Oklahoma students will participate in a second local rally on Friday, May 3 to protest ending climate change and supporting the Green New Deal. The group – Youth Climate Strike Oklahoma – is affiliated with an organization that coordinates nationwide environmental strikes.
The rally will occur from 10:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. at City Hall located at 200 N. Walker Avenue in downtown Oklahoma City. The event is also sponsored by the Oklahoma Chapter of the Sierra Club.
“The evidence is more than clear, it is overwhelming– not only is climate change real, it is already negatively impacting some of the world’s most impoverished areas, even creating wars in places like Syria due to extreme drought and heat,” said Johnson Grimm Bridgwater, Director of Oklahoma Sierra Club.
The youth climate movement was founded by Swedish teen activist, Greta Thunberg, who organized weekly protests on Fridays at the Swedish Parliament.
The United States Youth Climate Strike has publicized the following demands:
- Enact radical legislation to combat climate change on local and state levels in Oklahoma;
- Adopt the Green New Deal to shift America to 100 percent clean, renewable and net-zero emission energy sources through a fair and just transition for all communities and workers; and
- Declare the climate crisis a national emergency.
