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Hey @SupJaniceHahn #ClimateStrike Kids Don’t Give A Shit About Naming Rights While You & The BOS Are Screwing Them Out Of A Future #StepUpOrStepAside #JoeTakesOnTheNews
Corporate Mouthpiece, @LATimes, Can’t See The Crooks Through All The Corruption, But #JoeTakesOnTheNews Does
Mueller Leaks Report To Activists Who Are Reading It Now #JoeTakesOnTheNews
@LATimes Editors Say “Fuck You” To Over A Million Kids Who Marched In #ClimateStrike. “They Don’t Read Our Paper Anyway,” Says Publisher. “We’re Focused On E-Sports Now.” #JoeTakesOnTheNews
@LAtimes Doesn’t Know That Tens Of Thousands Of Children Walked Out Of School In Countries All around The World To Strike For Climate Action. Toxic Fumes From LAX & Chevron Refinery Make Editor’s Too Dopey To Do Their Jobs #JoeTakesOnTheNews
@LATimes Has Done Piss Poor Reporting On Climate Strikers And Leaves It To @BillMcKibben To Report The News For Them. Here’s Some More News They Won’t Report #JoeTakesOnTheNews
Youth Climate Strikes Have The $uperpower To Shut This Country Down & Force America To Take Emergency Climate Action
If Kids Don’t Lead, Adults Will Willingly Sacrifice Them
My friend and mentor, Bill McKibben has an Op Ed about this Friday’s Student Climate Strikes in today’s on-line edition of the LA Times that will be news to LAT readers but not to Creative Greenius devotees.
Bill explains why students around the world will be refusing to go to school this Friday and instead following the lead of Greta Thunberg from Sweden who started the #FridaysForFuture Climate Strike movement all by herself just last fall.
Bill does his usual masterly job in laying out the reasoning behind young people striking for climate action and why they deserve our attention and support.
But when I read one sentence he wrote, a lightbulb went off in my devious mind:
So, lacking access to piles of cash, young people do what they can. And a strike is one such measure.