Posted on 07/26/2022 8:05:47 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
School and university students all over the world are planning to take school strikes one step further and occupy our campuses to demand the end of the fossil economy. Taking a lesson from student activists in the 1960s, the climate justice movement’s youth will shut down business as usual. Not because we don’t like learning, but because what we’ve learned already makes it clear that, without a dramatic break from this system, we cannot ensure a livable planet for our presents and futures.
Why occupy? Because we’ve marched. We’ve launched petitions. We’ve written open letters. We’ve had meetings with governments, boards and commissions. We’ve struck. We’ve filled squares, streets and avenues with thousands and, all together, millions of people in continents across this Earth. We’ve screamed with all our lungs. Some of us have even participated in blockades, sit-ins and die-ins. And just as it seemed the seed for deep and radical social transformation was taking root in the midst of the massive 2019 climate mobilizations, Covid-19 came, and our momentum drastically decreased. What didn’t decrease, however, was the greenhouse gas emissions and the unimaginable profits hoarded by the fossil fuel industry.
The bottom line is: we can’t keep pretending everything is all right, studying as if the planet wasn’t on fire. As other students did before us – from the students of May of ’68 in France to the Arab spring, from the Chilean Penguin Revolution and Primavera Secundarista in Brazil to Occupy Wall Street, we will stop our business-as-usual lives to show our governments and society that we need to change everything, now. From Lisbon to California, from Peru to Germany and from Madrid to Ivory Coast, we call on young people to get together and organize an international revolutionary generation that can change the system.
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What?! Our schools have been occupied by leftist freaks for decades now.
Vouchers/school choice. Problem solved.
Totally insane. It reminds me of the African tribes being under the spell of the witch doctor in Tarzan movies.
Where’s the Ohio National Guard when you need them?
Cool story. Stay on strike. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Just give me my tax money back
I lived 10 miles from Kent State when that happened.
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Employers, present and future, take note of social media and keep these little bastards away
Otherwise you are just asking for trouble
I could live for a short term if the CO2-generating industries just \shut down\ for a 24 hour period.
The ripple would take effect within 7 days, even as the refineries ramp back up from “cold”.
Hunker down for say a month or so.
They could even announce it (so I can buy a few cases of Campbell’s soup and Grape Nuts).
The only thing I hear when they protest is “We are stupid! We are stupid!”
It is hot....
But....
At some point it will get cold....
So....
What’s the damn problem?
Here’s the flaw in their plan, though.
Schools, colleges and Universities produce NOTHING and contribute ZERO value to the GDP.
So, occupy and shut them down.
No One will miss them...ever.
They can walk home!
> School and university students all over the world are planning to take school strikes one step further ... <
Somehow I don’t think schools in China, India, or Japan will be participating. Their students will continue to study math and engineering. Meanwhile our students will be outside, trying hard to refer to each other by the correct pronouns.
If these were truly institutions of higher education, they would make this a mandatory lesson:
Effective Immediately, ALL Students that come to school property with any item that is produced with any “fossil Fuel” or contains any derivative of a “fossil Fuel” shall be permanently expelled.
Before protesting, they should have to turn in everything in their possession that was made with oil.
And I give a flower to the big fat cop,
He takes his club and he beats me up.
I give a flower to the garbage man,
He stuffs my girl in the garbage can.
And I give it to the landlord, when the rent comes ‘round.
He throws it in the toilet and he flush it down.
It goes into the sewer with the yuck running through her,
And it runs into the river that we drink.
Hey world, you stink!
Great— then ALL of you “activists” will be abandoning your automobiles, or ANY other transport that uses any PART of our “fossil fuel” economy to power the vehicle. ANY PART of the so called “fossil fuel” resources of our “planet” as a component of it’s construction and use. That includes the shoes you are all wearing- any part of them made of leather, or synthetics? Ditch them. Go barefoot, and do it in the middle of December through February this winter. And then, don’t accept ANY medical treatment that utilizes petroleum derived medication, delivery devices, and sterile dressings.
Then get back to us from your mud hut, butt naked with caked on dirt and multiple disease transmitting insects biting you. Return to “nature” you Rousseau clown jacka@@es think is so “pure”.... to SAVE the PLANET. For WHOOOOOOOM? Pray tell.
They should simply stop using modern technology themselves as an example. Go live in the wilderness somewhere and show us how we should all be primitives again.
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