“Jamie Margolin led candid and engaging discussions with our students on institutional factors impacting climate change as well as the negative effects of such change on society as part of our Humanities Speakers Series. While drawing broad connections between science, history, culture and economics, she also discussed how art can be a tool in addressing environmental challenges--all the while emphasizing the importance of community engagement for individual and societal resilience. Her personal story of growing up as a youth activist and now seeing the world through the lens of a recent college graduate and social justice-oriented filmmaker led to excellent question and answer sessions with our students.”
Some young climate activists who were galvanized under Donald Trump’s first presidency are taking a different approach to his second.
By Jamie Margolin. Ms. Margolin is the founder of Zero Hour. Sept. 20, 2019. 201. Children at the Climate Strike outside parliament in central London, on Friday.
Jamie Margolin in some ways typifies a growing generational movement, as teenagers fearfully eye a future that scientists say will see climate-change calamities ...
Jamie Margolin, founder of Zero Hour, a group of young climate change activists, recently spoke in front of Congress alongside Greta Thunberg for Climate ...

Climate Change Activist And Zero Hour Founder Jamie Margolin Offers The Essential Guide To Changemaking For Young People. The 1963 Children's March In Birmingham, Alabama. Tiananmen Square, 1989. The 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline Protests. March For Our Lives, And School Strike For Climate. What Do All These Social Justice Movements Have In Common? They Were Led By Passionate, Informed, Engaged Young People. Jamie Margolin Has Been Organizing And Protesting Since She Was Fourteen Years Old. Now The Co-leader Of A Global Climate Action Movement, She Knows Better Than Most How Powerful A Young Person Can Be. You Don't Have To Be Able To Vote Or Hold Positions Of Power To Change The World. In Youth To Power, Jamie Presents The Essential Guide To Changemaking, With Advice On Writing And Pitching Op-eds, Organizing Successful Events And Peaceful Protests, Time Management As A Student Activist, Utilizing Social Media And Traditional Media To Spread A Message, And Sustaining Long-term Action. She Features Interviews With Prominent Young Activists Including Tokata Iron Eyes Of The #nodapl Movement And Nupol Kiazolu Of The #blacklivesmatter Movement, Who Give Guidance On Handling Backlash, Keeping Your Mental Health A Priority, And How To Avoid Getting Taken Advantage Of. Jamie Walks Readers Through Every Step Of What Effective, Healthy, Intersectional Activism Looks Like. Young People Have A Lot To Say. Youth To Power Gives You The Tools To Raise Your Voice.
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