or become a retired history teacher. Thats why im here today and many of you are too. But we shouldnt be. Youth climate activists shouldnt exist. Greta thunberg should not be the figure she is. But we are. When young people act and come together our voices are loud and our actions are powerful. We know when we strike we win so today we strike because today we win. Today cheers and applause] hey, everybody, i dont know if yall heard but ref Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez heef. Not right now. Not right now. Shes coming later. Shes doing some congressional stuff. But shell be here later to speak to us. Ilhan omar will also be come, ayanna pressley. Ok now our next speaker is a d. C. Local who has been working and organizing youth far long time. Id love to bring to the stage brent yearwood. Cheers and applause] how yall doing out there . [cheers and applause] so, i just want to say this real quick, first, i want to lift up i just want to thank these mazing organizers and leaders. They are young, i didnt say youth leaders because these are the ones who should be leading the clay mat movement. And so first we lift up, i am based in d. C. With the hiphop caucus [cheers and applause] originally from louisiana. [cheers and applause] i actually kind of love that you get more love for the caucus than louisiana. I kind of love that a lot. But one of the things that is so important in this process, i want to lift up those right now. Here are floods in houstons, the people in the bahamas, this is the anniversary of puerto rico. People are still dealing with superstorm sandy, hurricanes irma, maria, wildfires in california, wildfires in the arctic, still those suffering in florida. Were going to give them some love. I just want to say two things. I want you to help me with something. The first thing, this is just the beginning. For the folks in zero hour, come on, zero hour. Cheers and applause] my amazing friend nadia and the whole crew and everybody else. [cheers and applause] here. En i want to say two things. One, your the david that will beat the goliath. Cheers and applause] you are the david that will beat the goliath. Beat industry. Secondly to that, never forget. Never forget this. Organized people beats organized money every single time. Cheers and applause] and my last thing, some of you might know this, some of you may not. I used to be a u. S. Air force officer. I was protesting the war in iraq and cheers and applause] and i was beaten, literally, by police right around the corner here. No, no. Dont do that. That happened. It was what it was. But this is the point. Since that time ive had a really bad leg. And i dont move that much. But i want to take from you your Youthful Energy to jump. I cant jump. So on this place, nadia, and natalie, where i was beaten, i want to jump with yall. Can i jump with yall . So yall can stand up. Come on. Tand up. Come on, on stage up here. Not everyone, not everyone. I might need some help. Dont fall off the stage. Just some. The way it gos is this. Im going to when i say jump you say strike. I say climate, you say strike. I say climate, you stay cey strike. And then we start jumping. Were going to jump, climate strike, climate, strike, climate strike. Yall got that . Are you ready . Climate strike thats not good enough. They got to hear you inside. Climate strike little better. Climate strike climate strike clam climate strike climate stram strike climate strike climate strike climate strike. Cant hear you. Climate strike. Cabot hear you. Climate strike. Come on. Climate strike climate scrike climate strike climate strike cheers and applause] thank you again for hyping us up. Give him a round of applause. One more, come on. Cheers and applause] get up here. Dont have to sit down. Some of us have asthma. So. Pretty much a tradition to figure out who the better m. C. Is. So were going to do a Little Scream contest. Well start withed in a yasm if you think nadia is the better m. C. , give her some love cheers and applause] ok, now me. [cheers and applause] i think thats a pretty clear win fored in a yasm well try one more time for me. Ok . One more time. [cheers and applause] ok the next person were going to introduce is near an dear to both of our hearts. Shes the policy director of 350. Org. Wed like to welcome to the stage natalie mebane. Get your butt up here, natalie. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. How are you . You guys dont even know how blessed you were just now to see reverend yearwood speak. 12 years ago in 2007, im going to date myself, i was a youth climate activist just like you. Ok. [cheers and applause] and i went to this conference, Power Shift Network conference. Power shift 2007 if anybody was out here. And i walk into the room. First person on stage is this man on stage. Reverend yearwood. Shes just standing on the stage going, fight the power and the crowd, thousands of youth, about 6,000 of them stood back and said the same thing, fight the power. Did that for like five minutes straight. I didnt know what i walked into. I had no idea what i was doing. I was ok, i found this place. Im going to join now. So since that moment, november 2007, i credit reverend yearwood for recruiting me to the movement and making me know that climate activism was something i was going to do for the rest of my life. It is an honor to get to speak right after him. Im the policy director at 350. Org. We are one of the people who formed the adult Strike Coalition to help put on strikes across the country and the world. Thousands and thousands of strikes happening around the world. And were glad you guys came. Were here, were talking about climate what we want to do here, the people in this building, one thing thats really special about your generation. [cheers and applause] one great thing is that you guys are at that age where youre about to be able to vote. [cheers and applause] now some of you have seen some members of congress on stage, theres more to come. Obviously they got there because people voted. All right . 2020. Is upon us. And to vote, you have to egister to vote. All right . So all of you here, i want to know, if you are old enough to vote in the next election, raise your hand. Chaz a lot of people. Thats a lot of people. This is just one strike happening across the u. S. And across the world. Ok . So my one request for all of ou, and your friends, you know what you can do on fridays . Register your friends to vote. Now yall talk about friday for future, i love that vote for your future. Vote for your future. Vote for your future on friday. Register your friends to vote on fridays. Use that opportunity when youre striking and youre striking for the climate, to get new voters on the rolls to have some control over who enters this building next year. Thank you all so much. Thank you for striking with us. [cheers and applause] we las vegas you. So this week Greta Thunberg was here in d. C. [cheers and applause] we got to see her hang out with her a little bit, see her testimony. Super powerful. Something she really really emphasized was unite behind the science. Unite behind the science. We wanted to bring up brenda, who is a climate scientist. Shes going to be talking a little bit about the Science Behind the Climate Crisis. [cheers and applause] thank you. Thank you all. It is so inspiring to see so many of you here today in front of the capitol [cheers and applause] im a climate scientist a concerned scientist, i was one of the many authors of the National Climate assessment and i brought my friend here, marcy rodman who is fighting for inclusion of all Human History in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cheers and applause] so, first of all, thank you for the space you all have created and generously invited me, alyle bit older, to be here. I honor that. Thank you