आसमान की किसी जैसे What do we want? On the This is our chance going straight back into the left to the right on the edge of the car. Hi, I'm coming to you live from the Boston Climate strike. We have hundreds of young people who have been Boston high school students, College students and young professionals here today fighting for our future. We are calling for a Green New Deal Hair mask Grassing for Governor Baker to sign the Green New Deal pledge right now and to commit to passing the Mass Power Ford legislative priority list. We are not leaving until they he commits to do that and right now you'll see. Young people we managing singing calling for action. Happy birthday. Rise up Are you live? Oh my God. Stop. Yeah. One The people. They try to stop us. Try to stop us. We're trying to get the. The deal. We demand a great deal. Deal deal deal What's the next step you should take it from there. demand. Dance We bring you. three Jesus. We need a higher. We are here at the Boston State has the Massachusetts statehouse demanding Governor Baker back at Green New deal Sign the Green New Deal pledge and pass the Mass Power Ford legislative priorities. Thousands of young people are here because we are terrified for our future and we're demanding real leadership from our leaders. We just took over the Massachusetts House Chambers and we showed them how to pass bills we. Raise our voices pass the slate and now we're in the hallway some Manning action. we want it looks like it looks like show me what democracy looks like. Show me What. Climate strike hello youth from all around the state standing in the statehouse today to demand change for the climate crisis. There are millions of people all over the world striking today. They are thousands here in Boston and there are hundreds sitting in the seat House right now in front of Governor Charlie Baker's office demanding that he take bold transformational steps to stop the climate crisis now Whoo. I wanna feel your energy. Who else in this proud right now is angry. Right now, I was excited to stand here and lift up the voices of the youth who knows what we need to do. And I'm I'm seeing this action today. Whoo. Whoo. I wanna start off by saying that during this action today, we want everybody to feel safe and comfortable. If you need anything at all, there's participants support in the audience. There are marshals and yellow best look for them. If you snacks or you need water and you need someone because you're feeling nervous because we as youth are not supposed to be standing our legislators offices. This is Sherry Cross. We bought our politicians would be holding us up and standing with us when we face something as bold as the climate crisis, but they are. And he said we are standing here alone, but you are not actually alone because we are here with you and we have your backs. We have each other's backs. Who just joined the people in the office have been sitting in at 11 AM. Peacefully in your Facebook Need more joints Shame shame. Business card In this office go. The things that he passed the Mass power forward action and that he commit to a statewide deal for the state of Massachusetts. And before I hit the road, I wanna end over the land acknowledgement of the land of you're standing on today. This was originally occupied by the Wampanoag tribe and it was solely by those people just as Ireland is now being stolen by us again. So hold that with you in your heart as we go through the rest of this action, I'm gonna draw. How are you feeling today everybody? My name is Ron and I'm calling to seeing this action with Sarah and we are here because Governor Baker refuses to talk to us. Like Sarah said we've been here since 11 AM and we are here to demand a Green New deal. We are here today because both Governor Baker and Speaker Julio have refused to pass a set of bills through Committee and into law and we are here because we need them to do that for our future. Yes. They continue to take money from fossil fuel companies. And they continue to invest in fossil fuel infrastructure like the Weymouth gas compressor. We are here today to demand change. Alright, we got a lot of great speakers lined up for you guys today, the first of which has been sitting in this room since 11 AM Yay. In a few seconds, we're gonna hear from Sara, who is 20 - three years old and just recently became a US Eight Go go go We're gonna go live here. Just go. Let's let's talk. My name is Sarah. I'm 20 - three and I'm with Sunrise Movement I was born in New Delhi. New Deli is the most polluted city on the planet. I also used to live in Santiago Chile. It also ranks highly in air pollution. Do you know why the air is toxic because of self-serving short-sighted politicians too many cars on the road and too many factories. I don't wanna see a future where this happens in Boston. The Boston headed down that path. It is. Our state will be 100 percent renewable until 20 - 105. I will be a hundred and nine years old by the time we reach that target. Those who lobbied to delay and delay our corporations who benefit from the status quo oil gas coal utilities. But our elected leaders are not only failing us with carbon emissions. They're also failing us with air and fresh water pollution, Ocean acidification, garbage and plastic proliferation loss of wildlife and forests and rising Sea levels. They don't even want us to know how they vote. Speaker to Leo Governor Baker Committee chairs you have to pass the mass for it builds You have to pass the Green New Deal pledge. It is your job to look out for our long-term. best interests. Whoo. Whoo. That means environmental Justice. The voters are saying no to the Weymouth Compressor future Airport expansion. The average stores planned. Jeff Fuel tanks are kept they're not properly contained the few is leaking out. You can smell the incompetence. In the busy intersection of East Boston, the city needs to plant trees and distribute air filters to the homes and schools affected. I need to be brought in to fix our contaminated lakes, ponds and rivers. Yay. Yay. Making better consumer choices is good, but it's not enough. It's not enough because other Nations follow the lead of the United States. Yay. Since the Industrial Revolution, the plan for the United States has been overseas development. It is a duck academy and it is a trap, not because of evil intentions, but because of short sided thinking. To transition to a life economy, we the people cannot afford to abide by business as usual. When our leaders ignore the will of the people. we have no choice but to raise our voices. For clean water, clean air, the continuity of as many plants and animals species as possible and a future for our children. Speaker Julio Governor Baker Committee chairs ignore the climate action movement at your own risk. If you do not evolve as leaders and rise to the challenge, the history books will say that you prioritize what was easy over what was right. That you weren't beholding to corporate interests, do your job and do it well. Forget your birthday. Every day. Let's go. Perfect perfect offering to swing the bows. Like that, like. লড়ছে লড়বে Ring the Bell. Please try to hide hide it. That's all. Operates. Every single time. Just ring the bells that still can. That's it that's it. Whoo. It's a movement of young people fighting to stop climate change and Green millions of good jobs for our generation. Whoo. we are standing here today it's one of covered take up as so many he passed renewbuy optimistic about the same I don't wanna forget about the momentum that this action is coming off us. thousands of young people just strike from school and work and marched from Copley Square to the statehouse demanding action. Whoo. Whoo. Right now is there? Who is his audience felt the power of millions of young people standing up for their generation? Who just compelled to share what that felt like in front of everybody? Yeah. Looking for volunteers, someone wanna share a few words about what that feels like. To speak into it, it's incredible. the energy here is amazing and I just wanna thank everyone for being here. you didn't have to come but you did and that means a lot. Yeah. If you were to talk to them. It was incredible. it's I'm I'm 30 years old and this is the first thing that I feel like I could actually solve climate change without the movement of people gathered around. Oh everything that we're doing here and it it feels incredible. I wanna catch up to the next Speaker. Naomi is my friend and she's 23 years old, she said it environmental science and education at Overland College. Secrets theater and poetry with Middle schoolers and people incarcerated in prisons and last year she lived in rural Alabama to better understand the climate crisis and the deep South. She joined sunrises and educator on the training scene when she moved to Boston in June and she teaches writing to kids in Cancer. Eight. Give it up for Naomi. Whoo. Whoo. My name is Naomi Roswell. I'm 20 - three years old and I'm with the We have reason to believe that Governor Baker is in the building today and we are not leaving until he and Speaker DeLeo moves several pieces of legislation out of Committee and in too long. I grew up on the same farm that my grandmother did and let me tell you. It's a beautiful farm, My brothers and trees. We know the certain veins in the Creek where the box turtles hide and we know what it's best stand of Golden raspberries are the kind you can't find anywhere else. I grew up loving this land, but I also grew up loving lost land because mine is a. Of generational loss, my great uncle sold the land the land that had been stolen from the Susquehanna people generations earlier for short-term profit. He could not see the deep cutting environmental cultural and familial devastation that that choice wrapped the farm. I know is just a fraction of the size that it used to be because when I was an infant, my great uncle sold 200 acres to be developed. I don't remember the farm as it used to be, but my two older brothers do they saw heavy construction equipment ripped apart our land to build identical gray and White houses for neighbors who would never even know each other's names in my picture of home. The foreground is one of love for land, but the background is one of devastation of betrayal. And I regret. And I know that my story is not unique. All of us are here because those feelings of devastation, betrayal and regret loom large for all of us. The oil industry makes the same myopic and profit minded decisions that my great uncle did, but on a global scale. should they choose not to see the environmental health and interpersonal consequences of their business. And for each of us it hits differently because the climate crisis is a public health crisis. The climate crisis is an economic crisis. It's a labor crisis. It's an agricultural crisis. It's an educational crisis. And it's a cultural and familial crisis that so often puts indigenous and people of color on the front lines. When I graduated from College two years ago, I moved to the World South to see what climate injustice looks like there. I visited the ill to Saint Charles and Island on the Coast of Southern Louisiana, where multiple indigenous tribes have lived for generations there. I went to mister Taylor Shaw and his shop is a stilted shop. It's tack and bail fate and tackle where land meets water and I looked. Out over the water as men arrived as they do each afternoon to share a beer, a laugh, the weather record and a dose of optimism. Approach to me knowing I came not for their optimism, but to see what the climate crisis looks like for them. He put his jacket and arm around me and with its free hand, he gestured out about a hundred feet in the water and he said Naomi do you see that PVC pipe cross in the water and sure enough there was a cross made out of pipes standing out of the water, and he said that crap. Marks the cemetery where my brother was buried in 15 years ago, and the water has risen so much since then that the cross is all we have left. For mister tail, he lost his brother twice once at the time of his death and a second time at the hands of the oil industry when his grave was inundated with seawater. The oil industry is drills and refineries line the whole Coast there. Wrecks and destroy the values that the native people use for navigation, fishing and business on the island so storm after storm, he watches that PVC pipe cross rise sink deeper into the rising Sea. The oil industry and implicated politicians continue to trade lives for profit. For the people on the island of Saint Charles climate change means not only loss of land but loss of connection to family to home and to each other as people flee for an easier place to live. Listen mister Tail. He lives with devastation. He lives with betrayal from the leaders. He was supposed to trust and he regrets that he and his community didn't know to fight back harder. but listen we. Don't have to settle for regret. Do we love here in Massachusetts. We have our chance to intervene. We are here to hold ourselves accountable because our predecessors did not as young people working to fight climate change and build millions of good jobs. We already no devastation, but we don't wanna be betrayed by our leaders like Governor Baker and Speaker DeLeo. And this time we will not feel regret because we are here to win. Baker and Senator Dole Leo, We ask you not to trade a disproportionate wealthy present for some with a decimated future for all. We invite you to be the elders who carry us towards a livable future. We are here asking Speaker DeLeo and Governor Baker to take Swift decisive action to move the environmental Justice, the 100 percent renewable energy and the Green infrastructure legislation through Committee and into law. We are here asking them to pass a Green New deal for Massachusetts. From me, Can you tell me why you're here today and he could take money from fossil fuel and declares the climate emergency 1000. That's why we're here on September twentieth through the hot and cold. We are here to make sure that he actually takes passion. Thank you. Here we go. Walk The House. Can I ask you why you're here today? What you're doing or not? Alright, we just heard from me about how Sox first hand across the country How our country is being impacted by climate change. How do we feel about how bad that we fell over the summer that he will. How do we feel about the flooding that is coming right here in the state of Massachusetts? How do we feel knowing that it is happening all around the world and our elected leaders are doing nothing to stop it. We are here today in the state House to demand change and to demand action so that our homes are not destroyed. Happening around the world might be historic, but you know what else is historic this movement right here. Movement is one of the fastest growing movements in the nation right now, which only started about two years ago and look how many people are here right now and around the world standing up for what they believe in. We're gonna hear from Nash who is going to talk about his experiences with climate change Justice and how he got involved with the Sunrise Movement Big now. Veggie is 20 - three and has been doing climate organizing for five years after being involved in the divestment student network. He's been involved in other climate movement and the movement for Liberation in Palestine. Let's hear it Hey, Y'all. Can you hear me? yes? Thank you for having me here today with your such a pleasure such I'm so grateful to be here with all of you. Today because our system our political system isn't working for the people, it isn't working for you isn't working for me. Whoo. Whoo. Whoo. Whoo. I'm here outside of with all of you because he is failing us right now. Baker is just one politician out of thousands all over the country who are failing us right now. Yeah. Whoo. And I know this because my family in California rather power shut off last month because PG and E and the Green utilities like the fault of fuel industry didn't do maintenance on those lines and because of the wildfire season, they have there no power and they're worried right next to the Hill that they're gonna lose their House lose their property lose all their valuables and their money and their community. It's because of the greedy falls a few industry and politicians like Governor Baker that that's happening. Yesterday I was in waving whoa at the side of the Weymouth Compressor Station. Whoo. Whoo. Whoo. I was with four times who are arrested for blockading and Enbridge truck because they're starting building a compressor station, which is gonna pump gas all the way up to Canada from Pennsylvania and we're not gonna let that happen. No more Frack gas pipelines. Today I got into this movement. five years ago, I was in the streets of New York City for the People's Climate March. It was just like the first climate strike 400000 people were in the streets that day marching down the streets of New York and what I remember is not the incredible noise that we made, but the moment of silence that we held for those lives already lost on the front lines of climate change The lives. A block and because of Sea level rise because of the fossil fuel industry because of disasters that are already happening all across the world. Moment of silence lasted one minute I remember streets of New York. Imagine that silent for one minute. Then a roar roar of noise of hope from the back of the March to the front because we know that we are building a movement that's hopeful we are putting forward solutions from the front line from youth from people across communities and across generations because we need these solutions for climate Justice for Justice for all of us and that day in New York City, I knew that the climate Justice movement was a movement for me and I'm in. Fire today being amongst all of you and I know that some movement for us. 50 - eight today because I know that we didn't start this movement. Indigenous folks both here and in Palestine has been fighting I'm here in the legacy of those fighters because I know that I wanna fight for my community. I'm gonna fight for my people both here both in Indian Palestine all across the world. Our movement for Justice are interconnected and I'm so so happy to see hundreds of us here today, calling on Governor Baker to take bold action cuz that's what we need. If we're gonna solve this prices, it's gonna take all of us. And I'm grateful for all of you. so thank you. Alright. We are here. We are here. We are here in the State House and Massachusetts with hundreds of young people out here to tell Governor Baker that we want climate Justice. Now we need a Green New deal and we want them to pass environmental bills through into law. so we are here speaking up for what we believe has arrived. Thank you. Fight Thank you. Vicki Amazing story a story of separation, but it's still very what's amazing to be at that sunrise and about this fight is that as we continue to be more and more separated separated from each other, the more we five solidarity and the other people in this fight who also built alone and that's why we are all here today together. I remember my first time learning that I could stand in solidarity with collective action with my appearance saving against the climate crisis. Do you remember the first time you felt that way? Yes. I remember feeling so scared. I'm never feeling like there was no one in the world who understood the anxiety I felt about climate change. We're finding hope and my first time of merchant DC, where I met my idol Bill McKibben. My little sister and I saw thousands of other young people who cared who are actually out of the streets marching for this chance. But it doesn't take just one March. It doesn't take just one action doesn't take one day of striking from school. It takes multiple days of action takes years of action. It takes us striking day after day after day out on the streets for people that actually take us seriously. And that's what we're doing. It's just the beginning. Back up to my car zero yay. Hi everybody. Let's get some love to our supporters that Governor Baker. They've been here since 11 AM sitting and Governor Baker result Governor Baker's office because he has the power to do something about the climate crisis and he is doing nothing. But Baker is not the only one we're here to talk to you right now. We're also standing outside of Speaker of the House Bob Delilah's office because he also has the power to push these bills through Committee and into law and he is not doing his job. Jack Old man are scared of a bunch of kids. I want you to let you know that you're outside of his office right now and you're not going away. Alright. come on guys. Let's keep doesn't know that we're here come on. Alright, Next we're gonna hear from Maya, who is here. She is a member of the Sunrise Movement. She is 19 years old and a current student at Northeastern University, studying biology and political science. Whoo. Whoo. She joined the Sunrise movement Whoa. She joined the Sun right. She joined the Sunrise Movement after the Green New Deal tour kickoff and has worked with the electoral team to elect climate champions in Boston, Cambridge Newton. Let's hear it for Maya everybody. Whoo. Whoo. Hi guys. My name is Maya. I'm 19 years old and I'm here for the same reasons. All of you are. Thank you for being here and doing what you do and I wanna share my story of finding community and finding a place in this movement. I grew up right outside of Boston with my parents and two older brothers. Both of my parents were doctors and we never once forgot it. We have family friends knocking on the door at all hours of the night asking my mom if she could just take a look at their kids leg. If there was anything wrong with it, I remember. Learning the true value of service in those days and what it really meant to be available at all times. My parents didn't sign up to be on duty 20 - 47, but they're always there accessible If you needed it. And I carry that with me today. And I'm a senior in high school, the Parkland shooting. And we are coming off the fall semester. Pulled into my high school we had. But I'm not gonna lie it wasn't. School sanctions We had our teachers. I was angry, I thought what's the point of walking out if we have permission what kind of statement will be making we were just. The adults who are supposed to be protecting us. That's right. New deal that Left and I am. We'll turn just 30 years old. And I know many of you are here today because you're also uncertain of what your future will hold this. Me for a little bit, and then I found sunrise coming to the Green New Deal tour kickoff and my first time meeting. I got that feeling again of something clicking into place. I felt the energy of everyone around. The same thing, good jobs and a livable future. The future that we could plan for that feeling that changes made when we stand together when we tell our stories when we make music and we ask for help. that's the only way that I think to even plan for a future and a career and that I could. Make that. As many of you have done, I got involved in our local city Council races and work to elect climate champions and this winter. I'm heading down to DC to learn how to make change on a federal level. All here for the same reasons today and that's to fight for good jobs and a livable future. The climate crisis is scary. It's unfathomable sometimes and it's bigger than anyone of us. It is the critical issue of our generation. Yes, it's you have to think about going through this alone, but luckily we have this. we have this community. We have this movement and we have thousands of people who are willing to fight for this with us. We're not alone. Yeah the people I've met in this movement are the most selfless brave intelligent and incredible people I've ever met and I'm so proud to stand with all of you here today. So. I call it Speaker to Leo and Governor Baker to sign these bills and place Massachusetts at the forefront of climate action. Whoo. Whoo. We have a history of being first and should be doing everything we can of keeping that legacy alive as we enter the era of the Green New deal. So thank you everyone here for doing what you're doing by being here today. We are generation GN DJ and we're gonna get this done. Stop it. What are you trying to stop? Stop it. Rise. Back Governor Baker And make change. That's right for the people. Kind of energy that is gonna make our politicians finally here. Alright. Thank you Maya for the beautiful. Sorry. whoo. Whoo. Next we're gonna hear from my other friend Nissan Whoo. Whoo. Whoo. 20 - three and is a sunrise She works to elect leaders who will fight for a Green New deal at all levels of government. She said it plenty of MIT and currently works as a transportation planner, hoping to make buses and trains into reliable and accessible options for all communities. So I'm Lisa and I'm 20 - three years When I was six years old, my parents, two brothers and I we left Highland and moved to the United States. so that's my two brothers and I could have a greater access to opportunities how we stayed in Thailand. We lived a pretty comfortable life in Thailand, but my parents wanted to come here and risk it out. We're told If we work hard, we would get far the classic American Dream. We were told and work hard. we did so my parents between them had one PC and two Masters degree They were unable to find jobs in their fields as 40 something year old regrets who spoke English but not that well. so with the family to care for my parents, I began working for their friends at their chiro restaurants as over qualified servers and what must boys. eventually they open up their own small restaurant in a suburb of Seattle, where they each work over 70 hours a week and still do my brothers and I in Middle school and high school. we had to help out everyday after school and on weekends cuz it's really expensive to hire people. So my best work out that that my parents instilled in me was worth it. In the end. I did really well in high school and got into my Dream College, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Whoo. My parents were really proud since my success has proved that they're long journey and our long hours of work was finally worth it. I came to on my team with a scholarship. It was the first time in my life that I could focus on school without having to work with long hours at the restaurant. The plan is simple. I was pretty hard to become an engineer, make cool things to help the world, but also make a lot of money so that I could live in easy life and also pay for my parents. His retirement I chose. Engineering because I like the chemistry a lot in high school and growing up in the Seattle area, get me an appreciation of nature. I met that I was surrounded by people living eco-friendly lifestyles. A new global warming was an issue and heard that materials engineers made cool things like batteries and solar panels. However, having hustle for half of my life, I wasn't very good at fairly just focusing on school. I got involved in MIT sustainability Committee and wanted to expand and buy. welcome my players and the burning hours and hours to explaining composting and we said going on campus and caring friends and has made such habits however the more family committed to this point the most in a boy i realize that no matter how much my friends and i decide all we have so lot of in fact had a massive amount we can become institutions recover matter changes wow so i must say first i did a change everyday access the only natural sab ms guide us ah point here as well once i made school or at the same time after second over one hundred days my philosophy and i keep the scooter met we used to dive as from those of years and these are really we find it man so And it was focused primarily on research, which is good, but there are so little institutional change. It was hard to miss the impact of fossil fuel companies and they're well on campus where I would pass by buildings named after the Koch brothers and And also bright young faces What breed is by representative of Laurel companies at every single career fair, so I was passionate passionate about the environment. I felt like I was wasting my time at this University that my parents and I worked so hard to get to the small changes that my trust me tonight. We're trying to make couldn't fix hollow and Green fields. Where are my keys, but I couldn't get myself to just focus on classes either. I quickly learned that a lot of energy technologies that will save the world like solar batteries. They already existed but they. Political will to be implemented right. Yeah. Alright, Good morning classes and frustrated to learn that well, my future work might help improve these technologies. No politician or government was willing to implement them at the speed and scale necessary. If you can't see that my peers and I have a livable future. I waiver from my plan to work hard in my classes get a good engineering job. I get paid a lot so that my both my parents and I have a good life. I stopped caring about my classes and I stopped caring about the sustainability initiatives. My motivation dissipated as I thought how my hardworking classmates and I at one of the best universities in the world seems unable to make a real difference in facing fossil fuel companies. But despite my fitness of them through every day when I read through ICC report after report News articles Doctor News articles about the time of crisis. I was also angry at our government's inability to tackle society's other problems such as income inequality, housing and transportation, all of which will be made worse by climate change. I felt deeply connected. I felt deeply conflicted and my plan to become an engineer and live a good life. Karen was afforded the opportunity to really change my circumstances as well as my family engineering is a really stable jobs help the world, but only incrementally. But if they can't clear to me that simply making a comfortable amount of money and having a stable job wouldn't be enough to protect my family or any others from the climate crisis would still fill my growing moral imperative to pursue a career in health societal problems. So at the beginning of my junior year, I decided to break from that plan. I switched majors to urban planning. I wanted to work on implementing policies and ideas that would get donuts moving towards tackling climate change and other societal problems. And with the shifting career path, however, I knew I would never make a salary as high as a version of myself does stop with engineering. I knew that my parents would not be able to show me to their relatives in Thailand in a highest manner as it had, I stuck in engineering the same relatives who asked if it was worth it to actually move to America who knew we were struggling there. My parents were confused to say the least personally why I was growing away career where I was pretty much guaranteed. Upper Middle class That was not part of the plan when we first moved to the US. I assure them that things would work out that creates been planning. I feel pretty good so my parents. they were a little disappointed, but they're still supportive cuz they're great. However, I myself was a shirt of his career shift will actually make me less than a goal or empowering me to make a difference in the world. I'm still figuring that out I graduated a year ago with my degree in urban planning and I'm working at a job that I loved. I get to spend every day trying to improve public transportation around the world, but I'm facing similar challenges. as I did in my engineering days, I can plan out the best transit network, but if there is no political will on funding it will never get implemented here. Turns out making transit better again people out of their cars, which reduces our reliance on fossil fuels, which means I thought the industry is ready to take that any transit bill if they come up as well. i am more of or not the way to fight him a change and input idea because you know what can i have a concern life and now here many other but also said by the girls cricket may i can bring back i am watching point for women I like my color sustainability Committee sunrises targets are clear. We're here to mobilize young people to get fault of your money out of politics and let politicians who will act on the climate crisis. Now, every move the ones who will not yes Whoo. Yes, more importantly, Sunrise firmly believes that climate is tied to improving society as a whole so that maybe in the future immigrants like my parents will not have to work as hard Northside have to sacrifice as much for their children's future. There's still so much work to do and I'm still pretty cynical even in Massachusetts, where we all believe in climate change, just so little being done to tackle this existential threats. But the reports are getting worse and news articles that are getting worse. Extreme weather events are getting worse and Boston could be underwater in just a few decades. In spite of my cynicism. I keep working hard because working hard as what my parents taught me to do. we have no choice but to work hard to sustain ourselves and the families that we love and also much too. That's why I'm. Today because politicians like Governor Baker Speaker DeLeo are in the way of climate action in the way of our features and in the way of my family, achieving the American Dream. we are here at Sunrise, asking Speaker Deli and Governor Baker to take swift and decisive action to move the environmental Justice hundred percent renewable energy and create infrastructure bill through Committee and commit to Massachusetts great deal. Alright guys. Our next Speaker is one of the organizers of the climate strike and an amazing storyteller. Alright. Emily is 17 years old. 17 years old and a student at Brooklyn High School. Give it up for everyone. How many of you are turning activists do we have in the Hall here. Amazing It is because of your dedication that we get the chance to be here and make our voice heard you know. I used to think. Young people have no voice in politics. I used to think we could do things like this when you come in to the state House and take your demands straight to the people in power, you know, I still remember the chills that run down my back for one night in Iran. I was packing up my homework brushing my teeth getting ready to go to bed. When I overheard my parents talking about how we were going to have to take a different route to school the next day. Because the young activist was getting hung in the town square. News of journalists disappearing of activists going missing a families being torn apart by a government that wasn't able to hear the voices of difference of change. We're not a shock to us. But that all change when I moved to the US, you can imagine my surprise. When I heard about the sunrise movement and how excited I was to get involved because I saw the young people actually did have a voice, even though some of us aren't even citizens, even though some of us aren't even old enough to vote. When the brand-new deal was first proposed by Alexandra Closet, Cortez Sunrise movement was there that day having a sit in at Nancy Pelosi's office, a couple hundred of us. We're willing to give up our freedom and sit in for a vision of a future with the Green new deal and we didn't stop there. We push the Green New deal into the National conversation because we came back. We came back on December tenth stronger. Stronger and we did the same thing we came back, Tom and time again for the months coming after until when we started with just five or so cosponsors that you could just count on the fingers of one hand, we reached over 200 cosponsors for the Green New deal by the end. Whoo. Whoo. Young people that is the power. We didn't stop there. We came back this September September twentieth more than 10000 used young people people striking from work people striking from school. We came back to demand that Charlie Baker support a Green New deal from Massachusetts and demand that he signed a decoration of a climate emergency. What's your team of youth under 20 organizing those thousands of people? If we didn't stop there, we came back today. Strong building off of that same energy that we started with in the heat that September and now we stood in the cold shaking because Charlie Baker still has not endorsed a Green New deal. He still has not signed the no fossil fuel money pledge. He still will not look us in the eyes and tell us that he is going to stand up for our future. Before I leave today, I just have a message for Governor Baker. Charlie Baker, How many more kids have to watch as the last bits of brick and drywall that used to be the school drift away and more and more extreme hurricanes before you take a seriously. Yeah. How many more families have to watch the less flakes of Ashley used to be their home burn down in California before you sign a Green new deal. How many more of us young people have to sacrifice our school our careers our futures before you declare a climate emergency and have real action. How many more Governor Baker how men? Waiting for Baby Charlie and you don't have a plan. জিন্দাবাদ জিন্দাবাদ বিশ্বাস Hey, we got something to say if you don't have a plan you better get out. Charlie Yeah. अच्छा We got something to say, thank you so much. People here right now. Everybody to feel like they're included in this action. So I'm gonna say something that needed, Turner said to the Sunrise Bay Area hub and our action at the California Democratic National Convention. Repeat After me, our movement is so high. So you can't get over it. Movement is so loud. You cannot get under it. Mister It is so high. ok on a women is aware to making so much So why? You can get around. You know what that means. You're gonna have to face it there. To the next Speaker, my friend and called Sunrise Movement organizers Adam Cook. Dumb ass shit Whoo. Can I get my bio? I sent it already, I thought okay. Adam is a lifelong Massachusetts resident and it's 30 years old today. We grew up within a mile of the National Fireworks site in Hanover and otherwise lovely community. He really broke into teaching as a Spanish teacher in Brookline. Whoo. Yeah, he joined Sunrise in April and is committed to a Massachusetts brand-new deals. Yeah. The speed I've been in the car with your pants when you were a kid, someone stops short. If you do one of these, you have your seat belt on Buddy. What is that gonna do nothing? It doesn't matter why do they do that to protect you? Leaders of this place of this building of this state of this nation should protect their people. When I was a kid. I went with my church to a ski trip to have some fun. I forget where it was. it doesn't matter. We're on the way back. so there was a young man with my dad in the front seat with a whole bunch of us. And he asserted the kid and said, hey, put your seat belt on William and so he did. Not five minutes later crash. It wasn't a huge deal to be honest, but when you're in the front seat like I said, this isn't gonna help you. Either way he did recognize to say, put your seat belt on William. One of us did go to the hospital. She's okay. She was okay, then pretty much. I looked at back in later but as kids and my parents land. Every summer, we would hear this loud like boom like miles away, and so I asked mom dad. what is that? Yes, that's the National Fireworks site. I didn't know what that was. may i am explain it to me it's not like both going up that because they work The National Fireworks site was built in 1907 developed tested in manufactured civilian fireworks and military musicians and was closed in 1970 - one before it's closure and after being bought in part by the US Army, US Navy free shirts Group decided to boost their box inhabitants, waist and kettlebells right. It's very right in Mine right. Despite what about this? areas food with all twelve this weekend reverse and beautiful officers we're you know we will this has always on me We would hide. About 2007 Everyone in my area growing up, we got a package from the government that says you live in a high-risk area because of the National fireworks site. On that map, I did not live right in the immediate most effected area, but like I said it was in my bio intro. Did you live within one mile? I figured as long as I don't go there, I can keep playing outside. They told us before. Whoa. It's my birthday. I think you gotta keep playing outside as long as they might be okay. This year. We had a blast a lot more often. it's pretty pretty is like decide excuse me they fire a huge sign and pull it it's our farmers girls go if some would wanted it some where you here has to be plus Chair There's been dozens of well done stories and local paper like the Patriot Ledger, and they have a Meredith your local Cbs telling story for the folks in my home area. We're Super rare cancers like. Dandruff in my house ले आया is being higher rate to catch the national average Claire I don't know so this is important to me, but I am a hundred percent healthy. My family and most people in our area. But the race, a lot of that long cancerous word nationally. It's six point four and one in every hundred thousand per year. In 2014, people in the affected area, they're 40 cases of this cancer alone. Statistics won if any. this is an influence indian her there is a hundred fifty five my faith था My nuts This fact is something I know anyone else not you not you not this great police upstairs, not the governor. You don't have to worry about nothing to worry about nothing news sons daughters, nieces, God, children don't have to worry about there was action or I should say in action taken on this previously the bonus electoral vote in favor of whether or not to declare this area, a Super fun site, a Super fun site we'll bring in the federal government. And show the breath of God, he showed the bridge of removal testing. They voted it down. They thought it would affect the property values in this area, but I ask you what is the value of your property When you look in the backyard and you're unsure whether or not to go out there. Whether or not to get you. Be in the water, you're the birds like mushrooms. Do what catch and release. And now. The compressor station going in. This is also an area after waiting for River. The way the compressor is at risk for exposing locals to arguing benzine Benzie from Natalie properly oxide silence. I know these things are not that good boy. It's also been improved right there in that office. Two and four acres in the River right on route three on four acres of land where minimum is 40 - eight years to protect the It is affecting locals, but this affects everyone. It is a contrast your station. It's infrastructure for natural gas increases our dependence on in our district from Muscle fuels. When in these speeding cars, the select men Governor Baker do not put their arms out they only step on the gas pedal. This year and last, I heard more debt sirens and Ford that's because in 2017 dozens of previously unknown undetected bombs were found in the area. So much so sometime between 20 'clock and 40 'clock, they set some Fireworks in 1970, - one is now almost 2020 on Our leaders are failing to protect us whoo. They say in 70 - one put those things in Governor Baker Do not stop hurting for the way the compressor. Local Hanover voted Super fun funding. The winner compressor station does not only affect waving, but it's fresh gas in carbon effects. everyone in this building, all your families all dead batteries everyone mistake everyone in this country everyone in the world. We are here for the air we breathe. The places we call home. Yeah. They're not throwing their arms up and unless we take the wheel you're gonna fuck up. Out here asking Speaker to Leo Covenant Baker to take swift and decisive action. Justice a hundred percent, We know the energy and Green infrastructure legislation through Kennedy through Committee to Leo Whoo. Yay. Do a master screen new deal? Yeah. जय Happy birthday. Take a second and think about the personal sacrifice we see in this room right now. Whoo. Whoo. Whoo. Still, after hours and hours dozens of young people standing here. The future standing inside already together. That is what sacrifice looks like. In a second, I wanna explain one more aspect some of the people at this action that trained to take higher risks. If you are not one of those people, I want you to stay safe and I don't want you to get into a situation where you might be risking arrest. So if you are one of those people you need to follow. Next time. Yeah. And stay straight for a livable future. Chris Chris is 20 - four and as a recent graduate of Brenda's He's currently at the map. Possibly present. Have you survived the 2016 election? Now spends his time fighting for five of Justice and combining fun activism with music. Everyone here to think about the following the year 2105 how old you are going to be at that point. The reason I bring this up is that's because that's when Massachusetts is guaranteed 100 percent renewable electricity. How do we feel about that? It's an embarrassment. that's a joke times Five million. It's insane what we have to do and the UN recently highlighted it with the gap report where we need to be if we want to meet the most ambitious goals of the Paris agreement, we have to this decade decrease emissions seven point five percent every single year. Now the good news is we have a plan to get started on that and I'm gonna talk about that. Whoo. Whoo. Whoo. We have put forward a variety of bills for Governor Baker and Speak to support. I'm gonna talk about three of them. One piece of legislation is environmental Justice legislation. It gets communities most affected by pollution a excuse me. it gets community's most affected by pollution. a say insiding fossil fuel infrastructure early second piece of legislation, 100 percent renewable energy renewable electricity by 2030 - 570 years earlier than where we are Nashville is a Green infrastructure bill setting up a Bank to give up to eight hundred million dollars every year to renewable energy projects across the state, with a particular emphasis on low income communities. How we feel about. And then finally we want Governor Baker and Speaker Toledo is commit to a Massachusetts Green new deal. Welcome to utilize every resource of the state government to get to carbon neutrality ads quickly as possible while lifting up low and Middle income folks and providing a just transition for fossil fuel workers. Massachusetts is one of the richest States in the country, and we've led many many times why can't we lead on this? Right now, Governor Governor Baker and Speaker Julio are showing very very few signs of genuine leadership Governor Baker. He wants to count wood burning as renewable energy. How much. He also wants to give you go ahead to the women compressor station. Speaker On the other hand, he throws pennies at the problem. He had a recent bill called Greenworks Filter pennies at the problem. We need big bold action. We need a Massachusetts Green New Deal. Carbon neutral economy is the greatest investment opportunity in history. pass it up is to sit on a winning lottery ticket. Yeah. Whoo. Whoo. So we ask Governor DeLeo Governor Julia Governor Baker and Speaker to Leo to do the following pass all the bills that we presented to you today, including 100 percent renewable energy. Whoo. Whoo. Justice and commit to a Massachusetts Green New Deal. Now one final thing I want everyone to sign in. I want everyone to sign in. so I'm gonna give you all a Bentley labor and what's gonna happen is drought this session, which ends on July. You're gonna be getting periodic updates of when you got to call your representative for important votes. This is what the NRA does great successes. We have you got your phone out type in BIT dot LY slash strike to win and sign in all one word. Lower case Yes, all lower case BIT dot LY slash strike two win all one word no spaces, no dashes lower caps. We will not spam you. We will just tell you an important time to call your representative cool. Alright. Are you? Do you wish you? We are now. Yeah. Birthday That's right. लायक चाचा काम करें Please. If you don't know. Hey, he got something to say. You got something to say. Yeah, you got something to say. Yeah say thank you. Hey, Charlie. Yeah, we got something to say thank you. Hey, Charlie, You got something to say thank you so much. Birthday boy. Three Three 32. Yeah. Whoo. This is a great deal. 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